A Famine Not of Bread

Click here to listen to this sermon. “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is He, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and He shall speak peace to the nations; His rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double” ( Zechariah 9:9–12). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! People caught in the despair of bondage have at least two questions. First, does God have the power to free us? Second, is God compassionate enough to free us? In Zechariah 9, the prophet answers both ...

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Click here for an audio version   "The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion" by Lucas Cranach the Elder Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Our hymn of the day invites us to “Come to Calvary’s Holy Mountain,” and we shall a little later in this sermon.   But in order to truly appreciate Mount Calvary, we must first travel to two other holy mountains—Mount Sinai and Mount Zion, for without knowledge and experience of those two other mountains it is difficult, if not impossible, to know and understand Mount Calvary. It is about 1446 B.C., the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt.   The Lord God has led His people to safety through the Red Sea.   Pharaoh and his army have been wiped out by the collapsing walls of the sea.   The Lord provides bread from heaven and water from the rock.   By pillar of cloud and fire, He leads the people to the foot of Mount Sinai, a la...