Jun 10, 2018 |Thread

Spiritual Stubbornness

06.10.18 | Thread

Spiritual Stubbornness

Tony Pyle

Zechariah

It doesn’t take much to notice that most people are, in some aspect, stubborn. This stubbornness is seen over centuries of God’s people as they have responded to Him. How should we deal with our own spiritual stubbornness toward God? Pastor Tony Pyle shows us that the solution for our spiritual stubbornness is to acknowledge whatever ways we have hardened our hearts and closed our ears toward God and choose to respond to Him in faith.

Zechariah

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In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer, Regem-melech, and their men to plead for the Lord’s favor by asking the priests who were at the house of the Lord of Hosts as well as the prophets, “Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years?”

Zechariah 7:1-3 HCSB

 

Then the word of the Lord of Hosts came to me: “Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these 70 years, did you really fast for Me? When you eat and drink, don’t you eat and drink simply for yourselves?

Zechariah 7:4-6 HCSB

 

When you eat and drink, don’t you eat and drink simply for yourselves?

Zechariah 7:6 HCSB

 

Aren’t these the words that the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and secure, along with its surrounding cities, and when the southern region and the Judean foothills were inhabited?”
The word of the Lord came to Zechariah: “The Lord of Hosts says this: Make fair decisions. Show faithful love and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.

Zechariah 7:7-10 HCSB

 

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear. They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the Lord of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets.

Zechariah 7:11-12 HCSB

 

“It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 9:12-13 CSB

 

Then the word of the Lord of Hosts came to me: “The Lord of Hosts says this: The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth will become times of joy, gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.”

Zechariah 8:18-19 HCSB

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