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Mar 01, 2015

How God Fixes Basket Cases

Passage: Zechariah 5:7-8

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: Major Texts in the Minor Prophets

Category: Zechariah

Summary:

Communion Sunday - Main Text - Zechariah 5:7-8; OT Reading - Zechariah 5:5-11; NT Reading - Revelation 20:1-10

Detail:

Major Texts In the Minor Prophets - Zechariah 5:5-11

“How God Fixes Basket Cases”

 “And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket! 8  And he said, “This is Wickedness.” 

Evil Is Real and God Really Restrains Real Evil Now and Really Will Remove Real Evil Forever

 

1. The Root of Sin Is Revealed - Zechariah 5:7-8

              

               Why is Wickedness personified as a woman?

                             

               What is the point?

 

               “this is their eye” = appearance

                             

                              Ezekiel 36:25-27

2. The Root of Sin Is Being Restrained - Zechariah 5:7-8

 

               Why a basket? -  

 

               Why a lead cover? –

                  

                   It is a Picture of root of sin…      Ezekiel 36:25-27

 

               Done in us by regeneration and sanctification -Ephesians 2:1-7

 

               In Satan by God’s hedge -               Job 1:9-10

                             

               Through Jesus’ prayer for us - Luke 22:31-32

 

               Through Jesus work for us - Matthew 12:29-30

 

                              Revelation 20:1-3

 

3. The Root of Sin Will Be Removed – 9-11

 

               Where is Shinar and Why a house?

 

               Done to Us by Glorification          1 John 3:2

 

               To Satan by Damnation

 

                              Revelation 20:7-10 7  

              

                              Ephesians 2:6-7