Zechariah 5
Live Free from Sin!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Saturday, October 12.
The judgment of evil is one of the promises of God in which people have found hope. Zechariah 5 contains two of the eight visions that directly points to this promise: the flying scroll that contained God’s curse for thieves and perjurers (1-4) and the sealed ephah that contained the embodiment of evil called “Wickedness” (5-11). Both visions culminate with God’s judgment of evil. The first vision demonstrates God bringing judgment to the homes of liars and perjurers in Zechariah 5:4, “‘I will make it go forth,’ declares the Lord of hosts, ‘and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and consume it with its timber and stones.’” Compare this with the judgment for evil incarnate, who is brought to a region of Babylon in Zechariah 5:11, “To build a temple for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.”
Whereas the consequences of individual sin must be dealt with at a personal level, evil itself must be vanquished once for all at the highest level. There is a difference between the necessity for personal repentance from sin and the cosmic victory over evil itself. Don’t continue in your sin while declaring that Satan has been defeated by Jesus’ crucifixion, “When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him” (Colossians 2:15). You have been baptized into Jesus’ death; therefore, live as the redeemed of the Lord in the light of His resurrection (Romans 6:1-11), knowing with certainty that there is a coming judgment for sin (Hebrews 9:27).
Seize the moment and live free from the sin that so easily entangles you, so that you can live for God holy and whole (Romans 6:11-13; Hebrews 12:1-3; 1 Peter 2:24-25).
God bless you!
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