ZECHARIAH 7
OPENS WITH...
Obedience Is Better than Ritual & Confronting the sin of religious hypocrisy.
THE MORE WE STUDY AND COMPARE THE OLD TESTAMENT WITH THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE MORE WE SEE & LEARN THAT ALMIGHTY GOD TELLS US, SHOWS US, COMMANDS US, & WARNS US (THE LOST AND THE SAVED) OF THE VERY SAME THINGS THAT JESUS TAUGHT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
HERE IS ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WHERE ALMIGHTY GOD SPEAKS TO ZECHARIAH ABOUT AND TELLS HIM HOW OUR TRIUNE GOD FEELS ABOUT MANKIND & RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS POMP, CIRCUMSTANCE, RULES AND RITUALS.
JESUS CHRIST SHOCKED THE SADDUCEES, THE PHARISEES, THE SANHEDRIN, THE PAGAN RELIGIONS, AND MAN CREATED RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR IDOLATRIES...BY TELLING THEM THAT HE WAS NOT RELIGIOUS AND NEITHER WAS HIS FATHER. JESUS CHRIST WAS ALL ABOUT ONE ON ONE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP & ALMIGHTY GOD TELLS US HERE THE SAME THING.
JESUS WAS ALL ABOUT THE HEART OF MAN, AND COULD CARE LESS ABOUT HIS BLOODLINE, HIS DEGREE, HIS SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STANDING, HIS EDUCATION, HIS RELIGIOUS OR GOVERNMENTAL IDEOLOGIES, NOR HIS WEALTH AT ALL. JESUS KNEW, READ, AND JUDGED THE HEART AND HEAR SO TO DOES ALMIGHTY GOD AFFIRM AND CONFIRM IT.
THE BIBLE TELLS US, & JESUS SAID HIMSELF THAT HE HAD NO USE FOR MAN CREATED RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR RULES, RITUALS, POMP, CIRCUMSTANCE, REPETITIOUS MUTTERINGS, AND DEMANDS TO PROVE HOLINESS, INSTEAD OF HITTING THEIR KNEES, BEING HUMBLE, SEEKING GOD, AND READING HIS WORD AND FOLLOWING IT...INSTEAD OF MAN'S IDOLS, RULES, RITUALS, AND HYPOCRISY.
SO ONCE AGAIN, DO YOU HAVE PEOPLE YOU LOVE AND ARE WITNESSING TO, WHO SAY I BELIEVE/TRUST THE OLD TESTAMENT, BUT DO NOT READ, BELIEVE, OR TRUST THE NEW TESTAMENT?
GIVE THEM ZECHARIAH 7.
Verses 1-3 GOD answers the question about FASTING.
"Now in the fourth year of King Darius it came to pass that the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, on the fourth day of the ninth month, Chislev, when the people sent Sherezer, with Regem-Melech and his men, to the house of God, to pray before the LORD, and to ask the priests who were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month and fast as I have done for so many years?"
In the fourth year … on the fourth day of the ninth month...GOD COMMANDS ZECHARIAH TO GIVE US THE EXACT DAY AND DATE...WHICH IS December 4, 518 B.C. & TELLS US a delegation came to Jerusalem with a question about fasting. At this point, the temple was somewhere around halfway completed.
Should I weep in the fifth month and fast?
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
The fast in the FIFTH month BEGAN THEN TO REMEMBER, AS A MEMORIAL TO the destruction of the temple told to us in 2 Kings 25:8-9).
AND REMEMBER....Zechariah also mentions a fast in the SEVENTH month told to us in Zechariah 7:5, which remembered the MURDER OF GEDALIAH, WHICH WAS THE LAST ACT OF REBELLION against the Babylonian governor of Judah told to us in 2 Kings 25:25.
WHY IS THIS MENTIONED HERE?
BECAUSE ALMIGHTY GOD DID NOT COMMAND THESE FASTS OR MEMORIALS OR RITUALS..THEY WERE MAN DECREED AND MAN CREATED...NOT FROM ALMIGHTY GOD.
HOW DO WE KNOW THIS?
The Law of Moses only commanded ONE FAST DAY, on the DAY OF ATONEMENT, told to us in Leviticus 16:29-34.
BUT SINCE THEN, during the exile, the Jewish people CREATED AND ADDED AND DECREED FOUR MORE FEASTS/FASTS to remember key dates in the tragic defeat of their nation.
WHAT ARE THEY?
Here are the additional FASTING:
Month/Day Reason Bible Reference
4/17----Mourning the capture of Jerusalem----Jeremiah 52:6-30
5/9----Burning of Jerusalem & destruction of Solomon's Temple----2 Kings 25:2-10
7/3----Assassination of Gedaliah & massacre of 80 men----Jeremiah 4:1-10
10/10----Nebuchadnezzar's siege against Jerusalem----2 Kings 25:1
Psalm 137 beautifully - and powerfully - describes the sadness of heart that made the exiles remember their sin and tragedy with these additional days of fasting.
BUT REMEMBER OUR GOD DID NOT COMMAND, REQUIRE NOR DECREE THESE FEAST/FAST DAYS. THEREIN LIES THE DIFFERENCE.
To ask the priests who were in the house of the LORD...
WHY?
WE NEED TO REMEMBER, IN THIS DAY AND TIME, THE WORD OF GOD WAS NOTTTTTTT MASS PRODUCED, MOST WERE PAINSTAKINGLY COPIED BY HAND OF THE PRIEST AND THE KINGS OF THE TIME...SO THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD RELIED UPON THE PRIESTS TO KNOW AND TO TELL THEM OF WHAT GOD TAUGHT AND COMMANDED THEM.
NOW DO YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING?
EVEN BACK IN ZECHARIAH'S DAY...THE PRIESTS AND PAST KINGS WHO HAD THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD WERE STILL CHANGING, TWEAKING, ADDING, ALTERING, AND/OR DISMISSING WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAID...AND ADDED WHAT THEY THOUGHT, BELIEVED, DECIDED WAS RELEVANT TO THEIR TIME.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
HOW MANY TRANSLATIONS, AND I USE THE TERM LOOSELY, HOW MANY DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS OF GOD'S WORD ARE THERE IN THE WORLD TODAY?
AND HOW MANY OF THEM ARE MAN INSPIRED AND CHANGED AND ALTERED...TO MAKE THEM MORE COOL, HIP, EASIER TO GRASP...OR AS SOME COMMENTATORS SAY...WE NEED TO DRAG THE BIBLE INTO THE RELEVANCE OF THE 21ST CENTURY.
THE KJV HOLY BIBLE IS PASSE, ANTIQUATED, OUT-DATED, AND NO LONGER RELEVANT TO OUR MORE EDUCATED, LITERATE, INTELLIGENT MINDS.
GOD TELLS MANKIND RIGHT HERE...YOU MESS WITH MY GIVEN WORD AT YOUR OWN PERIL, AMEN?
WHAT THESE MEN DIDDDDDDDDD KNOW....WAS THAT during their forced exile in Babylon they observed these feasts that remembered the tragic fall of Jerusalem. BUT NOW SINCE God's people were back in the land and the temple was rebuilt, they wanted to know if it was APPROPRIATE & NECESSARY & REQUIRED to continue to these fasts of mournful remembrance.
ALMIGHTY GOD, THEN AND NOW, WANTS US TO KNOW AND FOLLOW HIS WORD...NOT MAN'S HIS. ALMIGHTY GOD WANTS TO US TO SEEK AND TO LEARN AND TO KNOW FOR OURSELVES WHAT HIS WORD SAYS...AND TO BE READY AND WILLING TO QUESTION ANYONE...PRIEST OR MAN...WHOSE TEACHINGS DO NOTTTTTT LINE UP PERFECTLY WITH HIS WORD.
WHY?
GOD LOVES US.
GOD DOES NOT WANT US TO STUMBLE, TO SIN, TO ERR, BECAUSE WE SIMPLY ACCEPT AND TRUST WHAT WE ARE TOLD. HE WANTS US PROTECTED, SAFE IN HIM, TO WALK UPRIGHTLY BEFORE HIM...AND THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DO THIS IS TO SEEEK HIM IN HIS WORD, AMEN?
The matter brings up ANOTHER issue relevant today.
THE QUESTION OF How long should we remember and mourn over our past? Should we do things to remember either our sin or the tragedies of the past?
YOU NOTICE THESE MEN SAY...As I have done for so many years.
These additional fasts were NOT commanded by God, but instituted by man. Yet because they were traditionally practiced for so long (at least 70 years), they developed an authority of their own.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
IT MEANS IF YOU ARE TOLD SOMETHING, TAUGHT SOMETHING, DO SOMETHING COMMANDED BY RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU TRUST LONG ENOUGH, AND YOU DO NOT SEEK THE TRUTH, YOU DO NOT QUESTION, AND YOU DO NOT FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF IF OUR TRIUNE GOD COMMANDED IT, BUT SIMPLY ACCEPT IT AS GOD GIVEN, THEN OVER TIME IT WILL BECOME "GOD TEACHES AND JESUS SAYS AND TEACHES", IN OTHER WORDS ACCEPTED AS GOD GIVEN AND NOT MAN CREATED.
WHEN IN FACT, IT MAY ONLY BE A MAN-CREATED IDEOLOGY OF LONG STANDING AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT OUR ALMIGHTY GOD AND JESUS CHRIST TELL US.
BASICALLY THEIR THOUGHT WAS..."We've done this for so many years, we may as well keep doing it."
Verses 4-7 GOD ANSWERS & TELLS US Hypocrisy in fasting is rebuked.
"Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, "Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me; for Me? When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? Should you not have obeyed the words which the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the South and the Lowland were inhabited?'"
Did you really fast for Me; FOR ME?
God's word through Zechariah REBUKED the people of God for what their fasting had become - SHOWBOATING, PIOUS PROCLAIMING indulgent pity-parties CREATED BY MAN, BY RELIGIOUS LEADERS, NOT BY GOD AND CERTAINLY NOT FOR GOD...OR TO SEEK GOD.
AND I HAVE TOLD YOU ALL...THAT JESUS GAVE ME THE SAME ANSWER, WHEN I WAS TIRED, WORN, AND FEELING DOWN AND DESPAIRING OVER WITNESSING, COUNSELING, PRAYING, AND GIVING BIBLE STUDIES.
MOST OF YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST WAS ASKED, PRAYED OVER AND THEN BEGAN OFFERING A WEEKLY CORPORATE PRAYER MEETINGS, THAT AT FIRST, PEOPLE WOULD POP IN, SEE IT WAS NOT CHIT CHAT TIME, BUT PRAYER TIME, AND THEY WOULD POP BACK OUT, OR INTERRUPT AND SAY, I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO SIT AND LISTEN TO PRAYING FOR EVERYONE, I WANT YOU TO PRAY FOR ME RIGHT NOW, OR TELL ME HOW LONG BEFORE YOU DO LIFT MY PRAYER REQUEST AND I WILL COME BACK TO HEAR IT...AND A FEW TIMES ONLY JESUS AND I ATTENDED, WHERE JUST THE TWO OF US PRAYED OVER SO MANY PRAYER REQUESTS, & THERE WERE A FEW BIBLE STUDIES IN THE BEGINNING, WHERE IT WAS JUST ME AND JESUS IN ATTENDANCE FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE BIBLE STUDIES.
AND SO I DESPAIRED. I THOUGHT I WAS DOING IT WRONG. I THOUGHT I HAD HEARD WRONG. I DID NOT SEE ANY FRUITS...AND BELIEVED I WAS NOT IN JESUS WILL. I WANTED TO GIVE UP AND QUIT. SO IN ANGER, SADNESS, AND DESPAIR I CRIED OUT TO JESUS AND SAID WHAT IS THE POINT LORD? I FEEL AS IF I AM ACCOMPLISHING NOTHING, HELPING NO ONE, AM BUT USELESS MUTTERING. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? DID I HEAR WRONG?
AND THE LORD SAID...NOT IN ANGER NOR FRUSTRATION, BUT IN LONG-SUFFERING PATIENCE...WHO ARE YOU DOING IT FOR FAITH? ME OR YOURSELF?
TALK ABOUT REVELATION...AND STOPPING ME DEAD IN MY TRACKS...AND SENDING ME TO MY KNEES IN HUMILITY & SHAME. BECAUSE I DID NOT SEE IT AS SUCH, DID NOT THINK OF IT AS DOING ANY OF IT FOR MYSELF, BUT JESUS SHOWED ME THAT MY DESPAIR AND MY SENSE OF FAILURE OF NOT DOING IT RIGHT, OR MAKING A DIFFERENCE WAS LOOKING AT THINGS FROM MY OWN LIMITED TANGIBLE PERSPECTIVE AND NOT JESUS. AND JESUS SHOWED ME THE TRUTH...THE REAL TRUTH...THAT AT THE CORE OF MY DESPAIR WAS EGO....WAS ME ME ME ME....INSTEAD OF JESUS JESUS JESUS.
I WAS ASHAMED...AND SICK AT HEART TO HAVE THIS REVELATION...TALK ABOUT QUICK CONVICTION OF HEART, MIND, AND BODY. MY PITY-PARTY TURNED INTO A COME TO JESUS MEETING!
ALL I COULD SAY OR THINK WAS...I AM SO SORRY, FORGIVE ME MY EGO, MY SELF-FOCUSED HEART. AND IT WAS IN THAT MOMENT...THAT SWEET VOICE THEN COMFORTED AND REASSURED ME...JUST TELL THEM MY WORD FAITH...GIVE THEM MY WORD....JUST TELL THEM...I WILL DO THE REST...NOT YOU.
THIS IS BASICALLY WHAT GOD WAS TELLING THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL & THEIR PRIESTS RIGHT HERE.
Their lives & HEARTS were NOT right when they did eat and drink - that they did for themselves, NOT for the LORD. A few days of fasting every year could not make up for the rest of the year lived for yourselves.
AND WE SEE IT IN OUR RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS TODAY AS WELL, AMEN?
THIS PUBLIC SHOW OF LOOK I AM BEING HOLY, PIOUS... WHEN WE SEE PEOPLE WEARING A RED DOT ON THEIR FOREHEADS, ASHES ON THEIR FOREHEADS, TELLING PEOPLE TODAY I DO NOT EAT THIS...OR ANNOUNCING I AM FASTING TODAY...OR SOME STILL WEAR SACKCLOTH...SOME STILL LASH THEMSELVES...CUT THEMSELVES...ALL FOR THE SAKE OF WHAT THEIR RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS TEACH, SAY AND DECREE IS REQUIRED TO SHOW AND BE HOLY AND DEVOUT AND SET APART...UNTO WHOMEVER THEY CALL THEIR GOD.
ALMIGHTY GOD SEES IT AS RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION ME ME ME POMP CIRCUMSTANCE RULES RITUALS...INSTEAD OF SEEKING THE ONE AND ONLY TRIUNE GOD AND OBEYING WHAT HE SAYS AND TELLS US.
ALMIGHTY GOD, WHO SEES AND READS AND KNOWS THE HEART AND MIND OF MANKIND PERFECTLY CALLS IT ALL HYPOCRISY, JUST AS JESUS CALLED THEM YOU HYPOCRITES!!
AND THIS WORD STRAIGHT FROM ALMIGHTY GOD ALSO SHOWS US that when we cling to the MEMORY OF SIN AND TRAGEDY IN THE PAST, we often do it out of simple self-indulgence. FOR PUBLIC PITY PARTIES....FOR DRAMA...SHOWBOATING...FOR ME ME ME. We do it for our self, NOT for the LORD.
WHEN THE RELIGIOUS AND PIOUS GET REVELATION AND BEGIN TO SEARCH GOD'S WORD WE FIND OUT THAT MANY OF WHAT WE TERM HOLY, PIOUS, AND SHOWS OF REPENTANCE...IS ONLY EGO.
THERE ARE MANY SCRIPTURES THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE THAT SPEAK TO THIS...
HOSEA 6:6 says, "For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."
MATTHEW 9:3 says, "But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Should you not have obeyed the words which the LORD proclaimed?
GOD REPEATS IT HERE ANOTHER WAY...BUT BASICALLY IT IS THE SAME THING...
WHY ARE YOU DOING THESE FASTS & FEASTS?
WHO ARE YOU DOING THIS FOR? FOR ME OR FOR YOURSELF...TO BE SEEN AND VIEWED AND COUNTED HOLY AND PIOUS BEFORE THE WORLD?
GOD WOULD FAR RATHER WE STRIVE TO LIVE FOR HIM EVERY DAY, THAN TO HAVE CERTAIN DAYS ON THE CALENDAR WHEN WE GET PIOUS OR STRIVE TO ACT PIOUS AND AS CHRISTIANS.
I REMEMBER ONE MEMBER WHO JOINED GFB, THEN SAID ON THE FRONT PAGE OF GFB...
"ALL YOU PEOPLE DO ALL DAY LONG IS POST SCRIPTURE, INSPIRATIONALS, PRAISE MUSIC, JESUS VIDEOS, AND TALK ABOUT JESUS AND WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR YOU...YOU PEOPLE NEEDDDDDDD TO GET A LIFE."
THE OVERALL RESPONSE FROM GFB MEMBERSHIP WAS SIMPLY..."WE SEEK TO KEEP JESUS IN OUR DAILY LIVES... HE ISSSS OUR LIFE!"
SO IN HIS OWN DEFENSE HE ADDED, "LISTEN I READ MY BIBLE IN THE MORNING, SAY MY PRAYERS AT NIGHT, GO TO CHURCH EVERY WEEK, BUT AFTER THAT I GO ENJOY MY LIFE...I HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE THE BIBLE AND THE CHURCH. I HAVE FUN. I ENJOY MY LIFE."
THAT IS BASICALLY THE MINDSET OF PEOPLE THEN IN ZECHARIAH'S DAY...AND GOD SHOWS US THEM AND US ANOTHER IMPORTANT THING IN HIS WORD....
NO MATTER HOW ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICALLY, SCIENTIFICALLY, MENTALLY, AND SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY MANKIND HAS BECOME....HUMAN NATURE REMAINS THE SAME, AMEN?
AND MEYER SAYS IT WELL, "Instead of actively remembering the sin or tragedy of the past, God wants us to focus on active obedience and an active walk with Him. "There is no need to observe the sad anniversaries of our sins and their accompanying punishment, if once we are assured of God's free forgiveness. When He forgives and restores, the need for dwelling on the bitter past is over … Too many of us are always dwelling beside the graves of the dead past."
AND GOD IS REMINDING THEM ALSO...Through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were ALIVE, SAFE, PROSPEROUS & FULLY INHABITED....If their ancestors had been obedient TO GOD'S COMMANDS, WARNINGS, AND PLEADINGS GIVEN THEM THROUGH HIS WORD AND HIS PROPHETS FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE PUNISHMENT CAME....they would have NEVER HAVE NEEDED to fast, and their land wouldn't have been conquered and desolate, AMEN?
And the South and the Lowland were inhabited...
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
Here, the South refers to the Negev, the desolate desert near the Dead Sea. GOD IS REMINDING THEM....This area wasn't always desolate; before Israel's disobedience, it too was prosperous and inhabited, and green and thriving.
Verses 8-10 GOD ONCE AGAIN TELLS THEM WHAT HE DOESSSSSS WANT: LISTEN TO ME AND OBEY ME.
"Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion everyone to his brother. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart against his brother.' "
Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion...In Zechariah 7:7 the prophet REBUKED the people of God and their ancestors for a basic NEGLECT of obedience. Now Zechariah describes the kind of obedience God wanted, beginning with decent and loving treatment of our neighbor.
Let none of you plan evil in his heart against his brother.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
OUR TRIUNE GOD WHO SEES AND READS THE HEART AND MIND PERFECTLY KNEW AND IS TELLING THEM ALL THEN AND NOW....Some among the people of God found it easier to fast a few days a year instead of truly treating others in a godly way. Their bad relationship with others demonstrated a fundamentally bad relationship with the LORD.
IN OTHER WORDS...YOU TALK THE TALK...BUT YOU DO NOT WALK THE TALK, AMEN?
Verse 11-12 tells us of the rebellious reaction of God's people.
"But they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear. Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the LORD of hosts."
Refused to heed … shrugged their shoulders … stopped their ears … made their hearts like flint...
Zechariah vividly describes a progression of rejection. It begins with simply refusing to heed God, then a self-justifying shrugging of their shoulders, then stopping their ears. It all ends with hearts as hard as flint. BEWARE OF PIETY...WHICH IS BASICALLY EGO...SELF ARROGANCE...
AND GOD IS TELLING US SOMETHING HERE THAT WE NEED TO SEE AND UNDERSTAND AND REMEMBER...When you meet people with hearts like flint, KNOW they did not become that way overnight. There was a gradual, certain progression to their present place of hardness, AMEN?
Refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets...
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
In their hardened state, they just didn't want to hear God's word. When we lose our hunger for God's word it is a sobering evidence of the progression of rejection and hardness of heart.
Verses 13-14 tells us God's judgment on their disobedience.
"Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so they called out and I would not listen," says the LORD of hosts. "But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate."
Just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so they called out and I would not listen...
Since God's people refused to listen to God, God would refuse to listen to and answer their prayers. This is just another good reason to stay under the teaching of God's word - so that our prayers will be answered, AMEN?
I scattered them with a whirlwind...
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
This refers to the swift victories and cruel conduct of the Chaldeans towards the Jews; they came upon them like a whirlwind; they were tossed to and fro, and up and down, everywhere scattered and confounded.
Thus the land became desolate after them...
Their disobedience and disregard for God led to scattering and desolation. This is always our fate when we allow religious rituals to take the place of a real relationship and daily obedience towards God.
THIS CHAPTER OF ZECHARIAH TEACHES US TO SEARCH OUR HEARTS...AND ASK OURSELVES...
THREE LIFE ALTERING QUESTIONS?
WHO AM I LISTENING TO? MAN, RELIGIONS OR JESUS CHRIST & HIS WORD?
WHO AM I BELIEVING IN? MAN, RELIGIONS, OR JESUS CHRIST AND HIS WORD?
WHO AM I DOING THIS FOR? MAN, RELIGIONS, OR JESUS CHRIST?
IF THE ANSWER TO ANY OF THE ABOVE IS NOT JESUS CHRIST & HIS WORD...THEN WE NEED TO SEEK JESUS WILL AND JESUS WAY.
MANKIND WILL FAIL US.
RELIGIONS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS WILL FAIL US.
FRIENDS AND FAMILY WILL FAIL US.
ONLY JESUS CHRIST AND HIS WORD NEVER CHANGES AND NEVER FAILS.
CALL UPON JESUS CHRIST NOW.
CHOOSE JESUS CHRIST NOW.
FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST AND HIS WORD NOW.