Zechariah 11
How would you feel if you came into leadership and you knew the guaranteed end result? Would that change the way you led?
But what if the end result was going to be what happened in AD 70 to Jerusalem and what Zechariah prophesies:
Fire devouring, that what was glorious fallen, cut down, wailing, losing everything the people once had, outrage, a roaring sound of lions, v1-3.
Could you lead people with such a fate?
What if you were going to die nearly 40 years before those you were going to lead would face their ruin? This is what Jesus faced. How would you lead?
What would be your message?
1. Just do it. (v4,7)
2. Use Grace and use Harmony. (v7). Operate in undeserved favour and focus on relationships.
3. Disarm those who influence negatively. (v8)
4. Don’t be what people want you to be, be who you are called to be, (v9).
And what Christ experienced was this …
1. Rejection, v8. He was deserted, loathed and the people couldn’t stand him.
There is no pain like a rejected leader. In v12-13 Judas is prophesied. Every one will experience a Judas.
2. Pain for others, v7,11. There will always be those who stand with you and face/experience the pain with you.
3. Watching your work fall. v15-17, the rise of the antichrist destroying all you stood for. Sometimes the successor is not progressive.
And all of this can be summed up as dangerous obedience. It is what Jesus acted on and it is what is set before us today.
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