Title: Jesus the Shepherd / Zechariah 11:4-14
Content Introduction
1. The Old Testament prophesies the Messiah who will come to this earth in the future.
The fact that Moon covers much of Jesus as the Messiah in great detail
to be.
2. This text refers to the religious image of Jesus' day.
depicts the social situation at the time when everyone was not interested in making money and everyone was crazy about making money.
It seems to be something that needs to be compared with reality.
I. The Messiah has a precious work (4-11).
A. Feed the flock to be caught.
1. The word “flock to be slaughtered” refers to a sheep who is foolish and refuses to be protected by the shepherd.
The sheep are only slaughtered in the end. That is, Ys, who has forsaken God's protection and love and went the other way.
It means Rael.
2. When Jerusalem was later taken over by the Roman army, this prophecy came true.
The Roman army slaughtered 1.5 million inhabitants. God had no control over them.
He had a heart and wanted to shepherd them.
Verse 3.5 says that there was a man who was traded as a slave by the occupying Romans.
Among the great people, it means that they used their own people, the slave Jews, for sale.
They said that they praised God for making a lot of money while doing iniquity.
That is. Did God really receive that praise? These things are happening again today.
4. “Their shepherds have no pity on them.”
The city's religionists are mentioned. There were Pharisees, scribes, and elders. They were the people who suffered.
They had no interest in them. They were focused only on their own interests.
5. It is a sin for leaders not to take care of their people. But the problem is difficult
It is a more serious sin to neglect the people who are falling in love. Power is said to come from heaven.
But God does not give power for leaders, but leaders for the people.
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6. When the saints sin in the world, the forces that attack us from inside and outside
Yes, but we do not have the power to overcome it. Satan's power is much stronger than the saints.
Because of this, we do not have the strength to fight sin.
B. Feeding the flock
1. The word grace means “beloved by God.” Jesus gave to the remnant.
Jesus loves and protects the remnant of the sheep, saying, “The rod of love.
" and "contact sticks" are used.
2. Even if all the sheep become sheep to be slaughtered, there are still sheep that are loved by God.
Flocks to eat are greedy. So they have no discernment.
When he thinks about it, he wanders all over the place. So he is eventually caught by a wolf and has an evil neck.
He is captured and killed by a man.
3. But on the remaining sheep, the grace of God is given, and the rod of love and
He connects the flocks with sticks so that they do not scatter.
C. For a month I cut off the shepherd.
1. The three shepherds should be considered to symbolize the three types of people. They must be prophets, priests and kings
to be.
2. A period of one month means that time is short. There are three types of God.
that he ruled the leaders of
3. To fulfill the wishes of the people who rejected the Lord, God first
He cut off the leaders. So he made the perishable perish, and the perishable perish.
Three kinds of calamities were given.
1) death
Adversity caused by poor crops and continued famine brought death. And disease abounded.
took his life
2) Defeat
It is a personal disaster. It is a disaster for business and debt.
3) Civil War
Now, there are civil wars in more regions than ever before in this land.
There is a clear reason for the United Nations to help fights between countries, but domestic civil wars have justification for that.
This weakens. Nothing as miserable as a civil war is rare. It is nothing but destruction from one another.
there is nothing
II. People rejected the Messiah (12-14).
A. Thirty pieces of silver were made to be my high value.
1. The scene where the Messiah would be sold for thirty pieces of silver was prophesied. Why thirty pieces of silver? Exodus
21:31 has a special significance.
2. If a cow from one household entered another's house and was killed by a servant, not the owner's child.
At that time, the amount of compensation was thirty pieces of silver. Then Jesus was treated as a slave in the end.
isn't it?
3. The second stick was cut off. The stick of communication symbolized the brother's righteousness.
It means that their relationship was destroyed. They became enemies, not saints. And they hated each other.
It became a bloody appearance.
B. The saints should pray.
1. The saints must listen to the voice of Jesus, the chief shepherd. The one who protects the sheep
Only the shepherd is Jesus. The shepherds only move under the direction of the shepherd. Therefore,
Let's hear the voice of Jesus
2. Today, there are many shepherds in this land. But among the shepherds, there are true shepherds.
And there are false shepherds. There are people who cannot even be called shepherds.
The goal is self-interest. Therefore, we should pray for more true shepherds in this land.