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Godly Vision – Vision To GROW! (Sermon Audio)

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This is the audio from the September 8, 2024 sermon, “Vision To GROW!”, shared by Tom Lemler at the Deer Run Church of Christ.

Text: Zechariah 2

“Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.”
Zechariah 2:11 (NIV)

As God revealed Himself in Old Testament times to His chosen people, He often did so in visions seen by His prophets.  Zechariah was one of those prophets who was given a series of godly visions to share with God’s people of his time and with God’s people of today.  Today we begin a sermon series from the book of Zechariah as we consider how his godly vision should teach us now.  As we gaze into God’s Word, we find this Godly Vision extended beyond the physical realm of Jerusalem as God was adding to His kingdom a citizenry from all nations.  When we attempt to define the boundaries of God’s kingdom, He reveals to us a vision to . . .

  • Go:  Zechariah 2:1-2

    • A vision to grow involves the need to recognize we are representatives of Jesus everywhere we go.  We may go places with our own agenda and ideas of what we are doing, but God desires to use us in ways that are bigger than we often imagine.  When we acknowledge Jesus as being in charge of everything, including us, we are filled with a vision to go simply because He says so.

  • Report:  Zechariah 2:3-5

    • A vision to grow will call for us to report all that we have seen Jesus do in our life.  When we live as one responding to the good news of Jesus, we grow in faith and we grow the kingdom when we tell others our story of encountering the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.  It is in this report that we begin to realize the kingdom of God cannot be confined in ways that physical kingdoms are.  

  • Observe:  Zechariah 2:6-9

    • A vision to grow means that we will observe the things of God in ways that not only notice God’s commands, but we keep them.  Part of our responsibility as God’s child is to teach others to observe everything commanded by Jesus.  It is through our life of giving value to all of God’s Word by our obedience to it, we help others grow through our teaching and example.

  • Worship:  Zechariah 2:10-13

    • A vision to grow will lead us to a greater expression of worship as we realize it is God who is bringing about the growth.  Our response to going everywhere with the good news of Jesus not only leads us to a greater obedience, it leads us to worshiping God with the whole heart He desires for us to have.

Today, how will you GROW?