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Next on In Touch, doing God's work, God's way.

Why is it that so often we hear about men and women who are in the ministry, who is serving the Lord, doing the Lord's work falling by the wayside sometimes because of moral

problems or sometimes because they just get disgusted, disillusion and

discouraged in the work of the Lord. How could a person serving the living God

become so discouraged that they would be willing to walk away from the very calling

God has given them.

Well, there may be many reasons,

but the primary reason probably is

that we do the work of the Lord the wrong way.

That is, we're not doing God's work, God's way. And that's what I'm

want to talk about in this message, doing God's work, God's way. And I want you to

turn, if you will, to the book of Zachariah.

And if you will recall in this passage while you're turning,

let me give you a little background.

That those Israelites who have been in Babylonian captivity for 70 years have now

in the Cyrus been allowed to return to Jerusalem under the leadership of

Zerubable to rebuild the temple. And so they have gone back now some 50,000 of them and they laid the

foundation of the temple but because of some objections and some harassment

and difficulties, great

difficulties, about 15 years have gone by and they've not completed and not

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