Amen and amen and good evening and welcome.

So glad you're here. You can be seated.

Those of you online, we're so glad that you're joining us.

Trust that you'll all be blessed that you are.

If you don't mind, I want to get right to it.

We're making our way through the second to the last book in the Old Testament, the book

of Zachariah.

And tonight, chapter seven.

This because, and I know this is profound, we finished chapter six last week, so what comes

after six is, so how am I doing? Off to a too soon?

Okay. Now I kind of needed that levity maybe before I talk to you about what I need to talk to you about.

And that is that this chapter is very uncomfortable.

And if I'm uncomfortable, I want you to be uncomfortable too.

You know that saying misery loves company?

So it is being uncomfortable.

So I want you, you know, don't make yourself comfortable.

I want you uncomfortable tonight.

And rightfully so, by the way, as we're going to see, because this chapter confronts

all of us with a most difficult probing, convicting question. Namely, that of whether or not what I do under the banner of

my presumed faithfulness and obedience to the Lord is actually for myself or for the Lord. Are you uncomfortable?

Okay, well just wait. We'll get there.

As we go through this, especially the end of this, and I know I probably say this, I hope you

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