Text: Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll. And he said to me, "What do you see?" And I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits." Then he said to me, "This is the curse… (Zechariah 5:1-3)
Catechism Question 39: Is it significant that He was “crucified” instead of dying some other way?
Answer: Yes, by this death I am convinced that He shouldered the curse which lay on me, since death by crucifixion was cursed by God.
Intro:
I. A scroll
Flying
Size
Personified
Content
II. Basket
A woman
Storks
III. Good news
What?
How?
Application 1: Jesus & our Curse
His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. (Isaiah 53:9-10)
Application 2: Indwelling Sin
"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. (Galatians 2:20)
But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Galatians 6:14)
What God has done outside of us:
What God has done inside us:
Extreme #1:
Extreme #2:
Application 3: No more Curse
Revelation 22:3