Zeal of God

December 13, 2020

Rev. Dennis R. Hartman

There are many prophecies concerning God’s promise of the coming of Messiah. In Genesis 3:15, God told the serpent, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel.” And in Genesis 12:1-3, God tells Abraham that in him all the families of the earth will be blessed. And again, in Isaiah 7:14, God speaks through Isaiah saying that “Behold a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.” The promise of the coming of Messiah was a passion of the LORD God in His plan and purpose to redeem mankind from sin. His zeal, which is passion with intensity, will cause it to happen. There is nothing that can keep it from happening since there is no one greater than God. It is because of the zeal of the LORD that we celebrate Christmas, the birth day of the King! We want to see in this passage this morning the wonderful zeal of God.