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What do two olive trees in a vision 2,500 years ago have to do with your life today? More than you might think. Today on Scandia Bible Church podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Zechariah, in which we see the prophet pressing for understanding about his vision of the two olive trees. We’ll see that their meaning is rich in symbolism.

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and spiritual truth. But ultimately, what we’ll learn is that these two trees point us straight to Jesus Christ, our High Priest and King, and the Spirit who empowers His people now. For from Him the oil of the Spirit flows into the lives of His people, giving power, perseverance, and light in a dark world.

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Welcome to the Scandia Bible Church podcast for Sunday, April 6th, 2025. We’d to invite you to visit our website at scaniabiblechurch.org where can learn more about us, access past sermons, and can obtain the sermon notes and discussion guide for today’s message. And now let’s join Pastor Monty Simao with his message from the book of Zechariah entitled, The Two Olive Trees, Christ our Priest and King.

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Please take your copy of God’s Word and turn with me to Zechariah chapter 4. Zechariah chapter 4.

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Have you ever tried to run a car without oil?

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the engine may start.

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It won’t run for long. The parts will grind, they will overheat, and they will fail. Without oil, the engine cannot function as it was designed. And the same is true for the church and for the Christian life. God does not redeem us and leave us to figure things out on our own. He doesn’t raise

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dead sinners to life and watch them wind down like toys. No, he gives us the Holy Spirit, who is both the power and the presence of God within us. In other words, the Holy Spirit is the fuel and the oil in the engine of our spiritual life and in the life of the church. Without the Spirit, we would dry up, we would

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burnout, we would shut down. And that’s both the warning and the encouragement in Zechariah chapter four. So as we continue moving through this book, our verse by verse exposition, let’s let me just remind you of where we’ve been and where we are. So the Jewish exiles, they’ve they’ve returned to a broken

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Jerusalem. are weak. They are few in number. They’re living under Persian rule. They’re struggling to rebuild the temple. God has been addressing them through a series of night visions that he’s given to the prophet Zachariah. There’s eight night visions in total and these visions there are they’re reminding God’s people of his sovereign rule of his abundant grace towards them.

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and his call upon them to live faithfully. We’ve now reached the fifth vision, which together with the fourth vision sits at the very center of this series of eight visions. And you’ll recall that these visions follow a chiastic structure. So the center is the most theologically weighty. so the fifth,

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If this were a mountain range, you could think of chapters three and four as the peaks of this mountain range. And this fifth vision, it begins with this vision of this golden lampstand, and it is loaded with meaning. It’s being fed by this never-ending supply of oil from these two olive trees. And right in the middle of it, God declares this central truth that says,

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not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts. That’s the central aspect of this. And, but there’s something in the vision that, has not been explained and Zachariah notices it. And the angel has not told them who or what these olive trees are. And so he asks and the answer he receives unlocks a deeper truth. One that touches not only

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Israel’s restoration, but also our salvation and calling today. And so let me begin by reading Zechariah chapter four, and I’m going to read the whole chapter just to refresh your minds before we focus on our text, which is verses 11 through 14. Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and roused me as a man who was awakened from his sleep. He said to me, what do you see? And I said, I see and behold,

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a lamp stand all of gold with its bowl on the top of it and its seven lamps on it with seven spouts belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it. Also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side. Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me saying, what are these my Lord? So the angel who was speaking with me answered and said to me, do you not know what these are?

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And I said, No, my Lord. Then he said to me, This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts. What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, you will become a plane, and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of grace, grace to it. Also, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, the hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it.

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Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when they see the plum line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of the Lord which range to and fro throughout the earth. Then I said to him, what are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left? And I answered the second time and said to him, what are the two olive branches which are

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beside the two golden pipes which empty the golden oil from themselves. So he answered me saying, do you not know what these are? And I said, no, my Lord. Then he said, these are the two anointed ones who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth. Let’s pray. Father, give us eyes to see and ears to hear what you’re teaching us through this vision. Help us.

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not only to understand the text, but to be changed by the truth revealed in it. Let us see Christ more clearly, love him more dearly, follow him more faithfully, we pray, amen. One of the things that I appreciate about Zachariah is that when he doesn’t understand something, he asks. He isn’t too proud to admit his ignorance.

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He doesn’t pretend to have insight that he doesn’t have. He just says, you know, when asked a question, do you know, he just says, no, my Lord. And we see this honesty again from verse four, where he says, then I said to the angel who was speaking with me saying, what are these my Lord and the angel, if you recall, kind of replies incredulously in verse five, you know, do you not know what these are? And Zechariah, he doesn’t fake it.

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He just replies at the end of verse 5, no my lord That’s the kind of Humility, it’s it’s eager to learn it is not embarrassed to admit confusion it’s really what every disciple of Christ should imitate and Just reading that was convicting for me this week. Maybe I’m just the only one but

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All the ladies that say their husbands won’t even ask for directions. You should be convicted right now. right, I mean this. Zachariah knows what he doesn’t know. And he knows that what he’s seeing is important. The olive trees, the branches, he sees that they’re not just side details, they’re pivotal to understanding what this vision is. They’re central to its meaning. So he presses in.

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And we see this in verse 11. Then I said to him, what are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left? And then he gets more specific in verse 12, because no immediate answer is given. says, and I answered the second time and said to him, what are the two olive branches which are beside the two golden pipes, which empty the golden oil from themselves? And the angel again responds,

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almost with a nudge, do you not know what these are? And Zechariah, in simple honesty, says, no, my Lord. And then comes the answer. So get the drum roll ready. Look at verse 14. Then he said, these are the two anointed ones who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth.

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And that is such a clear answer. don’t think I need to explain anymore. We could just go home. This is, mean, obviously we all know what that means. That’s it. That’s the whole answer. No further breakdown, no additional footnotes provided from the angel. The vision ends right there. Chapter five begins a brand new vision.

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You almost want to flip the page expecting that there’s got to be more that’s being given here, more explanation. Those of you who are old enough to actually remember handwriting letters, you get to the bottom of the page, right? And if you weren’t done, what did you do? And I don’t even know why we did this, but we sometimes wrote the word over. And some of us even drew like this dramatic arrow.

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Like so they would know what the word over meant. And I don’t know why we did it because I can’t imagine anybody getting to the end of a page in mid thought and just think, wow, that’s so weird. It just ended. But we expected them to flip the page and say over. It was the original swipe up.

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That’s how Zechariah 4 feels to me. I get to the end of verse 14 and you just want the angel to write over and keep explaining. But no arrow, no more words, just full stop. So what does this mean? Well the phrase anointed ones in Hebrew literally is sons of oil.

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These are people that are saturated with the Spirit’s anointing, if you would. They stand in the presence of the Lord of all the earth. And most commentators are all in agreement at this point. The question though is, well, who are they? Or what are they? And over the years, several interpretations have been proposed regarding the identity of these two olive trees.

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Some have seen them as representing the law and the gospel suggesting these two great streams of divine Revelation that feed the lamp of God’s people and while that might see, you know in one sense I look at that and I say well that’s that would be fun to preach It just doesn’t fit the vision Zacharias vision is rooted in real historical figure. These are people they’re not abstract concepts

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There’s no indication in the text that it’s dealing with ideas or covenants, but with living agents who stand before the Lord. Others have proposed that the two trees are Haggai and Zechariah, these two prophets that are ministering during this time in post-exile, in this time of rebuilding the temple. And it is true that God often uses

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Prophets to mightily encourages people to call them to faithfulness, but there’s no Textual indication that the prophets are in view here I think it’s almost awkward for Zechariah to receive a vision and he is one of the olive trees being represented But that’s not communicated Neither are prophets referred to as sons of oil It’s a phrase that speaks of an anointed office and is typically associated with kings or priests

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Still others connect these two trees to the two witnesses in Revelation chapter 11, where similar language is used about olive trees and lampstand is used. And while the imagery is evocative and it likely draws from Zacharias vision, the context is very different. Revelation points to a future eschatological moment where these prophetic witnesses bring judgment and testimony to the nations.

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Zachariah, on the other hand, it speaks of a present reality, of rebuilding the temple, drawing of these visions for a post-exilic community, trying to encourage them. The parallels are there, but the function, the timeframe, is completely different. And finally, some have even suggested that these are angelic beings, since there are angelic figures throughout the vision.

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But again, the phrase sons of oil never applied to angels, not described in that way. And the title points to an anointing for a unique spirit empowered role in God’s covenant community. And that’s precisely what we find in the historical context here in Zacharias vision. So I believe, and along with the majority of biblical scholars, that the two olive trees represent or symbolize

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Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the governor. These are the two key leaders in this post-exilic community, one representing the royal or the priestly office and one the royal or the kingly office. And they stood together as God’s chosen instruments to lead the people, not by their own strength, but by the empowering presence of the spirit. The oil flowing from these trees

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to the lampstand, it’s a vivid picture of God’s anointing upon these men for the work both of rebuilding the people and rebuilding this covenant life amongst the returning Jews in exile. So in other words, this is the priestly and the kingly offices. Now why do I believe that these anointed ones represent the priestly and kingly offices? Now first, I think the context points

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directly to these two key figures. We have Joshua the high priest, which was in chapter three, and now we have the rubable, the Davidic governor in chapter four. This is the focal point of the vision. Second, the language of anointing fits both of these roles. In the Old Testament, was prophets, priests, and kings who were anointed, but only priests and kings

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actually held an institutional ongoing office that was tied to the life of God’s people. And then third, the structure of the vision supports this. The lamp stand represents the temple, the olive trees supply oil, but it’s God’s spirit mediating through his appointed offices.

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The priest intercedes, the priest offers atonement, the king rules, the king executes justice. And so these olive trees symbolizing Joshua and Zerubbabel, these two divinely appointed leaders to this restored community. They’re not the ultimate source of power, but the means through which the spirit flows.

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The trees feed the lamp, but the spirit comes from the Lord. I like how Richard Phillips puts it. He says, the priesthood and the kingship as ordained by God mediated God’s spirit just as the oil flowed through the channels into the lampstand. The oil is the spirit who fuels the flames, makes bright the light and empowers every spiritual work.

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Now we must ask, well where does this ultimately point us? It points us beyond Joshua. It points us beyond Zerubbabel. And it points us forward to Jesus Christ. He is our great high priest. He is the sovereign king. And I want to say this right at the beginning because I’ll admit when you first hear that the two olive trees represent Joshua and Zerubbabel, it’s kind of surprising.

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Right? It’s kind like, really? These guys? These aren’t exactly the ones that you would paint as the hero if you were casting a movie. I mean, we saw Joshua standing before the Lord in Zechariah chapter three, covered in filth, representing his sin. He’s wearing garments of excrement in front of the king of the world. All you see is his sin, his unworthiness.

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his guilt and that of the people. He wasn’t standing in strength, he was standing in shame. He had to be cleaned, he had to be clothed, he had to be restored by grace. And then you have Zerubbabel. I mean, he’s overwhelmed, he’s facing all this resistance, he’s discouraged, and he’s facing this unfinished temple. Only the foundation has been laid. What has that taken him, 20 years?

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He’s not the image of triumph. He’s the image of someone who needed the reminder in verse six, not by might nor by power, but by my spirit says the Lord of hosts. So again, these are the olive trees. These are the channels of the spirit.

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That’s the point. It’s surprising, but that’s the point. God delights in using weak vessels to showcase his strength. That’s the point. He anoints the feeble. He empowers the insufficient. He fills the flawed. Why? Well, one thing we can point out is that, well, that’s all he has to work with.

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I mean, let’s just be honest. That’s it. Amen. But in reality, there’s a greater reason. And there is just so there’s no confusion as to where the power comes from. These men, the weak priest and the weary governor, they point us to the true fulfillment of their offices, Jesus Christ. He is the sinless priest who did not need

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Cleansing because he was perfectly clean. He is the conquering king who was not overwhelmed with his mission but was able to say it is finished and What temple does he build? Not one of stone in Jerusalem, but a living eternal temple made of living stones Ephesians says that we are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit So yes, it is surprising at first

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But that’s just how God works. He takes filthy garments, He replaces them with robes of righteousness. He takes trembling hands holding a plumb line and He uses those hands to lay the capstone. He takes flawed men like Joshua and Zerubbabel and He uses them as signposts to the flawless Savior. Zechariah sees two anointed offices.

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the priest and the king, each flowing with oil, each standing before the Lord. These were separate and distinct roles in Israel’s covenant community, each vital, each spirit empowered. In fact, in the Qumran community, you can think of these were those that preserved the Dead Sea Scrolls. They were expecting two messiahs.

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Why two? Well, they were expecting a priestly Messiah and a kingly Messiah because that’s what they saw in the scripture and their mind would not allow them to combine these offices. So they said there must be two Messiahs coming. But in Jesus, these two branches converge. He is the priest and king, not divided, but united in one.

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Perfect mediator who stands before the Lord on our behalf The oil the oil doesn’t just drip onto him. He is saturated in it He is in every sense the true and final anointed one That’s what Messiah means anoint. That’s what Christ means the anointed one. He is the son of oil par excellence Not a symbol not a shadow he’s the substance

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of what this points to. Let’s just look at these roles one at a time. In the Old Testament, the high priest was the man who could enter the most holy place once a year on the day of atonement, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the calendar of Judaism. And he would atone for the sins of the people. But before he could do that, he had to also sacrifice to atone for his own sins because he was a sinner as well.

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We see the sin of the high priest as well as the sin of the people symbolize in Zachariah chapter three with Joshua and his filthy garments. But Christ, no stain, no blemish, no sin. And so he offers in his sacrifice, not a bull, not a lamb, he offers himself. Hebrews 9 14 says, how much more

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with the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God. Cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. See, his blood removes the guilt of our sin. His intercession brings us near. And unlike the priest of old who just kept dying on the job and they needed to be replaced,

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Jesus holds his priestly office permanently. He ever lives to intercede for us. Hebrews 7 25, therefore he is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through him since he always lives to make intercession for them. And beloved, if Christ is interceding for you right now in heaven,

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Who can condemn you on

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What sin could separate you? What shame could silence your prayers? What weakness could cancel His mercy?

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If Jesus is your priest, then your access to God is constant, it is secure, it is blood-bought.

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And if that is not already amazing enough, more amazing than we can imagine, he is not only our priest, he is our king.

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And I don’t mean that in some abstract, invisible way. I mean, he reigns right now. Right now, at this moment, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him. He reigns, he rules over nations, over presidents, over weather patterns, over cancer diagnosis.

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over rebellious teenagers, over weary Christians, over weakened hearts. He reigns, period.

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But his kingship isn’t just about power, it’s about righteousness. He rules with truth and grace. He rules for the good of his people. He fights for us. He conquers sin. He guards his church. He reigns and governs history. He’s bringing all things in subjection under his feet. He is the greater Zerubbabel. He is the true son of David.

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He builds the true and eternal temple, not of stone, but of living stone made of people, you and me, and he will not fail in his work. I love how John Calvin words this. says, listen to this, from him abundantly flow the heavenly riches of which we are in such need. He says, the believers stand unconquered

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through the strength of their king and his spiritual riches abound in them. See, the priesthood and the kingship, they were meant to be channels, but Christ is the source. He’s the true tree. He is the branch of the Jesse’s root. He is the one anointed beyond measure with the spirit. And beloved, he gives his spirit to us.

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What happens now? Christ the High Priest, Christ our King, what flows from Him? The Spirit. Remember the vision, the oil flows from the trees through the golden pipes into the lamb stand and in the same way the Spirit flows from Christ, our anointed Priest King, into the church, into us.

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Do you want power for holiness, for prayer, for endurance, for joy in the midst of sorrow? It doesn’t come from trying harder. It doesn’t come from trying to psych yourself up. It doesn’t come from personality. It doesn’t come from grit. It doesn’t come from talent. It comes from the spirit. Paul says in Galatians 3.3, having begun by the spirit, are you now?

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being perfected by the flesh?

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No, the Christian life starts with the Spirit, continues in the Spirit, finishes by the Spirit, and the Spirit flows to us from the risen Christ. That’s why Jesus said in John 7 that whoever believes in Him out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. And John adds, this he said about the Spirit.

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He is the anointed one without measure. And from His fullness, we receive grace upon grace. That includes the grace of empowerment, of enabling, the grace of conviction, the grace of comfort, the grace to get up and obey with everything that we’re living with, all the things that make us want to quit, the grace of perseverance.

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and you may feel like your lamp is flickering. You may feel like the wick is low. You may feel like the light of your Christian life is dim.

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but you are not the source. Praise God for that.

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because the source has no limit. He doesn’t need a refill. He doesn’t run dry. He’s not stingy. He pours out his oil freely and he invites us to come and receive.

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And here’s the very thing, even if your flame feels like it’s about to go out, the servant of the Lord has a word for you. Isaiah chapter 42 verse three says this, a bruised reed he will not break and a dimly burning wick he will not extinguish.

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That’s our savior. He doesn’t look at your smoldering wick and snuff it out. No, he fans it, he feeds it, he pours more oil so that it will not go out. He says, you are mine, I will sustain you. You are his workmanship. Let’s be honest, some of us feel like we’re running on fumes.

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Maybe you’re tired. Maybe you’re just completely discouraged in your life. Maybe you feel just spiritually numb.

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The good news of this passage isn’t, well, try harder. No, the good news of this passage is, then draw near.

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The oil is still flowing. The branches are still connected. The pipes are still open and the spirit is still willing.

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Let’s bring this closer to home. If Christ is our priest and our king, and if the Spirit flows from Him into us, what kind of people are we? Peter answers that for us in 1 Peter 2.9.

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but you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. See, there it is, royal priesthood. Royal priesthood, the two roles.

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Priest and King, they aren’t just fulfilled in Christ and then left behind, they’re poured out into his people. Not in the same way. He is unique. He is the true anointed one, but in a derived, in a derivative way. Spirit given way, we now share in his priestly and kingly work. What does that look like? Well, as priests,

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We offer spiritual sacrifices, not bulls, not goats, but praise and thanksgiving and repentance and service. We intercede in prayer. We carry the gospel message to others. We hold forth the word of reconciliation, pleading with sinners to be reconciled to the God of grace. You don’t have to be a pastor to be a priest. You are a priest in Christ Jesus. Every time you pray,

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for a struggling brother or sister, you are doing priestly work. Every time you speak the gospel into someone’s life or you teach your children about Jesus, or you give an offer of thanksgiving in the middle of suffering, you are functioning as a priest. As kings, well, we’re not kings in the way the world thinks of power. We’re not flexing muscles to grab headlines.

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but we are engaged in very real battle, a spiritual war. And in Christ, we are more than conquerors. We fight sin, we resist the devil, we tear down idols in our own hearts, and we live by truth and pursue righteousness. That’s a battle. Those things are battles every day in the Christian life.

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And when we walk in obedience by the Spirit, we’re reigning with Christ even now. That’s what sanctification is. It is the Spirit applying the power of the risen King into every corner of our lives. It’s ongoing. It’s messy. But it’s real.

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We also rule by serving. Jesus said in Matthew 20, 26, whoever would be great among you must be your servant. And so we reign like he reign and for the redeemed, what does that mean? That means that by washing feet, by dying to ourselves, by pouring out our lives for others, that’s royal living in the kingdom of God. Our message is the cross. Our method is spirit filled obedience.

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Our goal? God’s glory.

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We live as lamps, lights on stands, not because we have any light in and of ourselves, but because the oil of Christ’s anointing fills us. Let your light shine, not to show off your strength, but to display his strength. You’ve been made a royal priesthood, so you can do as Peter said, you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness.

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into his marvelous light. You’re called out to shine. You were filled to overflow. You were saved to serve. Imagine if you would an old brass lamp, sinking, if you ever walked on Front Street Palsville next to the shop there with the chocolate, the chocolate shop. There’s a shop with a whole bunch of these old brass lamps and you can picture these, they’re beautiful.

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Maybe it’s one that’s just sat in your family home for generations. was, it was built to shine. It was carefully crafted, thoughtfully placed, but over time it had just become neglected. The oil had dried up and the wick was worn down and dust had settled on it. It still had shape. It still had form, but it was no longer giving off light. And so one person comes by and he, he tries to polish it. cleans it all up and makes it sparkle.

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Still no light coming from the lamp. Another person comes and he tries to light it with a match. The match just won’t take. It remains cold. It remains dim. And then someone comes, not to polish it, no clever tricks, no frantic fixes, but gives the lamp what it actually needs, oil. They pour it in slowly. They fill the lamp up. They trim the wick.

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and they touch a flame to it, the light flickers and then the light grows and it’s continuing to expand this glow of warmth into the room. That’s the church. That’s us. We don’t need more polish.

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We don’t need better strategies. We don’t need flashier programs. We need oil. We need the Spirit. And the good news of Zechariah chapter four is that the oil is flowing. That’s the good news of Zechariah four. Jesus Christ, our priest and king, is the source and he gives us his Spirit without measure.

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You have anointed my head with oil, my cup runneth over.

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So if your lamp feels dim, if your wick feels like it’s smoldering, don’t fake it.

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Don’t panic. Don’t pretend. Go to the source. He doesn’t extinguish faintly burning wicks. He restores them. Let your light shine, not to make much of yourself, but to make much of him. Let your lamp burn with holy oil that the world may see, not your strength, but his power at work in you. Zachariah saw this vision.

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It was filled with gold and flame and oil and mystery. But it wasn’t just about ancient Jerusalem. It was a word for us. It was a vision meant to anchor God’s weary people in a hopeful reality that his power flows not through human strength, but through his spirit. The two olive trees are testimony of Christ’s ministry. He is the priest who offered himself once for all.

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He is the King who reigns now and forever. And from Him flows everything we need, mercy and righteousness and strength and grace and power. So don’t trust in might, don’t trust in power, don’t trust in yourself. Listen, trust in the Spirit of God flowing through the Son of God to the people of God.

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And here’s your charge. If you are weary, draw near. If you are weak, ask for oil.

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If you are flickering, look to Christ. And if you are shining, give God the glory.

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The oil hasn’t run out. The flame hasn’t died. The spirit hasn’t stopped working.

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May we be the people of light in a world of shadows, not because we shine in and of ourselves, but because we’re connected to the true and living tree. May Jesus Christ, our great high priest and King pour his spirit into us daily as we rest in him, as we walk in him so that we may reflect him.

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To Him be all the glory. Let’s pray.

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Our Father and God, we thank you for the clear and living word you have given us in Zechariah. Thank you for showing us that your work is not carried forward by our strength, our strategies, or our willpower, but by your Spirit. We praise you for Christ, our perfect priest, our reigning King. We thank you that in him, the oil never runs dry.

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Thank you that he does not snuff out dimly burning wicks, but gently tends them and fans them into flame. Forgive us for trying to serve you in our own strength. Forgive us for neglecting the supply of the spirit. Draw us near again to the source. Make us men and women who live by the spirit, walk by the spirit and shine with the light that only you can give.

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And may our lives reflect the glory of Christ. May your church be a lamp stand lit by your power. May we walk in the assurance that your word and spirit is sufficient for every task ahead as we worship you in spirit and in truth. We ask all of this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

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Well, that wraps up our sermon for this week. Thanks again for joining us. We’d love to hear from you. Drop us a line through our contact page on http://www.scandiabiblechurch.org and let us know where you’re listening from and how our church family can pray for you. As a reminder for your listening convenience, you can also catch Scanadia Bible Church podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, Audible, and more. Scandia Bible Church is located in the beautiful Northwest in Poulsbo, Washington. If you ever find yourself in our area, we’d love to meet you.

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So until next week, for all of us here at Scandia Bible Church, may God richly bless you.

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Absolutely beautiful love, praising God together. Our benediction this morning is drawn from Zechariah four six, John three 34 Hebrews four 14 and Philippians four seven. Hear the word of the Lord to you. Now may the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Our anointed King and great high priest who pours out the spirit without measure, fill you with his strength, not by might nor by power, but by his spirit. May you walk in faith and in the fullness of his grace and may the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Amen.