Sermon Series: Zechariah: Rebuilding the Discouraged
Title: Return
Speaker: Anthony Gammage
September 6, 2026
Big Idea: We manage our sin. God invites us to return to him.
Passage: Zechariah 1:1-6
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying, 2 “The Lord was very angry with your fathers. 3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, ‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”
Sermon Outline
- Intro to the book (1)
- Right Anger (2)
- Right Response (3-4)
- God’s Enduring Word (5-6)
Sermon Questions
- Where in your life are you performing the duties of faith (attendance, giving, serving) while your heart has quietly turned away from God? Name the specific thing you have been hiding behind.
- What does it change to know that God moved toward you first, before you ever thought to return to him? Is there a sin you have been too ashamed to bring to him because you thought you had to clean it up before you came?
- How does it move you to know that Jesus, the ultimate Prophet, did not just call you home but paid the full price so the Father could receive you? What would it look like this week to rest in what Christ has already done rather than trying to earn your way back?