Passage
Zephaniah 1:1-18 (ESV)
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
Acts 8:26-40
Key Verse: 8:35
The Lord Has Prepared a Sacrifice
Date: Oct. 19, 2019
Daily Bread
Introduction to Zephaniah
Key Verse: 1:7
1. Be silent before the Sovereign LORD (1-13)
The scope of God's judgment encapsulates all people, including Judah and Jerusalem. Their crime: idolatry (3-5, 9) and apathy toward God (6,12). All are silent before Him in that day; there will be no defense possible. But the LORD has prepared a sacrifice and people to share it with. They don't trust in rulers (8), merchants (10-11), or wealth (13). They are those consecrated by faith in the sacrifice of the Lamb, Jesus Christ: his remnant people of faith, then and now.
2. That day will be a day of wrath... (14-18)
The day of the LORD brings trouble and ruin personally, communally, socially and globally. This distress is poured out on all people because all have sinned against the LORD. Silver and gold cannot save people on the day of God's wrath. Only those hidden and protected by the Lamb.
Prayer: Father, thank you for Jesus' sacrifice. Help me be holy by faith; to love and worship you daily.
One Word: the day of the LORD is near
