Jesus Christ is a Rising sun.
He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. - Psalm 37:5-7
In Malachi 4:1-3 - "Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things," says the LORD Almighty." (NIV)
When John the Baptist's father prophesied in Luke 1:78 he referred to this verse and said that with the coming of Jesus, the day was dawning from on high. The sun of righteousness was rising. And he has been rising all over this world ever since. And one day his rise will reach its noon day brightness and he will appear in glory and the final division between the believing and unbelieving will be made. Just as light overcomes darkness, the manifest glory of God expels and scatters the forces of darkness. Believing for the miracles will seem natural and easy.
The glory of God will draw people. (Isaiah 60:3)
The glory of God provides covering and protection (Isaiah 4:5)
The glory of God produces conviction and reverential fear (2 Chronicle 7:3; Psa. 102:5)
What does it mean for us today? What could it mean for you? We see five pictures from verse Malachi 4:2 – As Sermon points:-
A rising sun
Beams of righteousness
Wings of healing
Breaking out of a stall and leaping out
Trample down the wicked into ashes
Isaiah 60 - The Glory of Zion
1 "Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
2 See, darkness covers the earth
and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the LORD rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.
3 Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
4 "Lift up your eyes and look about you:
All assemble and come to you;
your sons come from afar,
and your daughters are carried on the arm.
5 Then you will look and be radiant,
your heart will throb and swell with joy;
the wealth on the seas will be brought to you,
to you the riches of the nations will come.
Shall we pray: “ Father, We pray that none would be able to resist the offer of your grace in these words. Let we be united in the faith this year and year 2011. And may even this morning the Sun of righteousness rise with healing in his wings so that all of us might go forth leaping like calves from the stall. We leap out in healing and recovery. We come against every works of the enemy and defeated them at the Cross of Jesus this day. This is the day to put our feet on the head of the enemies and trample them into ashes. Darkness has to flee and the Son of Righteousness has arise. Arise and shine for your light has come.” In Jesus name, Amen.
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