NORTH CAROLINA CHURCH OF CHRIST
March 23, 2025
Home: Gerald Clemmons
Jeremy Prestage is the brother of Jennifer Mahers. He will be
having brain surgery soon. Please add him to your prayer list,
as this is a very serious surgery. If you would like to send
him a card of encouragement, his address is: P.O. Box 172,
Hamilton, AL 35570
Cedar View: Barbara Parker
LCNH: Prue Kelley/1
SHUT INS: Freddie Davis Jennifer Davis, Stacy McCormack, Betty Scott, Vicki Wright.
Please remember those in the nursing homes and our
Shut-Ins
Sympathy: To the family of Evelyn Newton, Ms Evelyn passed away yesterday.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, March 25th 2025 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM at the Williams Funeral Home of Florence (1950 Helton Drive). Her funeral service will be held on Wednesday, March 26th 2025 at 11:00 AM here at North Carolina Church of Christ.
Please remember this family in your prayers. Ms Evelyn will be greatly missed at the North Carolina Church of Christ.
ISAIAH’S CALL: Please continue to bring Hamburger
Helper Meals or give your donations to Amy, Ann, or
Pat.
Lesson #2, Isaiah, for the Wednesday night Auditorium
Class, is on the table in the foyer.
Please check the Bulletin Board for cards, etc.
We need a few more volunteers for our children’s classes.
We need a teacher for the 2’s & 3’s class for the month of
August. We also need about 4 more teachers for our
Elementary Class. Please take a minute and look at the
lists on the table in the foyer. Thank You!
We will have a Cemetery Clean-Up Day on Saturday, March
29th, weather permitting. We are encouraging everyone to
Please come help pick up old flowers or garbage that may
be around the cemetery. Garbage bags will be provided.
With help, this should only take an hour or two. Thank You
so much!
We will have a 5th Sunday Fellowship Meal on March 30thth.
Please join us for some really good food and some really
better fellowship.
REMEMBER IN PRAYER
Please keep these folks in your thoughts and prayers.
Michelle Bernstein, Sherry Box, Alma Butler, Billy Bryant, Vicki Burbank, Haley Bugg, Donnie Carroll, Tom Childers, Jane Clark, Coltley Clemmons, Gerald Clemmons, Mitch Clemmons, Jim Clemmons, Brandon Cody, Jennifer Davis, Thomas Davis, Caitlyn Dennis, Tammy Dial, Kevin Dillon, Dakota Garner, Bridgett Gattis, Carter Glascock, Kayla Hamner, Lori Hargett, Shirley Harmon, Cypress Hayes, Taylor Hendrix, Charles and Joyce Hester, Lana Hines, Christine Holden, Cindy James, Josh Hones, Brock Killen, Don Lakey, Madalyn Littrell, Brenda McDonald, Porter Mitchell, Peggy Montgomery, Luke Oliver, Tracy Pace, Ethan Pennington, Kenzie Perkins, Dennis Phillips, Tamika Powell, Jeremy Prestage, Mike Prince, Linda Rickard, Ricky Rogers, Lazaro Ruiz, Susan Schmidlkofer, Kim Sharp, Steve Shelton, Kristi Shollenberger, Barbara Smith, Betty Sparkman, Kevin Springer, Jean Symore, Earl Tank, Brad Tank, Patrice Tucker, Rene Voser, Luke White, Donna Wilkerson, Vicki Wright
GOD SOLVED AN “UNSOLVALBE PROBLEM
When the Jews returned from Babylonian captivity, they immediately began to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem that Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed, and they had a major problem. In one of the three times Satan is mentioned in the Old Testament, he magnified this problem. There was no high priest who was holy to offer the sacrifices for sin and atonement. Read about this problem in Zechariah 3.
God solved that problem in a Divine vision given to Zechariah. The new high priest was seen in filthy garments with Satan standing beside him and God solved the problem. The filthy garments of iniquity were removed from the new high priest and replaced with rich robes (Zech. 3:1-8).
However, three chapters later, God created a new “problem” when a royal golden crown was placed on the head of that high priest. He is presented as being both a prophet and a king sitting on a throne. What was the problem? Every Jewish priest had to be from the tribe of Levi, and in Judah, every king had to be the lineage of David and that from another tribe, the tribe of Judah. Two hundred years prior to the time of Zechariah, a Jewish king, Uzziah, went into the temple and tried to offer a sacrifice. God immediately struck him with leprosy for this violation (2 Chron. 26). There, seemingly, was no way that a man could be both a prophet and a king at the same time. Yet, Zechariah had just placed a crown on the head of the high priest in his day. It was God who created this “problem,” and there was no way it could be solved.
Read carefully the details of what was said when the crown was placed on the head of the high priest. The prophet said that when you looked at this priest with a crown you were to see far more. Zechariah said that this priest with a crown was a BRANCH (I capitalized this word because the NKJV does this when quoting written prophecy). There was an Old Testament prophecy where the Messiah had been called a branch (Isa. 11:1), and the context in Zechariah shows that the people looking at their high priest were seeing a picture of the fact that when Jesus came He would be that branch and both a prophet and a king at the same time.
How can Jesus be both a king and a prophet when neither Uzziah nor the high priest in Zechariah’s day could be? How could Jesus fulfill this prophecy? He might be of the royal tribe of Judah, but He could not be a priest. How could Jesus be from two separate tribes? The answer is easy and is found beginning in Hebrews chapter five. Psalm 110:4 described another kind of priest. Not one from the order of Levi, but from the order of another kind—the order of Melchizedek. We will look more into this next week. There is no problem!
Via: Dan Jenkins
Palm Beach Lakes Church of Christ
Palm Beach Gardens, FL