Emphasis Preaching Journal
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Everything that happened to Jesus was foretold in the Old Testament. The proof of a prophet's sayings is that they are fulfilled. We want things fulfilled quickly, but in this case some of the prophecy was not fulfilled for over a thousand years. We today don't have patience for that. We are not even as patient as the farmer who plants his seed and then has to wait months for it to produce. Don't expect the words of our sermons to bear fruit the following week. In some cases they can, but don't complain to God if they do not.