Though the people in Zechariah’s day had been set free from Babylon, they were still enslaved to sin. They needed a second, greater exodus through a second, greater Mediator: Jesus the Messiah. Even as believers who have trusted in the Messiah in our day, we continue to fall into patterns of sin that bind us. We need to daily rediscover the grace of the Gospel that liberates us from not only sin’s ultimate penalty, but its remaining power.