The Turth we confess: Part two
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Speak words of Life!
Speak words of Life!
On the contrary, what does it say? The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim: If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
What we Believe we confess- and we get the results of our Faith
Satan Doesn’t want you to believe the word of God- He tries everything he can to stop it!
Some are like the word sown on the path. When they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them.
He tries to get us to doubt because:
If we doubt God’s word and His promises we get what we believe
WE Speak them with our mouths
They flow from within us
WE walk them out
We get the fruit of them- What we believe is produced in our lives
God doesn’t have a plan for me- WE WILL LIVE THIS OUT- WE WILL WALK AWAY AND ACCEPT EVERYONE OPIONS OF US
For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
We will forget that God has a plan and he is the God who no matter what we Face works all things to gether for our Good if we love Him
We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.
Now this doesn’t mean we wont face hardship, But it gives us assurance The God is For us working it out for our prosperity!
It was always God’s intent for us to know the promises He has for us!
God doesn’t keep it a secret- The devil wants us to Doubt God, His word, and who we are in Christ.
The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by his Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them. There were a great many of them on the surface of the valley, and they were very dry. Then he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I replied, “Lord God, only you know.”
He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and say to them: Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live. I will put tendons on you, make flesh grow on you, and cover you with skin. I will put breath in you so that you come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”
So I prophesied as I had been commanded. While I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. As I looked, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man. Say to it: This is what the Lord God says: Breath, come from the four winds and breathe into these slain so that they may live!” So I prophesied as he commanded me; the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, a vast army.
Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
Can these bones Live (Ex 37:3)- Can you see it spiritually
Can these bones Live (Ex 37:3)- Can you see it spiritually
With God all things are possible
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Can these bones live- Yes because with God all things are possible
God is not restricted in anything- All things are possible
Can there be life in death and destruction- You better believe it
Cause we confess what we believe
Believer should be the most positive people because of this- All things are possible for God, and God works all things together for our God
Ezekiel Exegetical Notes
Can these bones live?” “Implying that, humanly speaking, they could not; but faith leaves the question of possibility to rest with God, with whom nothing is impossible
it is the message of the cross- God makes dead things alive
Prophesy to them- Speak or proclaim over them God’s life giving word!
Prophesy to them- Speak or proclaim over them God’s life giving word!
It is God’s word that is spoken over them that brings life!
Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
We have no Hope- The bones cry out
There is nothing giving us any hope - We are cut off from God’s promises, from God’s help!
God word isn’t based on circumstances
God makes ways where there is no way- and always does it for His people!
Conclusion:
By the time the Word of God is finished fulfilling what God intended- The bones are completely different
The description is completely different by the end:
Death- Destruction
Extremely die bones
No life had been there for some time
Slain- no breathe
a Vast Army
The defeated bones are no more-
Life is birthed
them stand- where they once were fallen
They are a vast army ready to defeat the evil one
Why- Because of the Word of the Lord-
They responded to the word, and the word brought life to them.
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, love the Lord your God, obey him, and remain faithful to him. For he is your life, and he will prolong your days as you live in the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Chose life- Chose the Word of God and allow it to shape and mols you live- because the other option is death
What God’s word Speaks over you
The Lord directs the steps of the godly.
He delights in every detail of their lives.
Though they stumble, they will never fall,
for the Lord holds them by the hand.
God delights in every detail of your life.
The Lord is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in him, and I am helped.
Therefore my heart celebrates,
and I give thanks to him with my song.
The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears,
and rescues them from all their troubles.
The Lord is near the brokenhearted;
he saves those crushed in spirit.
“Now if you faithfully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today, the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth. All these blessings will come and overtake you, because you obey the Lord your God: