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Claim - The LORD is Glorious, whether we know it or not.
omniscient) and all powerful (omnipotent), however far away you feel from Him.
omnipotence), however far away you feel from Him.
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Focus - to explore the omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence (glory) of God
Function - to bring us to our knees before the glory of God, whatever our circumstances.
PRAY
Today we start a new series in the book of Ezekiel.
Let me tell you why I think the book of Ezekiel is going to be good
for us as a church,
as individuals,
whether we believe in God or not,
here in WP, in 2017.
We live in a secular culture that denies the existence,
or denies the truth about
the one true God.
We live in country where many ‘so called churches’ dilute the truth, or deny the truth of God.
We live in country where many ‘so called churches’ dilute the truth,
or deny the truth of God.
We live in a time when even ‘so called evangelical churches’
‘When it rains it pours’ goes the saying, and for good reason.
have exchanged the truth of the bible
with a message from personal experience and personal revelations,
often for personal gain.
We live in a time where we are keen to sing ‘Jesus is my boyfriend’ songs
but not to fall face down before the creator of the universe.
Where obedience to Jesus is an option
not a requirement for Jesus Followers,
Where our service to God is all too often
placed a close second to
family life,
career
or comfort.
Where it is easy to ask God for things
but hard to ask God what he wants from us.
What we need then,
is to be reminded who God truly is.
What is he like?
What does he expect from us?
What should we expect from Him?
And Ezekiel is the book for us.
70 times in this book, God will declare
‘By my actions you will know that I am God!’
Ezekiel the man,
is credited by theologians as being the most
‘God-centred’ prophet of all prophets.
The book starts in the worst of circumstances
and gets worse and worse for God’s people,
until they are metaphorically speaking,
dry bones in the dessert.
But it is when they, and I pray we,
reach that point,
that we can then see the true grace of the Lord God almighty.
It is then,
that we will truly appreciate all he has done for us in Jesus.
It is then
that we will know how we should live,
sing and pray before him.
It is then that those who continue to deny God,
will see the horror of their ways.
It is then,
that we are left with nothing of any significance in this world, accept, our Lord God,
we are left at His mercy.
And as we will find,
that is the only place we will find any hope,
but a glorious hope it is.
‘When it rains it pours’ goes the saying, and for good reason.
So let us begin our journey with our tour guide and teacher, Ezekiel, as we read his personal diary, beginning in Chapter 1.
According to verse 1 and 2 it’s the 31st July 593BC,
and it is Ezekiel’s 30th birthday.
But it’s not the best of days for Ezekiel.
1 - Far from God
He was born 30 years earlier in 622BC
during the reign of King Josiah,
who, for once in Israel’s history,
was a king keen to bring about spiritual reformation to Judah,
the southern Kingdom of Israel,
where God’s people lived.
These were potentially exciting times to be born into the priesthood.
Not only was King Josiah tearing down the pagan places of worship
and removing the false priests,
but the Assyrians, who occupied Judah at this time,
were falling apart at the seems.
Not only might they retrieve political independence again,
but their people might repent and follow the one true God as well!
In fact, perhaps Josiah’s reforms are what will cause God to bless them yet again.
But for all Josiah’s efforts,
the hearts of the people did not reform.
The great prophet Jeremiah, of that same time,
would preach in the Temple in Jerusalem
that unless the people changed,
God would abandon the city of Jerusalem, home to the temple of God
which represented the presence of God with His people.
The people didn’t changed and in
609BC Josiah died in battle against the Egyptians
who now took temporary occupancy of Judah.
Josiah’s son, Johoiakim, was recognised as the new King, of occupied Judah.
but as you can read in Jeremiah,
he was greedy, arrogant and unjust.
But the Babylonians were to be the next world super power
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