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Claim - There is a time limit on God’s patience and Ezekiel is to warn other to repent - a task that can be faithfully strived for but only achieved through God’s word.
Exults the righteous glory of God, his angre at rebellion, his love for repenters, while calling those who know the truth to faitful account for their watchfulness.
Claim - There is a time limit on God’s patience, His word warns us and warns others to repent and be faithful.
Focus - We have a choice to have God as our greatest enemy or our only Hope, we should repent and be faithful in warning others.
Function - To cause reverent fear of God resulting in repentance and the faithful warning of others of His judgement.
Responding to the enemy
Personally accountable - Faithfulness, not success.
Don’t wait until it is too late.
God Friend or Foe
One of the most encouraging times was hearing the testimony of another Pastor, called Arnie, at Longheath Baptist church.
in the last year
heart attack, wife pregnat while recovering
Arnie - heart attack, wife pregnat while recovering
hospitalised again
the wife hospitalised
The baby was born but died shortly after.
Difficult year, but not bad year,
it has been a good year becasue it is the one that God has chosen for them.
Arnie remains faithful to God, sad, somber perhaps, but faithful.
What is it about his view of God that has enabled him to remain faithful.
I’m going to give you 20 seconds to think about your life.
What is the thing or things that you are afraid of,
that stops you either turning to God if you’re not a Christian,
Or if you are a Christian, that stops you being faithful to his rule in your life.
Fear of embarrassment,
Pride,
embarrassment,
Loosing reputation
Fear of missing out on something - success, money?
Fear of loosing pride?
If you do consider yourself a Christian,
what is it that causes you to be unfaithful,
either in obedience, or in doubt, or in sin?
Fear of ridicule?
Fear of too much work?
Fear that you have got it all wrong?
Illness,
that you can’t believe God would allow this?
Fear of not doing ithings your way?
I don’t know - what’s your fear of following God, or being faithful to God.
I’ll give you 20 seconds.
What is the thing or things that makes you unfaithful to God?!
Keep that in your mind as we start going through the passage.
so we’ll deal with them both together,
so don’t panic if after 20minutes we’re still on point 1,
2 will have been dealt with by then as well.
2 weeks ago,
we joined Ezekiel for his 30th birthday,
as he sat miserably beside the River Kebar in Babylon
(500 miles from Jerusalem, his home, were he should have been).
(I told you Babylon was in modern day Turkey, but as Bob Mallet pointed out to me, it’s actually in the middle of modern day Iraq.
But it is still 500 miles from Jerusalm)
He’s been in exile living as a refugee for 5 years
(Ezekiel, not Bob),
and if you were here,
you’ll remember the transcendent glory of God
appearing before him,
terrifying in power, knowledge and presence.
The sheer scale of God’s glory (even just a glimpse of His glory)
was enough to put Ezekiel face to the ground in fear.
Last week, God spoke to Ezekiel.
He is called to be a prophet, a messenger of God.
We’re not actually told what he is to specifically say to the people,
but it is clear,
that they wont want to listen.
And from the context,
and more especially from Ezekiel’s reaction,
he certainly is expecting this to be a
terrible and difficult call.
God warns Ezekiel strongly not to harden his heart,
not to be rebellious like the people.
And we left Ezekiel in 3v15
so overwhelmed by the glory of God that he had experienced,
and with such an overwhelming challenge lay before him
that he just sat, stunned, confused and anxious,
might I suggest fearful for 7 days.
God has now given Ezekiel time to process that initial experience,
and it is time to explain to him, exactly what sort of ministry he is to have.
He’s not going to like it,
the Israelites in exile are not going to like it.
I wonder if we are going to like it at GC.
eze 3v17
A watchmen is an interesting role for a prophet.
It implies a quite different role to the other prophets of this time.
But we’ll think about this more in a moment.
There is a far more shocking elephant in the room in this passage.
Imaging the scene...
We’re in a fortified city,
likely we’re to imagine Jerusalem itself - the great city that hosts God almighty,
and is still in tact,
despite all the recent enemy invasions and occupations.
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The watchman drifts in and out of sleep
as he stands in the tower
looking north for a Babylonian invasion army,
or the Egyptians from the east.
Perhaps even against civil war factions.
Whoever might pose a threat to the people of the city.
As dawn approaches and the orange glow of the sun
pierces the horizon the watchman sees a great dust cloud far away,
illuminated by the new sun.
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