SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 18 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them. [Ezekiel 18:20]…
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when God plants a tree
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 17 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it; it will produce branches and bear fruit and become a splendid cedar. Birds of every kind will nest in it; they will find shelter in the shade of its branches. [Ezekiel 17:23] God loves to tell stories, we also see this in Jesus….
love story
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 16 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen. Samaria did not commit half the sins…
fruitless?
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 15 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem. [Ezekiel 15:6] If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is…
think about such things
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 14 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Yet there will be some survivors—sons and daughters who will be brought out of it. They will come to you, and when you see their conduct and their actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought on Jerusalem—every disaster I have brought on it. You will be consoled when…
hollow messengers?
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 13 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. Even though the LORD has not sent them, they say, “The LORD declares,” and expect him to fulfill their words. [Ezekiel 13:6] Ezekiel accuses the religious leaders of being false to God and to the people, making up messages from God that make them…
drama that penetrates
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 12 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: In the morning the word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, did not the Israelites, that rebellious people, ask you, ‘What are you doing?’ “Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This prophecy concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the Israelites who are there.’ Say…
I need heart surgery
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 11 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be…
I see Jesus
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 10 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I looked, and I saw the likeness of a throne of lapis lazuli above the vault that was over the heads of the cherubim. The LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the wheels beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and…
marked by God
SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 9 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.” [Ezekiel 9:4] Today’s passage gives us insight into how bad things had become in Jerusalem [Ezekiel 9:9], and how God still shows mercy to those…