Written Sermons
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Series on Ezekiel Title: Mercy in the Midst Introduction Here we have a reiteration of Ezekiel’s call and commission as a watchman for Israel. What makes this timely is that in pronouncing judgments on the foreign nations and traditional enemies of Israel there is likely to be a reaction in which the Jewish people say…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: False Friends Introduction Four lengthy humiliating chapters are devoted to the judgment God pronounces upon Egypt. This extensive reduction of Egypt’s pride to the dust is necessary because Egypt is the place of bondage. Of all the enemies near or far there is none that stands out more than Egypt in…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: The Really Great Fall Introduction Tyre and its lesser sister city Sidon which is mentioned only briefly at the end of this prophecy were cities of ancient Phoenicia. They occupied the sea coast along the Mediterranean to the far north of ancient Israel. They held territory originally assigned to the tribe…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: What about them, Lord? Introduction As we continue our study of Ezekiel we come to a major turning point in the book. Up to now there have been 24 chapters of rebuke and threats against God’s own people, except for one brief mention of the Ammonites. In this present section which…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: What’s Really Important? Introduction This is a turning point in the book of Ezekiel. From now on everything that Ezekiel writes will have reference either to the judgment of other nations or to the revival of God’s people. But before he embarks on this ministry of hope there must be the…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: Out of the Pot and into the Fire Introduction In Ephesians 6 Christians are warned to put on the whole armor of God because we battle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. We…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: The Unequal Yoke Introduction This chapter is rated “R” for restricted. When young men were trained as Rabbis in Israel there were a few Scriptures that were taught last after they were older and more mature. These included the sensuous love song, the Song of Solomon, and Ezekiel 23. But it…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: The Saddest Words: It Might Have Been Introduction Here we have one of the lengthiest catalogs of sin in the Bible. Men have compared our present moral decline to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. It is not less comparable to the history of Israel written here in blood…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: The Sword of the Lord Introduction Oracles or prophecies may be organized around a particular theme rather than given chronologically. There are judgments pronounced here against Israel and Ammon. it is God’s sword no matter who wields it. But although the judgments on foreign nations are found in chapters 25-32, there…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: Unlearned Lesson? Introduction In this first part of the prophecy the Lord has been justifying his judgments on Israel and reminding them of their sins. In this section He requires them to consider their perpetual failure to respond adequately to His love. A review of their history demonstrates that they have…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: The King Is Dead, Long Live the King Introduction We are told explicitly in verse 14 that this chapter is a lament and is to be used as a lament. We might call it a funeral dirge. In Israel it was called a qinah and this is a specific form of…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: Freedom and Judgment Introduction This chapter brings us face to face with the mystery of man’s responsibility and God’s sovereignty. There are some things we should not try to figure out. They are beyond our finite minds. For 37 chapters in your Old Testament Job, his friends and advisers try vainly…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: Knowing God Intimately Introduction Here we have the first three of a number of allegories which are true stories disguised by imaginative representations. “Pilgrim’s Progress,” by John Bunyan is an example of an allegory where the story of the Christian life is hidden in a tale in which the characters have…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: The Character of False Prophecy Introduction Man is incurably religious, and if he does not know the true God, he is susceptible to all the delusions of false prophets. As Paul says at Mars Hill in Athens, where there were many altars, including one to the “unknown” God, Acts 17: 22,…
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Series on Ezekiel Title: Judgment and God’s Covenant Introduction Here in Ezekiel we see the story repeated over and over. Israel sinned and God punished them severely, almost to destruction. As we know from the rest of Scripture history it wasn’t over. But, in Ezekiel’s day they refused to believe that they deserved this. They…
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