Ezekiel
Eze_11:16
In the context of this passage, God is talking directly to Israel, but this verse can be applied to missions.
World evangelism involves going and leaving familiar people, places, and cultures. When you get to where God has called you, there will be no welcoming committee there to greet you, no joy that the "white man" has come, and no cheering crowds that you have arrived. If you are not careful you will quit because you were disillusioned by the "adventure" and "heroism" of missions. You will feel alone. At first everyone will write, email, and call you on the phone, but it won't take long before you will realize that you are "far off" and "scattered."
YET at that moment, remember that God "will...be to [you] as a little sanctuary in the countries where [you] shall come." God will be there. He will be your haven, your shelter, your tower, and your fortress. No matter how abandoned and secluded you are from your friends, family, and Christian influences, God will never leave you nor forsake you.
So if you are preparing for the field, learn now to encourage yourself in the Lord and to derive your strength from Him. Bible Conferences, Revival, and Mission Conferences are good, but if it takes those meetings to stir you up and keep you going, you will not make it on the mission field. If you are already on the field and it seems no one cares or notices, let God be your little sanctuary--your place of refuge and protection.
TRS
Eze_12:16
"...they shall know that I am the LORD." Everything that God does in our lives, whether it be trials, temptations, suffering, death, blessings, victories, changes in a job, or uncertainty of God's will is places there by God so that we will know that He is the LORD. God wants saved and unsaved alike to know Him and have a personal relationship with Him. Let this be our purpose of our life to know God ourselves and to let others know Him as a result of our lives. TRS
Eze_13:5
Let this never been the commentary of our lives--that when we saw gaps in the hedge, when we saw people falling into hell by the millions without any witness to stand in that gap, when we could have made up the hedge, when we could have stood in the day of battle--that we did not go up and stand in the gap. As Charles Spurgeon said, "If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for." No one should go to hell unaware, unwarned, and unloved! TRS
Eze_14:11
The ultimate end of our relationship with God is worship. "...that [we] may be [God's] people, and [God] may be [our] God..." Worship is what God desires. Worship is why He created man (Gen_3:8), and worship is why God redeemed us. Worship is what we ought to do everyday, and it is what we will do for all eternity. The true motivation behind evangelism ought to be that God would have worshippers from "...every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation." (Rev_5:9)
The book of Ezekiel emphasized this desire of God for our worship. Sixty three times we find the phrase "know that I am the Lord." Five times we find the phrase "be their God." The reason we need to take the gospel to a lost and dying world is so that all people can worship God, so that they can know the Lord and He can be their God. TRS
Eze_14:14
Will you be remembered? Here God says to that if He was going to judge sin, that even Noah, Daniel, and Job could not save anyone but their own souls. We see that God is a righteous judge and will punish sin, but we also see that there were some men that were remembered for their righteousness. The people remembered them and things that they had done for God, but more importantly God took note of them. Out of all the people that God could have mentioned, He mentioned these three men. Why? What made them different? Notice the following similarities:
1. They served God when it was unpopular. Only Noah found grace in they eyes of the Lord. Everyone else was mocking him as he build an ark to be spared from rain that had never been seen before. Daniel purposed in his heart not to defile himself with the kings' meat, even when all of the others were indulging and giving into the pressure. Job did not curse God, though his friends and his own wife told him to do so.
2. They obeyed God when it was difficult. The things God asked of these men were not easy. They were difficult. Sometimes the will of God is hard. Christ's death on the cross was not easy, but as Christ prayed, let us pray, "...not my will, but thine, be done" (Luk_22:42).
3. They believed God when He could not be seen. Noah could not see the flood that was coming. He had never even seen rain before, yet he still believed God and built an ark. Daniel prayed three times a day, even when he knew he would be cast into the lion's den to die. Job trusted the Lord, even though he did not know that God would eventually restore and double all that he had before.
Will you serve God when it is unpopular? Will you obey God when it is difficult, or do you just obey Him when it is convenient for you? Will you believe God when He cannot be seen?
Will you be remembered like Noah, Job, and Daniel?
TRS
Eze_17:2
God can do the impossible. He can make the high tree low, the low tree high, the green tree dry, and the dry tree to flourish. If God can create and sustain the earth, then He can do impossible in and through your life, if you will let Him. TRS
Eze_18:5
One of the requirement for God to use a man is that he have character, that he "be just, and do that which is lawful and right." The Bible gives a list of things that define a man's character here in these verses.
v. 6 A Clean Person - clean from idolatry and adultery. This is not just talking about committing the very act, but also about the attitude of the heart. David said in Ps 19:14 "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." He also said in Ps 66:18 "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:"
v. 7 A Compassionate Person - "has not oppressed any...hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment." Ps 51:17 says, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." If you heart does not break for the lost, for the poor, for those in need all around the world, you are not the kind of person that God can use. He will first have to break your heart, before He can use you.
v. 7 A Contentious Person - "hath restored to the debtor his pledge." A man who God will use has the character to pay his bills and debts. He is contientious to give back that which he has borrowed, whether it be a book, money, or something else. Ro 13:8 tells us, "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."
v. 8 A Contented Person - "hath not give forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase." This basically means that he does not profit at other people's loss. Usury is interest on a debt. 1Ti 6:9-10 warns us about those who are not content but desire and love money, "And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
v. 8 A Consecrated Person - "hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man." This man whom God will use is consecrated to God and to doing right. He will not get involved in sin, and he will judge righteous judgment. Joh 7:24 "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
v.9 A Commanded Person - "hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly..." Ultimately God will use the person who lives his live according to the commandments of the Word of God. He not only says he believes the Bible, but his walk evidences that belief. He does not trust in his own judgments and opinion, but he relies upon God's Word and the truths found therein.
This person, the Bible says, in v. 9 "is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD." God's blessing are on a man of character, and God can use a man of character. Before you can DO, you must BE. Let God's Word mold your character, and make sure to train your disciples to BE before they DO.
TRS
Eze_20:39
One of the worst things a Christian can do is to call himself a Christian and then not live the way a Christian ought to live. There should be a difference in the lives of the saved and the unsaved. When Christians live like the world, they "pollute" God's holy name. There is a lot of talk today about polluting the environment, but very little talk of polluting God's name. The worst thing about not serving the Lord is not the blessing we miss, the mighty works that won't be done, but rather the pollution (lack of glory) that will be given to the name of the Lord. Are you polluting or propagating God's holy name? TRS
Eze_20:41
When we serve the Lord, love the Lord, and live for the Lord, God will be "sanctified in [us] before the heathen." Does your life declare the holiness and greatness of God? Can others see "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Col. 1:17)?
TRS
Eze_20:48
Oh that God would kindle a fire in hearts that have grown cold, lives that have grown weak and discouraged, churches that are lukewarm, missionaries who have given up, students who lack vision and passion, Christians that lack zeal and boldness, and families that lack love and tenderheartedness! When we allow God to kindle His fire in our lives, churches, and homes, it will do several things:
v.47 Consume Us
The green tree was not wrong in itself, but it was under these groves of green trees that much of Israel's idolatry took place. When the love of God begins to burn in our hearts, it will devour all others false loves that we have had. Our love for God will consume every part of our life, for our God is a consuming fire. (#De 4:24|, #De 9:3|, #Heb 12:29|) What area of your life, do you need the love of God to consume, so that He has consumed every part of you?
v.47 Consume Others
The fire of God, which is a passionate love for Him, is unquenchable. Song of Solomon 8:7 "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." It will burn in our hearts to such an extent that others will be touched by our love for God. If we truly love God, "all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein" or will be touched and hear about our love for God. A fire and passion for God will eventually spill out of our lives and touch others lives. May our prayer be "Set my soul afire, Lord, set my soul afire. Make my life a witness of thy saving power. Millions grope in darkness, waiting for the word. Set my soul afire, Lord. Set my soul afire." Do you have such a love for God that it has not only consumed you but has begun to consume others?
v.48 Cause God's Name To Go Forth
The fire that God kindles in our hearts will cause "all flesh [to] see" that the LORD is the one that has kindled it. When we people see Christians that are on fire for God, they will not praise the Christian who is on fire, but rather the God who set that person on fire. Are you consumed with yourself and your glory or with God and His glory? When others see you, do they see and glorify God and His name? Does your love cause you to take the gospel to the ends of the earth, despite the difficulties, sacrifices, and trials?
v.48 Continue
The fire of God will not go out. If God has done a work in your life, that fire will never go out. Philippians 1:6 says, "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:" At times we may need God to rekindle and revive the fire, but it will never go out, if we are set on fire of God. The works and emotions of men may blaze brightly for a short while, but only the true fire of God will continue to burn when all the artificial firecrackers of men have long died out.
May our prayer be the same as Jim Eliot's, the missionary to Ecuador who was martyred by the Auca Indians on Sunday, January 8, 1965, "God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus."
TRS
Eze_22:23
The Crisis of Leadership (v.25-29)
20:25 The Prophets, whose calling is to represent God to man, to give man the prophesy from God, were in a conspiracy. By not giving the correct prophesy, they were devouring souls as a lion would eat his prey. They loved money and material possessions. They cared not for men’s souls.
20:26 The Priests, whose God-given occupation was to represent men to God and make intercession for men, had violated the law of God. They had mixed the holy and the profane, the clean and the unclean, and they had disobeyed God’s law.
20:27 The Princes, the governmental leaders, cared only for themselves. They destroyed men and shed blood to get dishonest gain.
20:28 The Prophets, when they should have rebuked the sinners and denounced the sin, only spoke lies and false prophesies.
20:29 The People, consequently, because of the failure of their spiritual, moral, and governmental leaders, went astray. They oppressed and robbed the poor and needy. They oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
The Unheeded Call From God (v.30)
In the midst of this crisis of leadership, God is looking for a man who will fill the leadership gap that has been created by the sin and the selfishness of our leaders. God was going to destroy the land because of their sin, just as God one day will pour out his wrath on sinners. God was looking. God was calling, but he found no one to stand in the gap and make up the hedge. One of the saddest statements in the Bible is “…I sought for a man…but he found none.”
The Consequential Judgment (v.31)
Because God could not find a man to stand for truth and right, He poured out his wrath and fury upon sinful man. How sad to think that men and women, boys and girls, will die and go to Hell, because no one will answer God’s call and stand in the gap. Will you answer the call?
TRS
Eze_22:30 God’s Sorrow
The Bible says he sought for a man, but he found none. I cannot help but wonder the pain God feels because he is looking for someone to serve Him, but people are too interested in their earthly possessions to serve God. I am sure it brings God great sorrow to know what he did for every soul that is living in the world, but cannot find people to go and tell others. I am sure God is very disappointed, upset, and even mad because people are dying and going to hell, and there is no one who will go and tell that Christ died for them. He is searching, but very few are going.
God is searching for a man that would surrender their life to stand in the gap of world evangelism. We have been commanded to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and there are gaps all around the world where nobody has taken the message of Christ. If we do not take the gospel there will be generations and generations of people that will be destroyed and spend and eternity in a place called hell. JAH
Eze_24:15-18
Any individual who gives his life to fulfill the Great Commission will suffer loss. Yet, in spite of all personal pain and agony the faithful servant of God does as his Master commanded without regret. His love for Christ must supercede that of anything or anyone else (Luke 14:25-35). The mission is more important than the desires of our eyes. In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.
TJM
Eze_30:25
As God used Babylon to punish Egypt, God also can use the nations today. Even though they may not be Christian nations or have Christian rulers, God can still work all things together for good, so that we can evangelize the world. When a nation becomes “closed” to the gospel or a nation becomes “open” to the gospel, let us look to God and understand that He is in control of the nations. Let us also be ready to follow the Lord and use these opportunities to spread the gospel. TRS
Eze_33:1-11
Is Blood Required at Your Hand?
Ezekiel 33:1-11
Ezekiel, what comes to your mind. Blank nothingness?
The name of an Amish man?
A book in the OT you tried to read through once?
A prophet in a time long ago to a people far away?
I hope today you will think of one word when you think of Ezekiel:
Intro:
Watchman- Used 30 x in the OT means, "A man employed to stand guard or keep watch
-The watchmen in the OT times stood on the walls of the city and guarded in every direction
Ill- The Watchmen in SA. The one outside of Bro. Carte's apartment building
- They held a trumpet in their hands (Remember Gideon? He and his men blew trumpets and yelled. This caused the Midianites to think that their camp was being attacked and set them immediately to fear.
-They were highly trained men to stand guard.
-They were the most trustworthy people because if they failed their punishment was death.
The Setting
-During the time of captivity in Babylon.
-God's people had gone after other God's and had already been conquered by Nebuchadnezar.
-This is the same time as Daniel.
-It is somewhere outside of the city of Babyon (present day Baghdad) that we find a large colony of Jewish people in mourning by the River Chebar.
-Here Ezekiel, a priest who used to serve in the temple in Jerusalem before he was taken captive in 597 b.c. during the second deportation, is sitting with them when the Spirit of God picks him up and gives him a vision to preach his message to the people.
-He begins preaching in 592 b.c.
-For almost 10 years (ch1-32) he has visions from God of judgment. His message seems to be exactly like that of Jeremiah, The Weeping Prophet. He speaks of a sharp knife that brings famine and pestilence. God even has his wife die as a sign to Israel of judgment.
Now at ch 33 the book totally changes messages
-A vision of dry bones rising up and living again comes to him. The rest of the book is where he gets the term, The Prophet of Hope. Why?
-Because word has come to those in captivity that Jerusalem and the Temple has been destroyed. God has completely chastised them. Now God it is God's desire to restore them to life and victory.
-In this setting we find the analogy God gives of the Watchman.
I. The God who sets up watchmen (vs 7) He is the same God as the God who brings destruction. (vs
2) I John 1:5- God is light. Light is perfect and imperfection cannot exist Rom 6:23 I John 4:11- God is love. Love brings mercy and caused Christ to die for us
It was light that kicked a sin-darkened Adam out of Eden It was love that covered him with the skin of a slain sheep
It was light that caused the world to be flooded It was love that saved the 8 on the ark
It was light that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire It was love that saved Lott and his family
It was light that sent the Hebrew people into the slavery of Egypt
It was love that brought them out again by Moses
It was light that caused a plague to kill in the wilderness
It was love that stopped that plague when the serpent was lifted up
It was light caused the people to be defeated by the Midians, Babylonians, Philistines and many others
It was love that raised up Gideon, David, and many others to bring them to freedom again.
It was light that caused a silence of God's voice for 400 years
It was love when that silence was broken with the cry of a baby, the Son of God
It is light that condemns you and me, for in our hearts is only darkness
It is love that saves us the moment we claim the blood of Jesus
Ill- Zach at Papa John's who said church is all about hell fire and brimstone The Charismatic who thinks that God is love, and love alone.
God has done all he can do to get the message of salvation to men. He has set more than enough watchmen on the wall. GOD WILL NEVER HAVE BLOOD ON HIS HANDS
II. The Watchmen with blood on their hands
-Romans teaches us that the wages of sin is death. The price of death is blood. The blood shed from a man's sin will lie in one of three places:
1. On his own head
-The man who rebels at the sound of warning
2. On the head of Jesus Christ
For the man who accepts him as Savior
2. On the HANDS of the faithless watchman
-The cause of death will always be that man's iniquity (vs 6) but his blood will be required at the hand of the silent watchman
God wants to warn these people that they must repent from their transgressions. Ezekiel is that watchman to tell them that.
-If Ezekiel fails at telling them that, if he doesn't lift up the trumpet and blow with all his might, if he
quits at any time then those of the captivity on that river won't hear and they will die in their sins and it
will be their fault, but the blood that God loves will be required at Ezekiel's hand.
Are you doing all you can to warn a dying world? Is blood on your hands?
II Cor 15:18- "He hath given us the ministry of reconciliation"
I Cor 15:34- "Some have not the knowledge of God, I speak this to your shame"
a. It is not a voluntary position, all are drafted I Cor 9:16- "Woe unto me if I preach not the gospel for
necessity is laid upon me to preach the gospel"
b. A watchman must blow with all his might "I'll wish I had given him more" The reason this world doesn't believe us is that we: Play at our worship and worship our play Work at our worship and worship our work
c. A watchman must make his one aim in life to warn the city of coming judgment Missions is not the "ministry of choice" for a few hyperactive Christians in the church. Missions is the purpose of the church.
The church can vote on it purpose statement; but it cannot vote on its purpose.
The church is the watchman for it's area but it is also the watchman producing factory for the whole world. We are to be sending those in our midst all around the world. What happens when we don't? Ex: Jerusalem
The untold millions remain untold because the pews in the churches stay full. It is not enough to sit and give. We must spend ourselves for the cause of the gospel.
Jim Eliot said, "Light up these idle sticks of my life Lord, I seek not a .
Ill- Salvation Army was started by William Booth. Booth one goal is life was "others". He dreamed one night of a sea of lost people with an island of those who don't care.
d. A watchman's greatest motivation is that his Master has counted him worthy to set him on that wall.
My greatest motivation as a child was to make Dad proud. My greatest motivation now as a husband is not my duty but my privilege to bring her flowers. Moravian’s sent one out of every 6 to the foreign field.
-You and I are watchmen, the whole world is our city, and our message is that death and hell are coming to destroy everyone because of sin and their only escape is in Jesus Christ. Now, it is required of us as watchmen to make our sole purpose and passion to employ every dollar, every day, and every ounce of energy we have into getting this message to the world.
Are you a faithful watchman?
Are you doing all you can to stand on that wall or are you employed in doing everything else but that one thing?
Will you stand before an almighty God one day with blood on your hands?
ALB
Eze_33:17
Let us not judge God by our standards, but rather let us let God judge us by His standards. Sometimes we think the Lord is unfair or unjust in His actions because it appears that way in our eyes. We must always remember that only God knows the end from the beginning. Even though we might not understand why, let us just trust the Lord's justice and righteous judgment, despite the way it appears to us. TRS
Eze_33:30-33
God desires a response to His Word in the form of doing, not of hearing, thanking or even filling the altar. The expectation of a full altar has taken the place of the expectation of a changed life. The Word of God was given to change our conduct not merely increase our knowledge. The response has become very cheap. The response must go past the altar or it was merely entertaining but not life changing. We must leave the services with the most incredible sense of obligation, and that obligation not satisfied with a simple trip to the altar. The obligatory compliment to the message bearer will also never qualify as a response to a message, but will only reinforce the strategy to hear and not do. The Word of God preached with passion
should enjoy a response that goes far past the altar. JDP
Eze_33:31
Hearing But Not Doing The Great Commission
Many churches and Christians are like these people who came and sat before Ezekiel. They heard his words and the story about the watchman on the wall and the blood on their hands, but they would not do the words that had been spoken. They heard the calls, commands, and challenges to world evangelism, but it is like a "a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear...but they do not." So many Christians are mumbling the Great Commission over and over again. Instead of being aroused to action, their mumbling has lulled them to sleep. Our problem is not know what to do; it is doing what we know. No wonder Paul said in I Corinthians 15:34 "Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame." May we realize that judgment is coming. This is not a game, a song, or a novelty. It is reality. Eternal souls are at stake. We have heard it over and over again; let us awake and do something about it. TRS
Eze_36:26
A Heart Exam
Many Christians bodies and outward appearances look good and healthy, but their hearts are in dire condition. They need a heart exam to see what kind of heart they have. If they were diagnosed, the diagnosis would not be poor standards, lack of knowledge, lack of education, or bad appearance, but rather it would be "a stony heart." The Bible tells us in Proverbs 4:23 "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." Our hearts are the very center of our being, and as goes our hearts, so go the rest of our life. If our hearts are not tender and sensitive to the Lord, to the needs of the world, to the Word of God, then it will affect the rest of our life. We may appear to be perfectly healthy spiritually, but if our hearts are hard, we are in sad shape.
The cure for a stony heart is a heart transplant. But before God, the Great Physician, can perform this operation he must have our permission to begin. We must confess our sin (Ezekiel 36:25) and allow God to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (I John 1:9), just as a doctor would cleanse the patient before doing surgery. Once the old heart is removed, "a new heart" and "a new spirit" must be put within us (Ezekiel 36:26). This new heart is not hard like stone; it is a heart of flesh--a heart that can feel love, that can be moved with compassion, that longs to please and obey God, that breaks for the world, that is sensitive once again. You say, "Where does the new heart come from?" Ezekiel 36:27 tells us it comes from God Himself. "...I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. The soft, sensitive heart can only come from God.
The results of a new heart from God are amazing! 1) We shall dwell in close fellowship with God (Ezekiel 36:28). 2) We shall be saved from our uncleannesses (Ezekiel 36:29). 3) We will be fruitful (Ezekiel 36:30a). 4) We will no longer be a reproach to the heathen (Ezekiel 36:30b). 5) We shall hate our old ways (Ezekiel 36:31). 6) We shall glorify God not ourselves (Ezekiel 36:32). 7) The work of God will go forward (Ezekiel 36:33-35). 8) The heathen will hear of the true and living God (Ezekiel 36:36). 9) God's people will (other Christians) be encouraged (Ezekiel 36:37). 10) Many people will be saved (Ezekiel 36:38a). 11) Men shall know that God is the LORD (Ezekiel 36:38b).
How is your heart? Is it hardened to the Word of God, to the preaching of God's Word, to the needs of the world, to leadings of the Holy Spirit? Do you need God to give you a new heart, so you can be "a man after [God's] own heart" (Acts 13:22) like David? Confess your sin, let God cleanse you, and give you a new heart, so you can once again be used of God as a healthy Christian!
TRS
Eze_37:1-14
God took Ezekiel out into a valley that was full of dry bones. God then asked Ezekiel the question, "Sons of man, can these bones live?" Ezekiel says, "O Lord GOD, thou knowest." God then proceeds to give the bones flesh, sinew, and skin. Then God breathes into them the breath of life, and they become an exceeding great army.
As v. 11-14 tell us, we know that this is talking about God giving the nation of Israel life and drawing them out of the heathen nations, but there is a tremendous application here to the work of God. All of our plans and efforts amount to nothing more than a heap of dead, dry bones. Our carefully prepared sermons, our Bible colleges and institutes, our mission boards, our ideas, our conferences and camps are nothing more than just mere skeletons which have no life without the Lord. When the Lord, however, begins to breath into us his power, these efforts are fleshed out and take form. His spirit gives the power to make His church a mighty army.
You may say, "World evangelism is impossible." You are right. Without the power of the Spirit of God it is impossible. But with God's power nothing is impossible. The disciples faced an impossible task on the day Christ ascended up into Heaven. Nothing could bring life to their efforts but the Spirit of God. Even though they had been trained by the greatest Teacher for three years, even though they had heard God in the flesh preach, even though they had seen Christ death and resurrection, even though they were commissioned by the risen Lord, they still were told to "...tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high..." (Luke 24:49)
Most of us could use more training, education, and experience, but all of the knowledge and experience amounts to nothing more than a heap of dry bones without the power of the Spirit of God. TRS
Eze_48:35
“and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.”
How many cities around the world could be labeled as cities where the Lord is there? The Mormons, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Catholics, the Muslims, the Hindus, and the Buddhists are there, but the Lord is not there. The reason He is not there is not because He does not want to be there, but because no one has gone there and conquered spiritual territory in the name of Jesus. We need some pioneers who will take the message of the gospel to the key cities of the world, so that it can be said, “The Lord is there.” TRS |
