Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Only the sovereign Lord can give dead people new life

Ezekiel 37:1-14
Son of man, can these bones live? Ezekiel said, "O Sovereign Lord, you alone know."
After ten years in exile, and with Jerusalem destroyed, the people have given up hope. Not all Ezekiel's promises of restoration can raise a spark in his hearers. The nation is dead. But God can take even skeletons and make them into a living army.
Ezekiel plays his part by making God's word known, but it is the Spirit of God who gives life.
Israel will be remade and live again.
Why?
Only God let dry bone be remade and live again.
The nation is dead, so as like this world, and Taiwan. But the Lord can make them into a living kingdom.
For they has lost their hope, they are cut off. So the Lord give them the hope through Ezekiel's prophesy.
Dead is not physical dead, but also spiritual, mind lost and separated from God.
How?
Only the sovereign Lord can give dead people new life. God alone knows the future.

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