What does your work say?
House OF Judah
October 6, 2007
Ezek 36:16-20 (Read out loud)
Ezekiel was a prophet and a priest who was chosen by God to deliver God’s judgment and word to Israel. Ezekiel would deliver judgments to Israel because of the sinful nature
Of Jerusalem at this time. Ezekiel had the task of preaching to a people who did not want to nor desired to hear the truth of God’s word. It is hard to preach to a people who desire not to hear the word of God. The enemy will come to church with any reason to disturb worship service people walking children going to the bathroom talking during service the
Respect for God’s holy word has diminished and we are paying the price. This is the state we find ourselves in today. We have become commercialized Christians and worldly
Saints. The Prophet speaks clearly on this point he does not waver Romans 12:2 and be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye
may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. He instruct us that to be in the service of God our walk and our talk must change our heart must change not
That we merely confess for men to hear but Jesus said in Matt 5:16 said let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father
Which is in heaven? If the court was adjourned and the our case came before a holy and sovereign God would there be enough evidence to convict us of being servants of God
Or would there be a hung jury. We cannot be glorified and God be glorified at the same time. Paul says 1 Cor 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a
Child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. Vs 18 God speaks and says that his people have polluted the land that our worship is false and
In vain and not true, idols have taken his place. You don’t have to come to church to be saved but if you are saved you will come to church because those who love the lord will
Be where the word is being preached and taught. A true saint should not have to be begged to come to church to come to bible class. Every time you find Jesus you find him
in church even with people to heal you find him in church even with souls to save you find him church even though he knew he would die and him time was short you find him
In church when the love of God is in you want to be where the word is. The problem is like Israel we confess God but do not really trust him. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. Seek God way of doing things then he will added the houses the money but as long as our quest for wealth is
before our search for God then we will be forever chasing money. There use to be a time when the saints of God would get together and pray until they got a breakthrough. Mothers would pray and seek the face of God until they got an answer we have to get back to prayer: prayer will change things. Vs 19 God says I have exiled them and scattered them to many lands ONE way that God punishes his people he will let them fall into the hands of their enemy.
Ezekiel went into exile with the Israelites as decreed by King Nebuchadnezzar to the city of Babylon. It is dangerous both spiritually and physically to be outside of the will of
God. To find oneself out side of the covering of the blood of Jesus can not only be dangerous to yourself but also dangerous to your family. Israel found themselves
Captured by their enemy in the grips of an unsaved people stripped of their home stripped of their land. We shout and rejoice at Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
a.)But we forget that, just as this scripture confirms blessings it confirms the judgment of God as well. b.) For Paul in Romans 6:23 preaches that the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Samuel warned Saul that in his disobedience he had betrayed God and his punishment was to lose his kingdom.
1 Sam 15 23 for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. Disobedience and stubbornness will keep you outside of the promises of God. Disobedience produces pride Solomon preaches Pride goeth before destruction and a naughty spirit before a fall. Stubbornness will make an individual twist the word of God to fit our own individual needs and desires. We do what we want when we want and
how we want, anything taught different does not fit into our plans. We say things like the preacher the God appointed man does not know what he is talking about. Now
we have told God he does not know what he is saying. We have become a people without our God to fight for us. Vs 20 says we have profaned or disgraced God’s name
we say we are Christians yet we act worldly. We fight in church out on the parking lot saints cursing each other out when they should be lifting one another up. Refusing to
speak to one another when we should be praying for one another. Talking about one another, in the house of God. Thinking we are more righteous than we are forgetting
There is none righteous but the father. Getting mad when someone corrects your child with love pull them out of this and that. I would rather some instruct them correctly than
One day the police have to knock on my door and have them in cuffs because they are so grown that no one can tell them anything. Refusing to tithe and still asking the lord to
Bless your finances God would be a liar to bless the finances of someone who does not tithe. Then we wonder why we are surrounded by sickness why the saints are struggling
financially why our homes are full of hell and its hell on the job. WHY we cannot get a prayer thru because God is using high speed and we are still trying to reach him with dial up in other words we are on two different frequencies. All the while our lives are miserable and we seem to be fighting satan on every hand when the word of God tells us that the battle is not ours but the Lords we are in a state of direct disobedience. We have confessed Christ to the world to the church before man and yet we continue to find reasons to be disobedient and justify it we are in a backslidden state Paul says Romans 12:1-2 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Reasonable service which means when you have done this it is the least you can do. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. The problem we stay locked in battle is because our mind sets have not changed. Most of us don’t pray once we leave church don’t know how to pray, slept and nodded through service. Rushing the preacher, missed the message, don’t open our bibles
once we leave church we have to look for them come Sunday. Think Genesis comes after revelation. Don’t have time to do anything at church can’t sweep a floor, mop a floor
clean a toilet dump the trash yet we want God to open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing when we are not seeking, heaven let everyone else do it because we are so
special. If you no you are not living according to the word of God then you are in a state of disobedience and rebellion then I would advise you this morning to check your source
God will not bless disobedience to his word if the enemy is not after you then he already has you for Jesus told peter the enemy desires to sift you like wheat but I have prayed for
You. Someone said let the work I’ve done speak for me; let me ask you a question this morning what does your work say. Does it say you love God not what do you say but
What does your work say can you be depended on if no one else shows can you be counted on? Do you complain about everything you do? We live in a society
Plagued with homosexuality congress voting to grant same sex marriage. Don’t get it twisted though just as God hates homosexuality he also hates liars, backstabbers,
gossipers, backbiters, confusion, pride, haughtiness contention. Israel’s problem was the were confessing God as their God yet there was no proof of God as the head of their lives
Deut 11:22-25 read Ezek 36:21-23 read
But as any father who cannot stand to see his children suffer, god said not because you have been good not because you have done all that I ask not because you have served me But my name is on the line because my name is on the line I will deliver you out of the hands of the enemy, because my name I am going to bless you because I want everyone
to know I am God I am going to heal you because I want everyone to know I am God I m going to fix your financial problems Adonai- Master, Lord of Hosts; Genesis 18:3 I will cause angels to move on your behalfElohim- Strong One, Almighty God ; Genesis 1:1 I will slay your enemiesEl Shaddai- All Sufficient One, My Supply, Everlasting God; Genesis 17:1 learn to wait and trust me because my grace is sufficient be still and no that
I am GodJehova - Self-existing One, Most High God; Genesis 2:7 Know that I am that I am alpha and omega the beginning and the end
Jehova-Jireh- The Lord Will Provide; Genesis 22:14 I will provide a way out of no way in the midst of famine for I am bread in a starving land
Jehova-Nissi- The Lord Our Banner, Victor in all Battles; Exodus 17;15 KNOW THAT IF I AM FOR YOU, I AM MORE THAN THE WORLD AGAINST YOU FOR WHO CAN STANDAGAINST THE ARMIES OF God
Jehova-Raah- The Lord My Good, Great, Chief Shepherd; Psalm23:1 I WILL LEAD AND GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH
Jehova-Rapha- The Lord that Heals, Great Physician; Exodus 15:26 I AM A DOCTOR WHO NEVER LOST A PATIENT
Jehova-Shalom- The Lord of Peace, My Peace; Judges 6:24 I WILL GIVE YOU PEACE THAT SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING
Jehova-Shammah- The Lord is There, With US and In Us; Ezekiel 48:35i WILL NEVER FAIL THEE NOR FORSAKE YOU I WILL BE WITH UNTIL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH Jehova-Tsidkenu- The Lord My Righteousness (Jesus); Jeremiah 23:5-6 I WILL CREATE IN YOU A CELAN HEART AND A RIGHTEOUS SPIRIT
Father Abba- Loving, Kind, Merciful, Perfect, Long Suffering; Romans 8:15 I LOVE YOU ENOUGH THAT I SENT MY ONLY BEGOTTEN SON SO THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVER LASTING LIFE
