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Ezekiel, Chapter Fifteen. God continues, through his Prophet Ezekiel, a word
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of judgment to Jerusalem and the people
there. Let's give our attention to it.
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And the word of the Lord came
to me, son of man.
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How does the wood of the vine
surpass any wood the vine brand that is
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among the trees of the forest.
Is Wood taken from it to make anything?
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Do People take a peg from it
to hang any vessel on it?
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Behold, it is given to the
fire for fuel. When the fire has
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consumed both ends of it, in
the middle of it is charred, it
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is is it useful for anything?
Behold, when it was whole, it
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was used for nothing, how much
less when the fire has consumed it and
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it is charred. Can it ever
be used for anything? Therefore, thus
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says the Lord God, like the
wood of the vine among the trees of
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the forest, which I have given
to the fire for fuel, so have
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I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and I will set my face against
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them. Though they escape the from
the fire, the fire shall yet consume
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them, and you will know that
I am the Lord when I set my
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face against them, and I will
make the land desolate because they have acted
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faithlessly, declares the Lord God.
Well, here the word of the Lord
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comes to this son of man,
the Prophet is Ekiel, and the word
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that comes to Ezekiel is a parable
at these, a story teaching tool that
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uses these natural things and events and
institutions of this world to teach a lesson.
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And God gives this word to is
equel to make a point, and
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this point teaches a several things which
will think about this evening. It shows
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us that God's judgment is fair,
shows us that God's judgment is complete,
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and it also reminds us that God
wants us to know him. It's one
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of the main reasons he's doing what
he says he will do here. He
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says it several times, and he's
said it several times before this passage,
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that they will know that I am
the Lord God. God wants us to
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know him and he speaks to us
in this word of judgment. So let's
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let's consider it this evening. First, the parable. It's pretty straightforward.
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I think it's pretty plain in a
lot of ways. He points us to
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a vine and if you've seen a
vine right, it's not like the branch
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of a tree or the trunk of
a tree. Ei there usually kind of
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thin Ezekiel either, or the word
that comes to his Ze Heel. The
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Lord makes this point about it when
it was whole and not burned. Even
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then it wasn't good for anything,
he says in verse three. Do People
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take a peg from it to hang
a vessel on it? Right, would
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you cut a piece from a vine
and attach it to your wall to hang
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anything on? Well, no,
you would never do that with a vine.
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You would use a branch or some
other useful thing. So the vine
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is not useful. Well, it's
useful for one thing, and that is
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to be fuel for the fire to
be burned. Is What the Lord says.
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And then he says in verse four, behold, it is given for
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fire, to the fire for fuel, and when the fire has consumed both
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ends of it, in the middle
is charred. Now is it more useful?
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No, even less so. If
it wasn't good when it was alive
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and it's not good now that it
has been charred and burned. Well,
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the point is plain, and he
tells us in verse six, like the
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Wood of the vine among the trees
of the forest, which I have given
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to the fire for fuel, so
I have given up. The inhabitants of
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Jerusalem a striking phrase. These are
what have also been called in other places
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the chosen people of God, the
people which God brought out of Egypt,
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which God sent play after plague and
and and righteous judgments on on Egypt,
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to bring them out, people which
were brought into the land under great leadership,
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faithful rulers and in people like Moses
Joshua, judges, who who protected
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and cared for the people, not
always perfectly, some very imperfectly, but
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nevertheless the Lord was always working through
this. People think of David and Solomon,
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the prophets, and now he's Ekuel, among many others, calling out,
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speaking to the people over and over
and again. And now the inhabits
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of the Druth of Jerusalem have be
been judged. They've been judged and they
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have been judged as useless, not
good for anything. And so God says,
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I will set my face against them. Though they escape from the fire,
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the fire shall yet consume them in
you will know by this that I
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am the Lord when I set my
face against them. How will they know,
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and how will we know, that
he is the Lord when he were
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at rules in this judgment. There
are several ways. One is that he
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is powerful. God is that was
often treated by his own people as a
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no thing, as a nothing,
as something to be ignored, as someone
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that you could bypass. And instead
they gave them their attention to the bails
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and other false gods. They gave
their attention to their corruption and their power,
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their money and murder and idolatry and
many other things. That's what they
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gave themselves over and over and over
again. They disregarded God, they disregarded
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his prophets, they disregarded as temple, they disregarded as law God had instituted.
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He had surround them with everything that
they could possibly need to be righteous
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according to the law. He'd given
them a land, he'd given them a
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temple. According to instructions from Heaven, he'd set up a priesthood meant for
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ministering all of this. He had
given them specific sacrifices. He's told them
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this is how you please me,
this is how your sins can be forgiven.
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He's given them everything. He's given
them rulers, he's given them laws,
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he set up this whole country,
and yet they proved themselves faithless.
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Faithless they he says, they have
acted faithlessly and God is going to show
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them now that he is not like
the idols that they have made. He
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is not a socalled God. He
is the one true living God and when
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he decides to destroy, he will
destroy. He reminds us that we must
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take him seriously, very very seriously. The scriptures tell us that our God
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is a consuming fire, and this
is not the only thing that we might
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consider and look at. We have
the flood. We have sought them in
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Gomorrow. We have event after event
after events, small things and a big
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things, local things, worldwide,
things that point over and over and over
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again to the point that God is
not one to be mocked, messed with,
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laughed at, ignored and disregarded.
And when God comes with judgment against
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his people, they will see that, they will learn it, and so
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will the rest of the world.
The other thing that we come to know
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about God is that he is fair. He's not doing this out of spite
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or for fun or anything like that. He's doing it because they've acted faithlessly.
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He is prosecuting the Covenant that they
agreed to uphold over and over again,
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that he has warned them over and
over again. He has given them
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opportunities to turn and too repent.
He's given them signs, he's given them
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countless things, and yet they refuse. They refuse to be his faithful bride.
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Instead, as the scriptures say,
they whore after other gods in adultery.
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Over and over and over again,
God is going to be fair,
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he is going to prosecute and his
covenant and that judgment is going to be
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complete. We learn that God again, it does things a fully, he
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does things well. Of the useless
will be destroyed, they will be removed.
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And all of this God teaches us
about himself. He teaches us that
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he upholds his name, that we
might think we can exchange his glory for
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the things of this world, but
we can't. It's a fool's errand it's
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a dead end and it does end
in judgment. Our blessing here tonight,
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and the blessing that many people have
had ever since ezechiel recorded these words,
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was to hear them and be warned. was to hear them and hear the
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seriousness of them and see in ourselves
are total innability to obey the law as
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God has required us to obey it, the law which we know we ought
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to do the law which is good, the law which is of Righteous,
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and yet we don't do it.
Israel here is a microcosm of the whole
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of humanity, and that's on purpose. God set things up in this way
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in history to teach us these lessons, to show us who we are and
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who he is, so that we
could finally come to a dead end in
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ourselves and say there's nothing I can
do. My Sin has corrupted me,
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my heart is engulfed with with unrighteousness. I keep going after idols, I
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keep fearing other things. I am
useless because of my sins. God tells
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us these things. God is using
these things in history to impress these truths
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on our hearts, truths which are
made clearer and or at least emphasized by
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versus like Romans three and twenty three, for all have sinned and fallen short
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of the glory of God, glacis
undred and seventeen, for the desires of
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the flesh are against the spirit,
they're against him, they war against him,
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or Romans eight five, for those
who live according to the flesh set
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their minds on the things of the
flesh. That's how fleshly people live.
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That's how worldly people live. When
we set our minds on the things of
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the flesh, it's because we live
according to the flesh and we will die
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according to the flesh, if that
is where we will remain. That's what
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Ezekiel fifteen teaches us. It teaches
us that, like Galatian six eight,
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says that the one who sows to
his own flesh will from the flesh reap
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corruption. You plant these kinds of
seeds and there's certain kinds of plants that
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grow effusions. Five six, let
no one deceive you with empty words,
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for because of these things the wrath
of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
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God doesn't wink its sin. God
is capable of judging sin, and
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he does, and he does here
and will in Jerusalem, and one day
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it's important that we all know that, when Jesus comes, he will judge
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the whole world completely and perfectly forever, just like this, destroying the unrighteous
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and all who have acted faithlessly and
rebelled against him. So the question for
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us, then, is what hope
is there if we know that we are
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born with this fleshly sinful nature,
if we see how much inability there is
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in us, how much corruption in
us, is in us, how much
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flesh there is in us? What
can we do to be saved? What
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must we do to be saved?
Is there any hope? And of course
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there is, because there's more chapters
after Ezekiel fifteen and a whole new covenant
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which speaks about the promises of freedom
from the condemnation that comes through the law.
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God continues to speak even after he
judges Jerusalem. In fact, he
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will bring people back to Jerusalem to
show the things that he is going to
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do in Christ. In order to
have hope, in order to belong to
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something different, in order not to
reap that corruption and judgment, the scriptures
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tell us that we must be born
again, we must be made useful.
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John Three, three Jesus says to
Nicodemus. Truly, truly, I say
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to you, unless one is born
again, he cannot see the Kingdom of
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God. But that holds out a
little hope, doesn't it? Well,
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how can I be born again right
as the as? There is the good
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question to that. If I can
change in a way, if my nature
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can no longer be that with which
I was originally born with and can have
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something new, maybe there's hope they're, especially when it's Jesus who's saying it.
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And indeed he says, and John
Three six, that which is born
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of the flesh is flesh and that
which is born of the spirit is spirit.
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If the flesh is Paul says,
wages war against the spirit, it'll
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be good news to us to know
that the spirit also wages war against the
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flesh and the spirit of God,
it's more powerful than the flesh. Continuing
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on in John Three, we read
and John Three thirty six, that whoever
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believes in the sun has eternal life. Whoever does not obey the sun shall
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not see life, but the wrath
of God remains on him. That's the
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place in which we are, that's
what we are born into. But when
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we put our hope and we put
our hearts, when we put our trust
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in the son of God, in
Jesus Christ, who is come to rescue
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us from this I'm rescue us from
this judgment we have, we receive.
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What does the Scripture say? Eternal
Life, not everlasting judgment, not useless
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to the fire, but instead everlasting
life. Indeed, Jesus will even talk
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in John of he'll use the image
of a vine and he'll talk about us
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being united to him in such a
way that we have life and have it
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abundantly, and we are, instead
of being useless, become this creature that
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grows and flourishes in in Christ Moist
First Peter Three, blessed be the God
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and father of our Lord, Jesus
Christ. According to his great mercy,
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he has caused us to be born
again to a living hope through the resurrection
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of Jesus Christ from the dead.
We can be born again because God comes
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into this world and he works in
us. He changes us, he changes
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our hearts, that which we are
unable to do. He is able to
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do that which we are stuck and
controlled by. He's able to break those
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bars of iron, he's able to
unlock the door and let us free,
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to set us free to a new
life, a living hope, not a
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maybe hope, not a wishful hope, a living hope, one that is
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alive, one that we could describe
and even name, as Jesus Christ himself.
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First Peter Again, twenty one hundred
and twenty three says, since you
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have been born again, not of
perishable seed, seed to be judged,
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we might say, but I imperishable
of he says that has happened through the
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living and abiding word of God.
Is Ze Heel hears the word of the
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Lord and it is a word of
judgment, isn't it? But a Zekiel
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will also declare, not here in
this chapter but in the coming chapters,
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is the Lord reveals it to him, a word of living hope. And
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that's how God speaks to us,
both in the law and in the Gospel.
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He takes our sin seriously, he
points them out, he presses his
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finger and he makes it go out, and then he also speaks to us
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that healing promise of the son of
God, and through that word he brings
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us to life beloved. Through his
spirit, he effectually causes calls us to
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himself and, as Peter says,
he causes us to be born again.
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So Second Corinthians Seventeen. Therefore,
if anyone is in is in Christ.
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He is a new creation. We
don't have eternal life by believing in Christ,
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just as like a mechanism that sort
of flips the switch for salvation.
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But when we believe in Christ,
we also are in Christ. We become
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a new creation, Paul says,
a creation that is of the Holy Spirit,
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a creation, as he says.
He goes on to say the old
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has passed away and behold, the
new has come. And this creation that
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God makes, let me ask you, do you think this creation that he
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makes, when he dwells us with
this Holy Spirit, when he draws us
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into Christ, when he sets before
us this living hope, do you think
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God makes us useless or useful?
He makes us useful and he does not
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fail at that. He doesn't,
not at all, not a little bit.
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Second Timothy, to twenty one,
says that as we cleanse ourselves from
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all of these things, receiving that
through faith, we become vessels for honorable
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use through Christ. Not vessels or
mixing things up now, but not vines
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as a fit to be thrown into
the fire, but vessels useful for a
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household set apart. Is Holy,
useful to the master of the House,
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and he says ready for every good
work. Isn't that good news? Second
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Timothy hundred and seventeen says that the
word of God is profitable for us.
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It does all these things in our
hearts and in our lives. To do
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what? To make us equipped for
every good work. He takes this useless
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vine and he makes it something useful, he makes it productive, he makes
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it, I'm valuable. Second or
tight as three. One says that God
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makes us ready for every good work, and he does this by causing us
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to remember and to live in the
work that God has already done for us.
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That's our hope. We become a
people that are not cast away as
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useless and faithless by God and so
judgment, but through the word of God
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and his causing us to be born
again, we become a people that are
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given the gifts of the Holy Spirit
of God. We are given gifts and
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and tools that are put to use
for his service. We become creatures that
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are no longer that are no longer
but fit to be cast aside, but
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are fit to be wrapped up in
his love and belong even to the new
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heavens and the new earth. This
is our hope in Jesus Christ, and
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as you hear this word of judgment, in is he heal, let it
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be a warning for you again,
if you need it, and we all
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do, let it be remind you
of how incapable you are of fulfilling the
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law and how much you need Jesus
and Jesus alone to save you from your
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sins and how much you need the
spirit of God to unite you to him
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and to give you this living hope
that is yours, that when and we
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are in Christ, we can know
we are useful new creatures and we will
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not fear this judgment, but instead
we will have that living hope of Christ
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and heaven. Let's pray
