New Year's Restoration Ezekiel 36:26
My brothers and sisters as we have come to the beginning of a new year many of us have made New Year's Resolutions. But, how many of us have come to the resolve to let God restore us? Year after year we make decision to make change in our lives, to undo that which we did wrong, pledging to live right, eat right, act right, only to find that we're not strong enough to accomplish that which we are confident we can do in our own power.
Yea, we make definate decisions to divorce our past and marry our future - forsaking the sins of the past planning to live united to the today and tomorrows that God has planned for us.
Well this year how about letting God give you a New Year's Restoration as opposed to trying the same old human resolutions. In our text today Ezekiel was a Prophet who not only spoke to the folk living in his time, he provided hope for us future folk. Hope for those of us who are called by God's name, but some how have gotten caught up with the heathens of our time. Praise God that He can take a backwards brother like me clean me up and place me in a spot where nothing else can would grow, a place where everything was dead, a place where even I thought was a place of use to be's and allow my life, my ministy, my marraige, my money, my health all to blossom and mature just so His name will get the glory!
Watch the text:(this is a brief outline)
Chpt 1-24 judgment on Judah & Jerusalem -this shows us judgement also comes from doing and not doing what God says do
Chpt 25-32 all nations would suffer same fate - the results of disobedience is the same for everyone
Chpt 33-48 Restoration Israel -
33:10 people reality of sin realized - you have to recognize and commit to eliminating the sin in your life
33:11 God's message of hope begins - soon as you acknowledge and commit God moves right away
Then in Chapter 36 God starts to prepare the land for His people who have recognized their wrong doing. In other words when you make the choice to do right God starts to "Make a Place for YOU....
(Here's The Meat Of Today's Message All In verse 36:26 with final point in verse 36:38)
While God's making the place for you He makes you ready....how? Good question.....first He works on your:
Mind - Heart..........A new heart also will I give you,
Motives - Spirit......and a new spirit will I put within you:
Materials - Stony heart replaced.....and give you an heart of flesh.
Now God often won't give us the place He has prepared for us until our thinking is different, our intentions have changed and we are ready to use the things He replaces in our life....and oh yea til He knows we will give Him the glory and that every who sees how blessed we are, knows that all we have and are able to do.....Magnify God's ability to restore, renew and redefine the course and blessing of our lives).
Magnify - God gets the glory (verse 38 to close) ...and they shall know that I[am] the LORD.
It's all about allowing God to be magnified in our lives.................
Yea, we make definate decisions to divorce our past and marry our future - forsaking the sins of the past planning to live united to the today and tomorrows that God has planned for us.
Well this year how about letting God give you a New Year's Restoration as opposed to trying the same old human resolutions. In our text today Ezekiel was a Prophet who not only spoke to the folk living in his time, he provided hope for us future folk. Hope for those of us who are called by God's name, but some how have gotten caught up with the heathens of our time. Praise God that He can take a backwards brother like me clean me up and place me in a spot where nothing else can would grow, a place where everything was dead, a place where even I thought was a place of use to be's and allow my life, my ministy, my marraige, my money, my health all to blossom and mature just so His name will get the glory!
Watch the text:(this is a brief outline)
Chpt 1-24 judgment on Judah & Jerusalem -this shows us judgement also comes from doing and not doing what God says do
Chpt 25-32 all nations would suffer same fate - the results of disobedience is the same for everyone
Chpt 33-48 Restoration Israel -
33:10 people reality of sin realized - you have to recognize and commit to eliminating the sin in your life
33:11 God's message of hope begins - soon as you acknowledge and commit God moves right away
Then in Chapter 36 God starts to prepare the land for His people who have recognized their wrong doing. In other words when you make the choice to do right God starts to "Make a Place for YOU....
(Here's The Meat Of Today's Message All In verse 36:26 with final point in verse 36:38)
While God's making the place for you He makes you ready....how? Good question.....first He works on your:
Mind - Heart..........A new heart also will I give you,
Motives - Spirit......and a new spirit will I put within you:
Materials - Stony heart replaced.....and give you an heart of flesh.
Now God often won't give us the place He has prepared for us until our thinking is different, our intentions have changed and we are ready to use the things He replaces in our life....and oh yea til He knows we will give Him the glory and that every who sees how blessed we are, knows that all we have and are able to do.....Magnify God's ability to restore, renew and redefine the course and blessing of our lives).
Magnify - God gets the glory (verse 38 to close) ...and they shall know that I[am] the LORD.
It's all about allowing God to be magnified in our lives.................
Brother,
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the blogging world, I look forward to your ministry here on the web. Great sermon, you and Denny made it difficult on your Pastor. Until your next assignment, I thank God for you and your family being faithful at Macedonia.
Keep running,
Owens