Post by TheFirebrand on Mar 1, 2013 21:52:47 GMT -6
"Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul."
Ezekiel 3:21
This mission made the holy angels rejoice. All this was to convince Ezekiel that the God who sent him had power to bear him out in his work.
He was overwhelmed with grief for the sins and miseries of his people and overpowered by the glory of the vision he had seen. And however sweet retirement, meditation, and communion with God may be, the servant of the Lord must prepare to serve his generation.
The Lord told the prophet He had appointed him a watchman to the house of Israel. If we warn the wicked, we are not chargeable with their ruin.
Though such passages refer to the national covenant made with Israel, they are to be equally applied to the final state of all men under every dispensation.
We are not only to encourage and comfort those who appear to be righteous, but they are to be warned, for many have grown high-minded and secure, have fallen, and even died in their sins.
Surely then the hearers of the gospel should desire warnings and even reproofs. Todays church and it's members are only interested in having a good time. There is no more reproach or preaching against worldly things. Instead the ways of the world are brought into the church ...
Those of us who do the work as Ezekial had are now rejected and no longer have the respect of the Christian community ...
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Ezekiel 3:21
This mission made the holy angels rejoice. All this was to convince Ezekiel that the God who sent him had power to bear him out in his work.
He was overwhelmed with grief for the sins and miseries of his people and overpowered by the glory of the vision he had seen. And however sweet retirement, meditation, and communion with God may be, the servant of the Lord must prepare to serve his generation.
The Lord told the prophet He had appointed him a watchman to the house of Israel. If we warn the wicked, we are not chargeable with their ruin.
Though such passages refer to the national covenant made with Israel, they are to be equally applied to the final state of all men under every dispensation.
We are not only to encourage and comfort those who appear to be righteous, but they are to be warned, for many have grown high-minded and secure, have fallen, and even died in their sins.
Surely then the hearers of the gospel should desire warnings and even reproofs. Todays church and it's members are only interested in having a good time. There is no more reproach or preaching against worldly things. Instead the ways of the world are brought into the church ...
Those of us who do the work as Ezekial had are now rejected and no longer have the respect of the Christian community ...
www.facebook.com/apostolicswordsman