Title: Resurrection of dry bones
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Title: The Resurrection of Dry Bones
Bible: Ezekiel 37:1-10
2007. 6. 17. Daytime
Visions of dry bones in Ezekiel's Valley
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1. Valley of Skeletons
This speaks of the spiritual condition of the people of Israel. They had been taken captive to Babylon for about ten years, and now they were in a state of complete loss of hope.
Physically, they were taken captive to another country and hope to return to their homeland was restored. Spiritually, they lost God and were put in a state of completely dry bones.
“These bones are the house of Israel, and they say, Our bones have dried up, our hope has passed away, we are all annihilated.”
How is this limited to the people of Israel? no. Isn't the whole world in this situation today? If you watch the TV news in the morning, you will hear all the news of death and the dead, hopeless and hopeless. A car accident kills a family member, a fire kills many people, and a tour bus crashes, killing 30 passengers.
On the other hand, look at it internationally. The deaths that appeared through the Iraqi terrorists, the terrible situation in Afghanistan, the earth is now a fireball due to the temperature above the global temperature, and in India and Pakistan, the temperature is now rising to 50 degrees Celsius and more than 100 people are dying from the heat. you will see
What caused it to turn into a skull valley? It is because of our sins.
Although Israel was God's chosen people, they turned away from God's word, served foreign gods, deceived the people, and deceived the people. In the end, God took the scourge of Babylon and took Israel captive.
If you live according to the flesh, you will surely die... but yes. The result of sin is this terrible death and corpse.
We cannot help but be very concerned about this country ahead of the upcoming presidential election. Biting, biting, and stretching each other, the fabrication of non-discharge rumors and rumors before the revelations....... Watching this, there is no other hell. This is hell! I can't help but feel it. This is Skull Valley.
Now, this society is full of talking white bones, moving white bones, and eating and drinking. If the white bones are political, the white bones educate, and the white bones are art, if there is no life and no hope in all fields, there is only a disgusting smell like a rotting corpse and an ugliness like a skeleton.
Now we have to look at ourselves. What is my spiritual appearance? You must see that it is not in a condition like a dead corpse, like dry bones.
Aren't there only lifeless religious rituals? Even though the saints are saints, aren't they spiritually in a state of being unable to see, hear, speak, or move? The time has come for us to examine ourselves for dry bones without hope, without joy, without faith, without love. These are the invoices of the Valley of Ezekiel.
2. Necessity of God's Word
To Ezekiel, who was stunned at seeing this, God commands, "Prophesy so that those bones may come to life." As Ezekiel obeys, amazing things begin to happen. The bones contacted each other and fit together, and they formed a skeleton and became flesh. Then life entered and it became a great army. How did these bones come to life, lifeless corpses of death? It is the word of God. Only the Word of God reveals the truth that can supply life.
Clearly, we must remember that God did not speak directly, but spoke through His servants. God did not speak directly to the dry bones in the valley of Ezekiel, but prophesied the word of God through the man of God Ezekiel. That's right.
Even in this day and age, we are still prophesying the word of God through the people of God in this age. The prophesied words have life, resurrection, and power.
Is the whole world like the Valley of the White Bone? Spread the word of God in that valley. Is this society like Skull Valley? Conquer this society with the Gospel. Are our souls also skull valleys? Listen to the word of God. After Peter once witnessed the word, 3,000 skeletons were resurrected. When Jonah shouted the word of God in Nineveh, like the valley of skulls, 2 million skeletons were resurrected. Germany was resurrected by Luther's prophecy, and England was resurrected by Wesley's prophecy. America is revived by Moody's words.
Please listen to the word of God prophesied in the revival meeting starting tomorrow. When the word comes to you, your family, and our church, the work of resurrection and revival will surely appear.
3. The Word creates a new human being.
Then, what kind of work happened after the Word was proclaimed in detail?
1), the bones were in contact with each other.(7) They were looking for their own bones. This means exercise. Some Bibles translated it as an earthquake. When the Word of God falls, the church, which was only quiet, has a movement like an earthquake in the heart that has only been quiet. A prayer movement takes place. The conduction movement takes place. A movement of Bible study is taking place. There is a movement of church revival. So it becomes a living church and changes into a living heart.
2), the tendons connected the flesh to the flesh and the bones to each other. This means the union of saints and saints, and the union of saints and ministers. The saints are members of Christ.
Therefore, if the members are scattered, I will not be able to carry out my mission. However, when the Word comes, they do their own thing. Through this crusade, our members will find their responsibilities and unite with each other to become members of the great revival of the church.
3), it is said that weight increases.(8) This refers to hope, hope and vision for the future. No hope? Don't have a vision? Hear the word. Then, in this revival meeting, you will have hope and vision for individuals, families, and churches.
4), it was said to be covered with leather.(8) This means that you will wear clothes of love. A Christian without love, a church without love, is nothing but naked.
When he rebuked the nakedness of the church in Laodicea, he rebuked the lack of love. Does the individual lack love? No love in your home? Is there no love in the church? I pray that you will wear clothes of love through this revival.
The Word still has the power to create a new human being.
4. Invoice is resurrected as a living army (10)
The scattered skeletons are now fully human. However, he is not yet fully human. Because there is no life. It is just like a corpse of dust until God first made Adam out of dust and breathed life into his nostrils. Even if we have all the elements of faith, unless we receive the Holy Spirit, our power will not appear in those elements of faith. So the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary. This Holy Spirit is the breath of God. In order for Christians to express the work of life, two elements are absolutely necessary: the Word and the Holy Spirit. Some people say that only the Word is the best and ignore the work of the Holy Spirit, while others consider the Word lightly, saying that the Age of the Word has passed and now the Age of the Holy Spirit. But both are equally important. There can be no work of the Holy Spirit apart from the work of the Holy Spirit, and there cannot be any power of the Word apart from the work of the Holy Spirit. Just as a train runs only on rails, so is the relationship between the Word and the Holy Spirit.
On the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit, like a great and strong wind, swept through the 120 gates, those who hid in the upper room like a corpse and held their breath were revived and ran out into the streets like an army to boldly testify of the gospel. A heart that has not received the Holy Spirit is no different from a dead heart. Even with all the features, even if the limbs are intact, they cannot function. Just as a car cannot run without a driver even if the engine is turned on, a heart that does not receive the Holy Spirit will never be able to function as a member of life.
Just as the breath of life turned those corpses into a living army, so the Holy Spirit turns the helpless and helpless Christians into a powerful and powerful army of the cross.
The Cornelius family was a godly family. It was a family that gave alms, and it was a family that lived a fervent prayer life. But without the Holy Spirit, there was no joy and no satisfaction. However, after receiving the Holy Spirit as a gift through Peter, he changed from a passive faith to an active faith. Without the Holy Spirit, all religious acts are inevitably mechanical and temporary. Before receiving the Holy Spirit, Peter was at a whim, but after receiving the Holy Spirit, even if he was crucified upside down, he never changed his mind. What those who have received the Holy Spirit have in common is that all of them have become powerful armies of God. So was Peter the capricious, so was Wesley the coward, so was the feeble Luther, and so was the 120 hidden gates.
Dear saints,
The revival meeting starts tomorrow. We should use this revival meeting as a miraculous opportunity for our church, like the army, in a situation where our hearts are like white bones. To do this, we must experience the work of the Word and the work of the Holy Spirit. Our hearts like the bones of the valley of Ezekiel enter the spirit of God, revive and come to life, becoming a great army, revitalizing the church and changing Busan. -Amen-