“The name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there [or in the Hebrew Jehovah-shammah].”—Ezekiel 48:35.
These words may be used as a test as well as a text. They may serve for examination as well as consolation, and at the beginning of a year they may fulfill this useful double purpose. [...]
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“Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.”—Ezekiel 36:37.
In reading the chapter we have seen the great and exceeding precious promises which God had made to the favored nation of Israel. [...]
Continue reading about Prayer—the Forerunner of Mercy, Ezekiel 36:37
“Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto
you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of
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“Ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities, and for your abominations.”—Ezekiel 36:31.
It has been the supposition of those who know not by experience that if a man be persuaded that he is pardoned, and that he is a child of God, he will necessarily become proud of the distinction which God [...]
“I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”—Ezekiel 36:26.
The fall of man was utter and entire. Some things when they have become dilapidated may be repaired; but the old house of mankind is so thoroughly decayed that it must be pulled down even [...]
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A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”—Ezekiel 36:26.
BEHOLD a wonder of divine love. When God maketh his creatures, one creation he regardeth as, sufficient, [...]
“And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I
will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of
[...]
“He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him.”
(Ezekiel 33:5)
In all worldly things, men are always enough awake to understand their own interests. There is scarce a merchant who reads the paper, who does not read it in some way or other, with a view to his [...]
“That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire to devour them. More over this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the [...]
Continue reading about A Warning to Professors, Ezekiel 23:37-39
“Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the Lord save spoken it, and will do it.” [Ezekiel 22:14]
In the former part of this chapter, we have a dreadful catalogue of the sins of Jerusalem; as you may see from the first to [...]
“Her strong rods were broken and withered.” — Ezekiel 19:12
Preached at Northampton on the Lord’s day, June 26, 1748, on the death of the Honorable John Stoddard, Esq. often a member of his Majesty’s council, for many years chief justice of the court of Common Pleas for the county of Hampshire, judge of [...]
“Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?”—Ezekiel 18:23.
“For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.”—Ezekiel 18:32.
“As I live, saith the Lord God, [...]
Continue reading about Pleading and Encouragement, Ezekiel 18:32-33, Ezekiel 33:11
“And all the trees of the field shall know that I,
Jehovah, have brought down the high tree, have
exalted the low tree, have dried up the green
tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. [...]
Continue reading about Divine Destruction and Protection, Ezekiel 17:29
“That thou mayest bear thing own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.”—Ezekiel 16:54.
It is not a comfortable state to be at enmity with God, and the sinner knows this. Although he perseveres in his rebellion against the Most High, and turns not [...]
Continue reading about How Saints May Help the Devil, Ezekiel 16:54
“Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations.”—Ezekiel 16:1-2.
And how think you did the prophet proceed in order to accomplish the solemn commission which had been thus intrusted to him? Did he begin by reminding the people of the law which was delivered to [...]
Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree? Or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? Or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; [...]
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“And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, What is the vine-tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?”—Ezekiel 15:1-2.
The Jewish nation had arrogant ideas of themselves; when they sinned against God, they supposed that on account of the superior sanctity [...]
“Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them, as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.”—Ezekiel 11:16.
The text begins with “therefore.” There was a reason for God’s speaking [...]
“Thus saith the Lord.”—Ezekiel 11:15.
The wise man saith, “Where the word of a king is, there is power.” What power must there be where there is the word of the King of kings, who ruleth over all! We are not left to conjecture as to the power of the divine word, for we know that [...]
“The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great.”—Ezekiel 9:9.
“The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”—1 John 1:7.
I shall have two texts this morning—the evil and its remedy. “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great;” and “The blood of Jesus Christ his [...]
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