I don't have time to say as much as I want to, but I just have to tell someone, so I'll tell myself:
It took a few days, but it finally clicked!
Hey! God could have just told those dry dead bones to come alive all by himself without Ezekiel. But instead He worked through the means of his messenger, the man he had appointed to speak his words! So, yeah, God could just give me faith all by himself, He could just speak from heaven to forgive my sins, but instead He uses means. He gives me faith through the hearing of His Word and Baptism: He strengthens that faith and forgives my sin by His Body and Blood. He uses a man to speak his absolution to me. ...
Got it! Ezekiel is the office of the ministry and this story is all about God using means to make me alive....!
yes, I was in a hurry. It is Ezekiel not Isaiah!
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I am "God's own child" as the hymn puts it. I am baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I have been crucified with Christ in that water and raised to eternal life in his resurrection.
I confess Holy Scripture (the Old and New Testaments) to be the inerrant Word of God.
I confess the teaching of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (the Lutheran Confessions) to be true to Scripture.
Here I stand, by God's grace I will not do otherwise; on my own strength, I fall.
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Here I stand, by God's grace I will not do otherwise; on my own strength, I fall.
My salvation and my honor depend on God;he is my mighty rock, my refuge. -Psalm 62:7
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
...but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles...
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things -and the things that are not- to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
-I Corinthians 1
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4 comments:
Well spotted, Truth Questioner.
[quoting Migel{Penquins (TM) Big Idea (TM)}]
"Thank you. I thought it was rather impressive."
Not only that, but God commands Ezekiel to prophesy to the Spirit -- Ezekiel ends up preaching to God.
Huh! That's interesting....but, well, somewhat weird.
I'd love to hear someone talk about the ramifications of that.
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