LIFE OUT OF DEATH
Advent 2025: Something Out Of Nothing – Part 3 of 4
Ezekiel 37.1-14
GOD’ S RESURRECTION POWER IMBUES OUR WAITING WITH …
LIBERTY: WE DON’T HAVE TO Know Everything
v. 3 “‘Son of man, can these bones live?’ I said, ‘O Sovereign LORD, you alone know.’” (niv)
v. 11 “Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.” (esv)
CERTAINTY: WE CAN TRUST God’s Mysterious Means
v. 4 “Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.’” (esv)
v. 9 “Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to the breath … Come … and breathe on these slain, that they may live.’” (esv)
Genesis 2.7 “… the LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.” (csb)
Philippians 2.8 “He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (esv)
1 Corinthians 1.18 “The word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved.” (csb)
HUMILITY: ONLY GOD’S SPIRIT CAN Make The Dead Breathe
v. 8 “But there was no breath in them.” (esv)
vv. 13–14 “You shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live ...” (esv)
John 11.25–26 “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.”
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