Ezekiel, Part 1 Kay Arthur

Lesson 5

What Does God Expect from Those who are His?

Ezekiel 16:32You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

James 4:4 You adulteresses-- friendship with the world is hostility toward God!

What’s the Answer to finding Peace, Joy, Satisfaction… regardless of circumstances?

Ezekiel 16 INFIDELITY

Revelation 2I know .. you are so jealous for truth.. and you have perseverance… and have endured for My name’s sake, and have not grown weary.. ‘But I have this against you, …that you have left your first love—, ‘Therefore—remember from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place—unless you repent.

Ezekiel 15 Why did God choose Israel?

Our Position.

Revelation 1:6a kingdom Romans 8 priests to His God and Father.Revelation 5:9“ reign on the earth.”

Ezekiel 16:14“your fame went forth …on account of your beauty.., b/c of My splendor which I bestowed on you,”

Deuteronomy 7: 6-7“For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God haschosen you to be a people for His own possessionout of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery…“Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; but repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them; He will not delay with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. “Therefore, you shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Why did God choose you?

John 15:16“You did not choose Me but I chose youand appointed you that you would go and bear fruit

Romans 8, you were an enemy—you were a sinner—you were ungodly—you were without hope.

Ephesians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose usin Him before the foundation of the world,that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will…

Is it wrong for Him to require fidelity?

But what does the world tells you? if you want to be acceptable you have to look - act– do like this—

How Does God Expect Us to Respond to His Love?

  • Fear God. Deuteronomy 6:1-15. “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it, so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
  • Love God.Deuteronomy 6:5 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
  • Do Not Forget the Lord God. Deuteronomy 6:12 when you get in the land-- do not forget the Lordyour God.

Ezekiel 16….Remember…Remember… Revelation 2 Remember

Deuteronomy 6:15 Watch yourself that you do not forget the Lord who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall fear only the Lord your God; and you shall worship Him and swear by His name. “You shall not follow other gods, for the Lord your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be kindled against you...

What is the foremost commandment?

Mark 12:30 love the Lord your God with all your heart-- all your soul-- all your mind-- all your strength.’

Israel Forgets God—Have We?

Ezekiel 16:14+… “BUT you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

What do you have that you did not get from God?—every good and perfect gift comes from the Father . James 1:17

God NO LONGER Center of Life—NOT Faithful

Revelation 2: You have left your first love.

Jeremiah 2:2‘Thus says the Lord, “I remember concerning you the devotion of your youth, The love of your betrothals, Your following after Me in the wilderness, Through a land not sown…Israel was holy to the Lord, The first of His harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; Evil came upon them,” declares the Lord.’ ” Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel. Thus says the Lord, “What injustice did your fathers find in Me, That they went far from Me And walked after emptiness and became empty“They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord? “I have loved you” “with an everlasting love.”

1 John 4: here is His love,not that we first loved God,but that He first loved us and gave His life for us.”

Exodus 20:4 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, …. “You shall have no other gods before Me. …. for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, QANNA—jealous.

What is an IDOL?

Anything that causes you to compromise about God in any way—according to Who He is and what He commands -- career, ministry, reputation; money.

whatever you have to have besides God to be happy-- the perfect marriage. the perfect child. the perfect grandchildren. a job. a house of a certain category. sports. your namein the bulletin at church!

Abraham Moses Saul David

something that replaces God, that you bow down to & worship

WHAT has replaced God in your life? Discover it and destroy it.

Are you TRULY His disciple? Luke 14:25.“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.. “Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. He says, “… sit down and calculate the cost... “So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.

Is HE Preeminent? Is HE on the Throne of your life?

Ps. 16:5, Ps. 119:57 or Lam 3:24:The Lord is my portion.

YOU are my life.

I exist because of YOU.

I am truly loved because YOU love me and always will.

Today has purpose.

I will take all that YOU have given me and use it for YOUR glory and not mine.

That’s fidelity.