All right, anybody got a praise report you want to share or anything you've been gleaning or getting out of the truth as you walk through it? Lawlessness is at work today. And a lawlessness will abound one day when the Lord allows it to abound at a certain time. But right now, God keeps it, even as bad as it is, it's still under restraint. but there is a day coming where he'll be unloosed and that's going to be a terrible day. Just like what we're reading in these things that you're starting in chapter 4 in the book of Ezekiel, 4 to 24 are going to be really dealing with some very hard. It just gets harder and harder when you read through it. It's challenging and a lot of repetitiveness. You're going to see some repeat things, but just look for some key words as you're going through it and reading through it and always go back to like chapter three where he had a call upon his life, like we have a call. He's gonna reiterate that to him in chapter 33 again. And I sent out a little breakdown today. I don't know if everybody got it or not, but chapters one to three is a call upon Ezekiel's life. Chapter four is when he begins to receive the word of these these illustrations that God was giving him as a message to Israel, specifically to Jerusalem in the siege that was coming. When you get into chapter 25, he shifts from Jerusalem and Israel to the nations. And he deals with several nations in 25 to 32. And in 33, you're gonna see where God reiterates to Ezekiel again that you're my watchman. And in chapter 34, through 37 and 38, he's gonna reiterate this fact that a shepherd's gonna come because the shepherds are falling and they're not doing their job. God's gonna change the nation. He's gonna restore them. And you see the tone of Ezekiel's shift. He shifts from being this hard, judgmental justice that's coming upon the nations and upon Israel till he starts bringing in hope. to them that a hope of restoration, a hope of renewal is coming. And it's very similar to how the judgment and the justice that was at the cross, that God poured out judgment and justice upon the cross, upon His Son. And what follows that? Restoration and renewal. That's what follows the judgment of the cross. And when you think about the harshness of this judgment, it's still incomparable to the sins of the world placed upon Jesus. upon the cross. We see an isolated group of people at an isolated time going through some very difficult things, but when you take all time, all history of sin of God's people placed upon Jesus at one time, of that judgment placed upon Him to pay the penalty for it, no matter how harsh you see anything done upon this world, it's not near as harsh as it was that was placed upon Jesus who never sinned. who absorbed our judgment and justice upon the cross so that God can reconcile, restore, and continually renew us as we walk with Him. So Ezekiel is really not as challenging of a message when you look at it from the perspective of years and years of rebellion and refusal and rejection and retaliation to God's people, His prophets, now God's going to deal with it and He's going to use a foreign nation to do it. He's going to take His people out, destroy the very thing they had put their hope in and then He gives a stern warning to all those people around there that were delighted that these Jews had fallen, that celebrated when they had been their day of reckoning and that the temple had been destroyed and that they celebrated and didn't help and didn't step in. Now God's got a warning for them and for them to get right with Him. And whether they ever got that message or not, the message always is for God's people. You know, we talked about that before when you walk through these books like Obadiah, a message toward Edom. Edom may or may not have received that word, because the way the Bible reads it, they didn't receive messages. Now, Nineveh did because a prophet went right in there, two of them in total. But we don't know about all these other places that he highlights and brings to light. And one of the reasons why is because he's wanting his people to know that all injustices will be dealt with. including your own and including those that have mistreated you, God will deal with them one day. And His message is more for us to receive and to embrace as He told Ezekiel. What I give you, I want you to receive it. I want it to be what? In your mouth, in your belly, in your heart, in your ears, in your eyes. I want it to consume you, Ezekiel. But what I release to you YOU RECEIVE, YOU GOTTA GO RELEASE TO THE PEOPLE. AND GOD ALSO TELLS HIM THERE WILL BE TIMES THAT HE'S GONNA MAKE HIM MUTE. HE'S GONNA MAKE HIS TONGUE CLING TO THE ROOF OF HIS MOUTH WHERE HE CAN'T SAY A WORD. YOU'LL SEE THAT. THERE'S SEVERAL TIMES GOD TELLS HIM THAT HE'S GONNA KEEP HIM SILENT. HE SAID, BUT WHEN I SPEAK TO YOU AND I GIVE YOU, THAT'S WHAT YOU GOTTA GO GIVE THEM. He might isolate him and shut him down, but he said, when I speak, that's what you go give away. So when we see it from an oversight of seeing the whole picture, you begin to see into what was going on. He had given Ezekiel insight, but not only insight, he gave him what? Foresight. What was to come. He was prophetically proclaiming what was coming to Jerusalem years before it ever came. And when I say years, I'm not talking about long years, but he was dealing with details that would happen. exactly the way they would be played out because Ezekiel was given foresight, prophetic foresight of what they would do. Like when the king tried to escape through the wall and all he had was his clothes and a sack with him when he tried to leave. Ezekiel's going to see that. God's going to tell him to do this very thing, to go through a hole in the wall. Everything he's doing is what's going to happen to Jerusalem. with the clay pottery that he lays out and makes a image and the seeds that he puts on it. The making of the bread and you know how he told him to take those mixed grains and pull them together and he told him at first what in chapter 4 to use human dung refuse and Ezekiel like hesitated on that and said Lord I haven't never defiled myself with anything like that, and God granted him a release and said, well, you can use cow dung. And even today, there's countries around the world, I shared a few things yesterday, and Kate sent me a picture that they teach in their social science class of these tribes in various parts of the world that take cow dung, put it up on a wall, and let it dry out, and they use it for a heating source or for a fuel source to cook their food with. That's all they got. That's what they use. But for the Jew to have to do that, that was a sign of God's judgment upon them to go to that extreme. But see, they were gonna have to use human waste to cook their food, because there would be no other way to get fuel. They're gonna have a siege on them. And these Babylonians are gonna lock them down, and that they could only eat eight ounces of bread a day. Eight ounces, eight ounces of food. That ain't a lot of food, right? When you go to Outback, what size steak you normally get, Keith? 14 ounce, what about it, Charles? You want the big one, right? You go to Diamond Jim's and you get the The big king they got over there, right? The big 20, 22 or 26 or 32 ounces. That's a beast. You got to share that, right? Yeah. Well, Stephanie and I got to where we will share a 16 ounce or even a 10 ounce and share it with one another. with a little potato or salad or something like that but imagine if you only knew that's all you have and you mix in beans with seeds you mix in what you do have and you don't have a lot and you got to ration it out for only eight ounces a day and you could only have two and a half cups of water a day Ezekiel had to do that for 430 days he became The burden was placed upon him, like the burden was gonna be placed upon Jesus. He became that. I don't know if y'all picked up or not, but God's been calling him. Each time he engages him, what does he call him? Son of man, son of man. You know that's exclusive to two individuals? Ezekiel and Jesus. which is a good Bible to read walking through this, it really is. Son of dust, which he told Adam from dust you came and dust you shall which is really, the word is son of Adam and Adam means man. Now the Bible in other places refers to humanity in the lowliness of humanity as son of man, but in general. But as far as a person, we see Ezekiel and Jesus referred to as the Son of Man. Now the connection would be is that both Ezekiel and Jesus, they were both prophet and priest. Now Jesus takes it another level because he was what? Prophet, priest, and king. And we needed a prophet, priest, and king to be a representation of us. So 90 times, over 90 times, he's gonna refer to Ezekiel as the son of man, as the son of man. And see, a lot of similarities with how he had to bear the load. Everything they were gonna go through in Jerusalem, it was placed on him. And a lot of times he was mute. He couldn't necessarily tell them what he was going through. And here's another point. We've got 48 chapters. These 48 chapters were not written all at once. Meaning this is spaced out about 22 or 23 years of ministry. There were gaps. Every time you see a landmark time that God gives you, make a note of it. Consider the very beginning. Remember, he was 30 years old when God came to him. How old was Jesus when he started his ministry? 30 years old. Where Ezekiel is going to prophesy in the later end, he's going to be in his 50s. The last word that he had for the people in the 50s time frame. But there's going to be gaps where Ezekiel had a word from the Lord and whatever God gave him, he was to give it away. But it may be years before another word came. There's gaps in there. You wanna pay close attention to that. And the reason I say that, it's a lot for us. That's why we digesting it one chapter a day because it's hard to digest it all if you just read it right on through and you try to retain everything. It's best just to go slow with it because even they went slow over a 20 year period receiving this word. Now it was accumulated in that 20 plus years. and he would pin what he had, but remember, they necessarily didn't have it pinned, they just had the verbal word that he shared. Ezekiel would put these things together to eventually become what we have as the book of Ezekiel. But you've got to figure, it's a space of time, about 23 years or so from the time that he heard from God the first time to the last word he got to declare to the people, and there were long gaps in between receiving the message from God. And it primarily focuses on that destruction of the temple in Jerusalem and the destruction of Jerusalem, then a message for the nations, and then God's restoration and hope for the nation that he's gonna bring a remnant back. And when he brings a remnant back, there's gonna be a temple that's gonna be built. And then out of that temple, there's gonna be a river that flows. There's also gonna be a battle that's gonna be fought. And here's the thing, none of those things have happened yet. They're still prophetic. That's the foresight that he had. All the way through the book, he gets foresight. But another thing he had in this vision, in these visions that he had, he had hindsight. He had hindsight. What do I mean by hindsight? He was given clarity on why these things are happening. What did the nation do or not do that caused this? Well, God's been telling him, how many times did he say in chapter 2 and 3 that they were a rebellious house? Did y'all write it down, any? SEVEN TIMES IN THOSE TWO CHAPTERS. I WROTE IT DOWN AND WENT THE SAME WORD. I EVEN JOTTED A LITTLE NOTE JUST TO SHARE WITH Y'ALL, BECAUSE I CAN'T REMEMBER ALL THESE THINGS MYSELF, SO I LIKE PUTTING NOTES DOWN TO HELP ME WITH IT. BUT HE SAYS, FOR AN EXAMPLE, IN CHAPTER TWO IN VERSE NUMBER FIVE, SO TWO AND THREE, CHAPTER TWO AND THREE, SEVEN TIMES HE USES THIS WORD, rebellious house. 2, 5 says, As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are what? A rebellious house. Yet they will know that a prophet has been among them. He had been given insight, from God on the fresh word to give them, foresight of what was to come, hindsight of why it is going on currently, and He was given oversight. That is, He could see what they couldn't see. Just like Jeremiah. He told Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1 that He had elevated Jeremiah above all kingdoms, above all kings, above all the earth. that he had a bird's eye view of what was going on and what was coming. He had a word for the people, but the people rejected his word. Why? Because this is what? A rebellious house. The word rebellious is the word to be contentious, to be defiant, to be bitter and harsh, a complainer. And one who contradicts, hard to be around, hard to work with. Living Bible says rebels. They're rebels. They're going to do their own thing. And somebody that's determined to do their own thing, we know they're a fool. For a fool's way is right in his own eyes. So then they become contentious. You know how the scripture talks about it's better to live in the corner of a house than with a contentious woman? Well, that's not the same word. That word is a root off of this, but the spirit is still the same. It means to be a constant complainer. It's just hard to work with, hard to live among, hard to bring something to. They're harsh, they're bitter. It's like drinking a bitter drink or eating bitter food, it leaves a what? A harsh taste in your mouth. And that's the idea. He's told him seven times in these two chapters with a call upon his life, that's who you go into. They're gonna be hard to work with. They're gonna be hard to deal with. But you're what? You're dealing with them for me. You're working with them for me. You give them what I give you. you give them what I give you so that's just something that we need to remember is that we got to deal with some hard stuff sometimes we got to deal with hard people at times difficult people challenging people but when we do it unto the Lord We can serve them. And even for an example, God tells him he's gonna make him hard to them. Didn't he say that in chapter three? Look in verse number seven of chapter three. Now y'all jump in if y'all seen something that you just wanna think's important for us to pick up on, let me know. Verse seven, but the house of Israel will not listen to you. Here's hindsight. Why? Because they will not what? Listen to me. Now notice what he says in verse number five. For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech, we can say foreigners, and of a hard language, but you're being sent to who? You being sent to the house of Israel. Not too many people of unfamiliar speech, not too many people of unfamiliar speech and a hard language whose words you can't understand. Surely had I sent you to them, they would have what? They would have listened to you. Now keep that in mind. God has already told us and he's told us many times. He didn't send these words to these foreign nations. Had he sent a word, had he sent prophets to these foreign nations like he did with Jonah and Nineveh, what did they do? They listened, they repented, and they turned unto the Lord and asked God to show them mercy. But Israel, because of their rebellion, they're hard to deal with because they wouldn't listen to God. They're not gonna listen to God's messengers. It was a given. So he's got hindsight because they wouldn't listen to me. That's important, right? You can't take it personal, Ezekiel. This is who you're dealing with. This is what you're dealing with. And he says, they will not listen to you because they wouldn't listen to me, verse seven, for all the house of Israel are imputent. How's the living Bible use that word there in verse seven? Oh, you don't have it? Yeah, yeah. They're not going to give you any leeway because they don't give me any leeway. And then he says, For the house of Israel are imputene. The word imputene there means they are set. They're firm in their ways. They're strong in the sense that, and the same word is gonna be used up top. I'll show you in the next verse in regards to, we'll look at these two words, how he says it here, imputin' and hard hearted. In chapter two and verse four, he reverses those words. Same two words used, but he reverses them. He reverses them there. The word imputin' means to set. It's been set up. It's like pouring concrete. When you pour concrete, what do you have to let it do? You gotta let it set. The longer it sets, the firmer it becomes, the harder it becomes. And he says, these people for years and years, they are what? Set in their ways. They're not moving. They're firm. They're hard and stubborn. The word hard hearted means they're rock hard. They're tempered. They're set up like a hardened rock. They're unmovable. Ezekiel, you're not moving them. They're not moving from the position that they take. They are set firm in where they are. Now that's the group of people he was sent to minister to. Some people tell you, and usually it's similar to this, if God's in a thing, things flow rightly. But God was in this, and man, he was coming up against a brick wall. Oh yeah, man, they are set, it don't matter. Look, if Jesus showed up, it wouldn't matter, right? If the Apostle Paul showed up and they seen a vision like these seen, it wouldn't matter. Why? Because they're so set. They're so set and hardened and unmoved. In chapter two and verse four, I mentioned that the words are reversed. For an example, for they are impudent, that word is the word rock hard, unmovable, where the word stubborn is the word for set firm in their way. It's just a reverse of the words. Now, if you go back to chapter three and look what God told him he was gonna do. Behold, I've made your, what? Face strong. The idea I made it, I made it set. It's firm. Meaning, when they see you, they know you ain't wavering. You gonna stick to your guns and they're not gonna move you. And you're not gonna move them. So what do you have? You're gonna butt heads. But God says, I'm gonna make you this a way. Not that Ezekiel wanted to be this a way, but God's gonna make him this a way. God's gonna make him hard, Brother Shannon. And he says it twice, right? Behold, I've made your face strong against their faces and your forehead firm against their foreheads. Y'all gonna be two rocks colliding with one another. You with my message, they in their ways. They are going to what? They gonna bust heads and he says in verse 9 like adamant stone. It's kind of like a like a diamond It's gonna be yours is gonna be so rigid and so firm and so sharp It's gonna be harder than Flint I've made your forehead do not be afraid of them nor be dismayed for their looks for though they are what a THEY ARE A HARD DRINK TO SWALLOW. THEY'RE TOUGH. THEY'RE GONNA BE TOUGH. AND IN VERSE 10, MOREOVER HE SAID TO ME, SON OF MAN, RECEIVE INTO YOUR HEART ALL MY WORDS THAT I SPEAK TO YOU AND HEAR WITH YOUR EARS. AND NOTICE WHAT VERSE 11 AS WELL AS VERSE 4 SAID. WHAT DID HE TELL HIM TO DO? GO. GO. GET TO THE CAPTIVES, TO THE CHILDREN OF YOUR PEOPLE, AND SPEAK TO THEM, AND TELL THEM, THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD, WHETHER THEY HEAR OR WHETHER THEY REFUSE." THAT'S NO DIFFERENT. LOOK IN VERSE NUMBER FOUR, HE SAID THE SAME THING. I'M GONNA ASK Y'ALL IF Y'ALL CAN PARALLEL THIS TO A NEW TESTAMENT TRUTH. VERSE FOUR SAYS, THEN HE SAID TO ME, SON OF MAN, GO. Go where? To the house of Israel. What do I do? Speak to them. But what do I speak to them? I speak to them with what? My words to them. Acts 5 20, when he sent the apostles back, he said, go to the temple, stand and speak all the words of this life. That's the same message. Go, stand, speak. What do I speak? The words of this life. What life? The words you've given me. Go speak them. That's what he told Ezekiel to go do. That's Acts 5 in verse number 20. That's the particular life. I've written a book called This Particular Life. Miss Alona's got it right now working through it for me. She's been editing it. And so soon as she reads it, my mama's gonna read it. Acts 5 20. Lord willing, between there, they read it, and I do a little fine tuning to it, make it available before long, but it's based on this particular life of going, standing, speaking the words of this life. And that's the idea. This particular life is so particular, so unique, God says it's the words of this life. And we talk about what life is he referring to. So, Lord willing, it'll be a blessing in people's hands, for sure. And I ain't far out from revise and magnify the Lord too. It's pretty much almost all done as well. Got a couple projects in the making. Got a couple kids books that I've been working on that I think will be a help for the families and all. Sure do. So we'll see. We'll see how the Lord uses them. But go speak. Go speak. What did he tell us? Go to all the world. AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS, RIGHT? TEACH THEM THOSE THINGS THAT I'VE TAUGHT YOU. GO SPEAK. GO. GO. NOW HERE'S THE THING. LOOK IN VERSE NUMBER 15. SO HE CAME. WHERE DID HE COME TO? TELEVIV. WE HAVE TELEVIV OR HOW THEY WOULD PRONOUNCE IT THOUGH IN THOSE LANGUAGES WOULD BE TELEVIV. WHAT IS THE PLACE IN ISRAEL TODAY WHERE EVERYBODY FLIES INTO? Tel Aviv. Did they use that when they eventually relocated back into the land? Did they take that name from that captive place and call it Tel Aviv? How all that played out, I don't know. But it's the same pronunciation when you are pronunciating it in a Hebrew tongue. That word means a mound, a flood. The word Aviv means a tender thing. But yeah, that's what that word is, Tel Aviv. It was in modern-day Iraq where they were at, but Babylonia, Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is the land between the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates River. That's why it's called Mesopotamia over there, the land between the two great rivers. And that's where they were taken captive and brought back to. But notice what he did. God told him to go to the captives. He went, and then it says, I sat there, verse 15, and I remained what? Astonished among them for how many days? Seven days. The word astonished means to be in horror. When you break this word down, it means to be devastated. Can't speak because of what you've heard and what you see. He was astonished as he sat among the people. Remember, God gave him what? A vision, and in that vision, what did he have? Remember, he had insight, foresight, hindsight, and oversight. All that come along with hearing from the Lord. So now he's sitting among the people who he was neighbors with, but now he sees everything differently. Why? Because God's given him his insight. He can see things that he couldn't see before. Now he sits and the idea of being devastated is empty and silent. I couldn't speak. I'm in shock. He tells us in verse 14, How did he say when God led him away, when God took him and lifted him up and took him away, when he led him away, he says, I went in what? Bitterness and in the heat of my spirit. He led me to the captives. I went away harsh and with rage in me. I went away angry in me, but the hand of God was what? upon me. Got to remember what did God say He was going to make His forehead and His face. He was gonna make it like hard flint. So now his spirit, how does God gonna make him look so hard? There's something going on in his spirit. When the spirit led him away, he went away with harshness in his spirit, anger in his spirit. Now he goes and sits and he's devastated as he's sitting before the people. Because just like Jeremiah, Jeremiah had such a hard word, he didn't wanna tell the people the word that he had. Because he knew the consequences of it. if he opened his mouth. Now he's doing the same thing. Why? Because, man, this is going to be a war. This is going to be a battle to tell them what is going on. But something that we don't want to miss, he says in verse 16, Now it came to pass at the end of what? seven days that the word of the Lord what came to me saying so how long did he have to sit in that spirit among those people and not saying anything he's empty he's upset with where he's at what he sees what he knows what he's doing the burden that's been placed on him and seven days later God comes to him with a word Y'all remember not long ago, a couple, might be a couple years ago now, we preached about Moses, and God told Moses to be there. When he called him up on the mountain, and he left everybody, and this is in Exodus 24, and he went up and he told him, he said, Moses, you go and be there and I'll speak to you. But it says that the end of seven days, the Lord finally spoke to Moses. And we emphasize, it doesn't matter how long it takes, when God tells you to be there, you're there. So when he's ready to speak, you're ready to hear, amen. Now what if he was on another mountain? Or he was in another city? Like Jonah tried to run from the Lord. But here he is in Tel Aviv, waiting and waiting and waiting. Not a word. Day two, not a word. Day three, not a word. Day four, nothing. Day five, day six goes by. And on the seventh day, God speaks to him. And when he does, what did he tell him? Son of man, I've made you what? A watchman for the house of Israel. Therefore, hear a word from my mouth and give them warning from me. Emphasize, hear Give from me. Hear and give. Receive and release. A word and warning. Receive and release. When I say to the wicked, you shall surely die, and you give him no warning, that's the word, you shall die. That's the insight. Foresight what's coming. If he don't respond to it, that's on him. But if you don't tell him, he's still going to die. And that's on him. But I'm going to hold you accountable for him. Same way with the next group of people. You know what he's doing? He's telling them there's going to be people who are obviously wicked. And there's going to be people who look like they're righteous. There are going to be the people like the Pharisees. and the Sadducees in Jesus' day. Remember when Jesus said, if your righteousness doesn't exceed the Pharisees or the Sadducees? Remember what He told what we find in the New Testament, that they wouldn't accept the stone of stumbling that God put before them as the cornerstone, but they stumbled over it, and if you stumble over it, that stone is going to fall and crush you. You see, we're dealing with a group of people that look right, that had a sense of self-righteousness, but needed a word as well. And when God gave them the word, now the word becomes a stumbling block to them, an offense to them, because they're not as right as they want everybody to think they are. And therefore when the word comes to them, what do they do? Scripture says that when you rebuke a wise man, he becomes wiser. But if you rebuke a fool or you rebuke somebody that is unrighteous, what are they going to do? They're going to turn around and what? They're going to reject and hurt you. They'll retaliate upon you. They'll cause you harm. And that's what he's dealing with. The word is going to be offense to him because they're going to say, Who are you to tell me I'm not doing this the right way? And it's gonna be obvious. And then if they die in that sin, it's on them. But if you don't warn them, I'm gonna hold you what? So the whole point, regardless of them, your audience, you are responsible to give away what I give you. Doesn't matter who it is, right? Because remember, we can't see what's going on in everybody's heart and what's going on in everybody's life. You are responsible to tell and give them what I give you. They may look like they A1 square righteous as anybody, but I see them. And if I give you a word, you don't be afraid to tell them what I give you. Your word will either deliver them or be a stumbling block for them. And you'll find out. and how they respond. But you tell them. So that's important. Self-righteousness in Jesus' day was a major problem that He was dealing with because remember, everybody thought the leaders were as righteous as you could be. And if you didn't do what the leaders said, you couldn't be righteous. But what Jesus did, you've heard it said, but I say unto you, and what did they want to do to Him? They wanted to kill Him, right? because He exposed, He was the stumbling block. He is the living Word and God gives us the living Word to proclaim and it can become a stumbling block to those around us. So there's so much. There's so much there. Anybody else before we go? You get into Chapter 4. As I said, Chapter 4, these visual illustrations that he's painting a picture of. And from 4 to 24, it's all going to be in relationship to Jerusalem and those of Israel who are putting all their hopes in that temple and them simply being a Jew and he's going to expose it in their everyday life. So I encourage as you walk through it highlight stuff every time you see the phrase that they may know make a note of it because he's going to do that 70 times. He's going to say that you may know that you may know that they may know And then he's gonna say that toward these other nations that they may know. And then he's gonna say in the end that the nations may know. And you're gonna see a process of God unveiling. I'm doing what I'm doing. And they will know that a prophet's been among them. They will know that I am the Lord. They will know, you will know that I am the Lord. The nations will know that I am the Lord. And you just see this unveiling of it all. But there's still so much in Ezekiel that still hasn't happened yet. The Valley of Dry Bones. The temple. When we get in, that's later chapters, we'll look in it. That temple hadn't been rebuilt yet. There's elements about that temple that ain't in the first temple. And you'll see it when we walk through it in those days. But that's, we got a few more days into the next month to get to that point. But anybody have anything before we go tonight? Are we watchmen? We're warners, right? Are we to go tell them our word or his word? And we have to listen for him to point us to somebody. We need these divine appointments that God orchestrates and puts together. And we need to consume Jesus. What did he tell him? Open your mouth and I'll feed it to you. Here's the word of God. He ate it. He said, I want it in your stomach. I want it in your mouth. I want it to be part of you, every fabric of your life. Open your heart up, open your ears up, open your eyes up. I'll make you what I want to make you. You make yourself available to me. Now, was Ezekiel perfect? No, we already told him. Remember, we've seen that in chapter two. There's still evidences of the curse on your life. You still got thorns and thistles. But don't let them use that against you. You're a watchman now. You be a wise man that doesn't rebel against me and tell them what I tell you. And I'll use you. Amen. Is it going to be easy? No. It's tough. Hard. Hard. Hard ministry. Hard work. Hard work. Not everybody can do it. It's obvious. God would have had a hundred of them there, but He only had one, right? Only had one. So we just want to be available vessels to do what He's called us to do. The hard things. To tell the wondrous message that this unapproachable God became approachable by living a life that we couldn't live. Becoming like us because He's for us. and he gave his life on our behalf, amen? Man, what a message we had to go tell for sure. Father, we bless you, we thank you. We ask you to help us tonight with these things, continue to teach us as our plea, and that you will show us things that we need to know and what we need to walk in as well as going to help others see where they are in their journey with you. So we're asking for insight and foresight and hindsight and even oversight in our day that we can help people for your glory and their good. We want to love people and seek the highest good and the greatest means for them in Jesus Christ. So help us, Lord, in Jesus' name. Amen. Love y'all. Y'all have a good night.