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Ezekiel chapter 5 verses 5 and 6.

Thus says the Lord God, this is Jerusalem.

I have set her in the center of the nations with countries all around

her and she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations and against my statutes more than the countries all around her

for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes

This is a sobering chapter of scripture.

These verses extremely sobering

as God is talking about his judgment on his people specifically in Jerusalem and the way

God compares his people with the surrounding nations, like he had put them in the middle of the nations

that they would be light, that they would show the goodness of God as they followed his law they would show that God's ways are good

and better than anything else in this world and the people of God had not only not done that,

like not followed God's laws, God's statutes,

they had rejected his rules,

and they were living in greater evil than even the countries around them that didn't even have God's law.

Oh, there's so much here that leads us to pray, but particularly I want to lead us to pray that God would make our lives and us as

his church, like holy and pure that we would not reject his rules that we would walk in his

statutes and we would show the goodness of God the goodness of God's word God's truth God's God's truth, God's ways that are so much better

than the ways of this world that that would be evident in us.

As his people.

Oh God, may it be so, we pray.

God, forgive us for ways that we individually. And as your people reject your rules and don't walk in your statutes.

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