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Ezekiel chapter 23 verse 49

and they shall return your lewdness upon you

and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry and you shall know that I am

the Lord God. So this is the last verse in a long chapter that depicts God's people as two women, one who represents

Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel among God's people and the other who represents

Jerusalem the capital of the southern kingdom of Judah, God's people there.

And the whole chapter describes how God showed his judgment,

how God showed his judgment on the Northern Kingdom of Israel and Samaria by delivering them over to the

Assyrians and then how God showed his judgment among the Southern Kingdom, his people in Judah, specifically the capital Jerusalem,

by delivering them over to the Babylonians.

And then you get to the very end of the chapter and God just says very clearly, very plainly, after 48 verses of this depiction of women who have committed adultery, who have committed idolatry as God's people.

At the very end, God you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry.

You shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry. As you hear that phrase, I just think this is a simple principle I think about going into details a

discipline conversation that Heather and I were having with one of our children

recently and we've had this conversation a

million times it seems like with different children like when you disobey

there will be consequences.

Like it is not good to disobey. It is good to obey.

That leads to good things, when you disobey, that leads to bad things. And that's the clear simple principle

that God is saying over and over again in the book of Ezekiel

and he says it right here you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry

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