#1,146 – Death is Not the End of the Story (Ezekiel 24:15–18)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 27 September 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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We thank you, God, that, if we are in you, our story does not end in death.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.
0:05.0	Ezekiel chapter 24 verses 15 through 18.
0:10.6	The word of the Lord came to me.
0:13.0	Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke.
0:20.8	Yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down.
0:26.0	Sigh, but not allowed.
0:29.0	Make no mourning for the dead.
0:32.0	Bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet.
0:36.0	Do not cover your lips nor eat the bread of men.
0:40.0	So I spoke to the people in the morning and at evening my wife died.
0:47.0	And the next morning I did as I was commanded.
0:52.0	Like we... as I was commanded.
1:09.7	Like we could spend a whole lot of time unpacking the verses I just read just to make sure it's clear what I just read. God just told Ezekiel that the delight of his eyes, his wife, was about to die,
1:16.9	and he was not to mourn in all the traditional, expected, natural, even desirous ways to mourn, natural, natural,
1:31.0	natural ways to mourn. natural ways to mourn.
1:35.2	Instead, he was to illustrate in this.
1:40.4	How, and this is what the verses talk about after this. how the
1:45.0	God's people were experiencing his judgment,
1:51.0	how the temple in Jerusalem was about to be destroyed the delight of their eyes, and they were to see this
2:00.8	solemnly as the judgment of God, not to mourn over that which they delighted in, but to accept it as discipline from God and turn from their sin and look to
2:21.2	him and know that he alone is God.
2:26.0	So there's so much here.
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