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Ezekiel chapter 21, verses 6 and 7.

As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief groan before their eyes.

And when they say to you, why do you groan?

You shall say, because of the news that it is coming,

every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be

weak as water. Behold, it is coming, and it will be fulfilled, declares the Lord God.

What a picture. What a chapter. Ezekiel chapter 21 is prophesying of God's wrath

that is real and God's wrath that is coming upon rebellious, sinful men and women. No one can stand

before God and his holy wrath. You can't, I can't, no one in the world can. We all need

His grace and His mercy, which He has made possible for us in Jesus. Romans 3, God has

presented Jesus as a sacrifice of atonement through faith in His blood. In other words, Jesus

has made a way for the wrath of God to be

turned aside from us. He has taken the judgment we deserve upon himself on a cross so that we

could be saved from our sin. He has, to use language from Ezekiel chapter 21, suffered the sword

in our place. And so, as recipients of this

grace, what do we do? Well, God tells Ezekiel here, as a recipient of his grace, obviously not

knowing the fullness of the gospel. God tells Ezekiel to groan with a breaking heart and with

bitter grief to groan because he knows what's coming. He knows the wrath

of God is coming for all who've not received the grace of God and repented of sin. And the same is true

today. There are people all around us who have not received the grace of God, who have not repented of sin.

There are people all around the world, people, groups around the world who have not even

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