Ezekiel 36:16-37:28

 Homiletics                                                       Study:        Exile & Return                               

Lesson    02                                                     Passage:    Ezekiel 36:16-37:28

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Going Back (Ezekiel 36:16-38) 1.  Israel’ unclean conduct (16-18) 2. Israel dispersed and scattered judged according to conduct (19) 3. Israel profaned God’s holy name; God’s concern (20-21) 4. God will show holiness; in the great name Israel has profaned (22-23) 5. God will bring Israel back to your land a. Cleanse clean from idols (25) b. Give new heart of flesh and spirit to follow decrees and laws (26-27) c. Live in land of ancestors and be your God (28) d. Bring plenty and no longer be disgraced (29-30) e. You’ll remember your evil and wick deeds; be ashamed (31-32) 6. God will cleanse and resettle in your towns and they will be rebuilt; gardens and people plentiful… Know I am the Lord (33-38)

Life to Dead Bones (Ezekiel 37:1-14) 1. Ezekial brought by Lord to valley of dry bones with question… Can these bones live? Responding; Lord you alone know (1-3) 2. Lord tells Ezekial to prophesy to bones (4) a. Make breath enter you and come to life (5) b. Attach tendons and cover with skin cover you; breath and come to life (6a,b) c. You will know that I am Lord (6c) 3. Ezekial prophesied as commanded and bones came together, tendons, skin but no breath (7,8) 4. Lord instructed Prophesy come 4 winds into the slain to live; and they stood up a vast army (9,10) 5. Bones are Israel… tell them that God will put His Spirit in them and they will know that the Lord has spoken, and did it (11-14) “This is what the Sovereign Lord says”

One People; One God (Ezekiel 37:15-28) 1. Sticks of Wood with names Judah and Joseph written joined as one (15-17) 2. Telling the meaning “two as one in God’s hand” (18-20) 3. Hold sicks before there eyes saying “this is what the sovereign Lord says” a. I (God) will bring them back to their own land (21) b. Make one nation with one king over them all; never again 2 nations (22) c. No longer defile with idols and vile images or other offenses; save from backsliding and cleanse them; God’s people and their God (23) 4. David will be king and prince forever (24-25) 5. God will make covenant of peace and everlasting covenant and dwell with them forever (26-28)

Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)

Going Back	Ezekiel 36:16-38
Life to Dead Bones	Ezekiel 37:1-14
One People; One God	Ezekiel 37:15-28

Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words)

Ezekiel instructed in drybone prophesy bringing Israel life and unity

Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)

CTATL God brings life, breath and cleansing to a sinful nation bringing holiness that reflects the Lord; He is our sanctuary for ever.

Application Questions

What thoughts and attitudes aren’t where they should be and need to be taken to God for cleansing?

Where can God bring new life to your relationship with Him?

What unsettling things do you have where unity and peace need to occur? God can bring peace.

Principles to Remember           

God our cleansing Lord

Spirit brings life

Everlasting covenant of peace is unity found with God

Characteristic of God

Sovereign Lord

Theme

Ezekiel directed to prophesy bringing life, unity and an everlasting “clean” relationship with Him

Ezekiel 1-2

Homiletics                                                       Study:        Exile & Return                               

Lesson    01                                                     Passage:    Ezekiel 1 & 2

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Word of God Comes (Ezekiel 1:1-4) 1.  Time & Place – 30th year, 4th month and 5th day by Kebar River – heavens opened and visions of God (1) 2. On 5th month and 5th year of exile of King Jehoiachin in Babylonia – hand of Lord was on him (2-3) 3. Ezekiel sees a windstorm from north a. Cloud with flashing lightning (4a) b. A brilliant light surrounds cloud (4b) c. Center of fire looked like glowing metal (4c)

Living Creature and Wheels (Ezekiel 1:5-21) 1. Living creatures body described (5-9) a. Form of human with four faces and four wings (5-6) b. Legs were straight, feet like calf and gleamed like burnished bronze (7) c. Wings on four sides had human hands and touched each other (8-9a) d. Moved straight ahead and didn’t turn as they moved (9b) 2. Human face, right-side-Lion, left-side -ox, eagle) (10-11) 3. Appearance (burning coals) and movement (straight as spirit moved) lightning-like movement (12-14) 4. Intersecting wheels beside creatures like topaz, high awesome rims with eyes all around them (15-18) 5. Creatures and wheels moved in unison as spirit led (19-21)

Voice of the Lord (Ezekiel 1:22-2:10) 1. Crystal vault above creatures (22) 2. Sound of wings like rushing water like voice of Almighty (23-24) 3. Voice coming from vault from a figure like a man who look like fire with brilliant light surrounding Him like rainbow 25-27) 4. Appearance like glory of Lord; seeing Him Ezekiel falls face down (28) 5. Lord says to Ezekiel standup; Spirit raise him (2:1-2) 6. Ezekiel sent as prophet to stubborn Israelites to say “This is what the sovereign Lords says” (2:3-4) a. Whether the listen or not they will know a prophet has spoken (2:5) b. “Son of Man” do not be afraid of them or their words (2:6) 7. Speak God’s words and don’t rebel… open mouth; eat what God’s given words of lament, mourning and woe (2:7-10)

Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)

Word of God Comes	Ezekiel 1:1-4
Living Creature and Wheels	Ezekiel 1:5-21
Respond to the Words - Come to Jesus	Ezekiel 1:22-2:10

Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words)

Exiled Ezekiel experiences angelic majesty with God’s instructions for Israelites.

Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)

CTATL God cares for even stubborn and obstinate providing a voice to bring them back to Him. His word must be faithfully shared without fear.

Application Questions

In what ways are you being made aware of God’s presence in your circumstance?

How do you recognize our awesome God?

How do you commit to consuming God’s Word and making it part of yourself?

Principles to Remember           

God cares for us in judgment

Spirit leads to action

Voice of Lord is in God’s Word

Characteristic of God

Caring Father

Theme

God comes to Ezekiel with indescribable care with words for His stubborn and obstinate people.