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LESSON FoR MARCH "a. isQe.
GOLDEN TExr.-A new heart also will give
you, ana new spisit will put within you
Esck SOFA
CENTRAL TRurn-A new heart and a new
life are the need and the hope OF the world
EzzKiEL was abe son OF Buzz, of priestiy
family, living In or near Jerusalem. lie was
born about II. g. osS. was carried captive to
Baoylonia with King Jchoiachtn. H. &C 5oS and
dwclt on the river Chcbar. y branch OF the
Euphrates. 800 miles north of Babylon. Ha
began to prophesy In 59S when thirty years
old O:D, and prophosicd for ~ years Ce9:i5l
lilo was married but bis wife died about the
time that Ncbnchadnezzar began his last seigo
OF Jerusalem tss;l i6).
THE BOOK or EZEKIEL covers % years.
os355i IL rs divided into three parts: chapters
TO "a. before the siege OF Jerusalem; chapters
Is to -. during the siege; chapters II TO 4S
after tho siege. full of promise comfort and
hope TO the cxiles
CONTEMPORARY PRoruErS-Jercmiah in
Jerusalem. and Daniel In Babylon.
PLAcE IN BIBLE HIsroRr.-a Kings. chaps
- -; Chron., chap. "a
DATE or TINS LEssoS.-Soon after the de-
struction OF Jerusalem Between u. c. as5
CS;sD and S19 (iO:D.
PLAcE-written on tho banks OF the Cheoar.
the modern nhabour large branch OF tho
Euphraics. entering that river at Carchcnish.
THIS Prophecy has It's FIRST application 10
the cxilcs. But the Same principles apply to
tho church Of God In all ages. Only through
new hearts can the world DO redeemed
HELPS OVER HARD PLAcEs.--sS. Them"
when God would restore Israel TO their own
land. Clean water" rs symbol Of cleansing
from sin. "FilthincsS:" sin Is illthy, vile, un.
clean. "All your idols:" After their return the
Israolitlos never again fell into idolatry. 20.
"A new hearts" tho heart ~ the center and
source OF life, sending the life blood TO every
part OF the body. New heart hero IL a new dis
..lsN
heart" sinful heart is cold. hard, aad dead
like stone. ~. My Spirit;" tho Holy Spirit;
fulfilled at Pcntccost ana ever since Tho
source OF life. Judgments" laws, things God
judges TO be right ~. save you" etc. he
repeats that only by being saved from sin can
they enjoy their land. ~. Remember your
own evil ways" Gods goodness and love will
make them 10 sec the vilencss OF their sins.
'Loatho yourselves" sin Is not merely wicked;
IL IL vile. loathsomc. hateful 81 mot for
your sakes:" not because you deserve IL. Sal
walton ia Gods free gift. 30 las tho holy
fock;" the Inhabitants shall be many. like tho
sacred foclSs driven IN great numbers to the
sacrifice OF tho passover
THE FuLFrtLMENr OF these prophecies was
partly on the return from exile, still more when
Christ came, and the complete fulnllment will
be in the new Jerusalem and tho redeemed
world.
LESSON COMMENT.
In IL we find Ezekiel prophesying that
the time was to come when God would
give Israel a new heart, and would re-
store her to the land of her fathers, and
give her renewed prosperity. This God
proposes To- do, not because of the fact
that Israel deserves such blessings Mt
His hands, but on account of His own
love and favor, Remember that all this
was said after both Israel and Judah
had gone into captivity for their sins
and were in n far-off land. slaves. as
they had once been in Egypt. This
will give much point TO ,the words of
the prophet, who himself was also "a
captive by the great river.
Now To anyone looking Mt Judah in
her restitution and captivity. il might
seem strange that the prophet dwolls
SO much on n great blessing that is some
day to come TO her. and then SAYS that
the blessing is to be one that shall be
purely spiritual. The natural man
would say that what Judah needed more
than anything else was some powerful
nation that would take up its cause and
defeat the Assyrian, and liberatc them
frpm their captivity. But in reality
this would not have helped Judah to
my ptfHiauCht prosperity.
Now supposing that God should raise
mp for them some powerful ally, and de-
liver them from their captivity, and
bring them back To the land from which
they had SO recently marched, but
should leave them in the same evil
heart of uubclief, would it have been
any permanent blessing? Would they
not have gone back to their idols and
all their former iniquities, so that God
would have again been forced TO send
them into u second captivity2 Assured
ly. This shows that the one thing
that they needed, above all others, was
something inward, and not anything
outward
Now the experience of Israel is q
kind of object lesson for individual
Christians all the world over What
they experienced as n nation. that is
true for us rs individuals. There arr
thousands OF poor and destitute people
in this world, made so 10y their own
sins. Drink alone has done this in null
titudcs of eases. Now to raise money
and clothc and house and feed all these,
would not really do them any good
They would simply go ON in their sin
and not be radically helped. Many q
man is poor to-day because he has
squandcrcd his money in foolish uI
riotous living What is It that he needs
most OF all? Not food. or rent paid, OF
garments, but something inward and
spiritual. IL he gets new heart then
all else will come right in course o.!
time. But SO long rs he goes with.
out that, nothing will ever como right;
for the fountain source OF all is corrupt.
Can YOU get sweet water from foul
fountain? No more can you ret n sue.
ccssful life from foul and corrup:
heart This is why all the iuiunctions
Of thcBiblc aim ut the heart of man: for
out If the heart are the issues OF life.
What wc then need, most of all, Is TO sec
Ia 10 chat our hearts are right before
God; for while they are wrong. all ID
wrong. Rev. y. +. SchauGlcr, ID
LESSONS FROM EzEKiEf.
4. Gods promises are sure. with n
near and also q larger iulfllmcut
.. The moral change must prcccdo
the outward Improvement.
9. The crcat need Of the world Is Oh
cleansing from sin; (2l % now heart: l3)
q baptism ~ enc Holy Spirit
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