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Warning! You are about to see men as God does

Warning! You are about to see men as God does. Men without the influence of God’s word are wicked. (Jer 9:9; 14:14; 17:9). Warning! You are about to see men as God does.

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Warning! You are about to see men as God does

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  1. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • Men without the influence of God’s word are wicked. (Jer 9:9; 14:14; 17:9)

  2. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • Jeremiah 9:9 (NKJV) - Shall I not punish them for these things?” says the Lord. “Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”

  3. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • Jeremiah 14:14 (NKJV) - And the Lord said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.

  4. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • Jeremiah 17:9 (NKJV) - “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

  5. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • When you life is based on the flesh you will take “short cuts.”

  6. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • When you life is based on the flesh you will take “short cuts.” • If “religion” has an earthly advantage then you will do that for a while.

  7. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • When you life is based on the flesh you will take “short cuts.” • If “religion” has an earthly advantage then you will do that for a while. • If a man does not trust God then dishonesty “makes sense.”

  8. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • When you life is based on the flesh you will take “short cuts.” • If “religion” has an earthly advantage then you will do that for a while. • If a man does not trust God then dishonesty “makes sense.” • We need to see the true nature of a living God. (Heb 4:12-13)

  9. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • Hebrews 4:12-13 (NKJV) - For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

  10. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • If someone walks in and everything that you are doing is seen then there is no point denying it. Right?

  11. Warning! You are about to see men as God does • If someone walks in and everything that you are doing is seen then there is no point denying it. Right? • The real issue is do we know God? Men approach their “god” that cannot see.

  12. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • The Elders of Israel represented the spiritual Shepherd of God’s people. (8:1)

  13. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • Ezekiel 8:1 (NKJV) - And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there.

  14. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • They looked and dressed like good men. Ezekiel is about to see as God does.

  15. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • They looked and dressed like good men. Ezekiel is about to see as God does. • Jesus knew men for who they really were. (Jn 2:23-24)

  16. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • John 2:23-24 (NKJV) - Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did. 24 But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men,

  17. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • What is a hypocrite? hupokrites 1) one who answers, an interpreter b) an actor, stage player 3) a dissembler, pretender, hypocrite.

  18. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • Dishonesty is the foundation of the hypocrite’s character.

  19. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • Dishonesty is the foundation of the hypocrite’s character. • Ezekiel comes into the presence of God. (8:2-5)

  20. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • Ezekiel 8:2-6 (NKJV) - Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the appearance of fire—from the appearance of His waist and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber.

  21. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • 3 He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy. 4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain.

  22. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • 5 Then He said to me, “Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.

  23. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • God wants us to know His nature. Our God is fire and light!

  24. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • God wants us to know His nature. Our God is fire and light! • No sin is in Him or can abide in His presence. (1 Jn 1:5-6)

  25. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • 1 John 1:5-6 (NKJV) - This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

  26. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • God now allows Ezekiel to bear a burden, he will now see these men as God does!

  27. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • God now allows Ezekiel to bear a burden, he will now see these men as God does! • Ezekiel sees their works in contrast to the glory of God.

  28. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • He is brought to the temple and sees some incredible scenes.

  29. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • He is brought to the temple and sees some incredible scenes. • An idol, “the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy’ was there.

  30. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • He is brought to the temple and sees some incredible scenes. • An idol, “the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy’ was there. • What if these men had known the living God? (Ezek 16:38; 23:25)

  31. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • Ezekiel 16:38 (NKJV) - And I will judge you as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.

  32. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • Ezekiel 23:25 (NKJV) - I will set My jealousy against you, And they shall deal furiously with you; They shall remove your nose and your ears, And your remnant shall fall by the sword; They shall take your sons and your daughters, And your remnant shall be devoured by fire.

  33. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • Paul wanted Christians to know this well. God will not share us! (1 Cor 10:22; 2 Cor11:2)

  34. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • 1 Corinthians 10:22 (NKJV) - Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

  35. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • 2 Corinthians 11:2 (NKJV) - For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present youas a chaste virgin to Christ.

  36. Ezekiel meets the Elders of God’s people and then meets the living God (8:1-5) • This idol was in the open and the Elders would have denied their sin.

  37. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • Sin causes God to depart from us! (8:6)

  38. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • Ezekiel 8:6 (NKJV) - Furthermore He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations.”

  39. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • The most incredible thing about this is that these Elders thought God was with them! (Isa 59:1-2)

  40. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • Isaiah 59:1-2 (NKJV) - Behold, the Lord’S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

  41. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • The desire to practice sin causes men to justify anything.

  42. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • What are the hidden sins of the hypocrite? (8:7-12)

  43. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • Ezekiel 8:7-12 (NKJV) - So He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, there was a hole in the wall. 8 Then He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall”; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door. 9 And He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they are doing there.”

  44. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • 10 So I went in and saw, and there—every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls. 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.

  45. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • 12 Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

  46. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • This room was off limits except to the priests. The Elders used it because the people could not see them.

  47. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • Can you imagine this scene? A room filled with idols, the walls covered with idols, and secret worship to idols by the leaders of God’s people?

  48. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • Can you imagine this scene? A room filled with idols, the walls covered with idols, and secret worship to idols by the leaders of God’s people? • The most incredible statement is made about their thoughts about the nature of God!

  49. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • Can you imagine this scene? A room filled with idols, the walls covered with idols, and secret worship to idols by the leaders of God’s people? • The most incredible statement is made about their thoughts about the nature of God! • The acceptance of sin and deceit has a terrible fruit.

  50. Ezekiel through the Spirit of God now sees behind closed doors (8:6-12) • Dishonesty has a progressive effect upon the mind. (1 Tim 4:1-2)

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