Power of God's Breath Ezekiel 36:37-37:14

But at Temple Baptist Church, that's not us. We believe this word. We will die for this word. We'll go bankrupt for this word. We we will we will preach it, teach it, structure our lives around this word because we know how good it is. We know that it's living. It's effective. It's sharper than any two edged sword. We know that, man, this word is breathed out from God to us. We know it's God's word, and we might wrestle with it, but that doesn't mean we don't believe it. [00:43:25] (39 seconds)  #CenterOnTheWord

And then you if you fast forward a bit, you'll see this at play again when you go to second Timothy chapter three. And you get somewhere around verse 14, and you'll find out that the word of God is inspired by God. What does the word inspired mean? It doesn't mean that we got some lofty idea. It doesn't mean that we've got a grand vision or grand dream of something beautiful, and we're touched emotionally by no. No. No. No. The word inspired in the Greek, they understood that word to literally mean God breathed. [00:37:12] (36 seconds)  #GodBreathedScripture

If we were to rewind this for a minute, you need to understand that starting from the beginning through the end, God has breathed his life into you. And when we look at the text over and over again, God is speaking to us, and when God is speaking to us, God is breathing on us. And therefore, because of all of that, we as a church place a high value upon this book. This is not just an ordinary book. This is God breathed. It's his word. And because it's his word, because he breathed it out just like I'm right now breathing out speech to you, we know because God's not a liar that this book doesn't lie. [00:37:54] (59 seconds)  #GodsWordIsLife

And he continued to look around the valley, and some of them began to take on muscle. And skin began to come over the muscle, and he began to see out of the power of the Holy Spirit in this vision, he began to see these bones became people. But hold up. It doesn't just become people. Because if you look at the text, he didn't just bring back people. But notice in the text, the text says that they came back to life in verse 10, stood on their feet, a vast army. In other words, God didn't just bring back people. God didn't just give them a physical structure. God brought back an army, a vast army. [01:03:01] (49 seconds)  #ResurrectedArmy

There are certain things only God can do. Now you need to know there's two major thing that are in this text. Number one, there is God breathing his word, and there's the resurrection of this nation. You can't miss that. Those are the two major events, two major things that are coming out of this book. God is breathing life, his word, his spirit back onto the nation of Israel, and God is resurrecting them from it. Now you need to understand that before we get to chapter 37, God made a promise. [00:49:33] (39 seconds)  #BreathAndResurrection

Notice the power of his word. He commanded the bones, and they came back to life. He commanded the bones, and they came back to life, but they didn't just come back to life. They came back ready for a fight. And I need you to understand that when God commands his word, death erodes, life appears. When God commands his word, what is nothing doesn't just become something, but it becomes powerful. God is speaking to you today. God has been speaking to you for a long time. And he's not just willy nillying and meeting an obligation or just meeting you at a certain point in time, and God's not just maintaining tradition. What God is doing is He is speaking to you, and He is reshaping you through His word to become something that's full of His power, that is useful, second Timothy says, that's mature, that's strong in his name. [01:05:41] (74 seconds)  #WordTransformsUs

And church, the day we jettison off the belief and the study of this word is the day the doors will close at temple. Mark my word. And so we're not gonna let that happen. We're not gonna let that happen because we know the power of this word. We know it raises dead people back to life. We know that it can break the addiction, the chain of addiction in somebody's life, and man, we know that it can satisfy every addiction of the soul. And so you need to know why we believe this word, because we believe it's that powerful. And why we're committed to it is because it rebuilt the Hebrew nation and made them as one, and we know that it can empower us by God's spirit to make sure that our dark world gets lit up for Christ. [01:13:49] (61 seconds)  #WordIsOurPower

Culture has lied to you. Culture has lied to you. There are some parts of Christian culture that's lied to you. There are parts of secular culture that's lied to you, and it's told you that you can't understand God's word. It's told you that this word's too complicated. It's it's told you that this this word is ancient and irrelevant for our today and our time. And yet as it's doing so, man, we're watching families fall apart. We're watching churches closed. We're watching governments fail and deceive. We're we're watching communities go into poverty. We're watching crime on arise and getting worse. [00:41:34] (50 seconds)  #CultureVersusScripture