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

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)  #PowerOfHisWord

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. [01:13:49] (45 seconds)  #BibleTransformsLives

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)  #BreathOfGodResurrection

Did he not about let's just say six hundred years later, open up the grave and bring life back to his people. Jesus rose from the grave because God called him out of the grave. And when Jesus rose from the grave, we got to live free from our sin, free from our free from our condemnation. We got to live in the freedom that we've been longing for. So God kept his word. We consider it done, and we rejoice in it. And so let me just let me just stop here for a moment. I wanna unpack something. [01:11:34] (48 seconds)  #ResurrectionBringsFreedom

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. We might struggle with it, but that that doesn't mean that we we it doesn't mean that we hate it. We believe this word is from God, and it's God's word, and we will not move about from this. [00:43:46] (38 seconds)  #LivingActiveWord

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. [00:41:34] (41 seconds)  #ScriptureIsRelevant

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. We know that because God is perfect, this book is perfect. This book is, yes, historical. Yes, this book is is filled with poetry. Yes. This book is filled with with analysis and numbers. Yes. This book has prophecy to it. It speaks about the things of old and the things that are to come. [00:38:23] (52 seconds)  #GodBreathedBible

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. Okay. Y'all gotta catch up, man. Like, I'm I'm moving slow. Okay? Y'all gotta catch up. 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. [00:37:26] (43 seconds)  #InspiredMeansGodBreathed