A Voice That Wakes the Dead

When all when all human hope has gone away, evaporated And the situation is declared final, here's the question. What what is the mechanism by which god brings forth new life? What is the what is the catalyst in which god bring how how does god bring forth new life? Here's here's here's one. It's the the initiative of god's gaze. The the gaze of god. Somebody just say it, the gaze of god. Both in both of these texts, in Ezekiel and in John, restoration begins with god looking at a mess. [01:13:11] (74 seconds)  #GazeOfGod

God sometimes god will wait until it's too late. Right. Right. Right. Oftentimes, wait until they put the foreclosure notice on the door. On. Come on. He'll wait until after you see your your two back wheels on the back of the tow truck. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. All your stuff into your grocery still in the back. Oh my god. He'll god will wait until it's too late. And then god needs a final so he can make the fight reverse the final. Come on. Come on. Uh-huh. Didn't rescue Jesus off the cross. He waited till it every drop of blood hit the ground. [01:20:25] (68 seconds)  #WaitForTheFinal

Change doesn't happen until you open up your mouth. That's it. Change doesn't happen until you speak it out of your mouth. Change doesn't happen until air begins to flow from your lungs out of your mouth. Yes. Life didn't come to the valley of dry bones until they laid there. And if you read the text, and I'm not gonna go back and read it, but if you read the text, he starts speaking to the muscles, and he starts speaking to the the ligaments and tendons and causing them to come forth. You start speaking to the bones coming together. You start speaking to the the epidermis, the skin to come back on top of the flesh but then the body lays there and god bodies lay there and god says, speak to the wind. [01:18:15] (50 seconds)  #SpeakItIntoExistence

let some air get to it. Get some air on it. It's not going to change until you start speaking thing. You can just say, I'm broke or I'm in debt or I'm as as hopeless or I give up. You can speak that all you want to but that's what you're going to see but until you start speaking change. That's it. Somebody said put some air on it. Put some air on it. My must be a a reversal of there must be a reversal of the final. A reversal of the final. My god. Somebody say a reversal of the final. A reversal of the final. My god today. [01:19:36] (47 seconds)  #ReverseTheFinal

The system is gonna be like that forever. Yeah. This is how the this this is it's a systematic thing. It's gonna be like this forever. But then here in the text, everything starts to operate or everything starts to turn around after the the the breath of god, after the wind of god, he's with the wind comes out of the prophet's mouth, the wind comes out of Jesus' mouth, and once the wind comes out, everything turns. There you go. There you go. God's word, god's spirit starts speaking out and once it starts speaking out, then everything starts to turn. Somebody say, we serve a sovereign god. [01:09:26] (52 seconds)  #BreathChangesEverything

Restoration begins with god looking at a mess. You understand that Jesus didn't even show up. He knew about the death of Lazarus but he didn't show up until four days later. Right. Because he wanted to make sure he was looking at a mess. Right. He didn't he didn't need any question to what transpired after that. He didn't need you to he didn't need them to think, oh, yeah. Lazarus was just in a coma. Right. He was just feeling ill. Somebody would have probably said, yeah. No. I still saw his chest moving. So Jesus ain't really do anything. He was just in there sleeping. He just had to sleep it off for a little while. Yeah. Uh-huh. He just wanted to it had to be a mess. [01:14:28] (52 seconds)  #GazeBringsRestoration

God takes Ezekiel to a valley, a desolate valley, a hopeless valley, a valley of no life, no form, no rivers, no streams, no lilies in the valley. No trees growing in the valley. He just said it was a valley of dry bones. It was a mess situation, and in that mess situation is where God sees. Yeah. Somebody, it was the gaze of god. Somebody said, god gaze on me. God, I need god to gaze on a mess like me. God, if you just look at a mess like me. God, if you just look at my situation. [01:15:19] (54 seconds)  #GodGazeOnMe

It wasn't it was more than this was more than four days. They had been dead. They had because the flesh had had left the bones. No more flesh on the bones. It was dry bones. If it was, it was still flesh left there, the bones would not have been dry but they were dry and they were lifeless. It was just bones and god leads Ezekiel to the place of dry bones and he tells Ezekiel at this place, speak to it. Yeah. Speak to him. Prophesy to him. And the bones begin to come to life. A collection of bones. [01:03:58] (38 seconds)  #ProphesyToLife