{"id":10136,"date":"2020-07-05T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=10136"},"modified":"2020-07-05T17:25:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T00:25:40","slug":"ezekiel-7_1-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/ezekiel-7_1-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Judged According to What"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ezekiel 7:1-13\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Ezekiel 7:1-13.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Ezekiel 7:1-13 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The word of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0came to me:
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Son of man, this is what the Sovereign\u00a0LORD\u00a0says to the land of Israel: The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The end is now upon you and I will unleash my anger against you.\u00a0I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices<\/u><\/strong>.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I will not look on you with pity or spare you; I will surely\u00a0repay you for your conduct and the detestable practices among you<\/u><\/strong>. Then you will know that I am the\u00a0LORD.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“This is what the Sovereign\u00a0LORD\u00a0says: Disaster! An unheard-of disaster is coming.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. It has come!
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Doom has come upon you–you who dwell in the land. The time has come, the day is near; there is panic, not joy, upon the mountains.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I am about to pour out my wrath on you and spend my anger against you;\u00a0I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices<\/u><\/strong>.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I will not look on you with pity or spare you;\u00a0I will repay you in accordance with your conduct and the detestable practices among you<\/u><\/strong>. Then you will know that it is I the\u00a0LORD\u00a0who strikes the blow.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“The day is here! It has come! Doom has burst forth, the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed!
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Violence has grown into a rod to punish wickedness; none of the people will be left, none of that crowd–no wealth, nothing of value.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller grieve, for wrath is upon the whole crowd.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The seller will not recover the land he has sold as long as both of them live, for the vision concerning the whole crowd will not be reversed. Because of their sins, not one of them will preserve his life.
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\nOn verses 1-13:\u00a0 One phrase that gets repeated over and over in this passage is: \u201cI will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices\u201d (v3, 4, 8, 9). \u00a0Often times we can have an inflated view of ourselves.\u00a0 The world would make us want to think that we are pretty good people and that God thinks so too.\u00a0 I just heard one Hollywood celebrity post on social media, \u201cAll I\u2019ve ever tried to do was help people\u201d.\u00a0 Yet a more accurate and impartial assessment of our lives would show that while we are capable of some good and have probably done some good in our lifetime, we are also capable of much evil and have acted in sin, selfishness and pride.\u00a0 We must remember that God\u2019s standards are not like ours.\u00a0 His standards absolutely perfect and that is why the Bible\u2019s assessment of our conduct is that \u201call have sinned and fall short of the glory of God\u201d (Romans 3:23).\u00a0 If God were indeed to judge us according to our conduct, none of us would stand a chance.<\/p>\n

God could treat us as our conduct deserves, but praise God that He is much more merciful than that.\u00a0 For those of us who are humble enough to admit that we are sinners in need of a Saviour and who trust that Jesus is the Saviour we need, God does not treat us as our sins deserve.\u00a0 Rather He gives us unmerited favour and undeserved grace.\u00a0 That\u2019s why David would write,<\/p>\n

Psalm 103:8-10 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever;
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
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\nPraise God.\u00a0 The cross of Jesus Christ is proof that God is willing to treat us not according to what our conduct deserves, but according to His undeserved mercy and unconditional love.<\/p>\n

You and I have a choice to make.\u00a0 If you choose to have God treat you according to your conduct, all you would get is judgment and wrath.\u00a0 For none of us can meet God\u2019s standards no matter how good we think we are.\u00a0 But if you choose to humbly receive the forgiveness that Jesus died on the cross to give you, what you get is His mercy, compassion and acceptance.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, while You could always choose to treat us as our conduct deserves, repaying us for all the ways that we have sinned against You, instead You make undeserved mercy and grace available to us through Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Thank You!\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Ezekiel 7:1-13.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

On verses 1-13:\u00a0 One phrase that gets repeated over and over in this passage is: \u201cI will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices\u201d (v3, 4, 8, 9). \u00a0Often times we can have an inflated view of ourselves.\u00a0 The world would make us want to think that we are pretty good people and that God thinks so too.\u00a0 I just heard one Hollywood celebrity post on social media, \u201cAll I\u2019ve ever tried to do was help people\u201d.\u00a0 Yet a more accurate and impartial assessment of our lives would show that while we are capable of some good and have probably done some good in our lifetime, we are also capable of much evil and have acted in sin, selfishness and pride.\u00a0 We must remember that God\u2019s standards are not like ours.\u00a0 His standards absolutely perfect and that is why the Bible\u2019s assessment of our conduct is that \u201call have sinned and fall short of the glory of God\u201d (Romans 3:23).\u00a0 If God were indeed to judge us according to our conduct, none of us would stand a chance.<\/p>\n

God could treat us as our conduct deserves, but praise God that He is much more merciful than that.\u00a0 For those of us who are humble enough to admit that we are sinners in need of a Saviour and who trust that Jesus is the Saviour we need, God does not treat us as our sins deserve.\u00a0 Rather He gives us unmerited favour and undeserved grace.\u00a0 That\u2019s why David would write,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10139,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions\/10139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}