The Bibles Mysterious Secret Key

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The Bibles Mysterious Secret Key

• Ezekiel 37

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Next Week June 11, 2006

• Jesus Prayer for Unity
• Why has a unity movement like ours become so
  divisive?

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Many of us enjoy a good mystery
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
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MYSTERY IS A MYSTERY UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT
HAPPENS
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BIBLE IS A MYSTERY

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BIBLE GODS WORD

• - 39 Books in the Old Testament
• 27 Books in the New Testament
• Weave one fantastic story
• Impossible to be the work of man
• How do we understand it?

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SECRETS OF THE BIBLE

• -Hidden in a mystery
• -There is a key to understanding it
• -Doesnt make sense until you know
• What happens in the end

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Ephesians 619, 20

• Pray also for me , that whenever I open my mouth,
  words may be given me so that I will fearlessly
  make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I
  am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I my
  declare it fearlessly, as I should.

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Ezekiel 37

• Todays lesson will come from Ezekiel Chapter 37
• Textual setting, Old Testament book

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• Father of Jews (Genesis) __________

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• Father of Jews (Genesis) Abraham
• Abrahams son ________

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• Father of Jews (Genesis) Abraham
• Abrahams son Isaac
• Isaacs son of the promise _______

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• Father of Jews (Genesis) Abraham
• Abrahams son Isaac
• Isaacs son of the promise Jacob
• Jacobs name changed to ______

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• Father of Jews (Genesis) Abraham
• Abrahams son Isaac
• Isaacs son of the promise Jacob
• Jacobs name changed to Israel
• Leads Israelites out of Egypt _____

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• Father of Jews (Genesis) Abraham
• Abrahams son Isaac
• Isaacs son of the promise Jacob
• Jacobs name changed to Israel
• Leads Israelites out of Egypt Moses
• - Leads to promised land _____

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• Father of Jews (Genesis) Abraham
• Abrahams son Isaac
• Isaacs son of the promise Jacob
• Jacobs name changed to Israel
• Leads Israelites out of Egypt Moses
• Leads to promised land Joshua
• After Judges, first king _____

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• Father of Jews (Genesis) Abraham
• Abrahams son Isaac
• Isaacs son of the promise Jacob
• Jacobs name changed to Israel
• Leads Israelites out of Egypt Moses
• Leads to promised land Joshua
• After Judges, first king Saul
• Next king (1000 B.C.) ______

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• Father of Jews (Genesis) Abraham
• Abrahams son Isaac
• Isaacs son of the promise Jacob
• Jacobs name changed to Israel
• Leads Israelites out of Egypt Moses
• Leads to promised land Joshua
• After Judges, first king Saul
• Next king (1000 B.C.) David

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• King after David __________

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• King after David Solomon
• Divided kingdom, in north _______

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• King after David Solomon
• Divided kingdom, in north Israel
• Divided kingdom, in south ______

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• King after David Solomon
• Divided kingdom, in north Israel
• Divided kingdom, in south Judah
• 722 B.C. Israel falls to _______

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• King after David Solomon
• Divided kingdom, in north Israel
• Divided kingdom, in south Judah
• 722 B.C. Israel falls to Assyrians
• 586 B.C. Jerusalem falls to _______

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• King after David Solomon
• Divided kingdom, in north Israel
• Divided kingdom, in south Judah
• 722 B.C. Israel falls to Assyrians
• 586 B.C. Jerusalem falls to Babylon
• King of Babylon __________

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• King after David Solomon
• Divided kingdom, in north Israel
• Divided kingdom, in south Judah
• 722 B.C. Israel falls to Assyrians
• 586 B.C. Jerusalem falls to Babylon
• King of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar

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Ezekiel 37, Textual Background

• Ezekiel
• Jewish Priest and Prophet
• 593 B.C. to 571 B.C.
• During fall of Jerusalem (586 B.C.)

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Fall of Jerusalem2 Kings 25 2-5

• City under siege
• Judahs King Zedekiah
• No food
• City wall broken through
• Army fled toward Arabah
• Overtaken in plains of Jericho

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Fall of JerusalemEzekiel 3327-29

• Those left, fall in the ruins
• Those out, give to wild animals
• Those hidden, die of plague
• Land desolate waste
• Because of their detestable deeds

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Relational Theology

• As if God is saying
• If you dont want a relationship with me
• How is it possible for me to have a relationship
  with you?

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Ezekiel 371-6
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Ezekiel 377-8

• So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was
  prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound,
  and the bones came together, bone to bone. I
  looked and tendons and flesh appeared on them,
  but there was no breath in them.

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Ezekiel 379-10

• Then he said to me, Prophesy to the breath
  prophesy , son of man, and say to it, This is
  what the Sovereign Lord says Come from the four
  winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain,
  that they may live. So I prophesied as he
  commanded me and breath entered them they came
  to life and stood up on their feeta vast army.

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Ezekiel 3711-14

• boneswhole house of Israel
• ..our hope is gone
• Prophesy and say to them
• This is what the Sovereign Lord says O my
  people, I am going to open your graves and bring
  you up from them I will bring you back to the
  land of Israel.

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Ezekiel 3711-14, cont.

• Then you, my people, will know that I am the
  Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up
  from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you
  will live, and I will settle you in your own
  land. Then you will know that I the Lord have
  spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.

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Dead Bones

• Dead Bones whole house of Israel
• A. Could be physical future prophesy
• Physical nation returns
• Raise up a great army
• Ezek. 3724 David will be King
• Ezek. 3725 David prince

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Dead Bones- whole house of Israel

• B. Spiritual house of Israel
• Romans 416-17
• all Abrahams offspring
• who are of the faith of Abraham
• Abraham father of us all
• Romans 424b
• - for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our
  Lord from the dead.

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From Death to Life

• Romans 64
• We were therefore buried with him through baptism
  into death in order that, just as Christ was
  raisied from the dead through the glory of the
  Father, we too may live a new life.

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From Death to Life
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God Gives Us His Spirit

• Ezek 3714
• - I will put my Spirit in you
• Acts 238
• and you will receive the gift of the Holy
  Spirit

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God Gives Us His Kingdom

• Ezekiel 3712, 14
• I will settle you in you own land.
• John 35
• no one can enter the kingdom of God unless
• Luke 1720-21
• the kingdom of God is within you.
• - made us to be a kingdom

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Bibles Secret Mysterious Key

• Mystery Resolved in Christ

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Life in Christ

• God Gives Us His Life
• God Gives Us His Spirit
• God Gives Us His Kingdom

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We Are that Army

• Now what?

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We Are that Army

• Proclaim Gods Word
• -- With our lives
• -- With our words
• - God will do the rest

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