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Submission is a word we do not like. We are a culture that believes that we should not yield to anyone. Instead, we need to stand up to people. We need to fight for our rights. We need to exercise our power. We need to show people who’s boss and that we cannot be pushed around. We want to put people in their place and have the last word. Our culture tells us that submission is weakness and inferiority. I think this is what is really hard for us. Telling us to submit makes us think in our minds that we are weak and we are inferior in some sense. But submission is not only a negative characteristic in our society, it was looked down upon in the first century Roman culture as well. There is an event that happens in the lives of Jesus and his disciples that is going to lead to Jesus explaining submission and why it is so important…

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Ezekiel 38-39 have been the source of all kinds of interpretations and explanations. These two chapters contain prophecies about Gog and Magog, which we will look at carefully shortly. But the tendency of interpreters has been to explain this prophecy in light of current events. Gog and Magog have been interpreted as the Goths of the fourth century who were enemies of Rome. Some have seen Gog and Magog as pointing to the wars of the crusades, the rise of the Holy Roman Empire and the Pope, the invasion of the Turks. A view that was made popular by the Scofield Reference Bible is that these are referring to Russia. While other views arise, it seems that most explanations like to return to Russia. So we need to consider if Ezekiel’s prophecy is now projecting to a time more than 2500 after he lived or was he pointing to something else. Is Gog and Magog the signs for the end of the world or was there some other event in view that God is revealing through Ezekiel?

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We have been looking at the hard sayings of Jesus that are found in Matthew 16-20. Matthew continues to record challenging words as he looks to develop faith and show what it means to be his disciple. In this paragraph, Matthew 17:14-20, Jesus says hard things that we are going to look at in today’s lesson. Jesus is going to challenge our faith and show us why we unable to accomplish what God has called for us in our lives…

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The Lord has been revealing through the prophet Ezekiel about what he will do for his people when the Spirit comes. These prophecies in Ezekiel 34-48 show the connection to God himself coming to his people and filling them with new life though they are spiritually dead because of their sins. I want to remind us of this very important connection which is found in John 7:37-39.

37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:37–39 ESV)

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Matthew 17 records a stunning picture with a simple, yet important, message. As we come to Matthew 17 I want us to soak in the amazing picture and then consider what the point of the picture is. Notice the first two verses of Matthew 17 as our introduction to our study. We are told that only six days have passed since the events of chapter 16. Six days have passed since he told his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, be killed by the Jewish leaders, and raise from the dead three days later. Peter rebuked Jesus but Jesus explains the following him means denying ourselves and taking up our crosses just as he would. Now Jesus takes only three of his disciples, Peter, James, and John, and brings them up on this mountain…

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We have been looking at the end of Ezekiel’s prophecy in which God is proclaiming what he is going to do for his people when the Spirit is poured out. The message began with the need for God himself to come and shepherd us so that we can have peace and rest (Ezekiel 34). Further, God will bring his people into the promised eternal inheritance (Ezekiel 35-36). Not only this, God is going to perform a heart surgery on his people so that they are radically transformed (Ezekiel 36). God will cleanse his people, remove their stubborn hearts and give them soft hearts so that they will be careful to obey his rules. How was God going to cause people to obey him? How was God going to swap stubborn hearts for repentant hearts in his people? The cross of Jesus would be the glorious event in which we see the loving kindness of God on full display. Paul described this as God pouring his love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5-11). But there is more than God has in store for his people. In Ezekiel 37 God gives Ezekiel a vision to see what God will do next…

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