Nov 17 Ezekiel 32, Ezekiel 33:1-32 James 1 Psalm 127:1-5

Ez 33:7

So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.

God made Ezekiel a watchman over the house of Israel. What does that mean? A watchman is responsible. A watchman has a vital role.

They are given the place to sit and watch – where they can see coming danger before anyone else. If they see danger – they cry out and let the city know, so they can be prepared. They blow the trumpet to sound the warning.

If they fail and a city is overrun, because they have not performed their duty – then the fall of a city is on their hands.

If they sound the alarm, warn people of danger and the people do not listen… that’s not the fault of the watchman. The watchman did his duty.

Ezekiel was set as a watchman. He could see the danger coming and it was his job to make a noise about it – it was his job to tell people – repent! Or disaster is coming!

When God spoke – he warned them. That was his responsibility. How they responded to that message was not.

To you reading this, man or woman of God… our generation, our nation needs watchmen. God has set His church, His people, you and me on the walls of the nation and He is asking us to warn them.

As society turns further and further away from God, sealing its own doom – someone has to warn them. That assignment has been given to us.

As sin becomes more and more accepted and righteousness becomes more and more condemned, someone needs to sound the alarm!

When people we know and love live in rebellion to God, we need to sound the alarm! People re heading to a lot eternity and they don’t know the danger is coming.

People are living lives that lead to destruction and pain and they think it’s called freedom.

They don’t know. Someone needs to sound the alarm.

Will they listen? That’s not your responsibility – it’s theirs. Yours is to sound the alarm.

God is looking for people who are willing to make a stand. In the movie “In the Line of Fire” Clint Eastwood places a Secret Service Agent who protects the president. Someone comments, what about JFK – didn’t he get shot? His surly reply was “Not on my watch”.

This is your shift. The people around you are your watch. We need to rise up!

This is the only chance you will get to make a difference. This is the only generation you will be responsible for.

God needs people who will stand up and say – this will not happen on my watch!

James 1:22-24

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 

How can you look in a mirror and forget what you look like? You are clearly not paying any attention, you are not really looking.

If you can hear the word, or read it and then not DO it, not put it into practice – then you are not really hearing it. You’re not really listening to it.

You are letting it go in your ears but not sink into your heart. You may know it very well, you may be able to argue the case for verse after verse after verse.

You might be able to tell us the importance of this element of the faith or that, but if you are not DOING it then you not really listening.

Are you living that life? Hearing what He says and doing it? The evidence of the internal is found in the external.