The Sermon Do You Have Faith? by David McGee
May 01, 2011
Do You Have Faith? (29:14)
Referenced Scriptures: Ezekiel 37; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 11:1
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Ezekiel 37
1) The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
2) He caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, behold, they were very dry.
3) He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.
4) Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.
5) Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
6) I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
7) So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
8) I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
9) Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
10) So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding great army.
11) Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
12) Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
13) You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
14) I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
15) The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
16) You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his companions:
17) and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.
18) When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?
19) tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
20) The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
21) Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22) and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;
23) neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24) My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25) They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children‘s children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
26) Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
27) My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28) The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
Colossians 1:16
16) For in him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and to him.
Hebrews 11:1
1) Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
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I have a couple of letters before guys are the couple where the people and thereby get one to your bathroom across the breadth of kneeling someone at the end, everybody. You know never know what can be about so getting to hold onto them for a while when I got to play golf and practice our swings today, but then that's that CIBA drama than what happens come back down, so you might have an idea what to do today and then in Toronto ahead and so the radio Bibles to easy kill chapter thirty seven Ezekiel chapter thirty seven and you cannot hang onto those needs to set for first user, or wherever Ezekiel chapter thirty seven and on and think about this always right. José José José has been not coming on Wednesday night and Roseann, I have been reviewing Sunday sermons in the future. In the next weeks are result that is all of this is one I spoke about on Wednesday night. Through Hosea and we were guys, running over my mind, so that anyhow Ezekiel chapter thirty seven, and I'm reading from the message Bible and a region such God grabbed me speaking him a easy kill God 's Spirit took me up and sat me down in the middle of an old playing through all. He led me around and among them, and a lock about there were both all over the playing dry bones bleached by the side and setup man, can these bones live, I said master, God only, you know that only you know that he said to me, prophesy over these bones dry bones listen to the message of God God, the master called the dry bones, watch this. I'm bringing the breath of life to you and you'll come to life all attached seeing you to you but need on your bones, cover you with skin, and breathed life into you, you'll come alive, and you'll realize that I am God Denver, seven and eight. I prophesied, just as I've been commanded as I prophesied, there was a sound and all our rush to a rustling the bones moving came together, bone to bone the land market is saying but I don't connect a knee bone that nothing in a distant minute, signals long. I kept watching. I kept wanting. Ezekiel says scientist, a new form. The muscle on the bone thin skin stretched over them, but they had no breath in them. He said to me, prophesy to the brat, prophesy, son of man, breath of God. The master says come from the four winds, graph, breathe on these slain bones breathe life, so I prophesied just as he commanded me the breath entered them and they came alive. They stood up on their feet, a huge army. Then God said to me, son of man, these balls are the whole house of Israel, listen to what they are saying our bones are dried up our hope is gone, there's nothing left the in therefore prophesy and then gone the master says, I'll dig up your graves, and bring you out alive. Oh my people. Then I'll take you straight to the land of Israel. When I dig graves, and bring you out as my people, you realize that I'm God, I'll brave my life into you when you live, then I'll lead you straight back to your land, and you'll realize that I got. I have said it and I will do it God 's decree of Ezekiel is a prophet that spoke to Israel while they were in the Babylonian captivity again on the battle King Nebuchadnezzar came in and captured Israel look over overran them because of their sins of the other prophets told about this happening. Nebuchadnezzar comes in and he takes his first raid on Israel to on Jerusalem is whenever he took Daniel directly. Second, and then go back to Babylon. So Ezekiel is a contemporary of Daniel. Daniel is in Babylon. Daniel was in the White House, so to speak. These of the government part of Babylon, AZ Phil is on the street corner of Babylon individuals on the. The Hebrew Village sector Greenwich Village. Cut off of it. I know granite villages and in Washington by the knowledge that if that paper section of about one and he is there as a man of God who is obeying the word of God, proclaiming God 's message to the people of Israel and he knew what we would call it is a straight creature. Maybe it is a straight preacher preaching to the people of Israel, and he's telling them of God 's message is this for twenty two years to proclaim God 's judgment on Israel because they had sand and then the reason that they were in Babylon was because of their lack of understanding of God 's word and staying faithful to God. He also proclaimed the salvation that they would be going back to Israel that Pentagon had promised to never be an infinite judgment if they turn their hearts back to God. So, Ezekiel was a kind of the guys you read through this if you would read through the book. As you read through the book of the of Ezekiel, you'll find that he lives out his messages is, lidocaine and illustration. He himself, his life is an illustration of what he preaches and what he is teaching that the people of Israel so Ezekiel is fearless. I mean if he proclaims a message of God, and to the exiles to add to the exiled Jews on the street corners about one and we find these timeless struggles up on Holly God is trying to always bring people to their right relationship with him. The focus that easy. You'll is looking at is that, here are these eight. These individuals in Babylon think they are away from their country. Some of them are there because of their sins and God is pronouncing judgment on them, but yet some of them are there because of what somebody else did. Therefore, father, their grandparents, their parents what they had done, and so they are in battle, and because of the judgment became upon the children of the people of Israel and they were taking fat state Nebuchadnezzar, whenever the Babylonians whenever they conquered, they would go into a land, and they would take people out of their land and bring them back to Babylon to make them simulate into the Babylonian philosophy. There is a prophecy that said that they would be in captivity and they would be in captivity for seventy years and then they would return to Israel while we know from looking back over history, the needs and the Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire and the Medes and the Persians idea was not to transplant people, but put them back in their homelands. Just as the prophecies had said, and were told. But here we are with easy kill in Babylon no hope of going back to Israel. They are conquered by the miss him higher and they are held against their will in Babylon, and so easy, you'll now is prophesying and selling the individuals, the Hebrew people that are in captivity, a selling them have gone astray, not your life, you've got to live for God and get your life back in a right relationship with God because God is going to take you back to Israel and sold. This was his proclamation to the people. This was his message restoring and restoring the people of God, and restoring the worship of God. In chapter thirty seven. There is this vision of the Valley of the bones K we all heard the song, you know the one announcing to the value of that side of my bone connected to the knee bone. Bones coming together senior molecular stuff, but I want to look at verse chapter thirty six. For a moment, just a couple of verses in chapter thirty six, chapter thirty six, and in the first verse. I'll be the first three verses son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel is very interesting. Here is an easy kill in Babylon, and he has a message for the mountains and if the rail. They know they are not there. It has no Wi-Fi. Now this loud in the future. They are taken out of their homeland, and they are in captivity and Mary being held there against their will. But along comes a man of God who says your other your homeland and inverse chapter thirty six, page selling God is telling Ezekiel prophesied for the mountains of Israel, and say all mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord, a declarant in the mountains to listen to what God is saying this is what the sovereign Lord says the enemies of Israel are saying here. God is no different than any other gods, your God, God beaten by our God and we took a lot out of the land of the first thirties in Vietnamese. They are the ancient high have become our possession. We took over the God of Israel. We gave him, and we checked our business is the dignity paraphrase patient and understand that you get your reading and it's not there, prepare for a version baby version of everything that so he only check you out the Israelite God wake up possession of you and me are inhabiting your land. Therefore prophesy and say this is what the sovereign Lord says, because they ravage and how did you from every side, so that you become the possession of the rest of the nations, and the object of people 's mala malicious talk and slander. Therefore all mountains of Israel, hear the word of the sovereign Lord. This is what the sovereign Lord says the mountains and fields and to the ravines into the valleys of the desolate ruins intended that deserted how not having plundered and ridiculed by the rest of the nations around you. This is what the sovereign Lord says in my burning zeal. I have spoken against the rest of the nation. I guess even for me with glee. Annie goes against all and any child that my people are going to come back. Ezekiel is prophesying the people of Israel is going to armor to come back and there are plans in the valleys there going to inhabit those cities that are that are made vacant that Israel's recognized him to take possession of the land. And he comes over and over again in this chapter, since this is what the sovereign Lord says verse thirteen. This is what the sovereign Lord says in verse twenty two therefore say to the house of Israel. This is what the sovereign big talk to the mountains. He's talking to the people he's talking to the homelands. He's talking to the floor nations. Verse thirty three. This is what the sovereign Lord says on the day. I lift you from all your savings. This is what God is saying in this verse thirty seven. This is what the sovereign Lord says what's again, I will yield to the police of the house of Israel. This is what the sovereign Lord is saying God is telling Israel Railways, Inc. Hill prophesying to the mountains. These prophesies of the people are saying hi. God can do it, even to the currently Bob the nation of Israel. There may be him up. We took him captive in all this in Ezekiel essay people, nations, you may be making fun of God, but he hasn't lost control. The sovereign Lord says the sovereign Lord says sovereign means God has no limits. God is above all things is before all things sovereign Lord says that he is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end is immortal. He is everywhere present, so that everyone can know him. God created all things and businesses. Colossians one sixteen God created all things, and he holds all things together, both in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible. He holds them together. What did he go see he saw a valley of dry bones coming together. This is what the sovereign Lord says in verse and then gotten us as Romans eleven. God knows all things, past, present and future. There is no limit to his knowledge for God knows everything completely, Ezekiel prophesied to these bones day are going to come together and this nation of Israel. Going to go back and habitable land that I gave verse thirty seven, chapter thirty seven verse one to three. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord, and sent me in the middle of the valley. It was full involved in. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley balls that were very dry. Yes me God as easy you Son of Man can these bones live in Greenville. However, smart guy has was a say in the next verse. I said God God, I will. I don't know and I will say I don't think so. I want to say all you had to go back eight oh gone. Only you know whether they can live is a you believe that God can answer your prayers. Well, I want to say yes but I don't want to say no. Only you know Lloyd and that's the question that gone answer your prayers and God intervene in your life in my life and make a difference can we stand here, said here today and say yes. Are we going to say well, everybody looking. And if I say yes, that means it has that the device. They know that means I don't have faith, God only, you know it's kind of the polite way of knocking out and AJ Gill after everything has experienced after everything that he has heard after everything that God has called them. He says while Donnelly, you know, did you ever think that these guys are much different than you and I remember you'll sometimes we look at the Scriptures we look at what's going on and we save ourselves on you guys are really up on lots of weird. They're not like ethanol and that's not the point. They're a lot like house to the dry bones here Ezekiel sees in this Valley may represent Israel, they represent the spiritual spiritually dead condition that Israel is in. They had given up on their God, because God didn't do what they thought he should do. God should have kept them from going into captivity in their minds. But God said you're going into captivity because he won't listen to my word anymore. It was eleven, one now faith is the substance of things hoped for, once rested the evidence of things not yet see or being certain of what we do not see faith as the substance of things hoped for, now you have faith, here on him were going somewhere were going somewhere with this. And I'm saying you have faith, here's a wall. Only God knows that what you say there's no such thing as an accident of fate. We believe optimistically, or we believe despairingly, but we believe you believe you were fixator, you believe that you will fail, but you believe you believe that God is at work in your life or you believe that God is a lot of work in your life. We believe. We believe that we can accomplish things that we believe that we can't accomplish things. And guess what we are right normally says I will pay you where you wanted to go your belief system will take until the valley of despair on your belief system will take your throat of a high on accomplishment, it will be your belief system that takes you and say is your believe faith is mindfully and bringing together what we see in our minds and our spirits up. You can't believe for failure. You can only value you know, people who believe her failure. We all know people who know that is not unaware we all know people who are standing with one foot on a banana peel of one of the great, just waiting to fall in. We all know people who believe for falling apart inform relevant and for failure and in for frustration. They are believing the things I've been aware how you know you see get a lot of pessimistic optimist with experience that comes from the pessimistic person who believes it will not work. There was an article. The resisting in the paper that the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I got this off of Billy Graham is a book. There is it since it isn't his job. This is a article that said the encyclopedia for sale never used, and that in the really good reason for selling, selling my wife knows all those milligrams, allowing AV node anatomy, but you see you can leave for six Himalayan forests aren't you can believe from home this to believe for stepping up and taking Hall of Fame. My goodness you believe the printer would be done by now, but God 's word and last I sure God 's Word gives us assurance and you have faith, and it is your response to God 's word that can view that assurance. Now Ezekiel says in chapter thirty seven, verse four, prophesied to these bones and say today. Twelve. Here the word of the Lord, you know what the Hebrew word for bones is translated to English. I don't know what the Hebrew word for bones. If I can't impress you with my knowledge of Hebrew. The only Hebrew. I know it's death is that she's Jewish that there is, you know that so the only Hebrew, I noticed that okay I now, but you know what the Hebrew word for both is translated to English substance. Hebrews eleven one faith is the bones. Faith is the substance of four. The bulk that are already there, from which God is going to put them all together. They use the bones that God is going to pull together to make an army of people. Faith is the substance of what God is going to use to bring your wife together. Do you believe that these bulbs will live do you believe that baseball will read Ezekiel Walmart. Only you know. Do you believe that your prayers can be answered faith is your substance that will take your prayers and send them to have lots. It is your faith that will send them, and it is God 's faithfulness that will bring the answer prophesy is a statement of fulfillment prophecy is a statement of affirmation affirming God 's promises to our life, and when we pray the word of God were alive gods sovereign Lord. Your word says all things work together for good to those who love you and are called according to your purpose. So, here, take your little golf ball regimen, which is the net so when we start out with the day that your prayer. This is your prayers, your golf ball with your golf ball sized prayer. Now some of us have tennis ball sized prints okay, someone is a tennis ball sized friends and going to read the sign that says genocide of all records so that I enjoy preaching in a and find my toys my guide. There is gone once sought no matter how big your prayer is what you you will believe it for something you won't believe that it will bring failure. This is your problem leaving her substance into your dry bones. Do you believe you finally what God is going to answer my prayer was in the lead failure and nothing will ever good lover, we believe something, what will our belief do more of our beliefs take our needs. Why are your needs. What are your needs. Tracy building burned this week and am hopping good come out of that. I believe that God can take everything for the good L Jenny had cancer. What we believe God has make good the Hebrew we now has a bad knee and got bounced back together again with a long time. Lord where we keep sending our prayers. We keep sending them to the tipping point, where is the tipping point when it comes back down. Do you believe you believe in the sovereign Lord who is has all along has everything under control. The sovereign Lord. It isn't that the driver are there that they were going to live again. Every one of us have needs every one of us are things we been struggling with everyone. I must have difficulty warming at an elephant. I keep standing up, but nothing ever comes home, but you know what keeps sending them up will come down, God will answer our prayers. This is what the sovereign Lord says to me, he says this is what the sovereign Lord says, I will hear your prayers, I will answer your prayers. I will make a way where there is no way I will I will provide what you think there are no provisions, whether financially. Whether it's basically whether it's emotionally no matter what it is, God will make away why, because the sovereign Lord says as we believe enough is. Vincent up to heaven, T-Mobile, he will respond and touch our lives. He promises the sovereign Lord saysI have a couple of letters before guys are the couple where the people and thereby get one to your bathroom across the breadth of kneeling someone at the end, everybody. You know never know what can be about so getting to hold onto them for a while when I got to play golf and practice our swings today, but then that's that CIBA drama than what happens come back down, so you might have an idea what to do today and then in Toronto ahead and so the radio Bibles to easy kill chapter thirty seven Ezekiel chapter thirty seven and you cannot hang onto those needs to set for first user, or wherever Ezekiel chapter thirty seven and on and think about this always right. José José José has been not coming on Wednesday night and Roseann, I have been reviewing Sunday sermons in the future. In the next weeks are result that is all of this is one I spoke about on Wednesday night. Through Hosea and we were guys, running over my mind, so that anyhow Ezekiel chapter thirty seven, and I'm reading from the message Bible and a region such God grabbed me speaking him a easy kill God 's Spirit took me up and sat me down in the middle of an old playing through all. He led me around and among them, and a lock about there were both all over the playing dry bones bleached by the side and setup man, can these bones live, I said master, God only, you know that only you know that he said to me, prophesy over these bones dry bones listen to the message of God God, the master called the dry bones, watch this. I'm bringing the breath of life to you and you'll come to life all attached seeing you to you but need on your bones, cover you with skin, and breathed life into you, you'll come alive, and you'll realize that I am God Denver, seven and eight. I prophesied, just as I've been commanded as I prophesied, there was a sound and all our rush to a rustling the bones moving came together, bone to bone the land market is saying but I don't connect a knee bone that nothing in a distant minute, signals long. I kept watching. I kept wanting. Ezekiel says scientist, a new form. The muscle on the bone thin skin stretched over them, but they had no breath in them. He said to me, prophesy to the brat, prophesy, son of man, breath of God. The master says come from the four winds, graph, breathe on these slain bones breathe life, so I prophesied just as he commanded me the breath entered them and they came alive. They stood up on their feet, a huge army. Then God said to me, son of man, these balls are the whole house of Israel, listen to what they are saying our bones are dried up our hope is gone, there's nothing left the in therefore prophesy and then gone the master says, I'll dig up your graves, and bring you out alive. Oh my people. Then I'll take you straight to the land of Israel. When I dig graves, and bring you out as my people, you realize that I'm God, I'll brave my life into you when you live, then I'll lead you straight back to your land, and you'll realize that I got. I have said it and I will do it God 's decree of Ezekiel is a prophet that spoke to Israel while they were in the Babylonian captivity again on the battle King Nebuchadnezzar came in and captured Israel look over overran them because of their sins of the other prophets told about this happening. Nebuchadnezzar comes in and he takes his first raid on Israel to on Jerusalem is whenever he took Daniel directly. Second, and then go back to Babylon. So Ezekiel is a contemporary of Daniel. Daniel is in Babylon. Daniel was in the White House, so to speak. These of the government part of Babylon, AZ Phil is on the street corner of Babylon individuals on the. The Hebrew Village sector Greenwich Village. Cut off of it. I know granite villages and in Washington by the knowledge that if that paper section of about one and he is there as a man of God who is obeying the word of God, proclaiming God 's message to the people of Israel and he knew what we would call it is a straight creature. Maybe it is a straight preacher preaching to the people of Israel, and he's telling them of God 's message is this for twenty two years to proclaim God 's judgment on Israel because they had sand and then the reason that they were in Babylon was because of their lack of understanding of God 's word and staying faithful to God. He also proclaimed the salvation that they would be going back to Israel that Pentagon had promised to never be an infinite judgment if they turn their hearts back to God. So, Ezekiel was a kind of the guys you read through this if you would read through the book. As you read through the book of the of Ezekiel, you'll find that he lives out his messages is, lidocaine and illustration. He himself, his life is an illustration of what he preaches and what he is teaching that the people of Israel so Ezekiel is fearless. I mean if he proclaims a message of God, and to the exiles to add to the exiled Jews on the street corners about one and we find these timeless struggles up on Holly God is trying to always bring people to their right relationship with him. The focus that easy. You'll is looking at is that, here are these eight. These individuals in Babylon think they are away from their country. Some of them are there because of their sins and God is pronouncing judgment on them, but yet some of them are there because of what somebody else did. Therefore, father, their grandparents, their parents what they had done, and so they are in battle, and because of the judgment became upon the children of the people of Israel and they were taking fat state Nebuchadnezzar, whenever the Babylonians whenever they conquered, they would go into a land, and they would take people out of their land and bring them back to Babylon to make them simulate into the Babylonian philosophy. There is a prophecy that said that they would be in captivity and they would be in captivity for seventy years and then they would return to Israel while we know from looking back over history, the needs and the Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire and the Medes and the Persians idea was not to transplant people, but put them back in their homelands. Just as the prophecies had said, and were told. But here we are with easy kill in Babylon no hope of going back to Israel. They are conquered by the miss him higher and they are held against their will in Babylon, and so easy, you'll now is prophesying and selling the individuals, the Hebrew people that are in captivity, a selling them have gone astray, not your life, you've got to live for God and get your life back in a right relationship with God because God is going to take you back to Israel and sold. This was his proclamation to the people. This was his message restoring and restoring the people of God, and restoring the worship of God. In chapter thirty seven. There is this vision of the Valley of the bones K we all heard the song, you know the one announcing to the value of that side of my bone connected to the knee bone. Bones coming together senior molecular stuff, but I want to look at verse chapter thirty six. For a moment, just a couple of verses in chapter thirty six, chapter thirty six, and in the first verse. I'll be the first three verses son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel is very interesting. Here is an easy kill in Babylon, and he has a message for the mountains and if the rail. They know they are not there. It has no Wi-Fi. Now this loud in the future. They are taken out of their homeland, and they are in captivity and Mary being held there against their will. But along comes a man of God who says your other your homeland and inverse chapter thirty six, page selling God is telling Ezekiel prophesied for the mountains of Israel, and say all mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord, a declarant in the mountains to listen to what God is saying this is what the sovereign Lord says the enemies of Israel are saying here. God is no different than any other gods, your God, God beaten by our God and we took a lot out of the land of the first thirties in Vietnamese. They are the ancient high have become our possession. We took over the God of Israel. We gave him, and we checked our business is the dignity paraphrase patient and understand that you get your reading and it's not there, prepare for a version baby version of everything that so he only check you out the Israelite God wake up possession of you and me are inhabiting your land. Therefore prophesy and say this is what the sovereign Lord says, because they ravage and how did you from every side, so that you become the possession of the rest of the nations, and the object of people 's mala malicious talk and slander. Therefore all mountains of Israel, hear the word of the sovereign Lord. This is what the sovereign Lord says the mountains and fields and to the ravines into the valleys of the desolate ruins intended that deserted how not having plundered and ridiculed by the rest of the nations around you. This is what the sovereign Lord says in my burning zeal. I have spoken against the rest of the nation. I guess even for me with glee. Annie goes against all and any child that my people are going to come back. Ezekiel is prophesying the people of Israel is going to armor to come back and there are plans in the valleys there going to inhabit those cities that are that are made vacant that Israel's recognized him to take possession of the land. And he comes over and over again in this chapter, since this is what the sovereign Lord says verse thirteen. This is what the sovereign Lord says in verse twenty two therefore say to the house of Israel. This is what the sovereign big talk to the mountains. He's talking to the people he's talking to the homelands. He's talking to the floor nations. Verse thirty three. This is what the sovereign Lord says on the day. I lift you from all your savings. This is what God is saying in this verse thirty seven. This is what the sovereign Lord says what's again, I will yield to the police of the house of Israel. This is what the sovereign Lord is saying God is telling Israel Railways, Inc. Hill prophesying to the mountains. These prophesies of the people are saying hi. God can do it, even to the currently Bob the nation of Israel. There may be him up. We took him captive in all this in Ezekiel essay people, nations, you may be making fun of God, but he hasn't lost control. The sovereign Lord says the sovereign Lord says sovereign means God has no limits. God is above all things is before all things sovereign Lord says that he is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end is immortal. He is everywhere present, so that everyone can know him. God created all things and businesses. Colossians one sixteen God created all things, and he holds all things together, both in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible. He holds them together. What did he go see he saw a valley of dry bones coming together. This is what the sovereign Lord says in verse and then gotten us as Romans eleven. God knows all things, past, present and future. There is no limit to his knowledge for God knows everything completely, Ezekiel prophesied to these bones day are going to come together and this nation of Israel. Going to go back and habitable land that I gave verse thirty seven, chapter thirty seven verse one to three. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord, and sent me in the middle of the valley. It was full involved in. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley balls that were very dry. Yes me God as easy you Son of Man can these bones live in Greenville. However, smart guy has was a say in the next verse. I said God God, I will. I don't know and I will say I don't think so. I want to say all you had to go back eight oh gone. Only you know whether they can live is a you believe that God can answer your prayers. Well, I want to say yes but I don't want to say no. Only you know Lloyd and that's the question that gone answer your prayers and God intervene in your life in my life and make a difference can we stand here, said here today and say yes. Are we going to say well, everybody looking. And if I say yes, that means it has that the device. They know that means I don't have faith, God only, you know it's kind of the polite way of knocking out and AJ Gill after everything has experienced after everything that he has heard after everything that God has called them. He says while Donnelly, you know, did you ever think that these guys are much different than you and I remember you'll sometimes we look at the Scriptures we look at what's going on and we save ourselves on you guys are really up on lots of weird. They're not like ethanol and that's not the point. They're a lot like house to the dry bones here Ezekiel sees in this Valley may represent Israel, they represent the spiritual spiritually dead condition that Israel is in. They had given up on their God, because God didn't do what they thought he should do. God should have kept them from going into captivity in their minds. But God said you're going into captivity because he won't listen to my word anymore. It was eleven, one now faith is the substance of things hoped for, once rested the evidence of things not yet see or being certain of what we do not see faith as the substance of things hoped for, now you have faith, here on him were going somewhere were going somewhere with this. And I'm saying you have faith, here's a wall. Only God knows that what you say there's no such thing as an accident of fate. We believe optimistically, or we believe despairingly, but we believe you believe you were fixator, you believe that you will fail, but you believe you believe that God is at work in your life or you believe that God is a lot of work in your life. We believe. We believe that we can accomplish things that we believe that we can't accomplish things. And guess what we are right normally says I will pay you where you wanted to go your belief system will take until the valley of despair on your belief system will take your throat of a high on accomplishment, it will be your belief system that takes you and say is your believe faith is mindfully and bringing together what we see in our minds and our spirits up. You can't believe for failure. You can only value you know, people who believe her failure. We all know people who know that is not unaware we all know people who are standing with one foot on a banana peel of one of the great, just waiting to fall in. We all know people who believe for falling apart inform relevant and for failure and in for frustration. They are believing the things I've been aware how you know you see get a lot of pessimistic optimist with experience that comes from the pessimistic person who believes it will not work. There was an article. The resisting in the paper that the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I got this off of Billy Graham is a book. There is it since it isn't his job. This is a article that said the encyclopedia for sale never used, and that in the really good reason for selling, selling my wife knows all those milligrams, allowing AV node anatomy, but you see you can leave for six Himalayan forests aren't you can believe from home this to believe for stepping up and taking Hall of Fame. My goodness you believe the printer would be done by now, but God 's word and last I sure God 's Word gives us assurance and you have faith, and it is your response to God 's word that can view that assurance. Now Ezekiel says in chapter thirty seven, verse four, prophesied to these bones and say today. Twelve. Here the word of the Lord, you know what the Hebrew word for bones is translated to English. I don't know what the Hebrew word for bones. If I can't impress you with my knowledge of Hebrew. The only Hebrew. I know it's death is that she's Jewish that there is, you know that so the only Hebrew, I noticed that okay I now, but you know what the Hebrew word for both is translated to English substance. Hebrews eleven one faith is the bones. Faith is the substance of four. The bulk that are already there, from which God is going to put them all together. They use the bones that God is going to pull together to make an army of people. Faith is the substance of what God is going to use to bring your wife together. Do you believe that these bulbs will live do you believe that baseball will read Ezekiel Walmart. Only you know. Do you believe that your prayers can be answered faith is your substance that will take your prayers and send them to have lots. It is your faith that will send them, and it is God 's faithfulness that will bring the answer prophesy is a statement of fulfillment prophecy is a statement of affirmation affirming God 's promises to our life, and when we pray the word of God were alive gods sovereign Lord. Your word says all things work together for good to those who love you and are called according to your purpose. So, here, take your little golf ball regimen, which is the net so when we start out with the day that your prayer. This is your prayers, your golf ball with your golf ball sized prayer. Now some of us have tennis ball sized prints okay, someone is a tennis ball sized friends and going to read the sign that says genocide of all records so that I enjoy preaching in a and find my toys my guide. There is gone once sought no matter how big your prayer is what you you will believe it for something you won't believe that it will bring failure. This is your problem leaving her substance into your dry bones. Do you believe you finally what God is going to answer my prayer was in the lead failure and nothing will ever good lover, we believe something, what will our belief do more of our beliefs take our needs. Why are your needs. What are your needs. Tracy building burned this week and am hopping good come out of that. I believe that God can take everything for the good L Jenny had cancer. What we believe God has make good the Hebrew we now has a bad knee and got bounced back together again with a long time. Lord where we keep sending our prayers. We keep sending them to the tipping point, where is the tipping point when it comes back down. Do you believe you believe in the sovereign Lord who is has all along has everything under control. The sovereign Lord. It isn't that the driver are there that they were going to live again. Every one of us have needs every one of us are things we been struggling with everyone. I must have difficulty warming at an elephant. I keep standing up, but nothing ever comes home, but you know what keeps sending them up will come down, God will answer our prayers. This is what the sovereign Lord says to me, he says this is what the sovereign Lord says, I will hear your prayers, I will answer your prayers. I will make a way where there is no way I will I will provide what you think there are no provisions, whether financially. Whether it's basically whether it's emotionally no matter what it is, God will make away why, because the sovereign Lord says as we believe enough is. Vincent up to heaven, T-Mobile, he will respond and touch our lives. He promises the sovereign Lord says