Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000673
00:15 Hello and welcome to "His Words Are Life."
00:17 I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank you 00:19 for joining with me today 00:20 to read the word of God together. 00:22 Before we start, let's pray. 00:25 Dear heavenly Father, thank you for an opportunity 00:28 to sit and to read Your words. 00:30 Please send Your Holy Spirit to open our hearts 00:33 to understand and know You more, 00:35 because of what we read today. 00:36 We love You so much 00:37 and thank you for loving us, amen. 00:41 When we were last together, we were reading in Ezekiel 00:44 and the heading in my Bible calls this chapter 00:48 "A call for repentance" The word of the Lord 00:50 is speaking through Ezekiel. 00:52 We are starting in Chapter 14 and verse 17, 00:56 this is the King James Version. 00:58 "Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, 01:02 Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off man 01:06 and beast from it, Though these three men were in it, 01:09 as I live, saith the Lord God, 01:11 they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, 01:13 but they only shall be delivered themselves. 01:17 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, 01:19 and pour out my fury upon it in blood, 01:22 to cut off from it man and beast, 01:25 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, 01:29 as I live, saith the Lord God, 01:31 they shall deliver neither son nor daughter, 01:34 they shall but deliver their own souls 01:36 by their righteousness. 01:38 For thus saith the Lord God, How much more 01:42 when I send my four sore judgments 01:45 upon Jerusalem, the sword, 01:48 and the famine, and the noisome beast, 01:50 and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? 01:55 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant 01:58 that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters, 02:02 behold, they shall come forth unto you, 02:03 and ye shall see their way and their doings, 02:06 and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil 02:09 that I have brought upon Jerusalem, 02:11 even concerning all that I have brought upon it. 02:15 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways 02:18 and their doings, and ye shall know 02:20 that I have not done without cause 02:23 all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God." 02:27 Continuing with Ezekiel Chapter 15 02:29 and this is the King James Version. 02:33 "And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, 02:36 what is the vine tree more than any tree, 02:40 or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? 02:43 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? 02:47 Or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 02:50 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel, 02:53 the fire devoureth both the ends of it, 02:55 and the midst of it is burned. 02:57 Is it meet for any work? 02:59 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work, 03:03 how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, 03:06 when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? 03:09 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, 03:12 as the vine tree among the trees of the forest, 03:15 which I have given to the fire for fuel, 03:19 so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 03:22 And I will set my face against them, 03:24 they shall go out from one fire, 03:26 and another fire shall devour them, 03:28 and ye shall know that I am the Lord, 03:31 when I set my face against them. 03:34 And I will make the land desolate, 03:36 because they have committed a trespass, 03:38 saith the Lord God." 03:41 Continuing in Ezekiel Chapter 16 03:44 and this is the King James Version. 03:46 "Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 03:48 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 03:53 And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem, 03:57 Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan, 04:01 thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. 04:05 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born 04:09 thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water 04:13 to supple thee, thou wast not salted at all, 04:16 nor swaddled at all. 04:18 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, 04:22 to have compassion upon thee, but thou wast cast out 04:27 in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, 04:30 in the day that thou wast born. 04:34 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted 04:38 in thine own blood, 04:40 I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, live, 04:46 yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. 04:51 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, 04:55 and thou hast increased and waxen great 04:59 and thou art come to excellent ornaments, 05:02 thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, 05:05 whereas thou wast naked and bare. 05:08 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, 05:12 behold, thy time was the time of love, 05:16 and I spread my skirt over thee, 05:18 and covered thy nakedness, yea, 05:19 I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, 05:23 saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine. 05:28 Then washed I thee with water, yea, 05:30 I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, 05:33 and I anointed thee with oil. 05:36 I clothed thee also with broidered work, 05:39 and shod thee with badgers' skin, 05:41 and I girded thee about with fine linen, 05:44 and I covered thee with silk. 05:46 I decked thee also with ornaments, 05:48 and I put bracelets upon thy hands, 05:50 and a chain on thy neck. 05:52 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, 05:54 and earrings in thine ears, 05:56 and a beautiful crown upon thine head. 06:00 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver, 06:03 and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, 06:07 and broidered work, thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, 06:11 and oil, and thou wast exceeding beautiful, 06:14 and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. 06:18 And thy renown went forth among the heathen 06:20 for thy beauty, for it was perfect 06:23 through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, 06:27 saith the Lord God. 06:30 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty 06:35 and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, 06:38 and pouredst out thy fornications 06:40 on every one that passed by, his it was. 06:43 And of thy garments thou didst take, 06:45 and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, 06:48 and playedst the harlot thereupon, 06:51 the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 06:55 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold 06:59 and of my silver, which I had given thee, 07:02 and madest to thyself images of men, 07:05 and didst commit whoredom with them, 07:07 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, 07:12 and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. 07:15 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, 07:18 and honey, wherewith I fed thee, 07:20 thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour, 07:24 and thus it was, saith the Lord God. 07:27 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, 07:32 whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed 07:37 unto them to be devoured. 07:39 Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, 07:42 that thou hast slain my children, 07:44 and delivered them to cause them 07:46 to pass through the fire for them? 07:49 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms 07:52 thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, 07:55 when thou wast naked and bare, 07:57 and wast polluted in thy blood. 07:59 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, 08:03 woe, woe unto thee! 08:05 saith the Lord God, that thou hast also built 08:08 unto thee an eminent place, 08:11 and hast made thee an high place in every street. 08:14 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, 08:17 and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, 08:19 and hast opened thy feet to everyone that passed by, 08:22 and multiplied thy whoredoms. 08:24 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians 08:28 thy neighbors, great of flesh, 08:31 and hast increased thy whoredoms, 08:32 to provoke me to anger. 08:35 Behold, therefore I have stretched out 08:38 my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, 08:42 and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, 08:46 the daughters of the Philistines, 08:48 which are ashamed of thy lewd way. 08:51 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, 08:54 because thou wast unsatiable, 08:56 yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, 08:57 and yet couldest not be satisfied. 09:01 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication 09:04 in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea, 09:06 and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith. 09:09 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, 09:12 seeing thou doest all these things, 09:15 the work of an imperious whorish woman, 09:19 In that thou buildest thine eminent place 09:21 in the head of every way, and makest thine high place 09:25 in every street, and hast not been as an harlot, 09:29 in that thou scornest hire, But as a wife 09:33 that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers 09:37 instead of her husband! 09:39 They give gifts to all whores, but thou givest thy gifts 09:43 to all thy lovers, and hirest them, 09:45 that they may come unto thee 09:47 on every side for thy whoredom. 09:49 And the contrary is in thee from other women 09:51 in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee 09:53 to commit whoredoms, and in that thou givest 09:56 a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, 10:00 therefore thou art contrary. 10:03 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord, 10:05 Thus saith the Lord God, Because thy filthiness 10:10 was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered 10:14 through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, 10:16 and with all the idols of thy abominations, 10:18 and by the blood of thy children, 10:20 which thou didst give unto them, 10:22 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, 10:26 with whom thou hast taken pleasure, 10:28 and all them that thou hast loved, 10:31 with all them that thou hast hated, 10:33 I will even gather them round about against thee, 10:37 and will discover thy nakedness unto them, 10:39 that they may see all thy nakedness. 10:42 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock 10:45 and shed blood are judged, 10:47 and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. 10:51 And I will also give thee into their hand, 10:53 and they shall throw down thine eminent place, 10:57 and shall break down thy high places, 10:59 they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, 11:01 and shall take thy fair jewels, 11:03 and leave thee naked and bare. 11:06 They shall also bring up a company against thee, 11:08 and they shall stone thee with stones, 11:11 and thrust thee through with their swords. 11:15 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, 11:17 and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women, 11:21 and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, 11:24 and thou also shalt give no hire any more. 11:27 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, 11:31 and my jealousy shall depart from thee, 11:34 and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. 11:38 Because thou hast not remembered the days 11:41 of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things, 11:45 behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way 11:49 upon thine head, saith the Lord God, 11:52 and thou shalt not commit this lewdness 11:54 above all thine abominations. 11:56 Behold, every one that useth proverbs 11:59 shall use this proverb against thee, 12:01 saying, as is the mother, so is her daughter. 12:06 Thou art thy mother's daughter, 12:08 that lotheth her husband and her children, 12:11 and thou art the sister of thy sisters, 12:14 which lothed their husbands and their children, 12:17 your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. 12:21 And thine elder sister is Samaria, 12:24 she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand, 12:27 and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, 12:30 is Sodom and her daughters. 12:33 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, 12:35 nor done after their abominations, 12:37 but, as if that were a very little thing, 12:40 thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. 12:44 As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister 12:48 hath not done, she nor her daughters, 12:50 as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. 12:54 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, 12:59 fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness 13:03 was in her and in her daughters, 13:05 neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 13:09 And they were haughty, and committed abomination 13:12 before me, therefore I took them away as I saw good. 13:17 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins, 13:20 but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, 13:24 and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations 13:29 which thou hast done. 13:31 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, 13:34 bear thine own shame for thy sins 13:36 that thou hast committed more abominable than they, 13:39 they are more righteous than thou, 13:42 yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, 13:45 in that thou hast justified thy sisters. 13:49 When I shall bring again their captivity, 13:52 the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, 13:54 and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, 13:56 then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives 13:59 in the midst of them, That thou mayest bear thine own shame, 14:04 and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, 14:07 in that thou art a comfort unto them. 14:11 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, 14:13 shall return to their former estate, 14:16 and Samaria and her daughters shall return 14:18 to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters 14:22 shall return to your former estate. 14:25 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned 14:27 by thy mouth in the day of thy pride." 14:30 Thank you for joining with me today to read the word of God 14:34 and please join me again next time. |
Revised 2014-12-17