September 9, 2016 Bible Study — Preaching In the Cemetery

I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading. Later this month it will be my wife’s and my 16th anniversary. To celebrate this event I have decided to wish my wife Happy Anniversary for 16 days.

Happy Anniversary, Alanna–Day 2

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Today, I am reading and commenting on Ezekiel 37-38.

    Today’s passage is perhaps one of the most inspiring passages in the Bible. Are you the pastor of a congregation which seems dead and dried up? Or even “just” a member of such a congregation? If your answer is “Yes”, this passage is aimed at you. Follow Ezekiel’s example and preach in the cemetery. OK, I am being facetious, but only a little bit. Preach God’s word to those who come to listen and ask the Holy Spirit to move among them. God tells us that He can put flesh upon dried out skeletons and breathe life into the bodies He thus creates. If He can do that, He can breathe life back into a congregation that is dead. So, perhaps you should go out to the cemetery and preach God’s Word to those interred there. That may be the message which your congregation needs to hear. If we preach the word of God and pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send workers, He will send workers, even if He needs to raise the dead to find them!