Blood on Our hands by Walter Jr Brubacker

good morning it's always a blessing to be able to gather with y'all um any prayer requests well that's all um can we stand up for father in heaven thank you for this day that you've given us and thank you for this place to meet in and the ability to gather together and for the freedom to gather together in public and not having to hide and fear of authorities and thank you for blessing us with uh all the brothers and sisters that we have here and just pray for those that are alone that you would strengthen them and be with them help us all to be united and to work together and be a light for you and just pray that this day can be a day to glorify you and also that we would glorify you throughout every day of our life that we would all be faithful to the end pray also for all the other brethren that we know of and those that we don't that are scattered around this world be with them today and bless them pray that you would be in our midst today and give me wisdom and help me to be a representation of you and not my own wisdom ask these things in the name of jesus [Music] amen it's kind of interesting what song that dwayne picked since that's kind of what i was thinking uh most of the week and i was actually um i didn't um see i just uh found some scriptures over there in ezekiel's while i was planning to read about some about watchmen i listened to some songs this week and some other things that just had me thinking about um like the people around us you know that we get in contact with like and you know if we don't if we don't share the gospel with them and you know warn them of of destruction that's coming you know their bloods on our hands you know according to the the scripture um and um so that's just kind of what i was thinking i didn't get a whole lot together uh other than i i guess in ezekiel 33 and also in ezekiel chapter three um i guess i'll start with ezekiel 33 starting verse 1 the lord's message came to me son of man speak to your people and say to them suppose i bring a sword against the land and the people of the land take one from their borders and make him their watchman he sees a sword coming against the land blows the trumpet and warns the people but there is one who hears the sound of the trumpet yet does not heed the warning then the sword comes and sweeps him away he will be responsible for his own death he heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning so he is responsible for himself if he had heeded the warning he would have saved his life but suppose the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people then the sword comes and takes one of their lives he is swept away for his iniquity but i will hold the watchman accountable for that person's death as for you son of man i have made you a watchman for the house of israel whenever you hear a word from my mouth you must warn them on my behalf when i say to the wicked o wicked man you must certainly die and you do not warn the wicked about his behavior the wicked man will die for his iniquity but i will hold you accountable for his death but if you warn the wicked man to change his behavior and he refuses to change he will die for his iniquity but you have saved your own life and you son of man say to the house of israel this is what you have this is what you have said our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us and we are wasting away because of them how then can we live say to them surely as i live declares the sovereign lord i take no pleasure in the death of the wicked but prefer that the wicked change his behavior and live turn back turn back from your evil deeds why should you die o house of israel and you son of man say to your people the righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels as for the wicked his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it the righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness if he sins suppose i tell the righteous that he will certainly live but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity none of his righteous deeds will be remembered because of the iniquity he has committed he will die i just found that verse i guess it kind of stuck out to me like but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity um you know that we can't be thinking that our righteousness outweighs our iniquity or whatever but we still have to continue being righteous suppose i say to the wicked you must certainly die but he turns from his sins and does what is just and right he returns what was taken in pledge pays back what he has stolen and follows the statues that give life committing no iniquity he will certainly live he will not die none of the sins he has committed will be counted against him he has done what is just and right he will certainly live [Music] yet your people say the behavior of the lord is not right when it is their behavior that is not right when a righteous man turns from his godlessness godliness and commits iniquity he will die for it when the wicked turns from his sin and does what is just and right he will live because of it yet you say the behavior of the lord is not right house of israel i would judge each of you according to his behavior and i guess that's all that um i'll be reading in that passage [Music] and then also in ezekiel 3 [Music] um [Music] ezekiel 3 verse starting in verse 4. he said to me son of man go to the house of israel and speak my words to them for you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech and difficult language but to the house of israel not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand surely if i had sent you to them they would listen to you but the house of israel is unwilling to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me for the whole house of israel is hard headed and hard hearted i guess uh it just like thinking about that i was like you know like we're are we sent like to the people that we're like the english-speaking people or i mean not that we can't go to other languages and stuff as well but i just kind of thought about that a little bit like you know you go to another country you can't can't understand them it's just pretty difficult but uh here in this nation or i guess you can also learn another language but in this nation you know people can understand you but like like israel most of them do not do not appreciate it and do not listen to it i have made you face i have made your face adamant to match their faces and your forehead hard to match their foreheads i have made your forehead harder than flint like diamond do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you for they are a rebellious house he said to me son of man take my words that i speak to you to heart and listen carefully go to the exiles to your fellow countrymen and speak to them say to them this is what the sovereign lord says whether they pay attention or not then see well i guess that's kind of where i was thinking of stopping but i guess i just that just kind of reminded me like you know we got to go out and preach anyways like even if people even if people don't listen you know they talk bad things to you or um you know look at you with disgust or whatever that it doesn't matter we still have to be a watchman and warn people or or then i guess you know like in ezekiel 33 we didn't do our part that's about all i have and i thought i guess i was one thing i was thinking like throughout this week or maybe the earlier part more was just like different ways you know how can we how can we have a message about us that is like especially for me personally i guess like should i have like some kind of you know message like on my shirt or or or i guess i sometimes feel i should have more boldness to i guess that'd be something um pray for me or whatever that have more boldness to bring things up you know like to different people i meet or you know say you go to a store or something and talk to the cashier or um maybe at the farmer's market which i guess being worse there's so many people there i guess i thought maybe like in that situation we better have just a short readable message rather than because there's really no time to interact with a lot of the people there's some people that you can but when when it's a little slower but so i guess i've been thinking about that and how i can be a better watchman to all the people that that i that are given to me i guess or that i'm in contact with um feel free to add or correct if there's anything that that i um i'm airing on or that should be improved um and also i guess i thought brothers would have other ideas of how we can be a watchman to the people around us that it might be a good thing to share those ideas god bless you all amen brother walter and you can't improve when you just read scripture a couple of points that you mentioned i'll comment on it maybe someone will correct me or not jesus i mean the father said i have no pleasure in the death of the wicked no pleasure in the death of the wicked and in today's society well when they go to college they lose their faith okay you know this is the world they're taught wrong with television their values they have the world sense of humor recreation their view of riches their view of music debut of beauty the view of everything is polluted satan has got a he's got a wonderful job in blinding this world and some of the hottest people that would try to talk to were the ones that kind of you know his mother darren would whether aaron would say you know the ones that profess christians and they are just they are the world not just the way they dress but the way they think the way they raise their children the whole lifestyle and uh it's so sad that i guess ezekiel 33 ian 3 but it would be if i could match it up with the new testament i i think i would throw first corinthians anywhere where paul says you're a spectacle to the world to angels and to everyone because you are bold in preaching what is right a spectacle a spectacle to the angels and god in heaven when you're doing this and that means persecution and it's not tickling your ears whether it's marriage and divorce war oaths jewelry head carving modesty every thing is so upside down to the world that we have to have faces stronger than flint to because they're going to try to steer us down or what's the matter with christmas well what about the adult jesus you know the baby jesus let's give gifts on your birthday all the world loves it i mean that's just one little small thing i mean i'm just saying the world is so polluted that we have a great opportunity for the gospel the lord be magnified yeah i appreciate that too walter um i remember when the lord was drawing my heart and uh he started giving me understanding and things like um he said in uh in the and jesus said the sheep that would be on the right hand you know they said lord when did we see you you know like we gave you drink we gave you food when you were hungry and jesus jesus told him when you've done it to the least of these my brethren you've done it to me so i remember when the lord was drawing my heart and i was thinking about that it was like like what came to mind at that time was telling people about jesus the spiritual drink the spiritual food the spiritual clothing i'm sure there's a physical aspect to it you know um but that's what came to my mind and uh like how how important the gospel is you know and how glorious it is and people i was telling aaron or aaron told me him and rob went somewhere and they talked to these people and one of the guys was just like yeah yeah yeah you know like i've heard it before like people are dull of hearing like hey do you know about the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins you know when it's like people think of it as just something normal when really like it's a glorious thing jesus came to die for us so we could have we could have remission of sins you know and it's really um a glorious thing and like sometimes i think you know why why go out and evangelize and it's for it's for it's for the other people to help people you know like how can we not when it's such a glorious thing you know i mean it's i don't know any other word to use but glorious you know i tell hey you know there's there's hope in life learn about jesus but maybe some good tips on evangelism um like i had an idea of maybe you know you can make business cards so um i had an idea of maybe putting like a heavenly picture on one of them and putting repent the kingdom of heaven is at hand and then on the back maybe putting like there's hope in life you know and just like ordering some of them and maybe a way to pass them out or when you see someone hey have you heard the good news you know jesus came so we can be reconciled back to god you know just some some uh some thoughts maybe yeah i just appreciated that and i remember this last weekend uh when i went to see aaron this is pretty much the exact same topic we were discussing uh when is the opportune moment to to speak to somebody or to try to try to witness to them and there's a there's a few different examples i thought of was uh aaron going out to uh oh branson going out branson all this time and maybe a month or two ago he had an interaction with a guy and i asked him who he was and he said oh it's just some guy lives up here he's seen me for the last two years and he finally came up to talk to me and so uh it wasn't that aaron's message was overwhelmingly powerful or or was uh speaking any differently than he had been but but for some reason he walked up to him that day to talk to him because he's seen him up there all that time maybe it's the sentiment of being a faithful witness being able to be there consistently and you just happen to be the one that god uses to to bring a message into somebody's life there's also uh there was an email i think sarah sarah had sent it to mine and it was it was one of tommy holmes's letter and it's there was a sentiment in there like if you had if you had five minutes to discuss with one person or even a group of people uh about the gospel like do you feel like you you talk to them about the exact right subject or or would you would you feel like you just blew it blew your opportunity to to witness to them in a correct manner i don't know how you could really decide that or discern that but um i think the sentiment of being able to just open your mouth uh at all to talk to them about god is at least some courage to stand for the faith that you you wish for them to to hear um but that's that's kind of the question when when is the right opportunity and and uh i know there's a difference in how some people will go out in the wind they'll evangelize and one of them is uh oh like the hellfire preacher going out evangelizing catching somebody in like the act of doing something that they shouldn't be doing like going out to the bars or drinking or whatever maybe maybe they feel like it's the opportunity to speak into their lives and some people feel like it's the time after you know maybe the night after they've they've already gone out and done this and now they're thinking about the regrets of of the decision that they made and i mean there's no i don't really know how it all works but i'm sure there's there's multiple ways to view it so i'm sure there's a lot of confusion on that but thank you for the message one uh added point whether darren said now just want to comment on that and you know like you said a different sign or a new picture or something the world is wild about newness you know hey domino's gonna have a new pizza brew bakers make a new piece of bread a new loaf of bread everyone newness newness and if you read in isaiah 45 god says i am he no one else besides me just look to me and paul says in corinthians i determined to know nothing to you people except christ crucified so it is the same old same old it's christ crucified christ crucified christ crucified and that's why we're here and so we don't have to have some new dangled you know it's christ crucified a hope of glory god forbid that we glory except for anything except him in the cross the lord be magnified um i just thought i'd share an acronym that i learned from a man a long time ago something that we can pray for for evangelism he said we can pray for bob and that stands for praying for a burden for the lost people like that that it would even be on our mind to talk to people when we interact with them at the cash register or store or wherever um so pray for a burden then pray for opportunities through your day um that opportunities would arise to talk to people and then for the boldness to capitalize on those opportunities so i really appreciate that and the reminder made me think of this and i need to start praying for bob more so yeah thank you for the message brother i just want to remind us we was kind of talking about this yesterday morning before we left harrison and um i know going out in the streets and doing things whether whatever it be it's easily it's easy for us to get puffed up in doing these things i just want to remind us what jesus said um that at the end of the day we're unprofitable servants only doing that which we're supposed to do so i know many straight preachers out there and they just really get puffed up and it's easy for us to do i mean i see so easily it's so very easy to get prideful and puffed up but at the end of another day we're unprofitable servants only doing that what we're supposed to be doing and we just need to be thankful that the lord is allowing us to be such partakers of his his will and his work and his kingdom and all this i just want to say thank you and amen too to what was shared um i remember the the first time i set myself to reading through the entire old testament um i was i think i was still a teenager 20 at the most but i think i was still maybe 19 or something like that um and there was a lot of dry reading you know um just a lot of stuff i didn't understand i maybe didn't didn't understand the settings of the prophets and uh um i still i still sometimes dig my way through a book of the old testament and just can rip maybe read chapters upon chapters to to find one little nugget that really like is really inspiring um but but i do remember this very passage in ezekiel 33 was one of them like that just really jumped out like this is not hard to understand it it has implications and uh are we not all guilty if if we are a watchman which i i think at least to some degree we all are like maybe not all to the same degree but uh like are we not all have we not all failed in blowing the trumpet at one point or another um oh i think about and i i don't think this this means just just to an a world full of unbelievers like in fact i don't think i i don't think that's what god meant this for ezekiel i think he's he said he said of ezekiel god said of ezekiel i'm setting you as a watchman over over israel oh this is israel paul paul said to the church i i think somewhere in acts or somewhere he said i i am free of the blood of all of you because i have not ceased to warn you day and night the rest of that passage is is not just coming to my mind right now but something like that to the church he was saying that um and anyway i just i just think these are good things to think about and i i also say that like it is not it is not just to the hearers that that it is important that we are that we are faithful watchmen it's it's important for ourselves um in fact that's one of that's probably half of the importance that that god is bringing out here to ezekiel is like look at what's at stake for you if you're not faithful let alone all the people in the city and like i think i think like we can see a pattern all through history we can see it amongst people that we know like when this when this thing settles in that we uh that we start losing the the conviction to speak out to speak out the things that are true we ourselves will lose that conviction i i was reading an article recently that had this statement in that i copied into my notes because i like that it said the first step toward losing something is losing our nerve to defend it once we are ashamed of what we do teaching ceases a weakening rot begins to spread an unspoken code of silence settles on us the concept of tolerance begins to replace humility um yeah anyway i just appreciate those thoughts and um all the thoughts that were shared i had this i had this thought when aaron was sharing about street preachers and what happens with street preachers i wasn't sure if i want to share it or not but um and and how street preachers end up sometimes like they start out like oh like really i i highly doubt that anybody went out street preaching for the first time and wasn't didn't like really have to die to himself to to get out there um i could be wrong about that but then but then they can get puffed up and and sometimes just like just rant and rant at people and and what really like okay rant at people for their sins as as they stand on their pedestal on the street you know directly telling people you know about their drunkenness and their fornication and their sinfulness and and don't get me wrong i don't i don't think it's wrong to uh to point out people's sins directly i i think there's an appropriate way to do it i think there's a an inappropriate way to do it and i don't eat i don't necessarily want to be the judge of all that but but but here's here's the problem with a lot of these preachers is the very gospel that they preach does not result in in true deliverance from from that very sin that they're harping on and it kind of reminds me of this of this story about this paper boy that um that that 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Published: Mon Dec 07 2020