Why Did Ezekiel's Wife Die? - Bertie Johnston

returning to the old testament tonight on to the book of zekiel chapter 24 zekiel chapter 24 right in the heart of the gripped much neglected prophecy of a young priest of prophet Ezekiel 48 chapters and chapter 24 and verse 15 and the word of the Lord came unto me saying can I say to you that this word that God has laid on me tonight came to me I didn't download it I didn't hear anybody else preaching it but has started to come to me about weddings day last and once that happens it's our duty as servants of the Lord to make sure but we preach what he gives to us and the word of the Lord came unto me saying son of man behold I take away from thee the desires of thine eyes with a stroke yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep neither shall thy tears run down forbear to or the words be silent make no mourning for the dead bein the tire a fine had upon thee put on thy shoes upon thy feet cover not thy lips these are all the things that used it when the morning cover not thy lips and eat not the bread of man nor the bread of Sorrows so i SPECT on to the people this Ezekiel nigh after he heard this word so i SPECT on to the people in the morning and that even my wife died and i did in the morning as I was commanded and the people said unto me wilt I not tell us what these things are to us that I do so then I answered them the word of the Lord came unto me saying here he's given the answer that God given speak on to the house of Israel thus saith the Lord God behold I will prophy in my century the excellency of your strength now watch this phase the desire of your eyes and not what your soul piteous and your sons and your daughters who me have left shall fall by the sword and ye shall do as I have done he shall not cover your lips to reach the bread of man and your tires shall be morn shall be be upon your heads and your shoes upon your feet he shall not mourn no way but he shall turn away for your iniquities and mourn one too word another dose Ezekiel on to you thus Ezekiel is auntie Assange according to all that he had done shall ye do and when this cometh he shall know that I am the Lord God also thou son of man shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength the joy of the glory that was the temple of course the desires of their eyes and not wear upon the set their manes their sons and their daughters but he that Escapist in that day shall come on today to cause thee to hear that with five years in that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped and I shall speak and be no more dumb and thou shalt be a sign unto them and they shall know that i am the lord we know that god will last taursus solemn reading of his word one can only imagine not this sudden death of Ezekiel's young wife by the stroke of the almighty hand must have been a huge blow to him there were both less than forty years of age and she was the desire of his eyes that word desire means that she was beautiful in his eyes there's different renders are renderings of it he couldn't have adored her or he wasn't grossed with her never desired to look at another woman so there's something behind this that is very serious she must have been a very special woman to be chosen as a helpmeet for such a man as this the Prophet a priest ministering to the people in the darkest days of Israel's history she needed all the skills and all the graces that a helpmeet would need the visions that he saw the encounters that he had with God there is an eighths away from home abused often by his own people she was the darling of his boot spoke a word we don't know anything about her other than that she died suddenly preachers are in the forefront of the battle preaching and praying and interceding needs faithful waves and often it is the case that they're behind the scenes and I believe God has created Lessing's further and hiren death and we are too devoted faithful wives who stand with us and I thank God for my wife tonight who stand with us and pray with us and weep with us and Diaz and ours that many people knew nothing about when they're in the work of God especially in the password and of ever zekiel needed a wife he needs her now there in captivity in Babylon the temple has been destroyed Jerusalem has been taken over everything he prophesied has come true many of their sons and their daughters have been slain by the sword and a snake about God has forsaken his people and things couldn't have been much worse for this man but they got worse and sometimes we think and we say to ourselves and our trials are light afflictions things can't get much while they come one morning we're thing on God the word came to him in verse 16 look at it again son of man do you know a hundred times he is called the son of man that means the son of Adam the son of the earth and God's reminding him and always remained in him and all those remains us that were nothing but dust we're off the air thirdly we cannot command or demand anything of God he's God and we're man worms of the dusts who were saying this morning from the Dungan oh how dare we lift up her hand against the Almighty God son of man son of man son of man behold I take away from the the desire of thine heart with a stroke and I'm no prophet nor am I the son of a prophet and I have no man or woman or anybody in mind but I'm afraid I'm afraid I'm afraid that there's a literal word here from God someone watching listening me to me tonight I'm going to take the desire of your heart to noise and life away with a stroke sudden maybe a hush it may be a business it may be a job a baby a child maybe a husband the sons of the prophets remember said to Elijah regarding Elijah I will take away thy master from thy head today he could take the head of the house very quick this is gorbo job 36 and verse II he didn't beware lest he kicked me away in the last with a stroke they an example Anson cannot deliver thee in sin or listening to me tonight without Christ out into eternity with a stroke it was too late and the dree it runs some no ransom can ransom me if you have missed the ransom of ransoms call mother father young man young woman tonight in this meeting hearing me tonight he could come in a moment and smite and take things from you that the desire of your heart or tikki from them as he did but the rich farmer this world is a cruel place and you don't live too long in it and gone to the ears of some of those half and not see a deathbed some few nerves and mornings and grief and sorrows but it has a cruel cruel place and it doesn't get any easier for the child of God for a stroke could come any mood when we Maidan understand at least God prepared zekiel with a few hours notice I don't know what he did and that's time as far as he and her were concerned but being a man of God that he was in you God's Word stands in a moment we go down to the grave God and whose hand her breath is now what happened to Ezekiel here might be happening every day and it is as the reality of life just with a stroke he took Lot's wife away just with a stroke he took Sarah from Abraham just with a stroke he took the riches from Jacob and it goes on and on and on tis the reality the reality of life and what happened to Ezekiel here is happening now maybe not far from here agree separation justice truth from the cloth on the groom and maybe not that and I didn't to Eternity that's the reality of life what happened to Ezekiel here might be happening every day but what happens next is not now what's the verse I take away from me the desire of lionized with a stroke yet never shalt die mourn nor weep now cry you shall be silent you'll not put the sight glass on your head you'll not take the shoes off your feet and go barefoot you will not cover your lips and you shall not eat the bread of sir that's all what the Jews did and death no walking barefoot no covering the mouth no eating the bread of Sorrows years ago wharton preached as if nothing happened if adversity so I speak on to the people in the morning and that evening my wife died and I did in the morning as I was commanded look at verse 19 because this had the very reaction that God wanted it to have and the people said unto me wilt I not tell us what these things are to us that I were doing then I answered them and said the word of the Lord Kim onto me tell us I said what's the meaning of this what are you doing what's God saying to us these people were baffled or mesmerized they were bewildered what's the matter with this man has it's not something into him what has happened is he living in denier that his wife had died has he knew reverence as he knew respect did he not love her did he not care for what sort of a God is he 7 that would do this now I can hear them talking and whispering what's wrong with this situation when Aaron the priest died then there more than 30 days when Moses died a day more than 30 days when Joseph died there weren't 40 days they bombarded him in his grief and then a sorrow hidden in his heart that God told him he wasn't to show what does he do what is the meaning of this well I'm gonna tell you tonight what he's doing and I'm going to tell you what the meaning of it is - what is he doing first of all he's being obedient to the Word of God look at verse 18 again he says I speak unto the people in the morning of the evening my wife died and I did in the morning as I was commanded you see there was resignation he resigned to be God and that's the true mark of a servant that's the three part of a watchman that's the three mark of a priest of God as the three mark of a prophet who being the command whether is painful or pleasing you see it's not just obeying him in the good times her friends is not when God has a right to do what he wants to do and see what he wants to see and bring us where he wants to bring us and we had no argument against it as the servants of the Living God I is in some place this boy and the least we think happens you and I in were up on our own Hall whoa not going to that he ability I'm not going to church tomorrow I'm not going to go into food I'm not going God has been cruel to her it's not the servants job to question God and I know this is sensitive tonight and I know that people are listening to make Nate have lost their wives and lost their loved ones and lost their children and I fully sympathize with you but I found a servant of God we must say God giveth God taketh away and blessed be the name of the Lord this goes beyond this goes beyond the realm of emotion being a servant of the Lord God and subjected to the ministry unto the calling of goes beyond the realm of emotion of family ties of nature it's natural and needful to mourn but God says no you're not to mourn and I'll give you the reason soon doesn't matter what others did didn't matter how long they feasted along the mourn that their and their Moses or Joseph day this is what God saying to you seek to me he told me what not to do and he told me what to do he says go on and preach just the same as if it never happened no he say there's a hard cause I don't a mission and then a skill and and 1987 and it was just starting into it from a mother died and after a couple of years I come back into the mission again for a thought that i'd be better preaching and lying about the house i went back in after a couple of days and this was only my mother and she was 80 years of age and she was an old woman and i had led her to the lord some months me from weeks before us but not a heavy heart and i'm sure those people said was he doing preacher but what must have been like for this man what was his heart must have felt for his darling beloved wife to be layin out cold just what my stroke of god but my friend we can't cherry pick the sovereign and eternal will of god were not alone were bought with a tres servants of God children of God we have to go into the furnace of affliction at times and sometimes as hot and sometimes just turned up like this children the Hebrew chap sometimes is turned up and is turned up hot God tests us and tests us and there's no end he not go to test us neither really testing us to see are we his disciples we sing take up a cross and follow him I tell you you take up the cross his death his death we can't just cherry-picking Ezekiel no satyr and he knows that God has done this and there's no argument with him as you'll see in the menacing and to obey he's obeying and to be as better than sacrifice and here's the lovely reverse and the Acts of the Apostles would say God gives the Holy Ghost to them that obey Him see in all done all and all and all areas of her life my friend no matter what the trial matter what the table not of what he cast is with matter what he tells us to do it's always for a good there's always a reason there's always a purpose and that we don't know well maybe you will not get it explained down here but he gives the Holy Ghost to them that obey Him and if your engine are hanging on some mats are stalling on some matter denied that God has told you about he'll not receive the blessing of the Holy Ghost in your life until you do it mr. lamb not obey Him obedience is a big thing with God as a mighty thing with God it doesn't seem to be a media thing with many of God's people but it is with God and obedience is costly cost Daniel the Lions Den cost Moses the Kingdom of Egypt he fursuits it and refused to be called the sons of Pharaoh's daughter it's costly to be members Lord said to Abraham were on the same line here now versus remember God said the a problem take neither son thine only son Isaac father night that was the beam for old Ibrahim you take him up to a place for I will show you and I will tell you and they offer them for a sacrifice a child that had waited for years and years and God had given all the promises for he say and he C&T a prom night I'll take him away with a stroke put the sword up oh I tell you that's testing that's trying rough grinding out I tell you the good the pleasing to God in her lives then at that last moment what happened here Lena and upon the turn for now I knew no fear of God and what and have obeyed my voice I know not only resignation here but their submission here he put up no argument no dialogue no question no remonstrating he buried the head they says thy will be done and he went about his business the next day and that day can I say we word to some of you tonight that want to go through with God don't put all on the altar if you're not prepared for the stroke of n'e 'putin s' don't put all on the altar unless you're prepared for the stroke often impotence for if you want to be his disciple you have to take up his cross and follow him I will have an answered the question yet but we won't answer why is this what does this mean well we have the resignation of Ezekiel we have the submission we have got that far we have learned that now lastly we have the application what does these things mean they're saying what does it mean to me and you in the church tonight unless we get this we have no message what's the application of us tonight here sitting in the lifeboat and people listening to me what does it mean what is he doing what is God saying to us there must be something very very serious God wants to say here this is a very very solemn work he's cut off a young woman in the prime of her life the backbone to her husband he couldn't have wounded or devastated this young man more he forbids him to weep and mourn fast well the answer is in verse 21 there's the heart of a loving God havin to do this to speak to his people speak on to the house of Israel saith the Lord God behold I will praveen trophy in my sanctuary the excellency of your strength boy hardayal of the temple the temple the temple the temple one after all three times in jeremiah hall how they loved the house of God it was the desire it is the desire of your eyes just as ezekias wafer the desire of who raised the temple in Jerusalem you're now in captivity and I'll show you in a moment that this it was on this very day that they invaded the temple the temple Zion the house of God it is it is the desire of your eyes and that your soul pitieth and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword and you shall do as I have done you shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of man and your tires shall be upon your head and your shoes upon your feet you shall not born a week but you shall find a way for your liquidus and mourn one toward another those Ezekiel is on to you a sign this is a sign little bastard verse 19 again very verse 21 again speak on to the house of Israel thus says the Lord God behold I will fulfill my sanctuary it's my it's my sang tree it's my it's my temple God says I'm going to prophy in a polluted desert created destroy it tis the excellency of your strength you love it it is the desire of your eyes you know that like a Sikh he loves his wife you love it beautiful for situation Zion the psalmist received my soul thirsteth for the Living God if only I was a doorkeeper in the house of God blessed and happier they had to dwell in the courts Oh God friend listen to me what happened was this this very day that God took mrs. zekiel the Babylonians attacked the Temple in Jerusalem one man or one or more escaped and brought the word Ezekiel look at verse 26 and he that the skipper than that day shall come unto thee and cause thee to heated with thine eyes what are they here they told them the temples destroyed his birth with fire the children men women and children are killed are slaughtered and hear questioning and here criticizing and you're mocking the seeking ways not weeping ways not try and waste of morning ye not reaping mourning and crying with your business whatever you have you no concern for the house of God that's where urine captivity there's no although this is the only way God could speak to him he had to take this life he had to do this drastic thing to show them God was in time I love the house of God my own house I love it more than Ezekiel more than the Secchia love his wife and so de but let us look at the children look at the women look at a desk I hate Shabbat Justin too over the top of it he's mourning tonight over the state of the church whose barefootin weeping to merit and such bottom eyelashes because the house of God has desecrated hmm I'm speaking a little hard tonight what does God see look what does it God who's mourning tonight who see he's the church in hate who sees the bride and the wife and the bride and her sons and her daughters tonight struck by God goofy is that he felt remember he came down the Mount of Olives and the coals the full of the arson turned right and so like Jerusalem saw the temple saw the rich young ruler saw all the men don't know the one that he preached and prayed and fasted over Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem how often would I have gathered they I'll tell you he mourned this is the day of thy visitation but you've missed us to Elliott song mister in the beginning of us minister in the end of the ministry he went into the temple the excellence of his glory the place he loved the place of habitation has housed my heart this large is the right Nover turned the tables twice once at the beginning once at the end they did it again after three and a half years I tell you the church needs cleansing tonight she needs Lansing tonight tell us tell us what does this mean what are you doing why is this woman died why why is the Seekers heart Bruton well listen I can tell you something tonight as a close I'll tell you tell you wearing little died I'll tell you why another died in a room and in her stead I'll tell you why another was wounded in Boston I can tell you that I hate that one the Lord who saw the desire of his eye he's the darlings of his bosom when he looked out across this old world God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son I can tell you to make my friend I'll tell you why why is this why do we meet right in this table on Sunday more we gather around and I'll tell you why what's the meaning of this Christ died for me the meaning of this tank here what's this about Christ died from he wasn't a woman date for me on the preacher's wife day to me Christ died for the ungodly the whole the awful stroke that should have fell upon me fell upon him that they had Calvary Oh what burdened by thy head my lord who was lead from day my friend he made a rental and awful perhaps taking this young life just to speak to the people teach the people show the people how he loved but it doesn't compare what he's done to show us that He loves us tonight doesn't compare with God eternal God became the young man and died kneel to our Altos at Calvary all the awful stroke stroke of the eternal God upon His only Son the very desire of a say he's the darling of a person the one that he loved what is the meaning of it my friendís tirtir nanny Church of New Testament church is the meaning of it tonight he loved the church and he gave himself for it on the third day he was buried he was buried on the third day he rose again and he lives in the power someone some of them commentators reading says what a reunion was from the sea Qian joined with his wife what event will God not go to do to speak to people behold I take away from the the desire finite when God says that he'll do it and you're not change it what are you going to do tonight what is the desire of your eyes and your heart tonight because of there's a need desire of greater than him he can take it away God can put you to prayer you only can put you to the prayer meeting began oh what a saint of God to see here was what a made a man of god been caught by the spirit and taken up and taken away for days alone with God he was close to God and because he was close to God he didn't question what God was there though his heart ached and his heart was brutal nevertheless I will be done whatsoever he sees on to you do it our friend tonight listen don't cling too tight to the things of this world don't cling too tight to them time you start as a let them go we're dealing with another world we're going to another home release them you use them for God use them for God for they're going to be taken away the grandchildren they'll scatter number thus truth I've seen don't hold too tight to that desire of your age tonight and that's God but all on the altar to surrender tan as He healed it let us pray father we're not going to sing anymore tonight were just honest men and silence for a week while of three minutes and we'll go to then Trey and I have done what God asked me to do I haven't thought the best as well as the leichter but don't know no I just leave it with God and my father who he just thank you tonight oh god oh god I don't know who you're speaking as an 8 this is your word Lord the engrafted infallible indestructible word for Living God and father I just played the night that you take what has been from the buried deep into the hearts of men and women what hasn't Lord remove it from her minds no God I pray that you give us give us a Bourdon for the church give us a burden for Souls give us a burden for the lost and these days Lord let us see that he died for us man grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit last bite and remain with thy people now and forevermore you

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Published: Sun Nov 20 2016