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======Faith Journey 8 - An Encouraging Promise ...======
Monday, Feb 7, 2011. The bible is full of encouraging promises. God knows
that there is a lot in this world that wants to make us loose courage.
This is the reason for God to give us firm promises. They are like crutches,
which can be used by faith to move on. "God has said it, and he will do it!"
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**Excourse to the Old Testament ...**
We have already talked about two promises. One is that God wants to
supply what we need. The second promise we mentioned was the one that
God wants to carry our baggage, the guilt of our life. Today, we want to
listen to another promise, a very beautiful one, highly attracting.
With this new promise we read the Old Testament for the first time in this
X-Tours faith journey. The promise can be found in the book of the
prophet Ezechiel. He is writing around 600 years before the birth of Christ.
It was a time where the people of Israel were in Exile, captured and
suppressed.
Ezekiel is getting to know the magnificence of God. It is written about
some vision, where he is taken to God to see wonderful things.
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**A New Time...**
Ezekiel realizes the deep difference between the holiness of God and the
behaviour and goals of the people of Israel. With this he is chosen to
be a guard and prophet. He annouces God's judgement day, but also a new
time to come, a time of grace, in which God takes away all the guilt
and wickedness of the people, by making them just without relying on
their actions.
600 years before the birth of Christ Ezekiel announces what Jesus claimed
to be and bring: a saviour, a good shepherd, a king of peace.
We will read his promise in Ezekiel 36 tomorrow ...
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