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O Ye Dry Bones
Hear The Word Of
The Lord
Let's go in our bibles to Ezek. 37 and
read starting with verse 1, (The hand of the LORD was upon me,
and carried me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in
the midst of the valley which was full of bones, ver.2 And
caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were
very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
ver.3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And
I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. ver.4 Again he said unto me,
Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry
bones, hear the word of the LORD. ver.5 Thus saith the
Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter
into you, and ye shall live: ver.6 And I will lay sinews upon you,
and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and
put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know
that I am the LORD. ver.7 So I prophesied as I was
commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and
behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his
bone. ver.8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came
up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no
breath in them. ver.9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the
wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and
breathe upon these slain, that they may live. ver.10 So I
prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them,
and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an
exceeding great army.)
Every preacher that I know has at one time or another,
preached about Ezekiel and the valley of dry bones. And I must
confess; I have preached it a few times myself.
First of all when we look into this portion of scripture we
find the prophet Ezekiel being carried by the Spirit of the Lord
into a valley full of bones and set right smack dab in the middle
of them. And I want to stop right here for a moment, and say:
Preachers, if your lead by the Spirit of the Most High God, your
not always going to be sent where their shouting: AMEN PREACH
IT BROTHER! Sometimes God's going to set you right in the
midst of some ol' dry bones.
You see the reason God sent Ezekiel to that valley full of
bones, is because God was wanting to bring them back to life.
Then the Spirit of the Lord caused him to pass them round
about. Now Ezekiel's getting a good oversight of the condition of
the whole valley of bones. And when he had been caused to pass
them round about it was clear to him that these bones ain't just
dry, their VERY DRY! And let me tell you, that, God has
sent me to some places where they weren't just dry, they were VERY
DRY! Well Praise The Lord.
So many churches of our hour have tried everything to produce
some life in there services. But I want to let you know that, THE
ONLY THING THAT'S GOING TO BRING LIFE TO THAT VALLEY OF VERY DRY
BONES IS THE WORD OF THE LORD BEING PREACHED, and THE HOLY
GHOST WIND OF GOD BREATHING INTO THEM!
Preacher's
Must Get Back To Preaching The Word !
Now notice, God didn't say to Ezekiel: Son of man, GET YOU A
HAMMOND ORGAN WITH A LESLIE SPEAKER AND GET DOWN TO THAT VALLEY
OF DRY BONES AND PLAY THOSE BONES BACK TO LIFE! Someone shout
amen. God didn't say: Son of man, THERES A VALLEY FULL OF VERY
DRY BONES, GET YOU A GRAND PIANO AND SING THOSE BONES BACK TO
LIFE! No, God sent Ezekiel to that valley of VERY DRY BONES, TO
PREACH TO THEM THE WORD OF THE LORD! You see the only thing
that's going to bring LIFE back to the DEADNESS,
and DRYNESS of the many who are sitting in dead dry
churches all around the world, is when they hear HOLY
GHOST FILLED PREACHERS, PREACHING THE WORD OF THE
LORD!
Son of man; PROPHESY TO THOSE BONES! Tell them, THUS
SAITH THE LORD! And it's the responsibility of every GOD
CALLED PREACHER to PREACH THE WORD. Paul charged Timothy in 2
Tim 4:2-4 (Preach the word; be instant in season, out of
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and
doctrine. ver.3 For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they
heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; ver.4
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be
turned unto fables.) PREACH THE WORD! He let Timothy know
that many wouldn't want to hear it: BUT PREACH IT ANYWAY!
The same is true today. And even more so. An all out attack is
being waged against TRUE GOD CALLED, HOLY GHOST FILLED
PREACHERS. Friends, you know as well as I do, that this Last
Day RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT despises the PREACHING OF THE WORD!
What was it that Paul prophesied would be the hearts cry of many
church people, and many religious movements? Look at it: THEY
WOULD HEAP TO THEMSELVES TEACHERS! Now Don't stop reading,
and say Bro. Mike doesn't believe in teachers. I believe in the 5
fold ministry! And TEACHERS are included in it. But you
see Paul was letting us know what the condition of this Last Day
would be, and that is, the very thing that God choose to bring
mankind to SALVATION is what this religious bunch can't
stand. In 1 Cor. 1:21 Paul declared by the Holy Ghost (For after
that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it
pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that
believe.)
Notice now, he didn't say It Pleased God by the Foolishness of
SINGING to save them that believe. He said it Pleased God that
by the FOOLISHNESS of PREACHING to save them that believe.
You can announce an all day singing, and they'll pay money to
come. But try to sell tickets to the same bunch, to
come to all day Holy Ghost Preaching! You won't sell many
tickets, if any! Now I don't believe we should put a price on THE
PREACHING OF THE WORD, for Jesus declared: FREELY YE HAVE
RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE! But it's sad to say, Those very ones
that would give $7.00 and up to go to a gospel sing, or to buy a
singing tape, get mad if the preacher asks for a free will
offering to help with reaching this Last Day Generation with Holy
Ghost Anointed Preaching.
I love to hear Anointed singing, and playing of the
instruments; that's part of our Praise and Worship unto the Lord.
But NOTHING will take the place of the PREACHING OF THE
WORD! All the singing and entertainment that this backslidden
away from God religious movement can produce, CAN NEVER BRING
LIFE BACK INTO THAT VALLEY OF VERY DRY BONES! PREACH, PREACH,
PREACH THE WORD!
I like what Ezekiel said in verse 7 (So I prophesied as I
was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise,
and behold a shaking, and the bones came together,
bone to his bone.) Preachers, if you want to see the things of
God manifested in your meetings: PREACH THE WORD! Mark 16:20
(And they went forth, and preached every where, the
Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs
following. Amen.) What did they do when they went forth? THEY
PREACHED EVERY WHERE! And what did the Lord do? WORKED
WITH THEM, and CONFIRMED THE WORD WITH SIGNS FOLLOWING!
The fact is: Many so called minister's are working with out God's
help. Because God only works with those that PREACH THE WORD!
I want to take a moment right here and say: Jesus didn't say
to follow these signs, He said, THESE SIGNS SHALL FOLLOW THEM
THAT BELIEVE!
There are those who would like for you to believe that this
verse along with the others that go with it, aren't really the
word. But we know that the WHOLE teaching of the bible, Old
Testament, New Testament, along with Jesus' teachings prove these
verse's to be true. But these very same one's who clam these
verses to be no good for this hour like to clam Ps.23:6 (Surly
Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.) Well I
believe Goodness and Mercy Shall follow me all the days of my
life; and along with Goodness and Mercy, are the Signs that Jesus
said SHALL follow me also! Nether did Jesus say, YOU
SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR GIFTS! But He did say in Mat. 7:16-21
(Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes
of thorns, or figs of thistles? ver.17 Even so every good tree
bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil
fruit. ver.18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither
can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. ver.19 Every tree
that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into
the fire. ver.20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
ver.21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my
Father which is in heaven.) No, we are not to follow after signs;
JESUS SAID THE SIGNS WOULD FOLLOW US!
Jesus
Prayed, Father Make Them One, Even As We Are One !
Now while Ezekiel was prophesying the Word of the Lord unto
those VERY DRY BONES, something began to happen. There was
a NOISE, and a SHAKEN, and then the bones CAME
TOGETHER. I tell you I love what the PREACHING of the
LIVING WORD OF GOD produces! There was a NOISE. Some
church folk don't like the NOISE. But God's word says, MAKE
A JOYFUL NOISE UNTO THE LORD! You've got put your ear right
up against the door of many churches to tell if their in there!
Someone Shout Praise The Lord! And I'm not just talking about
churches that are known for their DEAD, DRY, QUIT
church services: I'm talking about churches that use to believe
in SHOUTING, and MAKING A JOYFUL NOISE UNTO THE LORD!
There was a SHAKING. You see the Preaching of The Word will cause
things to start moving. And it won't cause them to move just any
old way: IT WILL CAUSE THEM TO MOVE IN LINE WITH GOD'S WILL!
And what was God's will for those bones? THAT THEY COME
TOGETHER! This is what the PREACHING OF THE WORD will
do; it will bring the true saints of God TOGETHER. Those
which have been divided by JEALOUS PREACHERS, and MAN
MADE RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS and DENOMINATIONS, when
they hear the Word Preached, then they will begin to show forth
the Love of God toward each other once again.
Any preacher whose preaching causes schisms in the body of
Christ, " for there is only one BODY OF CHRIST, but
many members. And each of us who have been washed in the Blood
of Jesus, our sins having been WASHED AWAY by His
Blood, are members of that ONE BODY. THE ONE TRUE
CHURCH, WHICH CHRIST JESUS HIMSELF IS THE HEAD!"
and drives the true saints of God apart, and sets them against
each other: THAT PREACHER IS NOT PREACHING THE WORD!
Even the prayer which Jesus prayed in John 17:11 & 22, 23
was, (And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the
world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own
name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as
we are. ver. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have
given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
ver.23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made
perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast
sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.) Say what
you will, but God doesn't send forth preachers to work against
what His Son Jesus prayed! He sends them forth to bring his
people together in labouring TOGETHER in this Last Day
Work of God!
Lets look at verse's 9 & 10 once again, (Then said he unto
me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say
to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O
breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
ver.10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came
into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their
feet, an exceeding great army.) Now in order for us to
understand and grasp the power, and impact of this we must take a
look at what Jesus said and did to his followers in John 20:21
& 22 (Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as
my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. ver.22 And
when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto
them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:) Then again in Luke 24:49
Jesus said unto His followers, ( And, behold, I send the promise
of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of
Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.)
And in Acts 2 we find 120 OBEDIENT believers at Jerusalem
in the Upper Room all with one accord in one place waiting
to receive the ENDOWMENT OF POWER FROM ON HIGH! And as
they tarried there in ONE ACCORD, Acts 2:2 - 4 says, ( And
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty
wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
ver.3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of
fire, and it sat upon each of them. ver.4 And they were
all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.) There's
the Wind! The Breath that Jesus Breathed on them, and
said, RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST!
Those in that valley didn't become an EXCEEDINGLY GREAT
ARMY, until AFTER THAT BREATH WAS BREATHED INTO THEM!
Now Jesus showed himself alive to over five hundred brethren at
once. But there were only 120 in the Upper Room. What do you
think many of the others who were not there in the Upper Room
were doing? They didn't have time to tarry at Jerusalem like
Jesus commanded, they had to much religious business to take care
of in order for them to start the "First Church of Jerusalem"
or the "First Church of Judaea" or the "First
Church of Samaria" Shout Amen.
But they should have been in the Upper Room with the 120,
receiving THE HOLY GHOST! POWER FROM ON HIGH! God
said unto Zerubbabel in Zec 4:6 concerning the work he was to do,
(Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of
the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by
power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.) We
must Preach the need of being FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST
to believers in this Last Day. We must put them to the question
once again: HAVE YOU RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YOU
BELIEVED?
Even our military knows to use LIVE AMMUNITION when
they are in warfare. They don't drop plane loads of DUD'S
on the enemy. They don't fire surface to air DUD'S or heat
seeking DUD'S, no they use LIVE ARTILLERY! And I
want to let you know, that our God doesn't send out DUD'S!
He sends forth those who are ALIVE WITH HOLY GHOST DYNAMO!
The only Damage a DUD can do is if it happens to land
right on someone, or something; but that which is ALIVE
does far greater damage to the works of the enemy, because it EXPLODES
UPON IMPACT! This is why Jesus commanded the Church to RECEIVE
THE HOLY GHOST, that He would raise it up an EXCEEDING
GREAT ARMY, FULL OF LIFE, AND ALIVE WITH HOLY GHOST
DYNAMO POWER IN THEIR LIVES, TO USE IN THIS LAST DAY TO
BRING DELIVERANCE TO MANY HELD CAPTIVE. THAT THE WORKS OF
THE DEVIL MIGHT BE DESTROYED, AND THAT THE POWER OF OUR
GOD BE MANIFESTED IN THE CHURCH !
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