Ezekiel chapter 37. The name of the message is dead,
dry, lifeless bones. Dead, dry, lifeless bones. Ezekiel chapter 37. Now we know
that the Old Testament testifies of Christ and testifies of what
He does for His people. And what a clear picture we have
here in our text tonight. Ezekiel 37, starting in verse
1, The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the
Spirit of the Lord, and sat me down in the midst of the valley
which was full of bones, 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. And he said unto me, Son of man,
can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou
knowest. Again he said unto me, prophesy
upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the
word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto
these bones, behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and
ye shall live. 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. 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. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews
and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them above. but there was no breath in them. 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. 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, Then
said he unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house
of Israel. Behold, they say, our bones are dried and our hope
is lost. We are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord God. Behold, O my people, I will open
your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and
bring you into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am
the Lord. When I have opened your graves, O my people, and
brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my Spirit in you,
and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land, then
shall ye know that I, the Lord, have spoken it, and performed
it, saith the Lord." What a portion of Scripture. What a portion
we have here before us. Now the scripture here before
us is a prophecy of the restoration and resurrection of the Jews
out of Babylon and their return to the land of Israel in the
days of Cyrus. But in a distant view of prophecy,
it refers to the resurrection of the dead in the last day,
particularly to the resurrection of the bodies of God's saints
into everlasting life and glory. And it also speaks a word of
promise to God's church in every age. When the church of God,
or any part of it, is but low and languishing, God promises
to pour out the Spirit of life, His Holy Spirit, upon His languishing
ones, which is His people. But the primary reference of
this passage is the spiritual resurrection of God's people,
of His elect, in the new birth, which is what we'll be looking
at tonight. Now when Ezekiel wrote this,
the Jewish hope for the future was very low. Look at verse 12.
This must have brought them much hope when they heard about Ezekiel's
vision. Look at this. Therefore prophesy
and say unto them, thus sayeth the Lord God, behold, O my people,
I will open your graves and cause you to come out of your graves
and bring you into the land of Israel. So in addition to Israel
being restored to her own land, Israel is to have new spiritual
life. New spiritual life. Look at over in Ezekiel chapter
36, one chapter over. Look at verses 24 to 27. For I will take you from among
the heathen and gather you out of all countries and will bring
you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water
upon you and you shall be from all your filthiness and
from all your idols, which, or will I cleanse you? A new heart
will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I
will take away this stony heart out of your flesh, and I'll give
you a heart of flesh." And we know this is what the Lord has
done for us. We who are born again. And I will put my spirit
within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall
keep my judgments and do them. This is a picture. God's elect. So we have a vision here before
us of a great resurrection, a great resurrection. And again, we know
that the Old Testament, Old Testament scriptures testify of Christ
and testify of his work. Turn, if you would, to John chapter
five, and we'll go back there. So you might want to just put
a put a finger in there. We'll be going back there later on.
Not too long. Just in a few minutes. But look at verses. 39 and 50.
Search the Scriptures. Now remember, when they were
writing this, they were writing about the Old Testament Scriptures.
They didn't have the Bible, New and Testament and Old, like we
have. Search the Scriptures. So the Scriptures here is the
Old Testament. Search the Scriptures. For in
them ye think ye have eternal life, and there they which testify
of me. This is the Master's own words.
and ye will not come to me that ye might have life. So the very
people who were studying the scriptures that he gave would
not come to him. Now, some did. His people did,
right? His elect. They were brought to him. So
the scriptures before us are a clear picture of the resurrection
of dead sinners to eternal life. When we go back and look in Ezekiel
37, we see that. It's a clear picture. And this
life only comes by the grace of God and by the power of God
through the Holy Spirit of God. And He points us to Christ alone.
Colossians 2 says this, In whom also ye are circumcised with
the circumcision made without hands and the putting off of
the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, buried
with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through
the faith of the operation of God which hath raised Him from
the dead. Now we receive a spiritual circumcision,
don't we? We're born again by the Holy
Spirit of God. And we know that we can never make ourselves born
again. We can never give ourselves life.
And we'll see that tonight. These bones could not give themselves
life. It's such a clear picture of
us in our natural state. And then it says, and you being
dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened
together with him, born again. Heaven forgiven you all trespasses,
Colossians 2, verses 11 to 13. All the elect of God will be
saved in Christ, for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall
all be made alive. All who are in Christ shall be
made alive. Let's go back to John chapter
5. And we will see here the authority which the Son of God has, the
Lord Jesus Christ. He has the power to make dead
sinners live. He is God incarnate in the flesh.
He is the one who is full of grace and truth. Let's start
in verse 19. Then answered Jesus and said
unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing
of himself, but what he seeth the Father do. For what thing
soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father
loveth the Son, and showeth him all things that himself doeth,
and he will show him greater works than these, that ye may
marvel. For as the Father raises up the
dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he
will. For the Father judges no man,
but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. Christ has all
power, and all authority belong. It says that all men should honor
the Son even as they honor the Father. So if you honor the Son,
you honor the Father. If you don't honor the Son, you
don't honor the Father. Do you see the foolishness of
people saying everybody goes to heaven? They claim that people
who hate God go to heaven. They claim that people who hate
Christ go to heaven. It's a lie. If you don't honor the Son, you
don't honor the Father. And the next, it says, He that
honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father which has sent
him. The next two verses speak of spiritual resurrection of
God's elect and the new birth, which we'll be looking at in
Ezekiel 37. Look, it says here, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, He that heareth my word, how do we hear the words
of Christ? Through the preaching of the
gospel. through the preaching of the gospel. And believe it
on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into
condemnation, but is passed from death to life. Now this is the
verse here. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming,
and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of
God, and they that hear shall live. The dead. I ask you, what can a dead man
do? When somebody's dead and they're
laying on a slab, can they get themselves up? Can they make themselves breathe
again? Can they do any kind of work at all? They're dead. They're lifeless. But here it says, The hour is
coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son
of God. And they that hear shall live.
How does a dead man hear? He has to be given hearing ears.
He has to be given life. So what comes first? The life
or the hearing? Remember, we always say this,
what comes first, regeneration or faith? You gotta have life
before you can hear. Ye must be born again. For as the Father hath life in
himself, so hath he given it to the Son to have life in himself,
and hath given him authority to execute judgment, because
he is the Son of Man. He is God incarnate in the flesh.
marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that
are that are in the grave shall hear his voice now that's the
general resurrection spoken of there and shall come forth they
that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they
that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation so
the giving of life and salvation to sinners who are dead spiritually
is a greater miracle than the restoration of israel or the
resurrection of dead bodies, and this life, which is given
to dead sinners, is all by the power of the Holy Spirit given
life, and granting faith and repentance to those who by our
natural state are dead in trespasses and sins. We've looked at Ephesians
2, we know Scripture declares we come into this world dead,
don't we? Colossians told us we were dead. Dead. A dead man can't do anything. Two great mysteries of God are
the Son of God, the Word of God became the Son of Man. God incarnate
in the flesh. And the second great mystery
of God is that elect sinners who are dead by birth, nature,
and choice are made alive and become the sons of God. It's
a miracle. It's a miracle of grace, beloved.
So let's go back to our text in Ezekiel chapter 37. We see here in verses one and
two. This shows our spiritual state when we're born into this
world. The hand of the Lord was upon me and carried me out in
the spirit of the Lord and sat me down in the midst of the valley,
which was full of bones. and caused me to pass by them
round about and behold there were many, very many in the open
valley and lo, they were very dry. It doesn't tell us how many but
there was many bodies, many bones. There'd been a great battle here.
There'd been a great loss of life. Many had died. Now this text
shows us the truth, though, of our natural birth. We're like
these dead man bones. We're dead to the things of God
spiritually. We have no knowledge of who God
is. We're like these bones scattered all over. And this is a good
place to take people to show them our natural state in Adam.
And as a result of Adam's transgression, we fell in him. So evidently, again, there'd
been a great battle fought in this valley many years before,
and many were killed, and the bones were still laid there,
and they were being scorched in the sun. The bones laid scattered all
over, having been bleached by the sun, which must have been
scorching, And they were probably, one commentator said, the bones
were so dry that a parched dog wouldn't even pick one up. There's
no marrow left in the bones. They're just dried, scorched
bones. All the moisture and all the
marrow had been dried up out of them. And they'd sat there
for many, many years. And what a picture we have here
before us. These bones are devoid of life, aren't they? They have
no life. They're just a mass of bones. They cannot put themselves back
together. They can't put themselves back
together. They're absolutely lifeless. Dry, dead bones. And we are just
like these bones in our natural state. Scripture declares in
our natural state we are without hope, without Christ and without
God in this world, dead to the things of God. Now people in
religion, they call on dead men to do things
that they can never do. They call on dead men to walk
an aisle and pray a prayer. But unless God moves in the person's
heart, they'll never be saved. Because here before us, we have
a picture of our state naturally. And we know from scriptures that
a dead sinner will never come to Christ unless he's drawn.
Unless God brings them, they will not care about the things
of the Lord. They will have no interest in the things of Christ.
No interest in the things of God. They are just like these
bones, dead, lifeless, helpless. But let us always remember. That
which is impossible with men, right? Is possible with God. Is possible with God. Look at
verse three. And he said unto me, Son of man,
can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord, God thou
knowest. Now the Lord's question here
is very striking, because the Lord's not asking for information. He's not asking for information.
This is for us. This is for us. And he said unto
me, Son of man, can these bones live? And the prophet answers
in the servant's way. is humanly speaking, the bones
could not live, but again, let us not forget that with God,
all things are possible. And he says, oh Lord, thou knowest. You know, Lord. Can these bones live? Let us
ask these questions. Can dead sinners live under God? Can unjust men be made just with
God? Can those who love darkness be
made to love light? Can men who hate God be made
to love Him? Can men who love wickedness be
made to hunger and thirst for righteousness? We have here before us great
instruction for the church, beloved. In what great truths will be
taught here, salvation is of the Lord. It's all His doing. The prophet
answers, O Lord God, thou knowest. Only you know, Lord. Do we have any idea who God's
elect are? We don't have a clue. It's probably
a good thing. Spurgeon said if we knew, if everyone had a yellow
stripe on their back, you'd just lift the shirt up, oh, I'm gonna
preach to you now. But no, we preach to everyone, right? And
what happens? God does the same. Because it's
his work. And who gets the glory then?
He gets it all. He gets it all. Only you know, Lord, if these
bones can live, is the answer of Ezekiel. Only God knows who
his people are. And only he can give life. to the spiritually dead. Only
he can. A dead sinner can no more give
himself life than a dead person can raise themselves from the
grave by their own power. And think on this, beloved. Just
like a dead man, we lack the power and we lack the ability
And our wills are bound to our nature. And if we have a dead
nature, our will is bound to that nature. We have no ability, no power
to make ourselves alive. Because this is our natural state.
We're a bunch of dead man's bones. Now most folks don't like to
hear that. But that's what the scripture says. You see, the
preaching of God's sovereign grace, and the preaching of the
free grace of God in Christ, it humbles the pride of man.
And it exalts the sovereignty of God. It puts him in his rightful
place. Men have tried to tear him down
for it, but he's a king, he'd never be torn down. Let men ramble
on what they think is going to lead to their eternal doom if
the Lord doesn't save them. We serve a God who can do all
things. if He pleases, if it's His will. And He is the one who has all
power. He is the one who has the ability.
And He is the one who saves whom He wills, when He wills. And let us never forget, this
was the state we were in before the Lord saved us. This is it. right here before
us, dead man's bones. But let this give us hope, because
we who believe are being saved, haven't we? We've been made alive. We're regenerated by the power
of the Holy Spirit of God. It is He who has done a work
in us. It is He who has granted us faith and repentance to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. That gives us hope for our lost
loved ones and for our lost friends. Because He has all power. In
the next verse, in verse 4, we see that God's ways are not our
ways. is preaching to a bunch of dry
bones to give them life would not even enter into the man's
mind. But again, God's ways are not
our ways. Just not. His thoughts are not
our thoughts. People try to put God into a
box and make him like one of us, they call him their co-positor,
their buddy. He's God. And he rules right now on a throne. People have a low estimation
of God now. Hello, Brother Gary and Jean-Claude
and I were talking about that, just the low estimation of who
God is. Look at verse four again, he
said unto me, prophesize upon these bones and say unto them,
oh, ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Now the Lord commanded
the prophet to prophesy or preach to the dry bones. That wouldn't even enter our
minds, would it? But God's servant obeys. He obeys. He obeys the command. He obeys
the command of his master and he says, O ye dry bones, hear
the word of the Lord. Is this not what Every gospel
preacher in the Lord's churches do every time we meet, because
not everyone who's in our meetings is saved. We preach into the dry dead bones,
sinners, dead in trespasses and sins. And so the preacher stands
up, as one commentator said, between the living God and dead
sinners, holding forth the word of life. Preaching Christ, turn of your
word, the first Corinthians, chapter one. Preaching Christ,
holding forth the word of life, the gospel of our wonderful Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ. First Corinthians, chapter one. Look at this. Now, to natural
man, preaching's foolishness. But it's the power of God on
the salvaged. God, the Holy Spirit, uses the preaching of the word,
and by His power, He regenerates dead sinners with the preaching
of the gospel. This is why we're here. We come
here to hear about Christ. And we hear Him over and over
and over again. That's all we want to hear. Preach to me Christ. Don't tell me what I have to
do. Tell me about what He's done. Tell me about what Christ has
done. Look at this, 1 Corinthians 1, 21-25, 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. For
the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek out their wisdom.
See, they don't see any wisdom in preaching. But we preach Christ crucified.
Notice that. One topic. One object of our
faith. But we preach Christ crucified
unto the Jews, a stumbling block. They stumbled over Christ. And
unto the Greeks, foolishness. Ah, but unto them which are called. Unto them which the Holy Spirit
regenerates. Unto them who the Lord saves. But unto them which are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom
of God. We see the wisdom of God on full
display in preaching Christ. What seems like foolishness to
men is the wisdom of God. Oh my. Because the foolishness,
look at this, because the foolishness of God is wiser than men. You take all the men in the world,
all the wise men in the world, and the foolishness of God is
far wiser than all of them. Oh my. Because the foolishness
of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger
than men. Now we know some guys and some
men who are pretty strong, right? You put all men together and
their strength doesn't even come close to the power and the strength
and the authority that our great God has, and the wisdom that
our great God has. So the preacher holds forth Christ,
who is the bread of life, who is the sinner's substitute, who
is the sinner's only hope. And we preach Christ, who is
the Word of God. Our sermons are filled with Christ,
about His person, about His obedience, about His blood, about His resurrection,
about His exhortation, and about His intercession and glory for
us right now. And we just keep preaching Christ,
and keep preaching Christ, and God does the same. And He moves. And when Christ is preached who
He is, what He did, why He did it, and where He is, those are
four very important things that must be proclaimed. Who He is,
what He did, why He did it, and where He is now. When He's preached, those who
are given ears to hear by the Holy Spirit of God, hear the
voice of the shepherd, and they flee to Christ. They
flee to Christ. And God, the Holy Spirit, gives
life to the dead sinner. How? Through the preaching of
the Word. Faith cometh by hearing, and
hearing by the Word of God. Now, if my words are the only
words you hear, you won't gain any profit at all. God, the Holy
Spirit must speak to you through the preaching of his word. And
that's what he does. Have you not heard a message
by, you've all listened to all different grace preachers, but
have you not heard a message, be sitting there listening to
a message, and you're thinking, Lord, that sermon was just for
me. Oh my. He speaks to us through his word,
beloved. He speaks to us through his word. Gives us hope and joy
and peace. This is the reason Paul proclaimed,
we preach Christ crucified. He was determined to know nothing.
And Paul was a very educated man. But he was determined to
know nothing among them save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
For this gospel preached is the power of God to salvation. Now
let's look at the next two verses back in Ezekiel chapter 37 and
we will see that this message or see that this was not a message
to tell dead bones what they could do because they could do
nothing. This proclamation was of what
God would do for them. from the preaching of the gospel
of God's free and sovereign grace. Look at this in Ezekiel 3 or
Ezekiel 37, 5 and 6. Thus saith the Lord God unto
these bones. Behold, I will cause a breath
to enter into you and you shall live. Where's the sinner there? God Himself says this, Behold,
I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. And I will ascend who is upon
you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover your skin and put
breath in you, and ye shall live and ye shall know that I am the
Lord. This is God given life. Notice it does not say, I've
done all I can do, and now the rest is up to you. It doesn't
say that, does it? But there's people that say that,
that proclaim that stuff. And say that God can't do anything
unless you walk an aisle and pray a prayer. Well, that's not
what the scripture says, beloved. These are very striking words,
very clear. Behold, I will cause breath to
enter into you, and ye shall live. And I will lay sin who's
upon you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin
and put breath in you and you shall live. And you should know
that I am the Lord. God says, I'll do these things
because these bones can't do anything. They're dead, parched,
dry, lifeless bones. And God's preachers are to preach
to dead sinners, telling them and proclaiming to them who God
is and what they are. And here we have a vivid picture
of God's absolute sovereignty, right here before us, in the
salvation of man, because man absolutely has no ability These dead bones picture us in
our natural state, no ability. Life for a dead sinner. Only
comes by the power of the Holy Spirit of God. Our master said
you must be born again. Which pictures what we will see
in our next verses is the dead are given life. This picture
is the dead spiritually being given life by the Holy Spirit,
regenerating them born again. and making them alive in Christ,
and giving them faith and repentance. And let us stress again that
this is a work of God alone. Look at Ezekiel 37, verse 7 and
8. 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. 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. So let us observe that amidst
the effects of the prophets' preaching, there was a noise
in the shaken, and bone came together with bone
and sinews and flesh, yet there was no breath in them. What can we learn here? Well,
we learn that after all man's preaching, unless God, the Holy
Ghost, by His power, puts life into a soul, there'll be no life. But if God, the Holy Spirit,
does an effectual work in a sinner, they will have life. God must
work a work of grace, a work of saving grace. Salvation is
by His mighty power. is by His mighty power. And sinners
may shake under the Word. Human strength, like the sinews
in the flesh, may make a stir, but the quickening power is in
the new birth, beloved. It's in the new birth of the
soul. And this is all the work of God.
He must be born again. Again, this The text before us
shows that salvation is by grace alone, from God alone, through
Christ alone. Look at verses 9 and 10. The
next verse is we see the prophet again doing what he's commanded.
And it's the Lord himself who's telling him to do this. Then
said he unto me, prophesize unto the wind, prophesize, 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. So I prophesized as he commanded,
and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood up upon
their feet in exceeding great harmony. We know that in scripture
the wind is typified of the Holy Spirit and it blows where it
will. And we know that even amongst our own congregation that one
can be sitting beside another and the Lord can save one and
pass right by the other. He moves as he's pleased. Let us remember this that there
is no life-giving power in the gospel itself apart from the
holy spirit and the breath Must first blow upon those bones And
then they shall live You must be born again For you to have life You must
be born again And notice, notice in this text
again, look at, then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind,
prophesy son of man and say to the wind, thus sayeth the Lord
God, come from the four winds, O breath and breathe upon these
slain that they may live. So I prophesize this, he commanded
me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood up upon
their feet in exceeding great army. Notice the entire dependence
upon God. It all comes from him. We have before here a picture
of man's absolute inability and a picture of all God's power
and might at work in the salvation of a sinner, and we are totally
dependent upon him. We will not have life unless
he gives it to us. Think of this. It was because
of the word of the Lord that the bones knit themselves to
bones and covered themselves with flesh. And it was because
of the word of the Lord that life came into motionless bodies.
And they were transformed, the valley of death into a valley of the living, a valley
of the dead into the valley of the living. And it's all by God's
power. This is the power of God on display,
beloved, in the salvation of sinners. The Holy Spirit moves
and gives life through the preaching of the gospel. It gives us breath. It gives us breath, beloved.
And we live through the preaching of the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Look at verse 10. Breath came
into them and they and stood up upon their feet,
an exceeding great army. Well, we know the scripture says
that the Lord's people are a number that no man can number. And this pictures regeneration,
beloved, which is all by the power of God, the Holy Spirit.
We who were dead spiritually, we were given life. We were given
life at our conversion. We were granted faith to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. And through Christ, we are given
life. And this happens to every single believer. We're born again
of the Holy Spirit of God. And it's a miracle of God. Every
one of us. It's a miracle of God, what he's
done for us. It's a miracle. And a result of God giving us
life, we shall know Him. And we shall live. And one day,
we shall know and behold Him without sin. And we who believe know right
now, though, that it is He who has given us life. It's He who
has given us life. Let's look at the last verses,
11 to 14. Then said He unto me, Son of
man, these dry bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold,
they say, our bones are dried and our hope is lost. We are
cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesies and saying
to them thus saith the Lord God behold. Oh my people. I will
open your graves Here make the dead to rise Lazarus come forth
And cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you
into the land of Israel. Oh here take us home to glory
one day Look at this and ye shall know
that I am the Lord when I have opened your graves, when I've
given you life, you'll know that He's the Lord. Did we know He was the Lord before?
Well, we talked about God. We didn't know who He was, though,
did we? But oh, now we who believe, we
know Him. He's revealed Himself to us.
And ye shall know that I am the Lord. When I have opened your
graves, they couldn't open their own graves, they were dead. O
my people, I have bought you up out of your graves. He brings
us up. And shall put my Spirit in you.
You must be born again. And ye shall live. My wonderful words. Wonderful words. And I shall place you in your
own land and then or then shall you know that I, the Lord, have
spoken it and look at this and performed it. You see the difference between
grace and religion. Religion tells you what you got
to do. We grace preachers, we preach what Christ is Salvation
is of the Lord from beginning to the end. He performs it. And God's people say, praises
my name. As we know, we couldn't save
ourselves. My goodness, turn, if you would, to John 11 or close
with these words, John 11, close with these words of the master.
The Lord Jesus Christ, John chapter 11, verses 25 and 26. Jesus said unto her, I am the
resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though
he were dead, dead like them bones below, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. And here's the question, and
we're close. Believest thou this? Heavenly Father, what a picture
we've seen tonight of our natural state, dead in trespasses and
sins with no ability to save ourselves. dead man's bones,
dead spiritually, dead to the things of you, dead to the things
of our Savior, yet thinking we're all right.
But oh Lord, when you moved in the lives of
your people and saved us, then, and only then did we know thee,
when you gave us life, and it's you who's done it all, And therefore,
tonight, we'd like to ascribe all the glory and all the honor
and all the praise to Thee, Lord. And we love You because You first
loved us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. bones but some of us know this
refreshing waters of the gospel and it's revived us so i want
us to sing in closing revive us again number 485 i know pastor
you had paid it all but this one revive us again ties in with
what you're talking about number 485 let's stand of our Jesus, who died and is
now born.