In the prophecy of Ezekiel in
chapter 37 we read a tremendous picture of the state of man of
the preaching of the gospel and of the power and the effect of
the gospel upon dead man to bring him unto life. Ezekiel 37 verse
1 reads as follows 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, 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. And 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. 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. 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. 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 a breath came into them, and they lived,
and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Then he said 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 ye 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. Verse 3 he said unto me son of
man can these bones live? can these bones live? can these bones live? Firstly consider where these
bones were. 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. In the
midst of the valley. Here are bones. Here is death. Here is death long since past
found in a valley. These are not corpses in a valley.
These are not people starving in a famine in a valley. These
are those who died a long time ago. They're just bones. The bones aren't even together. They're scattered. Here is death
long since executed, long since occurred. Here's the remains. the valley, in the valley. So the picture of this world
and a picture of man in this world. Man thinks he lives, you
think you live but before God spiritually you're in a valley
and you're just bones. The judgment of death has long
since been passed upon you because of your sin and your rebellion
against Almighty God. Man is fallen. He was created
in innocence but he turned his back on God and he's turned his
back on God ever since. and since the day you were born
you have turned your back on God and God said when man first
fell long before you fell that in the day that thou eatest of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil as man did in his
rebellion thou shalt surely die and man died and you died and
I died and ever since man has just been dead before a holy
God living with a natural life, living but for a moment for 70
years once you're born you grow up as grass then you you wither
away and you're gone again living for a brief moment upon this
globe each generation comes up and disappears comes up and disappears
comes up and disappears and thinks in their brief moment upon this
globe like little ants racing around that they rule the world
And yet they're gone in an instant and nobody remembers them. And
whatever great things they have achieved in their life is nothing
in the grand scheme of things. They're fools. And you're a fool
if you think that you're doing anything wonderful and if your
life counts for anything. It's but a blink of time. and
then you're gone and then you're in the grave and then you're
but bones in the dust of the earth and spiritually you're
but bones throughout in a valley the depths of the
earth Ezekiel was not taken to a mountaintop here he was not
taken to a place where the earth meets the heavens But he was
taken down. Down where man has fallen. Down
where there is death. Down into the pits. Down into
the depths. Down into the valley. Where dead
fallen men lay. Is that where we find you today?
In a valley. Far from God. your thoughts and
your affections, your desires, your hopes, your dreams all far
from God. Any knowledge of God is but an
intrusion. All your desire is for what's
here below in the depths of the valley and your butt bones. In this valley Ezekiel found
bones a valley which was full of bones full of bones and this
world is full of bones full of bones I read that the population
of the world today is something like 7 billion. There are 7 billion
people in this world at this moment and in a few years those
7 billion will be in the grave and before them however many
billion lived and before them however many billion lived and
after them however many billion lived. Millions and millions
in each nation coming and going, coming and going, all full of
bones and the valley is full of bones and they're all dead. There is not one that lives by
nature, there's not one who before God lives because they're all
dead. They've all gone astray, they've
all sinned, they've all turned their back on God and before
God they're all dead. there is none righteous no not
one there's none that seeketh after God we all seek our own things and
we're bones dead utterly dry dry because the heat of the Sun
has scorched us God in the heavens above has reigned and his righteous
judgment has been poured out upon this world it's been declared
and it finds man wanting and man can't stand in the light
of the sun except God has mercy upon him
except God shines his light into the darkness of man's heart the
sun and the heat of the sun merely burns him he's scorched he's dry he's dead some pretend to live some pretend
to make a profession of religion or to follow after God But all
that they do in the flesh is in the flesh, is in the strength
of man, there's no reality to it. It's all their will, their
decision for their glory. There's no seeking after God
because they're dead. You say you live, God says your
bones. God caused him to pass by them
round about and behold there were very many in the open valley
and lo they were very dry. Long since dead. There's no life
in them. People say there's good in everyone,
there is not. There's no good in any man. And the testimony of God to the
state of man by nature is there's no good in him. There's no ability
to do good. There's no will to do good. There's
not one that seeks after God truly. There's no one that will
seek after the truth. They don't mind following a God
who stands at their command. They don't mind following a Jesus
who they can accept or command or say, I will follow you. But
they hate the Jesus that comes unto those whom he chooses and
says unto them, follow me. They hate the God that's sovereign.
They hate the God that brought the judgment down against them
because of their sin and in whose hands they are if ever there
to be saved. They hate a God who's in control
and sits upon a throne. They hate the God who is God. They'll readily follow a God
who's in their control, like a little idol that they have
in their pocket or in their hand. whom they look to when really
they're looking unto self they say they serve a God but they
serve themselves because they're dead and they're
bones and they're dry like you and like I and given such a state
God says unto Ezekiel son of man Can these bones live? Can these bones live? Look at them, they're dead. Look at all mankind, he's dead. They're just bones, dead in trespasses
and sins, spiritually dead, long since gone, long since condemned. Not one flicker or breath of
life in them. Just bones. Can these bones live? Surely by nature. Surely according
to what Ezekiel could see when he looked upon them the answer
would be no. It's impossible. They've already
died. Whatever life there may once
have been, wrapped around these bones has long since gone. It's way past the point of living. These are dead men's bones. They can't live by nature. How can such bones live? Rightly, we might look upon them
and think, well, it's impossible. And what's impossible with these
bones in the valley is impossible with fallen man. When you look
upon men, when you look upon yourself and see man and see
yourself as he and you truly are, when you know how dead man
is, when you know how rebellious man is, when you know how far
fallen man is, when you know how deep and dark the valley
in which he found is, when you know how dead man and you are,
then the obvious answer to the question can these bones live
is no, it's impossible. There's no life in them, there's
no possibility. It's all gone, there's no flesh
upon these bones. They're not even a dead corpse
anymore, there's no flesh, there's no sinews, there's no breath,
there's nothing, they're just bones. And spiritually that's
where you are. The flesh has gone, the sinews
have gone, the breath has gone. You're just bones in the heat
of the sun in the valley. Can these bones live? It's impossible. But Ezekiel who stood before
the living God who created all things, that God who in days
gone by created man before he fell that God who created the
valley in which he stood that God who created these bones and
created the people they once were from that God who made all
things and brought all things out of nothing as he stood before
the living God he had the wisdom to say O Lord God Thou knowest
Can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou
knowest. If God says they can live, they
can live. If God can bring this world out
of nothing, then he can make bones live. If God created man out of the dust of
the earth and breathed life into him, and surely God can make
the bones live however dead they are yet rightly Ezekiel would
have looked upon them and naturally speaking thought it's impossible
And when we look upon mankind today and when we see the hardness
of man's heart to the things of God and the things of Jesus
Christ, when we see the mass rejection of Christ and His Gospel,
when we see the multiplying of sin in this world and the ways
of man and the Wisdom of man and the deceit of man and the
deception, the lies, the desire, the ugliness of man's heart.
When we see how far fallen man is, when we see the atrocities
of man and see the violence and the evil in the world around
us, the hatred of man, when we see the atrocities committed
in times of war when we see what nations have done and what nations
can be led to do against others when we look back and see what
Hitler did in the war and what men like him other leaders have
done the mass genocide and what man left to his own devices can
do and we see the awfulness of sin And when we look in our own
heart and see our own deceit and our own lies our own lying
to others and our own lying to self and our own lying to God
and our own selfish desire for our own ends and our own anger
and irritation at anyone that gets in our way and prevents
us achieving what we want to do a rebellion against all authority
over us, a rebellion against our parents, a rebellion against
law and order in society, a rebellion against teachers, a rebellion
against all things that get in our way. When we see our own
sin and rebellion and discover something of what we are and
consider how hard our hearts are and realize how spiritually
dead we are then surely we'd look upon the state of man and
ourselves and say of these bones, can these bones live? I cannot
see that they could I'm long since gone I deserve nothing
there's nothing I can do I've tried to seek God, I've tried
to live right, I've tried to turn myself to the scriptures
I've tried to live according to his holy will and I fall and
I fail and I crumble there's no ability can these bones live
not by nature? Ezekiel knew with God the impossible
is possible this is the God that makes the seas part side to side
and dry land appear such that the whole nation of Israel could
pass through and escape the Egyptians that followed. This is the God
that sent the plagues upon Egypt and turned the waters of the
Nile into blood. This is the God that can make
blind men see and deaf men hear. This is the God that can make
the impossible possible. Can these bones live? I answered,
O Lord God, thou knowest. Yes, indeed. With God he can
send life where there is the greatest of death. He can make
dead bones to live through his gospel. through his gospel. I am not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation. 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. 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. So Ezekiel prophesied as he was
commanded. and as I prophesied he says 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 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. Can these bones live? Yes they can when God speaks. When he sends his gospel, dead
bones live. When he commands his servant
to prophesy, to preach the word, go to these bones, say unto them,
preach unto them, say unto the bones, O ye dry bones, hear the
word of the Lord. and they will hear. Behold, I will cause breath to
enter into you, God says, and ye shall live. Ezekiel did as
God told him God said go to the bones speak to them preach to
them declare the word of God unto them say unto them hear
the word of the Lord and he did as he was commanded and God moved
and spoke and brought life to the bones it was God that did
it But he did it by sending Ezekiel to preach. He said preach, prophesy. And as he did, God made the bones
to live. O the effect, the power of the
Gospel, the power of the Word of God, the power of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ, when it's sent by God unto sinners, unto dead
bones like you and I, when God speaks by His Spirit through
His servants, by His Gospel, dead bones live. God says I will cause breath
to enter into you and you shall live if God commands it if God
speaks it if God brings it about then dead bones live dead bones
like yours dead bones like mine dead men like you and dead men
like I when the power of the gospel comes we live it's impossible
but the gospel makes it possible it is the power of God unto salvation
but God would have Ezekiel preach it can these bones live? O Lord God thou knowest then
did God say unto Ezekiel watch Ezekiel And God spake unto the
bones and the bones lived and Ezekiel watched and God performed. Did God say that to him? No,
God said unto Ezekiel, son of man prophesy. He involved Ezekiel. He says you're going to see something
here Ezekiel. You're going to see these bones
and you're going to see them live. But you do as I say, go
and speak unto them. Say unto the bones, O ye dry
bones, hear the word of the Lord. O ye dry bones, hear the word
of the Lord. Now consider that. Consider what
Ezekiel's told to do there. Consider what this preacher's
told to do there. He's told to go and speak to
dry bones and say unto dry dead bones, hear the word of the Lord.
Now how can dead bones hear? Those that love to study theology
and get themselves wrapped up in arguments will come unto this
and say, well that's nonsense. You can't preach unto dead, dry
bones because they can't hear and they can't respond. So how
can I say unto a dead, dry bone, hear the word of the Lord? He's
got no ability to hear, nothing's going to happen. I will wait
until I see a sign with these bones that there's life there
and then I will preach and address them. I will say, ye bones that
are living, hear the word of the Lord. And so man gets tangled
up because he thinks that there must be life before he can address
that life. But it's up to God to send the
life and God sends the life when he speaks. Dry bones can't hear
the word of the Lord, you're absolutely right. There's a foolishness
in addressing dry bones and saying hear the word of the Lord. It's
crazy, it's foolish, it's folly. And it is called the foolishness
of preaching, which is why the Jews and the Greeks laughed at
it and scorned it. As Paul says in 1 Corinthians,
it's the foolishness of the preaching of the cross because we come
unto dry bones and say unto them, hear the word of the Lord. Well,
they can't. Well, what stupidity to preach
such things to dead sinners like this who can't hear. Yet God
sends his gospel and God sends Ezekiel unto dry bones and says,
speak. Now when he speaks, when he prophesies
unto them, they're dead, they're dry, they hear nothing. But as
he speaks, as God has said to him, God causes life to enter
into them. And when the life enters, they
hear and they believe. it accompanies the preaching
of the gospel. The preaching of the gospel is
not held back and reserved for those bones that have already
been brought to life by God at some other point in time by whatever
means. God brings that life, he brings
birth, he brings the new birth of the Spirit of God unto dead
sinners when he preaches the gospel. Is this the agency of man that
there must be a preacher? Not at all. Many there are who
with some desire to defend the sovereignty of God and the sovereignty
of God in salvation seek to take man out of the equation altogether
even including the preacher and the preaching of the gospel and
they try to say no the preaching of the gospel simply makes known
unto those that God has brought unto life what God has done unto
them So at some point the spirit of God brings them to life then
they hear the gospel and they believe it and they try to create
this clever order in which the sovereignty of God is preserved
and which the preacher is then set aside to be some secondary
thing that's just bringing information to those that God has already
saved. That's confused nonsense. God sends the preacher and it
is by the preaching that he brings people to life. That doesn't
make the preacher the one that brings them to life, nor does
it make his preaching the one that brings them to life. It's
God that does it. God is sovereign in all. But
God sovereignly calls and sends and commands a preacher. He tells
him what to say. He causes him to say it. And
when he says it, God sends life. That's patently clear in this
passage. Prophesy unto these bones and
say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. He's
sent to dry bones, dead bones. And we're sent with the gospel
to those who are dead. Those who have not yet been born
again of the Holy Spirit. Those who are still dead. and
we're to preach unto them and say unto them, hear the word
of the Lord. And it's when that gospel's preached
that God says, when you so prophesy, when you so preach, when you
go unto the people I send you to with my gospel and preach
by my Spirit this gospel unto them, then I will lay sinews
upon them. and I will bring flesh up upon
them and I will cover them with skin and I will put breath in
them and they shall live and they shall know that I am the
Lord and that I have done this and they won't look to the preacher
and they won't say it's that man that saved me they'll say
it's God but he sent his gospel and I heard the gospel as God
commanded Is it the agency of man? Not at all. God brought
the life. But he chose to have Ezekiel
prophesy. It pleased him to work this way. God also brought his people Israel
up out of Egypt. He delivered his people Israel
out of Egypt as a figure, as a picture of his people spiritual
Israel being delivered from the Egypt of this world and the death
of this world and brought out of this world unto life to follow
God. He delivered his people Israel
out of Egypt but he did so by sending a man called Moses. And he said Moses you will go
before my people and go to Pharaoh and speak unto Pharaoh all the
words that I command you and you will in so doing lead my
people out of this country. I will do this Moses but I will
do it by sending you to preach and to declare and to lead. Then was it Moses that delivered
that people out of Egypt? Not at all, God did. But Moses
was the man that God chose to speak by. Even though Moses protested
that he was slow of tongue, he stammered, he couldn't speak,
he had no ability. God took that dead man Moses,
that ineffective man Moses, that man that couldn't speak. And
he said, I'll put my words into your mouth and you will speak.
and I will do wondrous things and you will behold what I do.'
And Moses knew it was nothing of himself but all of God and
yet God chose to use that nothing of a man called Moses to do it.
And so he did with Ezekiel. He took this nothing of a man
and he said look go to these bones and prophesy and he prophesied
and the bones lived. And so today, God calls nothings,
wretched sinners that He saves by grace and He says, now you,
go with my word and preach it, preach this gospel that delivered
you, preach it, go to the bones and say unto them, hear the word
of the Lord. And when they go and when they
preach and when God speaks by them, those bones live. It's
got nothing to do with a man. But God will still send a man
with his gospel to do it. O ye dry bones, hear the word
of the Lord. How can dry bones hear? They
can't. And yet Ezekiel's commanded to
preach to them. Now a dead man cannot hear the
gospel until he's quickened by the Spirit. But we still preach
that gospel to dead men. And it is by that gospel that
God sends life unto them. It's so important. As I've said
there are those that contend that the Spirit of God must first
quicken them to life without means, without preaching, without
the gospel, without a man and then these quickened sinners
will hear the gospel and believe. Well yes they must be quickened
but God says go to them and speak to them and I will quicken them.
I will bring them to life. I will breathe into them when
you preach. It accompanies the Gospel. We don't see this reordering
in the Scriptures. We see those men sent to God
to preach the Gospel throughout the New Testament. God sent forth
His disciples and the apostles with the Gospel. They went unto
this place and that place and they preached. and dead bones
had life breathe into them and they lived. They went unto dead
bones, dry bones, not living bones, dead dry bones long since
dead and they say unto them hear the word of the Lord. Hear the word of the Lord. Was it Ezekiel that brought these
bones to life? No, of course not. It was God
did, but not without the prophesying, the preaching of Ezekiel. 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. I have done this. later on in the chapter he says
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 I've
done it yes a man came unto you and he prophesied unto you and
he spake my word unto you you'll know that I was the one that
spoke and I was the one that performed it and I was the one
that made you live you heard the words of a man but you truly
inwardly inside you heard me speaking it's all of God but
it's through his gospel what's the effect of Ezekiel's prophesying
bones came to bones flesh came upon them sinews came upon them
breath entered into them life entered in 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 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. Oh, what an effect
this preaching of the gospel had! What an effect! When he began and the bones came
together there was a noise and a shaking and when the gospel
comes unto you, O dead bones of a sinner and starts to begin
its work and starts to have an effect you'll feel the shaking
and the noise You'll know what it is to be broken down before
Almighty God. You'll know what it is to be
crushed before him and convicted of your sin. You'll feel within
you that everything's shaken up. All your hopes in this world,
all your ambitions, all your desires, all that was important
to you, all that seemed to matter to you comes crashing down as
nothing. There's a shaking. there's a
noise everything changes everything's upside down all that mattered
to you before is worthless and everything's changed and you
lay prostrate before God and as he preaches as the word comes
unto you in power then he takes flesh and puts it upon you and
puts sinews upon you and then he breathes and he breathes life
into you and you live and faith enters into that dead soul that
dark soul that once was dead and lost faith enters in and
your eyes open and your ears open and you hear this word that
you've been hearing with the outward ear you begin to hear
inwardly and it begins to make sense once you were trying to
make sense of it all and you couldn't but now it all makes
sense and you heard the voice of the Lord and you live and
you see and you see a saviour who was crucified because of
your sin and you realise that the death that bade you to be
bones in a valley had been taken and had been laid upon him and
God had taken him and brought him down out of heaven's glory
into this valley of bones beneath and led him into a place called
Golgotha, the place of a skull. that dark valley full of bones
where there's only death God had sent the Saviour Jesus Christ
in your place to a place called the place of a skull, a place
of bones, a place of death and He took your sins and your rebellion
and your wretched heart and He bore it and He bore the judgement
of God against it He bore the penalty of death that had once
come down upon you, that you'd once felt that you thought had
condemned you, you see that instead God had taken that and placed
it upon Him. And in fact you're not the one
that's going to remain dead. He died that you might live. Faith enters in. Life enters
in. It rushes into all your being.
It flows through your body. The bones of your body come together. The flesh moves. The sinews move. The muscles move. You have life
in your being and you see that life as pouring forth from the
blood of Christ which was shed because of your death and your
sin and your rebellion. and you see a Saviour who died
that you might live and you're brought to stand up in the company
of a great army a great army saved by grace all of whom have
heard this Word all of whom have heard this Gospel all of whom
have heard the Word of the Lord speak unto them live and they
rose up and they walked forth and they lived and they rode
forth as a conquering army with Christ upon a horse leading them
forth because he's the great conquering victor that delivered
them from death he's the one that did it and they look and
they follow and you will look and you will follow oh what an
effect this gospel has have you beheld a saviour? have you beheld
Christ? have you heard his speech? his
voice saying unto you live? oh the promise that is then set
before such a people Then he said unto me, Son of man, these
bones are the whole house of Israel, my people, my church,
all for whom Christ died, the whole house of Israel. Behold,
they say, our bones are dried and our hope is lost. We are
cut off for our parts. We're dead. they're all brought
to confess that they're all brought to know that when they first
heard the gospel we're dead we're gone but he says unto them not
so can these bones live? yes indeed can my bones live? yes indeed 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 ye 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 you shall live and I shall place
you in your own land then you shall know that I the Lord have
spoken it and performed it saith the Lord there's a promise in
this he speaks, he preaches we're brought to life but he promises
I'm going to bring you my people into your own land I'm not leaving
you in this valley I'm not leaving you with the bones I'm not leaving
you where there's death I'm going to lead you forth into a land
flowing with milk and honey I'm going to bring you into your
own land where you live and reign with me forevermore where you
will live forever Because I have spoken by my gospel grace and
mercy unto your soul. Finally, seventhly, this is from
start to finish, the work of God. The work of God. Yes, he sends his gospel. Yes,
he commanded Ezekiel to preach. Yes, he will preach this word
unto dead bones. But it's his work to speak by
that gospel, to send life to those bones, to make those bones
live. It's his work. he calls the preacher,
he prepares the preacher, he sends the preacher, he puts his
word in his lips, he speaks by him, he speaks by the Spirit
of God and he causes dead bones to live. It's all the work of
God and every child of God that's heard this word and been brought
to life knows it. Then shall ye know I the Lord
have spoken it and performed it, saith the Lord. You'll know
that I've done it. You know you heard a preacher
but you know it wasn't him. Man wasn't involved, you didn't
decide to believe, you didn't decide to follow me, you didn't
decide to live, you were a dead corpse, you were a dead bone,
you were gone, you couldn't decide or do anything. and that preacher
couldn't decide or do anything men can stand before bones and
say all that they like as loud as they like they can preach
as hard as they like except God speaks by them there's just death
it's all God and every child of God will come to know that
this is all of grace all of God from start to finish then shall
ye know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it, saith
the Lord. The preacher spake, but I have
spoken. The preacher preached, but I
made you live. I have spoken it and performed
it. 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. Then saith the Lord God unto
these bones, Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and
ye shall live. Amen.