{"id":3979,"date":"2013-01-31T16:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T22:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2013-01-31T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T22:44:24","slug":"a-good-sermon-from-1862-on-ezekiels-deserted-infant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/a-good-sermon-from-1862-on-ezekiels-deserted-infant\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Sermon from 1862 on Ezekiel’s Deserted Infant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, Ryan preached\u00c2\u00a0a sermon from\u00c2\u00a0Ezekiel 16<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0titled, “God’s Initiative and Persistency in Love and Mercy<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

If Ezekiel 16 peaked your interest last night, here’s another idea: read an old sermon on the same text by Charles Spurgeon, titled, “Ezekiel’s Deserted Infant<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Here’s a link<\/a> to Spurgeon’s sermon, and here’s his outline:<\/p>\n

I. At the outset, I shall direct your contemplations to a survey of the misery of man’s estate<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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  1. At the very first glance, we remark, here is an early ruin<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  2. The next very apparent teaching of the text is utter inability<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  3. Apparent, too, is yet a third misfortune\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe are utterly friendless<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  4. Furthermore, our text very clearly reveals to us that we are by nature in a sad state of exposure<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  5. It seems that this child, besides being in this exposed state, was loathsome<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  6. We close this fearful description by observing the certain ruin to which this infant was exposed<\/em>, as setting forth the sure destruction of every man if Divine Grace prevents not.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    II. We are now to search for motives for God’s grace<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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    1. One of the first would be, necessity<\/em>.<\/li>\n
    2. In this case, there was nothing in the birth<\/em> of this child, in its original parentage, that could move the passerby.<\/li>\n
    3. Nor was there anything in this child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beauty<\/em>, for it was loathsome.<\/li>\n
    4. Furthermore, as we have found no motive yet, either in necessity or the child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birth or beauty, so we find none in any entreaties<\/em> that were uttered by this child.<\/li>\n
    5. Yet, further, Brothers and Sisters\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit does not appear that the pity of the passerby was shown upon this child because of any future service<\/em> which was expected of it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      III. But now, we turn to consider the mandate of his mercy<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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      1. This fiat of God is majestic<\/em>.<\/li>\n
      2. This fiat is manifold<\/em> as well as majestic.<\/li>\n
      3. It is, moreover, spiritual life<\/em>.<\/li>\n
      4. It is an irresistible voice<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Last night, Ryan preached\u00c2\u00a0a sermon from\u00c2\u00a0Ezekiel 16\u00c2\u00a0titled, “God’s Initiative and Persistency in Love and Mercy.” If Ezekiel 16… Continue Reading ›<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}