Ezekiel
5: 5. The Rabbis said that Jerusalem was the actual center of the earth, and in the church of the Holy Sepulcher is a large stone that marks the exact center.
11: 16. Israel, though dispersed, would find God even among the heathen.
17: 54. Some Christians are a “comfort” to the worldly.
33: 3. Four trumpet calls: —
Beware. Eze. 33: 3; Num. 10:5.
Be glad. Num. 10: 10.
Be useful. Rev. 8: 6.
Be ready. Eze. 7:14; 1 Cor. 15: 52.
34: 10-29. Notice the “I will’s” of the Lord God on behalf
of his sheep.
The Shepherd and the sheep: —
V. 11. I will search them and seek them out.
V. 12. I will deliver them.
V. 13. I will bring them out.
V. 13. I will gather them together.
V. 13. I will bring them in.
V. 14. I will feed them.
V. 15. I will cause them to lie down.
V. 16. I will bind up the broken.
V. 16. I will strengthen the sick.
14. There are a good many lean sheep in God’s fold, but none in his pasture.
37: 2. Many a preacher fails because he does not visit his
people and find out their actual condition. Survey the ground where sin and death reign.
4. Preaching to dry bones!
9. Preaching to the wind!