The Grands Letter (Ezek/GLJ)
Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D. on May 27, 2025 5:24 am (CST)Dear Grands,
Ezekiel 20:18-26, “And I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, or keep their ordinances, or defile yourselves with their idols.
19 ‘I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances, and observe them.
20 ‘And sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’
21 “But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My sabbaths. So, I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.
22 “But I withdrew My hand and acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
23 “Also, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands,
24 because they had not observed My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes, and had profaned My sabbaths, and their eyes were on the idols of their fathers.
25 “And I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live;
26 and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the LORD.”
It’s not easy to be a spiritual leader. The words above demonstrate the difficulty of leadership in biblical times. The sins of the people required Ezekiel to either ignore their wrongs or to hold firmly to what was right in the LORD’s eyes. To his credit and to the glory of the LORD, Ezekiel did what the LORD required! Notice that Ezekiel’s stand was not intended to ingratiate himself to the people but to exalt the Name of the LORD God. This is precisely what every spiritual leader in every true church should be and do today. It is the LORD’s Name that requires our obedience. It is our obedience to the LORD that will lead His people in right paths. And therein alone is the LORD glorified!
Heartily in Christ Jesus,
(Dado III)
Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
“We will never know that Christ is all we need
until He becomes all that we have.”
– Corrie ten Boom
