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Devotional: March 19th

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Ezekiel 18:19-32

This whole chapter stresses the principle of the individual responsibility of each soul (in other words of each human being) towards God. And we repeat once again: you are not saved by the piety of your parents, nor of your grandparents, nor because you attend a gathering of God’s children. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die" (v. 20). "For the wages of sin is death" (although in Ezekiel it is only a matter of the death of the body); "but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23).

God has been accused of unfairness by this blind and guilty people (just as by many unbelievers today); they have gone as far as to say, "The way of the Lord is not equal" (vv. 25, 29; Ezekiel 33:17; Ezekiel 33:20). "Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?" the LORD is obliged to ask. What a question! In His great love, "God our Saviour . . . will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9). So the last words of this chapter consist of a further appeal of His grace, addressed to His people . . . and perhaps to you, "Wherefore turn . . . and live!"

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