Making Spiritual Decisions (Revisiting Ezekiel 21)
God and His Prophets: A verse-by-verse study through the Bible’s major and minor prophetsShow Notes
This week’s episode is a recent sermon I preached on Ezekiel 21. As I open the episode, I explain why I wanted to share it here… Video available of this week's episode! Watch it here: https://youtu.be/Rtk4oaiOyU8
Some decisions are just too big to be left to chance. There are some decisions in life that are so huge, you wouldn’t dare flip a coin on them. What career you want to have. Who to marry. Which house to buy. Whether to challenge your 6-year-old to a Fortnite rematch after he destroyed you the last time. These are weighty matters to consider. And yet, you would actually see people in the Bible casting lots to make some of these types of big decisions. Decisions of going into battle, figuring out who was guilty of a crime- and even matters of life and death. Ancient peoples had lots of weird, kooky ways of doing things. The weird thing about it to me…is that it worked. God often worked through people casting lots- literally playing games of chance- to reveal His will to them and to guide them to the correct choice. If God revealed His will like that to them, would God reveal His will like that to me?
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