Ezekiel 3:17-19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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Ezekiel 3:17-19

I. The ministry of divine truths is a special ordinance of God. The watchman is not (1) self-constituted; (2) self-instructed; (3) self-sent.

II. The ministry of divine truths is entrusted with the duty of warning men. Three mistakes about warning may be pointed out: (1) That warning is independent of knowledge; (2) that warning betokens hardness of nature; (3) that warning is the lowest and easiest duty of the ministry.

III. The duty of warning men is connected with a just distribution of responsibility.

Parker, City Temple,1871, p. 92.

Reference: Ezekiel 3:18. S. Cox, Expositions,3rd series, p. 16.

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Ezekiel 3:17-19

17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.