The main thing I want us to conceptualize in this teaching is the ability to be transported somewhere in a vision by God just as Ezekiel was transported in various visions while He was in the land of Babylon

God can literally take you to a place of known or unknown expectation through a vision. You can be in Uganda now and He takes you to China in a vision. you begin to see what is happening in china in real note through power and purpose of spiritual practice

The bible talks about visions of God in a way human mind may find it hard to conceptualize but yet definite to truth

When Ezekiel was in the land of Babylon in the 25th year of his captivity.. He was transported to the land of Israel by God.

He wasn’t transported to the land of Israel physically but He was transported to the land of Israel spiritually in a vision Ezekiel 40:1-31]IN THE twenty-fifth year of our captivity [by Babylon], in the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city [of Jerusalem] was taken, on the very same day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me to that place.[2]In the visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me down upon a very high mountain, on the south side of which there was what seemed to be the structure of a city.3]He brought me there, and behold, there was a man [an angel] whose appearance was like bronze, with a line of flax and a measuring reed in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.
Just as Ezekiel was transported to Israel in a vision we too can have faith to experience various visions from the Lord

Reflective questions about the teaching

A) According to what formality of note was Ezekiel transported to the land of Israel?

b) Where was He physically as realised to thus when He was transported to the land of Israel?

c) According to the bible, what may have thought this being to be that He found at the structure that was on the southern slope of the high mountain where The LORD had taken Ezekiel to?

D) Was Ezekiel transported to the land of Israel physically or Spiritually?

e) What would be some of the main lessons you can learn from our subject study?

f) How does this appeal to our day to day perception of life?

Confession prayer

Dear Lord.. am grateful for this teaching in view to the visions of God. I pray that me too the eye’s of my spirit will be awakened to experience visions of God in Jesus name Amen

God interestingly speaks to those that were deported from Jerusalem to Babylon through Jeremiah’s letter to them amidst their time’s of controversy and wonder in that land where they had been deported to

God tells them that after seventy years are over, He will attend to them ( Visit them)

• God tells them that He knows the plans He has for them
• Brother, sister you may have been struggling for quiet purpose of time but the Lord is saying that He knows the plans that He has for you. Plans to give you a future that you long for. Plans to give you an expected end Jeremiah 29:10-11[10]For thus says the Lord, When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you and keep My good promise to you, causing you to return to this place.[11]For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.

Reflective questions about the teaching

a) What did The Lord through Jeremiah the prophet tell the Israelites that had been deported from Jerusalem to Babylon?

b) Are you aware that God knows the plans that He has for you?

c) Do you know that God has plans for you?

d) Underline purpose of note as due to our teaching

e) What is the applicability of this as due to our day to day life

Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus am grateful that for sure indeed you have great plans for me and you alone knows the plans that you have for me

According to a realised aspect of view in perspective and also in conduct , we note that there are people that have brought about curses upon themselves as due to what they have done. They are called covenant curses as mentioned in the book of Deuteronomy

They are living under a curse as a result of failing to honour their parents and living against divine purpose

The bible talks about those who are cursed in perspective to that which they have done as to some of those who make a graven image Deuteronomy 27:15-1615]Cursed is the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer, Amen.16]Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.as thus, we should refrain ourselves from thing’s that may bring a curse on ourselves

Reflective questions about the teaching

a) What is a curse? How can you define a curse according to the perception of your forbearing?

b) In the book of Deuteronomy which people were considered as cursed

c) May you be one of those who think that you may be cursed according to way of acclaimed manner?

d) What would be some of the lessons that you learn in view to this teaching

e) How relatable is this teaching in relation to our day to day life?

Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus am grateful that you are delivering me and you have delivered me from any curse of the law as related upon to my of life in Jesus name Amen

You can’t go far in Christ as long as you still have something detestable that is before you that the spirit of God has been reminding you to throw away. It may be in your house, office or whatsoever place in view.

One of the thing’s that we should do as like minded disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ is that we should throw away the detestable thing’s before us Ezekiel 20:7[7]Then said I to them, Let every man cast away the abominable things on which he feasts his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

There are so many detestable thing’s that we have put before our eye’s in view to consideration of how some of these thing’s are treasured by us and as to thus if we don’t throw away them.. they will cause the anger of the Lord to reign over us

Reflective questions about the teaching

a) As reconciled to view of note, what are those thing’s that we are instructed by The Lord to throw away?

b) What are some of the detestable thing’s before you

c) What lessons can you prioritise in view to our teaching

Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that you give me the ability to throw away all the detestable practices before me in Jesus name Amen

As a Christian learn that whenever The Lord instructs you about something that He wants you to do and somewhere He wants you to go.. go to that place He has instructed you to go to .

When The Lord instructs you to speak all that which He has commanded you, better speak all that which He has commanded you without leaving any word to projection.

When the Lord sent Jeremiah to go to the

• courtyard of the Lord’s temple. He instructed Him to speak all that which The Lord had commanded Him to speak in view to the cities of Judah and all those that were coming to the house of the Lord to worship there as thus and to note Jeremiah 26:2[2]Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the Lord’s house [Jeremiah] and speak to all [the people of] the cities of Judah who come to worship in the Lord’s house all the words that I command you to speak to them; subtract not a word. As thus we should also speak that which the Lord has instructed us to speak to whichever place He sends us to

Reflective questions about the teaching

a) According to realisation of due, what did the Lord command Jeremiah to speak in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple and to all those who were coming to worship there?

b) Have you been speaking that which The Lord has been commanding to your notice?

c) What happens if we don’t speak that which The Lord has instructed us to speak?

d) Give realisation of due as purposed upon to our reference in word

e) How significant is this teaching in relation to our day to day life ?

f) What may be some of the lessons that you have been able to learn in perspective

Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus am grateful for this insight in view to speak all that which you have instructed me to speak in Jesus name Amen

Some people have done you really bad to the extent that you didn’t want anything to do with them whether on the contrast of purpose or not .

They treated you in a way they were not supposed to treat you.. possibly they would have treated you better than the way they treated you and as a result of how they treated you .. you are also considering to take revenge in like manner with the same attitudes and way they treated you.

One of the thing’s that the people of Edom did is that they did something stupid which they were not supposed to do in like manner. Ezekiel 25:12-13
[12]Thus says the Lord God: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance and has greatly offended and has become doubly guilty by taking revenge upon them[13]Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and will cut off and root out man and beast from it, and I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

They were not supposed to do as they idealised to do… they acted vengefully against the people of Judah and as a result it brought about their fall..

Reflective questions about the teaching

a) According to purpose of note, what is that thing which the people of Edom were not supposed to do?

b) Realise purpose of note as due to our subject study

c) What may be some of the lessons that you learn as attributed upon to context

Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus I come before you today. I pray that you will give me the grace not to act by vengeance over those that have done bad to me in Jesus name Amen

Question to answer by thought ; According to your psychological perspectives of belief in view, what is that which you have been indoctrinated with? Have you been indoctrinated with that which is after the purpose of Christ or after the purpose of the world?

If you really want to be a gospel fire preacher possibly not like some of us . The greatest burden that lies upon your shoulders is the mandate of Christ. You must be ready and more willing to fish people

As long as you have not accepted The Lord Jesus to be your Lord and saviour you can’t fish people into the kingdom of God from the kingdom of darkness.

You can’t fish that which you don’t know except when you indoctrinate them with that which is not after the purpose of Christ. To that you would have indoctrinated them with your system set up of belief

The greatest goal and motivation of Jesus’s ministry is that which had to do with that of fishing people.

Jesus aspired to teach Peter how to fish people since peter didn’t know how to fish people but Peter had to follow Jesus first

What Peter knew was fishing fish but He didn’t know how people can be fished into the kingdom but the moment He started following Jesus .. Jesus made Him fish for people Matthew 4:19[19]And He said to them, Come after Me [as disciples–letting Me be your Guide], follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men!

Reflective questions about the teaching

a) Did Peter know how to fish for people before He met Jesus?

b) Who taught Peter how to fish for people ?

c) Are you going to be a fisher of men?

d) In what ways are you going to be a fisher of men ?

e) Underline purpose of note as due and in view to our teaching

Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus I want to be a fisher of men just like you taught people how to fish for people

There are time’s when people’s words become chaff to your hearing and you begin to feel sorry about that which people said about you

You shouldn’t be afraid whenever the Lord gives you a responsibility to fulfil a certain obligation to due about what people will say as a result of the Lord’s sending you to that place

• When The Lord sent Ezekiel the prophet to the Israelites and to the nation’s that had surrounded Israel, The Lord told him that He shouldn’t be afraid of them and that He shouldn’t be afraid of their faces Ezekiel 2:6[6]And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words; though briers and thorns are all around you and you dwell and sit among scorpions, be not afraid of their words nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

Reflective questions about the teaching

a) When The Lord was sending Ezekiel to the Israelites and to the rebellious nation’s.. what did The Lord tell Him or warn Him about

b) Underline purpose of note as due to our subject study

C) give some of the lessons that you learn from our teaching in view

Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that I will not be afraid whatever people will speak about me in Jesus name Amen

IDOLATRY

We must be careful about some of the thing’s we do as they may cause the Lord to leave us or to be with us as continually

Why do some people begin good with their ambition for God then all of a sudden they end bad

People who were highly anointed end up loosing the anointing

The book of Ezekiel shows us how the man of God was transported in the Spirit as the elders of Israel sat before him in his house .Ezekiel 8:3[3]And He put forth the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heavens and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the door of the inner [court] which faces toward the north, where was the seat of the idol (image) of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. [II Kings 16:10-16; 21:4, 5.]

When He was transported in the Spirit he was shown the abominations that were in the house of the Lord Ezekiel 8:5[5]Then He [the Spirit] said to me, Son of man, now lift up your eyes toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, on the north of the altar gate was that idol (image) of jealousy in the entrance.

May prayer is that we shall not comform to the thing’s that may cause us to miss the divine mark of the Lord upon our lives. Spirit] said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? The great abominations that the house of Israel is committing here to drive Me far from My sanctuary? But you shall again see greater abominations.

Reflective questions about the teaching

a) According to purpose of note, Who was transported in the Spirit but the Spirit?

b) Where was Ezekiel transported to as realised upon to purpose

Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that you keep me aligned to the pursuit of divine purpose in my generation Amen

PRIORITISE THE AGENDA OF GOD

If you really want to grow in faith, you need to prioritise the agenda of God above luxury

You need to understand the chronology of God so that you may not be confused on what to do and where to go

The psalmist talks about the Lord as He who it is in His hand to make great 1 Chronicles 29:12[12]Both riches and honor come from You, and You reign over all. In Your hands are power and might; in Your hands it is to make great and to give strength to all.

You can’t say you are great in the sight of the Lord when you are busy serving your personal will instead of God’s purpose

People that God made great prioritised the agenda of God even above all that which they esteemed as important

Reflective questions about the teaching

a) In whose hand is it to make great?

b) Give some of the lessons that you learn from our context study

c) What is that which we should prioritise above everything?

d) Have you been prioritising the purpose of God

e) In what ways should we learn to prioritise the purpose of God?

Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that you will help me to pursue the divine agenda of your will to the glory and honour of your name amen