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January '03
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February '03
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March '03
Week 10
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April '03
Week 14
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Week 17

May '03
Week 18
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22

June '03
Week 23
Week 24
Week 25
Week 26

July '03
Week 27
Week 28
Week 29
Week 30
Week 31

August '03
Week 32
Week 33
Week 34
Week 35

September '03
Week 36
Week 37
Week 38
Week 39

October '03
Week 40
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Week 42
Week 43
Week 44

November '03
Week 45
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December '03
Week 49
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Week 52

Key Passage: Ezekiel 14: 1-4

Now some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me. And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of at all by them? Therefore speak to them, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols”

God hates falsehood and hypocrisy. Some elders of Israel came to Prophet Ezekiel pretending to be honestly inquiring for the oracle of the Lord, but had made up their minds on their evil devices. God said, Himself would reply them. He would answer them according to their idolatry; and His punishment for idolatry is death (Deut 13:6-18).

There are many believers who come to God with their minds made up in their evil ways. They go from church to church and from one minister of God to another, seeking for someone who will justify their evil deeds. God’s verdict against sin is clear, “The Soul who sins shall die” (Eze 18:4). What God expects from a person who has sinned is repentance. He wants him to come to Him with a remorseful heart, ask Him for forgiveness and return to true fellowship with Him.

Hypocrisy and falsehood are the emblem of a backslidden people. There are many people in church who come to God with their minds made up on their evil ways. They do not want to hear anything that will touch on their wrongful attitudes and sinful life styles. Some move from church to church seeking for Pastors who would tell them what they want to hear or justify their evil deeds. God says, He will answer them - the wicked, the evil devisers, the hypocrites, the liars and the idolaters. He will answer them according to their wickedness and their idolatry. They will know He is a consuming fire (Heb 12:29).

God says, “Repent or perish” (Lk 13:3). If anyone will not repent and turn from his sinful ways, there is nothing more God will do to save him from His anger and judgment (Heb 10:27). “It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (NIV Heb 10:31).

 

Written by – Evangelist Oguazi Onyemobi

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