"CAN THESE BONES LIVE?"

[DR. ROY KENNEDY FARLEY JR.]

EZEKIEL 37:1-3 THE RECORD TODAY SHOWS US OF THE EXPERIENCE AND ENCOUNTER OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL. IT TELLS US OF HIS VALLEY EXPERIENCE. THE TEXT TELLS US OF HIS ENCOUNTER IN THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES. THE RECORD INFORMS US THAT THE ILLUSTRIOUS PROPHET EZEKIEL RECEIVED A VICTORIOUS VISIT FROM THE ALMIGHTY LORD................. EZEKIEL WAS TERRIFICALLY TRANSFERRED OR TRANSPORTED BY THE LORD TO A PLACE THAT WAS DEFORMED AND DEPRESSING,TO A PLACE AND A LOCATION THAT WAS DISTRESSING. EZEKIEL WAS CARRIED BY GOD TO A VALLEY OF BODACIOUS BONES. A SERIOUS QUESTION WAS RENDERED AND RAISED. HE WHO RAISES THE QUESTION ALREADY KNEW THE ANSWER. THE QUESTION RAISED BY JEHOVAH AND ADDRESSED TO HIS PROPHET EZEKIEL"CAN THESE BONES LIVE?" EZEKIEL I ULTIMATELY UNDERSTAND THAT THE SYLLABICATED SITUATION LOOKS REAL BLEAKLY BAD, I KNOW THEY ARE IN BAD SHAPE, I KNOW THAT THE PROPOSTRIOUS PRESENT SITUATION LOOKS DISMAL AND LOOKS EXTREMELY BAD, BUT THE QUESTION BEFORE US IS"CAN THESE BONES LIVE?"

I WOULD THAT EVERY HEART WOULD PRAY WITH US TODAY AND THINK WITH ME FOR SO SERIOUS WAS THE QUESTION, AND STILL THIS QUESTION REMAINS . SO WE MUST RAISE THIS QUENTEST QUESTION "CAN THESE BONES LIVE?" I WONDER TODAY , FOR
IF THEY CAN LIVE, THAT MEANS THAT THERE IS HOPE EVEN TODAY. IF THE BONES IN THAT VALLEY COULD LIVE, THEN THERE`S HOPE FOR THE BONES IN OUR VALLEYS.
{ OH ,YOU KNOW THE VALLEY OF BONES THAT HAVE TURNED TO COCAINE, DISTRESS, DEPRESSION, MISTRUST, EGOTISM, JEALOUSY, ENVY, STRIFE, SELF PITY, REJECTION, RACISM,INTIMIDATION, OH YOU KNOW ETC......CAN THESE BONES BE TURNED TO SOMETHING BETTER.......YOU SEE EZEKIEL WAS CARRIED BY GOD TO A VALLEY
OF BONES. THE RECORD INFORMS ME THAT EZKIEL MADE HIS ARRIVAL IN THAT VALLEY WITH THE HELP OF GOD. FOR THE BIBLE READS" THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS UPON ME." IT DOESNT MATTER THAT YOU HAVE HEARD OR HEARD OF THIS WORD BEFORE THE FACT IS: IT WAS THE SAME WORD THAT STATES UNEQUIVICALLY THAT IT WAS THE SAME HAND THAT TRANSPORTED HIM TO THIS DREADFUL PLACE
PLACE. PERMIT ME TO SAY THIS WAS NOT A CHOSEN PLACE OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL. HE WAS THERE UNDER DIVINE ORDERS OF GOD. HE WAS THERE BECAUSE THIS WAS THE PLACE GOD WILLED FOR HIM TO BE IN. WHEN HE ARRIVED HE DISCOVERED THAT DEATH HAD ALREADY BEATEN HIM THERE. DEATH HAD ALREADY SWEPT THROUGH THIS VALLEY, AND WHEN EZEKIEL ARRIVES ALL THAT IS LEFT IS DRY BONES. SCRIPTURE TELLS US HERE IN THE TEXT THAT IN THIS VALLEY OF LIFELESSNESS,IN THIS VALLEY OF HOPELESSNESS, IN THIS VALLEY OF DEGRADATION, THE PROPHET WALKS ABOUT LOOKING AT THE BONES. ALL AROUND HIM WERE BONES,BONES RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM, BONES IN THE BACK, BONES ON THE LEFT, AND BONES ON THE RIGHT. EZEKIEL LIKE MANY OF US I AM SURE , WONDERED, WHY WOULD GOD BRING HIM TO SUCH A PLACE. TO SEE SUCH A THING. WHY WOULD GOD TAKE HIM FROM THE LIVING AND POSITION HIM AMONG THE DEAD?? I`VE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT EZEKIEL MAY HAVE COME TO. WE ARE NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHY GOD DOES THE THINGS THAT HE DOES. HOWEVER, OUR MINDS REST ASSURE THAT WE ARE NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND NOW. WE WILL UNDERSTAND IT BETTER BY AND BY. EZEKIEL BEING IN THIS VALLEY WAS THE PLACE WHERE GOD WANTED HIM TO BE!
THE QUESTION CAN BE RAISED AM I WHERE GOD WANTS ME TO BE???

I WILL COMPLETE LATER