In Ezekiel 22 the people of God were deeply involved in all sorts of immorality and lewd acts of hatred even murder for bribes. God spoke through Ezekiel in an attempt to bring His chosen people into obedience before He decided to act and purge the uncleanliness (vs.15). God's mercy is what keeps His wrath at bay. He called them the dross of silver. Dross is the impurities that are poured off of precious metals melted in the fire. 30"I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall (AE) and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, (AF) but I found no one. 31 So I have poured out My indignation on them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their actions down on their own heads." (AG) [This is] the declaration of the Lord GOD." Who is God bringing into your life to stand in the gap for? Christ is doing that for us and wants you to be ambassadors of reconciliation for Him. 2Co 5:18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
2Corinthians 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (NIV)... More later
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