Ezekiel 18

[Jedi4Yahweh]

Ezekiel 18 

1-4:  Everyone is responsible for their own sins/wickedness not their fathers or children.  Just because you grew-up in a Christian home or your a member of a godly church will not save you if you continue to live a sinful life.  You will be judged by your own actions.

5-9:  A righteous person who does these things will live and have eternal life:  
    - Does not server false gods or idols. 
    - Does not commit sexual sins.
    - Does not oppress/harm/treat others badly.
    - Returns what they borrows and does not keep people's security deposit (honesty)
    - Does not rob/steal from others (theft)
    - Feeds those who are hungry and provides for those in need (cares for others)
    - Does not lend for excessive profit (extorting others).
    - Refuses to do evil/wickedness (does what is right)
    - Judges everyone fairly (does not show partiality or favoritism)
    - Lives by God's Instructions found in his word faithfully. (obeys the Word of God which Messiah taught)

10-13: Wicked children of Righteous parents:  Your parents righteousness will not save you from eternal death. Just because you grew up in a godly Christian home and go to a godly church will not save you if you choose live in unrighteousness.

13-20: Everyone will be judged by their own actions: "The righteousness deeds of a righteous person will be his own, and wickedness of the wicked person will be their own (v20).

21-23: Repentance: If a wicked person turns from their wicked deeds and learns to live rightly according to God's instructions, they will be forgiven and will not die.  All their wicked and rebellious deeds they did in past will not be remembered (forgiven). He will live because he turned/repented from sin/wickedness and now does and lives rightly. 

24-28: Backsliders: If a righteous person turns from living rightly and turns to live in sin and wickedness, then all the righteous things this person did will not be remembered (forgotten) only the wicked things they did will be remember and will die eternally.

29-32: Each us will be judged by what we do as an individual.  If we choose to live in sin we will die but if we choose to live rightly according to God's instructions then we will live eternally.  God is a forgiving and merciful God and always patient willing to forgive if we choose to turn from our wickedness and choose to live rightly.  God does not want anyone to die but that all would repent and live rightly according to his law.  Don't think just because you grew up in a Christian home or because you go to a good church that those will save you it is by your own deeds that you will be judged if you live or die eternally.

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Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. - Jhn 5:28-29 ESV

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' Then they also will answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.' And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." - Mat 25:41-46 ESV

The Lord is not slack concerning [His] promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. - 2Pe 3:9 NKJV

Edited June 28, 2021 by Jedi4Yahweh