Christians I have to lead to service on the holy spirit?

Question

at church next sunday. Any creative ideas you have seen. I want it to be different. But not take away from the message. The sermon passage is Ezekiel 37:1-14

Answer 1

If you're lost you can look - and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you - I'll be waiting
Time after time

Time after Time - Cyndi Lauper

Answer 2

Not sure about a presentation, but I'd like to suggest Acts 3 and 4, when Peter and John heal a lame beggar and then are dragged before the Sanhedrin for preaching in the name of Jesus. If Peter and John had not been empowered by the Holy Spirit, they would not have had either the courage or the authority to do what they did or to speak to the Sanhedrin as they did. Acts 4:13 points out that Peter and John were just ordinary, unschooled men--I believe the Greek word can actually be translated "idiot"--but because of the time they spent with Jesus and because the Holy Spirit empowered them, they were able to do amazing things.

Answer 3

Ezekiel 37 is a wonderful prophecy. It shows how God will physically resurrect our bodies. We will not just be spirits floating around like ghosts. Israel will inherit the land in the resurrection. In the last part of the chapter he tells how the Stick of Joseph will be revealed which will bring all people together in the last days.

Answer 4

Ezekiel became a prophet in Babylon-the first prophet to receive the call to prophesy outside the Holy Land. As one of the exiles deported by Nebuchadnezzar in 597, his first task was to prepare his fellow countrymen in Babylon for the final destruction of Jerusalem, which they believed to be inviolable. Accordingly, the first part of his book consists of reproaches for Israel's past and present sins and the confident prediction of yet a further devastation of the land of promise and a more general exile. In 587, when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem, Ezekiel was vindicated before his unbelieving compatriots.

After this time, Ezekiel's message changes. From now on his prophecy is characterized by the promise of salvation in a new covenant, and he is anxious to lay down the conditions necessary to obtain it. Even as Jeremiah had believed, Ezekiel thought that the exiles were the hope of Israel's restoration, once God's allotted time for the Exile had been accomplished. His final eight chapters are an utopian vision of the Israel of the future, rid of its past evils and reestablished firmly under the rule of the Lord. The famous vision of the dry bones in chapter 37 expresses his firm belief in a forthcoming restoration, Israel rising to new life from the graveyard of Babylon. But Ezekiel's new covenant, like Jeremiah's, was to see its true fulfillment only in the New Testament.

Ezekiel 37:1-14 describes a vision that is a prediction of the restoration of Israel under the figure of a resurrection from the dead.

Ezekiel allowed himself follow the inspiration of the Holy Spirit even when he had to tell the people of Israel sad truths. But his prophecies pointed the way to the coming of Jesus Christ.

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

God is reminding Ezekiel that it would take a miracle to bring the remnants of Israel back together from the many locations where they are scattered. But to be truly alive, Israel will need a greater miracle: a new Spirit, breathed by God. Only a new creation can resurrect Israel or anybody else.

Answer 6

You should hopefully be able to find something here,

http://www.google.com/search?q=dry+bones+sermons&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

:)

Answer 7

Get on your knees before your God and ask HIM for direction, not people.