Ezekiel 16:6

“When I passed by thee, I said unto thee, Live.”
— Ezekiel 16:6

Saved one, consider gratefully this mandate of mercy. Note that this
fiat of God is majestic. In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing
in him but sin, expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord
passes by in his glory; he looks, he pauses, and he pronounces the
solitary but royal word, “Live.” There speaks a God. Who but he could
venture thus to deal with life and dispense it with a single syllable?
Again, this fiat is manifold. When he saith “Live,” it includes many
things. Here is judicial life. The sinner is ready to be condemned, but
the mighty One saith, “Live,” and he rises pardoned and absolved. It is
spiritual life. We knew not Jesus-our eyes could not see Christ, our
ears could not hear his voice-Jehovah said “Live,” and we were
quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins. Moreover, it includes
glory-life, which is the perfection of spiritual life. “I said unto
thee, Live:” and that word rolls on through all the years of time till
death comes, and in the midst of the shadows of death, the Lord’s voice
is still heard, “Live!” In the morning of the resurrection it is that
self-same voice which is echoed by the arch-angel, “Live,” and as holy
spirits rise to heaven to be blest for ever in the glory of their God,
it is in the power of this same word, “Live.” Note again, that it is an
irresistible mandate. Saul of Tarsus is on the road to Damascus to
arrest the saints of the living God. A voice is heard from heaven and a
light is seen above the brightness of the sun, and Saul is crying out,
“Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” This mandate is a mandate of free
grace. When sinners are saved, it is only and solely because God will
do it to magnify his free, unpurchased, unsought grace. Christians, see
your position, debtors to grace; show your gratitude by earnest,
Christlike lives, and as God has bidden you live, see to it that you
live in earnest.

On this day…

• Magdalene – 2025
• First – 2025
• Genesis 34 – 2024
• Genesis 33 – 2024
• Mathew 10 – 2013
• 1 Thessalonians 5:25 – 2011