Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America

Tuesday after the Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Pastor Dulas under Devotions
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Scripture: Ezekiel 21:25-27 (NKJV)


21:25 ‘Now to you, O profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose iniquity shall end, 26 thus says the Lord God:


“Remove the turban, and take off the crown; Nothing shall remain the same. Exalt the humble, and humble the exalted.


27 Overthrown, overthrown, I will make it overthrown! It shall be no longer, until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it to Him.”’”


Devotion


The Book of Ezekiel was written after many Jews were taken into exile by Babylon. They were carried away because they were worshiping false gods and refused to listen to God’s prophets. They wouldn’t repent! God clearly tells His people that what they thought—that they could ignore God’s Word and worship Him anyway they wanted—was wrong. He told them exactly how He was to be worshiped, where He was to be worshiped, and how His people received forgiveness of sin; but they ignored Him. In our text the Lord says, “Overthrown, overthrown, I will make it overthrown! It shall be no longer, until He comes whose right hand it is, and I will give it to Him.”


During this Easter season we learn again that it is Jesus “whose right hand it is.” He is the One who left Heaven and was born of a virgin. The Holy Creator humbled Himself and became a man to live, suffer, and die to take sin—our sin—upon Himself and pay the penalty of death for it. This One became sin for us. He overcame sin, death, and Satan. He is the One who is worthy. He is the One “who has redeemed me, a lost and condemned person, purchased and won me from all sins, from death, and from the power of the devil…with His holy, precious blood and His innocent suffering and death” (Second Article, Small Catechism).


We pray: Grant, Almighty God, that we who celebrate the solemnities of the Lord’s resurrection may by the renewal of Thy Holy Spirit rise again from the death of the soul; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.


Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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