They Just Won’t Listen

  [388 words] “Then He said to me: ‘Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them. For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel, not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you. But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted’” (Ezekiel 3:4-7). The people that Ezekiel would be sent to speak to would not be of the world, but religious people. They were of the house of Israel. God tells Ezekiel that they aren’t going to listen to him, because they wouldn’t listen to Him! Samuel, if you remember,…