Ezekiel 3:17-19

Ezekiel 3:17

I. The ministry of divine truths is a special ordinance of God. The watchman is not (1) self-constituted; (2) self-instructed; (3) self-sent.

II. The ministry of divine truths is entrusted with the duty of warning men. Three mistakes about warning may be pointed out: (1) That warning is independent of knowledge; (2) that warning betokens hardness of nature; (3) that warning is the lowest and easiest duty of the ministry.

III. The duty of warning men is connected with a just distribution of responsibility.

Parker, City Temple,1871, p. 92.

Reference: Ezekiel 3:18. S. Cox, Expositions,3rd series, p. 16.