Ezekiel 4:1-4 KJV
Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: [2] And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. [3] Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. [4] Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.


Notice three portraits that is mentioned and we will deal with them today

(I.) Jerusalem (II.) Judgment (III.) Jesus

In our text he tells Ezekiel to take a tile and on that tile God wants him to portray Jerusalem.

As we know our ways are not God's ways and many times God reveals things in pictures.

Visuals have always helped me. If I can see how something is done normally I can remember after I have watched it done a few times on how to do something.

God told Ezekiel I want you to portray Jerusalem and then I want you to portray the judgment that is going to take place but then I want you to portray what I will do for them and those that have sinned against me

Judah sinned, there was a consequence but thank the Lord there was a Redeemer!

Judah had sinned, there was a consequence, but hallelujah there was one that bore their iniquity on the cross.

You may ask me why is that so important in today's day. I'll tell you when I sin yes, there is punishment for it but Jesus bore my iniquity on the cross.

Our sin was laid upon the Savior. The Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:21 he who knew no sin became sin.

Our sin was laid on him at calvary. Judah was apart of the people of God and they had rebelled but God said I have paid for it.

If you have never been saved you need to be born again into the family of God. Christ paid for your sin on the cross so you wouldn't have to pay for your sin. Maybe as a Christian you have sinned against God why don't you ask for forgiveness because he has paid for it.