321. Ye Shall Live
Ezekiel 37:5, 6 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
The great dry bones chapter of Ezekiel promises a resurrection. Dry bones will live. This is the Great Promise of Scripture: a bodily resurrection with sinews and flesh and skin and breath. This guarantee is based on the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. He is the first resurrection: blessed are those who have a part in the first resurrection. The Second Death has no hold on them. He who is in Christ by faith will rise again in a spiritual body at the Last Day.
You shall live when the breath (the Spirit) enters into you. The Holy Spirit is the life giver. He gives life to our dead spirit and we are born anew. This is a spiritual resurrection, in which gives God’s life to us day and night. Every “breath” we take reminds us that the Spirit is breathing life into us constantly. This refreshing inspiration enters every time we hear the Gospel. This kind of new life at first looks impossible. The Lord asks, “Can these bones live?” He answers with a resounding command: “Prophesy over these bones: ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.’”
Amazing, impossible, things happen when the dry bones of death inside of us hear the word of the Lord. The breath, wind, or spirit (the same word in both Hebrew and Greek) is an awesome power: 1) at Creation, the Spirit hovered over the waters, and on the sixth day God breathed into Adam’s nostrils and the man became a living soul; 2) at the Dry Bones, the Wind breathes on the dead; 3) Jesus tells Nicodemus, “You must be born of water and the Spirit…the wind blows where it wishes…so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” 4) Jesus breathes on the disciples and they receive the Holy Spirit, to forgive the sins of anyone; and, 5) “All Scriptures is breathed out by God.”
Trust the Lord God when He says, “I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.” Believe the awesome, life-giving power of the Breath of God. It gives life to the universe and to every human; it causes resurrection; it converts and saves and forgives; it infuses the Bible with Truth and Life and Power.