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meditating under the fig tree. He’ll take some to the athletic field
and He’ll take some to a mission field and He’ll take some to the
hospital. We need to be little children; helpless and dependent. We
need to be totally surrendered. It doesn’t matter whether it is a north
wind or south wind, as long as He is happy. The goal is that He will
reach others through us.

John 12:32&33, “’And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw
all men to Myself.’ But He was saying this to indicate the kind of
death by which He was to die.” He said, “The Greeks want to see
Me? Then I must go to the cross. I must become a grain of wheat
that must die. Then, not only Greeks will come but everybody will
come. If I’m lifted up I’ll draw all men unto Me.”

Psalm 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His
godly ones.” Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His
saints. Ezekiel 33:11, “Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares the Lord
God, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that
the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from
your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?’”
The Lord takes no delight in the death of the ungodly. Precious is
my death. What that means is I’m dispensable. He may let me die
so that they may live. He may let me go through a trial that they
may hear. He may allow me to lose a loved one, so that they can
see a response of a Christian.

One more illustration and then I’ll finish. Ezekiel 2:9&10, “Then I
looked, behold, a hand was extended to me; and lo, a scroll was in
it. When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and
back; and written on it were lamentations, mourning and woe.”
Picture in your mind a hand coming out of heaven and in that hand
is a scroll and it’s written on both sides and it’s all bad news. It’s
lamentations, mourning and woe.

Ezekiel 3:1, “Then He said to me, ‘Son of man, eat what you find;
eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” God says, “Eat
it.” That’s hard to swallow! It’s only bad news. Ezekiel couldn’t