NOTES for Eze 18:21-28
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. |
22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. |
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? |
24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. |
25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? |
26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. |
27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. |
28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. |
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We very often accuse God. We accuse Him of our troubles; we think that He directed us down the wrong path, that we should not have listened to Him. Although in Russian the verb for "make a mistake" is reflexive: it cannot be that someone else "mistook" us; we always make mistakes ourselves. Or, no better, when something in our life is not going well, we think that God is punishing us. But this is not so either. Most often we make mistakes, and the failures in our life are simply the results of those mistakes.
Does this mean that we must fear mistakes all the time and punish ourselves for every misstep? Of course not. We can entrust to God the mistakes we made in the past, and He will change our past. God will not make it so that what has already happened did not happen; that would be violence against us and our memory. But He can deliver us from the consequences of sin, which would otherwise have come inexorably and which we would have considered God's punishment.
If we entrust ourselves to God, repent, and let Him into our life, He will deliver us from the consequences of the sins and mistakes we have committed, thereby healing our past and changing both it and us ourselves. Therefore we can stop fearing the future, stop fearing that we will stumble. We are free, and fear no longer has power over us.
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