Let God Do The Work

Ezek 3:4-9 NKJV

Then He said to me: "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them. For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel, not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you. But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted. Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house."

Ezek 3:16-19 NKJV

Now it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me: When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.


I love how God puts this passage; "For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language" God doesn't send us out to speak to people who cant understand us, but rather just the opposite. He puts us in the path of people who we have something in common with typically. He makes it a lot easier than we realize most of the time. And then He gives us the strength that we need to stand in the adversity that sometimes comes when witnessing to others. He will make us "Like adamant stone, harder than flint"

Adamant is a hard stone of superior strength. The exact identity of this substance is unknown, but it is believed to be corundum, the hardest of all minerals next to the diamond.

So lets not be soft in our approach when the Lord is strengthening us and giving us the words to say. Its up to us to speak and then allow the Holy Spirit to do His work in that person, But if we don't even speak when directed how is that person going to hear the good news and allow the Lord to begin the heart work?

Ezek 3:27 NKJV
But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God.' He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.