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<div class="SSN_title"><a onClick="return mV('Eze',18,'2-4');">EZEKIEL 18:2-4</a></div>
<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Christianity has no more insidious foe than misrepresentation -- either in the lives of its adherents or in the interpretation of its doctrine.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Usually results from snatching phrase from context.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Proverb - "The fathers have eaten sour grapes."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Man helpless because of relationship to his father.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. God punishes children because of father's sin.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. HISTORY OF PROVERB. <a onClick="return mV('Jer',31,29);">JEREMIAH 31:29</a>,<a onClick="return mV('Jer',31,30);">30</a>.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Only found two places in scripture (our texts).</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Jeremiah - ministry for doomed to failure.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. His prophesies of hope come from dungeon.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">"Behold the days come."</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">"I will sow the house of Israel."</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">"I will make a new Covenant."</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">"That I will rebuild the city."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. "In those days ye shall no more say..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Looking forward to restoration and true concept of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. <a onClick="return mV('Eze',18,'2-4');">Ezekiel 18:2-4</a>.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Ezekiel received call 6 yrs. before fall of Jerusalem.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Did not begin until Babylon captivity.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Received elders from Jerusalem and asked why they used proverb "The Fathers" - chapter 18 refutation.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Used today -</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Look at me, I cannot help what I am, "My father ate sour grapes and my teeth..."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. GOD'S ANSWER TO THE PROVERB.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. In its use in the scripture it is denied.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Jeremiah tells of day when usage shall cease, and then gives it the direct lie.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Tells opposing truth - "Everyone shall die for their own sins." "Every man that eateth."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Ezekiel Exposition on "Everyone shall die for own iniquity."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. vs. 1 - "All souls are Mine."</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. No man shut off by distance of Father.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. "Man shall be judged by things he does, not what he inherited."</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">3. Here is man who says, "I am not blaming my Father,</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">but those early years of deeds - my past, my sin -</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">they master me still."</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">a. New birth.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">b. Break from past.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. CONCLUDING TRUTHS.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. God never punishes children for fathers' sins, except as children continue in sins of father.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Passage quoted - <a onClick="return mV('Exd',20,5);">Ex. 20:5</a>, "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children." "Upon the 3rd and 4th generation of them that hate me."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Distinction between judgment and chastisement. Children often suffer as result of parents' sin.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. You inherit your fleshly body from your father heredity.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Our spirits created by God. Not generated by our father.</div>
<div class="SSN_notes">If your teeth are set on edge - you have eaten.</div>
<div class="SSN_notes">"My father ate and I inherited tendency."</div>
<div class="SSN_notes">God is greater than your father, and the powers he places at your disposal - greater than all tendencies toward sour grapes.</div>
<div class="SSN_notes">"I have eaten them, I am guilty, but though I now hate them, I require them and must eat."</div>
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