Eze 36:9<\/span><\/p>\n And ye shall be tilled and sown.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n A vision of the field<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>He brings forth no fruit unto God. Leave him alone and he will live unto himself. He will live and he will die a strange monstrosity in the world–a creature that has lived without his Creator. Methinks I see the great God coming to look at the man, even as a farmer might come to look upon his fallow field. He looks the whole field through. There is no thought for God, no consecration of time to God, no desire to honour God, no longing to produce in the world fresh glory to God, no effort to raise up to Him fresh voices that shall praise His name. He lives unto himself or to his fellow men, and having so lived, he so dies.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Worse than this; the field that has never been ploughed or sown does produce something. There is an activity about human nature that will not let us live without doing. No man liveth to himself. Is there no wheat growing on that soil? no barley? no rye? Very well, then, there will be darnel, and cockle, and twitch, and all sorts of weed. So it is with the unrenewed heart. It is prolific of evil imaginations, wrong desires, and bitter envyings. As these ripen they bring forth ill words–idle, or, it may be, lascivious words, and perhaps atheistic, blasphemous words; and as these ripen they come to actions, had the man becomes an offender in his deeds, perhaps against man, certainly against God. The apples of Gomorrah hang plentifully upon him.<\/p>\n Verse 9<\/span>. Ye shall be tilled and sown<\/B><\/I>] The land shall be cultivated<\/I> as it formerly was, when best peopled<\/I> and at peace<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n I am for you; <\/B>favour you, and am pacified towards you, or I come towards you with redemption, that your old inhabitants may return to you with singing. <\/P> Turn unto you; <\/B>look towards you, with regard to what hath been and is your estate, your sufferings, which were less than you deserved, yet were the greater because ye are mine. Your inhabitants gave me the back and sinned against me, and I turned the back on you and regarded you not; then all darkness covered you. now my face shall be towards you, and you shall prosper and be fruitful, to the comfort of those that shall dwell in you and plough and sow you. <\/P> <\/p>\n For, behold, I am for you<\/strong>,…. For the mountains, that they might be cultivated and become fruitful, and be of advantage to their proprietors, and appear beautiful and lovely to behold, as well as to be useful:<\/p>\n and I will turn unto you<\/strong>; the Lord had turned from them, and left them a prey to the enemy, whereby they were become desolate; but now he would turn unto them, and bless them, and make them fruitful, and return the right owners of them to them, who should greatly improve them:<\/p>\n and ye shall be tilled and sown<\/strong>; manured and cultivated, and sown with wheat and barley, as in former times.<\/p>\n “For behold I am for you, and I will turn to you and you will be tilled and sown, and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. And the cities will be inhabited and the waste places built”<\/p>\n The reason that the land would one day again be Israel’s was because Yahweh was ‘for them’, on their side and acting on their behalf. For He would again turn towards them and be their God. And the land would be possessed again by people from all the twelve tribes (‘all the house of Israel’ – and note the stress on this, ‘even all of it’), and would be farmed and well populated. The cities would be rebuilt and inhabited.<\/p>\n That this occurred history demonstrates. While there were Jews who had become disconnected from mainstream Judaism, intermarried or disowning their old nationality as they were absorbed by the nations, or wandering far away and losing contact, members of all twelve tribes were permanently resident in the land up to the time of the destruction of Jerusalem and were among the exiles in Babylon, and others would undoubtedly have returned to it from other places once it began to prosper again. (The concept of ‘Israel’ was ever fluid. Still today ‘Israel’ is only a small portion of Judaism). And the land would again be populated and prosper, inhabited by those who acknowledged the covenant.<\/p>\n But why was the actual land so important? It was promised to Abraham (Gen 12:7<\/span> and often) to whom the possession of a future land was very important, it was given to his descendants and those who had joined with them in the covenant, and it was essential for the development of a people who would be witnesses to Yahweh as one people. Without the land they would have become divided and fractionalised, and their witness would have been watered down and have disappeared. But once that witness was established and crystallised through the writings of the Old Testament, and the son of David had come, and the Spirit had been poured out, the land ceased to be important and was taken away from them (Luk 21:24<\/span>). The message had replaced the land.<\/p>\n But the graciousness and faithfulness of God is revealed in that God has not forgotten His promises concerning the land so that it has now, in our day, been returned to those who see themselves as the earthly sons of Abraham. We must not overstress His purpose in this, but His purpose for the future in bringing them back to the land is possibly so that, having brought them together, He can do a great work among them in the eyes of the world by bringing large numbers of them to Christ their Messiah. While Scripture does not specifically require this there are suggestions that this might be so. So we can hope that their receiving again of the land is a preliminary to their finally enjoying the working of the Spirit, as God calls what were once His people to once again become part of His people and accept the Messiah (Rom 11:25-29<\/span>). The land has become secondary, the blessing of all nations is primary, but this reminds us that God fulfils all His promises, even the secondary ones.<\/p>\n Eze 36:9 For, behold, I [am] for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:<\/p>\n Ver. 9. For, behold, I am for you.<\/strong> ] Or, I come to you, and I come with a cornucopia in mine hand.<\/p>\n Psa 46:11, Psa 99:8, Hos 2:21-23, Joe 3:18, Hag 2:19, Zec 8:12, Mal 3:10, Mal 3:11, Rom 8:31 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Isa 49:19 – thy waste Jer 31:27 – that I Eze 36:29 – call Mal 1:3 – laid<\/p>\n Eze 36:9. This verse is virtually the same prediction as the preceding one.<\/p>\n For, behold, I [am] for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: Eze 36:9 And ye shall be tilled and sown. A vision of the field I. Mans heart by nature is like a waste field. 1. He brings forth no fruit unto God. 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I.<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>Mans heart by nature is like a waste field.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>There is no hope for this field, unless God turn to it in mercy. I am for you, and I will turn unto you. Man never does of himself turn unto God, and that for obvious reasons. We are sure he never can, for he is dead in trespasses and sins. We are certain he never will, for by nature he hates anything like a new birth; and if he could make himself a new creature he would not, for Christ has expressly said, Ye will not come unto Me that ye might have life. If you have turned, you know that the Lord has done it. Give unto Him the glory. If you have not been converted, God help you to cry unto Him instantly and earnestly, Turn us, and we shall be turned. Look unto Him who is exalted on high to give repentance and remission of sins. Seek ye unto Him, and ye shall live.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>When the field is to be put under cultivation it must be tilled. So when God turns to any man in His mercy there has to be an operation, a tillage, performed upon his heart. Common calling is addressed to every man, but effectual calling comes only to prepared men, to those whom God makes willing in the day of His power. Now, what is the plough wanted for? Why, it is wanted, first of all, to break up the soil and make it crumble. The more thoroughly pulverised the heart becomes, the better. The seed will never get into an unbroken heart. The plough is also wanted to destroy the weeds, for they must be killed. If the Lord save you, He must kill your drunkenness, He must kill your swearing, He must kill your whoredom, He must kill your lying, He must kill your dishonesty. These must all go; every single weed must be torn up; there is no hope for you while there is a weed living. The Lord make a clean sweep of the weeds, and burn them all! Well, now, mark you, in this tilling there are different soils. There is the light soil and the heavy soil; and so there are different sorts of constitutions. There are some men who are naturally tender and sensitive. Many, too, of our sisters are like Lydia: they soon receive the Word. There are others that are like the heavy clay soil; and you know the farmer does not plough both soils alike, or else he would make a sad mess of it. And so God does not deal with all men alike. Some have, as it were, first a little ploughing, and then the seed is put in, and all is done; but some have to be ploughed and cross ploughed; and then there is the scarifier and the clod crusher, and I know not what, which have to be rolled over them before they are good for anything; and perhaps, after all, they produce very little fruit. And, you know, the farmer has his time for ploughing. Some soils break up best after a shower of rain, and some do best when they are driest. So there are some hearts–ay, and I think almost all hearts–that are best ploughed after a shower of heavenly love has fallen upon them. They are in a grateful frame of mind for mercies received, and then the story of a dying Saviour comes to them as just that which will touch the springs of their hearts.<\/p>\n
IV. <\/strong>Unless God has tilled the heart, it cannot be sown with any hope of success. After ploughing there comes the sowing. When the heart is ready God sows it–sows it with the best of wheat. The wise farmer does not sow tail corn, but, as Isaiah says, he casts in the principal wheat. The seed which God sows is living seed. It shall grow, for God has prepared the soil for it. (C. H. Spurgeon.<\/em>)<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"