
Walking through Ezekiel 19’s “funeral dirge,” where God mourns Israel’s failed kings and the collapse of the Davidic line into Babylonian captivity, showing how a people meant to be a light to the nations instead misused His name and became subservient to the world. Moving into Ezekiel 20, the pastor shows that God refuses half hearted, idol ridden seeking; He lovingly disciplines His “Jacobs” until they become “Israels,” bringing them to a place of limp humility and single hearted devotion where they finally come to Him without rival thrones and live out the relationship He always intended.