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Show KNOWING A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW "Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is daughter. Thou art thy mother's daughter that loatheth her husband and her children: and thou art of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters." (Ezekiel 1" 44-46) her the sisters God was weary of His by sending a flood and promised Noah that he would never again destroy them rainbow as guarantee. Now, the people have gone bad. They are people. given them a He had becoming sad and dry bones. He wants the dry bones to live again. wicked and evil and to wake them us. and dying Notice what He says, "Behold, every proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, our terms, He says, "Like Mother, Like Daughter." In one that useth saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter." In other words, if you want to know what a daughter the apple in law, look at her mother. The old folks use to say, does not fall too far from the tree. When the mother cannot stand her husband was So he has Ezekiel to write them this letter trying to establish His covenant with his from. Too many of God who saved us are people or her children, he daughter will do the and wanted to to remember where stuck and cannot recall how we got where we are, how we same. they had God come made it over, the us. daughter was Samaria, who sinned but not as badly as the younger daughter Sodom did. Sodom was proud and gluttonous and lazy and oppressed the poor, put on heirs, lived an obscene life, came from the south, and would destroy God. She got every morning and put on her sinfulness and Her oldest wore it like a garment. She did unthinkable things. Many of our problems are. We can possibilities J /30 if: 13 iuj J J: j.j_ 157 { - change. wrapped We are can up His _Q-,-,IJIb "' +(..e e- we IVtJ blame become on new the previous generation. God who loves a h r-M. I tJ\. f We don't have to stay where creatures and trust God for what us and fY\q,J cares about us. we can become. Our we ;)tI: I 19,1 / IA) ,1,Ja; ip' cit c:P/o.e.J._ 1 S "( .VI. a d,-/,i_ Jv/) ...4r-r,,.;,W/.¢/ +t,_e[l?- rs f<- '(\j -/{ e. I'Sb U r"' /,J r« wff + wc/fe,+( 1/5 is hf-) 4 AI> I'M ttL It_,- q 7'1! a ,J 1 w40 l*tnfJ + al . s» .RJ1fr;- I.r q", |
