God's Irresistible Grace | Morning Series - What It Means To Be Reformed, June 1, 2025

“GOD’S IRRESISTIBLE GRACE”

What It Means To Be Reformed, part 4

 A sermon outline based on Ezekiel 36:16-38 

Hillcrest CRC, June 1, 2025, 9:30am

Rev. Curt Walters

1. Ezekiel was a prophet to Judah. (Ezekiel 4:6, 8:1,17)

 2. God is the initiator. (Ezekiel 36:24-27)

 3. God brings us back. (Ezekiel 36:24, John 6:44)

 4. God cleanses us. (Ezekiel 36:25)

 5. God gives us a new heart. (Ezekiel 36:26)

 6. God puts His Spirit in us. (Ezekiel 36:27, 1 Corinthians 2:14)

 7. God makes us his people (Ezekiel 36:28)

 8. God does all of this for the sake of His name. (Ezekiel 36:22-23)

Next Steps...

• Think about your own faith story and how you came to know and love the Lord.  What people and events did God use to bring you to faith in Christ – and to help you grow in your faith over the years?
• Read and reflect  on Ezekiel 11:19-21.  Is your heart a “heart of stone” or a “heart of flesh?”  Or is it a mixture of both?  Ask God to remove your heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh. 
• In Ezekiel 36:23 God says: “I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.”  How does God show himself holy to others through you?