Love Songs and Prophecy

What do singing love songs and prophesying have in common?

People love to hear hear both and then walk away and ignore them. People love the poetry, deep meaning and the great voices in a love song, but few are committed to the hard practices of love.

Similarly, people love to go to church and hear a beautiful sermon, but few are willing to put the principles exposed by the preacher into practice. "What a nice sermon" is often heard after a Sunday message, but many people return to their sinful practices and attitudes on Monday.

God told Ezekiel that this is what the people were doing after his messages:

My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express devotion, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain. 32 Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.

Ezekiel 33:31-32

It is time for God's people to stop merely listening to the "nice" sermons and begin obeying the Scriptural truths within those sermons.

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