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Ezekiel 32
Ezekiel 32:27
Gone down to hell with their weapons of war.
Teaching from ancient tombs
I. The utter helplessness of mortality.
1. What might is there that call withstand death! From armies, thrones, castles, courts, and empires, death hath plucked his prey.
2. The universality of death’s empire.
3. What a picture is here drawn of all enmity against God! Rebellion against God is madness (Psalms 2:1-12).
4. What a contrast the grave of the Saviour presents to these! Victorious death in that bright Easter morn was subdued and crushed. Ours is the triumph also. Though mortality be helpless, and must bow to the dust, yet humanity is triumphant, and shall rise again.
II. The fond tenacity of memory. Memory surrounds the living with relics of the dead and mementoes of the past. Even the dead are surrounded with tokens of their circumstances, character, and career. Above the grave stands the grey tombstone, with the simple inscription, “To the memory.” What memories are you preparing for your deathbed and the grave? Our moral actions, mental emotions, and impressions we cannot bury in everlasting oblivion. Our character is our true epitaph cut deeply into our tomb. (R. S. Latimer.)
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