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stuBBorn, reBellious or listening, oBedientJed n. snyder, d. Min.Founder/PresidentJesus Every Day Ministries, Inc. | www.jedministries.comyour days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet...” Exodus 20:12-17 (ESV)We will be wise not to take sin lightly. Committing sexual immorality is sinning. Lying, even “little white lies” is sinning. Stealing, even if it is the other person’s reputation is sinning. Coveting, jealously desiring that which is not yours, is sinning. Someone said, “a pig by any other name is still a pig.”We, like Ezekiel, may nd that telling the truth is not easy. It may even get us into “trouble.” We are called to tell the truth anyway. is can be done, again like Eze- kiel did, with a very heavy heart, but truth telling is as critical today as it ever was.May we tell the truth in love even if it hurts.Ezekiel 2:4,5About two thousand six hundred years ago God called a man named Ezekiel to be a prophet. His job was unenviable. He was to tell the truth to people who stubbornly would not listen. Look at a bit of what God directed him to do. e descendants also are impudent and stub- born: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘ us says the Lord GOD.’ And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them.Ezekiel 2:4-5 (ESV) ese verses can be applied as warnings for us today. When God speaks, and we have the whole Bible, His Word, we should lis- ten and make positive responses. Would you take a moment to remind yourself of the last six of the ten commandments?“Honor your father and your mother, thatfebruary 2018CityLight.org 25