Text: Ezek.22:30

INTRODUCTION: God searches for a person for salvation and service

Luke 19:10 – salvation.

Ezekiel 22:30 – service.

I. THE PERIOD... (WHEN WAS GOD LOOKING FOR A MAN)

TIME OF:

            A. Sinful Poverty . . . Eze. 22:1-12.

            B. Severe Punishment . . .Eze.22:l3-22... (God's Wrath).

            C. Spiritual Pollution . . . Eze. 22:25-28.

If there was ever a time when God needed a man it was then. II Tim. 3, tells us, if there was ever a need for a man it's now.

II. THE PLEA ... EZEKIEL 22:30... (NOTE WHAT GOD WAS SAYING)

            A. The Pursuit . . . (I sought).

            B. The Place…(Among Them, Among God's People, Eph. 2:10).

            C. The Plan . . . (make up the hedge, stand in the gap).

            D. The Purpose . . . (should not destroy it).

            E. The Problem... (I FOUND NONE... Luke 10:2).

III. THE PERSON... (LOOKING FOR A PERSON WITH):

            A. CONVICTIONS... ABOUT OUR

                        1. Doctrine . . . Gal. 1:8; Titus 2:1

                        2. Dress . . . I Tim. 2:9

                        3. Deeds. . . I Cor. 10:31

            B. COMPASSION... FOR THE:

                        1. Sick

                        2. Saints . . . I John 3:17

                        3. Sinners . . . Ps. 126:6

            C. COURAGE... PS. 27: 14... COURAGE TO

                        1. Fight . . . I Tim. 6:12

                        2. Follow . (Moses had died, Joshua had to go on)

                        3. Finish . . .11 Tim. 4:7

            D. CONSECRATION... II TIM. 2:20-22 (CLEAN LIVING)

                        1. Clean Voice

                        2. Clean Vision

                        3. Clean Vessel