Ezekiel 12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

In order to see God and hear God, the rebellion needs to stop. God is calling for the rebellious to surrender. No one’s eyes and ears are opened until the rebellion in one’s heart is ended.

We must first accept that we are in rebellion. We must also come to a point of understanding that we cannot be saved on our own.

Acts 16:30b-31a Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,

In most wars a soldier can surrender to anyone but in this spiritual war surrender can only be made to the atoning work of Jesus Christ who died for our sins. We must believe that Jesus came from God, was crucified, was raised from the dead, and is seated on the right hand throne of God. It is not just one thing that must be believed, it is all of them.

Belief, trust and faith meet at the cross of Christ. It takes all three, the body, soul and mind to surrender to Christ. It is an acknowledgment that you cannot change without God’s intervention.

“With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.” This is repeated three times in Matthew 19:26, Mark 10:27 and Luke 18:27.

In the gospel of John it is said this way.

John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Being born again is the only way we can see and hear God.

Hebrews 1:1-2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

In the Old Testament economy God spoke to prophets and those prophets spoke to us. Some of them left a treasure troth of words. All of it was designed to point to the life and times of Jesus Christ, by whom God talks to the masses. The fear and trembling of Exodus was calmed by seeing God in the person of His Son Jesus Christ.

God speaks to us through His Son Jesus Christ and faith is the vehicle of delivery. Those words spoken by the Son to us are delivered by the third person of God, the Holy Spirit. As I said yesterday, this is a spiritual experience, and in order to hear the spirit, our dead spirit must be brought to a newness of life. Our spirit must be quickened.

Psalm 119:25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Ephesians 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Perhaps the most import truth in these verses is this issue of being quickened together with Christ. The issues of the indwelling Christ is vital to the process of faith. That faith emanates from He who is faithful because He dwells in your heart.

Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Jesus is the Word and He abides in your heart by faith, so faith comes by hearing Him from your heart.