JULY 3 -9 $ E Z EKI EL 11 - 14 ˙ Song 36 and Prayer APPLY YOURSELF TO THE FIELD MINISTRY ˙ Opening Comments (3 min. or less) ˙ Prepare This Month’s Presentations: (15 min.) TREASURES FROM GOD’S WORD Discussion based on “Sample Presentations.” ˙ “Do You Have a Heart of Flesh?”: (10 min.) Play each presentation video, and then discuss the highlights. Eze 11:17, 18—Jehovah promised a restoration of true worship (w07 7/1 11 4) LIVING AS CHRISTIANS Eze 11:19—Jehovah can give us a heart that is sensitive to his guidance (w16.05 15 9) ˙ Song 129 ˙ Eze 11:20—Jehovah wants us to apply what we learn Local Needs: (15 min.) As an option, discuss the lessons learned from the Yearbook. (yb17 41-43) ˙ Digging for Spiritual Gems: (8 min.) ˙ Congregation Bible Study: (30 min.) kr chap. 14 Eze 12:26-28—What responsibility do these verses 15-23, review box on p. 156 place on Jehovah’s servants? (w07 7/1 13 8) ˙ Review Followed by Preview of Next Week (3 min.) ˙ Eze 14:13, 14—What lessons do we learn from Song 126 and Prayer the mention of these individuals? (w16.05 26 13; w07 7/1 13 9) What has this week’s Bible reading taught you about Jehovah? What other spiritual gems have you discovered in this week’s Bible reading? ˙ Bible Reading: (4 min. or less) Eze 12:1-10 EZEKIEL 11-14 $ Do You Have a Heart of Flesh? Write your answers in the spaces provided. Entertainment Dress & Grooming Love & Forgiveness 11:19 What is Jehovah’s guidance? 11:20 How can I follow God’s guidance more fully? 2 36 We Guard Our Hearts (Proverbs 4:23) ° b 4 Eb Ebma7 Eb F#º B7/F# Eb/G &b b4 œ œ œ œ œ nœ œœn bb œ We guard our hearts, it means our life; Pre - pared in heart, we search for God Our hearts we shield from harm - ful thoughts, ? b 4 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ¢ b b4 œ #œ œ œ ° b F#º Bb7/F &b b œ œ œ œ œ ˙™ We shun the path of sin. By means of ear - nest prayer. We dwœell oœn what is true. ? b œ œ œ #nœ œ nb˙™ ¢ b b œ ° b Fm Ab/Bb Bb7 Bb7/D Fm7 Bb7 &b b œ œœ œ œ œœ œœ œ œ God reads the heart, and there he finds Each day we give him praise and thanks, We love God’s Word tœo touœch oœur heaœrts, ? b œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ¢ b b œ œ œ œ Eb/G B7/F# Fm7 Bb7 Eb ° b œ &b b œ œn œ ˙™ œœ œ œ œ œ ˙ The per - son deep with - in. Re - veal - ing ev - ’ry care. To streœngth - neœn anbœd rœe - ne˙w™. ? b œ œ # œ n œ ˙™ ¢ b b œ œ We Guard Our Hearts ° b Eb Ebma7 Eb F#º B7/F# Eb/G &b b œ œ œ œ œ nœ œœn bb œ Some - times the heart de - ceives the mind, The things Je - ho - vah teach - es us, Je - ho - vah loves his loy - al ones; ? b œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ¢ b b œ #œ œ œ ° b Eb Eb/G Bb7/F Eb7 Ab C7/G Fm &b b œ ˙™ œ œ œ œ bœœ œ œn œ And we be - gin to stray. We glad - ly will o - bey. On this we can de - pend. œ œ œ œ ? b œ œ œ œnœ œ œ œ œ ¢ b b œ Fm/Ab Aº E¨6/B¨ Eb/G Bbm/G Bbm6/Db C7 ° b œ œ œ œ &b b œ #œ œ œ œ nœ œœ nœ So may our mind di - rect our heart We cul - ti - vate a loy - al heart, We’ll wor - ship him whole - heart - ed - ly œ œ œ œ œ bœ œ œ ? b œ œn œ œ œ œb ¢ b b œ ° b Fm Fm7 Gm/Bb Bb7 Eb &b b œ œ œ œ œ bœ œ œ ˙ ™ And keep Je - ho - vah’s way. To please him ev - ’ry day. For - ev - erœ aœs his friend. ? b nœ œ œ œ ˙™ ¢ b b œ œ œ (See also Ps. 34:1; Phil. 4:8; 1 Pet. 3:4.) 1143 EZEKIEL 10:5–11:1 and the courtyard was full of CHAP. 10 creatures that I had seen at the a the brightness of the glory of Je- a Ps 29:3, 4 river Chebar — 16 and when hovah. 5 And the sound of the Eze 1:24 the cherubs moved, the wheels wings of the cherubs could be Joh 12:28, 29 would move alongside them; and heard in the outer courtyard, when the cherubs lifted up like the sound of God Almighty b Eze 1:13 their wings to be high above when he speaks.a the earth, the wheels would not 6 Then he commanded the turn or move from their side.b man clothed in linen: “Take fire c Eze 9:2 17 When these stood still, they from between the wheelwork, would stand still; and when from between the cherubs,” and these rose, they would rise with he entered and stood beside the d Eze 1:8 them, for the spirit operating wheel. 7 Then one of the cher- on the living creatures was in ubs stretched his hand out to- them. e Eze 1:15-18 ward the fire that was between 18 Then the glory of Jehovahc the cherubs.b He took some and departed from over the thresh- put it into both hands of the f Re 4:6, 8 old of the doorway of the house c one clothed in linen, who now and stood still over the cher- 8 took it and went out. The ubs.d 19 The cherubs now lifted cherubs had what looked like g Eze 1:6, 10 up their wings and rose from the the form of human hands under Re 4:7 d earth as I watched. The wheels their wings. were also alongside them when 9 Second Col. As I was watching, I saw they departed. They stopped at four wheels beside the cher- a Eze 1:3 the entrance of the eastern gate ubs, one wheel beside each cher- of the house of Jehovah, and the ub, and the wheels appeared to glory of the God of Israel was e b Eze 1:19-21 glow like chrys o·lite stone. e 10 above them. As for their appearance, the 20 four of them were alike, look- These were the living crea- c Eze 1:27,28 tures that I had seen under the ing as though a wheel were within a wheel. 11 When they God of Israel at the river Che - bar, f so I came to know that they moved, they could go in any of d Eze 9:3 21 the four directions without turn- Eze 10:4 were cherubs. All four had ing, because they would go to the four faces, four wings, and what place where the head would face appeared to be human hands un- g 22 without turning. 12 Their entire e Eze 11:22 der their wings. And the ap- bodies, their backs, their hands, pearances of their faces were like their wings, and the wheels, the the faces I had seen by the riv- f Eze 1:1, 22 wheels of all four of them, were er Chebar.h They would each go full of eyes all around.f 13 As straight forward.i regards the wheels, I heard a g Eze 1:8 And a spirit lifted me up voice that called to them, “Wheel- 11 and brought me to the work!” eastern gate of the house of Je- 14 Each one had four faces. h Eze 1:10 hovah, the gate that faces east.j The first face was the face of the There at the entrance of the gate cherub, the second face was the I saw 25 men, and among them i Eze 1:12 face of a man, the third was the Eze 10:11 were Ja·az·a·ni ah the son of Az - face of a lion, and the fourth was zur and Pel·a·tiah the son of Be- g the face of an eagle. CHAP. 11 naiah, princes of the people.k 15 And the cherubs would j Eze 10:19 rise—they were the same living 10:15 Lit., “it was the living creature.” 10:17 Lit., “the spirit of the living crea- 10:14 10:20 That is, each of the cherubs. k Isa 1:23 ture.” Lit., “This is the living Or “human.” Eze 22:27 creature.” EZEKIEL 11:2-21 1144 2 Then He said to me: “Son of CHAP. 11 13 As soon as I prophesied, man, these are the men who are a Eze 12:27 Pel·a·tiah the son of Be·naiah scheming evil and giving wick- died, and I fell facedown and ed advice in this city. 3 They b Eze 24:3 cried with a loud voice: “Alas, are saying, ‘Is it not the time O Sovereign Lord Jehovah! Are for building houses?a The city c Eze 3:17 you going to exterminate the re- Eze 20:46 b a is the cooking pot, and we are Eze 21:2 maining ones of Israel?” the flesh.’ 14 The word of Jehovah again 4 “So prophesy against them.