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Excerpted from: Self-Government and Responsibility (Part Three)

God is setting the stage for what He is going to expound here. He opens it up by saying, in so many words, the responsibility for conduct lies with the individual. Now get that! The responsibility for conduct lies with the individual. This section (Ezekiel 18) was written to correct a misconception that the people had of Exodus 20:5. Right in the midst of the second commandment, it says, "the sins of the fathers will be passed to the children unto the third and fourth generation."

Think of that as it stands in the second commandment and how a people could apply it. Could it not be applied by a people to say, "Well, I am a victim. The sins of the fathers have been passed on to me and I am helpless before them." That is what the proverb says at the beginning of chapter 18. The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge. In other words, the fathers do something and the children are helpless before the effect of what the fathers did. Action by a previous generation causes reaction in this generation. God says, "Hey, you cannot say that anymore," because that is not what He meant by Exodus 20:5, "the sins of the fathers shall be passed on to the children."

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Self-Government and Responsibility (Part Two)
Biblical Principles of Justice (Part Two)

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