Dear brothers and sisters,
Loving greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Today let us see about the importance of escaping from
the coming wrath and destruction of God. Whenever the people of
God broke the commandments of God they provoked God to anger.
The bible says in Exo 20:4, "You shall not make for yourself
an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth
beneath or in the waters below.” To implement the word of
God in our lives we need both the God given Moses and the Priest
Aaron. The individual ministries of today may take the people
of God faraway from God. Because the one who is suppose to pray
and help them to keep the commandments of God is the one who was
used by Satan to make others to worship the idol. In the absence
of Moses the servant of God Aaron who is also another called servant
of God behaves differently. Satan used him to misguide the people
of God that is some thing we must understand in our lives. We
see a different Aaron when Moses the man of God is not around
him.
First mistake is this, Now in the absence of Moses Aaron become
a man pleaser as in Exo 32:1, “When the people saw that
Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered
around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods who will go before
us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we
don't know what has happened to him." Immediately he obeyed
them and agreed to make the idol for them.
The second mistake of Aaron is, Instead of the reminding the
people in the absence of Moses the laws and the commandments of
God to prevent them from breaking the covenant relationship they
made with God, Aaron was used as an instrument of Satan to make
the people of God sin by gathering their offerings to make an
idol for them with his own hands. He did not do justice to the
call of God in his life, instead of interceding for them to come
out of their sin; he made them to sin against Gods commandments.
That means even today, Satan can use the priests to give wrong
guidance and help the people to sin and go away from God as in
Exo 32:2 & 3, “Aaron answered them, "Take off the
gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are
wearing, and bring them to me. Vs.3, “So all the people
took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.” –
[The spiritual lesson here is this: Let us not use our brain alone
and starts functioning independently there is a great danger that
we may fall. Without a proper fellowship a spiritual leader also
can do similar mistakes when he functions independently. That
is why the bible says woe unto those who act individually as in
Eccl 4:9 & 10; “Two are better than one, because they
have a good return for their work: vs.10, “If one falls
down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and
has no one to help him up!”]
Third mistake, in the absence of Moses the called servant of
God Aaron is making another mistake by making the idol and hand
over it to them to worship as in Exo 32:4, “He took what
they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of
a calf, fashioning it with a tool.”
Fourth mistake, Satan uses the God given priest here to make
the people of God celebrate the Idols by observing the people’s
taste, by also fixing a festival for it to keep the momentum going
in a more wrong way by as he announced the festival for the idol,
" as in Exo. 32:5, Tomorrow there will be a festival to the
LORD."
Fifth mistake, Aaron was the root cause for them to present the
idols offerings by providing them the needed tool the alter in
front of the idol as in Exo 32:5, “When Aaron saw this,
he built an altar in front of the calf the idol,”
Sixth mistake, he was the one totally misguided the people to
transferred the spiritual sacrifices and offerings what belong
to God to be observed for the idols by making them the altar he
made them give offerings to the idol, may be for his own benefits
and income. When he provided the people the altar they made use
of it so he got his income as Exo 32:6, “So the next day
the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings’ –
[that means as long as he gets a income, he may not be worried
about their future or he will never dare to give them the correct
word of God to prevent them to get out of the coming wrath of
God even if he knows what they are doing is wrong.]
Seventh mistake, Aaron was the cause for them to eat and drink
and indulge in sin as in Exo.32:5, ‘Afterward they sat down
to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” –
[perversion comes whenever the children of God fail to praise
and worship God as in Rom.1:21, 24]
We need the God given servant Moses now, if the children of God
have to come out of their sin. Only he will have the boldness
to say what is wrong because Moses never feared to say what is
wrong in the whole worship system as in Exo 32:7, “Then
the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom
you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt.” –
[I wonder some time, ‘will the called Priests of God today,
who also badly need the correcting voice of Moses, will they accept
his corrections?’ But we need a spiritual man now to intercede
for us to come out of the coming wrath of God. But do we have
one spiritual leader who walks with God?]
May the Lord help each one of us to follow him in this month
in an intelligent manner by walking with the God given spiritual
leaders in good fellowship as in Heb.13:17. Amen.
Your Web-Site Pastor,
Rev.
Dr. T. Marcus Devasahayam
Web-site: www.barodabibleclub.org
e-mail: marcusbbc@yahoo.com
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