💥*** Believe God to sanctify HIM in the sight of all the people.

 

 

 

We set our hearts to believe God regardless of what we might think or see.  We make God our God.

After I broke my hip, at the hospital, they made me do "physical therapy".  But I knew what God says in the Bible.

I Timothy 4

7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.  8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

During that time I made a conscious effort to set God above the theories of man.  I knew if I recovered it would be God that caused my recovery.  

I believe that is an example of sanctifying God in front of man.

It is a choice we make.  How can I put my faith in man and turn down so great a salvation?

And God greatly rewarded me.

Later one of the physical therapists told me this:  "I used to think I was pretty good as a physical therapists but I've come to see that in time that person recovers without doing anything."

I showed her that scripture:  "bodily exercise profiteth little:"

She said, "That's what I see."

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In all things, it is God who works it out for us!

Concerning money:

Genesis 14

21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

As a new Christian, when I read this scripture, I said to God:  "That's what I want.  I want my possessions to come from YOU."

Sanctify God in front of the people.

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Potipher's wife wanted to have sex with Joseph.  But Joseph said to her:  There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Joseph sanctified God in the sight of Potiphar's wife. (Genesis 39)

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In 2023, I sought the help of a woman who had lived in Germany to pronounce the name of a German Orchestra Conductor.

When the subject of opera of Wagner came up in our conversation.  I told her of late I had been interested in knowing about his 4 operas which are called "The Ring."

She excitedly told me these are her favorite operas and she has many books and DVD of this opera and I would be welcome to borrow these.  

She sent me 2 emails to introduce me to these works of Wagner.  When I found these were about a dwarf who stole a ring from a god named Wolten, I sent a note to this woman telling her if a dwarf could steal a ring from my God, then I would be out looking for another God.

Then I told her I would not want to see DVD's of these operas.  I just listen to opera as I listen to other music.  I consider the voices to be instruments that produce music and I hear opera as music, not caring about the meaning of the words.  For if I knew what they were singing about, I would likely hear their sins.  When I hear the pure music, it is abstract and for me no sin.

My God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus Christ, God's son ... the God who created the heaven and the earth and has power, and I worship HIM, so I wouldn't want to see these gods of Wagner.

I believe this sanctifies God in the sight of men.

It's not something I try to do.  It's just in my heart this way.

And you are saying, "I'm not doing this. I'm not worshipping your God."

And Job said: "Though YOU slay me, yet will I serve YOU."

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Exodus 20

1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.

(Those who complained forgot how bad it was in Egypt where Pharaoh commanded all males who were new born be killed because there were too many Israelites.)

6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.

7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as HE commanded him.

10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed ME not, to sanctify ME in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.  

By failing to do what God said to do, Moses exalted himself above God in the eyes of the people, and this one time Moses failed to sanctify God in front of the people.

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Moses would die before entering the promised land.  Joshua would take his place leading the children of Israel.

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💥 *** God is a spirit. How can you make an image of a spirit?

John 4  (Jesus says)

23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship HIM.

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth.

So we don't go to a place to worship God.  We don't go to a building to worship God.  We worship God wherever we are day and night for God dwells in us.

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We worship HIM who is invisible as did Moses.

Hebrews 11:27  By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing HIM who is invisible.

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We can't make an image of a spirit for a spirit has no image.  To do such is to worship something which is a creation our of the mind of man.  

Therefore, no crosses, no images of a man molded in the form of the flesh.  These are "idols".

We fall down before God each time we do the instruction given by God by HIS Word.

We worship God day and night, even while we sleep, and wherever we are because God is in us.

I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Therefore put away those idols which you see with your natural eyes, and worship in your heart the God who is a spirit and cannot be seen, the God who created the heaven and earth.

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💥 *** Way of the Old Testament vs. way of the New Testament today.

As we read the Old Testament Bible, we see many ways different from the New Testament Bible.

In the OT the people were given outward ways of remembering God and following God.  Whereas in the NT we have God living inside us so HE is always present with each individual who belongs to HIM.

It is a better way God has given to us today.

Yet we are greatly admonished and warned and see strength and power of God strongly as we read Old Testament examples.

I Corinthians 10

11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

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Numbers 15

37 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:

39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

40 That ye may remember, and do all MY commandments, and be holy unto your God.

41 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.

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Today in the New Testament Church, God dwells in us, in each individual who is born again by HIS Spirit.

I Corinthians 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Acts 17

24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that HE is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though HE needed any thing, seeing HE giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after HIM, and find HIM, though HE be not far from every one of us:

28 For in HIM we live, and move, and have our being;

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God's Holy Spirit lives in us:

After Jesus shed HIS blood for our sins, HE established the New Testament Church from Heaven after HE was raised from the dead by God the Father.

Every believer in Jesus is given HIS Holy Spirit to live in us and teach us and guide us while we live on this present earth.

John 14:26  (Jesus says)  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in MY name, HE shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

John 16:13  Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever HE shall hear (from God), that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.  

I Corinthians 2

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HIM. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

(God sent the Spirit of Jesus to live in each believer after Jesus was raised from the dead.  Now we follow that Spirit and the Word God gives us through HIM and by the New Testament Bible.)

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The World cannot follow the Spirit of God for they do not have the Spirit of God but they have the spirit of the flesh of man.

Jesus says:  Ye must be born again.  (John 3)

When God speaks to us and we believe that Word God speaks, we are born again.  Now we have the Holy Spirit of Jesus in us and can understand what God says to us.

John 4  (Jesus says)  

23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship HIM.

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and in truth.

We don't go to a place to worship God.  God lives in us so we worship God wherever we are.

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💥*** Example of the severity of the Old Testament Law.

 

 

Numbers 15

32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses. 

This may seem a shocking story to us.

But it demonstrates that the word of God is to be obeyed.

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The New Testament sabbath is different from the laws of the Old Testament sabbath.

We offer ourselves daily to the Lord in the NT church.

Romans 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And the primary sabbath offering of the New Testament church is to cease from our own works and to rest in God's works and in God's word daily.

Hebrews 3

6 But Christ as a son over HIS own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted ME, proved ME, and saw MY works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known MY ways. 11 So I sware in MY wrath, They shall not enter into MY rest.)

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17 But with whom was HE grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom sware HE that they should not enter into HIS rest, but to them that believed not?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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Hebrews 4

1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into HIS rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as HE said, As I have sworn in MY wrath, if they shall enter into MY rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

4 For HE spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all HIS works.

5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into MY rest.

6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

7 Again, HE limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts.

8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would HE not afterward have spoken of another day.

9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

10 For HE that is entered into HIS rest, HE also hath ceased from HIS own works, as God did from HIS.

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in HIS sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of HIM with whom we have to do.

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The New Testament is founded on "better" promises.

Hebrews 8

6 But now hath HE (Jesus) obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also HE is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8 For finding fault with them, HE saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in MY covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people:

In the New Covenant the laws of God are written by God in our minds and in our hearts.

Thus the laws of God are in us by the Holy Spirit who is in us today and leads us and guides us.  And we rest in that word given to us by God and trust in that word.  

But some, ignorant of the laws of God today, try to put upon us partial laws pertaining to the Old Testament and by doing such they end up following in part laws of God from both the Old and New Testaments and fail to fulfill either, for they do not know what it is they say.

Today we have the New Testament which pertains to the way of God for today's New Testament Church.

We cease from our own works and do HIS works and rest in HIM, in HIS Word.

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💥*** Aaron's rod buds. God stopped the complaining.

 

Numbers 17

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.

3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.

4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.

5 And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.

6 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.

8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

11 And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.

12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.

13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

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God made it known in a visible way that HE had chosen Aaron as HIS minister and no one can choose himself as such.  God chooses.

A woman who was leader of our little neighbor prayer group once said, "If God will show Joan Boney, then HE will show me.  God is no respecter of persons."

But God chooses the ministers as HE wills and God gives the gifts of the Holy Spirit as HE wills.

Why does it matter who gives the information so long as each of us get to hear the message?

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God gives the spiritual gifts as HE wills.

I Corinthians 12:11  But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as HE will.

Ephesians 4:8  Wherefore HE saith, When HE ascended up on high, HE led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

(That spiritual gift is given so the church can benefit.)

11-12  And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

God gives that spiritual gift so the church may be edified by the gift and also the minister may be identified as a minister set in the church by God.

I Corinthians 12

27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

28 And God hath set some in the church (to care for the church), first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

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One day at church, a woman came to me and said, "I want to do what you're doing."  It rather shocked me and I replied, "You do?"

(I suppose she was referring to being on radio to exhort the church.  She didn't know God put me on radio by an angle of God giving me instructions as I was asleep in the night on January 10, 1980.  The angel, with a trumpet like voice spoke these 3 words into my ear:  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"

When I learned KWJS was a radio station, I said to God, "Are YOU showing me to go on radio?  I wouldn't know how to do that."  The Holy Spirit brought this to my mind immediately to instruct me.  "Call the radio station manager."

That same morning, I called KWJS and asked to speak to the radio station manager.  I told him God might be showing me to go on radio.  And I asked, "How would you do that?"

The station manager replied,  "Make an audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and send it to me and if you fit our programming we will offer you a contract."

After that phone call, I got my cassette tape recorder and my kitchen timer and made a tape exhorting the church and sent it to the station manager.

Within 5 days, I was speaking exhortations to the church at the noon time hour on KWJS.

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We are trained by God for the work of the ministry and led by God and set into the ministries as God wills.

But many today try to be ministers without being trained by God and without being placed in the ministry by God.  It is by their own will.

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💥*** Rebellion against Moses: Korah, Dathan, Abiram

 

 

Numbers 16

1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: 2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:

3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:

5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;

7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:

9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?

10 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?

12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us? 14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow: 17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.

18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.

19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.

20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation? 

 

23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me. 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:  32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

36 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.

38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar: 40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.

42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.

44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.

47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.

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I typed "Sins of Korah" on my Bible computer and received 28 references to this sin. Here are a few of those citations.

Psalm 46:1  (To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.) God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 49:1  (To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.) Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

Genesis 36:5  And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.  (Remember what God said about Esau, even before Esau was born?   Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.  Romans 9:13)

Numbers 26:10   And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

 

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💥 *** In the New Testament, we are an offering to the Lord!

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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Daily we offer ourselves to God to serve HIM that day as HE wills.

It is most certainly "our reasonable service."

God gave us a new heart and a new spirit so we could serve HIM.  God recreated us inside in HIS images as sons and daughters.  God made us into new creatures.

Ezekiel 36

23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

27 And I will put MY spirit within you, and cause you to walk in MY statutes, and ye shall keep MY judgments, and do them.

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2 Corinthians 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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💥*** God places a severe penalty upon the 10 men who brought back an evil report to the congregation.

Numbers 14

1 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people, The children of Israel, provoke ME? and how long will it be ere they believe ME, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?

(God had just delivered them from slavery in Egypt.  They had seen God's miracles of deliverance, even to the killing of the first born of the Egyptians, humans and livestock. Yet they did not recognize the great power of God to work on their behalf.)

12  I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for THOU broughtest up this people in Thy might from among them;)

14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that THOU LORD art among this people, that THOU LORD art seen face to face, and that Thy cloud standeth over them, and that THOU goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

15 Now if THOU shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of THEE will speak, saying, 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which HE sware unto them, therefore HE hath slain them in the wilderness.

17 And now, I beseech THEE, let the power of my Lord be great, according as THOU hast spoken, saying,

18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

19 Pardon, I beseech THEE, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of Thy mercy, and as THOU hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

22 Because all those men which have seen MY glory, and MY miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted ME now these ten times, and have not hearkened to MY voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked ME see it:

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All these things that happened to them are examples to warn us.  It is very important to remember the works God has done in our lives to encourage us in the faith.  Just sit down and list those things you are grateful that God has done for you and thank God.  The first thing I thank God for is my salvation, for causing me to be born again, for revealing HIMSELF and things of God to me.  For showing me how to live on this earth as a Christian. For giving me HIS Holy Spirit so I can know HIS will for me and can do HIS will in the problems that come on this earth.  As we go over those things with God we rejoice in God, in HIS works. This is a big area of spiritual warfare ... being grateful to God for both past and present life.

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Numbers 14

24 But MY servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed ME fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

(David prayed)  Psalm 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

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25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur (complain) against ME? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against ME.

28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in MINE ears, so will I do to you: 29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against ME,

(We go through the wilderness of this world.  Yet God is with us and guides us in what to do.  We are therefore well able to overcome today through God.  Build our faith in God by remembering HIS power on our behalf.  And know without a doubt that God will help us and we will overcome by the way God leads us in the problem in our life as we do what HE shows us to do.)

(For those who disobey God and fail to have faith in God:)

30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know MY breach of promise.

35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against ME: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur (to complain) against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.  (Caleb said, "Let us go up at once to posses the land God has given us for we are well able to possess the land!" Numbers 13:30)

(Numbers 13:30-31  And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.)

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39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.  

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(They didn't want to do what God told them to do and now they have decided they will do what God said to do.  But now God has turned against them and is not with them.  An example for us.)

Numbers 14

40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.

41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. (Note this:  Now Moses did not go with them and the ark of the covenant was not with them.)

45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

There is a time with God. A time that God will go with you when you believe in HIM, when your faith is God is HIGH.  But if you fail to do what God tells you when HE tells you, then you might not be able to overcome the enemy.  So we work to keep our faith in God high by thinking on the power of God and how HE has helped us in the past.

I Corinthians 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

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💥 *** A lack of faith in God is sin, for Paul says: " Whatsoever is not of faith is sin." (Romans 14:23)

 

I Corinthians 10:11  

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

(admonition: warning)

When God sends us out, we must have it in our heart that God will not fail us and we go forward in our assignment as did Joshua, with a "charge from God" whereby we cannot fail.

(If we keep these words in our heart and mind and meditate upon these words until we really believe them, we will have good success in all that God gives us to do.)

Joshua 1

5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

6 Be strong and of a good courage: ...

7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

I Corinthians 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

To succeed, we prepare our hearts before going out.  I will discuss this on this Podcast.

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Numbers 13  (God sends men to search out the land of Canaan.)

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.

(God gives them this land.  They cannot fail.  God has all power to overcome.  It will be their land regardless of the obstacles.  This is what they must know in their hearts before they go out.  This is also what we must know in our hearts when God send us out by HIS Word to us.)

3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

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Numbers 13

17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:

18 And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;

20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.

21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

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Numbers 13  (They return with their report.)

25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

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Numbers 14

1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

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Numbers 14

6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

8 If the LORD delight in us, then HE will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

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This past summer, we played classical music at the end of the Podcasts.  Soon we hope to resume playing this wonderful music on our blog:  Jesus Ministries Exhortations.

We are currently working on the technical aspects to make this possible and will let you know when these recordings will be available again to you.

In the Bible, we have examples of devils fleeing from king Saul when David played skillfully on his harp.

I Samuel 16

23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

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💥*** Can God feed HIS people in the wilderness?

 

 

 

Numbers 11

4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

(Despising the food God provided for them.)

7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

11 And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in THY sight, that THOU layest the burden of all this people upon me?

12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that THOU shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

15 And if THOU deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in THY sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before HIM, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.

22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether MY word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

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Numbers 11

31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.

32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

I Corinthians 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Restrain your lusts and be content with such things as ye have.  (I Timothy 6)

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(We played classical music on our Podcasts for several weeks this summer.  We are currently working to move this to our blog and hope to present it again to you on Jesus Ministries Exhortation blog in the next few days.)

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