Read: Deuteronomy 23:1-25:19; Luke 10:13-37; Psalm 75:1-10: Proverbs 12:12-14
We have to remember when reading the laws of the Old Testament that they are spiritual to us. The bottom line is that God hates mixture and demands holiness among his people. I’m going to get political for a moment so bare with me. I signed a petition boycotting “Beauty and the Beast” because of the “gay moments” I was told it had. After talking to several Christians who saw the movie, they said it was so subtile it would go right over the minds of children and it was a whole lot of hoopla over nothing. That mindset is how Roe vs. Wade became the law of the land. Christians didn’t react to the small subtile ways the devil was coming in the door and didn’t fight back. The truth about that movie is that the director is an openly gay man who had an agenda to put a few subtile gay moments in the film. The devil caused a huge commotion over it so that when we saw it we would think, “oh, that’s not so bad.” Since he got away with this little subtile entry into the door, next time, it won’t be so subtile and it will be a tidal wave that we won’t be able to stop. That is why God seems so strong on his laws. He wanted to stop evil from getting in the camp. Evil has gotten into the church because we don’t want to miss out on a little pleasure. They have now given that a name: FOMO (fear of missing out). Amazing! How about FOMO in regards to the things of God. I don’t want to miss out on anything the Lord is doing even if that means I miss out on a few Disney movies.
I don’t usually use my blog to preach but we as the church have to wake up. We are on the cusp of another Great Awakening in our land and I don’t want God to pass us by because his people cannot agree on what is holy and what is not. God is not judging us by what the world is doing, He is judging us by what his children’s reaction. Let’s stand together for our land and make it holy again.
Jesus cursed Chorizan and Bethsaida for their unbelief. In Bethsaida, Jesus fed the 5,000 and healed a blind man with mud along with many other miracles. Capernaum was also a city that Jesus did many miracles and cast out many devils and yet they turned against him. Jesus explained to his disciples that whoever rejected them was really rejecting him and whoever rejected him was rejecting God.
One of the leaders of the law wanted to test Jesus so he asked Jesus how to receive eternal life. Jesus turned it on him and asked him what the law said. He answered correctly - Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. (He must have heard Jesus earlier sermon.) So to trick him, he asked Jesus who his neighbor was. Jesus gave him the story of the good Samaritan. It was a slap in the leaders face because the one who was the hero was not the priest or the Levite in the story. The one who loved his neighbor was a Samaritan. He was the neighbor to the Israelite. Jesus asked him who was the neighbor and he said the one who showed mercy. Jesus told him to go and do the same. I wonder if he did.
Lord, we don’t want to miss out on our destiny for today. May we be attentive and have our ears open to your cry.
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