Number 25:11
"Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy."
The events that led up to Phinehas' zeal being revealed were tragic.
Numbers 14:29
"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,"
When God told the children of Israel that all those from twenty years of age and above were going to die in the wilderness, it was as if it was a death sentence.
Numbers 5:4
"And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel."
Profiling seems to be a dirty word in a politically correct society, but if you fly as much as I do, you don't mind if security agents profile people.
Leviticus 11:44
"For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
Christianity has become a hodgepodge of every type of lifestyle.
The 8/25/13 bulletin from FBC Hammond is now up at www.baptist-city.com.
Exodus 33:3
"Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way."
To have something, and then to lose it must leave the emptiest feeling.
Exodus 18:13
"And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening."
Moses found himself in the same trap that many pastors are in today.