I want to be right
2 Kings 17:28:33-39
[28] Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.
[33] They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. [34] Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; [35] With whom the Lord had made a covenant, and charged them saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: [36] But the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. [37] And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. [38] And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. [39] But the Lord your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
Illustration:
If you want to be distressed, look within.
If you want to be defeated, look around.
If you want to be dismayed, look before.
If you want to be delivered, look to Christ.
Introduction
V.33 They feared the Lord, and served their own gods? The gods of there captures there bodies were free….but their minds were still in bondage. They say their saved, but they don’t fear the lord…they say they serve The one true and living God……but they don’t follow His commandment, they don’t do what He says……I’m saved, but I’m living with Sally….I’m anointed, but I go to the clubs every night… I’m fire baptized…..but I don’t have the patience or the compassion to hear what’s going on in your life.
V.34 To call our self saved, but not doing God’s will…..Can that be true? Can we really be children of God, and not do what He say’s? I believe some saint are so hard headed, that they miss there blessing…..take titheing, the Lord commands it, but do we do it? Take forgiveness, is there someone in your past, that for some reason you hold a grudge with? Now the Lord requires obedience to Him if we are to receive His blessing. In Matt. 22:37-40 Jesus say’s
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. [40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
And in John 4:24 it say’s
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 4:24
a [God is a Spirit] God is a Spirit Being, not the sun, moon, stars; nor an image of wood, stone, or metal; and not beast or man. He is not the air, wind, universal mind, love or some impersonal quality.
He is a person with a personal spirit body, a personal soul, and a personal spirit, like that of angels, and like that of man except His body is of spirit substance instead of flesh and bones (Job 13:8; Hebrews 1:3). He has a personal spirit body (Daniel 7:9-14; Daniel 10:5-19); shape (John 5:37); form (Phil. 2:5-7); image and likeness of a man (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 9:6; Ezekiel 1:26-28; 1 Cor. 11:7; James 3:9). He has physical parts such as, back parts (Exodus 33:23), heart (Genesis 6:6; Genesis 8:21), hands and fingers (Psalm 8:3-6; Hebrews 1:10; Rev. 5:1-7), mouth (Numbers 12:8), lips and tongue (Isaiah 30:27), feet (Ezekiel 1:27; Exodus 24:10), eyes (Psalm 11:4; Psalm 18:24; Psalm 33:18), ears (Psalm 18:6), hair, head, face, arms (Daniel 7:9-14; Daniel 10:5-19; Rev. 5:1-7; Rev. 22:4-6), loins (Ezekiel 1:26-28; Ezekiel 8:1-4), and other physical parts. He has bodily presence (Genesis 3:8; Genesis 18:1-22) and goes from place to place in a body like all other persons (Genesis 3:8; Genesis 11:5; Genesis 18:1-5,22,33; Genesis 19:24; Genesis 32:24-32; Genesis 35:13; Zech. 14:5; Daniel 7:9-14; Titus 2:13). He has a voice (Psalm 29; Rev. 10:3-4); breath (Genesis 2:7); and countenance (Psalm 11:7). He wears clothes (Daniel 7:9-14; Daniel 10:5-19); eats (Genesis 18:1-8; Exodus 24:11); rests (Genesis 2:1-4; Hebrews 4:4); dwells in a mansion and in a city located on a material planet called Heaven (John 14:1-3; Hebrews 11:10-16; Hebrews 13:14; Rev. 21); sits on a throne (Isaiah 6; Daniel 7:9-14; Rev. 4:1-5; Rev. 22:3-6); walks (Genesis 3:8; Genesis 18:1-8,22,33); rides (Psalm 18:10; Psalm 68:17; Psalm 104:3; Ezekiel 1); and engages in other activities.
He has a personal soul with feelings of grief (Genesis 6:6), anger (1 Kings 11:9), repentance (Genesis 6:6), jealousy (Exodus 20:5), hate (Proverbs 6:16), love (John 3:16), pity (Psalm 103:13), fellowship (1 John 1:1-7), pleasure and delight (Psalm 147:10), and other soul passions like other beings (Galatians 5:22-23).
He has a personal spirit (Psalm 143:10; Isaiah 30:1) with mind (Romans 11:34), intelligence (Genesis 1:26; Romans 11:33), will (Romans 8:27; Romans 9:19), power (Ephes. 1:19; Ephes. 3:7,20; Hebrews 1:3), truth (Psalm 91:4), faith and hope (Romans 12:3; 1 Cor. 13:13), righteousness (Psalm 45:4), faithfulness (1 Cor. 10:13), knowledge and wisdom (Isaiah 11:2; 1 Tim. 1:17), reason (Isaiah 1:18), discernment (Hebrews 4:12), immutability (Hebrews 6:17), and many other attributes, powers, and spirit faculties.
V.35 The Lord had made a covenant, (we have a better covenant than the saints of Old, We don’t need to Find an unblemished lamb, and sacrifice it to cover our sins, Jesus, Is is The lamb slain, from the foundation of the world,) and charged them saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them, My brothers and sister, we don’t have to give into temptation, I know that sometimes the god’s of this world seem to have us cornered, Paul said
Ephes. 6:12-13
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. [13] Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Ephes. 6:14-17
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; [15] And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; [16] Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. [17] And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
V.36 But the Lord, who brought us out of Captivity, The Lord who came to set the captives free, The one who rebuked the devourer for your sake, of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice
I’m Glad, That Jesus, Paid the price for my sin’s, I’m Glad this evening church, that I have a friend named Jesus, He sticks closer than a brother, Loves me more than My mother, O Jesus is soo good, Church, He who could not die chose to die for those who must die. Jesus came down through 42 generations, born of a virgin in a manger in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, Baptized in the Jordan by John the Baptist, He lived a sinless life, He hung bled and die on a hill called Calvary, but early on the third day morning He got up with all power in his hands, Praise him this evening church, Just as Jesus was resurrected from the dead, and now sits at the right hand of the father, making intersections for men, He is ready to resurrect you from the dead life your in.. Call you children of the most High God…….My brothers and sisters are you ready to rise from the dead?? Are you ready to fulfill all of God’s statues in your life are you ready to Live this Christian Life to the fullest?? The Spirit say’s Come!
