Lesson 64: The Law Of The Old Testament That Is Covered In
The New Testament:
The Fire Wood
3/27/2014
by turtle30c
Numbers 15:32-41 KJV
(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.
(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.
To be part of a Holy order of God and to follow that orders rules is
and can be a challenge. Israel was called to such a holy order of
God. Given a list of rules that other nation’s were not given and
some laws were given from the beginning before the Ten
Commandments were established. Yet there were laws to all nations
as well as to His elect. Keeping the Sabbath Holy was one that was
established. Many people still only work five to six days a week
because of the Sabbath. Yet most would say they do not take
people to court over someone breaking the Sabbath, or not to court
to put one to death.
The rule was that anyone breaking the laws of God were worthy of
death. Sounds strict until you think back to when Adam and Eve fell
in the garden and their sin cost them paradise. If you played Simon
Sez growing up you know that the game requires you to sit out if you
do not follow Simon. It seems unjust and unfair for one mistake, but
children learn it the rule and they follow hoping to catch someone
other then themselves breaking the rules.
Israel caught a man in sin gathering only fire wood for a fire. I
wonder why they did not just bring this man to their own fire and not
warn him what the law was? The people took him before Moses and
said see what he did. Lord the told Moses to kill him for gathering
fire wood. Moses did not plead for this man’s life, but the elders and
him had the man killed, I wonder if it was on the Sabbath that they
killed him, scripture does not say. Yet to enforce a law is to enforce
rules. Our government if they followed all the laws of our land would
find more in jail then we already do. Yet each breaking of a law
causes problems. The less report the more lawless our land
becomes. Yet no one blames another for something they do
themselves. Had Israel become the Holy nation God desired, or
tattle tales.
One has to decide how they feel about rules. How they feel about
laws of justice. If they are willing to follow a law even if it hurts
themselves to do so. Most would agree if you agree to the rules then
you agree not to break them. The minor offense seems obsessive to
our world, yet to God’s people it is justified, to keep control. Yet
God would break His own rules by giving His Son for our sacrifice for
payment for our failure to obey Him. His word being that there would
be no more sacrifice for sin to all that would trust in Him. That
making the law abolished.
Yet the law of enforced in the days of Moses, because people did
not believe God, or desire to keep the laws. Society without
obedience to the rules would perish, because of corruption that
would continue because of continual broken rules. That why the need
for military, our police, judges and our lawyers, to make sure laws
our enforced to keep society from corruption. Yet the Sabbath day is
a rule of God not a rule of man. God’s rules are much hard if nothing
more to prove our inability to obey God’s laws. That why we need
God’s saving from His laws. That why Jesus died for you and me.
God’s wrath or God’s mercy. Man gathering wood found God’s
wrath. He had no respect for the laws of God.
Dear Heavenly Father thank you for teaching us the enforcement of
laws, as well as forgiveness of law breaking. No one could keep all
your ways and that is when you applied your grace. In Jesus
precious name, Amen.
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