Title: What's My Face?
Text/ Exodus 34:17-35
2. 起 / In the Bible, there are faces with negative images and faces with positive images. The face of King Uzziah who was arrogant and arrogant as a person with a negative image (2 Chronicles 26). In the days of Zechariah, who clearly knew the revelation of God, he sought God, and while he sought God, God made him prosper (2 Chronicles 26:5). He broke the law and tried to burn incense on his own, but as a punishment from God, he became a leper. The word of the Lord that He destroys the house of the proud has come true (Proverbs 15:25).
Miriam's face full of envy (Numbers 12). When all the people's attention and popularity was focused on Moses, his sister Miriam was filled with envy. < Did God only speak with Moses? Didn't you also talk to us? But why do we neglect the big things and the small things, Moses, Moses, Moses? >. Miriam was also punished with leprosy.
The face of the crafty and greedy Gehazi (2 Kings 5). Gehazi, who is coveted by Naaman's many gold and silver treasures and fancy clothes, steals two talents of silver and two sets of top-quality clothes with a cunning lie. As a result, Gehazi was punished, saying, "Naaman's leprosy will come upon you and will spread to you and your descendants forever and ever."
3. 承 / As a person with a positive image
The face of Moses, whose eyelids were shining brightly (Exodus 34).
When Moses came down from the top of Mt. Sinai without eating bread or drinking water for 40 days and nights, receiving the stone tablets of the 10 commandments of the word of the covenant of God, a radiance came from the eyelids of his face. can't see Reluctantly, Moses covers his face with a towel and meets them.
The face of Hezekiah, who fell humbly (2 Kings 21).
When King Ahaziah of northern Israel became ill, he turned to Beelzebul, the god of Eglon, for help. Then Elijah said, “Do you go to the god of Ekron because there is no God in Israel? You will not come down from the bed you climbed up on and you will die.> Ahaziah dies, just as it was prophesied. When King Hezekiah is ill, he turns his face to the wall and humbly prays to Jehovah. I beg you, O LORD, remember that I have done what is good in your sight, and weep bitterly. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18). Jehovah extended his life by 15 years.
The face of Stephen like an angel, full of grace and power (Acts 6).
4. What does our soul hold? / When a person's <Ear> embraces pride, envy, and greed, that person's face becomes like a leper. When a person's <Earl> embraces humility, fasting, and the Word, his face shines. Life is extended. become an angel. The Bible clearly shows this.
6. Closing story / How am I refining my face?