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A philosopher named Aristotle said, "Man is a social animal."
I think I said this because I live in a relationship that depends on each other.
That is why, these days, we are faced with the heartbreaking reality that children who are being bullied commit suicide after suffering too much mentally.
People despair when they can't be together with each other.
This kind of pain follows even when we are cut off from relationships with people. If God doesn't accompany us because of our break with God, that life will be the worst.
Ex) A friend's congratulatory money
Are you truly living a life with God?
The text clearly shows how different the results of a life that is cut off from God and the result of being with God are different.
First, it is when God does not walk with us.
Verse 3: “I will bring you to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up with you, lest I destroy you on the way, because you are a stiff-necked people.”
What kind of thunder is this that God will not go with Israel?
The background of this saying can be found in Exodus 32. When Moses went up to Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments, Israel could not wait for this and made a golden calf and worshiped idols.
As the second commandment of the Ten Commandments, God hates idolatry so much that he completely forbids idolatry.
Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image…”
Deuteronomy 5:8 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image…”
Colossians 3:5 speaks of the essence of idolatry as covetousness.
In other words, it is an idol that embodies the greed in one's heart.
We must acknowledge that we have the instinct to follow our own desires and ambitions rather than the Word and will of God. This does not mean, however, that we should be slaves to sin.
We need to ask God for grace and pray that we can overcome with the power of the Holy Spirit.
But rather than relying on an invisible God, Israel smoked the smell of ugly desire in front of the visible golden calf.
God wanted to destroy Israel who worshiped idols right away, but because of Moses' earnest prayer, God would allow them to go to Canaan flowing with milk and honey, but He said that He would not go with them.
Because Israel knew how terrifying and dreadful these words were, they grieve before God.
Seeing this, God said in verse 5, “The LORD said to Moses, “Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people, and if I walk among you even for a moment, I will destroy you. He said, “I know what to do.”
Here, 'Dangjang-pum' refers to something in the shape of an idol.
It is said to remove this, but in Hebrew, 'remove' means 'to throw away, throw away'.
have meaning.
They had overlooked the fact that evil must be abandoned in every form (1 Thessalonians 5:22).
Example) Mistakes in prognosis
Genesis 35:1 says, “God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, dwell there, and build there an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
In the previous chapter of Genesis 34, Jacob's daughter was raped by Shechem son of Hamor, and the blood of Simeon and Levi, who took revenge, is covered in blood.
God wanted Jacob to go to Bethel, remembering the promise he made with God through his family difficulties.
But Jacob does not understand. Then, this time, God spoke directly.
So Jacob said in Genesis 35:2, “And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away foreign gods among you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes.” And he gave to Jacob all the foreign gods and the rings that were in his ears, and Jacob buried them under an oak tree near Shechem.”
Although Jacob was greatly rejected by God's blessing, we can find in the above two verses that Jacob was unwittingly assimilated into a foreign culture through his ten years of living in Shechem.
The spiritual condition of Jacob's family was in serious danger to the extent that he made idols and wore them to the ears of his own family and servants.
So, God gave great difficulties to Jacob's family to make them realize this fact, but he did not realize it and said things that his father should not say.
Genesis 34:30 "Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, and you have made me stink upon the people of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. Me and my house will perish.”
This is a passage where we can see Jacob's weakness.
Likewise, we may be unwittingly guided by our own greed, which may shake the firmness of our faith.
However, Jacob realizes his mistake through the voice of God and immediately takes action.
After burying all the idols and going to Bethel to build an altar, God appears again and gives blessings (Genesis 35:9-11).
I hope that this kind of restoration of our relationship with God will happen to us as well.
Second, when God is with us.
In verses 7-11 of the text, Moses makes a tent of meeting to pray, and those who wait for the Lord go out to the tent of meeting.
And God appears as a pillar of cloud and has a conversation with Moses.
And it sounds like a simple statement that the young Joshua did not leave the tent of meeting,
But here is an important fact that we cannot miss.
That is, those who went far outside the camp and prayed to God were those who loved God.
For them, the streets and surroundings did not hinder their approach to God.
To those who loved God, Moses, and Joshua, God was directly present as a pillar of cloud so that they could see it with their own eyes, and he talked with Moses and showed the evidence that He was with them.
In the second half of verse 11, he wrote, “Moses returned to the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, did not leave the tent of meeting.”
If you read Joshua, there is no defeat for Joshua.
Of course, because of Achan's crime, he paused for a while in Ai, but in the end he was victorious.
He always enjoyed the joy of victory by walking with God in his life.
Joshua 10:10 "The LORD caused them to be defeated before Israel, so Joshua slaughtered them with a great slaughter at Gibeon..."
Joshua 10:19, “The Lord has delivered them into your hand...”
Joshua 10, verse 42 “Joshua took all these kings and their lands at once, because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for them.”
The reason Joshua was able to achieve success like this is because God thoroughly helped him and was with him.
In verse 11 of today's text, we found that Joshua did not just become a victor, but went to the tent of meeting to be with God all the time, and it was created because he had a prayer life in the tent of meeting.
The common thing among those who were used great by God in the Bible is that God was always with them.
Moses, Joseph, Daniel, David, Paul...
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Whether they are in the place of idolatry to satisfy their wrong desires, or are they standing in the tent of meeting (the present church) where they experience the presence of God like Moses and Joshua.
God wants to be with us.
I sincerely hope that God's presence will come to our hearts, and that the saints' business, family, and personal problems and wounds will be healed, and what is bound will be loosened and what is blocked will be released.