Title Entering the Earth/Numbers 15:1-10
Go into the land (Numbers 15:1-10)
1998. 5. 24 Sunday morning worship
Bible: Numbers 15:1-10
Title: Entering the Earth (Lecture 27)
I think a lot about the Indonesian case. A man who has been in power for several decades has been in dictatorship. But nothing happened, and when the economy deteriorated, people kicked out the leader. In any country, it is a means of living that the country was established. what to eat what to wear This is the de facto purpose of building a country. The same is true of the myth of Dangun in Korea. It is said that Hongik Ingan is the founding ideology of the fact that he came down to this earth with such beings who control the clouds and the wind, but in reality, it is focused on eating and drinking. However, the nation of Israel was not built to do that. The interest of the nation of Israel is the fact that it is not a country that is interested in how to make the country bigger and how to achieve economic revival. It is a human instinct to eat and live, but a country that ignores that instinct is a country that rejects it. A nation that only believes in God, a nation that has no meaning in life if it does not believe in God. A nation armed with such a mindset is Israel.
Also, in verses 17-21, we are told to give the first-ripe flour to God from generation to generation. This is a confession that all these things come from God. It means a person who knows that everything comes from the Lord, that is, he lives by entrusting everything to God. This is the one who loves God, who has given everything to God. It means that only God can love anyone. It means that only those who look to God and do not follow any conditions become the only ones. This is the principle of the land of Canaan. What is a believer? Those who know the love of God. Love transcends conditions. It's good not to know the world. However, only those who know the love of God can enter. Israel is special. They were strange people in the eyes of the world. They were the ones who had abandoned the instincts of ordinary people. They were transcendent. Their concern was not with the world, but with God.
People usually say It is said that love feeds you. When I say this to the believers, they ask if God feeds them. Did you know that a believer who looks immature and stupid? We need to think anew why the Israelites could not enter the land of Canaan. We need to think about why we are talking about offering sacrifices to the people of Israel as if we were arguing. God said to the Israelites, “Whenever they enter the land.” Through these words, God is clearly bringing the Israelites into the land of Canaan. It definitely proves that. But no one is taking it. Only those who hunger for God's love will be brought in. Only those who answer “yes” to these words will be brought in. This is the church, and this is what believers look like. Those who are ignorant of the world, but hungry for God's love, and thirsty for His grace, are asking for such a person.