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REPLACE OLD EXPERIENCES WITH NEW!
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29
Leviticus 18
Luke 4:8
“Ye shall do my judgments,
and keep mine ordinances,
to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.”
REPLACE OLD EXPERIENCES WITH NEW!
No one exists on earth without a past. Past experiences shape and mould our lives and thinking. We are what we are in the present because of our past. When we change, we do not leave our past behind. The past is like luggage within our mind, heart and soul that cannot be discarded. It follows us everywhere we go. This includes our worship of God after we are saved in Christ.
Israel had experienced Egyptian worship for the past four hundred years. Soon, they would witness Canaanite worship after they had defeated them and lived in their cities and homes. They found idols and places of worship in the Land of Promise. That was why the LORD commanded Israel to destroy every place of idolatrous worship and every Canaanite idol, including every idolater – man, woman or child. There was to be no exception so as to save Israel from the sin of idolatry. If Israel succumbed to the sin of idolatry, the world would lunge into spiritual darkness without any spiritual light! Israel was the only spiritual light on earth shining forth the light of Christ to save the world from sin.
Israel was to walk only in God’s ordinances, judgments, and statutes, found only in the Word of God. Obedience to the Word of God required a jealous and total submission to God alone. The reason given by the LORD to Israel for their devotion was “I am the LORD your God” (Lev 18:2, 4, 30). Israel had made a covenant with the LORD to call the LORD her God. Israel had to walk and keep God’s Word to be a holy witness for the LORD. Eclectic worship was an abomination. Israel was not to bow down to both the LORD and Baal at the same time. Idol worship by Israel was much worse than the idol worship of the Canaanites who did not call themselves the people of God. This is also true for Christians today who worship the LORD on Sunday, but worship idols the other days of the week. We must not transfer any notion of past idolatrous worship or experiences to our worship of Christ. The worship of Christ alone must be based on the Bible alone.
MEMORISATION: Leviticus 18:3
PRAYER: Help me, Father, to worship Thee only, in spirit and in truth. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.