OT DAY 146 - Your Sins Will Last to The Third And Fourth Generations (請按此處收聼廣東話 )

Let us praise the Lord:

So I will bless you as long as I live;
    in your name I will lift up my hands.

                                             Psalm 63:4

Today's Reading: Exodus 20:4-6

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Bible Study

      The Second Commandment shows us two critical things. The first one is that it is so easy to worship idols. The second one is the serious consequence of the sin of worshiping idols that will last to the third and fourth generations, which means your great-grandson. Is that so serious? 

Let's take a look at what Professor John Goldingay says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

       They are not to make statues to help them worship.  This is another countercultural requirement; people like something visible to help them worship.  The trouble is that a statue can never truly represent the active and talking nature of the real God.  In effect, worshiping with the help of a statue means worshiping a different god.  It thus makes the real God passionately angry.  God rescued them from the service of Pharaoh so they could serve God; they have no business bowing down to other gods as if they were free to serve them.  The consequences within the family will be horrific   They will affect not just the parents but the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. 

John Goldingay. Exodus & Leviticus for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.80.

       Is it easy to identify the idols Christians are worshiping? Do you think you are worshiping some idols? Do you know how serious it can be? 

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to Felix Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song played by one of the greatest violinist Isaac Stern:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yj3RSxZmBQ

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Your sins will last to the third and fourth generations

    What I receive from Jesus today is a big warning. Our sins do not just affect us personally but to the third and fourth generations. 

    I always tell people about this, "If you are worshiping money, fame, lust or other things as your idols, your father should be like that, your grandfather should be like that and your great-grandfather should be like that."

    I once challenged one of my parishioners who owned a restaurant more than ten years ago. I said, "Why your restaurant have three "money come-in cats". Do you know as Christians we can't worship idols and that are clearly idols." She told me she had a partner who wanted to put those cats there. She will pray about that for God to open a new door to her. Her prayer is being answered by God. Her husband becomes a Christian in a short while and they opened a restaurant without any idol many years ago till now. They have led at least twelve staff from that restaurant to receive Jesus including the main chef. It all starts because she believes in this Second Commandment and her willingness to have her commitment to that. 
    

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to know that we can not worship any form of idols because our sins will last to the third and fourth generations. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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