He had just seen his two sons incinerated. Nothing is more serious than worship. The early leaders of worship who came before God on behalf of the people were priests. The way you get rid of the false is to go after the true. It is "using carnal means to kindle devotion and praise. That's exactly what the psalmist prays: "Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise. It's the pleasing sacrifice that brings atonement. I am grateful that once again God in these days is calling the church, a sleeping, slumbering evangelical church, which has largely forgotten this truth -- it has slipped through our fingers and we have lost its impact -- God is calling us back to take this truth seriously once again. Only the priest, their father, was suppose to perform that function. That is, God understands the heart of someone who is trying to find him, who is trying to do what is right, but doesn't know much about it. He was perfected by obedience, wrought in Spirit power, and through suffering by which He learned obedience. The loud, boisterous laugh is a denial of God in the soul, for it reveals that the truth is not ruling in the heart.
So God is stopping that, arresting it with his judgment at this point. The faith of the biblical gospel has been intact. In the meantime, until we are glorified and made like Christ, the work of the Holy Spirit is to ever increasingly conform us to His image. He sees their singed, burned, charred bodies lying there on the floor. There are half a billion professed charismatics on the planet, half a billion. This is His greatest work for us. It is certainly strange fire for an unbeliever to offer any prayer to God unless first there is a prayer of repentance and salvation. And we've pretty much done the same when God is attacked. Apostle Geraldine Fisher. Is that our heart's cry? Introduction: (1) This is one of the instances in the Bible where people faced physical death due to their rebellion against God. It was a disaster for them. What a warning to us today!
Singing should be done in the power of the Holy Ghost. Strange fire has been mingled with the sacred. " It's reminiscent of God killing Ananias and Sapphira in front of the congregation in Acts 5 because they lied to the Holy Spirit about how much money they got when they sold their property. Did He knock Him down? So they did according to the word of Moses. 10:1 can mean "unauthorized" fire. It instructs us that every believer in Jesus Christ is a priest and has a ministry, and that our whole purpose for existence as believers is to fulfill our priesthood. When I was talking about this some months ago to our church, I said, "It's this severe. "
And not only in heaven, but even on earth. Their minds are confused and perplexed where all is clear and plain. The New Testament reveals to us that the Ruach Yahweh, the breath of God, the Holy Spirit, creates life, and transforms life, and purifies, comforts and conforms sinners to Christ, and equips, and empowers, and seals, and secures, and illuminates. Deception has come upon some minds until they have thought that their own merits were of considerable value. All of these questions and more like them may help us circle around what God is trying to tell us through the censers and incense and actions and posture we see in these stories. How are you ever going to learn the disciplines of life which break down your self confidence and your trust in human resources, and which teach you to rely wholly upon a God who releases from within the strength you need, unless you are put into trials where human resources are not any longer adequate, unless you are pushed out beyond your depth?
And he is going to be the head of a priestly family, and they will have the responsibility of being the worship leaders for God's people.