NUMBERS 15-17 - "A QUESTION OF AUTHORITY."

NUMBERS 15-17 - "A QUESTION OF AUTHORITY."

Fear the Lord (vv. 30–36). To sin “presumptuously” means to disobey God’s law deliberately and arrogantly, knowing full well the danger involved. The Hebrew literally means “to sin with a high hand” as though the person were shaking his or her fist in the face of God, daring God to do something. Presumptuous sins are committed by people who have “no fear of God before their eyes” (Rom. 3:18). - WARREN WIERSBE 

  It’s a dangerous thing for Christians to say, “I’ll go ahead and sin, because afterward, I can ask God to forgive me.” They see God’s promise in 1 John 1:9 as a “religious rabbit’s foot” to get them out of trouble after they’ve deliberately disobeyed God. Professed Christians who repeatedly and deliberately sin probably aren’t Christians at all (Rom. 6; 1 John 3:7–10; 5:1–5, 18); and true believers who adopt that careless attitude will be chastened by the Father until they submit to His will (Heb. 12:3–15). - WARREN WIERSBE 

 

Dr. A.W. Tozer used to say, “Never follow a leader until you see the anointing oil on his head.”