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Exodus 20:4-6 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth: {5} Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve
them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me; {6} And showing mercy
unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exodus 34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the
LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Deuteronomy 6:15 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among
you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against
thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
God expects faithfulness. Faithfulness in heart and conduct.
He wants love and obedience. He does not take well to the
cheating heart. Just as we do not take well to a cheating
heart in our spouse he does not take well to a cheating heart
either. Just as we are not able to accept infidelity in our
spouse he does not accept infidelity either.
God is a jealous God. He does not take it well when we start
listening to Satan (his enemy), inclining our ear and heart
toward Satan. Just as a person becomes upset and jealous when
his spouse shows signs of unfaithfulness and starts flirting
with other people even so God becomes upset and jealous when we
show signs of unfaithfulness and start flirting with Satan.
God represents Goodness, Virtue, Morality and Right. Whenever
we start considering Wrong, start listening to Wrong, we are
really listening to the voice of his enemy, Satan. When we
turn to God, when we commit ourselves to him, we become married
to him in a sense (similar to the way that a man becomes
married to a wife --- we enter into a covenant or "marriage
contract" with him). Engaging in sin after this is an act of
unfaithfulness, infidelity and untrustworthiness on our part.
God designed us to do Good. He made us with the intention that
we would follow his way of Goodness, Love, Right, Honesty,
Morality, etc.. That is the way we were designed to go. To go
the way of Evil is against our basic nature and design --- and
it is disloyalty to the God who made us and loves us. Satan is
a liar who is continually trying to deceive us and divert us
from God's way. He is a tempter. He would try to get us to
believe that his way is better. He would try to get us to
question God's way and to doubt it. He wants to pull us away
from God, pull us into his way.
Nov 1977
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