2nd Samuel 6:17. “And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.”
THE RIGHT THING IN A WRONG WAY. Perhaps they forgot to read the Word to learn how God had planned The way to transport holy things was to be done by holy men Among 30,000 surely there were some qualified to carry the ark But instead they chose the Philistine way and put it on a cart.
We have a book of clear instructions as to how God wants things done It is totally inappropriate to do God’s work on our own There are lots of new ways to copy; much is done by the ideas of men We must remember when involved in God’s work to do things as it pleases Him.
We know it is God’s will that a plain message of the Gospel to men be preached The problem now in our day is that fewer people are seeming to be reached Some around now entertain; they say it is the ways to get folks to come in And when you preach don’t mention “hell” and don’t talk much about sin.
But sin is the problem, it must be faced or sinners will end in hell We are responsible to warn of those things when we the Gospel tell We must be faithful to God’s truth, be compassionate but plainly say That sin keeps a soul out of heaven, and Jesus is the only Way.
Teaching the Word is needed, believers need to understand Where we live and work, we are pilgrims in a foreign land There must be a separation between what is false and true The commitment to the truth of the Bible is what takes saints safely through.
Baptism as taught in the scripture is a symbol of a believer’s death To compare it to circumcision is denying what the scriptures saith The Lord’s Supper is a place of remembrance, and showing Christ’s death on the tree It has nothing to do with forgiveness nor does it set the guilty sinner free.
God has His way to do things; today as in days of old By reading and learning God’s truth, we know what He has already told Is His will and His way for us to apply ourselves to His service And tell His truth so others, can live by learning God’s message through us.
“For some reason Father, last night’s message didn’t seem to flow out the way it should. I am sorry I failed Thee in this way. Please help me today and tonight to be a vessel that can be filled with truths you want spoken of and use these clay lips to present them acceptably. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”