Molech the Destroyer
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Unqualified:
For HIS GRACE OR HIS LOVE
This will be the last of the State of the Union Series
You can breath easy after this one
We’ll get into a lot more fun topics like Faith
On September 15th mark your calendars: Diego Mesa will be joining us
Pastor from California
Moves in the gifts of Healing
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Before Isreal goes into the promise land God gives them a warning
God’s grace is in the warning
You see God dealing harshly with people in the old testament but you have to realize what kind of corruption and evil he was dealing with
If you would like to remain in your promised land this is the thing you need to do
The Ammonites and Canaanites:
The Ammonites were a pagan people who worshiped the gods Milcom and Molech.
The Ammonites were the descendants of LOTs son Ben Ammi (as the result of incest)
Later on the Canaanites and Phoenicians and would also pay homage to the demonic figure
God commanded the Israelites not to marry these pagans, because intermarriage would lead the Israelites to worship false gods
He warns them before they go into the promised land to not mingle, marry or do any business with these people
He knew the result would be catastrophic for the people of Isreal
21 And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
Joshua warns them:
11 Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the Lord your God. 12 Or else, if indeed you do go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations—these that remain among you—and make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you, 13 know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
But they did not listen:
When we let sin linger it will eventually get the best of us if we’re not careful
WHEN CULTURE INFILTRATES GOD’S CHOSEN
King Solomon after serving God faithfully for so many years lets culture and relationships get the best of Him
1 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites—2 from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, “You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David. 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. 8 And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9 So the Lord became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, 10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the Lord had commanded. 11 Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
The last and final god we will be talking about in this series is Molech:
Moloch is mentioned 8 times in the bible and once in the new testament
Moloch, Milek, Malik, the same thing
“Moloch,” which could be interpreted as “the personified ruler of shameful sacrifice.”
Was known as the destroyer
Molech was associated with the darkest of sins-Human sacrifice
In particular the sacrifice of children
21 And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
5 then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.
Child sacrifice was the worship of Pagan peoples and cultures that surrounded the Israelites
Infants and children were especially vulnerable in pagan culture to mistreatments and abuse and murder. Infants with deformities or disabilities were commonly discarded by their parents, left in garbage dumps, drowned in rivers, exposed to the elements or abandoned to wild animals
The destroyer:
PHOTOS
Statues of Molech-
Each image had a hole in the abdomen and possibly outstretched forearms that made a kind of ramp to the hole. A fire was lit in or around the statue. Babies were placed in the statue’s arms or in the hole.
How could this be?
Pagan ritual
If the destroyer could offer prosperity and future fruit-fullness FOR THE FUTURE
IF the child lived it would hamper the mother’s life, her time, her energy, education and future earning capabilities
The killing of babies was said to benefit society not only in freeing woman but for promises of breakthrough in medicine and health
MUSIC TO KILL BY:
The Greek Philosopher Plutarch describes:
“and the whole are before the statue was filled with a loud noise of flutes and drums so that the cries of the wailing should not reach the ear of the people”
Child Sacrifice This was the last straw for societies:
Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet:
I don’t know what it would be like to stand in the face of millions of people and tell them what they are doing it corrupt
According to the early church father Tertullian, the Jews stoned Jeremiah to death in Daphne (Tahpanhes in Hebrew), Egypt. Jeremiah’s “crime” was telling them truths they did not want to hear
4 “Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents 5 (they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind), 6 therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that this place shall no more be called Tophet or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
8 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My words, 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
Prediction of the Babylonian Captivity/Exile:
Lasted for 70 years
Modern day destruction:
It’s no accident that after renouncing Christianity, that the Soviet Union became the first state to legalize the killing of un-born children. It did so in 1920
It’s revealing that the godless, anti-Christians, Communist, Soviet Union became the first in the modern world to revive the practice
Interestingly enough the soviet unions rise of brutality, murder, corruption it’s estimated 20 million people died lasted for about 70 years
Under most Communist and Marxist ideologies there is state/ sponsored abortions: North Korea, The “peoples republic of China, Cuba
BE CAREFUL NOT JUST WHO BUT WHAT YOU ARE VOTING FOR
Why:
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Violent opposition to life in our country
How come when they fire bomb a pro-life clinic that actually help moms no one is held accountable
If you pray in front of a planned parenthood they crucify you
Over 60 million babies have been aborted in America since it’s legalization in 1973
The enemy hates life and he wants to steal it from you!
THIS IS SPIRITUAL
What is our stance as Christians:
This is not a political issue this is a spiritual issue
13 For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
John and Jesus:
Elizabeth:
44 For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
Here we see an unborn child experiencing emotions
Brephos:
an unborn child, embryo, a foetus
a new-born child, an infant, a babe
12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”
There is no distinction between a born or the unborn baby, to God and scripture they are the same thing
Two of the greatest delivers of God’s people were born under the threat of infanticide:
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
God is the created of Life and the enemy is the opposition of that
God wants to offer us life and life more abundantly through His son Jesus
10 As it is written:
“There is none righteous, no, not one;
11 There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
12 They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”
13 “Their throat is an open tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;
“The poison of asps is under their lips”;
14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;
17 And the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
We are forgiven no matter what we’ve done
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
Religion wants us to Hide our mistakes from the Father
What we should be doing is brining it to Him
You know why the enemy wants to remind you of your past? Cause there’s no redemption for His
For some of you the enemy is using your past to steal your future
Unqualified:
For HIS GRACE OR HIS LOVE
It’s done today
He’s not just making us new again, he’s making it that it never happened
You are new creation!!!
12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
God is offering us freedom this morning:
Where is your life at this morning?
Alter Call:
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Sinners Prayer:
"God, I know that I am a sinner.
I know that I deserve the consequences of my sin.
I am trusting in Jesus Christ as my Savior.
I believe that His death and resurrection provided for my forgiveness.
I trust in Jesus and Jesus alone as my personal Lord and Savior.
Thank you Lord, for saving me and forgiving me! Amen!"
Holy Eucharist (communion):
27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.