WHAT IS REBELLION SS CLASS

WHAT IS REBELLION AND THE ROOT OF REBELLION? REBELLION ORIGINATES FROM A VIEW OF RESENTMENT, ANGER, ANNOYANCE PROVOKED BY WHAT IS PERCEIVED AS UNFAIR TREATMENT...

WHEN WE READ THIS LESSON WE SEE THAT KORAH LEAD A REBELLION WITH SOME OTHERS AGAINS MOSES AND AARON… BECAUSE OF THE DISAPPROVAL OF A SITUATION THAT THEY THOUGHT THAT MOSES HAD GONE TOO FAR… SO THEY REBELL.! THEY REFUSE TO SUBMIT TO OBEY TO THE AUTHORITY THAT GOD HAD PUT IN PLACE…

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT REBELLION AND STUBBORNNESS? IN 1 SAMUEL 15:23 (NEW LIVING TRANS) READS THAT “REBELLION IS AS SINFUL AS WITCHCRAFT, AND STUBBORNNESS AS BAD AS WORSHIPPING IDOLS,” BUT I’M NOT TALKIN ABOUT STUBBORNNESS… I TALKING ABOUT REBELLION AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, HOW TO RECOGNIZE IT!

WHAT ARE THE SIGNS? WELL IS THERE A THRILL THAT COMES FROM DOING THINGS YOUR WAY, ALWAY WANTING TO STAND OUT FOR BETTER OF WORSE? WE ARE NEVER SCARE TO MAKE A MAJOR LIFE CHANGE AT THE DROP OF A HAT OR NEVER CONSULT WITH OTHER BEFORE? WE ALWAYS WANT TO TAKE THE LEAD. WE QUESTION EVERYTHING, WHY, WHY, WHY WE GOTTA DO THIS WAY??? OR ARE WE ALWAYS FEELING TIED DOWN BY RELATIONSHIPS? WE DON’T FOLLOW RULES AND THOSE THAT GOD HAS PLACED OVER US? OR OVERLY VOCAL ABOUT YOUR OPINIONS? DO WE LIKE TO CHALLENGE AUTHORITY AND BREAK THE RULES? AS KORAH DID-----

I LIKE TO SUM THIS UP FOR US LIKE THIS

So God had designed Israel for a high destiny, a royal nation, a peculiar people; but Israel defeated this destiny by its idolatries and rebellions

Vincent, M. R. (1887). Word studies in the New Testament (Vol. 3, p. 145). New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons

ARE WE LISTENING TO THE WARNINGS? WITHIN THE CHURCH, GOD HAS CREATE ORDER! GOD IS A GOD OF ORDER… WHEN WE REFUSE TO OBEY OR FOLLOW THE WARNING OF OUR LEADERS/SHEPHERD, REBELLION WITH-IN THE CHURCH LEADS TO DIVISION AND STRIFE AND A LOSS OF EFFECTIVENESS WITH-IN YOUR MINISTRY TO CARRY OUT GOD’S MISSION…

SO… THE LORD WARNS THE LEADER (MOSES) LOOK… SPEAK TO THE CONGREGATION… TELL THE COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS, MOVE AWAY FORM THE TENTS OF KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM… SEPARATE YOURSELF FOR THOSE THAT ARE REBELLING. OR ARE WE/DO WE BECOME PART OF THE 250 CREW? MOSES SAYS TO COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS, MOVE AWAY! DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING THAT BELONGS TO THEM! WHY? CONSUMED, CONSUMED… CONSUMED IN THEIR SINS, THEIR UNBELIEF, CONSUMED IN THEIR DOUBT AND FEARS.!

SO MOVE AWAY! SO THEY MOVED AWAY, AND MOSES SAYS THIS IS HOW YOU WILL KNOW THAT THE LORD SENT ME TO DO ALL THESE THINGS AND THAT IT WASN’T MY IDEA...

NOW HERE COMES THE JUDGEMENT APON THEM… MOSES SAY IF THEY DIE LIKE OTHERS THEN YOU KNOW GOD HADN’T SENT ME, BUT IF GOD DOES SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW! I LIKE THIS HERE… IF HE DOES SOMETHING NEW AND THE GROUND OPENS UP SWALLOWS EVERYTHING THAT BELONGS TO THEM, AND THEY GO DOWN ALIVE TO THEIR GRAVES-THEN YOU WILL KNOW, YOU WILL KNOW THAT THESE MEN/WE HAVE TREATED THE LORD WITH CONTEMPT.

DO WE FEEL AS IF GOD IS BENEATH CONSIDERATION? THOSE THAT HE HAS PLACED OVER US? DO WE FEEEL AS IF GOD IS WORTHLESS OF OUR RESPECT? ARE WE DESPISING GOD AND THE THINGS OF GOD?