Are You Sure?
Blue v1-9 Num Ch 142 groups, same congregation, same religious manifestation.
What's interesting is relating it to something that happens today. The 1st group is acceptible to God. The 2nd group was unclean (which would be like one of us backsliding or compromising, even some fault that has been exposed but we are still trying to conquer it). Both groups got to celebrate Passover anyway but at different times.
v4... at twilight on the 14th day of the 1st month.
v11 They (unclean) are to celebrate it on the 14th day of the 2nd month.#1 speaks of 1 God or being in Unity.
#2 speaks of separation or division.
Here's what it looks like. Say we're all in church doing the same thing, same rituals, but some of us are unclean while we do it. That doesn't stop us from going to church, talking about God, singing & raising our hands, or serving in one way and another. We still go, we still interact, we look just like everybody else on the surface. Now let's say someone who doesn't go to church knows this about us then sees us act in an unclean way. Lie, be lazy at work, cheat, or something that puts us in group 2. Have you ever been in this conversation, "i don't go to church because church people are all hypocrites." Sure ok- hypocracy is practicing a feeling that's not really there. In church or out of it we have all practiced hypocracy at one time or another. When accusation hides behind the argument of hypocracy it's crazy because righteousness doesn't flow through the sinful state of fallen man or the compromised state of the believer. When the believer fails to be the example of good behavior, or when the non-believer fails to be bad because of thinking he is good, it's all hypocracy. Sinners can't be good. Believers can't be good. Only Christ can be Good. We are only good when He is flowing through us.
At church there will at least be a message of hope used to direct us back toward the hope of a changed life. If it's being good that we need to see, or in case, if it's hypocracy that is stopping the message of hope from entering us and forming us, then the good news is to keep all eyes on Christ so that the disappointment may soon disappear, because there will always be devils in churh and devils outside of church. Angels in church and angels outside of it. There's no need to hide behind a fallen saint as an excuse to avoid church. If you don't want to go to church don't go, but stand on your own 2 feet, don't hide behind somebody else's sin. The point is that it's a process getting saved and sanctified, rarely are any of us getting it right the first time. Please be merciful or at best understanding... because most of us know when we've screwed up.
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