Idolatry and its consequences

Today as i read the word of God, I was totally shock when i read 1 Cor chapter 10. Even when God is with us, and while we are doing christian activities like church, service, camps and offering, surely does not mean that God is please with us.

As i remember about of the names written in the life of book, which we talked about the youth camp. I came upon this verse

Exodus 32:33-34
The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. ³⁴ Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.

Even if we offer sacrifices to God and do all the "christian things" surely does not mean that our life is saved!! And surely when we are sinful, God will surely response to us by all means to show us our sins, sometimes with his wrath.

Num 25:1-9
 
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, ² who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. ³ So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the Lord’s anger burned against them.
⁴ The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the Lord’s fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
⁵ So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”
⁶ Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. ⁷ When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand ⁸ and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; ⁹ but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

This is much worst.... 24000 people died in one day... and it was the LEADERS that died first! These 2 passages have the same kind of sins, people turn away from God to idols and ungodly relationships.
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Testing the Lord
Numbers 21:5-6
 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”
⁶ Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.

Grumbling Against the Lord
Number 16:41-50

The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “You have killed the Lord’s people,” they said.
⁴² But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the tent of meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the Lord appeared. ⁴³ Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting, ⁴⁴ and the Lord said to Moses, ⁴⁵ “Get away from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.” And they fell facedown.
⁴⁶ Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put incense in it, along with burning coals from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the Lord; the plague has started.” ⁴⁷ So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them. ⁴⁸ He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped. ⁴⁹ But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah. ⁵⁰ Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, for the plague had stopped.

I came to understand how serious sin can be, God hates it, because it spreads like fire and it kills the lives of many.And Paul encourage us that God is faithful, he will not let us be tempted beyond what we can bear. But when we are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that we can stand up under it. We totally have no excuse of falling into sin actually! Because God gives us whatever we need to resist or avoid it. Provided that we are living in a close relationship with God, imagine what happens when we are not close to him and not hearing his words! SURELY we will fall and sin!

Thank God for the word today to remind me how scary sin is and how important it is to live a life that is pleasing and Holy to God.