THE FATHER'S WILL-AGAINST HIS WILL PART 1

 THE FATHER’S WILL- AGAINST HIS WILL [PART 1]

Numbers 16:

2 “And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:

3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?

32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods”. 

WHERE DO YOU STAND?  HOW DO YOU STAND?  ON WHAT DO YOU STAND?

To stand against God’s will is to bring destruction upon one’s self. The Word of God and whatever HE has commanded must we abide with. Defending what isn’t God’s way can only bring one into sudden destruction as it brought upon the men of Israel as we see from the pilot scripture Numbers 16:1-35-Kohar, Dathan, Abiram and all their hosts together. Here, we see our God is no respecter of persons. No matter your level, you come against His will, you come against His word; He comes against you. The bible recorded that these were in fact no ordinary men but famous men, renowned among the congregation. The Bible in Psalms 138:2b says “for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name”. Who are we now to stand against or live outside His commandment.

 

Isaiah 14:24 says “The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand”. This is to tell us that no matter what HE has said and the way He will go about it, we have no place in standing against His will. Whoever will stand against HIS will, He will clear of the road. (Numbers 23:26 “But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I MUST do?”.

The children of Eli did wickedly against the will of God in 1Samuel 2; all He had commanded that they will not do, did they and HE brought a quick end to them (1Samuel 4). You do not stand for God; HE will also stand against you. The same way He does for the stranger in the land, HE will do likewise to the renowned men (Numbers 9:14); as long as all you do is stand in rejection of His will concerning you, then you stand to fall short of all things regardless of your person. When we talk about the place of God’s will, we are all the same. It doesn’t matter how learned or how unlearned; how rich or how poor; how affluent or how wretched; we all come under the same Authority in the jurisdiction of the Father’s will (Romans 3:29, Galatians 3:28)- HE is the LORD of all.

If He has declared a thing, all we need to do is stand with HIM on it, no matter how of our own reasoning, we think it crazy or impossible; we’ve got no choice but to stand with Him. Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD”. Let us always remember His ways are not ours and His thoughts are also never as our thoughts are.

Kohar and the other men of Israel together with him had no understanding of God’s will. To hear about something differs clearly from you knowing that thing. From the scriptures we see in Exodus 24; that whatever Moses heard from God, he revealed always to them (the Israelites); but Hearing differs from Knowing. The Bible says in Hebrews 4:2paraphrased: “the word could not profit them, because it did not mix with faith in them that heard it”. It’s not that it did not profit because we heard not; though we have heard but still we are as them that know not. These men knew not the will of God so they sought to rebellion; they knew not about His ways, so they resorted to rebel against it. And we see what became of them in the end (Numbers 16:31-32). 

Most times when we rebel against something; it is not that we have no knowledge of those things or haven’t heard about their significance, but certainly we are lost in how they will unfold, we are lost in the how those things would happen. Instead of now giving to the thoughts as of how, why not let HE who has said that word handle it the way HE will want it.

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