Devotional: Blasphemy forbidden
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DAILY MANNA
MONDAY 9TH NOVEMBER, 2020
BLASPHEMY FORBIDDEN
📜📜TEXT: LEVITICUS 24:10-23📜📜
🔑📖 KEY VERSE: “And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death” (LEVITICUS 24:16).
A story was told of a drunkard in a village, who was used to cursing God after he had drunk. He would raise his stick towards heaven and curse, and say to onlookers: “You see, God is not there, He doesn’t even exist, if not He would have answered me”. The drunkard continued this until one day, after his usual drunkenness, when he attempted to do the same, he was struck dead at the spot.
Blasphemy is a sin where an ordinary finite creature begins to insult and disrespect a high and holy God who never does wrong. Blasphemy was grievously punished by death in the Old Testament, and in the New Testament, Jesus sternly warned against it saying, “Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men…But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation” (Mark 3:28, 29).
Our scriptural reference today is a sad end of a young man born by an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, who blasphemed God because he had a quarrel with an Israelite. The judgment meted out to him became a deterrence to anyone who would want to take the name of God with disrespect. Blaspheming God, His Name, His Word or His Spirit is dangerous!
One may think that the more civilised the world is, the more cultured it becomes. But today, people have even become worse in their attitude towards God. Some people disrespect God without any compunction. The enemy is secretly bringing into the Church blasphemous comedy, where proponents use holy things and holy names for profanity.
The things relating to God are holy and must be held in high esteem with reverential fear. We must never see them with disdain or hold them in disrepute.
✍🏽 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Fear God and keep His commandment; don’t pollute His word.
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