THE WAYWARD WORLDLY WANDERERS, Chapter 14 of Kingdom of God Volume 2

THE WAYWARD WORLDLY WANDERERS, Chapter 14 of Kingdom of God Volume 2

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Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (Romans 6:16)
 
For thousands of years the children of Israel have been the brunt of many condemnations: modern ministers relate their failings; scholars expose their weaknesses; Moses condemned them; and even God has scourged them.
 
Perhaps we have been too hard on those people. After all, they were violently uprooted from a life in Egypt that seemed normal to them. They enjoyed their family and homes; they were protected from their enemies; they had enough to eat; they didn’t even have any conflict over religion because they worshipped the same god as the Egyptians.
 
Then Moses came along and things seemed to get much worse. They were driven into the desert and wilderness; they suffered from the lack of food, water and meat; snakes, insects and plagues were prevalent; enemies and armies killed them by the thousands; and they wandered all over the country with no permanent home. On top of all this they were instructed to worship a God they had previously known nothing about!
 
But God had made a covenant with their fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that he would save their children. The children of father Jacob did not come into this world to be [108] slaves; they were meant to have the Gospel and be saved in God’s Kingdom.

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