Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Exodus)
我夜间的歌曲《出埃及记》
Text: Exodus 34: 13-17
MEDITATION
Exodus 34:13-17
13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images
14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.,
15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice,
16 and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
17 “You shall make no moulded gods for yourselves.
MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE
1. The Context of this passage must be carefully understood
a. Israel at war with nations living in Canaan.
b. God’s clear command must be fully obeyed.
2. The idolatrous practices of the nations living in Canaan
a. They had the following:
i. Altars
ii. Sacred pillars
iii. Wooden images
b. The danger that Israel would be facing.
i. Battles with the nations.
ii. Influences from these nations.
iii. They would cause Israel to depart from their faith in God.
iv. They would entice them to become idolaters too.
v. Israel would end up forsaking God and their covenant with Him.
vi. The daughters of the foreign nations would tempt the men of Israel.
vii. The morals of Israel would be adversely affected.
3. The clear command
a. Israel must obey all that God had said.
b. The nation can easily be deceived by the cunning enemies.
c. The wisest thing to do was to destroy all the idolatrous places of worship.
4. What was expressly forbidden
a. Israel would end up making wooden images and worshipping them.
b. The nation had just been chastised by God for worshipping a golden calf
(Cf. Exodus 32).
经文:出埃及记 34:13-17
沉思
《出埃及记 34: 13-17》
13 却要拆毁他们的祭坛,打碎他们的柱像,砍下他们的木偶。
14 不可敬拜别神,因为耶和华是忌邪的神,名为忌邪者。
15 只怕你与那地的居民立约,百姓随从他们的神,就行邪淫,祭祀他们的神,有人叫你,你便吃他的祭物;
16 又为你的儿子娶他们的女儿为妻,他们的女儿随从她们的神,就行邪淫,使你的儿子也随从她们的神行邪淫。17 不可为自己铸造神像。