Fire Above Rocks

The foundation of Jesus might get hot

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Title: Fire Above Rocks

SubTitle: Sinai and the foundation of Jesus share some similarities.

Description: The foundation of Jesus might get hot.

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Fire Above Rocks

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Fire Above Rocks

I looked at two passages in the Bible that talk about rocks. I found that both of them touched on a theme of fire above those rocks.

SCRIPTURE PASSAGE 

Exodus 20

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 

NOTE: Humans project fantasies. They try to remake the universe and the Most High into images that are comfortable. We do it with our thoughts and even our artistic abilities.

Verse 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 

6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Note: "Thousands of generations" exceeds the length of time between Sinai and the cross of Jesus. The Most High shows mercy beyond the covenants made and broken in the past. God's mercy for thousands of generations is what people pass up when they bow down to Gods created out of their own -- or someone else's -- imagination.

Skipping to verse 25 there's a verse about rocks:

And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it. 

That's the end of the passage.

Exodus 20 does not allow a chisel to touch a rock that's going to be in an altar. At this stage, people were learning to quit serving idols. I think the Most High counted the act of changing the appearance of a rock as a step toward making another God besides Him.

The caution the Most High had toward the people was well founded. They did have a tendency toward improper worship.

Later, Moses went away from the people for a few weeks. The very elders who had a meal with the Most High on Mount Sinai told Aaron, "Make us Gods". Aaron made a golden calf.

SCRIPTURE PASSAGE 2

1 Cor 3

Verse 9 you are God’s building. 

10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 

11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 

12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 

13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 

14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

NOTE: The goal is to avoid failed worship and loss. I think using flammable material on the foundation of Jesus is using worldly ways to try and build the church. Jealousy and dissension are good signs that the building materials are flammable in the long run.

Verse 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

THAT'S THE END OF THE PASSAGE.

These Scripture passages each talk about a good outcome and a bad outcome.

Safe worship away from wrath vs failed worshi -- endangering the worshipper and the immediate descendants or listeners.

There are two ways to fail at altar worship: offer the wrong thing on the correct altar; offer something on the wrong altar. Exodus 20 talks about building a wrong altar. 1 Corinthians 3 talks about putting the wrong things on a foundation where what's placed on it is tried by fire.

What we can control as we worship God is our presumption.

If we say, "Of course we worship this way! This is the right (or the modern or the informed) way to worship!" we may be comparing ourselves against other people instead of looking at Jesus. 

God has a recipe for escaping bad worship -- Jesus. Jesus isn't an idol. Jesus is always new, and He's also been around for a while. We can look to Him. He settles all arguments.

BOTH PASSAGES TALK ABOUT WHO GOD IS

In Ex 20 the Most High says "I brought you out of Egypt." I brought you out of the way they used to do things. You are now on my ground, not theirs. Don't bring Egyptian thinking onto my mountain.

WHO IS GOD IN 1 COR 3?

He's Father of a large family. *Brothers*, I cannot address you as Spiritual, but as worldly. You aren't transformed. You haven't changed! You don't act like you're on holy ground.

God has laid a foundation to build on.

HERE'S THE POINT:

We face chances every day to pretend to serve God with what's handy instead of serve Him as commanded.

May God throw down our worthless thoughts before they become fruitless multigeneration habits in Jesus' Name.

Love Him, trust Him, follow Him.

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