Numbers 18:26-27 KJV
Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them,
When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from
them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for
the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
And this your heave offering shall be reckoned
unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness
of the winepress.
The Levites, though having no property for their own inheritance were,
nevertheless, given an inheritance through the tithes of the people. Of that
tithe the Levites were to tithe and present it to the Lord as a heave offering
just as the children of Israel
would do.
- They were different but
- They were the same
Though God had separated them to His work and provided for them in a way
unique to all other Jews they were not above other Jews or exempt from the laws
and standards of the Jews.
People in positions of office, whether they are spiritual or political, have
always struggled with feelings of being somehow
- Special
- Different
- Better than and
- Exempt
from those things, everyone else is supposed to do. Just look at Washington DC
It is little different in the spiritual world. The corruption among
ministers of all denominations is very nearly epidemic in our world.
- Catholics
- Pentecostals
- Evangelicals and
- Fundamental Baptists
have all alike their share of high profile representatives of their
faith exposed as deviating from the very truths they preached. All too often
the problem has been the same; they simply reached a place where they believed
they were exempt from the rules of the ordinary man.
We know that ordinary men break rules too. But this is different. This
is a class of people who come to believe they are above the rules. And this is
a sinful idea we must be on constant guard of. No man ever rises to a level of
exemption from rule, especially the rule of God.
- May God help
- May God help the pulpit to see it
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