4-17-11 AM Beware of Korahs

Beware of Korahs

Text: Num 16:1-7

I.          Ye take too much upon yourself 

II.         Moses was doing his job – that’s all

            a.         He heard from God

            b.         He carried God’s Word to the people

            c.         He was the meekest man

Numbers 12:3 ³(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)

III.       In our day, nobody is getting the Word of God from anything but the Bible

Revelation 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

IV.       In our day, nobody has a monopoly on God

Hebrews 7:24-27 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. ²⁵Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. ²⁶For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; ²⁷Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

V.        We are all brothers of Jesus.  What does that make someone higher than us

Luke 8:19-21 ¹⁹Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press. ²⁰And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee. ²¹And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

VI.       Those who feel they do are Koras.  They elevate themselves Moses’ position.

Jude 1:11-13  Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. ¹²These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; ¹³Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

VII.      For you and me – no matter what we think, any person who places himself between you and God is not of God.

Numbers 16:31-34 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: ³²And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. ³³They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. ³⁴And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.