Are Gods people today repeating Israels errors?
Despite their grand deliverance and God’s unending faithfulness, His people sinned against Him way back then. Today all across the Christian landscape wander people who, carelessly or deliberately, repeat the errors of God’s people long ago. I call your attention to a few areas, not to be negative and pessimistic, but to warn us and call us to faithful watchfulness. Walking in the statutes of the heathen. I want us to understand statutes as guidelines for living. When we adopt even just certain of the values of the world we are, as the ancient Israelites, walking in the statutes of the heathen. So what is important to you? By what principles do you live? What guides your decision-making? Beware lest the selfish, godless, temporal, fleshly, materialistic perspectives of the unbelievers affect how you live. Doing secretly those things which are not right. How foolhardy and short-sighted to think hiding our sins from humans will get us by! Perhaps nobody knows what we read in the far back