MEN OUT OF GOD'S WILL

 MEN OUT OF GOD’S WILL

BY DR. MERVYN ABREO       

          Men, who could have been in God’s will, lost this opportunity by taking a very wrong decision, and unfortunately continued in this unrepentant position till the very end.

CAIN: Adam’s first born, killed his brother Abel. Why? Because God accepted Abel’s animal sacrifice (a ‘type’ of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross), while rejecting his meaningless sacrifice of a part of his crops.

          His disobedience stemmed from his egoistic need to offer what he had himself grown and thereby obtain salvation by works rather than by the loving grace of the crucified Lord!

KING SAUL: Who had been chosen and anointed by God to become king over His people, not only upsurges the authority of the Levites (the priests who conducted the animal sacrifices), by performing the sacrifice himself, but disobeyed God, Who had instructed him to destroy all the animals.

          His excuse, that he had saved some of the animals which could be used for sacrifice. And God tells him that…. “obedience is better than sacrifice”. (1Samuel 15:22).

ESAU: He sold his birthright. One day Esau comes home famished, and just then, Jacob is cooking a stew. Jacob is willing to give it to him in exchange for Esau’s birthright. Esau, despising his birth right, swears an oath selling his birthright to Jacob. (Genesis 25: 29-34).

          For him his god was his belly.

          Also, he married a Canaanite woman. He did this especially because he knew how displeasing Canaanite women were to his father, Isaac. (Genesis 28: 6-9).

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