CAREFUL OBEDIENCE - UZZIAH
(Message by Tanny Keng)
0. Introduction
a) Solomon and his workers carefully followed God's instructions. As a result, the temple work was blessed by God and completed in every detail.
b) Here is one of the few examples of people in the Bible who did not carefully follow one of God's instructions, and the resulting consequences. It is not enough to obey God half-heartedly.
1. Who? Uzziah
a) God's instruction
i) Only the priests could offer incense in the temple or tabernacle sanctuary.
@1. 39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned up had presented, and they were hammered out as a covering on the altar, 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel that no outsider, who is not a descendant of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his companions, just as the Lord had said to him through Moses. (Numbers 16:39-40 NKJV)
b) Disobedience
i) He entered the Holy place in the temple where only priests were allowed to go.
@1. 16 But when he was strong his heart was lifted up, to his destruction, for he transgressed against the Lord his God by entering the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. 17 So Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him were eighty priests of the Lord—valiant men. 18 And they withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed! You shall have no honor from the Lord God.” (2 Chronicles 26:16-18 NKJV)
c) Result
i) He became a leper.
@1. 19 Then Uzziah became furious; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense. And while he was angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the incense altar. (2 Chronicles 26:19 NKJV)
The End ...
0. Introductiona) Solomon and his workers carefully followed God's instructions. As a result, the temple work was blessed by God and completed in every detail.
b) Here is one of the few examples of people in the Bible who did not carefully follow one of God's instructions, and the resulting consequences. It is not enough to obey God half-heartedly.
1. Who? Uzziah
a) God's instruction
i) Only the priests could offer incense in the temple or tabernacle sanctuary.
@1. 39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned up had presented, and they were hammered out as a covering on the altar, 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel that no outsider, who is not a descendant of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his companions, just as the Lord had said to him through Moses. (Numbers 16:39-40 NKJV)
b) Disobedience
i) He entered the Holy place in the temple where only priests were allowed to go.
@1. 16 But when he was strong his heart was lifted up, to his destruction, for he transgressed against the Lord his God by entering the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. 17 So Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him were eighty priests of the Lord—valiant men. 18 And they withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed! You shall have no honor from the Lord God.” (2 Chronicles 26:16-18 NKJV)
c) Result
i) He became a leper.
@1. 19 Then Uzziah became furious; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense. And while he was angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the incense altar. (2 Chronicles 26:19 NKJV)
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