It Matters What You Do According to the Word of God

Have you ever heard a person tell you it's not a big deal when we use rituals that are not in the Bible or disobey Him to glorify Him, as long as we assign Christian meanings to them?

I have heard this a lot: "it doesn't mean that to me, I have my own reason for doing it, to glorify God."

Might I remind believers about the man who steadied the Ark of the covenant? Do you remember what happened to him?

Uzzah the man who steadied the Ark

1 Chronicles 13:9–12

"9 And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put out his hand to take hold of the ark, for the oxen stumbled. 10 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he put out his hand to the ark, and he died there before God."

Uzzah could have used the same excuses today for disobeying God's commands. He didn't believe God could take care of His own Ark. Uzzah thought with his own mind instead of obeying God. It is likely that Uzzah thought he was going to help God in his disobedience.

It matters that we seek God to obey His way instead of making up our own plans because we like them.

Those who began the one-man-pastor system thought they were helping God when they devised their own plans to develop schools to educate young men for the ministry. But there are no commands in the Bible to do this, it was concocted by men who thought they knew a better way than God gave in His Word.

Here is what man's ways produced: arrogant and rigid pastors who thought they knew more than others who were led by the Holy Spirit.

It caused a division between pew people and pulpit people, allowing the pew people to become lazy at Bible reading and prayer because they now have a paid pastor doing it for them.

Many people leaned on the paid pastor to be their spiritual guide i for them through rituals and songs chosen by the pastor. God made it clear that we were to lean on no one exept the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:14

"be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."

John 14:26

"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."

Galatians 5:16

"But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh."