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Leon Morris · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Morris - Nowhere did the Mosaic laws provide any offerings whereby the willful sinner--one who had deliberately and intentionally rebelled against God's Word--could receive forgiveness. The example in Numbers 15:32-36 graphically illustrates this truth. David's experience, however, (Psalm 51; 2 Samuel 12:9-13), illustrates the fact that a genuine believer could be spared and restored through sincere repentance and confession. Nevertheless, even in such a case severe temporal chastisement was incurred (2 Samuel 12:14-18). Merrill has an interesting note - The New Testament warns against “a sin that leads to death” (1 John 5:16+) and of the impossibility of forgiveness for blasphemy against the Spirit (Mark 3:29+) and apostasy (Heb 6:4–6+; Heb 10:26–31+, referring to Deut 17:2–6). But it is also interesting to note that Jesus treated some very serious sins as things done in ignorance and called for their forgiveness (Luke 23:34+), as did Peter (Acts 3:17+). Then there is the forgivable ignorance of those who haven’t heard the gospel (Rom 10:14), to say nothing of Paul’s ignorant blasphemy (1 Tim 1:13). However, ignorance is reprehensible when people “deliberately forget” what God has done, required, or promised (2 Pet 3:5+). Despised (0959)(bazah is from a root meaning to accord little worth to something) means to disdain or to hold in contempt. Bazah is used in a number of places to mean “despise” in the sense of treating someone or something as totally insignificant or worthless. Bazah means to raise the head loftily and disdainfully, to look down one's nose at something (so to speak)! The idea is that one undervalues something or someone which implies contempt for that thing or person (in this case God's Name in Mal 1:6 and here His table/altar, the place He is to be worshipped, revered, and adored! Woe!) Bazah means to treat things of value with contempt, as if they were worthless, the classic example being the very first use in Scripture in which Esau "despised his birthright" and sold it for lentil stew! (Ge 25:34, cp Heb 12:15-16+) Waltke writes that "the use of baza shows that disobedience to the Lord is based on "contempt, despising" of him. Thus David's adultery with Bathsheba is equated with contempt for the Lord (2 Sa12:10) and his word (v. 19)." The opposite of baza is kabed "to honor" (1Sa 2:30), yare' "to fear" (Pr 14:2), and shamar "to keep" commandments (Pr 19:16). THOUGHT - Lest we be too hard on these ancient Israelites, let us "moderns" consider what we do EVERY TIME we willfully sin against God! Are you as convicted as I am! In fact Larry Richards writes that "Disobedience and other sins are portrayed in the OT as nothing less than evidences that we despise God. When we disobey, we show that we place little value on the Lord." Numbers 15:32 Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the sabbath day. they found a man:. Ex 16:23,27,28 Ex 20:8-10 Ex 35:2,3 Numbers 15 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Related Passages: Exodus 20:8-10+ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 “Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. Exodus 35:2-3+ “For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a sabbath of complete rest to the LORD; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. 3 “You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day.” DEFIANT SIN ILLUSTRATED Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day - Work was forbidden on the Sabbath (Ex 20:10; Ex 31:14–15; Lev 23:3) Recall that all work on the Sabbath is prohibited (Ex. 20:10), including lighting a fire (Ex. 35:3). This man was in effect despised the Words which God had clearly stated. Bush - Several of the foregoing ordinances it was not expected would be observed during their journeyings to the promised land, but the sabbath was to be honored wherever they were; therefore it is expressly mentioned that this incident occurred “in the wilderness.” It is doubtless cited as an instance of presumptuous sin; for as the law of the sabbath was plain and positive, this transgression must of course have been known and wilful. The offence, according to the purport of the original, was gathering and binding or bundling up wood.
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Morris - The Hebrew word for "fringes" evidently means "tassels." It is used elsewhere only in Ezekiel 8:3, there translated "lock" (that is, of hair). It seems primarily to have been a mem