A Consuming Fire (3 of 3)
Series: God in the Fire
Lenny Ports
1 Kings 18:38
Today is our last installment in the series titled, ''God in the Fire.''
When we talk about the fire of God, it represents certain characteristics of the nature of God, such as His presence, His purity and holiness, His passion for His people, His power to refine us, and even His penalty or judgment of sin. In many references, God is or is like a ''consuming fire.''
Let me give you a few examples:
Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. Exodus 24:16-17
His passion for His people:
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. Deuteronomy 4:24
And we remember the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal on Mt Carmel:
1 Kings 18:38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. 39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, ''The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!''
Or in Deuteronomy chapter 9 when God promised His protection for His people:
Deuteronomy 9:3 Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.
WHAT ABOUT MOSES AND THE BURNING BUSH THAT WAS NOT CONSUMED?
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was bu ...
Series: God in the Fire
Lenny Ports
1 Kings 18:38
Today is our last installment in the series titled, ''God in the Fire.''
When we talk about the fire of God, it represents certain characteristics of the nature of God, such as His presence, His purity and holiness, His passion for His people, His power to refine us, and even His penalty or judgment of sin. In many references, God is or is like a ''consuming fire.''
Let me give you a few examples:
Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. Exodus 24:16-17
His passion for His people:
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. Deuteronomy 4:24
And we remember the story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal on Mt Carmel:
1 Kings 18:38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. 39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, ''The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!''
Or in Deuteronomy chapter 9 when God promised His protection for His people:
Deuteronomy 9:3 Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.
WHAT ABOUT MOSES AND THE BURNING BUSH THAT WAS NOT CONSUMED?
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was bu ...
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