A Jealous God
Pastor Corneius R. Stam
We
heartily thank God for every politician, athlete, actor or even
criminal who comes to know Christ as Savior. But conversion alone does
not qualify one for a place of prominence in Christian service. This,
especially in Paul’s epistles, is reserved for mature believers, wholly
separated to God and established in the truth (See especially II Tim.
2:21).
When
hearts beat faster because of the presence of some glamorous
personality on the Christian platform; when such personalities receive
adulation which belongs rather to the Christ who died for them, God is
dishonored and displeased.
True,
the motive in procuring such “crowd-getters” may have been to reach
greater numbers for Christ, just as some of our spiritual leaders become
yoked together with apostate unbelievers in evangelistic endeavors in
order to reach souls for Christ, but the end does not justify the means.
It is never right to do wrong to accomplish some good end.
Have
we forgotten that God’s Word says: “I the Lord thy God am a jealous
God” (Ex 20:5) and “I will not give My glory unto another” (Isa 48:11)?
True we quote here from the Ten Commandments, but remember, Paul in his
epistles quotes all the Ten Commandments except one (re the sabbath).
The covenant of the Law has been done away but not the moral law itself,
and God is the only Being who has legitimate and urgent reason to be
jealous of His glory. Christian leaders are playing a dangerous game
when they give glory due to God alone to prominent personalities so as
to swell their audiences.
It
is time for the Church to realize that salvation is the work of God and
that true and lasting results will follow only when we conduct His work
in His way.
King James Bible
The Preserved and Living Word of God
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