Numbers 25 mission compromise
‘my pleasure’

 

  • the worship of self (25.1-3)

 

we become what we worship, GK Beale, IVP, 2008, p295

 

  • the worship of God back then (25.4-17)

 

  • the worship of God now

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  • in the church

 

beware the pleasure problem
Revelation 2.14-16 (Matthew 5.27-30)
fix the pleasure problem
1 Corinthians 5

beware the prosperity problem
Matthew 6.19-24

  • in Jesus

1 John 2.1-2
‘my pleasure’