Strange Fire

Nadab and Abihu being devoured for offering Strange Fire
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Strange Fire

Mankind seems to be a worshiping creature. Of that, there seems little doubt. The problem is, for some reason, mankind resists worshiping the One True God the way He has told us He wants to be worshiped. We don’t like how He says to do things so we decide to go about it our own way. We still say we love Him. We still show up on Sundays. We still even carry Bibles under our arms but, from the looks of things, we don’t open them very often or we don’t seem to care what it says. We accuse God of being too rigid or “old-fashioned”. Some people may give God a break and blame the men who wrote the Bible as if God isn’t strong enough to stop someone from writing a forged biography of His Son. Well, the Bible tells us “Be not deceived, God is not be mocked.”(Galatians 6:7) In today’s lesson we discuss the infamous Nadab and Abihu; a couple of insincere ministers of God who learned the hard way how important it is to God that we serve Him properly. And this is not just an Old Testament story. We have our own Nadabs and Abihus in our time and the purpose of today’s podcast is to point out to you that God will not ignore Strange Fire.