Korah’s message was an ear-tickling one that people loved. It exalted the individual, it liberated them from obeying leaders, it made them feel important. They invented their own wonky worship system. It was very similar to the real thing, it still involved the right God, and the same type of worship, but it was more man-centered, done on their terms, not God’s.
And did God accept that wonky worship?
No. He buried it alive.
You can’t change the content of the worship – watering down the gospel, omitting distasteful truths like sin and hell and repentance.
Conclusion
Charlie Bucket is the one kid who completes the tour of the chocolate factory. He does so by not straying from the path, obeying Willy Wonka’s persnickety instructions, and enjoying what he is given, without trying to grab more than he was permitted.
And instead of getting less than the other kids, he ends up inheriting the entire chocolate factory.
What do we learn from Cain, Balaam, and Korah?
Don’t be enticed by dangerous new concoctions of religion that try to make faith in Jesus more personalized, more profitable, or more popular.
Stay on the straight and narrow path of the faith, and don’t follow the crooked path of wonky worship.
Embrace the true worship of God as revealed in his word. Contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints.
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