Burn Like a Fire in Me The Fire Quencher

Burn Like a Fire in Me

The Fire Quencher 

Moab was the last stop before crossing

the Jordan to the Promise Land.

In Moab was the test of fleshly lust.

Those whose fire burned for lust

never entered the Promise Land.

Don’t let the fire of lust quench your fire of God.

The story of Balaam is an amazing story.

The Israelites were at the end of the 40 year

journey through the wilderness from Moab.

They crossed the Jordan and took Jericho,

taking the land God had promised to them.

The King Balak of Moab offered money

to Balaam to curse the Israelites.

Balaam refused to speak what God did not

speak and would not cure the Israelites.

But Balaam did inform King Balak on how

to get the Israelites to curse themselves…

By enticing them with prostitutes

and unclean food sacrificed to idols.

Most of us think of prostitutes as a woman on

a dark street corner that a man needed to look for.

But prostitution is much more alluring than that.

Israel was becoming successful and

they were about to take over Moab.

Many successful men who have conquered many

obstacles have come to ruin because of an alluring woman.

  

In my life time I have seen many men with

successful ministries fall to the lust of a woman.

Let me make it clear I do not want to

degrade women or those in ministry.

But the truth of the matter is there are women

will use their sex appeal to get ahead in life.

And many men in their success of life will

become weak in the hour of strength.

By the record in the Book of Numbers there must

have been a large number of Moabite women who

were willing to sleep with a man to get what they wanted.

Today, sex is not considered holy and reserved for marriage.

Sex is considered an act of entertainment

and pleasure not a commitment of love.

It is used almost as cash in our commodity.

The boldness of exchanging sex today is

as great as it was in the days of Balaam.

And the curse is just as great.

God called for a purifying of the camp.

As men we should not be around women

who sleep with men they are not married to.

 

There were two fires burning in

the camp of the people of God.

Both were consuming fires.

The one fire is a fire of lust.

Our culture is not any different 

than the culture of the Moabites.

 The Moabite women were not looking

for love, commitment and marriage.

These women did not have a great need for sex.

Sex was only a means to get their desires in life.

You have heard the saying “you can’t

buy it with good looks” is not true.

I am sure you also have heard “sex sells”.

This fire of lust burns both men and women.

If you and I are to cross the Jordan and

enter the Promise Land we will have to have

the burning zeal of  Phinehas son of Eleazar.

He in his burning passion to see the holiness for

God took a stand against the destruction of lustful

and willful sin and receives a covenant of peace.

"Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honor among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to them. Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites."    Numbers 25:11-13

What happened to the Moabites and

the lustful children of God was severe.

But the damage done by a seductive woman

and a lustful man destroys for generations.

Be careful to kindle the right type of fire in you.

  

Scripture Reading

Numbers 25 NIV

25 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, 2 who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods. 3 So Israel joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor. And the Lord's anger burned against them.

4 The Lord said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the Lord's fierce anger may turn away from Israel."

5 So Moses said to Israel's judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor."

6 Then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand 8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of them — through the Israelite and into the woman's body. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; 9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

10 The Lord said to Moses, 11 "Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honor among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to them. 12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. 13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites."

14 The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family. 15 And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.

16 The Lord said to Moses, 17 "Treat the Midianites as enemies and kill them, 18 because they treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the affair of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of Peor."