Violated My Covenant

Joshua 7:10-11,15 - The Lord said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings...And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.’”

Joshua 24:19 - But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

2 Kings 17:7-8 - And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.

1 Samuel 15:24 - Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

Acts 5:1-2 - But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet.

Application:

• ·         You are not able were strong words to emphasize the danger of overconfidence.
• ·         Worshiped other gods was a violation of the most basic obligation of Israel’s covenant with the Lord.
• ·         Disgraceful thing in Israel is an act that within Israel, as the covenant people of the Lord, is an outrage of utter folly.
• ·         Saul’s confession retains an element of self-justification and a shift of blame.
• ·         Love of praise for generosity and love for money led to the first recorded sin in the life of the church.
• ·         Ananias and Sapphira had a right to keep back whatever they chose, but to make it appear that they had given all when they had not was sinful.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV