Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

We're going to be jumping right into

numbers 25 today. Now if you've missed the last few episodes, God's people are

currently in the wilderness and they're living near the Moabite people.

And in the previous chapters, we've learned that the King of Moab wanted to bring curses on the Israelites

because he and his people feared them.

But his plan backfires and God makes sure that every time he tried to curse the

Israelites they were blessed instead. See God is making sure to protect

and be faithful to his people. You'd think that this positive energy would continue, the people would be grateful, their relationship with God strong after his provision and blessing.

And yet, chapter 25 enters the scene.

Verse 1. The men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Mobite women who invited them to the

sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods.

So Israel yoked themselves to the bail of Peor and the Lord's anger burned against them.

So here, in the first verses of chapter 25, we see the Israelites giving themselves

over to their lustful desires. They indulge in sexual

immorality and that indulgence leads them to worship and to join themselves to

other gods. The irony here is hard to overlook. A foreign king tries

with all his might to set Yaway against his people, to curse them, and he fails only blessing them in return. But it is the

Israelite's own inability to resist the temptations of lust that cause God's anger to burn against them.

Last week I was reading a Facebook post.

One of my family members had shared it, and it was a Christian who was angry about a new show that Disney's putting out.

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