THE RECHABITES : A story of true obedience
Picture a scenario where your pastor summons you to the church office after a great Sunday service with bottles of different brands of beer on his desk. You may be bewildered as to why there are bottles of liquor on the desk of a supposed man of God's office. Then to your amazing surprise your pastor now says he was directly instructed by the LORD to give you beer to drink. You may feel either that you entered the wrong office, you are dreaming and God is trying to reveal to you that your pastor has been a charlatan, or you may be like some who would say "since its pastor, he knows better, he says it was God's instruction, I will drink". Hmmm well, this was the same position the children of the Rechabites were in in Jeremiah chapter 35. The Lord God instructed prophet Jeremiah to summon the children of the Rechabites and set wine before them. When these people were summoned by the prophet to the house of God and given such instruction, one would think that th...