Episode Transcript
So last week we left off in the book of Jude at verse 11 as we continue our verse by verse study of God's precious and wonderful Word.
Oh, I love God's Word.
So Jude says in verse 11, "Woe unto them."
Now remember Jude has been writing to us and telling us about the ungodly.
So, "Woe unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward and perished in the gainsaying of Corey."
Now, he says, "and perished in the gainsaying of Corey."
Last week we studied the word perished and we learned that it means to destroy fully, destroy fully.
When judgment day comes, folks, and that day will come for each and every one of us.
The Bible says in Hebrews 9.27, "and as it is appointed unto man wants to die, but after this the judgment."
Each and every one of us will be called to that.
If you have not believed God and accepted His Son's death on the cross as payment in full for your sins, you will perish.
Your spirit will be sentenced to an eternity apart from your heavenly Father who loves you and only wants the best for you.
Eternal separation without any hope, destroyed fully.
No chance of coming back.
Now let's look at the word gainsaying.
Jude says here at the end of verse 11, "and perished in the gainsaying of Corey."
The word gainsaying is the word of the word gain.
The word gainsaying comes from the Greek word antilogia.
In the Greek it is spelled A-N-T-I-L-O-G-I-A and it means dispute, disobedience, contradiction.
It literally means to speak against in order to gain advantage for oneself.
And as we learn about this man named Corey, we're going to learn, God willing, that this is exactly what he did.
So with that said, let's look here at our text at this man named Corey here in verse 11 of Jude.
Our text says, "and perished in the gainsaying of Corey."
Here in the Greek form, it is actually pronounced Ka-re, Ka-re.
The word Corey, C-O-R-E, y'all can see that, is pronounced in the Greek Ka-re.
This is the only place that I found in God's word where this man's name is spelled like this.
This man's name in the Hebrew is spelled, this is how the Hebrew spells it, Q-O-R-A-C-H and translated into English it is spelled K-O-R-A-H and pronounced Ko-reich, Ko-reich.
That H in the Hebrew is, makes a noise, Ko-reich.
Now just a real quick point and we'll move on.
If you only read the New Testament and exclude the Old Testament, you are missing out.
This is a perfect example of why we need to be reading the Old Testament and the New.
You would have wondered who this man was and would not have been able to find him in the New Testament anywhere else.
How will you get more information about this Coreyich?
You read in here, he says, "and perished in the gainsaying of Coreyich."
How would you have known who he was if you didn't read your Old Testament?
If you wanted to get more information about this man, you have to go back to your Old Testament.
We have to go back to the Old Testament to learn about this man, so I want to encourage each and every one of you to read both Testaments.
Don't just get in one Testament and not read your other Testament.
Read both Testaments.
God gave us both to learn from, so include some of both in your daily reading.
God gave us the Old Testament, he gave us the New Testament.
They come together and they form one book.
So read both your Testaments folks.
So with that said, let's all turn to the Old Testament to the book of Numbers chapter 16 and verse 1.
Now y'all remarked in Numbers, I'm not for sure what chapter it is, but if you'll find it in chapter 16 we're going to start off at verse 1.
And John, your remarks?
Right here in Numbers.
All the way back here.
We're going to Numbers and we're going to start here at verse 1. 16 verse 1.
Now, "Coreich," that's the man we're talking about here in the New Testament.
You got it.
Don's got it.
When you get it, Bill, look at me.
You got it?
Alright.
Y'all need some help finding it?
Alright, 16 verse 1.
Alright, so everybody's in the book of Numbers.
We're going to be at chapter 16 and we're going to start reading at verse 1.
It says, "Now Korah," you see how that's spelled K-O-R-A-H.
This is the same man that is in the New Testament that we just read, C-O-R-E.
That's amazing.
It changed from the Hebrew translation to the Greek.
The Greek's spelled it different than the Hebrews.
So, "Now Korah," "Korach" is "Korach" in Hebrew, "the son of Ishar, the son of Kohad, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and An, the son of Paluth, sons of Reuben, took men."
So what you have is Korah and he's gathered up some men together here.
Now, if we was to go back and trace all the lineology and genealogy, I'm sorry, back you would find out that this Korah is related to Moses.
Now, this isn't a study of the genealogy, but I just happened to come across that and we're going to read about Moses here in a minute.
And they rose up before Moses, so all these men, Korah gathered all these men together, and he's come up to Moses.
It says, "And they rose up before Moses with certain of the children of Israel, with 250 princes of the assembly, famous for their own work, and the children of the princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown."
So Korah has gathered these bigwigs, I call them bigwigs, they're high up in the congregation, you know, and he's gathered them together.
And he's come up before Moses, he's fixing to present something to Moses, but he wanted some bigwigs to back him up before he went up there by the way.
Verse 3, "And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron."
Now Aaron is Moses' brother.
Aaron is the high priest at the time.
"And said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them.
Wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord."
Now that's very important.
Korah has come to him saying, "How come y'all, why are y'all the boss here?
Who made y'all the boss?
Y'all have lifted yourselves up, y'all have put yourself in this place."
That's very important right there.
He says, "Wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord."
Ah, now, God put those two men in the place that they were.
God put them to be where they're at.
God made Aaron the high priest and God made Moses the leader of the people.
God did that.
Romans 13, 1 says, "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers, for there is no power but of God.
The powers that be are ordained of God."
God put those men in the place where they were.
And Korah gathered up all these other men, no doubt one of my thinking, he probably went around what they call tail biting in the Bible, talking bad about them, trying to overpower them, overcome them.
So he's gone up to Moses and he asked Moses, "How come y'all, Moses in there, why are y'all lifted yourselves up?"
And verse 4 says, "And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face."
He fell upon his face.
"And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, 'Even tomorrow the Lord will show you who are His and who is holy and will cause Him to come near unto Him.
Even Him whom He hath chosen will He cause to come near unto Him.'"
This dude.
So Moses is going to tell them what to do.
Y'all got a problem with Aaron and myself?
We're going to present it before the good Lord and we're going to let God take care of it.
And I love how Moses immediately went to the Lord.
He fell on his face before the Lord.
Oh, Lord.
He fell on his face before the Lord and talked to the Lord.
He let the Lord know.
It just struck Moses.
After all Moses has done, as God has done through Moses, let me put it that way.
Moses led them out of the land of Egypt.
Moses led them through all the stuff that they led.
Of course, Moses had his eye on God.
So Moses was following God and doing what God said.
And after all that, you still have the jealousy and the envy of people who are not put up above where they thought they should be.
God put them where they were supposed to be.
God chose them to be there.
He says, "This dude, take you censors, korah and all his company."
Now censors was like little pan things that they put hot ashes, hot coals in and they would put incense in those and present them to the Lord as a sacrifice.
He says, "This dude, take you censors, korah and all his company."
So he's telling Korah to all the 250 men that are with him, "This is what we're going to do.
This is what God told him to do."
And put fire therein and put incense in them before the Lord tomorrow and it shall be that the man when the Lord doth choose, he shall be holy.
Ye take much upon you, ye sons of Levi."
So Moses cast that back on them because they told Moses he's doing more than he should do.
So Moses is throwing them back at him.
Okay, we're going to see who he's doing.
We're taking too much upon himself.
"And Moses said unto Korah, 'Here I pray you, ye sons of Levi, seemeth but a small thing unto you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them.'"
Now the Levi's, they were to help the high priest.
The high priest was Aaron.
And Korah and them were helpers.
They were helpers.
But see they got greedy.
They wanted to do more instead of waiting for the Lord to lift them up.
They wanted to lift themselves up above Aaron and above Moses.
That is exactly what the devil wanted to do.
He said, "I will lift myself up above the Lord."
He wanted to lift himself up above God.
And you know what happened to the devil?
He got put down low.
Lord God.
The devil was in a high ranking position.
Remember he was Lucifer.
He was an angel of light.
He was beautiful.
But he went to his head and he wanted more.
So he ended up losing everything.
Verse 10, "And to stand before the congregation to minister unto them."
Verse 10 says, "And he had brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi, with thee, and seek ye the priesthood also," they're trying to lift themselves up, "for which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord.
And what is Aaron that ye murmur against him?"
And Moses said to call Dathan and Abraham the sons of Eliab, which said, "We will not come up."
So Dathan and Abraham, Moses told them to come up too.
They said, "No, we're not going to do what you're doing."
So they joined forces with Korah.
"Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness except that thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?"
So there's the sound of Moses that he lifted himself up over the poof.
"Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of the fields and vineyards.
Will thou put out the eyes of these men?
We will not come up."
And Moses was very raw and said unto the Lord, he went back to the Lord, "Respect not thou their offering.
I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them."
Moses says, "I haven't done nothing to them.
I haven't done nothing trying to help them."
And Moses said unto Korah, "Be thou all and all thy company before the Lord, thou and they and Aaron tomorrow.
And take every man his censer and put incense in them and bring ye before the Lord every man his censer."
Two hundred and fifty censers.
"Thou also and Aaron, each of you his censer."
Now what I want you to see here, Moses had sent Korah and these two hundred and fifty men with him that were causing a ruffus, they were trying, they were gainsaying.
They were wanting to lift themselves up above what God had already put.
The same thing the devil had already put.
Let me get back here to my notes, just bear with me a second.
They were disputing, they were disobedient and they were showing a contradiction to what the Lord had said.
They were speaking against Moses and against Aaron in order to gain advantage for themselves.
They were trying to lift themselves up.
Moses told them to come back tomorrow.
Did John catch that?
Come back tomorrow.
Moses was trying, or Moses wasn't trying, Moses gave them time to think about their actions.
Moses gave them time to repent.
Moses gave them time to repent of what they were doing.
They had time to repent.
God gives each and every one of us time to repent.
Time to repent.
But you're going to see here, time runs out for Korah.
And time will run out for us too if we do not repent.
And the Lord said, "I will repent."
And Moses said unto Zee, verse 17, "Take every man his censer and put incense in them and bring ye before the Lord every man his censer."
Two hundred and fifty censers.
"Thou also and Aaron, each of you his censer."
And they took every man his censer and put fire in them and laid incense thereon and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
The only person that was authorized to burn incense in the censers was Aaron.
These guys wanted to step it up above Aaron, so they thought that they were going to do the same thing.
But God had commanded that Aaron was the only one to burn incense.
And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
God separated the righteous from the sinners.
That is the same thing that's going to happen at judgment.
The goats will be on one side and the sheep will be on the other.
The saved will be on one side and the unsaved will be on the other.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a minute."
Verse twenty-two.
And they fell upon their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin and wilt thou be wrought with all the congregation?"
Moses and Aaron were interceding.
They interceded for the people.
That is the same thing that Jesus does for us, Moses.
He intercedes for us.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, "Speak unto the congregation, saying, 'Get up from about the tabernacle of Corinth, Dathan, and Abraham.'"
And Moses rose up and went up to Dathan and Abraham and the elders of Israel followed him.
And he spake unto the congregation, saying, "Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins."
Sin tends to rub off on you folks.
Don't touch it.
Stay away from it.
So they get up from the tabernacle of Corinth, Dathan, and Abraham, and on every side.
And Dathan and Abraham came out and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones, and their little children.
And Moses said, "Hereby ye shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own."
Moses is telling them, "You're fixing the seed.
I did not lift myself up to this position.
The good Lord lifted me up to this position, and God is going to show you.
If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the Lord hath not sent me."
We're almost done.
"But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up with all the appertaining to them, and they go down quick into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have revoked the Lord."
And it came to pass as he had made an end to speaking all these words, "That the ground clay was under, that was under them.
And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained into the quorum, and all their goods."
Can y'all just see that?
The earth just opened up, and these people right down into the pit, straight, year on, they had a chance to repent, but they didn't.
"They and all that appertained to them went down alive and to the pit, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished, perished from among the congregation, destroyed fully."
No chance of coming back, separated from the Lord.
"And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them, for they said, lest the earth swallow us up also.
And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense."
They offered incense that wasn't supposed to.
"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Eliezer the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder, for they are hallowed.
The censers of these sinners against their own souls let them make their broad plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are hallowed, and they shall be assigned unto the children of Israel.
And Eliezer the priest took the brazen censers wherewith they that were burnt had offered, and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar, to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he be not as quorum, and as his company.
As the Lord said to him, by the hand of Moses."
So we learn about the gay saying of quorum.
Now as we close, one of the things that all three of these men, Cain, we studied Cain, Balaam, we studied Balaam, remember Cain offered up to God what God did not require.
God required to shed blood in order to be saved.
Cain offered the produce of the ground that he had made.
God wanted to shed blood.
Balaam, God told Balaam not to go, and Balaam kept insisting that he go.
And quorum, all three of these men, they probably had more than one, but one thing that I saw that they all three had in common was they wanted to do things their way.
They thought they knew a better way.
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life.
No man cometh unto the Father but by me."
Trust in God, folks.
He knows what he is doing.
His way is perfect.
Remember we talked about the word way, the road, God's road is perfect.
Go towards God, not away from him.
Second Samuel 22, 31 says, "As for God, his way is perfect.
The word of the Lord is tried.
He is a buckler or a shield to all them that trust in him."
One more verse and we'll close.
Psalm 1, 6, and I love this.
Remember Jude has been telling us about the ungodly.
He has compared the ungodly to Cain and Balaam and to quorum.
Psalm 1, 6 says, "For the Lord knoweth the way of the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly shall perish just as quorum perished."
Thank you all so much for closing prayer.
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much, Lord, for this word that you blessed us with, this blessing, Father, that you blessed us with to share with the people that come to hear it, Lord.
And the ones that tuned in on the internet, Lord.
We thank you so much for your word, Father.
Lord, we pray that they learn to stay, Father, and that you will be glorified here today, Lord.
We thank you so much for those who come to hear your word, Lord.
And we thank you so much, Lord, for the caregivers here, Lord, that help these people, Lord, and care for them, Lord.
We just pray, Lord, that you just let these people know that you're here with them, Father, and that you're not alone, Lord.
Thank you so much for your word, Lord.
Thank you for Jesus, Father.
We pray, Lord, that there's one that don't know Jesus, Lord, because they're saying that you would draw them to the cross, Lord, and show them Christ, Lord, on that cross dying for their sins, Father.
Thank you so much, Lord, for all you do, for all you do is good, Father.
And we just thank you and love you.
In Jesus' name we pray, Lord.
Amen.
