No Compromise

Exodus 32:19-34

Then it happened, as soon as Moses came near the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing, and his anger burned hot. So he threw the tablets out of his hands and smashed them at the foot of the mountain. Then he took the calf that they had made, burned it with fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on the surface of the water and made Bnei-Yisrael drink it. Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, to make you bring such a great sin upon them?” Aaron said, “Don’t be angry, my lord! You know these people yourself, and how they are set on evil.  They said to me, ‘Make gods for us, to go before us! As for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what happened to him.’ So I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.’ So they gave it to me and I threw it into the fire—and out came this calf! When Moses saw that the people were unrestrained, because Aaron had let them run wild, to become a joke among their enemies, Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said, “Whoever is on Adonai’s side, let him come to me.” Then all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.  He said to them, “This is what Adonai, the YAHWEH of Israel says, ‘Every man put on his sword, and go to and fro, from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”   So the sons of Levi did as Moses said, and that day from among the people there fell about 3,000 men. So it happened the following day, Moses said to the people, “You have committed a horrendous sin. So now I will go up to Adonai—perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” Then Moses returned to Adonai and said, “Alas, these people have sinned greatly and made gods of gold!   Yet now, please forgive their sin. But if not, please blot me out of Your book that You have written.”  Adonai said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against ME, I will blot out of MY book.   Now go, lead the people to the place that I told you about. MY angel will go before you. Nevertheless, on the day when I take account, I will hold them accountable for their sin.”

Judges 4:4-10

Now Deborah, a woman who was a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.   She used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and Bnei-Yisrael came up to her for judgment.   Now she sent and summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Adonai, yahweh of Israel, commanded, ‘Go, march to Mount Tabor, and take with you 10,000 men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun? Then at the Kishon torrent, I will draw out to you Sisera, commander of Jabin’s army with his chariots and his multitude, and I will give him into your hand.   But Barak said to her, “If you are going with me, then I will go. But if you aren’t going with me, I won’t go.”   “Surely I will go with you,” she said. “However, no honor will be yours on the way that you are about to go—for Adonai will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” So Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.  Then Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh, and 10,000 men marched up after him, and Deborah went up with him. 

Judges 4:21-22

Then Yael, Heber’s wife, took a tent pin and got a hammer in her hand, approached him stealthily and drove the pin into his temple until it pierced through into the ground—for he was exhausted and in a deep sleep. So he died.   Now behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Yael came out to meet him and said to him, “Come, I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he entered with her, and behold, Sisera was lying dead, with a tent-pin in his temple!

Daniel 6:10-17

There upon King Darius issued the written decree. Now when Daniel learned that a written decree had been issued, he went into his house, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he knelt down, prayed and gave thanks before his YAHWEH, just as he did before.  Then these men came as a group and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his YAHWEH. So they approached the king and spoke to him about the royal decree: “Didn’t you issue a written decree that anyone who prays to any god or man for 30 days—except for you, O king—shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king replied, “The decree stands, according to  the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”  Then they answered and said to the king: “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the decree that you put in writing. He still prays three times a day!” When the king heard this report, he was deeply distressed, and he set his mind on how he might rescue Daniel. Until sunset he struggled to find a way to save him.   Then these men came as a throng into the king, and said to the king: “Remember, O king, that it is a law of the  Medes and Persians that no decree or edict which the king issues may be altered.”  So the king gave the order and Daniel was brought and thrown into the lions’ den. Now the king spoke to Daniel saying, “May your YAHWEH, whom you serve continually, deliver you!” 

Matthew 4:1-11

Then Yeshua was led by the Ruach into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After HE had fasted for forty days and forty nights, HE was hungry.   And when the tempter came to HIM, he said, “If YOU are Ben-Elohim, tell these stones to become bread.” But HE replied, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of YAHWEH.’” Then the devil took HIM into the holy city and placed HIM on the highest point of the Temple. “If YOU are Ben-Elohim,” he said, “throw YOURSELF down. For it is written, ‘HE shall command HIS angels concerning YOU,’ and ‘upon their hands they shall lift YOU up, so that YOU may not strike YOUR foot against a stone.’” YESHUA said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put ADONAI your YAHWEH to the test.’” Again, the devil takes HIM to a very high mountain and shows HIM all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.  And he said to HIM,  “All these things I will give YOU, if YOU fall down and worship me.” Then YESHUA says to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship ADONAI your YAHWEH, and HIM only shall you serve.’”  Then the devil leaves HIM. And behold, angels came and began to take care of HIM. 

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of YAHWEH—what is good and acceptable and perfect.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when they will not put up with sound instruction, but they will pile up for themselves teachers in keeping with their own desires, to have their ears tickled. 

1 John 2:15

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the FATHER is not in him.