When we say the name for the character of God as a jealous God, we say Jehovah Kanna.

. It is the reason that we, as the chosen people of God, must learn that God is jealous for our love and attention. Jehovah Kanna is the reason that we have lost our power in our Churches. It is the reason that many Christians live a life without the power that God wants to give them. God promised to do things that people had never seen before. Miracles that would bring attention to His people, and to Him. But the rules were hard. As the people moved into the Land of Promise they had to make no agreements with the other nations. They were to destroy the images of worship and altars. This seemed so easy. They were not to take the daughters of the other nations and their gods and marry them. This was the hard part. It was hard because it was the custom to make slaves of the people. This became the biggest problem. God had told Moses the reason was because it would take away from their focus on Him. They did not have to destroy the people but they must remain separate. This is the hardest part of our generation. In America students stand and do not participate in what others do at graduation parties, and other social events. Some because they are Christians but others because they are doing what their friends are doing. In Korea we find that the same problem exists as with Israel. Israel had to conquer and stay separate. Something that did not make sense to the military leaders of the day. To participate in the festivals of the people was a natural thing. To do things like all the other conquering nations was the argument. But to God Jehovah Kanna there was to be nothing to take the focus away from the power and blessing of God. This principle is the same today. The character of God is the same today. God has not changed. We do not conquer nation to nation as they did then. But we can conquer the temptations that we have. The temptations to focus on bigger, larger, more powerful, stronger, higher position, etc. the temptations to do things like the rest of our culture is the same as any other time in history. We all want to have more power in our lives, more wisdom to know what is ahead and to make better decisions. At the same time we want to do things the way our culture would say we should do. We get stressed if we are different. Our reason for doing what we do is easy. From these verses we find that we make decisions based on only one question. That is, Will it take my eyes off of Jehovah Kanna? If the answer is Maybe!, then we should not do it.

God reminded Moses that He is the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith :7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
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