On Sunday afternoon, the fellowship met in Carringtons Restaurant, below the Atlantic Hotel in Tenby, for a service of praise and prayer. The pastor, Rev. Peter Richmond, continued his series on Jude by examining the story behind the letter's reference to 'Korah's rebellion.' Korah was a Levite, and a cousin to Moses (Exodus 6:16-21). Perhaps prompted by new rules for Israelite clothing he led a rebellion against Moses. "Every one of us is holy," he claimed, "why do you set yourself over us?" But Moses was appointed by God, and Korah was expected to appreciate his own position as a Levite, not challenge God's appointed authority. In an unprecedented display of power, the ground opened up for Korah and the rebels and they went down alive to their graves. "Korah dared to presume that he could approach a holy God without the required mediator," explained the pastor. "Similarly today God's appointed authority is the Word of God, and false prophets and teachers are saying, 'Has God only spoken through the Bible? All men are sons of God and can come to Him in ways other than through Christ.' "But God says, there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5)." "We can cloak rebellion and insurrection with middle class values and cultural Christianity. Like Korah many want the pretence of the Christian community with none of its responsibility." He quoted C. S. Lewis, who wrote: "A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God... are just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world - and might even be more difficult to save." To find out more about Hesed Christian Fellowship, visit http://www.hesed.co.uk">www.hesed.co.uk
