In The Word Read Deuteronomy 12-13 Laws of the Sanctuary 12 “These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth. 2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall […]
Month: April 2017
Circumcision of the Heart
In The Word Read Deuteronomy 10:12-11:32 12 “Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the Lord’s commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good? 14 Behold, to the Lord your […]
Let Us Thank the Giver of All Good Things
In The Word Read Deuteronomy 8 God’s Gracious Dealings 8 “All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your forefathers. 2 You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty […]
God’s Freedom from Sin’s Harm and Slavery
In The Word Read Deuteronomy 7 Warnings 7 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, 2 and when […]
We Serve God Because We Love Him
In The Word Read Deuteronomy 6 Obey God and Prosper 6 “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it, 2 so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes […]
The Purpose of the Law
In The Word Read Deuteronomy 4:41-5:33 41 Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east, 42 that a manslayer might flee there, who unintentionally slew his neighbor without having enmity toward him in time past; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:43 Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, and […]
Sin Brings Death, But Righteousness Gives Life
In The Word Read Deuteronomy 4:1-40 Israel Urged to Obey God’s Law 4 “Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 You shall not add to […]
Big Problem, Bigger God
In The Word Read Deuteronomy 3 Conquests Recounted 3 “Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. 2 But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into […]
Encountering Difficult People
In The Word Read Deuteronomy 2 Wanderings in the Wilderness 2 “Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and circled Mount Seir for many days. 2 And the Lord spoke to me, saying, 3 ‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,4 and command the people, saying, “You will pass through the territory […]
Living For the Will of God
In The Word Read Deuteronomy 1 Israel’s History after the Exodus 1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab. 2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. 3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh […]