BibleHub.com Deuteronomy 7:1-10 (NIV) CONTEXT: The book of Deuteronomy is a collection of the instructions their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. 6   Preaching of the Gospel 4 - A Twofold Response to the Gospel 5 - The Sources of Unbelief and of Faith 6 program of conquest (chap. 7) is thus a consistent application of the principle of consecration (chap. 6; esp. 6:12–15).  

Photo: inhisfootstepsholyland2014.wordpress.com/ Deuteronomy 31:1–8 (NIV) CONTEXT: Last week we read land. 5   The LORD will deliver them to you, and you must do to them all that I have commanded you. 6  

Deuteronomy 28:15-20 (NIV) CONTEXT: The first fourteen verses of chapter 28 set out the blessings that until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. -- 63 have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23), and “The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6: Everybody deserves every one of the curses outlined in Deuteronomy 28, but God gracefully holds the full

Deuteronomy 17:14-20 (NIV) 14  When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken

You're commanded to be anchored to your parents (it's not as bad as it sounds). Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 104 Q. What is God’s will for you in the fifth commandment? A. That I honor, love, and be loyal to my father and mother and all those in authority over me; that I obey and submit to them, as is proper, when they correct and punish me; and also that I be patient with their failings— for through them God chooses to rule us. Summary The fifth commandment contains one short imperative: honor your father and your mother, and then it goes on to provide two huge benefits for keeping this command. As we've seen before, God's commands are not given to us as a 'keep them or else' type of coercion. Through His Law, our Father teaches us how to live well and enjoy life. But it's easy for us to get this imperative wrong, by reducing this command to a simple reminder to love, obey, submit to, and care for our parents. Certainly those are ways to properly keep the fifth commandment, but the word God chose here goes a step farther: the literal translation of 'honor' is to give weight to, or let your parents be heavy in your life. In other words, your life ought to be anchored by your parents. All of us have people that we truly love and care for, and even at times submit to and obey, without having tethered our entire life to their particular worldview. Although you may enjoy a warm relationship with such people, you live in a way contrary to their core beliefs, even if you outwardly conform your behavior when they're around. But you are not commanded to just have a friendly but shallow relationship with your parents. Rather, God has commanded you to honor your parents so as to keep you anchored to His ways. Notice the reward for keeping the fifth commandment is limited: God commands you to honor your parents so that it might go well with you, but God is not promising here that if you honor your parents things will go well for you in whatever you choose to do or however you choose to live. You are to honor your parents so that it might go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you. The Israelites who first heard this would have understood that God was commanding them to anchor themselves to the Promised Land they were heading towards by continuing to let their parents 'weigh them down' in that particular place as they lived godly lives just as previous generations had done. Jesus expanded the Promised Land from a particular geographical area to the spiritual Kingdom of Heaven. Dig Deeper This command to anchor yourself to your parents' core beliefs makes total sense for those of us whose parents had their worldview shaped by God's Word and acted consistently with it. But what if you didn't have these kinds of parents? Must you remain anchored to a sinking rock? Certainly not. The first seven verses of Psalm 95 are some of the most beautiful words in the Bible; you've likely sung and recited them often. But in verse 9, God breaks into this beautiful song of praise to order His people to do the opposite of what He set forth in His fifth commandment. He tells His people to cut themselves free of their fathers who had hardened their hearts generations before and rebelled against God. If your parents have set themselves against God, you still must honor them in the limited sense of loving, caring and even obeying and submitting to them when doing so isn't contrary to God's other commands. But your true Honor, that is, the true weight that anchors your life, must be your Heavenly Father. AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who is the ultimate parent we must honor so that it might go well with us in His Kingdom; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Thank God if you can fully honor your parents as commanded, and pray that you will set a good example so that your children can fully keep this command as well; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Titus 1

Deuteronomy 18:13–22 (ESV) CONTEXT: Moses is in the midst of a long speech, proclaim God's law to the

We're back to Deuteronomy again today, a book we've been in often as we dig into God's Law for our lives Here's how one commentator describes this section of Deuteronomy: What follows is not a code of laws, In this regard, this "vision of covenant righteousness" that you read about in Deuteronomy applies to

In Deuteronomy, God is giving the Law to the people once again, and he is ensuring that they know what God gave us the second commandment, and reinforced that commandment with passages like Deuteronomy 4:

Dig Deeper Quoting a passage from Deuteronomy in order to demonstrate the need for Christians to gather

Deuteronomy 32:45–47 (NIV) CONTEXT: Moses is giving his final words to the Israelites. Summary The first five books of the Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—are attributed Exodus through Deuteronomy covers his lifetime and the most significant redemptive events in Israel’s Dig Deeper Deuteronomy 32:45–47 is Moses’s summary speech near the end of these first five books. At the end of Deuteronomy, the Israelites were ending their long journey through the desert and about