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Our scripture this morning is Deuteronomy 8:11 (ESV). Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today Moses warns the people about letting their relationship with God fade when things are good. They praised God as He led them …
Our scripture this morning is Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (ESV). Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Some people call this passage the John 3:16 of the Old Testament. It reminded the …
Our scripture this morning is Deuteronomy 5:2-3 (ESV). The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. Moses begins a “re-giving” of the Ten Commandments in this chapter. He reminds the people …
Our scripture this morning is Deuteronomy 4:1 (ESV). And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. Translators have used a …
Our scripture this morning is Deuteronomy 1:8 (ESV). See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them. Today we begin to explore Deuteronomy, the …
Our scripture today is Numbers 34:1-2 (NET). Then the Lord spoke to Moses: “Give these instructions to the Israelites, and tell them: When you enter Canaan, the land that has been assigned to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan with its borders… In these verses God shares with His people the borders He …
Our scripture this morning is Numbers 33:1 (NET). These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority of Moses and Aaron. This chapter details the path of wandering in the desert. Repeating their history was important to the people for several reasons. As …
Our scripture today is Numbers 28:6 (NET). It is a continual burnt offering that was instituted on Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord. We have looked at the sacrificial system before in Numbers. We remember that it goes back to the story of Cain and Abel in …
Our scripture this morning is Numbers 27:22-23 (NET). So Moses did as the Lord commanded him; he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community. He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, just as the Lord commanded, by the authority of Moses. In many churches we recognize …
Our scripture this morning is Numbers 26:65 (NET). For the Lord had said of them, “They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. I have a hard time reading some passages in the Old Testament, but …