Tag: christian
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Covenant Blessings
1If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God…15However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all…
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Secret Idols
15“Cursed is anyone who makes an idol—a thing detestable to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”–Deuteronomy 27 In context: Moses was giving warnings to the people about various sins just before they entered the Promised Land. Our verse pictures a person who claimed…
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Firstfruits to Remember
1When you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, 2take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place…
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Let the Ox Eat
4Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.–Deuteronomy 25 Paul quotes this verse in 1 Corinthians 9:9 and 1 Timothy 5:18. In both cases the one doing the hard work is allowed to benefit from that work. In the case of the ox, as he is trampling the grain husks, he…
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First Year, Every Year
5If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.–Deuteronomy 24 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave…
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Keep Your Word Quickly
21If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin. 22But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty. 23Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made…
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Care for Neighbor
1If you see your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner. 2If they do not live near you or if you do not know who owns it, take it home with you and keep it until they come looking for it. Then give…
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Past and Present
1When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.–Deuteronomy 20 PAST: God has brought you to this current season. He has protected you and provided…
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Boundary Stone
14Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.–Deuteronomy 19 When my wife and I bought our house years ago, the house next door was being rehabbed to sell. It then sat empty for a year and…
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The Prophet
15The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.–Deuteronomy 18 Now this was John’s [the Baptist’s] testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, “I…
Joel M Bradshaw 