Tag: deuteronomy
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A Time to Break, a Time to Build
3You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place. 4You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way. 5But you shall seek the place that the LORD your God will choose out…
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The God of Clear Expectations
26“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, 28and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods…
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The Stubborn Heart
16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. So you don’t have to have a biology degree to know that the heart doesn’t have that anatomy. God was using a real ceremony that spoke of being obedient and set apart for him and making it a metaphor for the inner person.…
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God’s Plan for Your Journey
2And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 3And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you…
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The Father’s Love
6“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose…
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It’s Greatest for a Reason
4“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your…
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Follow God’s ‘Heart’
29Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments…–Deuteronomy 5 I don’t consider myself a good memorizer of Scripture, but I do tend to think in categories and chapters. So if you asked me, “When in the New Testament does Jesus speak about the Holy…
Joel M Bradshaw 