Tag: heart
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Heart and Soul
16“This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and…
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Keeping Promises
21“If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. 22But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin. 23You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have…
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The God Who Knows Intent
1“When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, 2you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. 3You shall measure the distances and divide into three parts the area…
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Convenient Worship
1“You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.–Deuteronomy 17 Put yourself right now in the story of the ancient Israelite. You have this animal that has a defect. You have treated it special, hoping the…
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Empty-Hearted Worship
No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: 17Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.–Deuteronomy 16 In the context here, the men were to gather at the three festivals and bring with them agricultural gifts from their fields and vines. These were intentional and required gatherings that were…
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The Bondservant
16But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, 17then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do…
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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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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 