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June 19 - Deuteronomy 12 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. And it's Thursday, it's the 19th
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  of June, and you have tapped on place so that we can continue
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  this fascinating exposition of what it looks like to live out
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  God's commandments. This speech that Moses gives
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  God's people as they are literally standing on the banks
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  of the Jordan River are back to crossover into the land that
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  they have been promised. This land that they have been
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  wandering around hoping and looking forward to this day for
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  40 odd years. And as they're about to go over,
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  we've just finished these last four days unpacking that first
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  commandment. And now today, today we unpack
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  the second commandment in its entirety.
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  The second commandment being you shall not make for yourself an
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  idol. Don't do it, people.
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  Don't make idols. Don't worship them.
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  If you do, it will not go well for you and your children.
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  But if you worship me alone, says God, I will show steadfast
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  love to the thousandth generation, to those who love me
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  and keep my commandments. So the second commandment is
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  clear. Let's see how Moses unpacks it
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  for these people as they're about to enter a land, a land
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  chock, a block full of all sorts of other worship of other gods
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  in shrines and asheropols and Pagan temples.
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  Let us read together Deuteronomy chapter 12.
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  These are the decrees and regulations you must be careful
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  to obey. When you live in the land that
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  the Lord, the God of your ancestors is giving you, you
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  must obey them as long as you live.
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  When you drive out the nations that live there, you must
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  destroy all the places where they worship their gods.
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  High on the mountains, up on the hills, and under every green
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  tree, breakdown their altars and smash their sacred pillars.
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  Burn their ashra poles and cut down their carved idols.
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  Completely erase the names of their gods.
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  Do not worship the Lord your God in the way these Pagan peoples
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  worship their gods. Rather, you must seek the Lord
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  your God at the place of worship.
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  He himself will choose from among all the tribes the place
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  where His name will be honoured. There you will bring your burnt
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  offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your sacred offerings,
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  your offerings to fulfil a vow, your voluntary offerings, and
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  your offerings of the first born animals of your herds and
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  flocks. There you and your families will
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  feast in the presence of the Lord your God, and you will
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  rejoice in all you have accomplished.
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  Because the Lord your God has blessed you.
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  Your pattern of worship will change.
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  Today all of you are doing as you please because you have not
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  yet arrived at the place of rest, the land the Lord your God
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  is giving you as your special possession.
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  But you will soon cross the Jordan River and live in the
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  land the Lord your God is giving you.
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  When he gives you rest from all your enemies and you're living
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  safely in the land. You must bring everything I
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  command you, your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your
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  tithes, your sacred offerings and your offerings, to fulfil a
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  vow to the designated place of worship, the place the Lord your
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  God chooses for His name to be honoured.
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  You must celebrate there in the presence of the Lord your God,
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  with your sons and daughters and all your servants.
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  And remember to include the Levites who live in your towns,
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  for they will receive no allotment of land among you.
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  Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings just anywhere
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  you like. You must do so only at the place
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  the Lord will choose, within one of your tribal territories.
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  There you must offer your burnt offerings and do everything I
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  command you. But you may butcher your animals
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  and eat their meat in any town, wherever you want.
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  You may freely eat the animals with which the Lord your God
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  blesses you. All of you, whether ceremonially
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  clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as you now eat
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  gazelle and deer. But you must not consume the
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  blood. You must pour it out on the
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  ground like water. But you may not eat your
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  offerings in your hometown, neither the tithe of your grain
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  and new wine and olive oil, nor the first born of your flocks
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  and herds, or any offering to fulfil a thou, nor your
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  voluntary offerings, nor your sacred offerings.
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  You must eat these in the presence of the Lord your God at
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  the place He will choose. Eat them there with your
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  children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns,
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  celebrating in the presence of the Lord your God in all you do.
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  And be very careful never to neglect the Levites as long as
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  you live in your land. When the Lord your God expands
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  your territory, as He has promised, and you have the urge
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  to eat meat, you may freely eat meat wherever you want.
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  It might happen that the designated place of worship, the
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  place the Lord your God chooses for His name to be honoured, is
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  a long way from your home. If so, you may butcher any of
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  the cattle, sheep or goats the Lord has given you, and you may
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  freely eat the meat in your hometown, as I've commanded you.
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  Anyone rather ceremonially clean or unclean may eat that meat,
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  just as you do now with gazelle and deer, but never consume the
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  blood, for the blood is the life, and you must not consume
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  the lifeblood with the meat. Instead, pour out the blood on
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  the ground like water. Do not consume the blood so that
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  all may go well with you and your children after you, because
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  you will be doing what pleases the Lord.
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  Take your sacred gifts and your offerings given to fulfil a vow
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  to the place the Lord chooses. You must offer the meat and
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  blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord your God.
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  The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out on
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  the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.
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  Be careful to obey all My commands so that all will go
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  well with you and your children after you, because you will be
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  doing what is good and pleasing to the Lord your God.
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  When the Lord your God goes ahead of you and destroys the
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  nation's and you drive them out and live in their land.
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  Do not fall into the trap of following their customs and
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  worshipping their gods. Do not inquire about their gods,
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  saying, how do these nations worship their gods?
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  I want to follow their example. You must not worship the Lord
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  your God the way the other nations worship their gods, for
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  they perform for their gods every detestable act that the
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  Lord hates. They even burn their sons and
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  daughters as sacrifices to their gods.
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  So be careful to obey all the commands I give you.
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  You must not add anything to them or subtract anything from
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  them. Lord, you are a personal God.
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  You are not a God who wants to be represented by idols or poles
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  or images or any other thing. You want to speak and be
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  directly with your people, directly with us through not
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  these Levite priests, but through our High Priest, Jesus.
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  My Lord, thank you for giving us Jesus and thank you that Jesus
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  is the only one that we need to go through to find you, our
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  loving, loving, saving Heavenly Father.
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  Thank you for your great love for us and for the great
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  intimacy that you planned from all those years ago.
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  A way for an unholy people to be able to come close to you.
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  Our Holy God. Thank you for this way that
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  you've made in Jesus and thank you for your love that inspired
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  it all. We just pray all of this in His
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  name, Amen.