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June 10 - Deuteronomy 6 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Tuesday, it's the 10th of
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  June. Hope you're going well, hope
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  that you are well if you are near me in Tassie that you are
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  not too frozen. Blimey Charlie, it has just
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  properly become winter and if you are somewhere warmer, Gee, I
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  hope you're enjoying it. Enjoy it for me, Enjoy a lovely
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  little bit of nice mild temperature, maybe even heat
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  depending on where you are. Oh man, I can't even comprehend
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  being hot right now. That's OK.
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  Life is seasonal, and the season that we are now entering as we
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  continue reading God's word is a season where we slow right down
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  and really unpack each one of those commandments.
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  And the first one that we're really going to unpack is having
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  no other God beside God. And so for the next, well, the
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  next week or so, we are going to really look at what does it look
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  like? What does it look like to serve
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  our God? Only because I'm sure, you know,
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  friends, as I know in my life that there are lots of things
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  that compete for the top spot. But here we're going to settle
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  in in here for those people at that time, What does it look
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  like to have that absolute fidelity to our God in our life?
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  You want to read this one with me, right?
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  Let us do that. Let us read together Deuteronomy
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  chapter 6. These are the commands, decrees,
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  and regulations that the Lord your God commanded me to teach
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  you. You must obey them in the land
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  you are about to enter and occupy.
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  And you and your children and grandchildren must fear the Lord
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  your God as long as you live. If you obey all His decrees and
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  commands, you will enjoy a long life.
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  Listen closely, Israel, and be careful to obey.
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  Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children
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  in the land, flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the
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  God of your ancestors, promised you.
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  Listen, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord alone, and you
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  must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul,
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  and all your strength, and you must commit yourselves
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  wholeheartedly to these commands that I'm giving you today.
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  Repeat them again and again to your children.
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  Talk about them when you're at home and when you're on the
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  road. When you were going to bed and
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  when you were getting up, tie them to your hands and wear them
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  on your foreheads as reminders. Write them on the door posts of
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  your house and on your gates. The Lord your God will soon
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  bring you into the land He swore to give you when He made a vow
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  to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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  It is a land with large, prosperous cities that you did
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  not build. The houses will be richly
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  stocked with goods you did not produce.
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  You will draw water from cisterns you did not dig, and
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  you will eat from vineyards and other trees you did not plant.
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  When you have eaten your fill in this land, be careful not to
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  forget the Lord who rescued you from slavery in the land of
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  Egypt. You must fear the Lord your God
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  and serve Him. When you take an oath, you must
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  use only His name. You must not worship any of the
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  gods of neighbouring nations, for the Lord your God who lives
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  among you is a jealous God. His anger will flare up against
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  you, and He will wipe you from the face of the earth.
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  You must not test the Lord your God as you did when you
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  complained at Massa. You must diligently obey the
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  commands of the Lord your God, all the laws and decrees He has
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  given you. Do what is right and good in the
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  Lord's sight so all will go well with you.
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  Then you will enter and occupy the good land that the Lord
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  swore to give your ancestors. You will drive out all the
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  enemies living in the land, just as the Lord said you would.
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  In the future your children will ask you, what is the meaning of
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  these laws, decrees and regulations that the Lord our
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  God has commanded us to obey? Then you must tell them we were
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  Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt
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  with his strong hand. The Lord did miraculous signs
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  and wonders before our eyes, dealing terrifying blows against
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  Egypt and Pharaoh and all his people.
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  He brought us out of Egypt so he could give us this land He had
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  sworn to give our ancestors. And the Lord our God commanded
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  us to obey all these decrees and to fear Him so He can continue
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  to bless us and preserve our lives as He has done to this
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  day. For we will be counted as
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  righteous when we obey all the commands the Lord our God has
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  given us. Our Lord, There was such a
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  simple clarity for these people entering that land as they would
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  drive out the inhabitants and inherit homes and wells and
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  vineyards and fruit bearing trees that they did not produce,
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  build or work for. But it was a gift from you.
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  It's so clear to them. Ah, but for the generations that
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  came after, they needed to continually remind them that
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  these, all of these things, that our life is a gift from you.
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  And so for us who live our lives and we can very easily convince
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  ourselves that everything that we have is because of our
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  cleverness and our good hard work.
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  But Lord, it is all a gift of your provision.
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  All the things that we enjoy, ah, they are your goodness
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  lavished upon us. Always keep our minds sharply
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  attuned to know for sure that all these things are good gifts
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  from you, our loving Heavenly Father, our Provider, our God.
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  And thank you for your generosity.
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  Thank you that you give us abilities.
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  You give us bodies that we can use to make a difference in this
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  world. And you also give us good things
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  and a good world to enjoy. Thank you for your provisions.
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  Help us always lay the gratitude at your feet, our wonderful,
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  caring and mighty God. We pray all of this in the name
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  of Jesus, Amen.