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August 5 - Deuteronomy 30 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and it is Tuesday.
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  It's the 5th of August, I hope you're going well on this wintry
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  old week in the southern hemisphere.
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  I am spending this week and next week in Canberra doing my final
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  chaplaincy training for the Army.
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  Oh that's right, at the end of next week I will have shed my
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  neuter service chaplain, what do you call it?
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  Name tag status. And I will be just a regular old
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  support chaplain. So learning all about mental
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  health, first aid, all about moral injury and how chaplains
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  can help. So big week Fortnite for me, but
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  looking forward to getting all of this good stuff under my
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  belt. And I hope your week is a good
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  one, whatever it brings you, whatever the business or relaxed
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  or just in the middle in the groove type of week.
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  It is so good that you can press pause on your life and press
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  play on our podcast to hear God's word as today.
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  Today you're going to hear a section of Scripture that might
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  well be familiar to you. It's the section where the good
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  and the bad have now been laid out.
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  And Moses, well, God through Moses urges his people to choose
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  life and not death. So here is this beautiful
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  encouragement for the people of God as we read together
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  Deuteronomy chapter 30. In the future, when you
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  experience all these blessings and curses I've listed for you,
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  and when you are living amongst the nations to which the Lord
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  your God has exiled you, take to heart all these instructions.
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  If at that time you and your children return to the Lord your
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  God, and if you obey with all your heart and all your soul,
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  all the commands I've given you today, then the Lord your God
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  will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and
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  gather you back from all the nations where He has scattered
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  you. Even though you are banished to
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  the ends of the earth, the Lord your God will gather you from
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  there and bring you back again. The Lord your God will return
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  you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will
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  possess that land again. Then He will make you even more
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  prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.
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  The Lord your God will change your heart and the hearts of all
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  your descendants so that you will love Him with all your
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  heart and soul, and so you may live.
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  The Lord your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies
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  and on those who hate and persecute you.
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  Then you will again obey the Lord and keep all His commands
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  that I'm giving you today. The Lord your God will then make
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  you successful in everything you do.
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  He will give you many children, a numerous livestock, and He
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  will cause your fields to produce abundant harvests.
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  For the Lord will again delight in being good to you as He was
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  to your ancestors. The Lord your God will delight
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  in you if you obey His voice and keep the commands and decrees
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  written in this book of instruction, and if you turn to
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  the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.
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  This command I'm giving you today is not too difficult for
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  you, and it is not beyond your reach.
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  It is not kept in heaven so distance that you must ask who
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  will go up to heaven and bring it down so we can hear it and
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  obey. It is not kept beyond the sea,
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  so far away that you must ask who will cross the sea to bring
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  it to us so we can hear it and obey.
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  No, the message is very close at hand.
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  It is on your lips and in your heart so that you can obey it.
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  Now listen, today I'm giving you a choice between life and death,
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  between prosperity and disaster, for I command you this day to
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  love the Lord your God and to keep His commands, decrees, and
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  regulations by walking in His ways.
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  If you do this, you will live and multiply, and the Lord your
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  God will bless you and the land you are about to enter and
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  occupy. But if your hearts turn away and
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  you refuse to listen, and if you were drawn away to serve and
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  worship other gods, then I warn you now that you will certainly
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  be destroyed. You will not live a long good
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  life in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy.
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  Today I've given you the choice between life and death, between
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  blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth
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  to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life
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  so that you and your descendants might live.
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  You can make this choice by loving the Lord your God,
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  obeying Him, and committing yourselves firmly to Him.
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  This is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the
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  Lord, you will live long in the land the Lord swore to give your
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  ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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  Ah, Jesus, we choose life, we choose you because you are the
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  author of life. You are life itself, the giver
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  of life and the world. Boy, it is very fixed on
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  convincing us that we can find life to its fullest from a range
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  of other sources. But Lord, we know that they are
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  fake news. They are lies sent to deceive us
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  that our human nature gets tempted by.
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  But you and you alone hold the keys to life, and we choose you.
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  And in this text it's so clear that the way you, we choose you
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  is to believe in you and to follow you.
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  And so that's what we do, Lord, we claim and decree that we
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  believe in you, Jesus, that you are our Saviour, that you are
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  the Son of God, and we commit to the ongoing work of
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  transformation through your spirit so that we can live every
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  day for you in your Kingdom, our wonderful, loving Saviour.
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  And we pray all of this in your name, Amen.