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June 18 - Deuteronomy 11 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and it's Wednesday, the middle
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  of the week. It is June 18th.
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  So glad to have your company today.
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  And I discovered this random little bit of a history that
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  happened on this very day in 1178.
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  That's a long time ago. These 5 Canterbury monks were
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  chilling outside looking up at the the night sky when they saw
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  this spectacular event happening on the surface of the moon.
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  They said it was like a flaming torch spewing fire and sparks,
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  making the moon and I quote, throb like a wounded snake.
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  How does a wounded snake throb, I wonder?
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  But anyway, they saw this incredibly spectacular event
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  that is now believed to have been this enormous collision
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  happening on the face of the moon forming the Giordano Bruno
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  crater. Incredible.
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  What what a thing that would have been to see.
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  And friends, let's hope we don't have a similar event anywhere
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  near us tonight, because that sounds quite bad for the roof
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  integrity of our homes. But today we are going to
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  continue reading about another clash between heaven and earth
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  as Moses wraps up his exposition of that very first commandment,
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  as he describes what will happen if in fact, they do continue to
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  live following God's commandments.
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  So let's read it together. Deuteronomy Chapter 11.
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  You must love the Lord your God and always obey His
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  requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands.
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  Keep in mind that I'm not talking now to your children who
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  have never experienced the discipline of the Lord your God
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  or seen His greatness and His strong hand and powerful arm.
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  They didn't see the miraculous signs and wonders He performed
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  in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his land.
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  They didn't see what the Lord did to the armies of Egypt and
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  to their horses and Chariots, how He drowned them in the Red
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  Sea. As they were chasing you, He
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  destroyed them, and they have not recovered to this very day.
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  Your children didn't see how the Lord cared for you in the
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  wilderness until you arrived here.
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  They didn't see what He did to Dathan and to Byram, the sons of
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  Elia, the descendant of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth
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  in the Israelite camp and swallowed them along with their
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  households and tents and every living thing that belonged to
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  them. But you have seen the Lord
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  perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes.
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  Therefore, be careful to obey every command I'm giving you
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  today so you may have strength to go in and take over the land
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  you are about to enter. If you obey, you will enjoy a
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  long life in the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors
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  and to you their descendants, a land flowing with milk and
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  honey. For the land you are about to
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  enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you
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  came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches
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  with your foot, as in a vegetable garden.
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  Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and
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  valleys with plenty of rain, a land that the Lord your God
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  cares for. He watches over it through each
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  season of the year if you carefully obey the commands I'm
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  giving you today. If you love the Lord your God
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  and serve Him with all your heart and soul, then He will
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  send the rains in their proper seasons, the early and late
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  rains, so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and
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  olive oil. He will give you lush pasture
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  land for your livestock, and you yourselves will have all you
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  want to eat. But be careful.
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  Don't let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the
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  Lord and serve and worship other gods.
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  If you do, the Lord's anger will burn against you.
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  He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground
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  will fail to produce its harvests.
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  Then you will quickly die in that good land the Lord is
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  giving you. So commit yourselves
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  wholeheartedly to these words of mind.
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  Tie them in your hands and wear them on your forehead as
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  reminders. Teach them 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. Write them on the door posts of
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  your house and on your gates, so that as long as the sky remains
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  above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the
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  land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.
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  Be careful to obey all these commands I'm giving you.
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  Show love to the Lord your God by walking in His ways and
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  holding tightly to Him. Then the Lord will drive out all
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  the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and
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  stronger than you, and you will take over their land.
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  Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours.
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  Your frontiers will stretch from wilderness in the South to
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  Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east
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  to the Mediterranean Sea in the West.
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  No one will be able to stand against you, for the Lord your
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  God will cause the people to fear and dread you as He
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  promised. Wherever you go in the whole
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  land, look to day. I am giving you the choice
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  between a blessing and a curse. You will be blessed if you obey
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  the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you to day,
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  but you will be cursed if you reject the commands of the Lord
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  your God and turn away from Him and worship gods you have not
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  known before. When the Lord your God brings
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  you into the land and helps you take possession of it, you must
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  pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount
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  Ebal. These two mountains are West of
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  the Jordan River in the land of the Canaanites who live in the
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  Jordan Valley near the town of Gilgal, not far from the oaks of
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  Mora. For you are about to cross the
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  Jordan River to take over the land the Lord your God is giving
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  you. When you take that land and are
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  living in it, you must be careful to obey all the decrees
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  and regulations I'm giving you today.
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  Here we have it, Lord, you layout in front of us the path
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  to success and the path to ruin. The path to success looks like
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  loving you and following you. It looks like opening our arms
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  and saying yes, thank you for the gift that you give us.
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  I accept it and I'll live in gratitude to you for all that
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  you have done for me. And of course, that path of
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  curse looks like us trying to do this on our own, turning our
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  back on you and under our own strength and the strength of
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  these other mortal things around us, trying to get it done
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  without acknowledging you. Ah, when it's in black and white
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  like this, Lord, it seems so clear and so obvious.
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  But the nuances of our lives can make this seem much more
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  complicated. Lord Jesus, bring us your
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  clarity so that we can always place you at the centre of our
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  life, that we can always worship you above all others and that we
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  can always look to you as our provider.
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  Thank you for being our loving, providing God who has given us
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  Jesus to save us. And so we thank you for all that
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  you do for us and once again recommit ourselves to you.
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  And we pray all of this in your wonderful saving name, Jesus,
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  Amen.