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Lifespring! One Year Bible - Deuteronomy 7-9: Remember · Grace 809

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  Steve Webb: Just like you and me.
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  Coming to you from Riverside, California, this is the
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  Lifespring family Audio Bible and podcasting since 2004. I'm
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  your OG God Gaster Steve Webb. This is the daily show where
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  we're reading through the entire Bible in a year. And if you're
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  in the United States Happy Independence Day. This is the
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  day that we celebrate the birth of our country and independence
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  from the tyranny of the British crown. And today, sadly, there's
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  a growing push by many in our country to establish more
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  tyranny within our borders, pray that those efforts will be
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  defeated, and that we can hold on to the freedoms given to us
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  by Almighty God. Obeying Monday we'll read from the law
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  Deuteronomy seven through nine. I'm calling today's episode.
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  Remember, the show notes page for today is that Lifespring
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  get your email, send it to Steve at Lifespring media.com. Let's
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  begin.
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  Deuteronomy chapter seven. When the Lord your God brings you
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  into the land where you are entering to possess it, and
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  clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Gurkha
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  shites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
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  parasites and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations
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  greater and stronger than you. And when the Lord your God
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  delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall
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  utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and
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  show no favor to them. Furthermore, you shall not
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  intermarry with them. You shall not give your daughters to their
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  sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons, for
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  they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other
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  gods, then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and
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  He will quickly destroy you. But thus you shall do to them, You
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  shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars, and
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  who down their ashram and burn their graven images with fire.
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  For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, the Lord your God
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  has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of
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  all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. The Lord did
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  not set his love on you nor choose you because you were more
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  in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest
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  of all peoples, but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath
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  which he swore to your forefathers, the Lord brought
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  you out by a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of
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  slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know
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  therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God
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  who keeps his covenant and his loving kindness to the 1,000th
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  generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
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  but repays those who hate him to their faces to destroy them. He
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  will not delay with him who hates him, he will repay him to
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  his face. Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the
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  statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today to do
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  them, then it shall come about because you listen to these
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  judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep
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  with you his covenant and all his loving kindness which he
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  swore to your forefathers. He will love you and bless you and
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  multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the
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  fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil,
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  the increase of your herd and the young of your flock in the
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  land which he swore to your forefathers to give you. You
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  shall be blessed above all peoples, there will be no male
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  or female Baron among you or among your cattle. The Lord will
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  remove from you all sickness and he will not put on you any of
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  the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but he
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  will lay them on all who hate you. You shall consume all the
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  peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you, your I
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  shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that
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  would be a snare to you. If you should say in your heart, these
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  nations are greater than I, how can I dispossess them, you shall
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  not be afraid of them, you shall well remember what the Lord your
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  God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, the great trials which
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  Your eyes saw in the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand
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  and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought
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  you out, so shall the Lord your God due to all the peoples of
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  whom you're afraid, moreover, the Lord your God will send the
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  Hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves
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  from you perish, you shall not dread them for the Lord your God
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  is in your midst a great and awesome God, the Lord your God
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  will clear away all those nations before you little by
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  little, you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for
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  the wild beasts would grow to numerous for you, but the Lord
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  your God will deliver them before you and will throw them
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  into a great confusion until they are destroyed. He will
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  deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their
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  name perish under heaven. No man will be able to stand before you
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  until you have destroyed them. The graven images of their god
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  you are to burn with fire, You shall not covet the silver or
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  the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you
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  will be snared by it for you. It is an abomination to the LORD
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  your God. You shall not bring an abomination into your house and
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  like it come under the ban. You shall utterly detest it, and you
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  shall utterly abhor it for it is something banned.
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  Deuteronomy chapter eight. You must keep carefully all these
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  commandments I'm giving you today so that you may live
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  increase in number and go in and occupy the land that the Lord
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  has promised to your ancestors. Remember the whole way by which
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  he has brought you these 40 years through the desert, so
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  that he might by humbling you, test you to see if you have it
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  within you to keep His commandments or not. So he
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  humbled you by making you hungry, and then feeding you
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  with unfamiliar manner. He did this to teach you that humankind
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  cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes
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  from the Lord's mouth. Your clothing did not wear out, nor
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  did your feet swell all these 40 years. be keenly aware that just
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  as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God
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  disciplines you, so you must keep His commandments live
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  according to His standards and revere him. For the Lord your
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  God is bringing you to a good land, a land of Brooks springs
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  and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills, a land of
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  wheat, barley, vines, fig trees and pomegranates of olive trees
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  and honey, a land where you may eat food and plenty and find no
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  lack of anything. A land whose stones are iron, and from whose
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  hills you can mined copper, you will eat your fill and then
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  praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given
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  you. Be sure you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping
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  His commandments, ordinances and statutes that I am giving you
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  today. When you eat your fill when you build and occupy good
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  houses, when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have
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  plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of
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  everything. Be sure you do not feel self important. And forget
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  the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the
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  place of slavery, and who brought you through the great
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  fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid
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  place with no water. He made waterflow from a flint rock and
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  fed you in the desert with mana which your ancestors had never
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  before known, so that he might by humbling you, test you and
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  eventually bring good to you. Be careful not to say my own
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  ability and skill have gotten me this wealth, you must remember
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  the Lord your God, for He is the one who gives ability to get
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  wealth. If you do this, he will confirm His covenant that he
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  made by oath to your ancestors, even as he has to this day. Now
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  if you forget the Lord your God at all, and follow other gods
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  worshipping and prostrating yourselves before them, I
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  testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated. Just
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  like the nations the Lord is about to destroy from your
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  sight. So he will do to you because you would not obey Him.
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  Deuteronomy, chapter nine, Hero Israel, you are crossing over
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  the Jordan today to take the land that belongs to nations
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  greater and stronger than you, with big cities with walls as
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  high as heaven. The people there are strong and tall, the sons of
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  Anakin, you know of them. And I've heard it said, Who can
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  stand in front of the sons of a neck. And you know today that it
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  is the Lord your God who was crossing over before you as the
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  fire that destroys everything, he will destroy them and bring
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  them down before you. So you may drive them out and be quick to
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  destroy them, just as the Lord has told you. But after the Lord
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  your God has driven them out before you do not say in your
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  heart, the Lord has brought me in to take this land because I
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  am right and good. It is because of the sin of these nations that
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  the Lord is driving them out in front of you. It is not because
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  of your being right with God, that you are going to take their
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  land, but it is because of the sin of these nations that the
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  Lord your God is driving them out in front of you. By this,
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  the Lord is proving that he keeps the promise he made to
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  your fathers to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Understand that it is
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  not because you are right with God, that the Lord your God is
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  giving you this good land for your own. For you are a strong
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  willed people. Remember and do not forget how you made the LORD
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  your God angry in the desert. You have gone against the Lord
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  from the day you left the land of Egypt until you came to this
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  place. Even at Mount Sinai, you made the Lord angry. The Lord
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  was so angry with you that he would have destroyed you. I went
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  up the mountain to receive the pieces of stone the laws of the
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  agreement which the Lord had made with you Do I stayed on the
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  mountain for 30 days and nights, I did not eat bread or drink
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  water. Then the Lord gave me the two pieces of stone written by
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  the finger of God. on them were the words the Lord had spoken
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  with you on the mountain from the fire on the day of the
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  meeting. At the end of 40, days and nights, the Lord gave me the
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  two pieces of stone, the laws of the agreement. Then the Lord
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  said to me, get up, hurry and go down from here for your people
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  whom you brought out of Egypt have become very sinful, they
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  have been quick to turn away from what I told them, they have
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  made a false god for themselves. And the Lord said to me, I have
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  seen these people see they are strong willed, let me alone, so
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  I may destroy them and destroy their name from under heaven, I
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  will make you into a nation that will be greater and stronger
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  than they. So I turned in came down from the mountain while the
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  mountain was burning with fire. The two pieces of the stone of
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  the agreement were in my two hands. And I saw that it was
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  true that you had sinned against the Lord your God, you had made
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  for yourselves a calf out of gold, you had been quick to turn
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  away from what the Lord had told you. So I took the two pieces of
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  stone and threw them from my hands and broke them in front of
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  your eyes. Then again, I fell down before the Lord for 40 days
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  and nights. I did not eat bread or drink water, because of all
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  the sin you had done. You did what was sinful in the eyes of
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  the Lord and made him angry. I was afraid of the anger of the
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  Lord which was burning against you to destroy you. But the Lord
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  listened to me again. The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to
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  destroy him. So I prayed for Aaron at the same time also.
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  Then I took your sinful thing that calf you had made and
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  burned it with fire and crushed it. I ground it into pieces
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  until it was as fine as dust and I threw its dust into the river
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  that flowed down from the mountain. You made the Lord
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  angry again at Tabora masa and Kibbe Rafa. tehava, the Lord
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  sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Go and take for your own
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  the land I have given you. But you went against what the Lord
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  your God told you to do. You did not believe him or listen to his
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  voice. You have gone against the Lord from the day I first knew
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  you. So I fell down before the Lord and lay 40 Days and nights
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  because the Lord had said he would destroy you. I prayed to
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  the Lord saying, Oh Lord God, do not destroy your people, your
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  chosen nation, whom you have set free by Your power and brought
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  out of Egypt with a strong hand. Remember your servants, Abraham,
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  Isaac, and Jacob, do not look at the strong will or sin or
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  wrongdoing of these people, or the land you brought us from may
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  say, The Lord was not able to bring them into the land he
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  promised them because he hated them. He brought them out to
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  kill them in the desert. Yet they are your people, your
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  chosen nation whom you have brought out by your great power
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  and your long arm.
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  As we often read here in Deuteronomy, and many other
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  places in the Old Testament, God tells the people what he will
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  do. And then he reminds them many times, and he tells them
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  what he did. And then he reminds them what he did many times. Why
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  does he do that? Why does God repeat himself so much? Because
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  they were forgetful over and over again they forget. And when
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  it isn't forgetfulness, they simply choose to ignore him.
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  They go their own way willingly. They rebel. That's crazy, right?
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  Well, no, not really not crazy, just sinful. Why are they
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  sinful? Well, because they're human beings. And because
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  they're human, they have a sin nature, which makes them just
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  like you and me. We too need to be reminded repeatedly what the
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  Lord said what he did and what he will do. We're no different
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  than the children of Israel of the Old Testament, at least as
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  far as our basic nature is concerned. But those of us who
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  have become believers of Jesus, those of us who have a real
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  relationship with them, those of us who are Christians, but we
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  have something that they did not, we have the Holy Spirit
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  living within us, and we're no longer slaves to sin, as Paul
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  said in Romans. But God said through Moses, in Deuteronomy,
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  chapter nine, verse four, do not say in your heart, the Lord has
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  brought me in to take this land, because I am right in good.
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  That, beloved, is the sin of pride, which gets us into all
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  kinds of trouble. We aren't saved because of anything we did
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  or because we deserved it. We are the recipients of God's
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  grace only because of His goodness and His love. He didn't
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  call us because he needs us. He calls us because we need him,
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  which is why we have to stay close to Him. We are like the
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  children of Israel and that we have to be reminded over and
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  over and over and over and over again who God is what he said
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  what he did. And what he'll do. He is the same yesterday, today
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  and forever and he gave his son that we might live. He gave us
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  his word that we might know him. He's made it possible to live
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  lives that are pleasing to Him, that he might bless us if we
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  follow Him and determine in our hearts, that we will follow him.
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  Not that we'll never stumble, because we will, but we must
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  quickly seek forgiveness. And then we know from First John one
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  nine that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just
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  and will forgive our sins and purify us from all
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  unrighteousness. Not because we deserve it, but because of his
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  we fall short. So we thank you for giving us your son so that
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  when we put our faith and trust in Him, you see us as righteous
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