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June 12 - Deuteronomy 8 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Thursday, it's the 12th of
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  June and as we get closer to the end of the week we have got a
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  moment to reflect upon a bit of history.
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  Do you know the 12th of June, 90 years ago?
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  That's right, it was 1935 when the very first drive in movie
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  theatre opened. Do you remember going to the
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  drive in? I don't even know if there are
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  any drive insurance around my part of the world anymore.
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  Boy, they were so good. Do you remember sitting in there
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  making a mess inside the car with popcorn everywhere, tuning
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  into the radio frequency so you could hear the sound of the
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  movie? So good.
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  We used to even set up a little porta cot beside the bed and put
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  the babies and toddlers to sleep in there and then stay for the
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  second half of the double bill, which were generally not kid
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  friendly movies. Those were the days.
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  Anyway, there you go. 90 years ago it all started in drive
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  insurance. I wonder when the last drive in
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  will close. Thank you Netflix, you've been
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  good for many things, but you kind of kill drive insurance at
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  the same time. Well, putting drive insurance
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  aside, today we will continue hearing Moses instructions to
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  God's chosen nation as they enter that long awaited and
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  promised land, as He gives them a call to remember and obey.
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  Let's read it together, shall we?
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  Deuteronomy chapter 8. Be careful to obey all the
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  commands I'm giving you today. Then you will live and multiply,
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  and you will enter and occupy the land the Lord swore to give
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  your ancestors. Remember how the Lord your God
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  LED you through the wilderness for these 40 years, humbling you
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  and testing you to prove your character and to find out
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  whether or not you would obey His commands?
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  Yes, He humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding
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  you with manner a food previously unknown to you and
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  your ancestors. He did it to teach you that
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  people do not live by bread alone, rather we live by every
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  word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
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  For all these 40 years, your clothes didn't wear out and your
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  feet didn't blister A swell. Think about it.
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  Just as a parent disciplines a child, the Lord your God
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  disciplines you for your own good.
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  So obey the commands of the Lord your God by walking in his ways
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  and fearing Him. For the Lord your God is
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  bringing you into a good land of flowing streams and pools of
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  water, with fountains and springs that gush out in the
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  valleys and hills. It is a land of wheat and
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  barley, of grapevines, fig trees and pomegranates, of olive oil
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  and honey. It is a land where food is
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  plentiful and nothing is lacking.
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  It is a land where iron is as common as stone and copper is
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  abundant in the hills. When you have eaten your fill,
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  be sure to praise the Lord your God for the good land He has
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  given you. But that is the time to be
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  careful. Beware that in your plenty you
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  do not forget the Lord your God and disobey His commands,
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  regulations and decrees that I'm giving you today.
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  For when you have become full and prosperous and have built
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  fine homes to live in, and when your flocks and herds have
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  become very large and your silver and gold have multiplied,
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  along with everything else, be careful.
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  Do not become proud at that time and forget the Lord your God,
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  who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.
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  Do not forget that He LED you through the great and terrifying
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  wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, where it
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  was so hot and dry. He gave you water from the rock.
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  He fed you with manner in the wilderness, a food unknown to
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  your ancestors. He did this to humble you and
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  test you for your own good. He did all this so you would
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  never say to yourself, I have achieved this wealth with my own
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  strength and energy. Remember the Lord your God.
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  He is the one who gives you power to be successful in order
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  to fulfil the covenant. He confirmed to your ancestors
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  with an oath. But I assure you of this, if you
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  ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods,
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  worshipping and bowing down to them, you will certainly be
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  destroyed. Just as the Lord has destroyed
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  other nations in your path, you also will be destroyed if you
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  refuse to obey the Lord your God,
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  our Lord. In this reading we hear with
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  such clarity that to love you is to listen to you and obey you,
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  to set you above all others. It's to hear your instructions
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  and follow them, forsaking all others.
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  And Lord, Moses warns these people that it's in the moments
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  when we are doing well, when we are well fed and successful,
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  when we sit back and think life is good.
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  Lord, in these moments, drive us to praise you.
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  Drive us to have hearts filled with gratitude that we can
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  reflect on your good gifts to us.
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  Lord, help us always, every day, continually live following your
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  teaching. And thank you that you've given
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  us Jesus and your Spirit, to both save us from ourselves and
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  also to work in US, transforming us, working on our broken human
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  nature, to continually realign ourselves in gratitude to you.
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  So we praise you, and we ask all of these things in the precious
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  name of your Son Jesus. Amen.