FEBRUARY 24, 2023 Deuteronomy 10:1-1-2 At that time the Lord said to me, “Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood. And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them […]
FEBRUARY 23, 2023 Deuteronomy 9:16 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. Even as Moses was receiving the tablets of the covenant, the people were turning away from the promise they had just made. […]
FEBRUARY 22, 2023 Deuteronomy 9:6 Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. Once again we have a verse to remind us that, in spite of our continued stubbornness and resistance to the will of God, He is gracious and good. Where these […]
FEBRUARY 21, 2023 Deuteronomy 9:1, 3 Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven…. Therefore, understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive […]
FEBRUARY 20, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:18 And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. I believe it is safe to say that all the difficulties Israel was subjected to — and then expected to overcome — was […]
FEBRUARY 19, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:11-14 Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them … and all that you have is multiplied; when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your […]
FEBRUARY 18, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. In Judaism, the dinner table is considered to be an altar of sorts and the time spent at ther table a semi-sacred gathering. Therefore, it is customary to […]
FEBRUARY 17, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:7-9 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you will […]
FEBRUARY 16, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:5 You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. The hunger suffered in the wilderness followed by the manna was, in some ways, a form of correction, or as Moses puts it, chastening. But if chastening, it was done from the perspective of a […]
FEBRUARY 15, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. As I mentioned yesterday, when […]
FEBRUARY 14, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:3 So, He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. The Hebrew word translated as […]
FEBRUARY 13, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. As we shared in the […]