S3E300 – Deuteronomy 7-9: Remember

Transcript Podcast Introduction Being  Monday, we’ll read from the Law. Deuteronomy 7-9. I’m calling today’s episode “Remember.” Design: Steve Webb | Photo: Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash Comments on Deuteronomy 7-9 As we often read here in Deuteronomy and other places in the Old Testament, God tells the people what He will do, and then He reminds them…many times. And He tells them what He did, and then He reminds them what He did, many times.  Why does He do that? Why does God repeat Himself so much? Because they forget. Over and over again, they forget. And when it isn’t forgetfulness, they simply choose to ignore Him. They go their own way willingly. They rebel. Crazy, right?  No, not crazy. Just sinful. Why are they sinful? Because they are human beings. And being human, they have a sin nature.  Which makes them…just like you and me. We, too need to be reminded repeatedly what the Lord said, what He did, and what He will do. We are no different than the children of Israel of the Old Testament. At least as far as our basic nature is concerned. But those of us who have become followers of Jesus, those of us who have a real relationship with Him, those of us who are Christians have something that they did not. We have the Holy Spirit living in us. And we are no longer slaves to sin, as Paul said in Romans.  But, as God said through Moses in Deuteronomy chapter nine, verse four, “…do not say in your heart, ‘The Lord has brought me in to take this land because I am right and good.’” That, beloved, is the sin of pride, which gets us into all kinds of trouble. We are not saved because of anything we did, or because we deserved it. We are recipients of God’s grace only because of His goodness and His love. He did not call us because He needs us, He called us because we need Him. Which is why we must stay close to Him. We are like the children of Israel in that we have to be reminded over and over again who God is, what He said, what He did, and what He will do. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He gave His Son, that we might live. He gave us His Word, that we might know Him. He has made it possible to live lives that are pleasing to Him, that He might bless us if we follow Him and determine in our hearts that we *will* follow Him. Not that we will never stumble, because we will. But we must quickly seek is forgiveness. And we know from 1 John 1:9 that “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” Not because we deserve it, but because of His grace. Today’s Bible Translation Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 7 NASB; Ch. 8 NET; Ch. 9 NLV Support This a value for value podcast. There are no advertisers because advertising=censorship. If you enjoy the Lifespring Family Audio Bible, decide how much value it brings to you. Only you can make that determination. Then put a number on the value and send it to me here: SUPPORT. Transcript Download .txt file. STEVE WEBB – 0:00Just like you and me. INTRO S12E306 – 0:09Coming to you from Riverside, California, this is the Lifespring Family Audio Bible, and podcasting since 2004, I’m your OG Godcaster, Steve Webb. This is the daily show where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year. And if you’re in the United States, Happy Independence Day. This is the day that we celebrate the birth of our country and independence from the tyranny of the British crown. And today, sadly, there’s a growing push by many in our country to establish more tyranny within our borders. Pray that those efforts will be defeated, and that we can hold on to the freedoms given to us by Almighty God. Well, being Monday we’ll read from the Law, Deuteronomy 7 through 9. I’m calling today’s episode, “Remember”. The show notes page for today is at lifespringmedia.com/s12e306. If you’d like to email me, I’d like to get your email. Send it to: st***@*************ia.com. Let’s begin. DEUTERONOMY 7 (NASB) – 1:04Deuteronomy, chapter 7. (1) “When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, (2) and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. (3) Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. (4) For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you. (5) But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. (6) For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. (7) “The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, (8) but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (9) Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments; (10) but repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them; He will not delay with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. (11) Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them. (12) “Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers. (13) He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. (14) You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle. (15) The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you. (16) You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you. (17) “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’ (18) you shall not be afraid of them; you shall well remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: (19) the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. (20) Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish. (21) You shall not dread them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God. (22) The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the wild beasts would grow too numerous for you. (23) But the Lord your God will deliver them before you, and will throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed. (24) He will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; no man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. (25) The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. (26) You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned. DEUTERONOMY 8 (NET) – 5:33Deuteronomy chapter 8. (1) You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the Lord has promised to your ancestors. (2) Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not. (3) So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord’s mouth. (4) Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years. (5) Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you. (6) So you must keep his commandments, live according to his standards, and revere him. (7) For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills, (8) a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey, (9) a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper. (10) You will eat your fill and then praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given you....