Notes: May 6, 2008 - Deuteronomy 7 & 8
Bob Feather May 6th, 2008
How many times must they be told not to forget God? How many times must WE be told not to forget God?
Meditation Points:
- Many people will be displaced for their sakes (7:1). Does God intervene in the affairs of men today so that He might do good for His people?
- No covenants, no mercy and no marriages with the unsaved (7:2-3). Why? Because they will turn your heart away from the Lord (7:4). Have things changed so that this is not a problem today?
- Don’t tolerate that paganism (7:5). I guess they never heard about sensitivity training.
- God has chosen you to be a special people (Deuteronomy 7:6; 1 Peter 2:9-10), above all people on the face of the earth. The next time an unsaved person says that you, as a Christian, think that you are better than others, don’t deny it. It’s true!
- But remember that God didn’t choose you because He foresaw your goodness, but rather just the opposite (Deuteronomy 7:7-8).
- No fertility problems (7:14) and no foreign diseases (7:15) IF they obey (7:12).
- When your problems seem insurmountable, remember who God is and what He has already done for you (7:17-19).
- God doesn’t promise to solve all your problems at once (Deuteronomy 7:22).
- Don’t have pagan art or artifacts in your home (Deuteronomy 7:25-26).
- God allowed them to hunger so that He might feed them with bread from heaven (Deuteronomy 8:3); and that they might learn that there’s more to life than food (Matthew 4:4).
- God is able to keep your clothes from wearing out and your feet from swelling (Deuteronomy 8:4). “How am I ever going to pay the medical bills if I get sick?” If God prevents you from getting sick, you won’t have any medical bills.
- Disciplining our children is part of life; God disciplines His children, too (Deuteronomy 8:7; Hebrews 12:5-11).
- Beware (8:11), lest (8:12) you say in your heart (you’d never say it out loud!), “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth (Deuteronomy 8:17).”
- Remember that God gives you the ability to get wealth (Deuteronomy 8:18).
- If you forget God, you shall perish (Deuteronomy 8:19); but if you trust in Christ you shall never perish (John 3:16).
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Deuteronomy 7:6
6For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
1 Peter 2:9-10
9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
7The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7:22
22And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Deuteronomy 7:25-26
25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
26Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Deuteronomy 8:3
3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Matthew 4:4
4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Deuteronomy 8:4
4Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy 8:7
7For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
Hebrews 12:5-11
5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Deuteronomy 8:17
17And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
Deuteronomy 8:18
18But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 8:19
19And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
John 3:16
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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