Participants: Kelley Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000497
00:17 Hello, and welcome back to His Words are Life
00:19 I'm Kelly Mowrer and before we read together today, let's 00:22 pray. Dear God, thank your so much for your promises 00:27 and for your protection. Thank you for the stories of how 00:31 you led the children of Israel safely to the promised land 00:34 all those thousands of years ago. Please be with us now 00:37 as we read them and may we learn the lessons that apply to our 00:41 lives today. Please send your Holy Spirit to guide us. 00:44 We love you and thank you for loving us. Amen 00:47 We're picking up the story in Deuteronomy chapter 7, 00:51 and I'm reading from the King James Version 00:54 Across the top of the Bible the header says for me 00:57 The Promises of God, on one page and on the other page it says, 01:00 the Protection of God. We're going to pick up reading in 01:03 verse 13, Promises and the Protection of God. 01:06 And he will love thee and bless thee, and multiply thee: 01:11 he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, 01:13 and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, 01:16 and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks 01:19 of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers 01:22 to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all people: 01:26 there shall not be male or female barren among you, 01:30 or among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from thee 01:34 all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, 01:37 which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them 01:41 that hate thee. And thou shalt consume all the people which 01:45 the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eyes shall have 01:48 no pity upon them; neither shalt thou serve their gods; 01:51 for that will be a snare unto thee. If thou shalt say in thine 01:56 heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess 02:00 them? Thou shalt not be afraid of them 02:03 but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did 02:06 unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; The great temptations 02:09 which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, 02:12 and the mighty hand, and stretched out arm, 02:14 whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: 02:17 so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom 02:22 thou art afraid. Moreover the Lord thy God will send 02:26 the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide 02:30 themselves from thee, be destroyed. 02:33 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God 02:36 is among you, a mighty God and terrible. And the Lord thy God 02:41 will put out those nations before thee by little and little 02:44 thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts 02:48 of the field increase upon thee. But the Lord thy God shall 02:51 deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty 02:55 destruction, until they be destroyed. 02:57 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, 03:00 and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: 03:02 There shall no man be able to stand before thee, 03:06 until thou have destroyed them. The graven images of their gods 03:10 shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver 03:15 or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, 03:17 lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination 03:21 to the Lord thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination 03:25 into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: 03:28 but thou shalt utterly detest it and thou shalt utterly abhor it; 03:32 for it is a cursed thing. We're continuing to read 03:37 the instructions of the Lord through Moses to Israel 03:40 Deuteronomy chapter 8. This is the King James Version. 03:45 All the commandments which I command thee this day 03:48 shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, 03:51 and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware 03:54 unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the way 03:57 which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years 04:00 in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, 04:04 to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep 04:07 his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered 04:11 the to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest 04:14 not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee 04:18 know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word 04:22 that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. 04:25 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell 04:31 these forty years. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, 04:35 that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God 04:40 chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments 04:43 of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 04:48 For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land 04:54 of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of 04:58 valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, 05:02 and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil of olive and honey 05:07 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread with out scarceness, 05:10 thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron 05:16 and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 05:19 When thou has eaten and art full then thou shalt bless 05:24 the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. 05:27 Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, 05:32 in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, 05:35 and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 05:38 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly 05:42 houses, and dwelt therein; and when thy herds and thy flocks 05:46 multiply and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, 05:49 and all that thou hast is multiplied; Then thine heart 05:54 be lifted up and thou forget the Lord thy God, 05:56 which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, 05:59 and the house of bondage; who led thee through that great and 06:04 terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, 06:06 and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; 06:10 who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 06:12 who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers 06:16 knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove 06:19 thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; 06:23 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine 06:26 hand hath gotten me this wealth, But thou shalt remember 06:31 the Lord thy God: for it is He that giveth thee power 06:35 to get wealth, that He may establish his covenant 06:39 which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. 06:42 And if shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, 06:46 and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, 06:50 I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. 06:54 As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, 06:57 so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient 07:01 unto the voice of the Lord your God. 07:03 We're continuing to read in the King James Version, 07:07 Deuteronomy, chapter 9. 07:09 Hear, O Israel, thou art to pass over Jordan this day 07:14 to go in to possess nations greater and mightier 07:18 than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, 07:22 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, 07:26 whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, 07:29 Who can stand before the children of Anak! 07:32 Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he 07:36 which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire 07:40 he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down 07:43 before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy 07:47 them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee. 07:50 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God 07:56 hath cast them out from before thee, saying, 07:59 For my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess 08:02 this land: but for the wickedness of the nations 08:05 the Lord doth drive them out from before thee. 08:07 Not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness 08:11 of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: 08:13 but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God 08:17 doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform 08:21 the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, 08:23 Isaac, and Jacob. Understand therefore that the Lord thy God 08:29 giveth thee not this good land to possess it 08:32 for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people. 08:36 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God 08:41 to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst 08:45 depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, 08:47 ye have been rebellious against the Lord. Also in Horeb 08:51 ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry 08:54 with you to have destroyed you. 08:55 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of 08:58 stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made 09:01 with you, then I abode in the mount 40 days and 40 nights, 09:04 I neither did eat bread nor drink water; 09:06 And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with 09:10 with the finger of God; and on them was written according 09:14 to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount. 09:16 out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. 09:19 And it came to pass at the end of 40 days and 40 nights, 09:23 that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables 09:25 of the covenant. And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee 09:29 down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast 09:32 brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; 09:35 they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I 09:38 commanded them; they have made them a molten image. 09:40 Furthermore, the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen 09:45 this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. Let me 09:50 alone that I may destroy them, and blot out their name 09:53 from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation, mightier 09:56 and greater than they. So I turned and came down 10:00 from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: 10:02 and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 10:07 and I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord 10:10 your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside 10:15 quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you. 10:17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, 10:21 and brake them before your eyes. And I fell down before the Lord, 10:26 as at the first, 40 days and 40 nights: I did neither eat bread 10:31 nor drink water because of all your sins which ye sinned, 10:35 in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him 10:38 to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, 10:43 wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. 10:45 But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also. 10:50 And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him 10:54 and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. And I took 10:56 your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, 11:01 and stamped it, and ground it very small even until it was as 11:05 small as dust and I cast the dust thereof into the brook 11:08 that descended out of the mount. And at Taberah, and at Massah, 11:13 and at Kibrothhatavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath. 11:17 Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, 11:22 Go up and possess the land which I have given you; 11:24 then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God 11:27 and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. 11:30 Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that 11:35 I knew you. Thus I fell down before the Lord 40 days 11:38 and 40 nights, as I fell down at the first; because the Lord 11:42 had said he would destroy you. I prayed therefore unto the Lord 11:46 and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people 11:48 and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed 11:50 through thy greatness, which thou has brought forth out of 11:53 Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember thy servants, 11:57 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness 12:01 of this people, nor to their wickedness nor to their sin: 12:04 lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, 12:08 Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land 12:11 which he promised them, and because he hated them, 12:12 he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 12:15 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, 12:20 which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy 12:24 stretched out arm. Continuing to read in 12:27 Deuteronomy, chapter 10 At that time the Lord said 12:31 unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, 12:35 and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark 12:38 of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were 12:41 in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them 12:44 in the ark. And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed 12:48 two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the 12:51 mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 12:53 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, 12:57 the Ten Commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the 13:00 mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: 13:02 And the Lord gave them unto me. And I turned myself and came 13:07 down form the mount, and put the tables in the ark 13:09 which I had made and there they be, as the Lord commanded me. 13:13 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth 13:18 the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, 13:22 and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered 13:27 in the priest's office in his stead. 13:29 >From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah 13:34 to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. At that time the Lord 13:39 separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant 13:42 of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, 13:45 and to bless in his name, unto this day. Wherefore Levi hath 13:51 no part nor inheritance with his brethren; 13:53 the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God 13:58 promised him. And I stayed in mount, according to 14:02 the first time, 40 days and 40 nights; and the Lord 14:04 hearkened unto me at that time also, and the Lord would not 14:08 destroy thee. And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey 14:13 before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, 14:16 which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. 14:19 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, 14:23 but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways and to love 14:29 him, and to serve the Lord thy God 14:31 with all thy heart and with all thy soul. |
Revised 2014-12-17