{"id":21967,"date":"2022-06-17T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/deuteronomy_8_10-20-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T01:45:02","slug":"deuteronomy_9_1-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/deuteronomy_9_1-12\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Grace and Faithfulness Toward You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deuteronomy\u00a0 9:1-12 \u00a0 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Deuteronomy 9:1-12.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 9:1-3 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Hear, O Israel. You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky.
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The people are strong and tall–Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can stand up against the Anakites?”
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But be assured today that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0has promised you.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-3:\u00a0 Moses acknowledged that as part of conquering the promised land the Israelites would need to face a strong and tall people called the Anakites.\u00a0 Yet Moses reminds the Israelites that the Lord will go ahead of them like a devouring fire and help the Israelites to overcome them quickly.<\/p>\n

Here we see that recurring theme in Deuteronomy again:\u00a0 with God there may be seemingly gigantic challenges in front of you, but God goes ahead of you so you don\u2019t need to be afraid.\u00a0 With God, you can conquer the giants in front of you.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 9:4-6 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0After the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, “The\u00a0LORD\u00a0has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0is going to drive them out before you.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0It is\u00a0not because of your righteousness<\/strong>\u00a0or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Understand, then, that it is\u00a0not because of your righteousness<\/strong>\u00a0that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 4-6:\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0Deuteronomy\u00a09, Moses emphasize to the Israelites that it is not because of their righteousness that God gave them the land of Canaan and drove out the nations that previously occupied it.\u00a0 Rather, God gave them the land of Canaan for 3 reasons:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0To discipline other nations (v4-5). \u00a0<\/strong>The nations that had been occupying the land of Canaan had rejected God and lived in great wickedness, so “on account of the wickedness of these nations” (v4) God decided to take away their land and give it to the Israelites.\u00a0 It’s a reminder that if we keep ignoring or rebelling against God, God may one day take away the blessings He had previously given to us.\u00a0 God is holy and just.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0To show His grace (v5-6)<\/strong>.\u00a0 A second reason God was giving the Israelites the land of Canaan was to show that God is a God of grace, who gives us far more than we could ever deserve.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0To fulfill His promise (v5)<\/strong>.\u00a0 A third reason God was giving the Israelites the land of Canaan was “to accomplish what He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” God had made a promise to the Israelites’ forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and God intended to keep that promise.\u00a0 God is faithful to His promises, even when we are not faithful to ours.<\/p>\n

In a similar way, the reason you can be called a child of God and have a place in His family is \u201cnot because of your righteousness\u201d, not because we were good enough or earned it with our performance.\u00a0 It\u2019s because God is a God of grace who\u00a0spares us from the punishment we deserve and gives us blessings that we don’t deserve.\u00a0 It\u2019s also because God is faithful to keep the promises He made along ago to the likes of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David, that through them there would rise up a king and a kingdom that would last forever.\u00a0 Because of God\u2019s grace toward us and His faithfulness toward His promises, we get to be a part of that everlasting kingdom.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 9:7-12 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Remember this and never forget how you provoked the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God to anger in the desert. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against the\u00a0LORD.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0At Horeb you aroused the\u00a0LORD’s wrath so that he was angry enough to destroy you.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the\u00a0LORD\u00a0proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the\u00a0LORD\u00a0gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the\u00a0LORD\u00a0told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made a cast idol for themselves.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 7-12:\u00a0 Here in these verses Moses recounts an example of how the Israelites rebelled against the Lord (v7-8).\u00a0 We will unpack this incident more when we look at verses 13-29 together tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Lord, I praise You for being the God of all grace, faithful to Your promises, the One who goes before us and empowers us to face the challenges that are in front of us.\u00a0 May we never assume that the reason why You bless is because we are so good, but because You are good beyond compare.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Deuteronomy 9:1-12.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 9:1-3 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0Hear, O Israel. You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky.
\n2\u00a0\u00a0The people are strong and tall–Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can stand up against the Anakites?”
\n3\u00a0\u00a0But be assured today that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the\u00a0LORD\u00a0has promised you.
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\nOn verses 1-3:\u00a0 Moses acknowledged that as part of conquering the promised land the Israelites would need to face a strong and tall people called the Anakites.\u00a0 Yet Moses reminds the Israelites that the Lord will go ahead of them like a devouring fire and help the Israelites to overcome them quickly.
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\nHere we see that recurring theme in Deuteronomy again:\u00a0 with God there may be seemingly gigantic challenges in front of you, but God goes ahead of you so you don\u2019t need to be afraid.\u00a0 With God, you can conquer the giants in front of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21970,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967\/revisions\/21970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}