{"id":22737,"date":"2022-08-14T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/deuteronomy32_1-12-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T22:53:19","slug":"deuteronomy32_13-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/deuteronomy32_13-25\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re Blessed with God\u2019s Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deuteronomy\u00a0 32:13-25\u00a0 \u00a0 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Deuteronomy 32:13-25.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 32:13-15 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, he became heavy and sleek\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a013-15a: \u00a0Verses\u00a013-14 describe how God gave Israel His best provision.\u00a0 His provision for them was not ordinary, but extraordinary.\u00a0 Truly God had allowed the Israelites to come into a land of milk (v14) and honey (v13).\u00a0 In the same way, the Holy Spirit is working in your life when you acknowledge that your heavenly Father\u2019s provision for your life is not ordinary but extraordinary.\u00a0 That includes every blessing He has given you and most especially His Son Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

“Jeshurun” in verse 15 is another name for Israel and means “upright one”. It’s ironic that verse 15 calls Israel “upright one” and then describes how Israel abandoned the God who made him and rejected the Rock his Saviour. That doesn’t sound so “upright” to me.\u00a0 Yet God does the same with us.\u00a0 Although we have abandoned God and rejected Him so many times, although we have sacrificed to false gods (v17) and deserted the one true God (v18), God still calls us upright — all because Jesus Christ died for us and gave us His righteousness.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 32:15b-25 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0\u2026He abandoned the God who made him and rejected the Rock his Savior.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They sacrificed to demons, which are not God– gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your fathers did not fear.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
\n23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“I will heap calamities upon them and spend my arrows against them.
\n24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
\n25\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. Young men and young women will perish, infants and gray-haired men.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 15b-25:\u00a0 Here Moses sings about how the Israelites deserted God (v18) and chose instead to worship things which were not gods but were in reality demons (v16-17).\u00a0 Because of this God was angered and had every reason to hide both His holy face and His hand of blessing from the Israelites (v19-25).\u00a0 Yet for all of the Israelites\u2019 idolatry, God never ultimately gave up on the Israelites.<\/p>\n

Likewise, for all our idolatry and sin we deserve the punishment that verses 19-25 describe.\u00a0 We deserve to be rejected by God (v19), cast from His presence (v20), and replaced by some other more faithful people (v21).\u00a0 We deserve hellish fire (v22) and all sorts of punishment (v23-25).\u00a0 But in His mercy God spared us.\u00a0 He let His Son Jesus suffer in our place so that we could go free.<\/p>\n

Recently I saw a movie scene where a father was about to shoot his enemy, except that the son of this father stood in front of that enemy and asked his father not to shoot.\u00a0 The father didn’t shoot his enemy only because he saw his son in front of and protecting that enemy.\u00a0 God did the same with us: \u00a0He spares our lives because He sees Jesus Christ in front of us, protecting us from His wrath.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank You for giving me extraordinary provision all throughout my life.\u00a0 Thank You also for sparing my life when I sinned against You, and only because Your Son Jesus stood in the way between You and me.\u00a0 Thank You, Jesus, for being my shield from God’s wrath, which I fully deserved for my sin.\u00a0 Thank You that instead of punishment, You showed me grace and mercy. \u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Deuteronomy 32:13-25.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 32:13-15 (NIV)
\n13\u00a0\u00a0He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,
\n14\u00a0\u00a0with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.
\n15\u00a0\u00a0Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, he became heavy and sleek\u2026<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a013-15a: \u00a0Verses\u00a013-14 describe how God gave Israel His best provision.\u00a0 His provision for them was not ordinary, but extraordinary.\u00a0 Truly God had allowed the Israelites to come into a land of milk (v14) and honey (v13).\u00a0 In the same way, the Holy Spirit is working in your life when you acknowledge that your heavenly Father\u2019s provision for your life is not ordinary but extraordinary.\u00a0 That includes every blessing He has given you and most especially His Son Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22737","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\/22737","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=22737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22740,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22737\/revisions\/22740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}