Scrpture 8.17.08

I hope you have a safe and healhful week.

Danny 

No. 46

 

I.  8-17-2008. Today is the first day of the week. Pray for the sick, today at 10:00 A.M.

Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25 JPS

  And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which He swore unto thy fathers,  (13)  and He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; He will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy kine and the young of thy flock, in the land which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee.

  (14)  Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.  (15)  And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

  (16)  And thou shalt consume all the peoples that the LORD thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them; neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.  (17)  If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'  (18)  thou shalt not be afraid of them; thou shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt:  (19)  the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid.  (20)  Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves, perish from before thee.  (21)  Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a God great and awful.  (22)  And the LORD thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little; thou mayest not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.  (23)  But the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and shall discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.  (24)  And He shall deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven; there shall no man be able to stand against thee, until thou have destroyed them.  (25)  The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver or the 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.

  (26)  And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and be accursed like unto it; thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

  (8:1)  All the commandment which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers.  (2)  And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that He might afflict thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments, or no.  (3)  And He afflicted 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 thing that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

  (4)  Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.  (5)  And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.  (6)  And thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.

  (7)  For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills;  (8)  a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;  (9)  a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.  (10)  And thou shalt eat and be satisfied, and bless the LORD thy God for the good land which He hath given thee.

Meditation: What is the outcome of obeying G-d's teachings?

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"Great peace have they which love thy law
and nothing shall offend them." Psalms 119:165