Steve Webb 0:00 Because of His goodness and His love. Steve Webb 0:03 It's the Lifespring! One Year Bible coming to you from, well, sorta kinda from Riverside, California. I'm on vacation. So I'm not here. This is pre recorded podcasting since 2004. I'm your OG Godcaster. Steve Webb. It's the law Monday and Our reading today will be Deuteronomy seven through nine. The website is Lifespringmedia.com. and I'll have contact information at the end of the show. Before we read, let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we love you and we thank you for this time together around your word. We pray that You would bless this time. In Jesus name, Amen. All right, are you ready? Let's begin. Steve Webb 0:41 Deuteronomy chapter seven. When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Gurkha Shi'ites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the parasites in the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you. and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them. You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will quickly destroy you. But thus you shall do to them, You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars, and hue down their ashram, and burn their graven images with fire. For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love on you or choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which he swore to your forefathers, the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slavery from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps his covenant and his loving kindness to 1000 generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments, but repays those who hate him to their faces to destroy them, he will not delay with him who hates him, he will repay him to his face. Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today to do them, then it shall come about because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you his covenant and all his loving kindness which he swore to your forefathers. He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock in the land which he swore to your forefathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all peoples, there will be no male or female Baron among you or among your cattle. The Lord will remove from you all sickness, and he will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but he will lay them on all who hate you. You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you, your I shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you. If you should say in your heart, these nations are greater than I, how can I dispossess them, you shall not be afraid of them, you shall well remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, the great trials which Your eyes saw in the signs and the wonders in the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out, so shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Moreover, the Lord your God will send the Hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish, you shall not dread them. For the Lord your God is in your midst a great and awesome God, the Lord your God will clear away all those nations before you little by little, you will not be able to put an end to them quickly. For the wild beasts would grow to numerous for you, but the Lord your God will deliver them before you and we'll throw them into a great confusion until they are destroyed. He will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish under heaven. No man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. The graven images of their God, you are to burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. You shall not Bringing abomination into your house and like it come under the ban, you show utterly detest it, and you show utterly abhorrent for it is something banned. Steve Webb 5:10 Deuteronomy chapter eight, you must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live increase in number and go in and occupy the land that the Lord has promised to your ancestors. Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these 40 years through the desert, so that he might by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep His commandments or not. So he humbled you by making you hungry, and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord's mouth. Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these 40 years. be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you. So you must keep His commandments live according to His standards and revere him. For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of Brooks springs and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills, a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees and pomegranates of olive trees and honey, a land where you may eat food and plenty and find no lack of anything. A land whose stones are iron, and from whose hills you can mined copper, you will eat your fill and then praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given you. Be sure you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, ordinances and statutes that I'm giving you today. When you eat your fill when you build and occupy good houses, when your cattle and flocks increase when you have plenty of silver and gold. and when you have abundance of everything. Be sure you do not feel self important. and forget the Lord your God who brought to you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery, and who brought you through the great fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, and arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and fed you in the desert with mana which your ancestors had never before known, so that he might by humbling you, test you and eventually bring good to you. Be careful not to say my own ability and skill have gotten me this wealth, you must remember the Lord your God, for He is the one who gives ability to get wealth. If you do this, he will confirm His covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, even as he has to this day. Now if you forget the Lord your God at all, and follow other gods worshipping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated. Just like the nations the Lord is about to destroy from your sight. So he will do to you because you would not obey Him. Steve Webb 7:57 Deuteronomy, chapter nine, Hero Israel, you are crossing over the Jordan today to take the land that belongs to nations greater and stronger than you with big cities with walls as high as heaven. The people there are strong and tall, the sons of Anakin, you know of them. and I've heard it said, Who can stand in front of the sons of a neck. and you know today that it is the Lord your God who was crossing over before you as a fire that destroys everything, he will destroy them and bring them down before you. So you may drive them out and be quick to destroy them, just as the Lord has told you. But after the Lord your God has driven them out before you do not say in your heart, the Lord has brought me in to take this land because I am right and good. It is because of the sin of these nations that the Lord is driving them out in front of you. It is not because of your being right with God, that you are going to take their land, but it is because of the sin of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out in front of you. By this, the Lord is proving that he keeps the promise he made to your fathers to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Understand that it is not because you are right with God, that the Lord your God is giving you this good land for your own. For you are a strong willed people. Remember and do not forget how you made the LORD your God angry in the desert. You have gone against the Lord from the day you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place. Even at Mount Sinai, you made the Lord angry. The Lord was so angry with you that he would have destroyed you. I went up the mountain to receive the pieces of stone, the laws of the agreement which the Lord had made with you. I stayed on the mountain 40 Days and nights I did not eat bread or drink water. Then the Lord gave me the two pieces of stone written by the finger of God. on them were the words the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain from the fire on the day of the meeting. At the end of 40 days and nights The Lord gave me the two pieces of stone the laws of the agreement, then the Lord's said to me get up, hurry and go down from here for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become very sinful, they have been quick to turn away from what I told them, they have made a false god for themselves. and the Lord said to me, I have seen these people see they are strong willed, let me alone, so I may destroy them and destroy their name from under heaven, I will make you into a nation that will be greater and stronger than they. So I turned in came down from the mountain while the mountain was burning with fire. The two pieces of the stone of the agreement were in my two hands. and I saw that it was true that you had sinned against the Lord your God, you had made for yourselves a calf out of gold, you had been quick to turn away from what the Lord had told you. So I took the two pieces of stone and threw them from my hands and broke them in front of your eyes. Then again, I fell down before the Lord for 40 days and nights. I did not eat bread or drink water, because of all the sin you had done. You did what was sinful in the eyes of the Lord and made him angry. I was afraid of the anger of the Lord which was burning against you to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me again. The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. So I prayed for Aaron at the same time also. Then I took your sinful thing that calf you had made and burned it with fire and crushed it. I ground it into pieces until it was as fine as dust and I threw its dust into the river that flowed down from the mountain. You made the Lord angry again at Tabora masa and Kibbe Rafa. tehava, the Lord sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Go and take for your own the land I have given you. But you went against what the Lord your God told you to do. You did not believe him or listen to his voice. You have gone against the Lord from the day I first knew you. So I fell down before the Lord and lay 40 Days and nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you. I prayed to the Lord saying, Oh Lord God, do not destroy your people, your chosen nation, whom you have set free by Your power and brought out of Egypt with a strong hand. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, do not look at the strong will or sin or wrongdoing of these people. For the land you brought us from may say, The Lord was not able to bring them into the land, he promised them because he hated them. He brought them out to kill them in the desert. Yet they are your people, your chosen nation whom you have brought out by your great power and your long arm. Steve Webb 12:35 As we often read here in Deuteronomy, and many other places in the Old Testament, God tells the people what he will do. and then he reminds them many times, and he tells them what he did. and then he reminds them what he did many times. Why does he do that? Why does God repeat himself so much? Because they were forgetful over and over again, they forget. and when it isn't forgetfulness, they simply choose to ignore him. They go their own way willingly. They rebel. That's crazy, right? Well, no, not really not crazy, just sinful. Why are they sinful? Well, because they're human beings. and because they're human, they have a sin nature, which makes them just like you and me. We do need to be reminded repeatedly what the Lord said what he did and what he will do. We're no different than the children of Israel of the Old Testament, at least as far as our basic nature is concerned. But those of us who have become believers of Jesus, those of us who have a real relationship with Him, those of us who are Christians, but we have something that they did not, we have the Holy Spirit living within us, and we're no longer slaves to sin, as Paul said in Romans. But God said through Moses, in Deuteronomy, chapter nine, verse four, do not say in your heart, the Lord has brought me in to take this land, because I am right in good. That, beloved, is the sin of pride, which gets us into all kinds of trouble. We aren't saved because of anything we did, or because we deserved it. We are the recipients of God's grace only because of His goodness and His love. He didn't call us because he needs us. He calls us because we need him, which is why we have to stay close to Him. We are like the children of Israel and that we have to be reminded over and over and over and over and over again, who God is what he said what he did, and what he'll do. He is the same yesterday, today and forever and he gave his son that we might live. He gave us his word that we might know him. He's made it possible to live lives that are pleasing to Him, that he might bless us if we follow Him and determine in our hearts that we will follow him. Not that we'll never stumble because we will but we must quit Please seek forgiveness. and then we know from First John one nine that if we confess our sins he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness not because we deserve it, but because of his grace. Steve Webb 15:19 Tomorrow will be history Tuesday, our reading will be Second Chronicles 29 through 32. So how's your memory as the lovely lady Leanne will attest, mine is terrible. If you have a comment or question even though I'm out of town this weekend, the show is pre recorded. I do want to hear from you. Nothing would make me happier when I get back into town then to see a bunch of email, voicemails and boostagram is waiting for me. I'll share them on the show. If you have a comment or a question, a prayer request or a praise report. This is the way you can reach me. You can send to boostagram or to leave a voice message call the Lifespring family Hotline at plus 1951732 at 511. Or for prayer requests and praise reports. Go to prayer Lifespring media.com. and for comments or questions go to comment.lifespringmedia.com and last my email address is steve@lifespringmedia.com. Steve Webb 16:20 Thanks to Sister Denise Michael Haner Scott Snider, Jason Paschall and sister Brittaney for their donations of time and talent. and thank you for including me in your day. I'm looking forward to seeing you when I get back but there will be a brand new show for you tomorrow. Until then, may God bless you richly. My name is Steve Webb by Steve Webb 16:42 Lifespring media bringing the message of hope, love and good news since 2004 Transcribed by https://otter.ai