Come Follow Me Reading: Deuteronomy 9-14

Come Follow Me Reading: Deuteronomy 9-14

Deuteronomy 9: https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/9?lang=eng

Other nations are driven out of Canaan because of their wickedness—Moses rehearses the rebellions of Israel and tells how he mediated between the people and the Lord—On two occasions he went without food and water for forty days.

3 Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee;

After fasting 40 days, Moses received two plates that contained writings by the finger of God. Because of Israel’s idolatry, he broke those plates.

Again he fasted 40 days. Moses prayed mightily for his people and for his brother Aaron.

27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

Deuteronomy 10: https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/10?lang=eng

The tables of stone containing the Ten Commandments are placed in the ark—All that God requires is that Israel love and serve Him—How great and mighty is the Lord!

This time Moses created the set of plates to be written on.

12 ¶ And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

13 To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

15 Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

Deuteronomy 11: https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/11?lang=eng

Thou shalt love and obey the Lord thy God—If the children of Israel obey, they will be blessed with rain and harvests and will drive out mighty nations—Israel must learn God’s laws and teach them—Blessings flow from obedience; cursings attend disobedience.

1 Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

Remember your deliverance from Egypt and the care the Lord showed to you in the wilderness.

7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.

8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

12 A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

13 ¶ And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.

 

Deuteronomy 12: https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/12?lang=eng

Israel is to destroy the Canaanite gods and places of worship—The Lord will designate where His people will worship—The eating of blood is forbidden—Israel’s worship must conform to the divine standard.

Living the law of tithing and offering sacrifices to the Lord is what will help us to rejoice! Vs 11-12

Vs 18 If we put the Lord first, then he will make a way for us to rejoice in the works that we do.

28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.

32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Our worship should be as the Lord would have it.

Deuteronomy 13: https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/13?lang=eng

The Lord tests His people to see if they will worship false gods—Prophets, dreamers, relatives, or friends who advocate worship of false gods will be put to death—Idolatrous cities will be destroyed.

Vs 1-5 Those who draw people away from the Lord would be put to death. They are spiritually dead, and they bring death to those who will be enticed by them.

Deuteronomy 14:https://abn.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/14?lang=eng

The Israelites are children of the Lord Jehovah—Unclean beasts, fish, and fowl are not to be eaten—The Israelites are to tithe all the increase of their seed annually.

2 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Do those things that the Lord asks, and do not worry about what others say or do. Follow Jesus.

22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

Vs 28-29 Tithing was used to take care of the Levites, the poor, and strangers.