BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS! Be strong and courageous… —Joshua 1:6 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. —Joshua 1:8-9 Only be strong and courageous. —Joshua 1:18             We have no strength of our own, “But you, LORD,…

MY REFUGE FOREVER! See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. —Deuteronomy 32:39 Let the righteous one rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult! —Psalm 64:10             Fellow follower of Jesus, brother and sister in our Lord, let us rejoice in Him.  We are safe because He is our refuge.  We need not fear because as Jesus’ sheep He says, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow…

WE ARE SENT TO PROCLAIM SO THE WORD OF THE GOSPEL WILL BE NEAR THE LOST! “For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that…

OUR SOVEREIGN AND ALL-POWERFUL LORD! They will be the head, but you will be the tail. —Deuteronomy 28:44 There were consequences for Israel if they did not follow the Lord, but these principles could impact any nation that does not want to follow Him.  Our Lord is ultimately in control as seen in Deuteronomy chapter 28:15-63 and there can be consequences for disobedience such as— Food availability will be impacted Children in the womb will be impacted There will be confusion There will be rebuke— showing were error is Could come to sudden ruin Disease could increase Weather could be impacted Military defeat could occur Success will fade away Crops…

BE COMMITTED TO HIS WORK, GLORIFYING HIM! I have done according to all that you have commanded me. —Deuteronomy 26:14 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. —John 17:4 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. —Ephesians 2:10 He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds. —Titus 2:14 His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things;…

THE CLAIM OF PROGRESSION IS ACTUALLY DETERIORATION! A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God. —Deuteronomy 22:5             So many want to call themselves “progressive.”  But what they really mean is an acceptance of sinful practices that were one time seen as negative in a society.  Abortion is widely accepted as the norm and thought to be “progressive.”  But it is wickedness according to God who forms the children in the womb, just as He did for any person presently alive.  How ironic that those who once lived…

The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously. —Psalm 37:21             One thing is for sure from God’s perspective— “The wicked borrow and do not repay.”  The wicked will take and take and take… they are takers, but they are not repayers.  Want one clear evidence that a person is wicked?  It is that they will take and not pay back.             We are living in a time, and it has been decades now, when our government keeps borrowing and borrowing and borrowing with no intent to pay it back.  There is no plan to pay it back.  If you are a tax-payer in the U.S.…

KEEP HIS WORD AND PRESS ON! And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long…

REMEMBER! You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes. —Deuteronomy 16:12             Passover was given to the Israelites, partially, so they would remember that they “were a slave in Egypt.”  Today, as we follow Jesus, we are to keep the Lord’s Table or communion.  Why?  Jesus said He gave us this so we would remember.  Remember what?  “For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes” (I Corinthians 11:26).  We are remembering two things— Our Lord’s death. Our Lord’s return. Remember the cross and what took place there.  Jesus is…

CHOSEN BY GOD!  For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. —Deuteronomy 14:2             How amazing that our Lord God Almighty chose Israel over all the other peoples of earth to be “His treasured possession!”  Why did He do that? After the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, “The Lord has 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…