Bible Study: God Will Fulfill His Purpose 03.09.10

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Today is Tuesday March 09, 2010 and we are reading through the Bible in a year. Today's message comes from the reading of the Book of Deuteronomy, chapters 24-27. If you would like to read the chapters along with us here online you can Click Here to read them or copy & paste this URL onto your browser: http://www.readytofollow.com/bible-march-9

Title: Bible Study: God Will Fulfill His Purpose
Many people, even Christians, do not realize that the Bible has been around since God created the earth. God chose forty men to write His Word, these were just ordinary, sinful people, like you and I who chose to follow the will of God rather than their own. Even they messed up with God at times and fell out of His will, but God still used them to complete the work He had begun in them. Moses was called when he was forty years old to fulfill God's purpose, but he killed a man then fled for forty years. At the age of eighty he began serving God as the one He chose to lead the Israelites out of slavery and into the promised land. Moses began writing down what God told Him along the way, including the Book of Genesis, which was given for God to give an account for the creation of all of earth and what His purpose for creating it was. The Bible was more than just commands from God, it was to give a record and account for the Israelites until Jesus came as well as show testimonies as to who God chose to represent Him and what happened to them in their times of obedience and disobedience to Him. While blessings result from obedience and faithfulness, severe punishments and judgment are the inevitable result of disobeying God's Word! We are all accountable for our own actions, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.” - Deuteronomy 24:16-18. A pledge is a solemn promise to fulfill a purpose or refrain from something. When we chose to follow the will of God, He holds us to our promise and we are accountable for fulfilling that promise. “This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.” - Deuteronomy 26:16-19. We think we have made the decision on our own to follow God, but God chose us Himself and we are to respect that and honor Him for choosing us by keeping ourselves holy. That is why He places these commands and judgments upon us. We are all here for a purpose and God uses us regardless of whether or not we choose to obey His commands, He chose to use specific men, women, and events to feature in His Word to prove to all, Israelites, as well as strangers, and even heathens, that He is the only God and creator of even them and in control of all things, regardless of how many gods they created. Praise God!

All the words that Moses has spoken to the Israelites regarding God's laws and commandments were to be written on plaster and placed upon the altar for all to easily read them. “And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister: And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee. Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister. And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them. Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God: And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God. And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.” - Deuteronomy 27:1-8. It was important that the Israelites had these laws and commands written down to remind them of all that God gave them and what they were required to do in order to be able to live peacefully in the land that He had given them. Had they not had them, then further generations would not have been able to know how to be reconciled with God. That is why we are to read both Old and New Testaments, of course we are not bound to many of these laws, but the morals of the laws still apply. If you read chapter 27 you would have seen the things listed that caused a curse on the people and these things are still an abomination to God and cause a curse upon us. We are children of God and are to behave like we are to set an example for those who are just starting out as Christians as well as the rest of the world. “If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained........ These things command and teach. Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine........Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.” - I Timothy 4:6,11-13, 16.

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God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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