Deuteronomy 12

• Deuteronomy 12:1-4 – Don’t worship like that.
  • They were effectively cheating on God with false idols.
• Deuteronomy 12:5-32 – The place which the Lord your God will choose.
  • The tabernacle was the place God chose for certain types of worship. (Exodus 40:17)
  • The tabernacle traveled with them in their wandering, even after they crossed into Canaan.
  • See II Chronicles 7:11. The temple built by Solomon replaced the tabernacle.
  • They were to worship in the place that God chose. It was important to God that they worshiped in the right way. It is still important to God that we worship in the right way today.
  • Deuteronomy 12:17-19 – Do not forsake the Levites.
    • Numbers 18:20-21; 35:7
    • Nehemiah 13:10 – The system broke down.
  • Deuteronomy 12:29-31 – Do not worship in all the evil ways the Canaanites did (child sacrifice, etc.).

Deuteronomy 13

• Deuteronomy 13:1-5 – A prophet or a dreamer of dreams.
  • If someone is trying to get you to worship an idol, they are to be put to death.
• Deuteronomy 13:6-11 – Your close family and friends.
  • Compare Matthew 10:34-39 – Don’t let anyone come between you and God.
• Deuteronomy 13:12-18 – Worthless men who seduce a whole city.

Deuteronomy 14

• Reminders of God’s rules for clean and unclean food.

Excuses in the Bible

• Luke 14:15-24
  • Even when God offers blessings, we can come up with reasons not to accept them.
• Genesis 3:8-13
  • Excuses have been around since the beginning.
• II Kings 5:10-14
  • Naaman made an excuse to not follow Elisha’s instructions.

Excuses today

• I cannot understand the Bible.
• Some day but not right now.
  • Luke 9:57-62
  • Luke 12:16-21
• Too much to give up.
  • Matthew 16:26
• I’m good enough now.
  • Romans 3:23
  • Acts 4:12

Conclusion

• Romans 1:21
• Excuses do us more harm than good.
• Philippians 2:12

Introduction

• I Timothy 1:18-20

Keep brethren and sisters at arm’s length but get really close with others.

• Acts 2:42-47 – They wanted to be together!
• Acts 4:23 – They met with other Christians to talk about being persecuted.
• Acts 4:32
• Romans 1:12
• Romans 15:22
• Philippians 1:3
• I Thessalonians 3:6
• Hebrews 10:24-25
• Philippians 1:27
• Deuteronomy 13:6-10 – God warned the Israelites of bad influence.
• Proverbs 12:26; 13:20; 14:7; 24:1-2

Make schoolwork your primary focus.

• I Kings 4:1-26, 32-34
• I Kings 7:1
• I Kings 10:4-5
• I Kings 11:4 – Solomon’s spiritual situation was a disaster.
• Romans 6:19
• Be careful not to measure your success by secular standards.
• Matthew 22:37

Deuteronomy 9

• Deuteronomy 9:1-6 – Not due to Israel’s righteousness
  • Deuteronomy 9:4-5 – They were allowed to take the land because of the evil of the nations that were in the land. God was delivering justice and keeping His promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • Titus 3:4
• Deuteronomy 9:7-29 – Remembering Israel’s failures
  • Deuteronomy 9:16-21 – Moses broke the tablets because he was so angry with their sins.
  • Exodus 32:9-10, 30
  • Deuteronomy 9:22 – See Numbers 11, 13-14.

Deuteronomy 10

• Deuteronomy 10:1-11 – Two more tablets.
  • First two tablets
    • God provided tablets – Exodus 24:12
    • God wrote on tablets – Exodus 31:18
  • Second two tablets
    • Moses cut tablets – Exodus 34:1
    • God wrote on tablets – Exodus 34:1, 28; Deuteronomy 10:4
• Deuteronomy 10:12-22 – God’s love for Israel
  • Deuteronomy 10:12-13 – Compare Micah 6:8; John 14:15; I John 5:3.

Deuteronomy 11

• Deuteronomy 11:1-9 – This generation needs to obey.
  • See Deuteronomy 6:5; 10:12; 11:1; 13:3; 30:6 – Love God!
• Deuteronomy 11:10-17 – God will bless the land with rain.
  • Deuteronomy 11:10-12 – They had to irrigate their crops in Egypt, but in Canaan they would receive rain.
  • Deuteronomy 11:23-25 – They would defeat stronger nations because God was with them.
  • Deuteronomy 11:26-29 – See Joshua 8:33-35.

Review of the text

• John 6:9-11
• John 6:22-27
• Figures of speech in John
  • Physical vs. spiritual
    • John 3:3-7
    • John 4:13-14
    • John 4:31-34
    • John 7:37-38
    • John 8:31-36
    • John 8:38-39, 44
    • John 6:31-35 – Physical bread vs. spiritual bread.
• John 6:44-46 – In v45, it is those who have heard and learned from God that came to Jesus. It was not a miraculous intervention.
• John 6:51-58 – Jesus is the living bread from heaven.
  • The phrases about eating His flesh and drinking His blood are about consuming the teaching that Jesus brought to the world.
    • I Corinthians 1:22

Observations

Check your motive.

• John 6:26, 25, 59-63, 66-68

This is not teaching transubstantiation.

• Matthew 26:26-28
• This teaching is not in the text. Jesus was still there when He said to eat His flesh.
• Drinking blood was not permitted under the Law of Moses.
• This is a figure of speech!

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