Nitsavim (You Are Standing)
Deuteronomy 29:9 - 30:20
September 12th, 2020
Pastor Curtis Taylor
Deuteronomy 29:17 …and you saw their detestable things and their idols of wood, stone, silver and gold that they had with them.
Deuteronomy 29:18 So let there not be among you a man, woman, family or tribe whose heart turns away today from ADONAI our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Let there not be among you a root bearing such bitter poison and wormwood.
Our Greatest Need is a New Heart
(v. 6-20)
The people of Israel had experienced serial failure. Theirs had been a cycle of failure, repentance, and restoration. God had given them circumcision as a sign to distinguish them as God's people. He had given them the Torah as a standard by which they could know God's expectations and requirements. Their greatest need, however, was not an external sign or standard, but transformed hearts. God promised them that a day was coming when He would do for them what they could not do for themselves. By His grace, God would "circumcise their hearts," which would enable them to please Him with their lives.
Trust In Yahweh, Faith was a Sign of a Circumcised Heart!!
The prophets also looked ahead to that day when God would give His people hearts to obey Him. Through Ezekiel, God said to His people: "I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules" (Ezekiel 26-27). Likewise, God said through Jeremiah: "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people" (Jeremiah 31:33)
Deuteronomy 10:16 … circumcise the foreskin of your heart; & don't be stiff-necked any longer!
Deuteronomy 30:6 Then ADONAI your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your children, so that you will love ADONAI your God with all your heart and all your being, and thus you will live.
Joshua and Caleb show Faith in God’s Plan, Agreement to Yahweh!
Koreh did not Trust God’s Plan, he wanted his plan!
Jeremiah 4:4 People of Y'hudah and inhabitants of Yerushalayim, circumcise yourselves for ADONAI, remove the foreskins of your heart! Otherwise my fury will lash out like fire, burning so hot that no one can quench it, because of how evil your actions are.
Deuteronomy 10:12 So now, Isra'el, all that ADONAI your God asks from you is to fear ADONAI your God, follow all his ways, love him and serve ADONAI your God with all your heart and all your being;
John 14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments;
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one! And you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.
John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me!
1 John 4:7–8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Psalm 109:21 But you, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name's sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me!
John 14:21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me...
Deuteronomy 30:11 For this command which I am commanding you today, it is not too hard for you, nor is it far off.
Deuteronomy 30:12 It is not in the heavens, to say, “Who shall ascend into the heavens for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, so that we do it?”
Deuteronomy 30:13 Nor is it beyond the sea, to say, “Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and cause us to hear it, so that we do it?”
Deuteronomy 30:14 For the Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart – to do it.
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil, …
Deuteronomy 30:16 in that I am commanding you today to love יהוה your Elohim, to walk in His ways, & to guard His commands, and His laws & His right-rulings. And you shall live and increase, & יהוה your Elohim shall bless you in the land which you go to possess.
Deuteronomy 30:20 to love יהוה your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him – for He is your life and the length of your days – to dwell in the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ, to give them.
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before you today life & good, death & evil, Choose!!
…BY YOUR ACTION AND LIFESTYLE!
Deuteronomy 30:16 in that I am commanding you today to love יהוה your Elohim, to walk in His ways, & to guard His commands, and His laws & His right-rulings. And you shall live and increase, & יהוה your Elohim shall bless you in the land which you go to possess.
Deuteronomy 30:20 to love יהוה your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to cling to Him – for He is your life and the length of your days – to dwell in the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ, to give them.
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before you today life & good, death & evil, Choose!!
BY YOUR ACTION AND LIFESTYLE!
CHOOSE LIFE IN YOUR LIFESTYLES AND ACTIONS
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