Deuteronomy 10:10 says, And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. Moses said he stayed on the mountain forty days and nights interceding for the people while he was there, and God listened to him and did not destroy them. We need to be interceding for people with God today. Verse eleven adds, And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. God told Moses to go and tell the people of Israel to go in and possess the land which He swore to give to their fathers. As we today journey through life, we need to remember that we are on our way to heaven, the place that God has sworn will one day be our everlasting home. Verse twelve continues, 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, Just as Moses told the people of Israel, all God requires of us is that we fear, or respect God, walk in His ways, or keep His commandments, love Him, and serve Him with all out heart and soul. In other words, give ourselves, and not just material things to Him. Verse thirteen concludes, To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good. As just stated, Moses told them that the were to keep God's commandments and statutes as he had commanded them to do that day. When we accept Jseus as our Savior and Lord, He commands us to keep all of His commandments and statutes. Verse fourteen states, Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. Moses said that all of the heavens and the earth belonged to God. They still do, and always will. Verse fifteen adds, 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. Moses said that God chose the people of Israel to work through, and today He chooses to work through Christians, those who have put their faith in Jesus Christ alone. The people of Israel were not chosen because of their superiority to other people, but because of their weakness in the eyes of the world, and we today are not chosen because of our moral superiority to other people but because we humble ourselves before God and admit our inability to save ourselves. Verse sixteen continues, Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. Circumcision was a sign of the people of Israel belonging to God, but now Moses told them to circumcise their hearts, and to not be a stiffnecked people. We told are to remove everything in our heart that stands between God and us, and not to attempt to hold on to the things that do. Verse seventeen declares, For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: Moses said that God was the only true and all powerful God, Who didn't regard, or look to who a person was physically in order to enter into a relationship with them, nor could He be bought. No matter who we are in the world, or where we live, none of us is any better than any other in God's eye because of that. Verse eighteen adds, He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Moses said that God had mercy on the fatherless and widows and loved the stranger, those who were not a part of the nation of Israel. Until we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, we are strangers to God, but He still loved us enough to send Jesus Christ to die for our sins, so that we might be restored to Him by faith in Jesus Christ. When we do accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord, we should help the orphans and widows around us. Verse nineteen continues, Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Moses said that God expected them to love the strangers, because God had loved them when they were strangers in Egypt and had brought them out of their bondage. We today were strangers to God until He brought us out of the bondage of sin. Verse twenty says, Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. Moses said that the people of Israel were to fear, or have an awesome respect for God, cleave to Him, and swear by His name. As Christians, so must we today. Verse twenty-one adds, He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. Moses said that God was their God because of the great and terrible things that He did to bring them out of Egypt, and we are His because of the great and terrible thing that Jesus Christ did for us on the cross. Verse twenty-two continues, Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. Moses said that the people of Israel numbered seventy people when they went into Egypt, but now they were as numerous as the stars in heaven. After the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, the number of people who followed Him was small, but now they are as numerous as the stars in heaven, and we are to be witnessing to the lost so that the number will continue to grow.
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