Deuteronomy chapter 12 mentions tithing and says tells us to destroy things having to do with fals3e gods. ----- Original Message ----- From: "O.Addison Gethers" <[email protected]> To: "Deaf-blind inspirational life groups" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 9:50 AM Subject: {dbilg} Fw: Daily Bible Reading For Monday February 23
> > > O. Addison Gethers > e-mail address : [email protected] or [email protected] > window live messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: > cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:02 PM > Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Monday February 23 > > >> Deuteronomy 10-12 (The Message) >> >> Deuteronomy 10 >> 1-2 God responded. He said, "Shape two slabs of stone similar to the >> first >> ones. Climb the mountain >> and meet me. Also make yourself a wooden chest. I will >> engrave the stone slabs with the words that were on the first ones, the >> ones you smashed. Then you >> will put them in the Chest." >> >> 3-5 So I made a chest out of acacia wood, shaped two slabs of stone, just >> like the first ones, and >> climbed the mountain with the two slabs in my arms. >> He engraved the stone slabs the same as he had the first ones, the Ten >> Words that he addressed to >> you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the >> assembly. Then God gave them to me. I turned around and came down the >> mountain. I put the stone >> slabs in the Chest that I made and they've been there ever >> since, just as God commanded me. >> >> 6-7 The People of Israel went from the wells of the Jaakanites to >> Moserah. >> Aaron died there and was >> buried. His son Eleazar succeeded him as priest. From >> there they went to Gudgodah, and then to Jotbathah, a land of streams of >> water. >> >> 8-9 That's when God set apart the tribe of Levi to carry God's Covenant >> Chest, to be on duty in the >> Presence of God, to serve him, and to bless in his >> name, as they continue to do today. And that's why Levites don't have a >> piece of inherited land as >> their kinsmen do. God is their inheritance, as God, >> your God, promised them. >> >> 10 I stayed there on the mountain forty days and nights, just as I did >> the >> first time. And God >> listened to me, just as he did the first time: God decided >> not to destroy you. >> >> 11 God told me, "Now get going. Lead your people as they resume the >> journey to take possession of >> the land that I promised their ancestors that I'd give >> to them." >> >> 12-13 So now Israel, what do you think God expects from you? Just this: >> Live in his presence in >> holy reverence, follow the road he sets out for you, love >> him, serve God, your God, with everything you have in you, obey the >> commandments and regulations of >> God that I'm commanding you today-live a good life. >> >> 14-18 Look around you: Everything you see is God's-the heavens above and >> beyond, the Earth, and >> everything on it. But it was your ancestors who God fell >> in love with; he picked their children-that's you!-out of all the other >> peoples. That's where we are >> right now. So cut away the thick calluses from your >> heart and stop being so willfully hardheaded. God, your God, is the God >> of >> all gods, he's the Master >> of all masters, a God immense and powerful and awesome. >> He doesn't play favorites, takes no bribes, makes sure orphans and widows >> are treated fairly, takes >> loving care of foreigners by seeing that they get food >> and clothing. >> >> 19-21 You must treat foreigners with the same loving care- >> remember, you were once foreigners in Egypt. >> Reverently respect God, your God, serve him, hold tight to him, >> back up your promises with the authority of his name. >> He's your praise! He's your God! >> He did all these tremendous, these staggering things >> that you saw with your own eyes. >> >> 22 When your ancestors entered Egypt, they numbered a mere seventy souls. >> And now look at you-you >> look more like the stars in the night skies in number. >> And your God did it. >> >> Deuteronomy 11 >> 1So love God, your God; guard well his rules and regulations; obey his >> commandments for the rest of >> time. >> >> 2-7 Today it's very clear that it isn't your children who are front and >> center here: They weren't >> in on what God did, didn't see the acts, didn't experience >> the discipline, didn't marvel at his greatness, the way he displayed his >> power in the miracle-signs >> and deeds that he let loose in Egypt on Pharaoh king >> of Egypt and all his land, the way he took care of the Egyptian army, its >> horses and chariots, >> burying them in the waters of the Red Sea as they pursued >> you. God drowned them. And you're standing here today alive. Nor was it >> your children who saw how >> God took care of you in the wilderness up until the time >> you arrived here, what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab son >> of Reuben, how the Earth >> opened its jaws and swallowed them with their families-their >> tents, and everything around them-right out of the middle of Israel. Yes, >> it was you-your eyes-that >> saw every great thing that God did. >> >> 8-9 So it's you who are in charge of keeping the entire commandment that >> I >> command you today so >> that you'll have the strength to invade and possess the >> land that you are crossing the river to make your own. Your obedience >> will >> give you a long life on >> the soil that God promised to give your ancestors and >> their children, a land flowing with milk and honey. >> >> 10-12 The land you are entering to take up ownership isn't like Egypt, >> the >> land you left, where you >> had to plant your own seed and water it yourselves >> as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are about to cross the river >> and take for your own is a >> land of mountains and valleys; it drinks water that >> rains from the sky. It's a land that God, your God, personally tends-he's >> the gardener-he alone >> keeps his eye on it all year long. >> >> 13-15 From now on if you listen obediently to the commandments that I am >> commanding you today, love >> God, your God, and serve him with everything you have >> within you, he'll take charge of sending the rain at the right time, both >> autumn and spring rains, >> so that you'll be able to harvest your grain, your grapes, >> your olives. He'll make sure there's plenty of grass for your animals. >> You'll have plenty to eat. >> >> 16-17 But be vigilant, lest you be seduced away and end up serving and >> worshiping other gods and >> God erupts in anger and shuts down Heaven so there's no >> rain and nothing grows in the fields, and in no time at all you're >> starved >> out-not a trace of you >> left on the good land that God is giving you. >> >> 18-21 Place these words on your hearts. Get them deep inside you. Tie >> them >> on your hands and >> foreheads as a reminder. Teach them to your children. Talk >> about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; >> talk about them from the time >> you get up in the morning until you fall into bed >> at night. Inscribe them on the doorposts and gates of your cities so that >> you'll live a long time, >> and your children with you, on the soil that God promised >> to give your ancestors for as long as there is a sky over the Earth. >> >> 22-25 That's right. If you diligently keep all this commandment that I >> command you to obey-love >> God, your God, do what he tells you, stick close to him-God >> on his part will drive out all these nations that stand in your way. Yes, >> he'll drive out nations >> much bigger and stronger than you. Every square inch >> on which you place your foot will be yours. Your borders will stretch >> from >> the wilderness to the >> mountains of Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the >> Mediterranean Sea. No one will be able to stand in your way. Everywhere >> you go, God-sent fear and >> trembling will precede you, just as he promised. >> >> 26 I've brought you today to the crossroads of Blessing and Curse. >> >> 27 The Blessing: if you listen obediently to the commandments of God, >> your >> God, which I command you >> today. >> >> 28 The Curse: if you don't pay attention to the commandments of God, your >> God, but leave the road >> that I command you today, following other gods of which >> you know nothing. >> >> 29-30 Here's what comes next: When God, your God, brings you into the >> land >> you are going into to >> make your own, you are to give out the Blessing from Mount >> Gerizim and the Curse from Mount Ebal. After you cross the Jordan River, >> follow the road to the west >> through Canaanite settlements in the valley near Gilgal >> and the Oaks of Moreh. >> >> 31-32 You are crossing the Jordan River to invade and take the land that >> God, your God, is giving >> you. Be vigilant. Observe all the regulations and rules >> I am setting before you today. >> >> Deuteronomy 12 >> 1 These are the rules and regulations that you must diligently observe >> for >> as long as you live in >> this country that God, the God-of-Your-Fathers, has given >> you to possess. >> >> 2-3 Ruthlessly demolish all the sacred shrines where the nations that >> you're driving out worship >> their gods-wherever you find them, on hills and mountains >> or in groves of green trees. Tear apart their altars. Smash their phallic >> pillars. Burn their >> sex-and-religion Asherah shrines. Break up their carved gods. >> Obliterate the names of those god sites. >> >> 4 Stay clear of those places-don't let what went on there contaminate the >> worship of God, your God. >> >> 5-7 Instead find the site that God, your God, will choose and mark it >> with >> his name as a common >> center for all the tribes of Israel. Assemble there. Bring >> to that place your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and >> Tribute-Offerings, your >> Vow-Offerings, your Freewill-Offerings, and the firstborn >> of your herds and flocks. Feast there in the Presence of God, your God. >> Celebrate everything that >> you and your families have accomplished under the blessing >> of God, your God. >> >> 8-10 Don't continue doing things the way we're doing them at present, >> each >> of us doing as we wish. >> Until now you haven't arrived at the goal, the resting >> place, the inheritance that God, your God, is giving you. But the minute >> you cross the Jordan River >> and settle into the land God, your God, is enabling >> you to inherit, he'll give you rest from all your surrounding enemies. >> You'll be able to settle down >> and live in safety. >> >> 11-12 From then on, at the place that God, your God, chooses to mark with >> his name as the place >> where you can meet him, bring everything that I command >> you: your Absolution-Offerings and sacrifices, tithes and >> Tribute-Offerings, and the best of your >> Vow-Offerings that you vow to God. Celebrate there in >> the Presence of God, your God, you and your sons and daughters, your >> servants and maids, including >> the Levite living in your neighborhood because he has >> no place of his own in your inheritance. >> >> 13-14 Be extra careful: Don't offer your Absolution-Offerings just any >> place that strikes your >> fancy. Offer your Absolution-Offerings only in the place >> that God chooses in one of your tribal regions. There and only there are >> you to bring all that I >> command you. >> >> 15 It's permissible to slaughter your nonsacrificial animals like gazelle >> and deer in your towns >> and eat all you want from them with the blessing of God, >> your God. Both the ritually clean and unclean may eat. >> >> 16-18 But you may not eat the blood. Pour the blood out on the ground >> like >> water. Nor may you eat >> there the tithe of your grain, new wine, or olive oil; >> nor the firstborn of your herds and flocks; nor any of the Vow-Offerings >> that you vow; nor your >> Freewill-Offerings and Tribute-Offerings. All these you >> must eat in the Presence of God, your God, in the place God, your God, >> chooses-you, your son and >> daughter, your servant and maid, and the Levite who lives >> in your neighborhood. You are to celebrate in the Presence of God, your >> God, all the things you've >> been able to accomplish. >> >> 19 And make sure that for as long as you live on your land you never, >> never neglect the Levite. >> >> 20-22 When God, your God, expands your territory as he promised he would >> do, and you say, "I'm >> hungry for meat," because you happen to be craving meat >> at the time, go ahead and eat as much meat as you want. If you're too far >> away from the place that >> God, your God, has marked with his name, it's all right >> to slaughter animals from your herds and flocks that God has given you, >> as >> I've commanded you. In >> your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want. >> Just as the nonsacrificial animals like the gazelle and deer are eaten, >> you may eat them; the >> ritually unclean and clean may eat them at the same table. >> >> 23-25 Only this: Absolutely no blood. Don't eat the blood. Blood is life; >> don't eat the life with >> the meat. Don't eat it; pour it out on the ground like >> water. Don't eat it; then you'll have a good life, you and your children >> after you. By all means, do >> the right thing in God's eyes. >> >> 26-27 And this: Lift high your Holy-Offerings and your Vow-Offerings and >> bring them to the place >> God designates. Sacrifice your Absolution-Offerings, the >> meat and blood, on the Altar of God, your God; pour out the blood of the >> Absolution-Offering on the >> Altar of God, your God; then you can go ahead and eat >> the meat. >> >> 28 Be vigilant, listen obediently to these words that I command you so >> that you'll have a good >> life, you and your children, for a long, long time, doing >> what is good and right in the eyes of God, your God. >> >> 29-31 When God, your God, cuts off the nations whose land you are >> invading, shoves them out of your >> way so that you displace them and settle in their land, >> be careful that you don't get curious about them after they've been >> destroyed before you. Don't get >> fascinated with their gods, thinking, "I wonder what >> it was like for them, worshiping their gods. I'd like to try that >> myself." >> Don't do this to God, >> your God. They commit every imaginable abomination with >> their gods. God hates it all with a passion. Why, they even set their >> children on fire as offerings >> to their gods! >> >> 32 Diligently do everything I command you, the way I command you: don't >> add to it; don't subtract >> from it. >> >> Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning >> Skype Prayer Time. >> >> >> Contact Me At: >> Donnie Parrett >> 1956 Asa Flat Road >> Annville, Kentucky 40402 >> Home Phone: 606-364-3321 >> Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY >> Skype Name: Donnie1261 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
