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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 7:24 AM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Tuesday February 24 > Deuteronomy 13-15 (The Message) > > Deuteronomy 13 > 1-4 When a prophet or visionary gets up in your community and > gives out a miracle-sign or wonder, and the miracle-sign or wonder that he > gave out happens and he > says, "Let's follow other gods" (these are gods you know > nothing about), "let's worship them," don't pay any attention to what that > prophet or visionary > says. God, your God, is testing you to find out if you > totally love him with everything you have in you. You are to follow only > God, your God, hold him in > deep reverence, keep his commandments, listen obediently > to what he says, serve him-hold on to him for dear life! > > 5 And that prophet or visionary must be put to death. He has urged mutiny > against God, your God, > who rescued you from Egypt, who redeemed you from a world > of slavery and put you on the road on which God, your God, has commanded > you to walk. Purge the evil > from your company. > > 6-10 And when your brother or son or daughter, or even your dear wife or > lifelong friend, comes to > you in secret and whispers, "Let's go and worship some > other gods" (gods that you know nothing about, neither you nor your > ancestors, the gods of the > peoples around you near and far, from one end of the Earth > to the other), don't go along with him; shut your ears. Don't feel sorry > for him and don't make > excuses for him. Kill him. That's right, kill him. You > throw the first stone. Take action at once and swiftly with everybody in > the community getting in on > it at the end. Stone him with stones so that he dies. > He tried to turn you traitor against God, your God, the one who got you > out of Egypt and the world > of slavery. > > 11 Every man, woman, and child in Israel will hear what's been done and be > in awe. No one will dare > to do an evil thing like this again. > > 12-17 When word comes in from one of your cities that God, your God, is > giving you to live in, > reporting that evil men have gotten together with some of > the citizens of the city and have broken away, saying, "Let's go and > worship other gods" (gods you > know nothing about), then you must conduct a careful > examination. Ask questions, investigate. If it turns out that the report > is true and this > abomination did in fact take place in your community, you must > execute the citizens of that town. Kill them, setting that city apart for > holy destruction: the city > and everything in it including its animals. Gather > the plunder in the middle of the town square and burn it all-town and > plunder together up in smoke, > a holy sacrifice to God, your God. Leave it there, > ashes and ruins. Don't build on that site again. And don't let any of the > plunder devoted to holy > destruction stick to your fingers. Get rid of it so that > God may turn from anger to compassion, generously making you prosper, just > as he promised your > ancestors. > > 18 Yes. Obediently listen to God, your God. Keep all his commands that I > am giving you today. Do > the right thing in the eyes of God, your God. > > Deuteronomy 14 > 1-2 You are children of God, your God, so don't mutilate your bodies or > shave your heads in funeral > rites for the dead. You only are a people holy to God, > your God; God chose you out of all the people on Earth as his cherished > personal treasure. > > 3-8 Don't eat anything abominable. These are the animals you may eat: ox, > sheep, goat, deer, > gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, mountain sheep-any > animal that has a cloven hoof and chews the cud. But you may not eat > camels, rabbits, and rock > badgers because they chew the cud but they don't have a > cloven hoof-that makes them ritually unclean. And pigs: Don't eat > pigs-they have a cloven hoof but > don't chew the cud, which makes them ritually unclean. > Don't even touch a pig's carcass. > > 9-10 This is what you may eat from the water: anything that has fins and > scales. But if it doesn't > have fins or scales, you may not eat it. It's ritually > unclean. > > 11-18 You may eat any ritually clean bird. These are the exceptions, so > don't eat these: eagle, > vulture, black vulture, kite, falcon, the buzzard family, > the raven family, ostrich, nighthawk, the hawk family, little owl, great > owl, white owl, pelican, > osprey, cormorant, stork, the heron family, hoopoe, bat. > > 19-20 Winged insects are ritually unclean; don't eat them. But ritually > clean winged creatures are > permitted. > > 21 Because you are a people holy to God, your God, don't eat anything that > you find dead. You can, > though, give it to a foreigner in your neighborhood > for a meal or sell it to a foreigner. > > Don't boil a kid in its mother's milk. > > 22-26 Make an offering of ten percent, a tithe, of all the produce which > grows in your fields year > after year. Bring this into the Presence of God, your > God, at the place he designates for worship and there eat the tithe from > your grain, wine, and oil > and the firstborn from your herds and flocks. In this > way you will learn to live in deep reverence before God, your God, as long > as you live. But if the > place God, your God, designates for worship is too far > away and you can't carry your tithe that far, God, your God, will still > bless you: exchange your > tithe for money and take the money to the place God, your > God, has chosen to be worshiped. Use the money to buy anything you want: > cattle, sheep, wine, or > beer-anything that looks good to you. You and your family > can then feast in the Presence of God, your God, and have a good time. > > 27 Meanwhile, don't forget to take good care of the Levites who live in > your towns; they won't get > any property or inheritance of their own as you will. > > 28-29 At the end of every third year, gather the tithe from all your > produce of that year and put > it aside in storage. Keep it in reserve for the Levite > who won't get any property or inheritance as you will, and for the > foreigner, the orphan, and the > widow who live in your neighborhood. That way they'll > have plenty to eat and God, your God, will bless you in all your work. > > Deuteronomy 15 > 1-3 At the end of every seventh year, cancel all debts. This is the > procedure: Everyone who has > lent money to a neighbor writes it off. You must not press > your neighbor or his brother for payment: All-Debts-Are-Canceled-God says > so. You may collect > payment from foreigners, but whatever you have lent to your > fellow Israelite you must write off. > > 4-6 There must be no poor people among you because God is going to bless > you lavishly in this land > that God, your God, is giving you as an inheritance, > your very own land. But only if you listen obediently to the Voice of God, > your God, diligently > observing every commandment that I command you today. Oh > yes-God, your God, will bless you just as he promised. You will lend to > many nations but won't > borrow from any; you'll rule over many nations but none > will rule over you. > > 7-9 When you happen on someone who's in trouble or needs help among your > people with whom you live > in this land that God, your God, is giving you, don't > look the other way pretending you don't see him. Don't keep a tight grip > on your purse. No. Look at > him, open your purse, lend whatever and as much as > he needs. Don't count the cost. Don't listen to that selfish voice saying, > "It's almost the seventh > year, the year of All-Debts-Are-Canceled," and turn > aside and leave your needy neighbor in the lurch, refusing to help him. > He'll call God's attention > to you and your blatant sin. > > 10-11 Give freely and spontaneously. Don't have a stingy heart. The way > you handle matters like > this triggers God, your God's, blessing in everything you > do, all your work and ventures. There are always going to be poor and > needy people among you. So I > command you: Always be generous, open purse and hands, > give to your neighbors in trouble, your poor and hurting neighbors. > > 12-15 If a Hebrew man or Hebrew woman was sold to you and has served you > for six years, in the > seventh year you must set him or her free, released into > a free life. And when you set them free don't send them off empty-handed. > Provide them with some > animals, plenty of bread and wine and oil. Load them with > provisions from all the blessings with which God, your God, has blessed > you. Don't for a minute > forget that you were once slaves in Egypt and God, your > God, redeemed you from that slave world. > > For that reason, this day I command you to do this. > > 16-17 But if your slave, because he loves you and your family and has a > good life with you, says, > "I don't want to leave you," then take an awl and pierce > through his earlobe into the doorpost, marking him as your slave forever. > Do the same with your > women slaves who want to stay with you. > > 18 Don't consider this an unreasonable hardship, this setting your slave > free. After all, he's > worked six years for you at half the cost of a hired hand. > > Believe me, God, your God, will bless you in everything you do. > > 19-23 Consecrate to God, your God, all the firstborn males in your herds > and flocks. Don't use the > firstborn from your herds as work animals; don't shear > the firstborn from your flocks. These are for you to eat every year, you > and your family, in the > Presence of God, your God, at the place that God designates > for worship. If the animal is defective, lame, say, or blind-anything > wrong with it-don't slaughter > it as a sacrifice to God, your God. Stay at home and > eat it there. Both the ritually clean and unclean may eat it, the same as > with a gazelle or a deer. > Only you must not eat its blood. Pour the blood out > on the ground like water. > > 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. 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