Deuteronomy chapter 13 talks about false prophets and false gods. Chapter 14 talks about tithing. Chapter 15 tells us to care for the needy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "O.Addison Gethers" <[email protected]> To: "Deaf-blind inspirational life groups" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:57 AM Subject: {dbilg} Fw: Daily Bible Reading For Tuesday February 24
> > > 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: 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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