Category: OT
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Chosen in Him
And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart,…
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Only be strong
The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken. Deuteronomy 31:3 Joshua very much foreshadows the work of Christ and the spread of the gospel into the world. God…
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Marriage covenant
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. -Deuteronomy 5 Man was not created to be autonomous, or self-governed. He was created in the image of God, but he was created from nothing. Man is a symbol,…
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God will provide himself
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: -Genesis 22:8 Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For…
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The Glorious Church
“Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?” -Song of Songs 6:10 Too often the Church is viewed as merely spiritual, with no real power or purpose on earth other than to save souls. The idea of the church just hanging on…
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Good creation
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. -Genesis 1:31 Let us say what was the cause of the Creator’s forming the universe. He was good; and in the good no envy is ever generated about anything whatever. Therefore, being free from envy, He desired that all things should,…
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The devil is God’s plaything
Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? -Job 41:5 It is with reference to nature, then, and not to the wickedness of the devil, that we are to understand these words, “This is the beginning of God’s handiwork;” for, without doubt, wickedness…
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Law of love
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6 contains the heart of the covenant between God and his people. The Lord our God, the Lord is one. He is not one god among many gods.…
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Cast into good
It is good for me to be united to God. (Psalm 73:28) Among philosophers it is a question, what is that end and good to the attainment of which all our duties are to have a relation? The Psalmist did not say, It is good for me to have great wealth, or to wear imperial…
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By every word
Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit, one who, when he hears the words of this…