Deuteronomy 10:12-14
“Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require from you,
but to fear the LORD your God,
to walk in all His ways and love Him,
and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
and to keep the LORD’S commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?
Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it.”
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are not believers in Christ Jesus adopted in to the family of GOD?
Are adopted children to be treated differently?
Answer: NO
We who have been adopted in to the Kingdom of GOD are responsible to obey the Lord our GOD just the same as Israel is to obey.
We are told 365 time in the word of GOD to not fear,
so strict attention should be paid when we are instructed to fear.
what does the LORD your God require from you,
to fear Him,
to walk in all His ways,
to love Him, and
to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and to keep the LORD’S commandments and His statutes.
And aging we are told in Deuteronomy 10:20
“You shall fear the LORD your God”
“You shall fear the LORD your God;
you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and
you shall swear by His name.
Deuteronomy 13:1-8
“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams;
for the LORD your God is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has counseled rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk.
So you shall purge the evil from among you.”
¶ “If your brother, your mother’s son, (that would be your birth brother)
or your son or daughter,
or the wife you cherish,
or your friend who is as your own soul,
entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.”
(( A little side note:
Being enticed to fallow after other gods. ?
what are the other gods?
Can be a person, teacher, actor, athlete, preacher, hooker.
Can be a job, position, house, car, boat, sport, clothing.
Can be anything that can be purchased with money.
Is anyone or thing other than the GOD of creation,
it can even be yourself. ))
With all that is going on in the world today you need to realize you are running out of time.
Get things right with The Lord your GOD,
Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
James 4:6-8
But He gives a greater grace.
Therefore it says,
“GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.”
Submit therefore to God.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
(( “God is opposed to the proud”
We are to resist the devil, and by doing so he will flee from us.
We are to draw near to God, and in doing so He will draw near to us.
We are told to clean our hands of sin And to purify our hearts.
We are not to be doubled minded. ))
Matthew 22:37
“YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.”
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”
(( No one can serve two masters;
No matter what the other master may be, if you are not placing the LORD your GOD as your only Master you are asking for trouble.
Time is quickly running out.
Make the choice and stick with it;
either chose The LORD your GOD and obey His commandments, loving Him and Him alone with all your heart, mind and soul.
OR
chose to follow after the world, and live in sin,
if this is your choice stop playing church and go on your way.
If you chose The LORD your GOD and to obey His commandments,
To love Him and Him alone with all your heart, mind and soul.
Then He will bless you for eternity.
Fear the Lord your GOD, resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Psalm 34:9
O fear the LORD, you His saints; For to those who fear Him there is no want.
Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 8:12-14
“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And I find knowledge and discretion.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverted mouth, I hate.
Counsel is mine and sound wisdom;
I am understanding, power is mine.”
Proverbs 9:10
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”
Proverbs 14:27
“The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, That one may avoid the snares of death.”
Proverbs 15:33
“The fear of the LORD is the instruction for wisdom, And before honor comes humility.”
Isaiah 33:6
And He will be the stability of your times,
A wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge;
The fear of the LORD is his treasure. ))
Was setting here finishing up and a thought came:
“Perfect love cast out all fear”
As a believer in Christ Jesus what is perfect love?
1John 4:15-21
“Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us.
God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment;
because as He is, so also are we in this world.
There is no fear in love;
but perfect love casts out fear,
because fear involves punishment,
and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
We love, because He first loved us.
If someone says,
“I love God,”
and hates his brother, (a fellow believer) he is a liar;
for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
And this commandment we have from Him,
that the one who loves God should love his brother also.”
This perfect love is our Lord and savior Christ Jesus.
And if we are abiding in Him, He is abiding in us.
this love, the love we are to obtain through faith in Christ Jesus, cast out all fear of this world and what it may do to our human body.
Philippians 1:21
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
This should be the reaction of a true believer in Christ Jesus.
To live gives us more time and opportunities to share the good news of Christ Jesus with others,
But to die is to be with the Lord.
A win, win no matter how you look at it.
So let the world kill this body,
i get to go home.
Do you have that assurance?
Do you truly love the LORD your GOD?
Or are you fearful of what this world might do to you or say about you?
No one can play on both sides of the fence.