Ability to Produce Wealth
A Charge to Stay on Mission
DEUTERONOMY 9:5 “Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” God, through Moses, was making it clear to the Israelites that He had a purpose for bringing them into…
A Charge to Trust
DEUTERONOMY 8:18 “You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.” For forty years, the Israelites depended completely on God for their survival. But as they were about to enter the land He had promised, Moses told them that God would give them the power to get wealth. They may or may not have…
A Charge to Remember
DEUTERONOMY 8:2–4 2“And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 3And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by…
A Charge to Obey
DEUTERONOMY 8:1 “The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers.” In his last message to the Israelite nation in Deuteronomy 8, Moses addressed them before they entered the Promised Land. He reminded them that they had a covenant relationship with the Lord their God. This covenant or agreement, which God Himself initiated…