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Crossing Over…Into A New Year
January 8, 2023 / First Baptist RussellDeuteronomy 11:10-24
The Book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament records the Moses preached to his people before he climbed Mount Nebo.
Moses the people that:
God brought us out of there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers. Deuteronomy 6:23 NASB
The words of Deuteronomy 11:10-24 act as a .
We stand on the of a New Year and most likely there will be challenges.
THESE VERSES ARE A REMINDER OF:
God’s !
But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven.
Deuteronomy 11:11
This verse is God’s reminder that will our – He is our .
Source of what – our .
Remember: This will be a year of and .
In the Holy Land – speaks loudly.
We rarely learn spiritual lessons on the .
The are where and are gleaned – where we become more like .
Canaan was and is totally on God – upon His provisions.
Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they indeed craved them.
1 Corinthians 10:6
God’s !
a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.
Deuteronomy 11:12
This year is important to God. He it, He it, the way through the , and all we have to do is .
God’s !
“And it shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, that He will provide rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, so that you may gather your grain, your new wine, and your oil. He will also provide grass in your field for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.”
Deuteronomy 11:13-15
Note – this promise is – notice the words, “” and “”.
The only thing that keeps us from this promise is – “”.
Everything in life has a .
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment.
Matt. 36-38
God’s !
Beware that your hearts are not easily deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods, and worship them. Otherwise, the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the sky so that there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its produce; then you will quickly perish from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
“You shall therefore take these words of mine to heart and to soul; and you shall tie them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead. You shall also teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your sons may be increased on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. For if you are careful to keep all of this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and cling to Him, then the Lord will dispossess all these nations from you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. Every place on which the sole of your foot steps shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea.
Deuteronomy 11:16-24