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"Now these things
[see the Scriptures below] became our examples, to the intent that we should not
lust after evil things as they also lusted. And do not
become idolaters as were some of them.... Nor
let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one
day twenty-three thousand fell; nor let us tempt Christ, as some
of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; nor
complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by
the destroyer.
"Now all these things happened to them as
examples, and they were written for our admonition,
upon whom the ends of the ages have come." 1 Corinthians
10:6-11
Remember these warnings in Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 8:
"...when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful
houses and dwell in them... your heart is lifted up and
you forget the Lord your God. ... you say in your heart, ‘My
power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
"...if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow
other gods... you shall surely perish. As the nations which the
Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be
obedient to the voice of the Lord your God."
Deuteronomy 8:10-20
Deuteronomy 18:
"When you come into
the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you
shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There
shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his
daughter pass through the fire [sacrificing a child to the
Canaanite "god" Moloch to gain his favor], or
practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who
interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who
conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist,
or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things
are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these
abominations the Lord your God drives them out... You shall
be blameless before the Lord your God...."
Deuteronomy
18:9-14
Deuteronomy 28:
"...it shall
come to pass, if you diligently
obey the voice of
the Lord your God....
that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of
the earth. ...Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the
produce of your ground and the increase of your herds.... The
Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated
before your face.... The Lord will open to you His good
treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in
its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You
shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the
Lord will make you the head and not the tail.... if you heed
the commandments of the Lord your God."
“But...
if you do not obey
the voice of the Lord your God...
all these
curses will come upon you and overtake you....
The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all
that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until
you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in
which you have forsaken Me.... The Lord will change the rain
of your land to powder and dust...
"The Lord will cause you to be defeated before
your enemies.... The Lord will strike you... with tumors, with
the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed....
"Your sons and your daughters shall be
given to
another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with
longing for them all day long; and there shall be no strength in
your hand. A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit
of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be
only oppressed and crushed....
"You shall beget sons and
daughters, but they
shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
Locusts shall consume... the produce of your
land.
“The alien who is among you shall rise
higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and
lower. He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to
him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail....
"Because you
did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart,
for the abundance of everything, therefore you shall serve
your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in
hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and
He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed
you. The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar.... And
they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of
your land, until you are destroyed...
"If
you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are
written in this book [remember, the
Levitical laws were fulfilled in Christ, but the
moral law is as relevant now as then],
that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR
GOD, then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants
extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and
serious and prolonged sicknesses....
And it shall be, that just as the Lord rejoiced over you to do
you good and multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to
destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked
from off the land which you go to possess...."
Deuteronomy 28:1-63
The Old Testament
judgments also apply to us today:
"Now all these things happened to them as
examples, and they were written for our admonition,
upon whom the ends of the ages have come...." 1 Corinthians
10:11
"They are foolish; for
they do not know the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.
I will go to the great men and speak to them,
For they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God.'
But these have altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds.
Therefore a
lion from the forest shall slay them,
A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them;
A leopard will watch over their cities."
[Interesting
reminders at a time when leopards are "restored" to Florida and
wolves and bears to other parts of our country -- and people are
being slaughtered] Jeremiah 5:4-6
Deuteronomy 30:19-20:
"I
call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I
have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing;
therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may
live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey
His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for
He is your life...."
The response that leads to victory in
Christ: Faith and Repentance
(A humble acknowledgment before our holy God that
(1) I have
sinned against Him and deserve judgment, and
(2) I trust in His
grace and the
forgiveness I have in Christ by
faith)
Jesus said, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God
is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
Mark 1:14
“...unless
you repent you will all likewise perish."
Luke 13:3, 5
“Repent
therefore and be
converted, that your sins may be blotted out,
so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the
Lord...."
Acts 3:19
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