Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000502
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00:16 Hi, and welcome back to His Words Are Life.
00:19 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you for joining with me to read the 00:22 wonderful word of God. 00:23 But before we start, let's pray together. 00:25 Dear God, we come to You right now and ask that in a special 00:30 way the Holy Spirit will give us understanding as we read 00:35 these words that You spoke through Moses so long ago. 00:38 Bring them life to our lives today, and may we serve You 00:43 and each other better. 00:44 We love You so much, and thank You for loving us. 00:46 Amen. 00:48 When we were last together we were reading in the book 00:49 of Deuteronomy. 00:51 Moses has gathered the Israelites together and is 00:53 reviewing with them all of God's leading as He's brought them 00:56 from Egypt to Canaan. 00:57 And this is before they've crossed over the Jordan. 01:00 And as he's reviewing and giving them the various laws 01:03 and commands of the Lord. 01:04 In this particular passage he has just referenced the 01:08 Ammonite's and the Moabite's, and how they'd come to Balaam 01:12 to have Balaam curse the Israelites. 01:14 We're going to pick up now in this story as Moses is 01:18 referencing their intention to have the Israelites cursed. 01:22 And I love how he shows the power of God by saying, 01:26 even though this was meant as a curse to you, God turned it 01:29 around and made it a blessing instead. 01:31 Let's read that now: Deuteronomy, chapter 23:5. 01:34 This is the King James Version. 01:36 Nevertheless, the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; 01:40 but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, 01:45 because the Lord thy God loved thee. 01:50 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy 01:53 days for ever. 01:54 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: 01:57 thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a 02:01 stranger in his land. 02:02 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the 02:05 congregation of the Lord in their third generation. 02:08 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, 02:12 then keep thee from every wicked thing. 02:14 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of 02:18 uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go 02:23 abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: 02:26 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself 02:30 with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into 02:33 the camp again. 02:34 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou 02:38 shalt go forth abroad: and thou shalt have a paddle upon thy 02:41 weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, 02:44 thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that 02:49 which cometh from thee: for the Lord thy God walketh in the 02:52 midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine 02:55 enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: 02:58 that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 03:02 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is 03:06 escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, 03:10 even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of 03:13 thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt 03:16 not oppress him. 03:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, 03:20 nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 03:23 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, 03:26 into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both 03:30 these are abomination unto the Lord thy God. 03:32 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, 03:39 usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: 03:43 unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother 03:48 thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless 03:52 thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land 03:55 whither thou goest to possess it. 03:57 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not 04:02 slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it 04:06 of thee; and it would be sin in thee. 04:08 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. 04:13 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and 04:17 perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast 04:21 vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised 04:25 with thy mouth. 04:26 When thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard, 04:28 then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; 04:32 but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. 04:35 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbor, 04:39 then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt 04:42 not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn. 04:45 We're continuing to read in Deuteronomy, chapter 24, 04:49 and this is the King James Version. 04:50 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to 04:55 pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found 04:58 some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of 05:02 divorcement, and give it in her hand, 05:04 and send her out of his house. 05:06 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be 05:09 another man's wife. 05:11 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of 05:14 divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out 05:17 of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her 05:20 to be his wife; her former husband, which sent her away, 05:24 may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is 05:27 defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt 05:32 not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee 05:34 for an inheritance. 05:35 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to 05:39 war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall 05:42 be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which 05:45 he hath taken. 05:46 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: 05:51 for he taketh a man's life to pledge. 05:53 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children 05:57 of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, 06:00 or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put 06:04 evil away from among you. 06:06 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe 06:10 diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites 06:14 shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. 06:18 Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, 06:23 after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. 06:25 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go 06:28 into his house to fetch his pledge. 06:30 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall 06:34 bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. 06:36 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 06:40 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the 06:43 sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, 06:46 and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before 06:49 the Lord thy God. 06:50 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, 06:54 whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in 06:58 thy land within thy gates: at his day thou shalt give him his 07:02 hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, 07:06 and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto 07:10 the Lord, and it be sin unto thee. 07:11 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, 07:15 neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: 07:17 every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 07:21 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, 07:24 nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: 07:28 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, 07:32 and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I 07:35 command thee to do this thing. 07:36 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, 07:40 and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again 07:43 to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, 07:46 for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God 07:50 may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 07:53 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the 07:57 boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, 07:59 for the fatherless, and for the widow. 08:02 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not 08:06 glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, 08:09 for the fatherless, and for the widow. 08:11 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land 08:16 of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 08:20 We're continuing to read in Deuteronomy, chapter 25. 08:25 This is the King James Version. 08:26 If there be a controversy between men, and thy come unto 08:31 judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall 08:35 justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 08:38 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, 08:42 that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten 08:45 before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 08:49 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, 08:54 if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many 08:57 stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. 09:00 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. 09:04 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no 09:09 child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a 09:13 stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take 09:17 her to him to wife, and perform the duty 09:19 of a husband's brother unto her. 09:22 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth 09:25 shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, 09:28 that his name be not put out of Israel. 09:31 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his 09:35 brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, 09:39 My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name 09:43 in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my 09:46 husband's brother. 09:47 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto 09:51 him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; 09:55 then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of 09:58 the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in 10:03 his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto 10:07 that man that will not build up his brother's house. 10:11 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him 10:14 that hath his shoe loosed. 10:16 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of 10:21 the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the 10:24 hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, 10:28 and taketh him by the secrets: then thou 10:30 shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. 10:34 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, 10:37 a great and a small. 10:38 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, 10:42 a great and a small. 10:43 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and 10:48 just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened 10:53 in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 10:55 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, 11:00 are an abomination unto the Lord thy God. 11:02 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were 11:06 come forth out of Egypt; how he met thee by the way, 11:09 and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind 11:13 thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. 11:16 Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee 11:21 rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which 11:24 the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, 11:27 that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under 11:31 heaven; thou shalt not forget it. 11:34 We're reading in Deuteronomy. 11:37 This is chapter 26. 11:39 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the 11:43 Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, 11:46 and dwellest therein; that thou shalt take of the first of all 11:50 the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land 11:53 that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a 11:57 basket, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God 12:00 shall choose to place his name there. 12:02 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those 12:05 days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the Lord 12:10 thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware 12:13 unto our fathers for to give us. 12:15 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, 12:18 and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God. 12:21 And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, 12:24 A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down unto 12:28 Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a 12:32 nation, great, mighty, and populous: and the Egyptians 12:37 evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard 12:41 bondage: and when we cried unto the Lord God of our 12:44 fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our 12:48 affliction, and our labor, and our oppression: and the Lord 12:51 brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, 12:55 and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, 12:56 and with signs, and with wonders: and he hath brought us 13:00 into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that 13:04 floweth with milk and honey. 13:05 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, 13:10 which thou, O Lord, hast given me. 13:13 And thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship before 13:17 the Lord thy God: and thou shalt rejoice in every good 13:21 thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto 13:24 thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger 13:26 that is among you. 13:28 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine 13:32 increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast 13:36 given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, 13:39 and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, 13:42 and be filled; then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, 13:45 I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, 13:49 and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the 13:52 stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all 13:56 thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not 13:59 transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14:02 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken 14:06 away aught thereof for any unclean use, nor given aught 14:09 thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of 14:12 the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast 14:16 commanded me. 14:17 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, 14:20 and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given 14:24 us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth 14:28 with milk and honey. 14:29 Please join me again next time to read the word 14:32 of God together. 14:33 Goodbye. |
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