• How our soul longs to hear these words!
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    Psalm 35:3The Lexham English Bible
    And draw the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me. Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”
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    1. Notice the contrast in these 2 verses between those who live only for this life and our reason for living.
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      Psalm 17:14The Lexham English Bible
      from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of this world. Their share is in this life, and you fill their stomach with your treasure. They are satisfied with children. They bequeath their excess to their children.
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      1. Read Deuteronomy 7:6-8 and answer the following questions: What was Israel chosen to be? (Is their any New Testament scripture that tells us God us chosen us the same way?) Did God chose Israel because they were a large, powerful nation? What were the two reasons God gives for choosing Israel? How does this apply to our lives?

        1. God chose us to be His own special treasure because He loves us and to keep the oath He swore, Deut 7:8. Yep 1 Peter 2:9 tells us that we are "a people for God's own possession"....... who "have received mercy." Thanks Mike

      2. Why does God bring us out of something? To bring us in to something better!
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        Deuteronomy 6:23The Lexham English Bible
        But he brought us out from there in order to bring us here to give us the land that he swore to our ancestors.
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        1. Moses foretold the dispersion of Israel among the nations because of their idolatry AND the return of Israel in the latter days!
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          Deuteronomy 4:30The Lexham English Bible
          In your distress when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice.
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          1. It seems like we have a tendency to want to add to God's requirements. Is this as bad as taking away from God's word?
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            Deuteronomy 4:2English Standard Version
            You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you.
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            1. Good evening all!! Leviticus and Numbers were a challenge, for sure. God's patience and his attention to detail are evident throughout. Does make me ponder the way He desires to be involved in every aspect of our life, for our good!!

              1. I can see why they call "numbers" numbers! It seems like one of the major purposes of Leviticus is to show the Holiness of God.

            2. Reading all the different rules regarding food and animals in Leviticus. I admit that I do not understand it all but some prohibitions are to keep them from copying the ways of the culture around them, and these cultures practices, sacrificing to false god's etc. Some seem to be health related and are at least in part to protect the Israelite people, or so it seems to me. Any thoughts?

              1. Is God opposed to inter-racial marriage?
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                Exodus 34:16The Lexham English Bible
                and you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods, and they cause your sons to prostitute themselves after their gods.
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                1. The Jealous God
                  Is it a good thing that God is jealous?
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                  Exodus 34:14The Lexham English Bible
                  For you will not bow in worship to another god, for ‘Yahweh Is Jealous’ is his name, he is a jealous God,
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