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Tweeting Through Deuteronomy

 

Introduction: Deuteronomy is the summation of God’s Law to His chosen People.

 

Deuteronomy 1:2-3  It was an eleven day journey from Sinai to God’s Promised Land, but it took Israel, because of their disbelief and disobedience, forty years to make the trip.

 

Many professed Christians today, because of their disbelief and disobedience, have never caught sight of Canaan—all that God has promised them in Christ—but have wandered around their whole lives in the wilderness of this world.

 

Deuteronomy 5:7 — We are to live for nothing besides God nor to love anything or anyone before God, lest we have another god apart from God. 

 

“If loving God with all of our heart, soul, and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.” (R. A. Torrey)

 

Deuteronomy 5:8-10 — Anything that comes first before God or that is feared besides God is an idol.

 

To deify anything man-made is idolatry and to depict the sacred with man-made things is to profane the sacred and to commit sacrilege.

 

Deuteronomy 5:8-10 — Parents’ idolatry to false gods over their enmity toward the true God can cost their posterity the mercy of God, not because of the imputation of the parents’ sin to the children, but because of the children’s emulation of their sinful parents.    .

 

Parents’ idolatry is perilous to their posterity! 

 

Deuteronomy 5:11 — God’s excellent name should be handled with extreme care. (Psalm 8:9)

 

All who are irreverent toward God will be required to answer to God.

 

Deuteronomy 5:12-15 — The Fourth Commandment is broken today by all who fail to believe in Christ, who is the substance of what the Sabbath was but a shadow. (Colossians 2:16-17; Hebrews 4:1-13)

 

For Christians, who are at rest in Christ, who have stopped trying to save themselves through their own labors and started trusting their Lord to save them through His finished work, everyday is a Sabbath day. 

 

Deuteronomy 5:16 — It’s as important for parents to be honorable, as it is for their children to honor them. After all, no child can honor an abusive or neglectful parent.

 

No society can long endure if its parents are dishonored by their children.

 

Deuteronomy 5:17 — The Sixth Commandment prohibits murder, not war—the defense of one's country—police action—the protection of orderly society—capital punishment—the protection of innocent lives—or self-defense—the protection of one's person and property.

 

The Sixth Commandment is neither a prooftext for pacifism nor vegetarianism.

 

Deuteronomy 5:18 — Although infidelity is not unforgivable, it is unalterable, for the consequence of violating one’s marriage vow is the lifelong stigma that all of one’s other vows must be taken with a grain of salt. 

 

A person who is usually faithful to their spouse is utterly unfaithful, as is a person who is usually faithful to their country or to Christ. The first is an adulterer, the second a traitor, and the third a hypocrite.

 

Deuteronomy 5:19 — The Eighth Commandment—Thou shalt not steal—confirms the property rights of capitalism, by prohibiting thieves from stealing and the state from taking one’s personal property.

 

“Property must be secured or liberty cannot exists.” (John Adams)

 

Deuteronomy 5:20 — False witnesses are character assassins, whose sin is both abhorrent and abominable to God. (Proverbs 6:16-19)

 

The greatest threat to law and order is lack of confidence in the law, and the greatest way to undermine public confidence in the law is for the courts to allow rather than hold accountable false witnesses and to circumvent rather than champion truth and justice.

 

Deuteronomy 5:21 — A covetous person is an idolater, since what they covet is to them an idol, an obsession that’s possession takes precedence over obedience to God. (Ephesians 5:5)

 

Covetousness impoverishes our soul by robbing us of the great gain of godly contentment and swathing us in the human rags of insatiable desires. (1 Timothy 6:6)

 

Deuteronomy 5:22-27 — Many of God’s people today, like in Moses’ day, want secondhand religion. They don’t want God‘s Word firsthand, but secondhand. They don’t want God speaking personally and directly to them, but only impersonally and indirectly to them through others. 

 

The popularity of secondhand religion and the paucity of those who speak with God face to face, as Moses did, explains the scarcity of shining faces in our world today. (Exodus 34:29-35; Deuteronomy 34:10)

 

Deuteronomy 14:2 — The only peculiar thing about God's peculiar people today is that they are no longer peculiar. Indistinguishable from others, they no longer stand out, but fit right in.

 

The contemporary church, which has been fooled into believing that the best way to win the world is to be like the world, has forgotten that the church was never more successful in winning the world than when it was most distinguishable from the world and discriminated against within it.

 

Deuteronomy 17:2-7 — An accusation is no condemnation without verification that withstands refutation.

 

An accusation is no more a guilty verdict than an indictment is a conviction.

 

Deuteronomy 19:15A case of one person’s word against another’s is not triable, since it has insufficient evidence for either conviction or acquittal.

 

Hearsay is neither proper grounds for character assignation nor criminal prosecution.

 

Deuteronomy 19:16-21Only when false accusers are judged as pitilessly as they want the falsely accused judged, will a society purge itself of its libelous perjurers.

 

Character assassinations can be carried out with impunity as long as false accusers are given immunity from all accountability.

 

Deuteronomy 20:1-4No army accompanied by God needs to be anxious about an adversary’s apparent overcoming odds against it, since the accompanying presence of the Almighty provides it with the obvious winning advantage. 

 

When God is fighting alongside us, we need not fear any formidable foe nor be frightened on any foreboding battle field.

 

Deuteronomy 23:9  Until evil is vanquished from our lives, we need not expect victory over our enemies.

 

The army of God cannot conquer all of its enemies as long as there is any evil in its camp. 

 

Deuteronomy 28:1-68Whereas the blessings God promises to bestow upon a faithful nation are a perfect picture of yesterday’s America (vs. 1-14), the curses God promises to bring upon a God-forsaking nation are a perfect picture of today's America (vs. 15-68)

 

Whereas it’s nugatory for us to sing God Bless America in today’s America, a country under the curse of God for having forsaken God, what we need to do is pray for America to return to God, before it is razed by God!

 

Deuteronomy 28:22 — God promised to curse the nation that forgets and forsakes Him with disease and disaster. Is it not possible, therefore, that the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying disasters were more than anything else a divine curse on a Christ-rejecting America?

 

To dispute God’s sovereignty over calamity is to deny not only His divinity, but also His ability to work all things out for the good of His people and the glory of His name.

 

Deuteronomy 29:29 — God has not revealed to us all we want to know, but all we need to know.

 

The plain things are the main things, but the mysteries are the Almighty’s.

 

Deuteronomy 31:16-22 — This Song of Moses had sinful Israel singing the blues. Unfortunately, our country is its current-day crooner.

 

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.” (Abraham Lincoln) 

 

Deuteronomy 32:23 — The Hebrew word translated “mischiefs,” which Moses predicted God would heap upon a rebellious nation, means to “break down all that is good.” Are we witnessing all that was good in a God-fearing America being broken down today in a God-forsaking America?

 

“America is great, because America is good, but if she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.” (Anonymous)

 

Deuteronomy 32:29It is a wise man who prepares for death, but a fool who shuts his eyes to its inevitability.

 

As one gets older, life is stripped of its polished veneer and one is left staring at its harsh realities. Many believe this, us being deprived in our old age of our youthful fantasies and forced to face life’s factual actualities, is bad, even detrimental to our emotional health. However, I’d rather confront the disconcerting facts of life in this fallen world than slip out of it snookered by figments of my imagination, surprised by my own mortality, and unprepared for all eternity.

 

Deuteronomy 32:30A thousand will flee in fright from one and ten thousand from two in a sinful nation that has been both shut up and sold out by God.

 

Do we find here an explanation for how our whole nation, the world’s only remaining superpower, was inexplicably terrorized on 9/11 by nineteen young box cutter armed Islamic terrorists?

 

Deuteronomy 32:46-47 — The Word of God is not optional, but essential to our personal and national survival. It is not just crucial to us personally, but to our children and our country as well.

 

“The strength of our country is the strength of its religious convictions. The foundation of our society and government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.” (Calvin Coolidge)

 

Deuteronomy 33:3 — We are in God’s heart—loved by Him. We are in God’s hand—looked after by Him. We are at God’s feet—learning from Him.

 

God’s hand, the span of which is sufficient to measure the universe, is surely sizeable enough and strong enough to hold all His saints securely for all eternity! (Isaiah 40:12; John 10:28)

 

Deuteronomy 33:24  All of God’s children should dip their foot in the oil of the Holy Spirit, so that they can walk in the Spirit and leave an impression wherever they go.

 

When Christians look over their shoulders with 20/20 hindsight they should see Spirit-filled footsteps wherever they’ve walked.    

 

Deuteronomy 33:25 — God promises us iron shoes to tread on our daily problems and sufficient strength to triumphant over them.

 

In every condition, in sickness and health,
In poverty's vale or abounding in wealth,
At home, or abroad, on the land or the sea,
As thy days may demand shall thy strength ever be.

 

Deuteronomy 34:1-8 — The location of Moses' grave is unknown. If not, it would have become a shrine, where the Hebrews would have committed idolatry to an interred and idolized Moses. This explains the battle over Moses' body between the archangel Michael and the devil. (Jude 1:9)

 

The problem with America is we have been “Vannatized.” Americans idolize celebrities like television’s Vanna White,  who is universally adored for nothing more than turning blocks around with letters on them. (Ted Koppel)

 

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