Today, I am reading and commenting on Deuteronomy 11-13 (ESV).

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Today’s passage is directed at those who have seen God’s great works, those who have seen the power of God.  Moses tells us to do whatever it takes to keep God’s instructions to us in front of our minds.  If that means writing them on our hands or on our forehead, we should do it.  We should think about and talk about what He commands all of the time, whether we are at home sitting down, or walking somewhere, when we go to bed at night and when we get up in the morning.  We should put reminders of God’s words everywhere.  We should make it obvious to all that we are striving to be faithful to God, not so that they think us righteous, but so that we are embarrassed when we disobey Him.  Those who have seen God’s power and heard His words, have a choice between a blessing and a curse.  If they follow God’s commands, they will be blessed.  If they turn away from what God commands and serve another god, they will be cursed.  By the way, anything which you allow to become the center of your life aside from God, is another god.

At the end of today’s passage we come to something which reminds me of what Paul wrote in his letter to the Galatians.  Paul said that anyone who preaches a message contrary to what we have already received should be accursed, even of that someone were himself, or an angel from heaven.    Here Moses tells us that if anyone, whether it be a prophet or some other visionary, even if it is our brother, son, daughter, or wife, calls us to worship another god, we are to consider them dead to us.  Those of us who have seen God demonstrate His power, must not allow anyone to lead us to another god, no matter what signs and wonders they perform.  This is why we must not listen to Muslims, or Latter Day Saints, or Jehovah Witnesses, or anyone else who follow someone who claims that they have a message which supersedes the Scripture which we have already received.  This even applies to those who want to separate the New Testament from the Old Testament.  Anyone who teaches us to follow a god other than the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.