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Remember the Lord
Corrected by God’s loving hand
!!! /26-02-06/
!!! Announcements
!!! God’s Word in our midst
!!!
Call to worship
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
(Psalm 46:1,7)
!!! Blessing
In the Name of the Triune God, Father, son and Holy Spirit we are gathered: Grace to you from God or Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
!!! Doxology Hymn No 148: /“You servants of God” (verses 1 and 4 with “AMEN”/
!!! Prayer of Confession of sin
!!! Forgiveness
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
(1 John 3:16-18)
!!! Hymn No 310: /“Brother let me be your servant”/
!!! Prayer of Adoration, Invocation and Thanksgiving Lord’s Prayer
!!! Scripture Reading /1Peter 1:3-12/
!!! Tithes, offering and dedication
!!! Hymn No 409: /“Rock of ages, cleft for me”/
!!! Prayer for others
I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
(1 Timothy 2:1-2)
!!! Hymn No 279: /“How sure the Scriptures are”/
!!! Scripture Reading /Deuteronomy 8:1-4/
!!! Sermon /Corrected by God’s loving hand/
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, Jesus Christ,
Charles Kropp, a man who loved life in his modest way and remarried at the age of 81 with bright hopes for the future, would have become a millionaire but he died before getting the money.
A man of steady habits, Kropp liked to dream of the chance to make it big.
He was a regular purchaser of Connecticut lottery tickets as well, buying a couple of dollars’ worth each week.
Nine days before he was married to Rose Paquette, 68, a widow, he picked up a $25 season ticket to the Massachusetts lottery.
It assured him of a once-a-week chance at the million dollar top prize in the state’s big money game.
One Wednesday night his number came up for the first prize.
But he had died 3 minutes before.
The cash went to his estate and the courts had to determine who among his survivors will receive the annual $50,000 checks for the next 20 years.
I tell you this story because Mr Kropp died with nothing in his pocket.
He had hoped to become rich, but what he built his hope upon was wind, and never realised.
His life was empty.
Deuteronomy 8:1 talks about an inheritance quite different from that of Mr Kropp’s.
This inheritance is sure; God issued the promise.
It reads like this:
; Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers.
(Deuteronomy 8:1)
; God promised a land of sure inheritance; He made an oath with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
His promise stands firm.
It is not something that will be snapped away five minutes before you die.
It is not something the church, as the body of Christ, will never see come true.
God said it, it is sealed in the blood of Christ, and it is based on the righteousness of our Saviour.
The Promised Land is God’s free gift of grace.
; It is not meant to be understood as if this gift is given to individual members of the church only; this promise is given to the church as a body.
We don’t work for it and we don’t earn it as payment on good deeds.
It stands as a promise of God based on his ; Covenant of Grace.
Let’s read the statement again: /Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers/.
You may ask, does this not sound like a covenant of works?
If you this and that /then/ you will enter the land!
No!
The people of Israel had already been saved when they heard these words.
They had already been rescued our of Egypt; they had already been through the wilderness, they had already tasted the victory over Sihon and Og; they had already been given some territory as an inheritance!
All of this was theirs because of God’s grace.
What follows now is covenant language.
Grace is free, but grace is not cheap.
God saved his people ; to be holy and to worship Him alone.
Their worship of their Saviour had to be according to his own stipulations.
They lived in a relationship (or covenant) with God, and this relationship had demands on the way in which they lived.
It is wrong to assume that saved Christians don’t need to live holy lives.
It is wrong to assume that Christians are saved by grace and therefore don’t need good works.
It is wrong to assume that grace excludes total commitment and complete obedience.
; Four words in verse 1 are important.
The inheritance is sure: that you may /live/, /increase, enter/ and /possess/.
It speaks about the success of the church within the Covenant of Grace.
Moses reminded the people of their covenant obligations.
In order for them to be victorious and successful in occupying the Promised Land, they had to be obedient to God by following the stipulations.
;To /live/ expresses the fullness of life in relationship with God as Covenant Head.
It means to live from his hand and to expect everything from Him who gives freely to those depending on Him in obedience.
/;//Increase/: it was as promise of God from the beginning as part of his covenant blessing to increase his people, increase their land, increase their crops and increase their success in subduing their enemies.
It was necessary for them to increase in order to fill the earth, fill the Promised Land in order for the glory of God to be known in and through their lives.
And as God’s people would increase into all parts of the world because of his blessing, so the glory of his Name would increase into the darkest corner of the world.
/;//Enter/: This word in Hebrew within the context of this verse describes the culmination of events, or the reaching of a destination.
The original is “to come into”; to reach the end of a journey – it may then have the meaning of to experience the satisfaction of fulfillment.
/;//Possess/: In Israel’s history this word takes on its double force, to inherit and to dispossess.
Israel was declared the people of God in Egypt.
They left Egypt, agreed to the covenant at Sinai and then proceeded to take the Promised Land as their possession.
However, forty years passed between Sinai and the first successful attempt at conquest.
; Why did they have to wander in the wilderness for forty years?
Because of covenant disobedience!
When we meet Moses in Deut 8 addressing the people he reminded them of their inheritance, but also of their disobedience.
He then went on to instruct them on the value of God’s discipline.
; Why does God discipline his elect?
Four reasons are given here.
Chastening, correcting, instructing, providing.
; First thing to remember: God led you all the way.
He did not let go.
He did not abandon.
His covenant faithfulness compelled Him to discipline.
God is present in discipline.
“As a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.”
A loving father does not turn his back on a child when he disciplines him.
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