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I'd see each one of you here
this morning. We're going to be looking in Deuteronomy chapter
7. Deuteronomy chapter 7. The other day, I'm not sure when
it was, one of the services, Jeremy sang us, let us in a song,
Open My Eyes. And I got to. That's a neat song. And A lot of times if we read
a song, we sing a song and forget what we've sang. We've got a lot of real good
songs that have a lot of meaning to them. And the first verse
of Open My Eyes is open my eyes that I might see glimpses of truth thou hast for
me. place in my hand the wonderful
key that shall unclasp and set me free." You think about that. That's when I pray. When I read my daily Bible reading,
I want my eyes to be open to what I'm reading. I want to see
those wonderful glimpses. Because I look at who I am, I'm
unworthy to even be doing a Sunday school lesson. Because I feel
like how many times I'll make a mistake and mess up, I can't
read very well, especially the names that they put in here.
But the things that God has showed me has just been unreal. And
the closer I get to Him, the more I'm glad I get closer. I like being close to God. Especially when you look around
in the world at what they're hunting for and God is giving
me, you know, he's unclasped. He saved me, allowed me. He's
freed me. The world has got this sin and
that's all I want to do is sin. But I want God to open my eyes
and to see things in his word. And I looked up on program eyes
in the Bible. I come across this one was one
of them, Deuteronomy chapter seven. I'm gonna read verse 16. And then we'll go back and start
at the beginning of the chapter. And verse 16, thou shalt consume
all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee, thine
eyes shall not have no pity upon them, neither shalt thou serve
their gods, for there will be a snare unto you. And also go
down and read verse 19. the great temptation which thine
eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonderings, and the mighty
hand, and the strength, and the stretched out hand, whereby the
Lord thy God brought thee out, so shall the Lord thy God do
unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. I take these two
verses, and I'm gonna go back to verse one, Moses is writing this to them as an encouragement. And as, because they're fixing,
Moses has got, when he finishes writing and preaching, telling
them about Deuteronomy, he dies. The Lord takes him out. Then
they, Joshua and the children of Israel, go into the land of
Canaan. And here he, as you read through
here, He's encouraging them. And when I say eyes, you know,
he's trying to open their eyes to see what the future is. But
here in verse one, And when the Lord thy God shall bring thee
unto the land where thou goest to possess it, and hath cast
out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
and the Perzites, the Hevites, the Jebusites, seven nations
greater and mightier than thou. And when the Lord thy God shall
deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly
destroy them. Thou shalt not make covenants
with them, nor show mercy unto them, neither shall thou make
marriage with them. Thy daughters thou shalt not
give unto their sons, nor their daughters shalt thou take unto
thy sons. For they will turn away thy sons
from following thee, and they may serve other gods, so will
the anger of the Lord be kindled against you and destroy you suddenly. But thou shalt ye deal with them,
ye shall destroy their altars, break down their images, cut
down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire." We're
gonna stop right there. But I think the neat thing that
Moses writes here in verse one, he says, when the Lord God shall
bring thee, the God's bringing them into the land of Canaan, and where thou shalt go to possess
it, and hath cast out, hath cast, that's past tense. They haven't
done it yet, this is past tense. Many nations before thee, the
Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the
Pergites, the Hevites, the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier
than thee. He's telling them, future things
is gonna happen. You're gonna go out and you're
gonna take at least seven nations that are bigger and mightier
than you and we're gonna destroy them. You're gonna take them
out. And that's what Moses is trying to show them, hey, you're
going to take over them. God's going to deliver them into
your hand. Yeah, because verse 2, and when
the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee. Thou shalt
smite them and utterly destroy them. He's telling them, this
is what you're going to do. This was why in verse 16, he
said, don't don't look in their eyes. Don't take pity on them
because they have they're not following me. They're wicked. And they need to be destroyed.
And. He also, you know, he says, don't
don't marry him. don't keep a covenant, don't
have mercy on them, you destroy them. And then you go to verse 6. For
thou art a holy people unto the Lord God. The Lord thy God hath
chosen thee a special people unto himself above all people
that are upon the face of the earth. And the Lord did not set his
love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more than number
than any people, for ye were the fewest of all people. But because the Lord loved you,
because he would keep an oath which he had sworn unto our fathers,
hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed
you out of the house of Bondman from the hand of Pharaoh, king
of Egypt." God chose, Moses is trying to open their eyes to
see that you're a chosen people. When you say that you are the
fewest, when God called Abraham, it was Abraham and Sarah. There was two people. You can't
get much smaller than that. And how big were they now when
they were leaving and going in? They were a lot of people. I
forget how many people that God called out of Egypt. And when they went out of Egypt,
Egypt was desolate. You figure all those plagues that were there, they
lost all their firstborn when they left that night. I mean,
they had nothing. They had nothing, I mean, some
of the hail come and tore up the green and then they had the
locusts that come in and ate everything that was green. And
what was wild was, all those frogs that came, Pharaoh
wanted one more night with the frogs. But yet, it doesn't say
anything that Israel didn't have a problem with frogs. Their,
their, their, all their livestock was protected. God didn't put
the, the plagues on them. But, and when they left Egypt,
what'd they take? They took everything else that
God didn't destroy. They went and said, hey, can
I borrow? And they let them borrow everything
they had. They wanted them away. They wanted them gone. And this
is what Moses is trying to tell them. See what God has done? And you go down to verse nine. Now therefore, that the Lord
thy God is, he is God, the God, the faithful God which keepeth
covenants and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments
to a thousand generations, and repayeth them that hate him
to their face, and destroy them, he will not be slack to him that
hateth him, and he will repay him to his face." God says, you keep my commandments.
and I'll bless your families for a thousand generations. That's
a long time. That's a very long time. But
the ones that hate me, I'll take care of them myself to their
face. And I know in the New Testament,
Jesus tells his disciples, they don't hate you. They hate me. That's why they do what they
do to you, trying to get to me. That's what Satan was trying
to do in the very beginning to get to man, to destroy man, to
get to God. That didn't work. But that's
encouragement for us because no matter We need to be the witnesses
we need to be, and I'm not a very good one, that if we're witnessing
and they, whatever they do to us, they're not doing it directly
to us. We get the physical, but they're
actually mad at God. They don't want God. And that's
like my devotion. He created everything. I mean,
I don't know. I'm glad he opened my eyes to
him. Because if he hadn't opened my
eyes, I don't know where I would have been. I really don't. I
doubt if I would have made it to this age and this time. We'll go on to verse 12. Wherefore, it shall come to pass,
if ye hearken to these judgments and keep and to do them, that
the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy
which he swore unto thy fathers, and he will love thee and bless
thee and multiply thee And he will bless the fruit of
thy womb and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, thy wine, thine
oil, the increase of thy kin, the flocks of thy sheep in the
land which he swore unto his father to give thee. Thou shalt bless above all people. There shall not be male or female
barren among you and among thy cattle. And the Lord shall take
away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil
diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay upon
all them that hate thee." You see, I think it's neat when
he said, I'll bless you. There will not be one family
that doesn't have kids. All males, females, everybody,
you guys will be blessed. Lord will open your wombs and
give you children. All your cattle will be prosperous you
remember how Joseph forget now Israel was Israel was with his
father-in-law and he was keeping his cattle and his cattle was
doing better than his father-in-law's cattle God blessed him just like
Joseph whenever he was taking care of Pilate first house because
he was following what God said. You think of Daniel, Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, they followed God where they were, and the
Lord blessed them. And I tell you what, you go through
and you read all the sacrifices, the daily sacrifices, the holy
day sacrifices, that's a lot of sacrificing. And they were
all, a lot of them, The lamb that was supposed to be slain,
sacrificed a lot of times, was a lamb that was the firstborn. And you figure how many firstborns
they had to have. That's lots and lots of sheep,
plus all the cattle. I mean, it was unreal. If you
really get in and dig that out, there's a lot there. But go on,
see where I'm at. Verse 15, and I think it's kind of neat here
in verse 15, He'll take away all the sickness. I was thinking
as I read that, here I'm coughing and sneezing, thinking about
Pat's in the hospital. God's going to take away, He
took away sickness. You follow His commandments, God will heal
you. He'll take care of you. I just think it's neat the way
everything God was going to bless them in taking care of everything. Then verse 16, And thou shalt
consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver
thee. Thine eyes shall have no pity
upon them, neither shall thou serve their gods. for that will
be a snare unto you. When I read that the first, that's
the snare that's going to be taken. If you don't, if you have
pity on them, they're gods and that's what happened to Israel.
They got to follow in those other gods. And I think it's, I look
at that and I go, I don't understand why, but it's simple because
we have this old sinful body and we'll follow the easiest
path. Apollo and God is not something that's easy, unfortunately. We're
going down to verse 17. If thou shalt say in thine heart,
these nations are more than I, how can I dispose them? Thou shalt not be afraid of them.
but shall well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh
and unto all Egypt, the great temptations which thine eyes
saw, and the signs and wonderings, and the mighty hand and the stretched
out arms whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out, so shall
the Lord thy God do to all the people of whom thou art afraid."
Here Moses is telling them, you're looking at the nation of Israel,
and you're like, how can I do what, or you're looking at Canaan
and all these mighty nations, how can we do this?
God says, I'll take care of it. Don't you remember how you come
out of Egypt? I'll take care of them too. I
took care of them, I'll take care of you. And I think it's
neat, you look at how the first thing they did, they went into
Jericho and the walls fell flat. They didn't fall down, they fell
flat and they went straight in and they destroyed that whole
nation. I think it's neat, this is why
Moses is telling them, look. I didn't get it quite as far
as I thought I'd get. But he said, look. Look at what I've
done. Look what God has done. And that's
what we need to do. What has God done for us and
where we are today? He's opened our eyes, not only
to salvation. He's blessed us to open our eyes
to see what his word has. And we have it right here. You
want to be blessed in your family? Follow His commandments. I tell
you what, if we follow His commandments, even though our kids may not
be where they're supposed to be, God's blessing them because
of us. And I think about all the stuff
I did way back there that bothers me and I know they're paying
for. I sure hope they'll see this. Because this world is coming
to an end really quick. You can just look around, you
can see all of it. But hopefully this will be encouragement
to pray, to open your eyes, let the Lord open your eyes, just
like that song says. And hopefully, my plans are to
go a little bit further into it, but it may be bigger than
I thought. But we'll be dismissed with a
word of prayer. Dear Renewed Father, thank you
for this day. Thank you for the many blessings you've given us.
Thank you for allowing us to get to church safe, and Lord,
just bless others that are traveling, and Lord, just bless this Word,
and Lord, open our eyes that we might see what you have for
us. Help us to be encouraged in you,
to follow you. Lord, just open the eyes of the
lost. Lord, just lay your hand upon
the many lost in our families, Lord, just bless them with salvation
and bless us that we'll be the witness we need to be to them.
Lord, just bless the rest of the services and forgive us of
our many sins and our shortcomings. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Open My Eyes
Deuteronomy 7
| Sermon ID | 121241820475048 |
| Duration | 22:02 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday School |
| Bible Text | Deuteronomy 17:16 |
| Language | English |
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