SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/31/2017
7:46 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: “Reminders”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Deuteronomy
8:1-20
Message of the
verses: Today’s Spiritual Diary will
be a bit different because of the ending of the year 2017 and the soon
beginning of the year 2018.
I look forward to having our senior’s pastor give the
message that he has given on a number of occasions about the coming New
Year. He has done it on a number of
occasions and did one this morning. I
guess that I could describe Pastor Greg Golden’s message as always being
practical and they are always orderly as he is an orderly man. In our business meetings that we have each
year at our church Pastor Golden will tells us how many times he cuts his grass
each year; this is how orderly that he is.
He leads a senior bus trip each month and a few weeks back he had
outlined each trip that the seniors can go on and how much they would cost for
the year 2018. Ok enough of his
background on our wonderful senior’s pastor.
What I wish to do is give you the outline of the sermon that he gave
this morning and then 13 pieces of advice that he gave for all who listened to
him concerning the year 2018. We will
first look at 11 reminders from the first 11 verses of Deuteronomy and then in
verses 11-20 we will look at six warnings, and then his advice for 2018.
Reminders
1.
1 "Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe,
that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the
LORD swore to your fathers (Deu. 8:1).
(God’s Word.)
2.
2 "And you shall remember that the LORD
your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you
and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His
commandments or not.” (God’s
wilderness.) There are times that God will
take us out into His wilderness like He took the children of Israel out in the
wilderness for forty years.
3.
3 "So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger,
and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that
He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by
every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.” (God’s Watch care.” Just as God gave the children
of Israel manna to eat in their time of need He will give us what we need in
our lives.
4.
4 “Your
garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.” (God’s wardrobe or garments.) God cared for the children of Israel in the
wilderness as their clothes did not ware out.
5.
5 “You should
know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God
chastens you.” (God’s Wounds.) An example of God wounding us can be found in
Hebrews chapter twelve.
6.
6 “Therefore
you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.” (God’s Worthiness.)
7.
7 "For the LORD your God is bringing you
into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that
flow out of valleys and hills;” (God’s Waters both Spiritual [The Holy Spirit]
and physical water to drink).
8.
8 "a land of wheat and barley, of vines
and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;” (God’s
provisions (wheat). God provides for our
needs.
9.
9 "a land in which you will eat bread
without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron
and out of whose hills you can dig copper.”
(God’s Wealth)
10. 10 "When you have eaten and are full, then you
shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.” (God’s Warehouse)
11 “God’s
Warnings”
1.
11 “Beware that
you do not forget the LORD
your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His
statutes which I command you today, (Danger of waywardness).”
2.
12 "lest—when you have eaten and are full,
and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; 13 "and when your herds and your flocks
multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have
is multiplied; (Danger of Wealth).” “7 Two
things I asked of You, Do not refuse me before I die: 8 Keep deception and lies
far from me, Give me
neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion,
9 That I not be full and deny You and say, "Who is the
LORD?" Or that I not be in want and steal, And profane the name of
my God (Proverbs 30:7-9).”
3.
14 There is a
kind of man whose teeth are like swords And his jaw teeth like knives, To
devour the afflicted from the earth And the needy from among men. (Warnings of
Wickedness).”
4.
15 "who led you through that great and
terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty
land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty
rock; 16 "who fed you in the
wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble
you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end— 17 "then you say in your heart, ‘My power
and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’ 18 "And you shall remember the LORD your God,
for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His
covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day (Warnings of
Worldliness).”
5.
19 "Then it shall be, if you by any means
forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship
them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish (Warnings
about Wavering).”
6.
20 “As the
nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you
would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God (Warnings about Wrong
Doing).” Do right, don’t do wrong!
2018
Advice
1.
Finish Strong.
2.
Be Faithful.
3.
Help Others.
4.
Exhibit love.
5.
Share Christ.
6.
Pray More.
7.
Enjoy Life.
8.
Read Scripture.
9.
“Do”
Church. (Don’t just go but be active.)
10. Express Gratitude.
11. Patiently Wait.
12. Think Biblically.
13. Cheerfully serve.
14. This last one is very important: Get Saved, that is unless you are already
saved, but if you are not then “GET SAVED.”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “Jephithah’s daughter” (Judges 11:34).
Today’s Bible question: “Which book tells of the wise men coming to
see the baby Jesus?”
Answer in our next SD.
12/31/2017 8:34 PM
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