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\nExodus 34:11-16.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cObserve what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.\u00a0Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.\u00a0You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim\u00a0(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),\u00a0lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,\u00a0and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Deuteronomy 28:1<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u201cAnd if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Matthew 28:20<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>John 14:21<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
We cannot expect the benefit of the promises unless we make conscience of the precepts. (Benson)<\/p>\n
To recall the duties of the covenant once more to the minds of the people, the Lord repeats from among the rights of Israel, upon the basis of which the covenant had been established (ch. 21-23), two of the leading points which determined the attitude of the nation towards Him, and which constituted, as it were, the main pillars that were to support the covenant about to be renewed. These were, first, the warning against every kind of league with the Canaanites, who were to be driven out before the Israelites (Exodus 34:11-16<\/span><\/a>); and, secondly, the instructions concerning the true worship of Jehovah (Exodus 34:17-26<\/span><\/a>). The warning against friendship with the idolatrous Canaanites (Exodus 34:11-16<\/span><\/a>) is more fully developed and more strongly enforced than in\u00a0Exodus 23:23<\/span><\/a>. The Israelites, when received into the covenant with Jehovah, were not only to beware of forming any covenant with the inhabitants of Canaan (cf.\u00a0Exodus 23:32-33<\/span><\/a>), but were to destroy all the signs of their idolatrous worship. (Keil)<\/p>\n
\u00a0As previously stated in\u00a0Exodus 23:24<\/span><\/a>, showing that the culture of the Canaanites was so corrupt that it was beyond redemption. God did not want Israel to assume any of the sinful practices found in the culture of the Canaanites. (Guzik)<\/p>\n
\u201cObserve what I command you\u201d, \u201cBehold, I will\u201d, \u201cTake care\u201d, \u201clest it becomes a snare\u201d, \u201cYou shall tear down\u201d, \u201clest you \u201c, \u201cyou are invited, you eat, you take, make your sons whore after their gods\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>God is clear. Observe His commands, watch what He will do, and be very careful to not forget these commands, for the temptations of the land they are about to go into will be great if their eyes are not on God with a desire to honor and glorify His commands.<\/p>\n
Scripture tells us that the Word of God is limitless in wisdom and understanding. It has depth, height, and width within it so great that a lifetime of reading and studying it will continue to feed a hungering soul and searching mind. Word upon word, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little there a little, God\u2019s Word will give direction, correction, conviction, warning, blessing, hope, faith, joy, peace, refuge, and light and food to the soul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Neglect and complacency with His Word will have an adverse effect on the lives of those so inclined to do so. Likewise, His Word will have a beneficial effect on the lives of those so inclined to daily dig, study, and cherish His Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Exodus 34:11-16.\u00a0 \u201cObserve what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.\u00a0Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.\u00a0You shall … Continue reading “45.f. “Wilderness” – 9.l. \u201cObserve what I command you this day””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10788,4651,13478,16934,3205,2985,97,4808,8143,448,76,8144,16061,16062,16936,8288,16063,5722,16931,5712,8291,16935,4449,16014,113,2329,3914,1615,16937,16933,16932,18],"class_list":["post-169140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-amorites","tag-behold","tag-canaanites","tag-carreful","tag-command","tag-commandments","tag-covenant","tag-cut-down","tag-faithfully-obey","tag-father","tag-god","tag-high-above","tag-hittites","tag-hivites","tag-i-am-with-you-aloways","tag-jealous-god","tag-jebusites","tag-keeps-them","tag-lest-you","tag-loves-me","tag-manifest-myself-to-him","tag-nations-of-the-earth","tag-observe","tag-perizzites","tag-snare","tag-take-care","tag-teaching-them","tag-tear-down","tag-to-the-end-of-the-age","tag-voice-of-the-lord-your-god","tag-whore-after-their-gods","tag-worship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169650,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169140\/revisions\/169650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}