Deuteronomy 8: Be Careful to Remember Your God

I started to film a series of videos last year for my prayer group, but did not get around to publishing them. This first video is what I called Episode 1 and it’s from September 21, 2023.

I hope that it leads you into thanksgiving and into His grace.

Pertinent Scriptures:

• Romans 8:24 (KJV)

  • For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

• Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV)

  • For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

• Hebrews 11:1 (NIV84)

  • Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

• John 14:18

  • I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

• Romans 7:23-24 (ESV)

  • … I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

• 1 John 2:15-17 (KJV)

  • Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

• Isaiah 9:6 (KJV)

  • For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:

    and the government shall be upon his shoulder:

    and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God,

    The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

• Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV2011)

  • The LORD appeared to us … saying:

    “I have loved you with an everlasting [undying] love;

    I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

• Galatians 2:20 (NIV)

  • … the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

• Deuteronomy 8 (ESV)

  • “The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you. So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 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. And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.

    “Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

• James 5:1-5 (NIV2011)

  • Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.

• 1 Timothy 4:4-5 (ESV)

  • For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

• Mark 10:15 (NIV84)

  • “I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

• Philippians 4:13 (ESV)

  • I can do all things through him who strengthens me.