9/4/18 Deuteronomy 11, Deuteronomy 12 Luke 12:35-59 Psalm 43:1-5

Deut 11:22-24

For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him,

then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.

Ok, I don’t want to appropriate a promise given to Israel for myself. BUT when you walk in His ways, when you walk in His truth – the size of the situation does not matter. The whole nation could turn against us. Doesn’t matter.

He is bigger.

When we take the gospel with us, He will dispossess nations bigger than us. He will remove obstacles. The kingdom of darkness may be bigger than us, but it’s not bigger than The Lord.

Where our feet tread, that is territory marked out for God. Claim it for Him.

Luke 12:45-46

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.

What an interesting passage. Jesus is taking it to the extreme, but He’s telling us that when we take our eyes of His return we will find ourselves living for today instead of the future. When we take our eyes off him, even the way we treat others is effected.

Be careful how you treat people. Don’t deal with our Christian family like they are less than you. Don’t pull people down. Because the master is retuning. And we will have to give an account.