"Human beings have natural uncleanness which is considered normal by us today because we are used to it. We don’t normally measure ourselves against God’s holiness, His perfection. If we did this, we would quickly realize that we are altogether unholy. When Jesus Christ came to earth – fully God ...

"Our greatest challenge is to learn how to live for God in the time we exist. We are far removed from the times, places, and cultures of the Bible, our duty is to understand the meaning of the Scriptures and apply those meanings to our own culture. This flies in contrast to our age of doing what ...

"The LORD outlined holy days in His law for Israel. Israel needed to arrange their yearly and weekly calendar around remembering God. Leviticus 23 explains that observation of these laws was a part of recognizing the cost of sin. Sin has always been devastating to mankind, we are the ones who sin...

"Lifestyle changes are difficult. On the one hand, it is almost inconceivable that we would want to stay the same after being redeemed by Christ. On the other hand, it is hard to change, and living for God requires us to break sin that has become habitual; it is challenging. The Holy Spirit is th...

"With the giving of the law, God gave Israel the opportunity to change their culture forever. Lasting change is difficult, as we all know, and yet God called on Israel to reestablish themselves according to His plan. The reason for the change was simple, God had rescued Israel. As the one true Go...

"The way ancient Israel notified itself for announcements and events was not through
media, messages published on paper, broadcasts on television, internet or radio, but
through sounds, specifically the blowing of trumpets. As Israel was being organized
into a new nation, God told Moses to set up...

"What is your vision for your life? What is the vision of this business? Of that ministry? But what is God’s vision? What is it that He has for His people? In our reading today, God was finally going to honor His promise to Abraham and enable Abraham’s descendants to take the Promised Land. Spies...

"In the world today, we live among those who are willfully confronting and condemning God. They make all kinds of claims that He is not a God at all, or that He is immoral or false. The truth that the Bible speaks is that this has all happened before, among God's people Israel. Numbers 17 explain...

Offerings given to God every seventh month were a big part of Jewish culture. The Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles offerings were made on the tenth and fifteenth day of the seventh month. The Jewish New Year was at the beginning of the Feast of Trumpets, which was held on the seventh...

The move into the land of Canaan from the wilderness was the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God knew that Israel needed to live with His authority in their lives for the first forty years. Now the nation was getting ready to make a move into the Promised Land, fulfilli...

The Levites were unique in their vocation. They were called to be distributed evenly among all the tribes across the land of Israel. They had no earthly inheritance and did not have the privilege of marketing themselves as the rest of Israel did for business and commerce. God was setting up His K...

Israel was no longer a family but a nation. Their core principles had been laid out for them by God through Moses, similar to what we would call a constitution. Now, in Deuteronomy, the people are getting ready to enter the land God had promised to their forefather Abraham hundreds of years earli...

"History is full of examples of people rising from next to nothing and becoming great leaders, conquerors, and revolutionaries only to lose their success because of their great pride. The Bible says in Proverbs 11:2, “When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.” And again, ...

"Our culture is actively engaged in justifying, ignoring, and even celebrating sin. Regardless, sin remains a serious problem, and if we look closely, we still do agree on the definition of the word. For example, even dictionary.com defines sin as a, “transgression of divine law: any act regarded...

"Modernists like to claim that we don't fight wars anymore, that everyone is inherently good. But they are wrong––we do. Wars are often fought for subjective, greedy, and fearful human reasons. Fear and greed do not just lead to war, but they lead to starvation, too. This planet has enough of a f...

"The LORD is the Creator of all things, and as human beings we were created in His image, unique from all other creation. The image of God underpins the Law as it is the basis for how we relate to one another and work together. Therefore, when the law of God speaks about relationships and ways to...

"The blessings of God are truly remarkable and immeasurable! A blessing is a special favor, a mercy, means of grace, or benefit of some kind. So to know that the divine hand of God can and will move on our behalf is amazing. In today’s passage, we see God’s promised blessings on Israel when they ...

"The opening address in Deuteronomy 32 to heaven and earth makes it known that all creation should listen. What Moses says here is important: God's Word is not just for religious people, it is for everyone, even the generation of people living in the end of time. The Song of Moses is sung and hea...

"God was with Israel as they kept themselves aligned with Him, and God is even seen fighting for Israel. In our reading today we see the pagan king of Jerusalem, but this isn’t the first time we’ve come across Jerusalem in the Bible. In the book of Genesis it is referred to as the city of Salem. ...

"When we look back, we can see moments where God seems to push forward His plans. For the land of Israel, God made His decision known at the time of Abraham. The Bible says in Genesis 12:7, ""Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.'” This decision was...