And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you, and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Tuesday’s Notes’
September 1, 2009
TUESDAY’S NOTES: Blessings & Curses
At first glance, the pronouncement of blessings and curses in Deuteronomy 28 seem to have one purpose—scare the children of Israel into obedience. Moses uses almost four times the space for curses as he does blessings in the text. The threat of punishment is often a greater motivator for obedience than reward. But, is this [...]
August 25, 2009
TUESDAY’S NOTES: D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Divorce is a subject that has brought great controversy to the Lord’s people. It has not only caused trouble with people today but in the days of Moses as well. Deuteronomy 24:1–4 details the proper procedure and cause for a man to give a certificate of divorce to his wife. In Matthew 19, Jesus tells [...]
August 18, 2009
TUESDAY’S NOTES: What’s Our Excuse?
And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his [...]
August 11, 2009
TUESDAY’S NOTES: “…the place that the LORD your God will choose…”
It has been months since we had the “Tuesday’s Notes.” I’m hoping to start them back up regularly. Thanks for your patience. –Terry
In our text for the weekly Bible classes here at the East Shelby church, one phrase was repeated numerous times: “…the place that the Lord your God will choose…” The frequency of its [...]
May 5, 2009
TUESDAY’S NOTES: Israel’s Young Bull
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has [...]
April 22, 2009
TUESDAY’S NOTES: Consecrated Priests
The consecration of Aaron and his sons in Exodus 29 is often overlooked like many of the passages in the Pentateuch. At first glance they are boring, ritualistic, and confusing. They are commonly read void of any application to the reader. To count them as worthless required readings would be a mistake. This text, like [...]
April 15, 2009
TUESDAY’S NOTES: More Than Enough
Imagine it is next Sunday morning and one of the elders makes the following announcement: “The elders have met and determined that the collection is too much. You have been giving much more than the work needs here. Since there is no way we can scripturally administer all of these funds, we are asking you [...]
April 7, 2009
TUESDAY’S NOTES: Follow the Pattern
At first glance, there appears to be little application from the twenty-fifth, thirty-fifth, and thirty-seventh chapters of Exodus. The subject matter ranks in relevance slightly ahead of the seemingly endless genealogies found in the Old Testament. These three chapters contain the listings of specific materials, required skills, and building plans of the tabernacle and its [...]
March 24, 2009
TUESDAY NOTES: The Manna Test
And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for [...]
