Deuteronomy 08 Journey Through the Bible Deuteronomy 10
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The Book of Deuteronomy
Chapter 09
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Deuteronomy 9
In verse 4 we see that God makes very clear that He did not raise this People up to inherent the land in which He promised them as a result of any righteousness on their part, but that He drove out the inhabitants of the land because of their own wickedness. It is not of works that any man should boast. After all, no man can do anything unless the Lord gives him that ability. God will only accept the credit go to Him in all increase of wealth. If it were for our righteousness that we come to such greatness, then we would be remembered no more. We would be utterly destroyed, and our name will be as if we never were.
In verse 7 we see that God is prompt to remind the People that they have been unworthy of such bountiful blessings, even from the very beginning, from the time He led them out of the bondage of slavery in Egypt by His mighty and outstretched hand. Throughout the rest of chapter 9, Moses reminds the People the different occasions that they were at their worse in the eyes of the Lord, and that it is by God's mercy and because of God's promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that they inherent the land. Let not the nations of the world say that God could not deliver on His promise, to let the People die in the wilderness.
