{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Christ Covenant Church","title":"Journaling: Deuteronomy 32-34; Joshua 1","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4418,"description":"Deuteronomy 32-34\nIt is important that we “ascribe greatness to our God” (32:1-3) thru “words” that affirm His “perfection”, “justice”, “faithfulness” and sinlessness (32:4), and attribute any failure to our own propensity to act “corruptly”, be “blemished”, or “crooked and twisted”, or “foolish and senseless” (32:5-6). IOW: God is not the One to blame.\n \nWe are no longer God’s children when we are “blemished” – which is the consequence of: 1) dealing “corruptly” w/God (32:5a; “dealt corruptly” = acted w/o loyalty – see 32:16, 21; Exo 32), 2) “crooked and twisted” behavior (32:5c; “crooked and twisted” = acting w/o justice/faithfulness to God’s Law – see 32:19-20).\n \nChildren are to act like their father (or) wb associated w/the father they act most like (32:5-6; 1Jo 3:7-10; Joh 8:44).\n \nRemembering God’s care for His people (us) in the past is a powerful deterrent against sin in the present (32:7-18).\n \nAffluency can be a curse that causes us to forsake God (32:15).\n \nFalse gods (or religion) are demons disguised as the real thing (32:16-17).\n \nThe issue that causes God to “spurn” His “sons and daughters” is not lack of perfection but “faithfulness” (32:19-20).\n \nGod responds in kind or “what comes around, goes around” (32:21).\n \nIdolatry – or the sin of showing ultimate loyalty to something other than God, will invite the worst of God’s wrath against us (32:15-25, 22-25).\n \nWhen God causes His people harm, the world and false religion are often deluded into thinking: 1) they have been “triumphant” (when in reality they “misunderstand”) (32:26-30), 2) they possess true God/religion (when in reality they are “by themselves”) (32:31-33) (e.g. Psa 22:7-8 w/Mat 27:39-43).\n \nGod (or Jesus) makes His people pay for their sins (penal atonement) (32:34-43 w/Heb 10:30 and Heb 13:8-9a).\n \nOur “very li(ves)” will be determined by what (or whose) “words” we choose to “take to heart” (i.e. to take seriously and seriously commit to doing) (32:44-47).\n \nOne of the curses...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UXGjftzm8Yw--IISwUKe6A6-CX1YtARptisfLmFJFoI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjc4/MmNmNTMxZjNmOTgw/YjA1NWRhYmMxMTNl/YmE1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}