WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.890 --> 00:00:04.260 Day 100 and 49 00:00:04.684 --> 00:00:05.854 and now is real. 00:00:06.184 --> 00:00:10.174 Listen carefully to these decrees and regulations that I am about to teach you. 00:00:10.834 --> 00:00:16.384 Obey them so that you may live, so you may enter and occupy the land that the Lord, 00:00:16.804 --> 00:00:19.354 that God of your ancestors is giving you. 00:00:20.254 --> 00:00:23.974 Do not add to or subtract from these commands I am giving you. 00:00:24.694 --> 00:00:28.294 Just obey the commands of the Lord your God, that I am giving you. 00:00:29.539 --> 00:00:33.109 You saw for yourself what the Lord did to you at Baal Pire. 00:00:33.829 --> 00:00:38.929 There the Lord your God destroyed everyone who had worshiped Baal, the God of pire. 00:00:39.859 --> 00:00:44.389 But all of you who were faithful to the Lord your God are still alive today. 00:00:44.839 --> 00:00:45.889 Every one of you. 00:00:46.849 --> 00:00:51.559 Look, I now teach you these decrees and regulations just as the Lord 00:00:51.559 --> 00:00:55.729 my God commanded me so that you may obey them in the land you 00:00:55.729 --> 00:00:57.769 are about to enter and occupy. 00:00:58.594 --> 00:01:02.794 Obey them completely, and you will display your wisdom and intelligence 00:01:02.794 --> 00:01:04.174 among the surrounding nations. 00:01:05.014 --> 00:01:07.774 When they hear all these decrees, they will exclaim. 00:01:08.374 --> 00:01:11.794 How wise and prudent are the people of this great nation? 00:01:12.514 --> 00:01:12.994 For what? 00:01:12.994 --> 00:01:17.554 Great nation as a God, as near to them, as the Lord our God as near 00:01:17.554 --> 00:01:19.264 to us whenever we call on him. 00:01:20.194 --> 00:01:24.634 And what great nation has decrees and regulations as righteous and 00:01:24.634 --> 00:01:27.964 fair as this body of instructions that I am giving you today. 00:01:29.164 --> 00:01:30.034 But watch out. 00:01:30.454 --> 00:01:33.574 Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. 00:01:34.324 --> 00:01:37.954 Do not let these memories escape from your mind as long as you live, 00:01:38.914 --> 00:01:41.824 and be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren. 00:01:42.904 --> 00:01:47.404 Never forget the day when you stood before the Lord, your God at Mount Sinai, where 00:01:47.409 --> 00:01:51.964 he told me, summon the people before me and I will personally instruct them. 00:01:52.684 --> 00:01:55.714 Then they will learn to fear me as long as they live and they will 00:01:55.714 --> 00:01:57.604 teach their children to fear me Also. 00:01:59.089 --> 00:02:02.509 You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while flames from 00:02:02.509 --> 00:02:04.189 the mountain shot into the sky. 00:02:04.789 --> 00:02:09.259 The mountain was shrouded in black clouds and deep darkness, and the Lord 00:02:09.259 --> 00:02:11.179 spoke to you from the heart of the fire. 00:02:11.899 --> 00:02:15.289 You heard the sound of his words, but didn't see his form. 00:02:15.829 --> 00:02:16.999 There was only a voice. 00:02:18.019 --> 00:02:21.379 He proclaimed his covenant, the 10 commandments, which he 00:02:21.379 --> 00:02:25.219 commanded you to keep, and which he wrote on two stone tablets. 00:02:26.074 --> 00:02:29.704 It was at that time that the Lord commanded me to teach you his decrees and 00:02:29.704 --> 00:02:34.504 regulations, so you would obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy. 00:02:35.674 --> 00:02:40.894 But be very careful you did not see the Lord's form on the day he spoke to you 00:02:40.894 --> 00:02:42.874 from the heart of the fire at Mount Sinai. 00:02:43.744 --> 00:02:49.354 So do not corrupt yourselves by making an idol in any form, whether of a man 00:02:49.444 --> 00:02:51.874 or a woman, an animal on the ground. 00:02:52.249 --> 00:02:56.479 A bird in the sky, a small animal that scurries along the ground, 00:02:56.809 --> 00:02:58.489 or a fish in the deepest sea. 00:02:59.329 --> 00:03:03.319 And when you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars, 00:03:03.799 --> 00:03:07.759 all the forces of heaven, don't be seduced into worshiping them. 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:11.959 The Lord your God, gave them to all the peoples of the earth. 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:16.789 Remember that the Lord rescued you from the iron smelting furnace of 00:03:16.789 --> 00:03:21.739 Egypt in order to make you his very own people and his special possession, 00:03:22.309 --> 00:03:23.779 which is what you are today. 00:03:24.799 --> 00:03:26.929 But the Lord was angry with me because of you. 00:03:27.529 --> 00:03:30.979 He vowed that I would not cross the Jordan River into the good land. 00:03:31.009 --> 00:03:35.839 The Lord your God is giving you as your special possession, you will cross the 00:03:35.844 --> 00:03:39.199 Jordan to occupy the land, but I will not. 00:03:40.009 --> 00:03:43.309 Instead, I will die here on the east side of the river. 00:03:44.299 --> 00:03:46.309 So be careful not to break the covenant. 00:03:46.309 --> 00:03:48.019 The Lord your God has made with you. 00:03:48.709 --> 00:03:51.859 Do not make idols of any shape or form for the Lord. 00:03:51.859 --> 00:03:53.599 Your God has forbidden this. 00:03:54.349 --> 00:03:56.899 The Lord your God is a devouring fire. 00:03:57.079 --> 00:04:03.019 He's a jealous God in the future when you have children and grandchildren 00:04:03.289 --> 00:04:05.419 and have lived in the land a long time. 00:04:06.109 --> 00:04:09.139 Do not corrupt yourselves by making idols of any kind. 00:04:09.799 --> 00:04:13.939 This is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, and will arouse his anger. 00:04:15.049 --> 00:04:18.499 Today I call on heaven and earth as witnesses against you. 00:04:19.159 --> 00:04:22.939 If you break my covenant, you will quickly disappear from the land you 00:04:22.944 --> 00:04:24.949 are crossing the Jordan to occupy. 00:04:25.999 --> 00:04:29.419 You will live there only a short time, then you will be utterly 00:04:29.424 --> 00:04:33.889 destroyed, for the Lord will scatter you among the nations, or 00:04:33.889 --> 00:04:35.569 only a few of you will survive. 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:41.659 There In a foreign land, you will worship idols made from wood and stone gods that 00:04:41.659 --> 00:04:44.749 neither seen nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 00:04:45.589 --> 00:04:48.439 But from there, you will search again for the Lord your God. 00:04:49.249 --> 00:04:52.939 And if you search for him with all your heart and soul, you will 00:04:52.944 --> 00:04:55.789 find him in the distant future. 00:04:56.149 --> 00:05:00.409 When you are suffering all these things, you will finally return to the Lord your 00:05:00.409 --> 00:05:02.569 God and listen to what he tells you. 00:05:03.424 --> 00:05:05.794 For the Lord your God is a merciful God. 00:05:06.304 --> 00:05:10.534 He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the solemn covenant 00:05:10.534 --> 00:05:12.124 he made with your ancestors. 00:05:13.474 --> 00:05:17.194 Now, search all of history from the time God created people on the 00:05:17.194 --> 00:05:20.884 earth until now and search from one end of the heavens to the other. 00:05:21.784 --> 00:05:25.414 Has anything as great as this ever been seen or heard before? 00:05:26.254 --> 00:05:29.164 Has any nation ever heard the voice of God speaking from 00:05:29.164 --> 00:05:31.924 fire as you did and survived? 00:05:32.914 --> 00:05:36.874 Has any other God dared to take a nation for himself out of another 00:05:36.874 --> 00:05:43.264 nation by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders war, a strong hand, 00:05:43.264 --> 00:05:46.144 a powerful arm, and terrifying acts. 00:05:47.014 --> 00:05:47.164 Yeah. 00:05:47.164 --> 00:05:51.754 That is what the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, right before your eyes. 00:05:52.814 --> 00:05:55.714 He showed you these things so you would know that the Lord 00:05:55.714 --> 00:05:57.844 is God and there is no other. 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:02.449 He let you hear his voice from heaven so he could instruct you. 00:06:03.229 --> 00:06:07.219 He let you see his great fire here on Earth so he could speak to you from 00:06:07.219 --> 00:06:10.309 it because he loved your ancestors. 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:14.389 He chose to bless their descendants, and he personally brought you out of 00:06:14.394 --> 00:06:16.609 Egypt with a great display of power. 00:06:17.269 --> 00:06:21.709 He drove out nations far greater than you so he could bring you in 00:06:22.069 --> 00:06:26.299 and give you their land as your special possession as it is today. 00:06:27.454 --> 00:06:30.154 Remember this and keep it firmly in mind. 00:06:30.874 --> 00:06:35.314 The Lord is God, both in heaven and on earth and there is no other. 00:06:36.004 --> 00:06:40.294 If you obey all the decrees and commands I am giving you today, all will be 00:06:40.299 --> 00:06:41.794 well with you and your children. 00:06:42.544 --> 00:06:47.224 I am giving you these instructions so you will enjoy a long life and the land the 00:06:47.224 --> 00:06:49.864 Lord your God is giving you for all time. 00:06:51.544 --> 00:06:55.204 Then Moses set apart three cities of refuge, east of the Jordan River. 00:06:56.059 --> 00:07:00.409 Anyone who killed another person unintentionally without previous hostility 00:07:00.739 --> 00:07:02.479 could flee there to live in safety. 00:07:03.259 --> 00:07:08.119 These were the cities Beezer on the Wilderness Plateau for the tribe of Reuben 00:07:08.929 --> 00:07:14.839 Ramoth and Gilead for the tribe of Gadd Golan in basin for the Tribe of Manasses. 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:19.759 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.109 Thank you for 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