So That

Deuteronomy 11:21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth. 22 If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow – to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways and to hold fast to him – 23 then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you. 
 
 
DEUTERONOMY 13:18-20 repeats the Shema as we read in our prior lesson. Then Moses added “so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land.” Moses relays from heaven the promise of God’s blessings found in living God’s Word. 
    This teaching, of course, is very fundamental to each Christian generation. But sadly, for the past three generations, the church in Europe and the United States has become content with the world’s directive to allow our children to find their own way. We have believed the lie that children need to continually be affirmed even when they disobey. Parents, teachers and the church have no business telling a child how to behave, right? Rules are made to be broken, aren’t they?
    Of course, we know this is the Evil One’s lies. How can anyone even consider this? Without godly instruction, discipline and affirmation, a child will not know right and wrong. In this “no rules” children believe they have no need for the Rule Maker. They have quickly become their own gods. One great darkness in our United States’ culture is the growing number of people who have no knowledge of Jesus, his church nor his commands. Our children have become citizens of Secular Humanism whose purpose is to eliminate God.
    Each of us have a lasting command from God to reverse this trend and restore God’s truth to our nations. Be purposeful to hear, speak, write and do God’s commands so that our children live in God’s grand life blessings.
    Let’s rise up and be the church.
 
Revelation 3:22 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Seven times repeated in Revelation for the church to hear, speak, write and do.