Remembering God should inform the way we live.
Sermon Title: #TBT
Sermon Text: DEUTERONOMY 8:1-10
Sermon Series: #HASHTAG
By: PTR. NIC SY
Sermon Notes:
DEUTERONOMY 8:1-10 ESV
1 “The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers.
2 And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
4 Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.
5 Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
6 So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.
7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,
8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,
9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
10 And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
LET THE PAST INSTRUCT YOU TO DEPEND ON GOD.
DEUTERONOMY 8:1-4 ESV
1 “The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers.
2 And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
4 Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.
REMEMBER:
(1) Remember that God led you through hard times.
(2) Remember that God tested you sometimes.
Trials reveal who you are.
Faith that isn’t tested is faith that cannot be trusted.
(3) Remember that God was faithful to you at all times.
PSALMS 37:25 ESV
25 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
LET YOUR IDENTITY INSPIRE YOU TO OBEY GOD.
DEUTERONOMY 8:5 ESV
5 Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
PROVERBS 3:11-12 ESV
11 My son, do not despise the LORDs discipline or be weary of his reproof,
12 for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
HEBREWS 12:7 ESV
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Remember who you are and remember whose you are!
MATTHEW 3:17 ESV
17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
1 JOHN 3:1 ESV
1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
DEUTERONOMY 8:6-9 ESV
6 So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.
7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,
8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,
9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
Obedience is a response of love.
LET YOUR BLESSINGS IMPEL YOU TO BLESS GOD.
DEUTERONOMY 8:10 ESV
10 And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
Life is a sequence of thousands of tiny miracles. Let’s notice them, be thankful to God and give him praise!
PSALMS 103:2 ESV
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits
PSALMS 103:2 MSG
2 O my soul, bless GOD, don't forget a single blessing!
ENDING THOUGHT:
There are two kinds of people in the world:
Those who dwell on what they want and those who dwell on what they have. As Christians, we are to dwell on WHO WE HAVE!