Sunday Sermonette: Mo rambles on

Deuteronomy 8 doesn ' t say a whole lot that ' s new -- it ' s just more of the endless exhortation to worship YHWH and not to stray, and more recapitulation of events of Exodus and Numbers. The book generally is very turgid and this chapter is pretty much filler. There are a couple of items worth noting, however.8 “All the commandment which I command you this day you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which theLord swore to give to your fathers.2 And you shall remember all the way which theLord 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 that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of theLord.4 Jesus is said to have quoted this last line in the Gospel of Matthew. By the way, the journey from Egypt to Canaan, on foot, would take only a couple of weeks. God imposed the forty year exile on the people, it ' s a lot of chutzpah to take credit for getting them through it.Your clothing did not wear out upon you, and your foot did not swell, these forty years.5 Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, theLord your God disciplines you.6 So you shall keep t...
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