23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, aand make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you.
24 For athe Lord your God is a consuming fire, ba jealous God.
25 “When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and ado evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger,
26 aI call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not1 prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
27 And the Lord awill scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
28 And athere you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, bwhich neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
29 aBut from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the alatter days, when you bturn to the Lord your God and obey His voice
31 (for the Lord your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor adestroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
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Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Deuteronomy 4:25.
Deuteronomy 4:25-29
We are all going to go off the path that God has plotted out for us. We are all going to sin from time to time, but because God is faithful, He is holding the door open for us, like the prodigal son, to come back. Certainly, there are stipulations. There are requirements that we have to meet, and we have to seek Him with all of our heart and with all of our soul.
Deuteronomy 4:24-31
God is teaching us there what defragments our mind. It is seeking Him with passionate desire to be like Him which defragments our mind and makes it one with Him.
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