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Deuteronomy 26:17
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15 aLook down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, b“a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’  

A Special People of God

16 “This day the Lord your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.
17 Today you have aproclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will bobey His voice.  
18 Also today athe Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments,  
19 and that He will set you ahigh above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be ba holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.” 
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What Does Deuteronomy 26:17 Mean?



Deuteronomy 26:16-19

Israel had been redeemed from Egypt, made a covenant with God, and been told their responsibility. God makes it very clear that the relationship between Him and man is a two-way affair. Upon us devolves the duty of complete consecration and willingness to obey. We are called to faithfulness to Him and to each other as reflected in our lives by our keeping of His commandments. God on His part grants us access to Him by which He ministers great blessings of His Spirit, giving us the means to be faithful.

Israel failed miserably, being guilty of all manner of faithlessness. So great was their faithlessness that God sundered the relationship. Perhaps nowhere is Israel's faithlessness shown more vividly than in Hosea 2:2-5.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The Fruit of the Spirit: Faithfulness

Related Topics: Covenant Relationship | Covenantal Responsibilities | Faithfulness | Faithlessness | Israel as Harlot | Israel's Adultery | Israel's Faithlessness | Keeping Commandments | Obedience | Redemption | Relationship with God


 
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