The Voice of the LORD

Mo. 9/30/13: Exodus 15:26                  Whose voice was Israel to heed?

… and (God) said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”

Whose voice was Israel to heed? Israel was to heed the voice of the Lord to avoid diseases that Egypt suffered.

Tu. 10/1/13: Deuteronomy 28:45                  What was the penalty for disobedience?

“Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

What was the penalty for disobedience? Destruction from the promised land was the penalty.

We. 10/2/13: Deuteronomy 30:9 – 10                  What would repentance bring?

The Lord your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the Lord will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

What would repentance bring? Repentance would bring success in work circumstances that are beyond your control.

Th. 10/3/13: John 5:24 – 25                  What does hearing and believing bring?

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.

What does hearing and believing bring? Eternal life: we will never be judged and found wanting.

Fr. 10/4/13: Hebrews 1:1 – 2                  Who does God now speak through?

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds

Who does God now speak through? God speaks through His Son and none else in these last days.