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God’s High Standard
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“Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt
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love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this
day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto
thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and
when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine
hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou
shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”
“For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy
God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth. The Lord did not set His
love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number
than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because
the Lord loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He
had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a
mighty hand.... Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and
the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to
do them.” Please read carefully the whole of the seventh chapter of
Deuteronomy, and think upon the word of the Lord.
Will you turn from a plain “Thus saith the Lord” after reading
the history of Adam’s sin and fall? He fell because he discarded the
words of the Lord and heeded the words of Satan. Will it pay to
transgress? By transgression Adam lost Eden. By the transgression
of God’s commandments man will lose heaven, and an eternity of
bliss. These are no idle tales, but truth. Again I ask, On which side
are you standing? “If the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then
follow him.”
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