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THE LORD DOES NOT ENTERTAIN SIN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
Deuteronomy 9:16-25

Galatians 3:1-5

 

“Have ye suffered so many things

in vain? if it be yet in vain.”

 

THE LORD DOES NOT ENTERTAIN SIN
 
There is a reference again to an incident in Numbers 11:32-33: “And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.” That place was given a name because the people that had lusted for flesh were buried there.
 
Moses also recalled other incidences of Israel’s rebellion while they were in the wilderness. He mentioned next their sin in Kadesh-barnea in refusing to go and occupy the land of Canaan. They rebelled against the Lord and did not hearken to His voice. They did not obey His commandment and believed Him not. This episode is recorded in Numbers 13 where the Lord had told Moses to send men to go and spy on the land of Canaan. Then Moses had chosen twelve men, one from every tribe of Israel. Moses then instructed them on what they were to do and to bring the information he needed.
 
The spies went and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, this was from the south to the north of the land. They came to Hebron one of the cities of the south near where Abraham and family were buried. They then came to the brook of Eshcol and there they cut a branch of one cluster of grapes and carried it between two men upon a rod. They also brought pomegranates and figs. They returned, bearing those fruits, to Moses after forty days. They affirmed that the land truly flowed with milk and honey and showed the fruit. However, their refusal to go and occupy that land became a turning point in the Exodus. They had to pay for that sin with forty years of their life. God does not overlook any rebellion against Him.
 
THOUGHT: The wiles of the devil are many.

PRAYER: Father, grant me the grace to always discern good from evil.

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