Deuteronomy 18:9-14

okay okay trickster we're at Deuteronomy 18: 9-14 why don't we have some coffee we'll pray and we'll get into this section that's going to talk about uh oh oh little spider on you okay it's gone I'm here I don't worry I'm your big strong Dad I'll take care of spiders for you all right so we're going to be talking this morning uh about kind of avoiding the Wicked Customs that the Pagan nations were doing so it 18 or 19 Deuteronomy 18: 9-14 18 9-14 all right uh you want some coffee no okay well I'm going to have some coffee and we'll pray let's pray father thank you so much for this day I thank you for the blessing it is to get to read your word lord it's not a blessing everybody gets in this world but you have given us your word in a language we can understand we thank you for those who have gone before us who have studied the Greek and the Hebrew and the Aramaic and have translated these words Lord we pray that we would understand what they mean now and that your Holy Spirit would please apply it to our hearts in Jesus's name amen okay you ready Deuteronomy 189 through1 14 you want to read it sure when you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you you shall not learn to follow the Abominations of those Nations Abominations yeah that's like God wants to like throw him up out of his mouth there shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire or one who practices W witchcraft or a soothsayer or one who imprint interprets interprets Omens or a sorcerer or one who conjures H spells or a medium or a spirus who or one who calls up the dead for all who do these things are an Abomination to the Lord and because of these Abominations the Lord your God drives them out before you you shall be blameless before the Lord your God for these nations which you will dispo dispossess dispossess listen to susers and divers as for you the Lord your God has not appointed such for you okay so we have our three questions a what is this about B what's the best for us to summarize and C what are we called to do so what do you think this is about um about them not uh worshiping false gods not following their ways yeah so uh so it's not so much about false gods necessarily well part of it is false gods I guess where it says you shall not make the your his son or daughter passed through the fire right that was specifically a child sacrifice so the det testable God of molette or chimos right that's one of the things that that they would do with those false gods right but there's there's another whole section here something else that they would do witchcraft yeah right there's like this whole like dark arts dark spiritual magic stuff going on here there there s sorcery and Witchcraft and necromancy and talking to the dead and all that type of stuff what's the Lord say uh yeah right don't do it right oh interesting did you notice what it said there uh what what did it say at the very end of verse 12 because of these because of these Abominations the Lord your God drives them out for you so why is why is God letting the Israelites go into the promised land and take it over as they're not worshiping well the other people are not worshiping God yeah right and they're they're engaging in these evil practices that the Lord hates right there these practice are an Abomination God wants to like spit him up out of his mouth he hates it right so uh so that's why he's dispossessing the people who are in the land and so he says don't be like them right I'm kicking them out for these things so don't go and do these things right so uh so what's the section about well about not doing wickedness okay not doing wickedness doing what the wicked are doing yeah right don't go do the wicked things that the wicked people are doing that are getting them caused to get kicked out by their wickedness because if you do you're going to be Wicked and do those wicked things and what's going to happen to them you're going to get kicked out exactly right so don't go do that it would be like a revolving door yeah it might feel like a revolving door yeah uh so don't do that type of wickedness all right what do you think would be the be best verse to summarize this what is the best verse to summarize this what do you think nine probably okay so all right so you sh shall not learn to follow the abomination of those Nations or 14 nine or 14 yeah yeah I have 13 and 14 underlined in my Bible but yeah that's good so nine or 14 good yeah I like those um okay so let's take it out of its context right so we've we've wrestled with it where it was at ancient Israel about to go into the land don't be like them but are you about to go into the land of Canan are you going to go dispossess the people there no so how does this apply to you then um that we shouldn't do what other people are doing if you know that it's withed yeah yeah right here I think specifically we can learn about right this Soo saying witchcraft sorcery and passing through fire interpreting Omens Conjuring LS medium spiritus calling up the dead right I think all those types of things if the Lord was kicking the other people out of the land and the Lord says I'm going to kick you out of the land if you do that you think it'd be good if we did that no no right so this is why uh there's certain TV shows that I don't just think you know probably not best to watch or movies and I'm like yeah I don't I just don't think that that's good for us right there's certain books that I just rather not mess with right so uh I think this is one of those things we want to be careful about people are really easily tied into horoscopes and trying to find out right is there some type of thing that maybe you could figure out the future and I would say probably best just to stay away from all that stuff actually in the very early church in Ephesus do you know what they did when people became Christians they took all they had a bunch of magic Scrolls it was very popular to buy and sell Magic in Magic Scrolls at that point they took all these magic Scrolls and they threw them all away they burned them is where the huge amount of money oh yeah people were really really mad at them for this right but that's what the early Christians did right because they recognized hold on we follow the lord Jesus Christ and this is not he would want us to behave and act and walk and so they that's one of the ways in which they walked in obedience it's walking away from this type of uh magical and sorcery type things so hey you ready to pray you want me to or you want to me there's a lot in those you speak in tone like whales let's pray God we thank you so much for this day we thank you for your word God we pray that you would please help us to trust your spirit and to read your word and to live it Lord we pray that we would not be like Saul who when things go hard or wrong that he went and found a which indor Lord to talk to dead Samuel Lord we pray that we would learn from those at Ephesus and we would also not trust in Magic but that we would trust in you Lord we thank you for all you have done and we thank you for speaking to us clearly in your word in Jesus's name amen well may you walk as a disciple of Jesus Christ may you be washed in the water of the word and may his spirit guide you in your thoughts in your words and in your Deeds we'll see you next time bye bye