Two Steps Forward
Two motivations, two guidelines.
Worshippers All!
Worship breaks out everywhere!
Tell It Like It Is
The First Commandment: Statues and Precepts (49)
Deuteronomy 26.12-15
12 “When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year—the year of tithing—and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled, 13 then you shall say before the LORD your God: ‘I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them. 14 I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it for an unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me. 15 Look 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, “a land flowing with milk and honey.”’”
Psalm 119:160
The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. If my charge from You is to proclaim good news to the poor, and it is, then that Good News is “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is available to you now.” Now is the time of the Lord's […]
