Ignore them, and they won’t go away!
Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
The King James Bible says: "Thus shall ye deal with them;"
When we think of a deal being made, we think of two parties agreeing together on something that satisfies both sides involved.
That's not what God is saying at all! God says:
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
God says this is the deal!
• You destroy their altars!
• You break down their images!
• You cut down their groves!
• You burn their graven images with fire!
God says: "You are the temple of the Living God!"
• I won't share you with another god!
• If you expect Me to dwell in you and walk in you__"Thus shall ye deal with them!"
Deuteronomy 7:6 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.
Those of us who have been delivered are a holy people!
God has chosen us to be a special people unto Himself!
God has set His people above all people!
(Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
1Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
He, Christ has made us holy!
We are a chosen generation! We don't have to look and talk like the world!
We are in the world but we are not of it!
God has called us to raise the standard with our life in Christ!
We don't need the world ways, to manifest Christ in our lives!
Deuteronomy 7:7 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:
God is not running a numbers racket! No! He just looking for a somebody that will respond back to that great love that He reaches out with!
Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
He's looking for a man today! Will you be that one that will make up the hedge!
It's different when God removes the hedge and when man removes the hedge.
As long as we keep that hedge up, the word of God! Our enemies will be held at bay! No weapon formed against us shall prosper! Even if God removes the hedge__like He did with Job__if we didn't take it down!__Hallelujah!__we will come through that fiery trial with faith in God as pure gold!
If the hedge is down on your account__make it up! You stand in the gap!
Doesn't matter if everybody is making deals with the world and the devil!___You stand!
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
Deuteronomy 7:8 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, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
It was because of Gods love for you that you stand delivered today if you are saved!
It was His mighty hand that brought you out from the complete bondage of sin into complete deliverance if you were willing to obey His word and come out!
It is He that continues to deliver you through every test and temptation if you look to Him and look not to the world for deliverance!
• "It's the economy stupid!" was one of the politicians statements as he ran for President as he referred to the real issue of the day in his campaign!"
• How far off can one be! It's that God has suddenly come to judge rebellion among His people!
• We've returned to Egypt! And God won't just sit by without judging this compromise in His people!
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
We call Him Lord our God!
He is God!
He keeps covenant with His people!
He is full of mercy!
"But all of the blessings of this verse has a condition on our part to meet! He is!! and He does to them that love him and keep His commandments!
Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Deuteronomy 7:10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Payday's coming to those who continue to walk in sin!
There is coming a last day revival! It's starting to happen!
Jesus is about to rapture His Church and the part of the Church that's mixed with the world won't make it!
We must be ready! It's midnight__and the cry is going forth! "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet Him!"
1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:(the temple of God) and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
3:7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
14:22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
14:24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
God is seeking for somebody to make up the hedge and stand in the gap! “Will you?”
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