Obedience and Discipline
(Deuteronomy 4:1–14)
You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. Deu 6:5Deu 10:12Luk 1:74-75Deu 30:16-20Deu 4:40Deu 6:1Lev 8:35Zec 3:7
Know this day that it is not your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm; Act 26:22Deu 29:10Deu 4:34Deu 5:24Deu 7:19Deu 8:19Deu 8:2-5Deu 9:26 the signs and works He did in Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land; Deu 7:19Deu 4:34Jer 32:20-21Psa 105:27-45Psa 135:9Psa 78:12-13 what He did to the Egyptian army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red Sea 1engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them completely, even to this day; Exo 14:23-31Exo 15:19Exo 15:9-10Psa 106:11Exo 15:4Heb 11:29 what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place; Psa 105:39-41Psa 106:12-48Psa 77:20Psa 78:14-72 and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to them. Num 26:9-10Psa 106:17Num 16:1-35Num 27:3
For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done. Psa 145:12Psa 145:4-6Psa 150:2Deu 5:3Deu 7:19Psa 106:2
God’s Great Blessings
(Joshua 1:1–9)
You shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, Eph 6:10Jos 1:6-7Eph 3:16Php 4:132Co 12:9-10Deu 31:23Deu 8:10-11Psa 138:3 and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. Exo 3:8Deu 4:40Deu 6:2Ezk 20:6Deu 5:16Deu 9:5Deu 6:18Pro 10:27
For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden. Zec 14:18 But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven. Heb 6:7Deu 8:7-9Psa 65:12-13Gen 27:28Isa 28:1Jer 2:7Psa 104:10-13 It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year. Jer 24:61Ki 9:3Psa 33:18Psa 34:15Ezr 5:5
So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, Deu 10:12Deu 4:29Deu 11:8Deu 6:17Deu 6:5-6Psa 119:4Deu 11:22 then I will provide 2rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil. Jas 5:7Lev 26:4Deu 28:12Ezk 34:26Jol 2:22-23Jer 14:22Job 37:11-13Job 5:10-11 And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied. Deu 6:11Psa 104:14Jol 2:19Mal 3:10-11Jol 2:22Deu 8:10Hag 1:6Jol 1:18
But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods, Heb 3:12Job 31:27Heb 2:1Deu 29:18Jas 1:261Jn 5:21Deu 30:17Deu 4:23 or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you. 1Ki 8:352Ch 6:26Amo 4:7Deu 6:151Ki 17:1Deu 4:262Ch 7:13Deu 28:23-24
Remember God’s Words
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Col 3:16Deu 6:6-9Pro 3:12Pe 3:1-2Psa 119:11Exo 13:9Pro 6:20-232Pe 1:12 Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Deu 6:7Deu 4:9-10Isa 38:19Psa 34:11Pro 2:1Pro 4:1-27Psa 78:5-6 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates, Deu 6:9 so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers. Pro 3:2Pro 4:10Pro 9:11Deu 4:40Psa 72:5Psa 89:28-29Deu 5:16Deu 6:2
For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him— Deu 11:13Deu 6:17Deu 10:202Co 11:2-32Ti 4:8Act 11:23Deu 30:20Gen 2:24 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you. Deu 4:38Deu 9:1Deu 7:1-2Deu 7:22-23Deu 9:5Exo 23:27-30Exo 34:11 Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea. 3 Jos 14:9Exo 23:31Gen 15:18-211Ki 4:212Ch 9:261Ki 4:24Jos 1:3-4Num 34:3-15 No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you. Deu 7:24Exo 23:27Jos 1:5Deu 2:25Jos 5:1Jos 2:9
A Blessing and a Curse
See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse— Deu 30:1Deu 30:15-20Gal 3:10Gal 3:13-14 a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today, Isa 1:19Deu 28:1-14Isa 3:10Luk 11:28Lev 26:3-13Jhn 13:17Jhn 14:21-23Psa 19:11 but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known. Deu 28:15-68Gal 3:10Rom 2:8-9Deu 29:19-28Isa 1:20Isa 3:11Lev 26:14-32Mat 25:41
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. Deu 27:12-26Jos 8:30-35 Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak 4of Moreh? Gen 12:6Jdg 7:1Jos 4:19Jos 5:9
For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it, Jos 1:11Deu 9:1Jos 3:13-17 be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today. Deu 12:32Mat 28:201Th 4:1-2Deu 5:32-33Jhn 15:14Luk 1:6Mat 7:21-27Psa 119:6