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Deuteronomy 12 | Worship the Lord His Way

charlie mitchell

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You're listening to the Dope Daily Audio Bible, and I'm your God, pastor Charlie Mitchell. And today we're looking at Deuteronomy chapter 12. Let's roll. Be careful to follow these statutes and ordinances in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors has given you to possess. all the days you live on the earth. Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods. On high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree, tear down their altars. smash. Their sacred pillars burn their Asher poles, cut down the carved images of their gods and wipe out their names from every place. Don't worship the Lord your God this way. Instead, turn to the place the Lord your God chooses from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there you are to bring their, your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tense and personal contributions, Your vow offerings and free will offerings in the firstborn of your herds and flocks. You'll eat there in the presence of the Lord your God, and rejoice with your household in everything you do because the Lord your God has blessed you. you are not to do as we are doing here today. Everyone is doing whatever seems right in his own sight. indeed. You have not yet come into the resting place and the inheritance the Lord your God has given you. When you cross the Jordan and living the land, the Lord your God has given you to inherit and he gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you live in security, then the Lord your God will choose the place to have his name dwell. Bring there everything I command you, your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the 10th personal contributions, and all your choice offerings. You vow to the Lord, you'll rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your city gates since he has no portion or inheritance among you. Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in all the sacred places you see. You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribes. And there you must do everything I command you. But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your city gates according to the blessing. The Lord your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer, but you must not eat the blood poured out on the ground like water. within your city gates, you may not eat the 10th of your grain, new wine or fresh oil. The firstborn of your herd of flock, any of your vow offerings that you pledge, your free will offerings or your personal contributions, you are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place. The Lord your God chooses you, your son and your daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who was within your gates. Rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you do. And be careful not to neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land. When the Lord your God enlarges your territory as he has promised you, and you say, I want to eat meat, because you have a strong desire to eat meat, you may eat it whenever you want. If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his name is too far for you. You may slaughter any of your herd or flock as he has given you, as I've commanded you, and you may eat it within your city gates whenever you want. Indeed. You may eat it as the gazelle and the deer are eden. Both the clean and the unclean may eat it. But don't eat the blood since the blood is the life. and you must not eat the life with the meat. Do not eat blood poured on the ground like water. Do not eat it so that you and your children after you will prosper because you will be doing what is right in the Lord's sight, But you are to take the holy offerings you have in your vow offerings and go to the place the Lord chooses, present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord Your God. The blood of your other sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God. But you may eat the meat. Be careful to obey all these things I command you so that you and your children after you may prosper forever. because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God, when the Lord your God, annihilates the nations before you, which you are entering to take possession of, and you'll drive them out and live in their land. Be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before. You do not inquire about their gods asking, how did these nations worship these gods? I'll also do the same. You must not do the same to the Lord your God, because they practice every detestable act, which the Lord hates for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. Be careful to do everything I command you. Do not add anything to it or take away anything from it. Let's pray. Dear Lord, you call us to worship you without mixing the different voices or dividing our loyalties. So I pray that you would help us to tear down what competes for our devotion and give you all of our full attention. Teach us to follow your ways, not simply what feels familiar or culturally accepted. So much of what we do. Is just the religious practices we've been handed down, and we don't understand why or where they came from. But Lord, I pray that you would shape our lives around your presence, not convenience or preference. Let our worship be intentional, faithful, and rooted in the truth. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.