Observe the commands of the Lord your God

 Deuteronomy 8-10

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.

He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”

For the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance

 Deuteronomy 32-34

Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth. Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God! He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

For the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them. I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust. In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair. I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory

On that same day the Lord told Moses, “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession. There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people. This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites. Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel.”

Moses Blesses the Tribes

And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone. The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.

Why?

The sin of Moses is that he did not uphold God's holiness among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh.

Mose is a good servant of the Lord, but he still sins against the Lord for the sins of the Israelites.

How?
Do may best to be a good servant of the Lord!

Love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul

 Deuteronomy 11-13

Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; 3 the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country; 

So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.

Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you.  If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him— then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you.

Why?

Because the Lord is the real God, the Lord does not allow his people to worship other gods.

The Lord knew there were many things will entice people to turn away and worship other gods, so the Lord warned us. The consequence we have to bear by ourselves.

How?

Focus on the Lord and keep God's command with a pure heart and mind, live our life as the Lord commanded with faith, love, and hope!

You shall have no other gods before me.

 Deuteromy 5-7

Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. It was not with our ancestors that the Lord made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today. The Lord spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.

How?

I belong to the Lord, before the Lord I have no other gods!

Do not be afraid of them; the Lord your God himself will fight for you

 Deuteronomy 3-4

Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei. The Lord said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”

We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city—men, women and children. But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.

We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salekah and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.

Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns. The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. 

However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you, until the Lord gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the Lord your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.

At that time I commanded Joshua: “You have seen with your own eyes all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do the same to all the kingdoms over there where you are going. Do not be afraid of them; the Lord your God himself will fight for you.”

But because of you the Lord was angry with me and would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the Lord said. “Do not speak to me anymore about this matter. Go up to the top of Pisgah and look west and north and south and east. Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this Jordan. But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.” So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.

You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.

Why?

Be afraid of the Lord, for our God is the real God; besides him, there is no other.

How?

Be aware of the consequences of the Israelites' history recorded in the Bible. Our God is everlasting God, fear the Lord and remember God's mercy, the Lord's word, honor the Holy name of the Lord

The land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries

 Numbers 34-36

When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries: Your southern side will include some of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom. Your southern boundary will start in the east from the southern end of the Dead Sea, cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon, where it will turn, join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.

The land of Isreal now is smaller than Moses got from the Lord. So oneday Israelite will get their promised land.

Towns for the Levites are the cities of refuge. Help the needy person.

Inheritance of Zelophehad's daughters may got the inheritance from their father's family. It means not only sons but daughters have the right to get the promised land from the Lord.

How?

Everyone before the Lord has an equal right and treatment!

Daily Offerings

 Numbers 28-30

Daily Offerings: The Lord said to Moses, “Give this command to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Make sure that you present to me at the appointed time my food offerings, as an aroma pleasing to me.’

Sabbath offering: 

On the first of every month

The Passover:

On the day of firstfruits, when you present to the Lord an offering of new grain during the Festival of Weeks.

The Festival of Tabernacles: On the tenth day of this seventh month, hold a sacred assembly. You must deny yourselves and do no work.

This is what the Lord commands: When a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.

Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her.

Why?

The Lord defined the regulations in the family about the Vows and many offerings. This makes the man need to take more responsibility in his family.

Let offering to the Lord become a custom in God's people; it makes God's people remember we belong to the Lord.

How?

Praying and reading the Bible daily, and going to church on Sunday, are symbols of Christianity and remembering the Lord in our lives.