You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit

Deuteronomy 12:1-14

Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.

There bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit.

And there rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance of their own.  Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please. Offer them only at the place the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.

All the places where the Canaanites practiced their depraved rites are to be wiped out. Israel is not to use them. When the nation is settled GOd will select one specific place for the sacrifices. Shiloh was the nation's first religious center, under Eli and Samuel. From David and Solomon's time Jerusalem, with its Temple, was GOd's holy city, though after Solomon's death the breakaway tribes set up two rival shrines for the northern kingdom.

Why?

Even the Lord has said to Israelites before they entered the promised land, but a few generations later, all of the evil things God reminded happened. 

Do not leave any little seed of evil in our daily life. and keep the word of the Lord has to pay attention and careful follow. 

The prosper and proud always is the reason to fall down our heart.

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摩西再一次對以色列民說明十誡！盡心、盡性，盡力的敬畏耶和華，總歸就是愛。

不可在異教的祭壇來獻祭，一定要在神規定的地方獻祭。照神的方法，不是按自己喜好，方便、時間、能力來獻祭。我這個人的主權也是屬於主的，敬拜就是把最高的價值獻給神！奉獻就是我所有一切都是神的。所以我的價值就低於神！一切都以神的喜好為主。不是求主祝福，配合我的計劃。

聖殿、會幕代表耶穌，代表回到神面前的那條路。耶穌基督就是我們唯一的道路。偶像就是自己的喜好，目標，任何可以取代神的都是偶像。

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How?

Fear the Lord and keep in mind of the word of God in our daily life.