Protecting Your Noggin, To Prevent Neglection
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Intro
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The children of Israel were going to brought into the land of Canaan, which represents the victorious Christian life. It involves hard fought battles as well as abundant blessings. Canaan in the Hebrew means to submit and to be humble, or lowland. If you want to live in the place of the victorious Christian life, you’ll have to submit yourself and humble yourself before God.
In vs. 10-11, God is wanting the children of Israel to know that he is going to abundantly bless them because he loves them. He’s giving them things they didn’t have to work for, things they didn’t have to wait on, things they didn’t have to pay for, things they didn’t deserve. With these blessings comes a warning. In vs. 12, God says to beware, lest thou forget the Lord.
Just as God blessed Israel and helped them, even though they didn’t deserve it, God has helped us and blessed us.
Furthermore, Israel tended to go back and forth with God. Blessing, then betrayal. Blessing, then betrayal. Some, if not all of us have the same tendencies as the children of Israel. We get what we ask God, think we deserve it, forget to thank God for what he has given us, and then forget the Lord.
Forget = the act of removing one’s knowledge from the forefront of one’s mind, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
They were going to be so focused on what God had given them, that they would forget God.
We shouldn’t forget what God does for us each and every day. In order to not forget the Lord, they’re are some things that we should constantly have on our mind to protect against forgetting the blessings of the Lord.
King James Version Psalm 103
Bless the LORD, O my soul,
And forget not all his benefits:
King James Version Chapter 8
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
King James Version Chapter 1
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
It could be that the reason you’re not happy, joyful, peaceful, or excited is because you haven’t thanked God for his blessings.
O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: Make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: Talk ye of all his wondrous works. Glory ye in his holy name: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. Seek the Lord, and his strength: Seek his face evermore. Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
Remember = Refers to thinking about something or calling something to mind, especially as a past fact or event.
You can control your mind if you are saved. Jesus said, “Take no thought for the morrow.” “Take no thought for your life.”
How can we as Christians, bring things to our mind and attention, so that we don’t forget God?
Allowing of Service (1-3)
Allowing of Service (1-3)
We don’t have to serve God, we get to serve God.
We are not saved by service, but we are saved to service.
We Endeavor, Page 6
Charles Spurgeon
(Happiness is Service) Serving God is not a burden, but a blessing. (Grievous = burdensome, heavy,
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
King James Version Chapter 6
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23
(Honoring in Service) Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. When we seek to service God, we can take it to the bank that God will honor that.
My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: Keep sound wisdom and discretion: So shall they be life unto thy soul, And grace to thy neck. Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, And thy foot shall not stumble. When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
“This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” God recognizes service.
(Hope in Service) Whatever service you do for the Lord, it will not be in vain.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Adoration of the Sovereign (4-5)
Adoration of the Sovereign (4-5)
(Sovereign we Love = LORD our God is one Lord)
We love Him, because He first loved us.
(Surrender in Love = ALL)
We should love God with everything in us.
Go all in for God! %95 is not good enough for God! He wants all of you!
(Singularity in Love = Thine/Thy)
You have to make the choice to love God with all your heart.
The first words recorded in the Gospel of John by Christ was, “What seek ye?”
Admiring of the Scriptures (6-9)
Admiring of the Scriptures (6-9)
(Memorizing of the Scriptures = shall be in thine heart)
BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, That I might not sin against thee.
It’s had to forget the Lord when you have His Word in your heart.
(Mentoring of the Scriptures = teach them diligently unto thy children)
It’s hard to forget about God when you’re concerned about the souls of children.
And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
(Meditation of the Scriptures = talk of them when you sit, walk, lie down, rise up)
Blessed is the man That walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; And in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Any time you can think on the Word of God is a great thing.
Meditation is the practice of focusing one’s thoughts on spiritual matters.
It’s hard to forget about God when you’re thinking about His Word.
Appreciation of Supplying (10-11)
Appreciation of Supplying (10-11)
(Provider of Supplying = When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee/give thee)
God is the one who gives us everything that we have.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Elijah and the widow woman.
Moses smote the rock.
Bread of life.
(Promise of Supplying - it shall be)
King James Version Chapter 4
But my God shall supply all your need
I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread. He is ever merciful, and lendeth; And his seed is blessed.
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, And delivereth them out of all their troubles.
King James Version Psalm 34
Many are the afflictions of the righteous:
But the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
(Plenteous Supplying = houses full of all good things, eaten and be full)
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Feeding of the 5,000
King James Version Chapter 6
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
It’s hard to forget about God when you realize how He’s met every need in your life.
Annihilation of Sin (12)
Annihilation of Sin (12)
It’s hard to forget God when he pulled you out of hell and saved your soul.