SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION

Deuteronomy 16:20 KJV
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

OUR PRAYER!

Heavenly Father, hear these words grant us your patience that we may find our way on this narrow path you have provided. Bring us discernment so we would know your words and interpret them with us as you have set them before us. Lord, bring us to your walk, guide us, so we are walking in your light and only in your presence. Fill us with righteousness that we may stand against all temptations to veer from this narrow path. Bring us under your wings. Father comfort, shield, and nurture us like the children we are. This we pray in Yeshua’s name, and all of God’s children said Amen and Amen.

COMMENTARY!

Question: What does this statement mean to the committed believers? “We can’t be so heavenly minded that we’re no earthly good. There must be a balance.“

Here in Deuteronomy 16:20, we hear the following response. Care is taken for the due administration of justice. All personal regards must be laid aside so that right is done to all and wrong to none.

Care is taken to prevent following the idolatrous customs of the heathen. Nothing belies God more, or tends more to corrupt the minds of men than representing and worshipping, by an image, that God, who is an almighty and eternal Spirit, present everywhere. Alas! even in gospel days, and under a better dispensation, established upon better promises, there is a tendency to set up idols under one form or another in the human heart.

Ezekiel 18:5
[5]But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

The soul that sinneth it shall die. As to eternity, every man was, is, and will be dealt with, as his conduct shows him to have been under the old covenant of works, or the new covenant of grace. Whatever outward sufferings come upon men through the sins of others, they deserve for their own sins all they suffer; and the Lord overrules every event for the eternal good of believers.

All souls are in the hand of the great Creator: he will deal with them in justice or mercy; nor will any perish for the sins of another, who is not in some sense worthy of death for his own. We all have sinned, and our souls must be lost if God deal with us according to his holy law; but we are invited to come to Christ.

If a man who had shown his faith by his works, had a wicked son, whose character and conduct were the reverse of his parent’s, could it be expected he should escape the Divine vengeance on account of his father’s piety? Surely not.

And should a wicked man have a son who walked before God as righteous, this man would not perish for his father’s sins. If the son was not free from evils in this life, he should be partaker of salvation. The question here is not about the meritorious ground of justification but about the Lord’s dealings with the righteous and the wicked.

Every man is the servant of the master to whose commands he yields himself; whether it be the sinful dispositions of his heart, in actions which lead to death, or the new and spiritual obedience implanted by regeneration.

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen.