For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.in that I command thee this day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou mayest live and multiply, and that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
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… with one clear commandment ringing through them all. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live. So that's my proof text. Thank you, Mimsy. Choose life. It's not always our choice to make, and some lose their lives guarding the lives of others. But when it is within our power, we're commanded to choose life, that we and all our planetary descendants may live. So what does that mean? Choose life. It sounds like one of those commandments, you should really just leave alone. it's so full of meaning, it would be a shame to decide on one meaning instead of many. So what I did instead was to think about what nourishes life, the vitalities that can bring it back to life. When any kind of death is banging on the door, spiritual death, sure, but also the physical kind, the emotional kind, the communal kind, the global kind, I can't make anyone else's list for them. …
… 30, the Lord says, See, I have set before you today life and prosperity and death and adversity. In that, I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His judgments." That sums up the entire revelation. I command you, love the Lord your God, walk in His ways, keep His commandments, statutes, judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you're entering to possess it. But if your heart turn away, and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you're crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants. …
… And what is life? Life is to do God's will. Life is to love the Lord your God so deeply that you form yourselves by His will and life. That's what life is that is really life. Choose life that you and your children may live. But there's an interesting little wrinkle here. the difference between what this speech appears to be and what it actually is. Let me get at that this way. This is President's Weekend, and if you have seen the 2012 movie, Lincoln, you know that it is the inspiring story of how our 16th President of the United States, states, Abraham Lincoln, right at the end of the Civil War, managed to push through a resistant Congress the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and then on to the states for ratification. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was the one that abolished the practice of slavery, our nation's original sin. And in that movie, we are allowed to hear Lincoln and the other revered leaders of our nation speak in passionate and persuasive ways about bipartisanship, racial equality, peace talks. …