These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
God gives commands and rules. This is a concept those who love God accept and rejoice over. Yes, believers can stumble at obedience, but those who love God, believe that the commands and rules God gives are for our benefit and His ultimate glory. It is those who reject God and His commands and rules that will miss out on His blessings. Notice what God says, though Moses, earlier about this thought, when warning the nation of Israel about what they should do when the enter the promise land:
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell. And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”
God is going to punish ANYONE who rejects His commands and rules. The only way a believer can even fulfill the commands and rules is through the obedience of Christ. Christ came to fulfill the law in Himself. He then died for us. He rose again for us. That gives us the power to do God’s commands and rules. He is writing them on the table of our hearts and minds:
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds,
and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
and I will remember their sins no more.”
We are to know God’s commands and rules. That was the book of Numbers and will be the theme of Deuteronomy (which means, “the second giving of the Law). Those who love God believe and obey His commands and rules by faith in Christ. Those who don’t disobey them, ignore them and violate them, but ultimately will be judge by them.
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