Deuteronomy 4:37-39 (ESV Strong's)
And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day, know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
God will “Bring Us In!”
The entire point of the nation of Israel was to show God’s redemptive power. God choose the nation of Israel from among the nations. Note what He told them in this section:
Deuteronomy 4:32-34 (ESV Strong's)
The Lord Alone Is God
“For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
As a result of this redemptive work, God states it is He who will bring us into the “promise land.” The “promise land” is a picture of the Christian coming into “rest” and allowing God to live victoriously in our lives. God did not just save Israel out of Egypt (a picture of our salvation); but He also brought them into the promise land (a picture of our sanctification). We don’t have to worry about our lives to be saved, because God saves us. We don’t have to error about our lives living for God because God sanctifies us. He will “bring” us into His rest!!
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