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9-17-2020 A Word to the Wise – In every major engagement in the battles of the Bible God expects His army to chase the enemy from the battlefield and to keep on until they quit. The enemy is to be destroyed. Not bargained with. Not preserved. Not the subject of treaties. The battles of Joshua and Judges emphatically teach these principle. Pursue the enemy until you physically drop until you can no longer lift your weapon. Give no refuge to the enemy. Chase him until he has nowhere to go then destroy him.

We are entered into an important engagement. Set before us are moral choices that will determine the future for our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. We cannot depend on others to teach our children morals, ethics, or respect for our government, teachers, elders, spouses and those in authority. Those responsibilities fall on our shoulders

Moses makes a couple of statements in Deuteronomy which are just as important for us today as it was for God’s people 3500 years ago listen to them:

See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 6 Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? 8 And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?

Then Moses speaking for the Lord tells us how this is to be accomplished:

The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[b] 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

It is our failure today to follow this in our daily lives, and those of our children that result in the predicaments of the day.

It is time to return to the old paths.