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*A BLAST FROM THE PAST*
*Deuteronomy 6:20-25*
*David Riley*
*Red** Bank Baptist Church*
*November 11, 2007*
/Deuteronomy 6:20-25/
/20 "When your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the LORD our God commanded you?' /
/21 then you shall say to your son,' We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt; and the LORD brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand.
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/22'Moreover, the LORD showed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household; /
/23 and He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.'
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/24 "So the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God for our good always and for our survival, as it is today.
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/25 And it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to observe all this commandment before the LORD our God, just as He commanded us.
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*INTRODUCTION*
I heard about a man who had retired, and he got up one morning and the first thing he did was read the obituary column to find out who had died.
Well, on this particular morning he read that column and the newspaper by mistake had put his name in the column and reported that he was dead.
He was not only shaken he was irate.
He called the editor of
the newspaper and fussed him out.
Finally the editor said, "I'll tell you what we'll do.
In the morning we'll put your name in the birth column and give you a brand new beginning."
There really is something exciting about new beginnings.
There's something exciting about a new year because you know it is a new beginning.
There's something exciting about starting a new job because you know it is a new beginning.
There's something exciting about moving into a new home because you know it could be a new beginning.
There's something exciting about a new day because you know with it comes a new beginning.
Believe it or not, you can have a new beginning in your life more often than you think because a new beginning requires three simple, but different, looks.
First of all, it requires a look BACK to see where you've been; it then requires a look AROUND to see where you are; then it requires a look AHEAD to see where you need to go.
Now you can't really get to where you need to go until you know where you are.
But you really cannot know where you are until you know where you've been.
Mickey Mantel was going to Yogi Berra's apartment one afternoon and he got lost.
He stopped at a pay phone and called Yogi and said, "Yogi, I'm trying to find your apartment, where is it?"
Yogi said, "Where are you now?"
He said, "I'm at the corner of 5th and Main."
Yogi said, "Well, just keep coming in this direction," and hung up.
The nation of Israel was less than a two-week journey from the Promised Land.
They had been wandering in the wilderness for forty years, and they were now poised to cross the Jordan, conquer Canaan, and claim a new beginning.
But before they did, Moses gives them "a blast from the past."
He asked them to open the vault of their memory, and *REMEMBER* what the Lord HAD DONE for them so that they could *REJOICE* in what He WAS DOING for them, and then *RECEIVE* what He WOULD DO for them.
Your memory is a very powerful tool.
Your memory is capable of containing 100 bits of information, or 500 times the information contained in a complete set of encyclopedias.
Your brain has 100 billion neurons, and 100 trillion connections for those memories, 46 ounces of memories in all, and that's if you're average.
There is a reason why God has given us this magnificent tool called a memory.
The way to know that you can trust what God is doing today, and what God will do tomorrow, is to remember what God has done yesterday.
Before you can look to the future, and even live in the present, you must learn from the past.
We need to do what Moses told the nation of Israel to do before they entered into the promise
land.
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Look Back At God's Providence Over Your *
* Life*
/Deuteronomy 6:21/
/21 then you shall say to your son,' We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt; and the LORD brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand.
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Israel was poised to cross the Jordan because of God's
providence in her life.
God had reached down with His
mighty Hand and delivered Israel from the clutches of
the most powerful nation on earth.
You can explain
the providence of God in one single verse in the Bible, Romans 8:28,
/Romans 8:28/
/28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
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I can look back in my own life and see so many ways how God's providence has operated in my life.
Met Peggy on a blind date.
Call to CCC and Training Center
You and I both can look back and begin to connect the dots of daily events that took place in our life and see a pattern.
We can see life as different pieces of the puzzle somehow miraculously fitting together.
These pieces are not
circumstantial, nor are they accidental, they are providential.
When you look back and see how God has worked in your life, you can know that God is working in your life, and will work in your life.
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Look Back At God's Providence Over Your *
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Look Back At God's Presence In Your Life*
/Deuteronomy 6:22/
/22 'Moreover, the LORD showed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household; /
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God wanted Israel to know not only was He real, but also He was THERE.
He did it with signs and wonders.
Remember
that God never does a miracle for show.
He never does
it to get a thrill.
He does it to manifest His presence and magnify His glory.
Like the nation of Israel, we can see God everyday, not just in the big things of life, but in the little things of life.
I heard about a little boy that came into the kitchen with his baseball glove and a ball.
He said, "Mother, can I go out and play 'catch' before supper?"
She said, "Sure, who are you going to play with?"
He said, "God."
She said, "How do you play catch with God?"
He said, "Oh, I do it all the time.
I go out in the backyard and throw the ball up to heaven and
God always throws it back."
Even in an act of gravity that little boy recognized the presence of God in his life.
Have you ever gotten a phone call, or a letter, or an e-mail, and it was exactly what you needed to hear or read at that particular time?
We all have, and those are just tiny reminders of God's presence in our lives.
I want you to remember something.
God is always present in your life; you just may not always be aware of it.
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