“Hardship's Help, Prosperity's Peril”
Deuteronomy 8:1-20 Oct.9, 2005 Play
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Aren't You Forgetting Something?
• shame to omit part of meal, or forget important
event
Our Real Resource: Good Land or Godly Living?
• Canada a very enviable place to live
• a ‘good land' with water, wheat, minerals, lack
nothing (7-10)
• don't live on bread alone, but God's word; don't
set heart on food (3; Lk 12:29,23)
• God gives ability to produce wealth, examines
whether we obey (18; Jer 17:10)
• reward comes from faith in God, not consumer
lifestyle (Heb 11:6; 10:38)
The Peril of Prosperity: Affluenza's Alzheimers
• satisfied - heart proud - forget God - danger of
destruction (12ff, 17, 19f)
• warning from example of previous inhabitants (Gen
15:16)
• other proud boasters humbled: Ephraim, Assyria,
Nebuchadnezzar (Hos 12:8; Is 10:8ff; Dan 4:30)
• eccentric H Green millionaire but victim of her own
stinginess
• futile to bustle about heaping up wealth (Ps 39:6)
The Valuable Lesson of Daily Deliverance
• humble circumstances can make one rich in faith
(Jas 1:9, 2:5)
• God supplied Israel's needs, protected through
desert wanderings (3f; 15)
• hardship discipline / testing to strengthen us (5,
16, 18; Php 4:13)
• trusting for daily bread helps us not disown God
(Prov 30:8f)
• God cares for us, honours humble contentment (Jas
4:6,10; 1Pet 5:6f; Heb 13:5)
Give Thanks – for Fleas?!
• Corrie ten Boom & sister learn to give thanks
in all circumstances: bugs had hidden benefits
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