Crossing the Read Sea

1 Corinthians 11:23-27 

Remember Jesus' Saving Work

23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, 

24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 

25 In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 

26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Partaking of the Supper Unworthily

27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord.

Devarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 32

1 Listen, O heavens, and I will speak! And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!

2 My lesson will drip like rain; my word will flow like dew; like storm winds on vegetation and like raindrops on grass.

3 When I call out the name of the Lord, ascribe greatness to our God.

4 The deeds of the [Mighty] Rock are perfect, for all His ways are just; a faithful God, without injustice He is righteous and upright.

5 Destruction is not His; it is His children's defect you crooked and twisted generation.

6 Is this how you repay the Lord, you disgraceful, unwise people?! Is He not your Father, your Master? He has made you and established you.

Joshua 4:14-24 

Crossing into the Promised Land

14 On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him, as they had stood in awe of Moses all the days of his life.

15 The Lord said to Joshua, 

16 “Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant to come up out of the Jordan.” 

17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, “Come up out of the Jordan.” 

18 When the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan and the soles of the priests’ feet touched dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.

19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. 

20 Those twelve stones that they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal, 

21 saying to the Israelites, “When your children ask their parents in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 

22 then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel crossed over the Jordan here on dry ground.’ 

23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we crossed over, 

24 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty and so that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 32

7 Remember the days of old; reflect upon the years of [other] generations. Ask your father, and he will tell you; your elders, and they will inform you.

8 When the Most High gave nations their lot, when He separated the sons of man, He set up the boundaries of peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

9 Because the Lord's portion is His people. Jacob, the lot of His inheritance.

10 He found them in a desert land, and in a desolate, howling wasteland. He encompassed them and bestowed understanding upon them; He protected them as the pupil of His eye.

11 As an eagle awakens its nest, hovering over its fledglings, it spreads its wings, taking them and carrying them on its pinions.

12 [So] the Lord guided them alone, and there was no alien deity with Him.

Deuteronomy 7:1-11 

Live as God's Treasured Possession

1 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy and he clears away many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you— 

2 and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy. 

3 Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 

4 for that would turn away your children from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. 

5 But this is how you must deal with them: break down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles, and burn their idols with fire. 

6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

7 “It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 

8 It was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath that he swore to your ancestors that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 

9 Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 

10 and who repays in their own person those who reject him. He does not delay but repays in their own person those who reject him. 

11 Therefore, observe diligently the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today.

Devarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 32

13 He made them ride upon the high places of the earth, that they would eat the produce of the field. He let them suck honey from a rock, and oil from the mighty part of the crag.

14 The cream of cattle and the milk of sheep, with the fat of lambs and rams of Bashan and he goats, with kidneys of wheat, and it [the congregation of Israel] would drink the blood of grapes [which was] as the finest wine.

15 And Jeshurun became fat and rebelled; you grew fat, thick and rotund; [Israel] forsook the God Who made them, and spurned the [Mighty] Rock of their salvation.

16 They provoked His zeal with alien worship; they made Him angry with abominations deeds.

17 They sacrificed to demons, which have no power, deities they did not know, new things that only recently came, which your forefathers did not fear.

18 You forgot the [Mighty] Rock Who bore you; you forgot the God Who delivered you.

Deuteronomy 7:12-26 

God Will Love, Bless, and Multiply

12 “If you heed these ordinances by diligently observing them, the Lord your God will maintain with you the covenant loyalty that he swore to your ancestors; 

13 he will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you. 

14 You shall be the most blessed of peoples, with neither sterility nor barrenness among you or your livestock. 

15 The Lord will turn away from you every illness; all the dread diseases of Egypt that you experienced, he will not inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. 

16 You shall devour all the peoples that the Lord your God is giving over to you, showing them no pity; you shall not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

17 “If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?’ 

18 do not be afraid of them. Just remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, 

19 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 

20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send swarms of hornets against them until even the survivors and the fugitives are destroyed. 

21 Have no dread of them, for the Lord your God, who is present with you, is a great and awesome God. 

22 The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to make a quick end of them, otherwise the wild animals would become too numerous for you. 

23 But the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great panic until they are destroyed. 

24 He will hand their kings over to you, and you shall blot out their name from under heaven; no one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. 

25 The images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them and take it for yourself, because you could be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God. 

26 Do not bring an abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You must utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Devarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 32

19 And the Lord saw this and became angry, provoked by His sons and daughters.

20 And He said, "I will hide My face from them. I will see what their end will be, for they are a generation of changes; they are not [recognizable] as My children whom I have reared.

21 They have provoked My jealousy with a non god, provoked My anger with their vanities. Thus, I will provoke their jealousy with a non people, provoke their anger with a foolish nation.

22 For a fire blazed in My wrath, and burned to the lowest depths. It consumed the land and its produce, setting aflame the foundations of mountains.

23 I will link evils upon them. I will use up My arrows on them.

24 They will sprout hair from famine, attacked by demons, excised by Meriri. I will incite the teeth of livestock upon them, with the venom of creatures that slither in the dust.

25 From outside, the sword will bereave, and terror from within; young men and maidens, suckling babes with venerable elders.

26 I said that I would make an end of them, eradicate their remembrance from mankind.

27 Were it not that the enemy's wrath was heaped up, lest their adversaries distort; lest they claim, "Our hand was triumphant! The Lord did none of this!"

28 For they are a nation devoid of counsel, and they have no understanding.

Philippians 4:10-19 

Strengthened in Every Circumstance

10 I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned for me but had no opportunity to show it. 

11 Not that I am referring to being in need, for I have learned to be content with whatever I have. 

12 I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need. 

13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. 

14 In any case, it was kind of you to share my distress.

15 You Philippians indeed know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone. 

16 For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me help for my needs more than once. 

17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit that accumulates to your account. 

18 I have been paid in full and have more than enough; I am fully satisfied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God. 

19 And my God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Devarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 32

29 If they were wise, they would understand this; they would reflect upon their fate.

30 How can one [person] pursue a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their [Mighty] Rock has sold them out, and the Lord has given them over?

31 For their rock is not like our [Mighty] Rock. Nevertheless, our enemies sit in judgment.

32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the field of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of rosh, and they have bitter clusters.

33 Their wine is the bitterness of serpents, and the bitterness of the ruthless cobras.

34 Is it not stored up with Me, sealed up in My treasuries?

35 Vengeance is poised with Me, and it will pay at the time their foot stumbles. For the appointed day of their reckoning is near, and what is destined for them hastens.

36 When the Lord will judge His people, and will reconsider His servants, when He sees that the power is increasing, and none is controlled or strengthened.

37 Then He will say, "Where is their deity, the rock in which they trusted,

38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libations? Let them arise and help you! Let them be your shelter!

39 See now that it is I! I am the One, and there is no god like Me! I cause death and grant life. I strike, but I heal, and no one can rescue from My Hand!

2 Corinthians 10:1-5, 15-18

 Armed for Spiritual Warfare

1 I myself, Paul, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you but bold toward you when I am away!— 

2 I ask that when I am present I need not show boldness by daring to oppose those who think we are acting according to human standards. 

3 Indeed, we live as humans but do not wage war according to human standards, 

4 for the weapons of our warfare are not merely human, but they have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments 

5 and every proud obstacle raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ. 

6 We are ready to punish every disobedience when your obedience is complete.

7 Look at what is before your eyes. If you are confident that you belong to Christ, remind yourself of this, that just as you belong to Christ, so also do we. 8 Now, even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of it. 9 I do not want to seem as though I am trying to frighten you with my letters. 10 For someone says, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible.” 11 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent we will also do when present.

12 We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they do not show good sense. 13 We, however, will not boast beyond limits but will keep within the field that God has assigned to us, to reach out even as far as you. 14 For we were not overstepping our limits when we reached you; we were the first to come all the way to you with the good news of Christ. 

15 We do not boast beyond limits, that is, in the labors of others, but our hope is that, as your faith increases, our field among you may be greatly enlarged, 

16 so that we may proclaim the good news in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in someone else’s field. 

17 “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 

18 For it is not those who commend themselves that are approved but those whom the Lord commends.

Devarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 32

40 For I raise up My hand to heaven, and say, 'As I live forever.'

41 When I sharpen the blade of My sword, and My hand grasps judgment, I will bring vengeance upon My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

42 I will intoxicate My arrows with blood, and My sword will consume flesh, from the blood of the slain and the captives, from the first breach of the enemy.'

43 Sing out praise, O you nations, for His people! For He will avenge the blood of His servants, inflict revenge upon His adversaries, and appease His land [and] His people.

John 16:23-33 

Christ Has Conquered the World

23 On that day you will ask nothing of me. Very truly, I tell you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. 

24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

Peace for the Disciples

25 “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but will tell you plainly of the Father. 

26 On that day you will ask in my name. I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf, 

27 for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 

28 I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father.”

29 His disciples said, “Yes, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure of speech! 

30 Now we know that you know all things and do not need to have anyone question you; by this we believe that you came from God.” 

31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? 

32 The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me. 

33 I have said this to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world!”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) Chapter 32

44 And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song into the ears of the people he and Hoshea the son of Nun.

45 And Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel.

46 And he said to them, "Set your hearts to all of the words which I bear witness for you this day, so that you may command your children to observe to do all the words of this Torah.

47 For it is not an empty thing for you, for it is your life, and through this thing, you will lengthen your days upon the land to which you are crossing over the Jordan, to possess it."

48 And the Lord spoke to Moses on that very day, saying,

49 Go up this Mount Avarim [to] Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is facing Jericho, and see the Land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel as a possession,

50 And die on the mountain upon which you are climbing and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

51 Because you betrayed Me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Merivath Kadesh, [in] the desert of Zin, [and] because you did not sanctify Me in the midst of the children of Israel.

52 For from afar, you will see the land, but you will not come there, to the land I am giving the children of Israel.

Hoshea (Hosea) Chapter 14

2 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.

3 Take words with yourselves and return to the Lord. Say, "You shall forgive all iniquity and teach us [the] good [way], and let us render [for] bulls [the offering of] our lips.

4 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses, nor will we say any longer, our gods, to the work of our hands, for in You, by Whom the orphan is granted mercy."

5 I will remedy their backsliding; I will love them freely, for My wrath has turned away from them.

6 I will be like dew to Israel, they shall blossom like a rose, and it shall strike its roots like the Lebanon.

7 Its branches shall go forth, and its beauty shall be like the olive tree, and its fragrance like the Lebanon.

8 Those who dwelt in its shade shall return; they shall revive [like] corn and blossom like the vine; its fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

9 Ephraim; What more do I need the images? I will answer him and I will look upon him: I am like a leafy cypress tree; from Me your fruit is found.

10 Who is wise and will understand these, discerning and will know them; for the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them, and the rebellious shall stumble on them.

Michah (Micah) Chapter 7

18 Who is a God like You, Who forgives iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not maintain His anger forever, for He desires loving-kindness.

19 He shall return and grant us compassion; He shall hide our iniquities, and You shall cast into the depths of the sea all their sins.

20 You shall give the truth of Jacob, the loving-kindness of Abraham, which You swore to our forefathers from days of yore.