Deuteronomy 7

Why Did God Choose Israel?, God keeps his covenants, especially His unconditional, unilateral, irrevocable ones

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Let's read Deuteronomy 7:1-5

Be Separate

Deuteronomy 7:1-5,Be Separate

• NAU Ezra 10:11 "Now therefore, make confession to the LORD God of your fathers and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”

• NAU Matthew 19:6…What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

• NAU Romans 11:1 I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

• NAU Romans 11:25…a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

Deuteronomy 7:1-5,Be Separate, Be Mine

• Every husband wants his wife separated to himself.• NAU Hosea 3:1 Then the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a

woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods…

• NAU Jeremiah 31:31 "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.

Deuteronomy 7:6, Holy, Set Apart

• NAU Deuteronomy 7:6 "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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Deuteronomy 7:6, Holy, Set Apart

• NAU Deuteronomy 7:6 "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God…

• NAU 1 Peter 2:9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION…

• <40> ἅγιος hagios• Meaning: sacred, holy…

Deuteronomy 7:7 God Did Not Choose Israel Because

• NAU Deuteronomy 7:7 "The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

Deuteronomy 7:8, Why Did God Choose Israel?

• NAU Deuteronomy 7:8 but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8, Isaiah 5:2, Israel The Choicest Vine

• Deuteronomy 7:7 "The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number…

• Isaiah 5:2 …planted it with the choicest vine.… 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah His delightful plant….

Deuteronomy 7:6-8, Israel The Choicest Vine

• By 700 BC God has blessed the Jews to this point that they could be called “the choicest vine.” Could it be that Solomon, the wisest man ever, had spread his DNA through his 1000 wives to the result that Israel now has so many of the worlds Nobel peace prize winners, and the Jews have so many patents?

Deuteronomy 7:7, God’s Everlasting Covenant, And Love For Israel

• Isaiah 54:10 "For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken," Says the LORD who has compassion on you.

Deuteronomy 7:7

God’s Everlasting Covenant, And Love

For Israel

Page 15 describes God’s unsolicited love, unending love, and his unconditional love.

Deuteronomy 7:7, Not Racism Israel Was/Is Chosen

• NAU Deuteronomy 7:7 "The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

• NAU Deuteronomy 14:2, 7:6 "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

• NAU Amos 3:2 "You only have I chosen among all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

• Psalm 33:12, Zechariah 3:2, Romans 11:1, 25,

Deuteronomy 7:7Hated Because Their Chosen?

• “Only in Israel! This is definitely a historical first; a nation has to consider relocating its airport because of terrorist activities….when will Hezbollah obtain rockets and missiles with the reach of 370 km and more? Obviously, the answer is not if, but when?

• Again, the absolute uniqueness of Israel is shown; they are not to be compared with any other nation in the world. Yet this small nation, surrounded by hostile Arabs and terrorist organizations, is the only country in the world which …” [the LORD chose]

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Deuteronomy 7:7, God Chose His Vineyard

• Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

• In the midst of this passage concerning the coming judgments on Israel, God still says that Israel is His Vineyard, and…

• NAU Isaiah 5:25 On this account the anger of the LORD has burned against His people…

• Israel's unfaithfulness you'll never be able to make God unfaithful, or break His promises.

• NAU Matthew 27:11…”Are You the King of the Jews?" And Jesus said to him, "It is as you say."

Deuteronomy 7:9God Keeps His Covenants

• NAU Deuteronomy 7:9 "Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

• Those who would say that God has eternally rejected Israel are making God out to be unfaithful and a liar. God has made many unilateral, unconditional, promises to Israel which he will keep. The land is theirs forever. They were denied peaceful possession of it as got also promised. However they are back in the land and Isaiah 11:11-16 says they will remain there.

Let's read Deuteronomy 7:12-16

Galatians 3:16 God Granted Abraham A Promise

• NAU Galatians 3:16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ. 17 What I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. 18 For if the inheritance is based on law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by means of a promise.

UNBREAKABLE UNILATERAL COVENANTS Rom 9:6…It is not as though God's word had

failed… Rom 11:1… I ask then: Did God reject his

people? By no means!... Rom 11:11…Again I ask: Did they stumble so

as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all!... Rom 11:25-26…Israel has experienced a

hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written…

Rom 11:28-30…they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable….

GOD REMEMBERS HIS COVENANT FOREVER Ps 105:5-11 Remember the wonders he

has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced, 6 O descendants of Abraham his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones. 7 He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. 8 He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations, 9 the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac. 10 He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: 11 "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit."

PETER TOLD THE “MEN OF ISRAEL” Acts 3:25 And you are heirs of the

prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, 'Through your offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.‘

How? When? Rev 5:9 And they sang a new song:

"You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased [past tense] men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.

Deuteronomy 7:12Two Things, Covenant And Mercy

• NKJ Deuteronomy 7:12 "Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.

• #1; The Abraham covenant is unconditional, but • #2; the blessing, occupation, use, and possession

of the land is conditional.• We will examine the two sides of this coin in

Deuteronomy chapter 28.

UNILATERAL COVENANTS

GEN 12:1-3, A UNILATERAL COVENANT God did not say; “If you do” NAU Genesis 12:2 And I will make you a

great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; 3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

a command and then 4 promises This is a unilateral covenant because God

didn’t condition the promises upon anything

Let's read Deuteronomy 7:17-26

• Fear not because, “God”

Deuteronomy 7:17-21, Fear Not, Even In Great Trials

• James 1:12 Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

• 1 Peter 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,

• Martin Luther said, “Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.”

Deuteronomy 7:19, Trials

Deuteronomy 7:22, Wild Animals

• NAU Deuteronomy 7:22…the wild beasts would grow too numerous for you.

• Humans and wild animals are not brothers but adversaries, in spite of what PETA says.

• NAU Hosea 2:12…the beasts of the field will devour them.• NAU Leviticus 26:6-22 …’I will let loose among you the beasts

of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number…

• Before the fall, things were different, and will be again during the millennial kingdom…

• NAU Isaiah 11:6 And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead them.

So, in closing

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THE END

• In closing

Deuteronomy 7:7, God’s Lovingkindness, My Covenant, Everlasting Love For Israel

• Isaiah 54:10 "For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken," Says the LORD who has compassion on you.