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Daily Bread

Worship the Lord Your God

Date: Jun. 5, 2021

Passage

Exodus 23:20-33

Conquest of Canaan Promised

20 “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21 Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

22 “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

23 “When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, 24 you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 25 You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. 26 None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. 27 I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. 31 And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32 You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Daily Bread

Key Verse: Exodus 23:25

You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

1. I am sending an angel ahead of you (20-23)

God promised to Abraham the land of Canaan (Ge 15:18-21). It was already populated with powerful and wicked nations. God promised his angel, who bore his Name-his character, authority, and power-would clear the way. The people only had to trust and obey. In the same way, we follow Jesus, trusting and obeying him.

2. 'I will…' (24-33)

The main danger of the Canaanite peoples was not their armies, but their idols. To combat their corrupt practices, God's people should demolish the idols. But that was not enough. A good offense is the best defense: 'Worship the LORD your God.' If God's people focused on their own God, God would bless them. Note the repetition of 'I will...' in verses 25-33 (9x), showing God would do everything; he always keeps his covenant. All they needed to do was obey and worship the LORD. The LORD is our God too and has given us everything in Jesus.

Prayer: Father, you are worthy of worship because of who you are and all you have done for us in Christ Jesus. Help me worship you.

One Word: Let us worship the LORD our God

Daily Bread

We Are Your Sheep, Lord

Psalm 79:1-13

Key Verse: 79:13

But we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will give thanks to you forever;
from generation to generation we will recount your praise.

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