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The Message of Deuteronomy: Not by Bread Alone is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reading Deuteronomy can be like standing among the children of Israel before Moses, hearing him address us as the next generation of the covenant people of God. Though we will soon pass over the Jordan into the good land, we will still struggle with temptations and opposition. Moses challenges us to face and apply God’s covenant word to new situations. Raymond Brown guides Christians to hear and...

He has deliberately chosen them as his elect people. He twice addresses them here by their special name Israel (3, 4), emphasizing that they are a people bound to him in the special relationship of covenant-love. The loving initiative is with him, not them (7:8).7 That love did not begin with these desert pilgrims about to enter the land; it reached back into their history. He was their fathers’ God, true to his word,
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