Devotion 185

DEVOTION 185: “Froward Generation in Whom There is No Faith” coming out of Deu. 32

There is a perfume sitting on a table in a room. A blind man walks in the room. He has no ability to know there is perfume until someone sprays it. With his sense of smell; he is able to relate to the perfume. This is his only way of relating to the perfume.

Faith is the only means to relate to God. We cannot smell, taste, see or feel God.

Without his ability to smell, the blind man had no means of knowing the perfume. Without sight, we have no means of discerning colors. Without faith we have no means of relating to God.

Unbelief makes God nonexistent to us. To blind man, the perfume was nonexistent until someone sprayed it.

Man wants to believe in things that can be seen. One physician said “ if it cannot be scientifically proven, then it’s not real.”  He missed a great truth. The truth is if it CAN be scientifically proven, then it’s not real.

Let me ask this question. Is there someone you love? Think of anyone you love. For instance your spouse, children or parents. Can you scientifically prove your love for the individual? Yet the love is real.

Anything that can be scientifically proven will pass away. The only reality are things that cannot be proven scientifically.

Israel trusted in idols (things) they could see instead of believing (having faith) in the Word of God alone.

Let’s read:

Deuteronomy 32:1-3  “Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. [2] My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: [3] Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.”
His Name is Savior. His Name is the Rock. His Name is Everlasting Father. His Name is Creator. His Name is the Word. His Name is God.

Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

His Name is Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

We continue our reading:

Deuteronomy 32:4-5 “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. [5] They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.”

The only right path is faith in His Word. Every other path is crooked and perverse.
We continue our reading:

Deuteronomy 32:6-15 “Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? [7] Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. [8] When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. [9] For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. [10] He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. [11] As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: [12] So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. [13] He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; [14] Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. [15] But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.”

When we depend on the five physical senses, faith becomes dull, and unbelief becomes the norm. We begin to trust in what we have and not the Source of the provision.
Abraham trusted in the Source of the provision and not the provision. It was accounted to him for righteousness. Israel trusted in the provision and not the Source of the provision. It was accounted to het for unrighteousness.

We continue our reading:

Deuteronomy 32:16-18 “They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. [17] They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. [18] Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.”

They forgot what they couldn’t see. It’s easy because we live in three dimensions of matter, light, and  time.We don’t forget matter because we can touch it. We don’t forget light because we can see it. We don’t forget time because the sun and moon rotates. But we easily forget God because faith is outside the three physical dimensions.
Faith is the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

The moment we live by what we see, we forget the Rock who made us; the evidence of things not seen, accessed only via faith which is spiritual.

The natural is only a reflection of the spiritual just so words are a reflection of thoughts.

We continue our reading:

Deuteronomy 32:19-28 “And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. [20] And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. [21] They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. [22] For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. [23] I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. [24] They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. [25] The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. [26] I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: [27] Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. [28] For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.”
He is the Wonderful Counselor. There is no counsel outside the Word of God.
Void of the Word is void of counseling.

We continue our reading:

Deuteronomy 32:29-39 “O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! [30] How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? [31] For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. [32] For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: [33] Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. [34] Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? [35] To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. [36] For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. [37] And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, [38] Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. [39] See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.”

He is the giver of life and the taker of life. He is the Healer — Jehovah Rapha.He gave life by the Work of the Cross. He heals by the Work of the Cross.Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

We conclude our reading:

Deuteronomy 32:40-52 “For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. [41] If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. [42] I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. [43] Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. [44] And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. [45] And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: [46] And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. [47] For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. [48] And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, [49] Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: [50] And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: [51] Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah–Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. [52] Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.”

Moses trespassed against the Word at the waters of Meribah. If one man’s faith accounted to him for righteousness, anyone who expresses the same faith, to them will be accounted for the same righteousness.

If one man is saved by faith in the shed Blood, anyone who expresses the same faith in the same shed Blood will be saved. If trespassing the Word of God caused death in Moses before his time, then trespassing the Word of God by anyone will causes death before their time.

Moses is not treated differently than David or anyone one of His children. That’s what makes Him God. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Let the Word of God be your only evidence. BELIEVE, and confess Christ the Word, as we’ve revealed Him from the First Adam. Faith is your Evidence, in Christ!