This is not about keeping rules or avoiding ways to anger God. The response


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After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals. They forsook the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped vari- ous gods of the people around them. They aroused the Lord’s anger because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths 


       these amazing events.  nored. The people got the idea that God was a God to be manipulated rather  And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? He requires only that you fear the Lord your God, and live in a way that pleases him, and love him and serve him with all your heart and soul. And you must always obey the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good   


     for God and his word. 


 


Practical Steps 


  


    that has little or no use for God at all. They need to know about a God who     





Loving God from the heart must


                            in nature. 


        bottom line. Christ is not saying we             in all that we do. We are depen                                         by saying that we must pursue God                            who is King of everyday life.      


              trust with others. He does not treat us   dren view you when they sin when       that you will not treat them as their  be a refuge for them when they fail to obey? Or have they been driven     


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