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NASB | Deuteronomy 12:30 beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 12:30 beware that you are not lured (ensnared) into following them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods, so that I too may do likewise?' |
Subject: Our Worship Ought to be Different |
Bible Note: In preparation for the invasion of Canaan, our covenant God promised to destroy the nations before us (Deuteronomy 12:29). His chief complaint against the nations was their pagan worship. He warned, "When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?--that I also may do the same.' You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. "Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it." (Deuteronomy 12:29-32 ESV) Here Scripture connects two essential Biblical principles, antithesis and worship. Antithesis means that God's people are to be clearly distinct from the surrounding pagan culture and that difference is to be expressed in worship. Not only are we not to worship the pagan gods, we are to worship the true God truly. It is significant then, that to this warning he added, "See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it." This principle is not confined to the Old Covenant Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus taught the same doctrine in Revelation 22:18-19. This is so because God's covenantal Word is united by one covenant of Grace: I will be your God, you will be my people (Genesis 17:1-14; Exodus 6:7; Jeremiah 7:23; 31;31-34.). There is only one Lord, one faith and one baptism, i.e., one covenant of grace under different administrations (Ephesians 4:5; see also ). Under Moses, this covenant was expressed in types and shadows (Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 10:1; Romans 5:14). In Jesus Christ we have the reality of what was promised. From Principles of Reformed Worship, Escondido United Reformed Church, September 2000 |
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