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Bible study · Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Deuteronomy 7: Because the LORD loves you

Read Deuteronomy 7:1-26 before you meet.

In a few lines

The LORD didn't choose Israel for being many; they were "the fewest of all peoples" (7:7); in Hebrew, "fewest" is the word of "little by little" (7:22). He chose them "because the LORD loves you" and to keep his oath (7:8), and he keeps loving kindness "to a thousand generations" (7:9).

The verse to carry

“Know therefore that the LORD your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments,”

Deuteronomy 7:9

To talk about

  1. 1. The LORD didn't choose Israel for their size, and Moses later says not for their righteousness either (7:7-8; 9:5), "but because the LORD loves you" (7:8). Where do you still find yourself trying to earn a love you've already been given?

  2. 2. "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?" (7:17). What in your life feels "more than I" right now, and what would it look like to "remember well" (7:18) what God has already done?

  3. 3. The LORD said he would drive out the nations "little by little", and gave a reason: "lest the animals of the field increase on you" (7:22). Where are you waiting on something that is coming slower than you'd like?

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