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The Man In Love
fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Joshua 22:4-5
Joshua also reminded the children of Israel when they got to the promise land, of the need to ‘take heed’ to love the Lord in return for His love by doing His commandment. He understood that the love of God got them into the land and reciprocity from them would keep them therein.
Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the Lord your God. Or else, if indeed you do go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations—these that remain among you—and make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you, know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Joshua 23:11-13
He was relentless in the warnings that He gave to them on this matter. He knew God’s heart for the people as well as His demand for reciprocity.
The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He
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