Anticipating Going into the Promised Land

Text: Deuteronomy 7:1-11
8 August 2017

ANTICIPATING GOING INTO THE PROMISED LAND

1. When the LORD your God brings you into the land   (Deuteronomy 7:1)

2. And when the LORD your God delivers them to you   (Deuteronomy 7:2)

THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND

1. Many nations

a) Hittites
b) Girgashites
c) Amorites
d) Canaanites
e) Perizzites
f) Hivites
g) Jebusites

2. Seven nations

a) Greater
b) Mightier

CONQUEST OF THE LAND

1. God will deliver these nations

2. Israel’s part

a) To conquer
b) To utterly destroy
c) No covenant with them (Deuteronomy 7:2)

THE RIGHT APPROACH

1. No mercy

2. No marriages   (Deuteronomy 7:3)

3. Danger highlighted

a) The sons will be turned away from following the Lord God
b) God’s anger will be aroused
c) They will be destroyed   (Deuteronomy 7:4)

4. Destruction

a) The altars of the enemies
b) Breaking down of the sacred pillars
c) Cutting down of their wooden images
d) Burning of the carved images   (Deuteronomy 7:5)