All through the Bible we find evidence of God’s foreknowledge. That is, He knows beforehand all that will happen. Whether the rise and fall of world empires (Daniel 7) to individual actions just hours before they occur — “Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times” (Matthew 26:34) — the Lord knows the end from the beginning. His foreknowledge, even of our free choices, has no bearing whatsoever on the freedom of those choices.

Thus, the Lord knew, even before He brought the children of Israel into the land, what they would do when in the land.

Read Deuteronomy 4:25-28. What did the Lord say that the people would do after they had been in the land promised them?

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In the verses before, the Lord tells them specifically not to make idols and not to worship them (Deuteronomy 4:15-20). Yet, the following verses pretty much say that making idols and worshiping them is exactly what they are going to do, despite all the warnings.

Notice that in Deuteronomy 4:25, Moses is clear that it won’t happen immediately. After all that they just had experienced, they weren’t likely to fall into idolatry right away. However, over time, after a generation or so, the tendency to “forget” (Deuteronomy 4:9) what the Lord had done for them, and what He had warned them against, would lead them to do exactly what He warned against.

Read Deuteronomy 4:29-31. What does the Lord say He will do for them in this specific situation?

God’s grace is amazing. Even after they fall into the horrific evil of idolatry, even after they have received the due consequences of their sins, if they turn to the Lord, He will forgive them and restore them. In short, if they freely choose to repent, He will accept their repentance.

The word in Deuteronomy 4:30, often translated “turn,” really means “to return.” That is, they are going back to the Lord, to where they were supposed to have been all along. The Hebrew word teshuvah, from that same root word for “to return,” means “repentance.”

Thus, at the core, whatever else is involved in repentance, it is a return to God after we have been separated from Him by our sins.

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Flipping through the new quarterly, there are a number of titles that have the word ‘love’ in them – Love, to Be Loved; To Love God; He First Loved Us; To Love the Lord Your God; to name just a few. Hence, I believe a wonderful hymn to devote to as a theme will be 
Hymn 349 – God Is Love. Our first Memory Text says “for God is Love”, 1 John 4:8. As the book of Deuteronomy is the book of the covenant, it would also be good to add 
Hymn 347 – Built On the Rock as verse four tells us of God ‘Making with us His covenant”.

Oh the joy of being able to have the Everlasting Covenant which we find in 
Hymn 469 – Leaning On The Everlasting Arms of our Lord Jesus.

God, through Moses, asked the people of Israel to turn their hearts to Him. We are now able to 
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus – Hymn 290. To do this we can sing 
I Will Early Seek the Savior – Hymn 539.

Sunday gives us the word “choice” many times in closing the study as does 
Hymn 273 – Lord, I Have Made Thy Word My Choice.

“Seek Me and Find Me” says Monday’s study: 
Hymn 224 – Seek Ye First the Kingdom and once again 
Hymn 539 – I Will Early Seek the Savior. It is such a sad indictment of humanity that “over time, after a generation or so, the tendency to forget (Deut 4:9)” still continues today, including the Sabbath: 
Hymn 388 – Don’t Forget the Sabbath. We are then reminded that “God’s grace is amazing”: 
Hymn 108 – Amazing Grace, “He will forgive them and restore them”: 
Hymn 299 – Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive as we are repenting as happens in 
Hymn 280 – Come, Ye Sinners and 
Hymn 296 – Lord, I’m Coming Home.

We ask with all our hearts to praise our God on Wednesday. This is found in 
Hymn 323 – Oh, For A Heart To Praise My God so we are 
Near to the Heart of God – Hymn 495. We are then able to 
Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart! – Hymn 27 following repenting and learning to “obey Him” in 
Hymn 590 – Trust and Obey

These hymns above are then reiterated in Thursday’s title of “Repent and Be Converted”.

We are bound for The Promised Land! Hallelujah!! Come, Lord Jesus come – very soon.
Blessings for a wonderful week ahead.

To learn unknown hymns, you will find the accompaniment music for each one at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/

Another great resource is for when there is a hymn you wish to sing, but can’t find it in your hymnal. Go to https://www.sdahymnal.org and in the search bar type a special word in that is in the hymn. I am sure you will be amazed at the help you will be given.

2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

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