The Tulip Driven Life

  Heritage Reformed Presbyterian Church holds to God's words through the Apostle Paul found in 1 Thess. 4:3: "This is the will of God, your sanctification....for God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness." Yet sadly, we have an epidemic of churches that subtly invert this message into "This is the will of God, your brokenness... for God did not call us to holiness/cleanness, but in brokenness." True Christian fellowship is built around a common, deeply rooted faith and love, and such is only produced by a common, deeply rooted unity in doctrine, in understanding of who God is and what He has done through Christ, as revealed in His holy word, the Bible. It is faith in Christ, faith in God, who He is and what He has done, that creates true Christian community and fellowship, yielding holiness of life and joy in the Lord. Eph. 4:7-16 and many other Scriptures show this. But today the very men ordained by God to be His vessels to promote and produce this

  INTRODUCTION TO Deuteronomy 1-5: ·         Deuteronomy 1-5 serves as a review of what God has done with His people the Israelites while under Moses. o    Moses addresses the Israelites, speaking on behalf of God to them, reminding them that God had spoken to them at Mt. Sinai (Horeb is the whole mountain range) when giving the 10 commandments, promising to drive away the Amorites to give them the Promised Land/Canaan. o    But the 12 spies sent to spy out the land gave a bad report, and Israel did not heed the command of God because of fear of the mighty Amorites. o    Only after God told them they would not inherit the Promised Land until their generation of men of war were consumed ( 2:14 ) and their babies would inherit did Israel try to take it, but they were destroyed and driven back by the Amorites because God did not go with them in their battles. o    That entire generation had to wander in the wilderness, and yet even here God’s punishment is tempered by His mercy