DON’T EVEN INQUIRE!

DON'T EVEN INQUIRE! Graced, Gathered, Guided, and Grown by God Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:12–22; 11:1–32; 12:29–32 Central Truth: God is fully able to grace, gather, guide, and grow His people in the very world where He has planted them, without requiring them to adopt the world's ways. His unfailing love deserves our wholehearted trust, devotion, and obedience. The message reveals the remarkable faithfulness of God in taking seventy people into Egypt and multiplying them into a great multitude. Despite generations of bondage, oppression, and opposition, God fulfilled His promise to Abraham. Egypt did not produce their greatness, nor could Pharaoh prevent their growth. The Lord Himself was their source. He redeemed them, gathered them into a nation, and began teaching them how to live as a people belonging to Him. In Deuteronomy 10:12–13, Moses reminds Israel that God's extraordinary mercy calls for a reasonable and affirmative response: to fear Him, love Him, walk in His ways, and serve Him wholeheartedly. Their obedience was not the means of earning His love but the proper response to having received it. This same principle is revealed in Romans 12:1–2, where believers are called to present themselves as living sacrifices because of God's mercies. Leviticus 18 establishes an essential distinction. Israel was not to live according to the practices of Egypt, where they had been, or Canaan, where they were going. God had already provided another way to live—His way. Through His Word, His presence, and His instructions, He was preparing a people to walk with Him rather than depend upon the customs and influences surrounding them. This leads to the central warning of D