Properity Danger

Deuteronomy 8:11-14, 17-20 Beware . . . lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them; and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied . . . then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt  . . . and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.” But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
It shall be, if you shall forget the Lord your God, and walk after other gods . . . that you shall surely perish. As the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to the Lord your God’s voice.

Deuteronomy 31:20 For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

Deuteronomy 32:13-15  . . . He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine. But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

Proverbs 30:8-9  . . . Give me neither poverty nor riches. . . . lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ . . .

Hosea 13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

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