Blessed is the nationBlessed is the nation

Whose God is the LORD

Psalms 33:12 (KJV) Psalms 33:12 (KJV)

• 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own

inheritance.

Psalms 33:12 (NLT) Psalms 33:12 (NLT)

• 12 What joy for the nation whose God is the LORD, whose people he has chosen for his own.

Deuteronomy 6:4-13 Deuteronomy 6:4-13 (NLT) (NLT) • 4 "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our

God, the LORD alone. • 5 And you must love the LORD

your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

Deuteronomy 6:4-13 Deuteronomy 6:4-13 (NLT)(NLT)• 6 And you must commit yourselves

wholeheartedly to these commands I am giving you today.

• 7 Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away on a journey, when you are lying down and when you are getting up again.

Deuteronomy 6:4-13 Deuteronomy 6:4-13 (NLT)(NLT)• 8 Tie them to your hands as a

reminder, and wear them on your forehead.

• 9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:4-13 Deuteronomy 6:4-13 (NLT)(NLT)• 10 "The LORD your God will

soon bring you into the land he swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is a land filled with large, prosperous cities that you did not build.

Deuteronomy 6:4-13 Deuteronomy 6:4-13 (NLT)(NLT)• 11 The houses will be richly

stocked with goods you did not produce. You will draw water from cisterns you did not dig, and you will eat from vineyards and olive trees you did not plant. When you have eaten your fill in this land,

Deuteronomy 6:4-13 Deuteronomy 6:4-13 (NLT)(NLT)• 12 be careful not to forget

the LORD, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.

• 13 You must fear the LORD your God and serve him. When you take an oath, you must use only his name.

Proverbs 11:14 (NLT) Proverbs 11:14 (NLT)

• 14 Without wise leadership, a nation falls; with many counselors, there is safety.

Proverbs 14:34 (NLT) Proverbs 14:34 (NLT)

• 34 Godliness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Proverbs 28:2 (NLT) Proverbs 28:2 (NLT)

• 2 When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily. But with wise and knowledgeable leaders, there is stability.

Matthew 21:33-46 Matthew 21:33-46 (NLT) (NLT) • 33 "Now listen to this story. A certain

landowner planted a vineyard, built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country.

Matthew 21:33-46 Matthew 21:33-46 (NLT)(NLT)• 34 At the time of the grape harvest

he sent his servants to collect his share of the crop.

• 35 But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.

Matthew 21:33-46 Matthew 21:33-46 (NLT)(NLT)• 36 So the landowner sent a larger

group of his servants to collect for him, but the results were the same.

• 37 "Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking, `Surely they will respect my son.'

Matthew 21:33-46 Matthew 21:33-46 (NLT)(NLT)• 38 "But when the farmers saw

his son coming, they said to one another, `Here comes the heir to this estate. Come on, let's kill him and get the estate for ourselves!'

• 39 So they grabbed him, took him out of the vineyard, and murdered him.

Matthew 21:33-46 Matthew 21:33-46 (NLT)(NLT)• 40 "When the owner of the vineyard

returns," Jesus asked, "what do you think he will do to those farmers?"

• 41 The religious leaders replied, "He will put the wicked men to a horrible death and lease the vineyard to others who will give him his share of the crop after each harvest."

Matthew 21:33-46 Matthew 21:33-46 (NLT)(NLT)• 42 Then Jesus asked them, "Didn't

you ever read this in the Scriptures? `The stone rejected by the builders has now become the cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous to see.'

Matthew 21:33-46 Matthew 21:33-46 (NLT)(NLT)• 43 What I mean is that the Kingdom

of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that will produce the proper fruit.

• 44 Anyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls."

Matthew 21:33-46 Matthew 21:33-46 (NLT)(NLT)• 45 When the leading priests

and Pharisees heard Jesus, they realized he was pointing at them—that they were the farmers in his story.

Matthew 21:33-46 Matthew 21:33-46 (NLT)(NLT)• 46 They wanted to arrest

him, but they were afraid to try because the crowds considered Jesus to be a prophet.