Famous Last Words (Moses)

Outline

Passages: Dt 31:7-13, Dt 32:45-47; Dt 34

Key Verses: Dt 31:7-8, 12-13; Dt 34:10

Big Idea: Moses was not going to get to enter the Promised Land because of the consequence of his sinful mistake. But, he still continued to obey and serve the Lord to the very end of his life. His main charge to those he was leaving behind was to know God’s word, to be strong and courageous to obey God’s word.

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Ecclesiastes 7:2 NASB95

It is better to go to a house of mourning Than to go to a house of feasting, Because that is the end of every man, And the living takes it to heart.

PRAY

Moses’s Adventures

Ex 1-2: God provided and protected a baby that would grow up to save his people

Moses born into Pharaoh’s house

Ex 2: Moses grew up, Left his place of privilege to save his fellow countrymen - but was rejected by them.

Ex 2: Left all he had known (40 years old) and was exiled out in the desert, learned to be a shepherd

Ex 3-4: Received a mission from God and humbly went back to Egypt...

Ex 5-12: 10-Plagues

Ex 14: Red Sea

Ex 16: Manna

Ex 17: Water from Rock at Horeb (strike the rock)

Ex 20+: the Law

the adventures and encouragement

Num 12: Miriam

Num 13: Twelve spies

Num 16: Korah’s Rebellion

Num 20: the sin - strike the rock - the consequence.

Num 21: bronze snake

Num 22: Balaam

war and victory

So close he can see it - but can’t get in.

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How would you feel?

What would you do?

MOSES

Numbers 12:3 NASB95

(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.)

Out with the OLD, in with the SAME...

Deuteronomy 31:1–5 NASB95

So Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. And he said to them, “I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I am no longer able to come and go, and the Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross this Jordan.’ “It is the Lord your God who will cross ahead of you; He will destroy these nations before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, just as the Lord has spoken. “The Lord will do to them just as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when He destroyed them. “The Lord will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

TEACHING POINTS

Moses is old and is not going any further as a consequence of his sin

2 And he said to them, “I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I am no longer able to come and go, and the Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross this Jordan.’

3 “It is the Lord your God who will cross ahead of you; He will destroy these nations before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, just as the Lord has spoken.

The LORD will continue to be the one to do the main work

5 “The Lord will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

Marching Orders

Deuteronomy 31:6–8 NASB95

“Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.” Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance. “The Lord is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

TEACHING POINTS

BE STRONG - BE COURAGEOUS.

DO NOT FEAR them

GOD IS WITH YOU!!

GOD DOES NOT FAIL!!

GOD IS FAITHFUL!!

KEEP IT SIMPLE - There is strength in humbly trusting the LORD

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How to stay the course

Deuteronomy 31:9–13 NASB95

So Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. Then Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of remission of debts, at the Feast of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place which He will choose, you shall read this law in front of all Israel in their hearing. “Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the Lord your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law. “Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live on the land which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

TEACHING POINTS

Regularly READ GOD’s WORD

HEAR and LEARN

Romans 10:17 NASB95

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

FEAR the LORD YOUR GOD

“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Fear of the Lord - God is good. He is not your equal, He is your God.

OBEY

James 1:22 NASB95

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

PASS IT ON

2 Times when EVERYONE knew GOD

Creation

Flood

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Deuteronomy 32:45–47 NASB95

When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, he said to them, “Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of this law. “For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

TEACHING POINTS

Take God’s Word to heart, teach them to your children

God’s word is not an IDLE WORD or an EMPTY WORD

WHY? Why does this WORD have this kind of POWER?

Because it is GOD’s WORD

Wrap-Up:

Moses had been through so much!

From being delivered from death as a baby, to being rejected by his people,

from wandering in the wilderness, to leading God’s people out of slavery

through it all, he continued to believe and obey the Lord.

At the end of his life, just before praising God, Moses gave one last charge to Israel.

120 years - full of life

Dt 30:6, 16, 19-20

Obey that you may LOVE GOD - so that you may LIVE

What about you?

What about your ‘adventures’? If you were to list them out like we have done for Moses, like your family may do after your time on earth is completed, what will your life look like?

Who is God to you? The God of the Bible? A god of this world?

Who do you fear more? God or man? Who influences the WHY? of your decisions?

What is the foundation of your life? Why do you do what you do?

Do you know the God of the Bible? Do you know His Son, Jesus? Who is Jesus to you?