Deuteronomy: Remember God

Big Picture Pt. 25—Deuteronomy (7/16/25)

Context Recap:

TONIGHT—FINISHING “PENTATEUCH” TORAH,, 1ST 5 BOOKS…

Recap:

GENESIS = BOOK of PROMISES— TOOK US from CANAAN to EGYPT

EXODUS = LEAVING EGYPT— GOING to SINAI

GIVING of LAW—GETTING EGYPT OUT of ISRAEL

LEVITICUS = MORE LAWS @ SINAI

NUMBERS = FROM SINAI to KADESH-BARNEA

PEOPLE’S DOUBT — 40 YRS of WILDERNESS WANDERING

NUMBERS FINISHES @ PLAINS of MOAB/ EASTERN EDGE of PROMISED LAND

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Transition: TONIGHT WE’RE FOCUSING on DEUTERONOMY— TAKES PLACE in PLAINS of MOAB

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Deuteronomy Overview:

DEUTERONOMY NAME — COMES from 2 GK WORDS...

DEUTEROS & NOMOS = 2nd LAW

Purpose: DEUTERONOMY = RE-COMMUNICATION of LAW & COVENANT to NEW GENERATION

NOT MUCH NEW MATERIAL

PRIMARILY MOSES’ final SERMONS to ISRAEL—CALLING THEM to FAITHFULNESS!

MOSES’ FAREWELL DISCOURSE

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Key Themes:

ISRAEL SOVEREIGNLY CHOSEN BY GOD— BECAUSE of GRACE

PROMISED LAND = GIFT of GRACE W/ COVENANTAL CONDITIONS

ISRAEL’S FAITHFULNESS WOULD BRING BLESSINGS

ISRAEL’S FAILURES WOULD BRING CURSES

ISRAEL MUST REMEMBER & LOVE YAHWEH

REMEMBER WHAT HE’S DONE for THEM

REMEMBER HIS LAW

RESPOND in LOVING OBEDIENCE

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DEUTERONOMY = FOUNDATIONAL BOOK to CHRISTIAN FAITH

ONE of MOST FREQUENTLY QUOTED BOOKS in N.T.

MOST QUOTED by JESUS

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Transition: So, let’s dive in.

READ: CH. 1, V.1-5

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Setting: Deuteronomy 1:1-5

1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. 3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them, 4 after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei. 5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying,

BOOK BEGINS— WORDS of MOSES

Background: HEBREW TITLE: “THESE the WORDS”

Reminder: DEUTERONOMY = RECOLLECTION,, NOT FRESH REVELATION

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Setting: ARABAH/ PLAINS of MOAB (V5)

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(v1-5) MOSES BEGINS RECAP

(Q) Do you see HOW LONG the JOURNEY was SUPPOSED to TAKE (V2) — 11 DAYS.

PERHAPS LONGER W/ LARGE NATION— TOOK THEM ABOUT 2 MONTHS (NUMBERS)

**DIDN’T TAKE them 40 YRS to FIND the PROMISED LAND…**

(Q) HOW MANY YEARS HAD IT BEEN? 40 (38 WANDERING)

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MOSES DIVES INTO EXHORTING the PEOPLE...

DEUTERONOMY = PREPARING the PEOPLE for CANAANITE CONQUEST & PERMANENCE as NATION

CSB Study Bible: DEUTERONOMY FUNCTIONS LIKE CONSTITUTION

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Transition: And Moses has an IMPORTANT MESSAGE...

***SUMMARIZE*** HE BEGINS by RECOUNTING ALL THAT HAD HAPPENED from EXODUS till PRESENT in ch. 2-3....

WE’RE GOING to SKIP DOWN to CONCLUSION.... CH. 4:1

READ: 4:1-8

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Moses’ Exhortation: Deuteronomy 4:1-14

“And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. 4 But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today. 5 See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 6 Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? 8 And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?

MOSES ADMONISHES the PEOPLE to OBEY GOD’S COMMANDMENTS

(V7-8) Election: POINTS OUT the UNIQUENESS of ISRAEL in COVENANT W/ YAHWEH!

NO OTHER NATION has RELATIONSHIP W/ GOD LIKE THEM...

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READ: 4:9-14

9 “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children— 10 how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’ 11 And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. 12 Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice. 13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone. 14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.”

CHALLENGE:

TAKE CARE (COMMON IDEA)

KEEP YOUR SOUL

DON’T FORGET ALL THAT HE’S DONE & ALL THAT’S HAPPENED

Famous Quote: “Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.”

FORGETTING GOD’S MIGHTY ACTS/JUSTICE…

… WOULD THEY TURN to WORSHIPING OTHER gods???

RECOLLECTING HOREB/SINAI/ GIVING of LAW

(V14) LAWS WERE to GOVERN THEM in PROMISED LAND...

(v9) KEEP THEIR SOULS DILIGENT in OBEDIENCE!

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Transition: MOSES GOING to CONTINUE to REMIND the PEOPLE...

.... of THEIR UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP W/ GOD

READ: 4:32-40

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Deuteronomy 4:32-40

32 “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. 33 Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? 34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him. 36 Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, 38 driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day, 39 know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. 40 Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

MOSES = RECOUNTING GOD’S SPECIAL ACTS & HIS SPECIAL CHOICE of ISRAEL

(V35) SO THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW?? the LORD (YAHWEH) is GOD & THERE’S NONE LIKE HIM

(Q) Why do you think MOSES = SO EMPHATIC about YAHWEH’S UNIQUENESS? CANAANITES HAD LOTS of gods…

YAHWEH DOESN’T LIKE COMPETITION…a JEALOUS GOD THAT WANTS HIS PEOPLE WHOLEHEARTEDLY...

BEFORE THEY GET to CANAAN—THEY NEED to BE WARNED & KNOW HE is GOD ALONE

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***Summarize:*** Deut. 5—recapping the 10 commandments.

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Transition: WE’RE GOING to a SUMMARY & EXPECTATIONS CONCERNING the COMMANDMENTS

READ: 6:1-3

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Deuteronomy 6:1-25, The Greatest Commandment

6 “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, 2 that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

FEAR of the LORD = PROVEN BY KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS...

(V3) OBEDIENCE to the LORD BRINGS BLESSING

Exhort: BEING “CAREFUL” to DO HIS COMMANDMENTS...

Frequency: 39X in ESV “TAKE CARE/BE CAREFUL SHOWS UP”

Exhort: NOT SOMETHING to BE TAKEN CASUALLY...

THIS = LIFE & DEATH… YOU CAN’T MISS IT!

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Transition: WE’LL SEE the ONE COMMANDMENT THAT STANDS ABOVE the REST…

READ: 6:4-9

The Shema

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

FAMOUS “SHEMA” — COMES from HEBREW “HEAR”

Background: JEWS for CENTURIES HAVE RECITED 2X DAILY

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DIFFICULT SYNTAX—TRANSLATIONS DIFFER,

“HEAR ISRAEL: YAHWEH OUR GOD. YAHWEH ONE/ONLY”

NO VERBS AFTER “HEAR”

Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary (Woods) ii. The Heart of Israel’s Faith and Confession (6:4–25)

(a) Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one.

(b) Yahweh is our God, Yahweh alone (NRSV; JPS); (or our God is Yahweh, Yahweh alone).

(c) Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one (NIV).

(d) Yahweh our God is one Yahweh.

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CORE POINT: YAHWEH = ISRAEL’S GOD...

**REMEMBER TETRAGRAMMATON** — ALL CAPS “LORD” = YHWH**

SECONDLY— HE is GOD ALONE— OR in UNIQUE CLASS… or POSSIBLY UNDIVIDED—(MONOTHEISM).

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(v5) WHO HE is DEMANDS RESPONSE: YOU SHALL LOVE HIM…

HEART,

SOUL,

MIGHT.

W/ EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE! INTERNALLY & EXTERNALLY!

Reference: JESUS SAID THIS = GREATEST COMMANDMENT of the LAW

Background: JEWISH “MITZVOT” = COMPILATION of TORAH LAWS— 613 commandments TOTAL!

THIS UNDERGIRDS THEM ALL.

CONSIDER JOSEPH REFUSING POTIPHAR’S WIFE!

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Exhort: COMMANDMENTS in EXODUS/DEUT. = ALL-ENCOMPASSING

BUSINESS

FARMING

TREATING NEIGHBOR

SEXUALITY

=> NOT JUST TEMPLE/TABERNACLE STUFF <=

Conclusion: LOVE/WORSHIP of YAHWEH = WHOLE-LIFE ENDEAVOR…NOT JUST CHURCH!

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(v6-7) & the WORDS = BE on HEART & TAUGHT DILIGENTLY to CHILDREN

**NOTE MERISMS**

TALK WHEN YOU SIT

TALK WHEN YOU WALK

TALK WHEN YOU LIE DOWN

TALK WHEN YOU RISE

&& EVERYTHING in BETWEEN!

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(v8-9) BIND THEM— PUT THEM EVERYWHERE— YOU CAN’T AFFORD to FORGET!

Background: PHYLACTERY— SMALL BOX W/ SCRIPTURE VERSES…

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Exhort: HOW QUICK ARE WE to FORGET?

how seriously DO WE VIEW GOD’S WORD?

Application: PUTTING SCRIPTURE on:

MIRROR,

FRIDGE,

CAR DASH,

PHONE,

ETC.??

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Transition: THERE’S a REASON for ALL THIS...

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READ: 6:10-15

10 “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, 12 then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 13 It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. 14 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you— 15 for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

DILIGENT REMEMBRANCE COMBATS HUMANITY’S TENDENCY to FORGET

Present Reality: HOW OFTEN—LIFE = GOING GOOD,, STOP COMING to CHURCH?

HARDSHIPS BRING PEOPLE BACK

PROSPERITY = ONE of the GREATEST THREATS to SPIRITUALITY

**NOTE TIME of JUDGES**

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SHEMA = BASED in YAHWEH ALONE. HE’S GOD. HE’S a JEALOUS GOD...

=> => DON’T WORSHIP gods of CANAAN...

KEEP GOD’S LAW CENTRAL—YOU WON’T FORGET.

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Transition: THERE WERE CONSEQUENCES if THEY WOULDN’T KEEP the LAW

READ: ch. 11:26-28

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Blessing & Curse: Deuteronomy 11:26–28 (ESV)

26 “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

27 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today,

28 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.

CH. 28 = ALL DEVOTED to THIS TOPIC— Homework: ENCOURAGE READ LATER!

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**BLESSINGS & CURSES of DEUTERONOMY = INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORK for REST of O.T....**

GOOD for ISRAEL WHEN FAITHFUL

FAITHLESS ISRAEL — ASSYRIAN EXILE && BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY

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***SUMMARIZE: HUGE CHUNK of BOOK = REITERATING SPECIFIC LAWS & THINGS from EXODUS & ADMONITIONS to OBEY***

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Transition: RECAP & INSTITUTE COVENANT

READ: ch. 29:1-9

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Covenant Renewal: Ch. 29:1-9

1 These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.

2 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, 3 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. 4 But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. 5 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet. 6 You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. 7 And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them. 8 We took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites. 9 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

GRAND RECOUNTING

ANOTHER COVENANT CONFIRMATION/ SAME COVENANT

EX. 24—COVENANT = RATIFIED in BLOOD W/ ISRAEL

THAT GENERATION HAD DIED...

NOW WILL the NEW GENERATION BE FAITHFUL??

Transition: MOSES GIVES THEM this CHARGE...

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READ: 29:10-15

10 “You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, 11 your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water, 12 so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is making with you today, 13 that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant, 15 but with whoever is standing here with us today before the Lord our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.

COVENANT W/ EVERYONE

NO EXCEPTIONS… IF YOU’RE PART of ISRAEL— YOU’RE PART of the COVENANT

THEY’RE HIS PEOPLE!!

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Transition: MOSES = OFFER ADDITIONAL WARNINGS...

READ: ch. 29:16-28

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16 “You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed. 17 And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them. 18 Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit, 19 one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike. 20 The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the Lord will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law. 22 And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick— 23 the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath— 24 all the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’ 25 Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them. 27 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book, 28 and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.’

HUGE WARNING.

YOU’VE SEEN OTHER NATIONS...

OTHER gods...

IF YOU TURN to THEM, YOU’LL BE DESTROYED.

ISRAEL WAS to HAVE ONE GOD.

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Transition: FROM BEGINNING—GOD KNEW THEY WOULDN’T GET IT RIGHT

READ: Ch. 30:1-3

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Deuteronomy 30:1–3 (ESV)

1 “And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,

2 and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,

3 then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

GOD = SO GRACIOUS...

NOT ONLY CHOSEN BY GRACE

BUT OFFERING GRACE WHEN THEY FAIL!

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Transition: NEARING END of BOOK— WE’LL SEE a CHANGE in LEADERSHIP for NEW GENERATION…

READ: ch. 31:1-8

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Ch. 31:1-8 Joshua to Succeed Moses

31:1 So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel. 2 And he said to them, “I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ 3 The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken. 4 And the Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them. 5 And the Lord will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you. 6 Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

7 Then Moses summoned 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 that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it. 8 It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

LEADERSHIP is GOING to JOSHUA...

TAKE HEART— GOD is LEADING YOU IN.

(v3) GOD WILL GO BEFORE YOU!

REMEMBER: GOD SAID HE’S GIVING THEM the LAND!!

(Q) What was the PROBLEM in NUMBERS?

THE PEOPLE DIDN’T BELIEVE GOD’S PROMISE

GOD’S PROMISES HAVE ALWAYS REQUIRED FAITH

NOAH

ABRAHAM

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Transition: MOSES = FORBIDDEN to ENTER

READ: ch. 32:48-52

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Ch. 32:48-52 | Moses Forbidden to Enter the Land

48 That very day the Lord spoke to Moses, 49 “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession. 50 And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 51 because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel. 52 For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.” [3]

MOSES GIVEN OPPORTUNITY to SEE PROMISED LAND from MOUNTAIN

Background: FORBIDDEN ENTRANCE— STRIKING the ROCK to GET WATER—AGAINST GOD’S COMMAND.

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Transition: WE’LL SEE the DEATH of MOSES,, as GOD FORETOLD, CLOSING DEUTERONOMY:

READ: ch. 34:1-12

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Chapter 34:1-12 | The Death of Moses

34 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, 2 all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, 3 the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. 4 And the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.” 5 So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord, 6 and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day. 7 Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated. 8 And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. 10 And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, 11 none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, 12 and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

ONE of GOD’S GREATEST SERVANTS—LAID to REST…

NEW GENERATION HAS ARISEN

THEY WILL INHERIT the PROMISED LAND...

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Application/Takeaways

I. ISRAEL = GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE— WE ARE CHOSEN in CHRIST…GRAFTED into ISRAEL/PEOPLE of GOD...

WHAT a WONDERFUL PRIVILEGE of GRACE!

HE OWNS IT ALL—YET HE SET HIS LOVE on YOU....

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II. WE’RE RECIPIENTS of A NEW & BETTER COVENANT!!

Deuteronomy 30:6 (ESV) **AFTER EXILE**

6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Jeremiah 31:33 (ESV)

33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Ezekiel 36:26 (ESV)

26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

ISRAEL COULDN’T GET IT RIGHT— THEY LACKED the INWARD TRANSFORMATION…

THIS = BLESSED NEW COVENANT WE ENJOY TODAY!

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III. LET US THEN DELIGHT in HIM ALONE—

LOVE W/ HEART, SOUL, MIGHT—EVERYTHING!

NO COMPETITORS

LOVE HIM W/ HEART, SOUL, MIGHT— W/ EVERYTHING!

REMEMBER— the LAW WAS ALL-ENCOMPASSING!

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IV. LET’S NOT FORGET IT: USING PRACTICAL REMINDERS...

SCRIPTURE AROUND the HOUSE

REMINDERS on PHONE

BIBLE KEPT ACCESSIBLE.

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Closing Thoughts or Questions??

Close in Prayer