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Introduction:
Good morning guys!
If this is your first time here, welcome and we are so glad that you decided to join us this morning.
If anyone here hasn’t met me yet, my name is Jeff, my amazing wife Jessica and I are the youth pastors here at Grace.
I also get the privilege of serving on the teaching team, it is my Sunday up to bat.
I want to share a message with you that I’ve titled “There’s Power in the Punchline!”
We will break that down further later, today we’ll be continuing our series through the book of Deuteronomy and if you want to get ahead, we’ll be in Deuteronomy 10-11.
Deuteronomy Recap:
Just to catch everyone up on what’s going on, we are in the book of Deuteronomy.
It is the fifth book of the bible and the last book in what is known as the Torah or Pentateuch, or the books of Moses.
In Deuteronomy, we have recorded Moses’ final farewell addresses.
An easy way to think about these is as three different sermons that he gives over the course of about 37 days.
Chapters 1-4 were one sermon, 5-26 were his second sermon, 27-30 are his third and final sermon, and 31-34 are the closing events of this venture, such as Moses’ death and everything else that happens.
At this point, Israel has traveled up from the south through the region of Moab.
They are on the eastern shore of the Jordan river within striking distance of their first military target to take the land promised to them.
That would be the city of Jericho, the battle that is coming up is pretty famous.
The entire book of Deuteronomy is about 37 days and it’s Moses’ final words before his death and Israel enters into the Promised land.
We will be in chapters 10-11 today, so we’ll be in the middle of his second sermon.
Before we jump into our study today, let’s pray.
ME:
A lot of times, I’ll start my messages with a story of sorts.
A lot of times my stories are about my kids or about parenting.
This is because I’ve learned so much about God from being a father, I’ve learned so much about God from being a parent.
It’s so amazing, you see God in such a new perspective when you are a parent, when you have a human that relies on you.
There are amazing things that come with that, you get to understand love and sacrifice on an incredible level.
There’s a lot of amazing parts of being a father, there’s also some less amazing parts.
Like, the things I have to say to my kids.
Like “Hey, why are your shoes off?
Where is the other one…” “Don’t put that trashcan on your head.”
“Don’t eat things off the floor… especially if it’s been stepped on.”
The joys of parenting.
One thing I love about being a dad, is dad jokes.
Dad jokes are just the best.
Groans are almost more satisfying than laughs for a dad, I believe.
For example:
Why don’t crabs give to charity?
Because they’re shellfish.
How do you tell the difference between an alligator and a crocodile?
You will see one later and one in a while.
Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees?
Because they’re so good at it.
I don’t trust stairs.
They’re always up to something.
I spent a lot of time, money, and effort childproofing my house… but the kids still got in.
You know, people say they pick their nose, but I feel like I was just born with mine.
Personally, I love comedy in general.
But you know what makes a good joke?
It’s the punchline.
The punchline of the joke is defined as the sentence, statement, or phrase that makes the point.
When you tell a joke, all the power is in the punchline.
Dad jokes are kings at this.
What I’ve found is that there is power in the punchline.
As I’ve begun to read the bible, I realize that Jesus is the punchline of scripture.
He is what makes the point and everything else is just leading up and building up to the punchline.
Because There’s Power in the Punchline.
Setup:
We’re going to see this throughout chapters 10 & 11 today that it is all a foreshadowing and build-up to the punchline of scripture, Jesus.
As we jump into the text today, we’re going to see Moses in this speech pointing out how the Children of Israel don’t deserve to be brought into the Promised Land.
In Chapter 9 we see Moses reminding the people of their wrongdoings.
He speaks about the golden calf they constructed to worship while he was on the mountain receiving the ten commandments the first time.
He then tells them about their rebellion in Kadesh Barnea.
So this sermon has taken an odd turn, he begins to just spew out all their wrongdoings.
All their mistakes, all their rebellions, all the things that they are likely embarrassed by.
Can you imagine how big you’d feel right now.
Moses is clearly aging and not doing well, he begins his big motivational speech and goes into that… “oh no…can we just forget the calf?” “Ooh..
I forgot about Kadesh Barnea.. Yeah that was mybad.”
What if you came to church today and I just started spewing all the mistakes you’d made this week?
What if God had whispered to me what each individual person has done just this week and I was instructed to share it from the pulpit.
Some of y’all are nervous already.
I’m not going to do that obviously, but I just want you to feel how they would have felt.
Their sins are not private, they are not their own.
God and Moses know about them, they are aware they don’t deserve this land they are about to inhabit.
But Moses ends the chapter by telling how he prayed for them.
He told about how he laid prostrate before the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights because God wished to destroy them.
But Moses mediating for them.
GOD:
Deuteronomy 9:25-29
Chapter 9 is Moses’ prayer to God.
Chapter 10 is God’s response to Moses’ prayer.
Verse 1 & 2 Breakdown | The Ark of the Covenant
Moses is told to take the tablets, the Word of God, and place them in the Ark of the Covenant.
The Ark would then go into the Tabernacle, the tabernacle residing in the heart of the Nation of Israel.
At the heart of the nation, was the Tabernacle, at the heart of the Tabernacle was the Ark of the Covenant and inside of the Ark was the Law of God Himself.
That’s right where we need the word of God, we need it in the center of our lives.
We want the word of God:
In the center of our marriage
In the center of our business
In the center of our family
In the center of our Church
We need the Word of God to be that which is at the center of our being.
Moses goes on in this sermon to mention the death of his brother, Aaron.
The establishing of the Levites and then goes into the instructions for Israel from God in verses 12-13
Application:
This is a call not just to Israel but for all people.
Our call is to do these Five things:
Fear the Lord your God
To fear God is absolute reverence and awe for an Almighty God, the Creator of all things.
I like how Martin Luther contrasts two different kind of fears.
Servile Fear: He deems one to be “servile fear” which is the fear a servant would have with a malicious master, servile fear is the fear of harm or punishment.
Filial fear: By contrast he distinguished what he called “filial fear”, drawing from the Latin concept of family.
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