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Speaker 1: we are right Deuteronomy eight. Nope, that's not where we're at.
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Speaker 1: we're going to be in Deuteronomy chapter eight. And I
Speaker 1: just want to reiterate to let you guys know that
Speaker 1: this is Moses is giving a sermon to the people.
Speaker 1: They're going to enter the Promised Land. Okay, we got Joshua,
Speaker 1: son of None, and we have Caleb that's going to
Speaker 1: be able to enter, and Joshua is obviously going to
Speaker 1: be taking over leadership. And the people that are able
Speaker 1: to enter are the children of the ones that had
Speaker 1: to be in the desert for forty days or forty years,
Speaker 1: right wandering the wilderness because of their lack of faith
Speaker 1: during the time that when the spies they went to
Speaker 1: go survey the land and they came back with the report.
Speaker 1: Joshua came back to the report saying, Caleb came back
Speaker 1: saying that we're going to be able to take over.
Speaker 1: You know, will be good. You know, because the report
Speaker 1: came back that there was giants in the land and
Speaker 1: that they had these massive armies, these fortresses, these walls,
Speaker 1: and you know, seven of the spies came back with
Speaker 1: with the negative report, and it made the people of
Speaker 1: Israel grumble once again, lack of faith, saying that they're
Speaker 1: not going to be able to do it, and that
Speaker 1: they're going to come in and kill their men, women
Speaker 1: and children, and uh. And what happened. God punished them
Speaker 1: for their lack of faith. Okay, So Moses is not
Speaker 1: able to enter the Promised Land either, Okay, so he
Speaker 1: is basically just kind of giving them a sermon, letting
Speaker 1: him know exactly, you know, what what happened during that time,
Speaker 1: kind of giving them letting him know what he wants
Speaker 1: them to do or what, letting him know exactly what
Speaker 1: God had told him talking about, you know, basically, just
Speaker 1: give him a pep talk before they go in and uh,
Speaker 1: and a sermon on exactly what God had showed him
Speaker 1: and told him. So we're going to go ahead and
Speaker 1: start here at Deuteronomy eight, verse one. Every commandment which
Speaker 1: I command you to do, you must be careful to
Speaker 1: observe that you may live and multiply, and go in
Speaker 1: and possess the land of which the Lord swore to
Speaker 1: your father's. And you shall remember that your Lord, your God,
Speaker 1: led you all the way these forty years in the
Speaker 1: wilderness to humble you and test you to know what
Speaker 1: was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments
Speaker 1: or not. So we humbled you, allowed you to hunger,
Speaker 1: and fed you with manna, which you did not know,
Speaker 1: nor did your fathers know, that he might make you
Speaker 1: know that man shall not live on bread alone. But
Speaker 1: man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth
Speaker 1: of the Lord. I know you've heard that before. Right.
Speaker 1: That is stated by Jesus when he's talking to when
Speaker 1: he's talking to the devil, right, and he is being tempted,
Speaker 1: when he's on that high mountain. He uses that when
Speaker 1: he says to turn the rocks into bread. He said,
Speaker 1: man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
Speaker 1: word that precedes out of the word of God. Right,
Speaker 1: but man lives by every word that proceeds from the
Speaker 1: mouth of the Lord. So very very important part. Right,
Speaker 1: that is something that Jesus used when he was going
Speaker 1: against Satan, when Satan was trying to tempt him. So
Speaker 1: it's something we should obviously memorize and know as well.
Speaker 1: Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did
Speaker 1: your foot swell these forty years. You should know in
Speaker 1: your heart that a man chastens his son, so the Lord,
Speaker 1: your God, chastens you, chastens you. So understand that God
Speaker 1: took care of them when they were in the desert
Speaker 1: for the forty years and forty I keep thinking forty
Speaker 1: days and forty nights, because Moses was on the mountain
Speaker 1: for that time. Keeps coming back. For the forty years
Speaker 1: that they're wanting the desert. God was taking care of them.
Speaker 1: Their feet didn't get swolen. God provided manner, God provided food,
Speaker 1: and they were still complaining, you know. So just it's
Speaker 1: just he wants the new, the new people that are
Speaker 1: that are going to be coming to the Promised Land
Speaker 1: to learn from the mistakes of their ancestors from their
Speaker 1: mother and father. Because that's really literally how close the
Speaker 1: generation is. It's it's there the people that complained, it's
Speaker 1: their children. They get to go into the Promised Land. Uh.
Speaker 1: And also Joshua and Caleb. Right, So I'm sure Moses
Speaker 1: is hoping that this pep talk and also this sermon
Speaker 1: is going to help them to change their ways. Let's
Speaker 1: continue Deuteronomy eight, verse six. Let's see if there's anything
Speaker 1: so so Verses four and five reminds us of God's provision,
Speaker 1: as their clothes did not wear out and their feet
Speaker 1: did not swell. This underscores the importance of recognizing God's
Speaker 1: care in our daily lives. Yeah, so God is taking
Speaker 1: care of us, right. Therefore, you shall keep the commandments
Speaker 1: of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways
Speaker 1: and to fear him, for the Lord your God is
Speaker 1: bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks
Speaker 1: of water, of fountains and springs that flow out of
Speaker 1: valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of
Speaker 1: vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive,
Speaker 1: of oil and honey. A land in which you will
Speaker 1: eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing,
Speaker 1: a land whose stones are iron, and of those whose
Speaker 1: hills can dig deeper or dig copper. When you have
Speaker 1: eaten and are full, then you shall bless your Lord
Speaker 1: your God for the good land which he has given you.
Speaker 1: So what this pastor that I was listening to said
Speaker 1: was that the promised Land is not a picture of heaven,
Speaker 1: but it is a picture of Once you get saved
Speaker 1: and you know you're walking with Jesus, you know now
Speaker 1: you're in the land of milk and honey, right, that
Speaker 1: you're in the promised Land. So that's kind of what
Speaker 1: he was describing. And notice that you don't get into
Speaker 1: the Promised Land by works, okay, only it's you get
Speaker 1: into the Promised Land by faith. Right. That that's why
Speaker 1: the faith that they that they didn't have in God
Speaker 1: is what caused them to not be able to go
Speaker 1: to the promised land, right, So I think that that's
Speaker 1: important to say. And then also God's promise promises a
Speaker 1: land of abundance. But they eleven through fourteen is going
Speaker 1: to warn against the Lord in times of prosperity, emphasizing
Speaker 1: the danger of pride and self reliance. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and read that. So Deuteronomy eight, chapter eleven, beware
Speaker 1: that you do not forget that the Lord your God,
Speaker 1: by not keeping his commandments, his judgments, his statutes, which
Speaker 1: I command you today less when you have eaten and
Speaker 1: are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell on them,
Speaker 1: and when your herds your flocks multiply, and a silver
Speaker 1: and your gold are multiplied, and all that is multiplied,
Speaker 1: when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the
Speaker 1: Lord your God, who brought you out of the land
Speaker 1: of Egypt, from the house of Bondage, who led through
Speaker 1: the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, scorpions,
Speaker 1: thirsty land which has no water, who brought you water
Speaker 1: out of a flinty rock, who fed you in the
Speaker 1: wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know that
Speaker 1: he might humble you, and he might test you and
Speaker 1: to do you good in the end that you may
Speaker 1: say in your heart, my power and might of my
Speaker 1: hand have gained me this wealth. So God is saying,
Speaker 1: is be careful because once you are you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's easy to depend on God when you're in the
Speaker 1: wilderness and you're starving, and you're and you're hungry, and
Speaker 1: you're thirsty. But are you going to depend on the Lord?
Speaker 1: Also when you're fed and you have your house and
Speaker 1: you have your your car. I mean in our life,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, if if you have you know,
Speaker 1: the job that you've always wanted, you have the wife
Speaker 1: that you always wanted, you have the kids that you wanted,
Speaker 1: and you have the house that you always wanted, and
Speaker 1: and everything is you know, you're fed and and everything
Speaker 1: is good. Are you still relying on God? That's kind
Speaker 1: of the thing here. He's telling them to beware because
Speaker 1: when they have their beautiful houses, their herds, their flocks
Speaker 1: and everything is multiplying, then he doesn't want them to
Speaker 1: forget about what God has done for them. Right, they're
Speaker 1: warning against forgetting in the in the in the Lord.
Speaker 1: In times of prosperity, emphasizing the danger of pride and
Speaker 1: self reliance. Of course, and that's why it's important for
Speaker 1: us for no matter what's going on in your life,
Speaker 1: for you to stay grounded in the Lord, and also
Speaker 1: for you to be reading the Bible or having the
Speaker 1: Bible read to you, because faith comes by hearing and
Speaker 1: hearing by the word of God. I always say that,
Speaker 1: but it's vastly important, you know. And that's why Jesus says,
Speaker 1: if you have ears, I need you to hear and
Speaker 1: then he speaks because you need to hear it. And
Speaker 1: no matter what's going on in your life you think
Speaker 1: it's perfect, it can always go south very quickly. Someone
Speaker 1: could pass away, a spouse, a kid like I had.
Speaker 1: Anything can happen at any given time, and you need
Speaker 1: to make sure that you're grounded in the Lord someone
Speaker 1: situations like that arise. You're leaning on the Lord. You're
Speaker 1: not leaning on your self reliance and on yourself because
Speaker 1: that causes pride, you know, and you don't want that.
Speaker 1: You don't want that. You want to be leaning on
Speaker 1: the Lord no matter what, so you might as well
Speaker 1: be leaning on him the whole time. So if something
Speaker 1: does pop then you just continue leaning on him and
Speaker 1: continue reading the Word, continue praying, continue being reliant on
Speaker 1: Him through faith, and then you will whenever things arise
Speaker 1: that are that are that would be very very hard
Speaker 1: for other people to handle, you'll be able to handle
Speaker 1: him better because you're already relying on God. So these
Speaker 1: these particular people God had taken him out of Egypt.
Speaker 1: There were slaves. He opened up the Red Sea, they
Speaker 1: were able to go through. He closed the Red Sea,
Speaker 1: He closed on all the soldiers. They got out, they
Speaker 1: got they went through the you know, they went through
Speaker 1: so much stuff, you know, with the Lord. But the
Speaker 1: Lord was actually right there. We saw Leviticus where you know,
Speaker 1: the Lord is actually in the presence of Erin, you know,
Speaker 1: like he's speaking of Moses face to face. You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's all these things that God is doing, which
Speaker 1: is different than for us. Right, we don't get to
Speaker 1: see the Lord. We don't get to hear God speak
Speaker 1: to us. We only have we we believe in We
Speaker 1: believe in God through faith. Right, so it's a little different.
Speaker 1: And you know, some of these pastors will say, well,
Speaker 1: God told me, you know, God told me this, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's not the same as Moses when he says that,
Speaker 1: you know, he spoke to him face to face. So
Speaker 1: we got to understand that also. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of these people there, the descendants of the people that
Speaker 1: we're talking about, were actually at the bottom of Mount
Speaker 1: Syinai looking up and there was a trumpet blowing from
Speaker 1: an angel, you know, and God was up there. There's
Speaker 1: clouds and fire, and it's just you know, they got
Speaker 1: to witness something. You know, they should have more faith
Speaker 1: than someone like us that note don't get to see that, right,
Speaker 1: But we got to keep our faith right Deuteronomy eight,
Speaker 1: verse eighteen. And you shall remember the Lord your God,
Speaker 1: for it is he who gives you power to get wealth,
Speaker 1: and he and that he may establish his covenant which
Speaker 1: he swore to your fathers, as it is to this day,
Speaker 1: that it shall be if you, by any means forget
Speaker 1: the Lord your God and follow other gods and serve
Speaker 1: them and worship them. I testify to you this day
Speaker 1: that you shall surely perish, as the nations which the
Speaker 1: Lord destroys before you, you shall perish because you would
Speaker 1: not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
Speaker 1: So faith is involved and obedience is involved very important.
Speaker 1: We should learn from this. We should understand that, yes,
Speaker 1: we're saved by grace through faith, but also it's very
Speaker 1: important to God that we are obedient. Okay. Obedience is
Speaker 1: very very important, especially not worshiping idols. Okay. It says,
Speaker 1: and you shall remember the Lord your God, for it
Speaker 1: is he who gives you power to get wealth and
Speaker 1: to establish see his covenant. See God cannot lie right
Speaker 1: Titus one too, it's impossible for God to lie. He
Speaker 1: was six verses eighteen, verse eighteen, and then uh. In Deuteronomy,
Speaker 1: it also says that it says that God is not
Speaker 1: a man that he should lie. Okay, So that's why
Speaker 1: he's gonna keep his covenant that he established. Right, He's
Speaker 1: gonna keep it and everything that he promised. Then it
Speaker 1: shall be if any means forget I'm just rereading the verse, okay,
Speaker 1: So then it shall be by any means, if you
Speaker 1: forget your lilt gout I follow other gods. It's served there.
Speaker 1: But worse it, I will testify to you to this
Speaker 1: day that you shall surely perish. Right. So they came
Speaker 1: from a very pagan place in Egypt, where there are
Speaker 1: other gods. There's raw, there's lit Cyruses, all these different gods, right,
Speaker 1: So he knows that, so he doesn't want them to
Speaker 1: forget him, right, And he's they're also going to go
Speaker 1: through Canaan, right where there's a bunch of other gods
Speaker 1: there in Pagans and bail and all this different worship Moloch,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want them to worship them either. So
Speaker 1: he says, as the nations which the Lord destroys before you,
Speaker 1: so you shall perish because you would not be obedient
Speaker 1: to the voice of the Lord, your god. It's like
Speaker 1: he does not want he's cautioning you against them worshiping
Speaker 1: other gods. And then in fifteen and sixteen he recounts
Speaker 1: the miraculous forces of God performs his running water from
Speaker 1: the rock, reminding the Israelites of his power and faithfulness.
Speaker 1: And then when we get to seventeen and eighteen, it's
Speaker 1: caution against attributing success to one's own strength, urging believers
Speaker 1: to remember that it is God who gives the ability
Speaker 1: to produce wealth, of course, and then consequences of forgetfulness.
Speaker 1: So nineteen and twenty, which I just went over, it
Speaker 1: concludes with a stern warning about the cont sequences of
Speaker 1: forgetting God and following other gods leading to destruction. So yes,
Speaker 1: so I kind of want to go over a few
Speaker 1: practical applications here that you could you could use in
Speaker 1: your own life, right, cultiv cultivate gratitude. It is five
Speaker 1: in the morning, guys, sorry if I yawned a few times.
Speaker 1: Five in the morning. No coffee. So I do have
Speaker 1: a B eight energy low low caffeine energy drink here.
Speaker 1: I could drink by life, but we'll see if we
Speaker 1: can make it through here. Cultivate gratitude. Gratitude is one, okay, regularly,
Speaker 1: regularly reflect and give thanks for God's provisions and guidance
Speaker 1: in your life, both in times of need and abundance.
Speaker 1: So yeah. First Corinthians Uh ten thirty one says, whether
Speaker 1: therefore you eat or drink, or whatever whatsoever you do,
Speaker 1: do all to the glory of God. So if you're eating,
Speaker 1: if you have food, you have abundance, you have whatever,
Speaker 1: you're doing, everything to the glory of God. You are
Speaker 1: thanking God for what you have, You're recognizing who provided it.
Speaker 1: You're thanking Jesus for dying on the cross. You know,
Speaker 1: you're always just thankful for what you have. Right, and
Speaker 1: if you are in abundance and people need help, help them,
Speaker 1: you know they're the less fortunate. Jesus talks about it
Speaker 1: throughout the New Testament. There's a few times that have
Speaker 1: already gone over in Luke Matthew Mark where Jesus says,
Speaker 1: to help the less fortunate. Okay, we are expected to
Speaker 1: help the less fortunate. That story about the good Samaritan
Speaker 1: is there. The parable is there for a reason. The
Speaker 1: priests that have money they're walking around, they left that
Speaker 1: good Samaritan, right, So you got to understand, we don't
Speaker 1: want to be doing that. And just like Hebrews thirteen
Speaker 1: to two says, you never know when you're entertaining an angel, right,
Speaker 1: entertain strangers because could be entertaining an angel unaware. Very
Speaker 1: interesting verse. Stay humble is another one here. Recognize that
Speaker 1: your abilities and successes are gifts from God and avoid
Speaker 1: the trap of self reliance and pride. Of course, you
Speaker 1: know like that my abilities that I have to do
Speaker 1: this show it came from God. It came from everything
Speaker 1: that God has done for me, everything that God has
Speaker 1: blessed me, the personality that God has blessed me with,
Speaker 1: to be able to do the show is all Him,
Speaker 1: and it's all glory to God. And every time someone
Speaker 1: says great job, or hey, there's this gentleman that I
Speaker 1: talked to on the phone that he was telling me, oh,
Speaker 1: you know all this, you know, trying to to my horn,
Speaker 1: and it's like, it's it's not even me. And I
Speaker 1: don't even like to accept the compliments too much. I
Speaker 1: just like to say it's all glory to God, because
Speaker 1: that's that's what it is, you know, daily dependence on
Speaker 1: God's word, like I was saying earlier, just as the
Speaker 1: Israelites dependent on manna. Make it a habit to nourish
Speaker 1: your spirits with scripture daily, and that is so vastly important.
Speaker 1: And I've been doing that and it actually is working incredibly.
Speaker 1: Two days a week I'm working on the New Testament.
Speaker 1: Two days a week I'm working on the Old Testament.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of getting fed from both angles, which
Speaker 1: is perfect and it is it's really assisting me in
Speaker 1: my walk. And then you know, the three days that
Speaker 1: I have, I'm either doing at a show on I'm
Speaker 1: doing a show on you know, Deuteronomy, or I'm doing
Speaker 1: a show on Luke so I'm actually ex reading the
Speaker 1: verses out loud to you guys and also hearing at myself,
Speaker 1: and it's helping me. Now, am I saying I'm perfect? No,
Speaker 1: All I'm telling you is that it helps so tremendously.
Speaker 1: So if I get tempted, it just it assists me greater. Right,
Speaker 1: It helps me to block the wiles of the devil
Speaker 1: because my shield of faith gets so big from reading
Speaker 1: the word of God. My shield of faith is not
Speaker 1: big because I'm cool, I'm great. No, my shield of
Speaker 1: faith is gonna be big because I'm following God's word
Speaker 1: and I'm reading his word daily and it's causing me
Speaker 1: to a there's a change in my life. And if
Speaker 1: you do that too as well, there'll be a change
Speaker 1: in your life. Guard against forgetfulness established practices such as
Speaker 1: journaling or sharing testimonies to remember and recount God's faithfulness. Yes,
Speaker 1: sharing your testimony is very important. I've done that on
Speaker 1: quite a few shows, and I've had people come through
Speaker 1: testimonies on my show. It's very important. Excuse me heed warnings.
Speaker 1: Take seriously the warnings against idolatry and ensure that God
Speaker 1: remains the central focus of your life. That is definitely
Speaker 1: very true, and idols have worked in many different ways
Speaker 1: throughout time as far back as I can Rea member
Speaker 1: one idol is definitely the TV TV shows. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that you shouldn't enjoy life as a Christian
Speaker 1: and you know, sit around the TV with all your
Speaker 1: kids and watch a show together, you know, but when
Speaker 1: you become attached and glued to a TV or attached
Speaker 1: in a glued to a cell phone, which it's that
Speaker 1: It's one thing that's very hard for me because I
Speaker 1: do have a social media account that I'm trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, answer questions and do stuff, so it is
Speaker 1: hard for me. I will admit that it's hard for
Speaker 1: me not to be on a cell phone. If there
Speaker 1: was a way that I was big enough show to
Speaker 1: have an administrator do my social media and then ask
Speaker 1: me the question, you know, and and then I answer
Speaker 1: it to the people and say, hey, this person's asking
Speaker 1: a question that I could get back to that person.
Speaker 1: It'd be great to where I could just study the
Speaker 1: word all the time and not and not do all
Speaker 1: the other portions of podcasting like market and all the
Speaker 1: other stuff. That'd be cool, But you know what, it's
Speaker 1: not the way it works. And I do have to
Speaker 1: be on my phone sometimes, you know, social media, and yeah,
Speaker 1: the devil tries to creep in. It tries to creep
Speaker 1: in for everybody and show you know, on your front page,
Speaker 1: show you something that you might want to click on.
Speaker 1: And you just got to be vigilant and and make
Speaker 1: sure that you don't you don't, you don't do that.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a way for him to edge his
Speaker 1: little snaky ways into you and try to get you
Speaker 1: to do stuff. So just got to be vigilant and
Speaker 1: like I said, continue reading his word, God's word and idolatry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so all like I was saying, so idols a TV
Speaker 1: was a big one back in the day. Some people
Speaker 1: would just watch TV all day and all night. Video
Speaker 1: games became a big idol for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Some people would break up with their girlfriends because they're
Speaker 1: playing video games so much with their friends. And computer games.
Speaker 1: That's another thing that that would suck people in where
Speaker 1: they would they would live their regular life, you know
Speaker 1: during the day and I'll playing computer games all night,
Speaker 1: you know, go to school the next day super tired,
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, that's just one example. Of idolatry.
Speaker 1: Pornography is another one, like sex is one. Drugs was
Speaker 1: is a big one, right. I was talking about it
Speaker 1: and on Wednesday service that you know when you're when
Speaker 1: you get addicted to something where you don't even want
Speaker 1: to leave your house without it. Cigarettes, dip, that's chewing tobacco.
Speaker 1: Uh that the vape. You know, if you're halfway, you know,
Speaker 1: you start driving and you get gas and you're like
Speaker 1: already thirty minutes out, you know, away from your house,
Speaker 1: and you look, you're looking for your vape. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't have it, turn around and go all the way
Speaker 1: back to the house, like because you have to have it.
Speaker 1: Same thing with the cell phone. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: there's just some things you know. But but you won't
Speaker 1: you won't do that. If you forgot to pray, you
Speaker 1: won't do that. If you if you if you forgot
Speaker 1: to read the word of God, would you would you go? Ah,
Speaker 1: I forgot to read the word of God. I gotta
Speaker 1: do that right now. No, you see, that's that's making
Speaker 1: an idol. So uh, I just said, you know, place
Speaker 1: God first, right, everything else will follow. Right, seek God
Speaker 1: first and everything else to follow. Let's continue and some
Speaker 1: of the connecting additional scriptures to to Deuteronomy eight would
Speaker 1: be Matthew four to four. That's Deuteronomy eight three during
Speaker 1: Jesus's temptation, temptation he was, he was, actually he quoted
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy eight three. So we'll let you know. Philippians four nineteen.
Speaker 1: This versus assures us of God's provision, echoing the theme
Speaker 1: of reliance on him. And then James one seven is
Speaker 1: another verse. It reminds us that every good and perfect
Speaker 1: gift is from above. So everything you get, you know,
Speaker 1: give glory to the Father is what's kind of what
Speaker 1: that's talking about, reinforcing the message of acknowledging God's sovereignty.
Speaker 1: One Corinthians ten eleven. Paul refers to experiences of the
Speaker 1: Israelites as examples for US highlight and the importance of
Speaker 1: learning from their history. And I actually quoted First Corinthians
Speaker 1: ten thirty one. That's interesting. Yeah, so ten eleven refers
Speaker 1: to pauls of the experiences of the Israelites' examples for
Speaker 1: US highlight and the importance of learning from their history. Okay,
Speaker 1: so all right, now I will go to chapter nine
Speaker 1: on my notes, and it starts out here. In Deuteronomy nine,
Speaker 1: it says, here, oh, Israel. So it starts out like that,
Speaker 1: because you're about to hear the word of God, right,
Speaker 1: so you need It's kind of like uh in the
Speaker 1: Book of Romans, where it says faith cometh by hearing,
Speaker 1: and hearing by the word of God. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like where I told you where Jesus was saying, if
Speaker 1: you have ears, I need you to here. So this
Speaker 1: is the way that Moses is opening this verse and
Speaker 1: the title this is Israel's Rebellions reviewed. It says, Heroes Israel,
Speaker 1: you are to cross over the Jordan today and go
Speaker 1: into the disposes. Nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities
Speaker 1: great and fortified up to heaven, a people great and tall,
Speaker 1: the descendants of Anachem, whom you know and whom you heard.
Speaker 1: It's still who can stand before the descendants of a knock. Therefore,
Speaker 1: understand today that the Lord your God is he who
Speaker 1: goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will
Speaker 1: destroy them and bring them down before you, and you
Speaker 1: shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the
Speaker 1: Lord has said to you. So he's talking about giants here. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's why he's talking about the descendants of Anakim and
Speaker 1: the descendants of a knock. These are giants. And what
Speaker 1: he's saying is that the Lord is going to come
Speaker 1: before you with the consuming fires. So God is going
Speaker 1: to take care of them first. He will destroy them
Speaker 1: and bring them down before you, and you shall drive
Speaker 1: them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has
Speaker 1: said to you, God fulfilling his promise right and underscores
Speaker 1: God's sovereignty and faithfulness to his promises right there. And
Speaker 1: He's gonna take care of them, and they have to
Speaker 1: drive them out. And then and we're gonna go to
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy nine, verse four. Do you think in your heart
Speaker 1: after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying,
Speaker 1: because of my righteousness, the Lord has brought me into
Speaker 1: the and to possess this land. But it is because
Speaker 1: of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord has
Speaker 1: driven them out before you. It is not because of
Speaker 1: your righteousness or your uprightness of your heart that you
Speaker 1: go into the possessed their land, because but because of
Speaker 1: the wickedness of these nations, that your Lord or God
Speaker 1: drives them out before you, and that he may fulfill
Speaker 1: the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham,
Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob. Therefore, understand that the Lord your God
Speaker 1: has not given you this land to possess because of
Speaker 1: your righteousness, for you are a stiff necked people, stubborn people. Okay.
Speaker 1: And he's also letting him know that it's not because
Speaker 1: of their righteousness. It's because of the wickedness of these people.
Speaker 1: And they're giants, right. So there, their bloodline came from
Speaker 1: the Nephelim, right, they are Raphaim. That's what these these
Speaker 1: these people are. And not all of them, okay, not
Speaker 1: all of them, but the ones that he's mentioning in
Speaker 1: verse one through four, those are the ones that are giants,
Speaker 1: the descendants of Anakin, the descendants of a Nak. And
Speaker 1: God gave these people plenty of time. The ones that
Speaker 1: are not giants to worship him, right, and they are wicked.
Speaker 1: And it says right here in my notes, it says,
Speaker 1: Moses ones the igilies do not attribute their sex to
Speaker 1: their own do not attribute their success to their own righteousness.
Speaker 1: It is not because of the righteousness or integrity that
Speaker 1: they are going to take the possession of their land. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's real easy for you to think that I'm
Speaker 1: we're God's chosen people because we're righteous, and God says not, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're stiff necked. And I made a promise to your
Speaker 1: you know, your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I
Speaker 1: swore to them, and I am fulfilling that promise. But
Speaker 1: don't think because you're some great people that I'm doing this.
Speaker 1: We're not doing this because of your obedience. And then
Speaker 1: God's going to talk about the stiff necked part, the
Speaker 1: stubbornness of Israel. They are stubborn people. Let's let's go
Speaker 1: over that real quick. Deuteronomy nine, verse seven. Remember he
Speaker 1: says it with the exclamation point. Remember, do not forget
Speaker 1: how you provoke the Lord your God to wrath in
Speaker 1: the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the
Speaker 1: line at Egypt until you came to this place, you
Speaker 1: have you have been rebellions against the Lord, also in Horror,
Speaker 1: which is Mount Say, and I you provoked the Lord
Speaker 1: to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with
Speaker 1: you to have you to destroy you, angry enough with
Speaker 1: you to have destroy you, destroyed you. When I went
Speaker 1: up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone,
Speaker 1: the tablets of the Covenant, which the Lord made with you.
Speaker 1: Then I stayed on the mountain for forty days and
Speaker 1: forty nights. I neither ate bread, nor ate or drank water.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord delivered me two tablets of stone written
Speaker 1: with the finger of God, and on them were the
Speaker 1: words which the Lord had spoken to you on the
Speaker 1: mountain from the midst of the fire and the day
Speaker 1: of the assembly. And it came to pass at the
Speaker 1: end of the forty days and four nights that the
Speaker 1: Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets
Speaker 1: of the Covenant. So the ten commandments were written on
Speaker 1: those stones. Okay, so let's continue Deuteronomy nine to twelve.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord sending me a rise, go down quickly
Speaker 1: from here, for the or your people whom you brought
Speaker 1: out of Egypt were acting corruptly, and they have quickly
Speaker 1: turned aside from which the way I commanded them, and
Speaker 1: they made themselves a molded image. Okay, So this is
Speaker 1: talking about the first time that Moses went up to
Speaker 1: Mount Sinai for forty days and forty knights, and he
Speaker 1: came down, and they made the golden calf. The golden
Speaker 1: calf Aaron made. The golden calf. Aaron is Moses's brother.
Speaker 1: Let's continue Deuteronomy nine, verse thirteen. Furthermore, the Lord spoke
Speaker 1: to me, saying, I have seen his people, and indeed
Speaker 1: they are a stiff necked people. Let me alone that
Speaker 1: I may destroy them and blot out their name from
Speaker 1: the under heaven, and I will make you a nation
Speaker 1: mightier and greater than they. So I turned and came
Speaker 1: from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire, and
Speaker 1: the two tablets of the Covenant were in my two hands.
Speaker 1: And I looked, and behold, you have sinned against the Lord,
Speaker 1: your God made yourself, say molded calf. You had turned
Speaker 1: aside quickly the way which the Lord had commanded you.
Speaker 1: Then I took the two tablets and threw them out
Speaker 1: of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.
Speaker 1: And I fell down before the Lord. As it as
Speaker 1: the first forty days and forty nights. I neither ate
Speaker 1: bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which
Speaker 1: you committed, and doing wickedly in the side of the
Speaker 1: Lord to provoke him the anger. For I was afraid
Speaker 1: of the Anger, and not in hot displeasure, which the
Speaker 1: Lord was angry with you to destroy you. But the
Speaker 1: Lord listened to me at that time also, and the
Speaker 1: Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him.
Speaker 1: So I prayed for Erin also at the same time.
Speaker 1: Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made,
Speaker 1: and burned it with fire and crushed it and grounded
Speaker 1: it very very small, until it was a fine dust.
Speaker 1: I threw its dust into the brook that descended into
Speaker 1: the mountain. Something that a pastor was pointing out right
Speaker 1: here was that he also put it into the brook,
Speaker 1: and then he made the people drink it. Very interesting
Speaker 1: the gold, right, I guess, very interesting. So we understand
Speaker 1: what's going on here. This is kind of a uh.
Speaker 1: This is him just reviewing exactly what happened during that
Speaker 1: time and what he was feeling. Right, He's given a sermon,
Speaker 1: and the people should be sitting in the back like, wow,
Speaker 1: you know this is crazy. We'll never do this, you know,
Speaker 1: That's probably what they're thinking, like, we would never do this.
Speaker 1: Why would they do that? That's how people always, you know,
Speaker 1: whenever you read the Bible, like why would Adam sinn
Speaker 1: like that? That's that's I wouldn't do that against God,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, Okay. Also at Tebarauh and Massa and
Speaker 1: Kibberoth habitall you provoke the Lord to wrath like ours.
Speaker 1: When the Lord sent you to cades Barina, saying go
Speaker 1: up and possess the land which I had given you,
Speaker 1: you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, your God,
Speaker 1: and you did not believe him nor obey his voice.
Speaker 1: And you have been rebellious against the Lord from the
Speaker 1: day that I knew you. So. In verses seven through
Speaker 1: twenty forty, he recounts Israel's history of rebellion, including the
Speaker 1: incident of the Golden Calf, illustrating their persistent disobedience and
Speaker 1: the need for God's mercy. Also, if you guys, remember
Speaker 1: there was a rebellion that happened where they were rebelling
Speaker 1: against God. And then God had the earth open up
Speaker 1: and swallow those people that caused the rebellion. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they were rebelling it. They started rebellion against Moses. And
Speaker 1: let's continue Deuteronomy nine, verse twenty five. Thus I prostrated
Speaker 1: myself before the Lord forty days and forty nights. I
Speaker 1: kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said he would
Speaker 1: destroy you. Therefore I prayed to the Lord and said,
Speaker 1: Oh Lord God, do not destroy your people and your inheritance,
Speaker 1: whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have
Speaker 1: brought out of Egypt with the mighty hand. Remember your servants, Abraham,
Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob, do not look on the stubbornness of
Speaker 1: his people, or on the wickedness of their sin less
Speaker 1: than land that you brought us. Should say, because the
Speaker 1: Lord has not been able to bring them out of
Speaker 1: the land which he had promised them, and because he
Speaker 1: hated them, he has brought them out to kill them
Speaker 1: in the wilderness. Yet they are people and your inheritance
Speaker 1: whom you brought out of your mighty power in your
Speaker 1: out your outstretched arm. So kind of what we're saying
Speaker 1: here is, Oh Lord, do not destroy your people and inheritance,
Speaker 1: whom you're redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought
Speaker 1: out of Egypt with the mighty hand. Remember your servants. Yes,
Speaker 1: So reminding God, this is what he did when he
Speaker 1: was up there. He was reminding God of the promise
Speaker 1: that he had with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and kind
Speaker 1: of remember your servants, you know, everything that that they
Speaker 1: went through. Do not look on the stubbornness of your
Speaker 1: people or the weakness of the sin that's the land
Speaker 1: which he had brought us to. Because the Lord was
Speaker 1: not able to bring them out of the land which
Speaker 1: he had promised them, and because he hated them, he
Speaker 1: had brought him out to kill them in the wilderness.
Speaker 1: He didn't. He's saying, like, Uh, do you want Egypt
Speaker 1: to to think that you were not able to bring
Speaker 1: them out of the land which you have or bring
Speaker 1: him to the land which you have promised them? Right?
Speaker 1: He didn't. Did you want Egypt to think that you
Speaker 1: brought them to this, to the wilderness to kill them?
Speaker 1: You know, He's he's kind of reminding God of that, right.
Speaker 1: And then Moses' intersection or intercession demonstrates the power of
Speaker 1: prayer and importance of a mediator between God and man.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what Moses was. He's the mediator between
Speaker 1: God man. It's a picture of what we have now.
Speaker 1: Jesus is the mediator between us and God. Right, And
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to compare Moses to Jesus. Okay, Jesus
Speaker 1: is God, right, I'm just saying that. It's It demonstrates
Speaker 1: the power of prayer and the importance of having a
Speaker 1: mediator between God and man. What's Jesus is the mediator
Speaker 1: between us and God right now. He is what makes
Speaker 1: us holy. Moses did not make them holy, but he, Jesus,
Speaker 1: is what makes us holy. He bridges the cavern between
Speaker 1: us and God because we are not holy at all. Right,
Speaker 1: So let's see if there's a yeah. Some practical applications
Speaker 1: for this verse humility and success. Recognize that our achievements
Speaker 1: are not solely due to our efforts, but the gifts
Speaker 1: from God, which I talked about kind of last chapter.
Speaker 1: Cultivate a heart of gratitude. Gratitude and humility very very important,
Speaker 1: and humility. We need to place all of our stuff
Speaker 1: on the altar and let God handle it all right,
Speaker 1: don't try to handle it yourself. Let God handle it.
Speaker 1: Place it on the altar. Pray, let God handle the
Speaker 1: things that we think we can handle. Okay, we have
Speaker 1: to handle self with gratitude and humility. Self examination regularly
Speaker 1: examine our lives in areas of pride and self righteousness,
Speaker 1: seeking God's forgiveness and guidance. Of course, yes, we don't
Speaker 1: want to have pride and self righteousness. We don't want
Speaker 1: to We don't want that at all. Intercessory prayer follow
Speaker 1: Jesus' follow Moses' example by praying for others, especially those
Speaker 1: who may be straying from God's path. And yeah, so
Speaker 1: if you have people in your life that you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's why you always say, like, hey, I'll pray
Speaker 1: for you brother, I'm gonna be praying for you, or
Speaker 1: you pray with them, right there, one of the two. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of internet friends that you know.
Speaker 1: They might tell you something in secret and you kind
Speaker 1: of you hear it and then you pray for them,
Speaker 1: you know, or something. Maybe one of your friends send
Speaker 1: you a text message, Hey bro, I'm going through it
Speaker 1: right now, can you pray for me? Of course, try
Speaker 1: to guide them and you pray for them. So it's
Speaker 1: very important, especially when you see someone straying away, it's
Speaker 1: it's very important to pray for them and guide them.
Speaker 1: Trust in God's promises in times of uncertainty. You remember
Speaker 1: God's faithfulness and trust and his promises, knowing that He
Speaker 1: is in control. Amen to that we know that. So
Speaker 1: just yeah, God, like I said, God cannot lie. It's
Speaker 1: impossible for God to lie. So if there's something in
Speaker 1: the Bible, you know that God is not lying. Okay,
Speaker 1: we know that and trust God to take care of you.
Speaker 1: So the next the next portion, I just want to
Speaker 1: give additional scriptures we have. Ephesians two eight through nine emphasizes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Phesians two eight is going to be we're saved by
Speaker 1: grace through faith, not by works. Right, So we're saved
Speaker 1: by grace through faith, for is a gift of God,
Speaker 1: none of yourselves, not by works, so that no man
Speaker 1: shall boast is what it is. It's about God's grace
Speaker 1: over human righteousness. Okay, So that is one of the
Speaker 1: scriptures that that is an additional scripture to go through.
Speaker 1: Romans three twenty three through twenty four reminds us that
Speaker 1: all have sinned and are justified freely by God's grace,
Speaker 1: paralying Israel's need for God's mercy despite their rebellion. We
Speaker 1: rebel every day, right so in some type of way,
Speaker 1: so we also are in God's grace right now. First
Speaker 1: John one nine encourages confession and assurance of forgiveness relevant
Speaker 1: and the call for self examination and repentance. Okay, we
Speaker 1: need to have self examination and repentance for sure. Anything
Speaker 1: else I have here, all right, let's continue. I'll go
Speaker 1: to my notes for chapter ten, and now we're in Deuteronomy,
Speaker 1: chapter ten. The second pair of tablets. So now we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the second pair of tablets, because Moses
Speaker 1: was talking about the first time he went up the
Speaker 1: mount SIGNI for forty days and forty nights. He broke
Speaker 1: those because he saw him with the golden calf. Now
Speaker 1: he's going to talk about, you know, the second pair
Speaker 1: of tablets. At that time, the Lord said to me,
Speaker 1: who for yourselves two tablets of stone like the first,
Speaker 1: and come to me on the mountain and make yourself
Speaker 1: an arc of wood. Now we're talking about the Ark
Speaker 1: of the Covenant. And now I'll write on the tablets
Speaker 1: the words that were in the first tablets which you broke,
Speaker 1: and you shall put them in the ark. Okay, So
Speaker 1: now those tablets are going to be in the ark.
Speaker 1: Instead of him carrying him down where he could break them,
Speaker 1: he's gonna put him in the Ark of the Covenant.
Speaker 1: So I made an arc of Akashawood, who two tablets
Speaker 1: of stone like the first, and went out the mountain,
Speaker 1: having the two tablets in my hand, and he wrote
Speaker 1: on the tablets according to the first writing in ten Commandments,
Speaker 1: which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain
Speaker 1: from the midst of the fire in the day of
Speaker 1: the Assembly, and the Lord gave them to me. Then
Speaker 1: I turned and came down from the mountain and put
Speaker 1: the tablets in the ark which I had made, And
Speaker 1: there they are, just as the Lord commanded me. Let's
Speaker 1: get here. So Deuteronomy ten begins with God's instructing Moses
Speaker 1: to chisel out the two stone tablets like the first
Speaker 1: ones and come to him. This signifies God's willingness to
Speaker 1: renew his covenant despite Israel's previous rebellion. So that is
Speaker 1: showing you the grace of God, Isn't it? That shows
Speaker 1: you the grace of God, because even though they just
Speaker 1: made a huge mistake, He's still forgiving them and creating
Speaker 1: the Ten Commandments and continuing with his covenant. Deuteronomy ten,
Speaker 1: verse six says, now the children of Israel journeyed from
Speaker 1: the walls of Beni. Okay, yeah, this is in parentheses Okay,
Speaker 1: some people believe that Joshua added this to Deuteronomy. I
Speaker 1: just want to let you know that it's in parentheses,
Speaker 1: because sometimes when it's in parentheses, you don't find it
Speaker 1: in the original manuscript. It got added later somehow. Right,
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and go over this. This is
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy ten verse six. It says, now the children of
Speaker 1: Israel journeyed from the walls the wells of Beni Jacan
Speaker 1: to Masara, where Aaron died, and he was buried in Alia,
Speaker 1: his son ministered as priests and is stead, from where
Speaker 1: they journeyed to God Gaddah, and from God Gadah the
Speaker 1: jata a land of rivers of water. At that time,
Speaker 1: the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the
Speaker 1: ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before
Speaker 1: the Lord, to minister to him, to bless him in
Speaker 1: his name. To this day, therefore, Levi has has no
Speaker 1: portion or inheritance with his brethren. The Lord is his inheritance,
Speaker 1: just as the Lord your God has promised him. So
Speaker 1: he's just reiterating that portion to let them know that
Speaker 1: Levi has no portion or inheritance. The Lord is his inheritance. Right,
Speaker 1: So let's continue. Verse ten. It says, at this time
Speaker 1: I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Speaker 1: So yes, I talked about that. So Moses went up
Speaker 1: there forty days and forty nights. The first time came down,
Speaker 1: they were in rebellion. The Golden cath broke the ten commandments.
Speaker 1: I call them back up to the mountain. Moses goes
Speaker 1: back up there again forty days and forty nights, right,
Speaker 1: and uh, I think that's that's this is fascinating, right,
Speaker 1: And it says, uh, the Lord also heard me at
Speaker 1: that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to me, a rise, begin your
Speaker 1: journey before the people, that you may go in and
Speaker 1: possess the land which I swore to you and your
Speaker 1: fathers to give them. So uh so on. So Moses
Speaker 1: is a scrutiny. Okay, So that's gonna be twelve one
Speaker 1: through five. Okay, we already went through that, the essence
Speaker 1: of the law. Okay, let's go over this. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be Deuteronomy ten, verse twelve. And we're kind of
Speaker 1: going through these kind of fast because it is a review.
Speaker 1: Pretty much. He's doing a sermon. It's a review of
Speaker 1: stuff we kind of went over in Exodus. So there's
Speaker 1: it's not as dense as some of the other parts
Speaker 1: the Book of Deuteronomy, and I'm going over it, but
Speaker 1: it's okay because it's it's good to review. And this
Speaker 1: is exactly the way that some of the pastors that
Speaker 1: I was studying kind of go through it. They're not
Speaker 1: going through it where they're just a bunch of dense
Speaker 1: stuff in here. They're kind of just kind of going
Speaker 1: through it fairly quickly. They they would they would in
Speaker 1: a two hour time, they would go over Deuteronomy eight
Speaker 1: all the way to twelve. So we're making excellent timing
Speaker 1: right now. Just let you guys know we're already on
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy ten and verse twelve says and now, Israel, what
Speaker 1: does the Lord your God require of you but to
Speaker 1: fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his
Speaker 1: ways and to love him. To serve the Lord your
Speaker 1: God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Speaker 1: and to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statues,
Speaker 1: which I command you today for your for your good. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God.
Speaker 1: Also the earth with all that is in it. Let's
Speaker 1: pause there real quick. So indeed, heaven and the highest
Speaker 1: heavens belong to the Lord your God. So heaven would
Speaker 1: be where the moon, sun of the stars are located.
Speaker 1: The second heaven is the Firmament. The third heaven, according
Speaker 1: to the Holy Bible, would be or God's thrones is located.
Speaker 1: So we say in the heaven and the highest heavens
Speaker 1: belong to the Lord your God. So in some if
Speaker 1: you go to extra Biblical text and Jewish, they believe
Speaker 1: there was seven heavens, right, So according to two Corinthians twelve,
Speaker 1: it says that Paul went to the third heaven. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's very interesting that it says, indeed heaven and the
Speaker 1: highest heavens belong to the Lord your God. Also the earth,
Speaker 1: which is in it. So yeah, it's in between it, right,
Speaker 1: So let's continue. The Lord delighted or you know, the
Speaker 1: earth is in it, right, and then you have the
Speaker 1: Son of the Stars, the firmament, God's throne is what
Speaker 1: I see in the Bible. Other people see other stuff, right,
Speaker 1: they see space and infinite vacuum and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I see it differently. But anyways, the Lord delighted.
Speaker 1: This is going to be ten Verse fifteen. The Lord
Speaker 1: delighted only in your fathers to love them, and he
Speaker 1: chose their descendants after them, to you above all people.
Speaker 1: And it's in this day. Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of
Speaker 1: your heart and be stiff necked no longer. For the
Speaker 1: Lord your God is God of God's, the Lord of lords,
Speaker 1: the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality
Speaker 1: to take a nor takes a bribe. He administers justice
Speaker 1: to the fatherless the widow, and loves the stranger, giving
Speaker 1: him food and clothing. Therefore, love the stranger, for you
Speaker 1: were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall fear
Speaker 1: the Lord your God. You shall serve him, and to
Speaker 1: him you shall hold fast and take in his name.
Speaker 1: He is your praise, and he is your God and
Speaker 1: has done for you these great and awesome things which
Speaker 1: your eyes have seen. Your fathers went down to Egypt
Speaker 1: with seventy persons, and now the Lord of God has
Speaker 1: made you the stars of heaven in multitude, so seventy persons, like,
Speaker 1: who did he go down to? Who are they talking
Speaker 1: about here? Well, that's going to be Joseph and his
Speaker 1: family and everybody that he ended up bringing over to Egypt.
Speaker 1: That's the seventy persons. It's a Joseph, his brothers and
Speaker 1: everybody that came. Jacob ended up dying, if you guys remember,
Speaker 1: And that's the seventy persons that went to Egypt. And
Speaker 1: at the time they were accepted, and Joseph was higher up.
Speaker 1: But you know, as you know, the Pharaohs quickly forgot
Speaker 1: about the Israelites and started making them slaves. So let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and go to So in in verse twelve,
Speaker 1: Moses's scrutiny outlines that God requires And now, o Israel,
Speaker 1: what does the Lord your God ask you to do?
Speaker 1: But fear the Lord your God, to walk in his ways,
Speaker 1: to serve the Lord of God with all your heart
Speaker 1: and with all your soul. Right, That's God's requirements. And
Speaker 1: then in Deuteronomy ten sixteen, which we went over the
Speaker 1: physical act of circumcision as a metaphor for a deeper
Speaker 1: spiritual reality. God desires a heart that is open and
Speaker 1: responsive to him. Circumcise your hearts therefore, and stiffen your
Speaker 1: necks no more. And then in Deuteronomy ten eighteen it
Speaker 1: highlights that God's character and his call for his people
Speaker 1: to reflect his justice for love and love. And then
Speaker 1: in Deuteronomy ten verses twenty one through twenty two, this
Speaker 1: chapter concludes with the reminder of God's greatness and his
Speaker 1: mighty deeds, encouraging the Israelites to remember their history and
Speaker 1: God's faithfulness. Yes, and then and then Deuteronomy ten through
Speaker 1: twenty two. Also, the chapter concludes what they call to fear, serve,
Speaker 1: and hold fast to Lower, acknowledging his mighty deeds and
Speaker 1: wonders he performed for the for Israel. This re forces
Speaker 1: the covenantial relationship and response to worship. Okay, that's Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: ten through twenty two. So let's go ahead and go
Speaker 1: over some practical applications that you can use for your life.
Speaker 1: Reflect on God's requirements. Regularly assess your life, and in
Speaker 1: light of God's requirements to fear love and serve him wholeheartedly,
Speaker 1: cultivate a responsible So. Yeah, So regularly assess your life
Speaker 1: in light of God's requirements of fear love, serve him wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1: Yes so, yes, obviously you want to love him with
Speaker 1: all your heart, mind, body, soul, with everything. We kind
Speaker 1: of talked about this in Wednesday's service, that Jesus wants
Speaker 1: you to love him so much that it looks like
Speaker 1: you despise what was it, detest everybody else? Okay, So
Speaker 1: he doesn't want you to hate anybody. Okay, someone that's
Speaker 1: saying in that verse, But he wants you to love
Speaker 1: him so much it looks like you almost detest everybody
Speaker 1: else because you have so much love for him, because
Speaker 1: you're placing him first. Cultivate every sponsive heart. Seek to
Speaker 1: circumcise your heart by being open to God's leading and
Speaker 1: willing to change. Yes, definitely be willing to change. What
Speaker 1: you're doing right now when you are walking with God
Speaker 1: is you are changing. Okay, you don't understand it, you
Speaker 1: don't know, but you are actually having a transformation of
Speaker 1: how you were before. It takes a while for you
Speaker 1: to even realize. It takes a while for everything to
Speaker 1: kind of kick in. But you're going to be simply
Speaker 1: dropping these old habits, these bad habits that you had before,
Speaker 1: that you learned, as you know, as a non believer,
Speaker 1: and I was even a believer and a non believer
Speaker 1: at the same time. You know, it's called being lukewarm,
Speaker 1: where you are. You believe that Jesus died for your sins,
Speaker 1: but you're still sinning. You know, Like it's just like
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, when I was growing up, when
Speaker 1: I was sixteen, I always believe that I believed in God, right,
Speaker 1: I believed Jesus, but I was just not walking with God.
Speaker 1: You know, you could be in that position. So as
Speaker 1: you kind of mature in your faith and you start
Speaker 1: reading the Bible and consuming the Word of God a
Speaker 1: lot more and you start learning, then you're going to
Speaker 1: you're gonna be start dropping these bad habits and these
Speaker 1: these a lot of these things that you do. You
Speaker 1: might do right now, it's going to happen. You know,
Speaker 1: you might not think so, but it's definitely gonna happen. Okay,
Speaker 1: Emulate God's justice and love actively. Look for ways to
Speaker 1: serve and support the marginalized in your community, reflecting God's
Speaker 1: heart for justice. Yes, that's what I was talking about.
Speaker 1: The marginalized, the people that that don't have it as
Speaker 1: good as you, the people that are homeless, people that
Speaker 1: you know need help and assistance. Remember God's faithfulness. Keep
Speaker 1: a journal of God's faithfulness in your heart to encourage
Speaker 1: you during challenging times. Yeah, keep a journal of God's
Speaker 1: faithfulness in your life to encourage. Yeah, you could. You
Speaker 1: could do that. You could write a journal or you're writing,
Speaker 1: you know till people do, like a daily journal or
Speaker 1: like a diary type deal. And you could write in
Speaker 1: ways that God has affected you and and assisted you
Speaker 1: and helped you, and helped you with your testimony, you know,
Speaker 1: going to give you a testimony, write a testimony out
Speaker 1: every time God helps you during challenging times. All right,
Speaker 1: So that is if you notice these chapters are fairly quick.
Speaker 1: So like I said, you know, we kind of go
Speaker 1: over them a little fast. But it's okay. This is
Speaker 1: definitely a review. And now we're in Deuteronomy eleven and
Speaker 1: we'll go here. So here we go. This is love
Speaker 1: and obedience rewarded. Deuteronomy eleven, Verse one. Therefore you shall
Speaker 1: love the Lord your God, and keep his charge, his statues,
Speaker 1: his judgments, and his commandments. Always know today that I
Speaker 1: do not speak with your children who have not known,
Speaker 1: who have not seen the chastising of the Lord your God,
Speaker 1: his greatness, and his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,
Speaker 1: his signs, his acts, which he did in the midst
Speaker 1: of Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to all
Speaker 1: his land, And what he did to the army of Egypt,
Speaker 1: to their horses, the chariots, how he made the waters
Speaker 1: of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you,
Speaker 1: And how the Lord had destroyed them to this day.
Speaker 1: What he did for you in the wilderness until he
Speaker 1: came to this place. And what he did to Dethan
Speaker 1: and Abram, the sons of Ilieb, the son of Reuben,
Speaker 1: How the earth opened his mouth and swallowed them up,
Speaker 1: their households, their tents, and their substance which was in
Speaker 1: their possession in the midst of the Israel. But your
Speaker 1: eyes have seen very great act of the Lord which
Speaker 1: he did. That is the that then and Abriam, the
Speaker 1: sons of Ilieb. Okay, that's the ones that created the
Speaker 1: rebellion against Moses, and the earth opened up and swallowed them.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's I'm telling you. Supernatural events happen in
Speaker 1: the Bible that people, you know, some of them people
Speaker 1: choose not to believe. But we believe this by faith, right,
Speaker 1: So I'll go ahead and go over uh doud on
Speaker 1: me eleven one states you shall Therefore, love the Lord
Speaker 1: your God, and always keep his chape, his charge, his statutes,
Speaker 1: his ordinance, and his commandments. This verse emphasizes the importance
Speaker 1: of loving God as the foundation for obedience. Yes, so,
Speaker 1: if you love God, you're gonna be obedient to him,
Speaker 1: just like your wife. If you love your wife like
Speaker 1: like Christ love the Church, you're gonna be obedient to her.
Speaker 1: You know, you're not going to go out and do
Speaker 1: stupid stuff, go out and drink, go out and party,
Speaker 1: go out and you know, try to get other women
Speaker 1: or watch other women on your phone, or whatever the
Speaker 1: heck you do. You know you don't need to do
Speaker 1: that same thing. Loving God shows obedience. So you could
Speaker 1: tell your friends all day long, I love the Lord God.
Speaker 1: I love God so much. But when you're disobedient to him,
Speaker 1: you're not showing that you love him. Right. And then
Speaker 1: two through seven remembering God's Works Okay, so Verses two
Speaker 1: through seven recounts the mighty works of God, reminding the
Speaker 1: Israelites of his power and faithfulness. This serves as a
Speaker 1: motivation to trust and obey him. Yeah, so it motivates
Speaker 1: you to trust and obey him. Right, let's continue, We're
Speaker 1: going to go through all right Deuteronomy eleven, verse eight. Therefore,
Speaker 1: you shall keep your commandment which I commanded you today,
Speaker 1: that you may be strong, go in and possess the
Speaker 1: land which you cross over to possess, and that you
Speaker 1: may prolong your days in the land which the Lord
Speaker 1: swore to give your fathers to them their descendants, a
Speaker 1: land flowing of milk and honey. For the land which
Speaker 1: you go to possess is not like the land of
Speaker 1: Egypt which you have come, where you sowed your seed
Speaker 1: and watered it by foot as a vegetable garden. But
Speaker 1: the land which you cross to possesses the land of
Speaker 1: hills and valleys, which drinks waters from the rain of heaven,
Speaker 1: a land for which the Lord your God cares. The
Speaker 1: eyes of the Lord your God are always on it,
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the year to the very end
Speaker 1: of this year of the year. You see how it's
Speaker 1: like a motivational speech, but it's also a sermon at
Speaker 1: the same time. He's preaching and teaching them, and also
Speaker 1: he's motivating them at the same time. Right of what
Speaker 1: they're going to the land that they're going to possess. Right,
Speaker 1: So let's continue Deuteronomy eleven, verse thirteen. And it shall
Speaker 1: be that you earnestly obey my commandments, which I command
Speaker 1: you today, to love the Lord your God, and serve
Speaker 1: him with all your heart, with all your heart, with
Speaker 1: all your soul. Then I will give you the rain
Speaker 1: from your land in its season, their early rain and
Speaker 1: the latter rain, that you may gather your grain, your
Speaker 1: new wine, and your oil. And I will send grass
Speaker 1: in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat
Speaker 1: and be filled. Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart
Speaker 1: be deceived, that you turn aside and serve other gods
Speaker 1: and worship them, Lest the Lord's anger be aroused against you,
Speaker 1: and he shut up the heavens so that there will
Speaker 1: be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and
Speaker 1: you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord
Speaker 1: is giving you. So he is warning them against. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing it's showing you. Who controls the weather
Speaker 1: at this time? God right, God can make it rain.
Speaker 1: God can make it not rain. To what it's telling you.
Speaker 1: Who stopped the weather when they were on the boat,
Speaker 1: Jesus right, He was able to calm the storm and
Speaker 1: stop the oceans from getting crazy. So that's something that
Speaker 1: we should look at. That's why they were like, who
Speaker 1: is he that he's able to control the weather like that?
Speaker 1: You know. So I just want to tell you guys
Speaker 1: that and if you see as from a conspiratorial aspect,
Speaker 1: what's happening. You know, Man wants to do everything they
Speaker 1: want to even control the weather. They're doing the geoengineering, chemtrails,
Speaker 1: all this stuff, climate change, trying to block the sun.
Speaker 1: You see what they see what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: They're trying to mock God. Always always trying to mock God. Right,
Speaker 1: cause it to rain, Operation Popeye. Oh yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: cloud seed. We're gonna cause it to rain. So there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some point where they're gonna screw up the
Speaker 1: system so bad that it's not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: rain unless they do that. So they you know, we
Speaker 1: Man is just very, very stiff necked and ignorant, always
Speaker 1: trying to take the power away from God. Let's see,
Speaker 1: let's continue, let's see what my notes say. So in
Speaker 1: verse sixteen seventeen warns against turning to other gods, highlighting
Speaker 1: the danger of idolatry and its consequences such as withholding
Speaker 1: of rain and loss of the land. So if you're
Speaker 1: gonna go worship other gods, God's gonna make it so
Speaker 1: that you're gonna have a very tough time because he's
Speaker 1: gonna stop the rain you have no produce. So all
Speaker 1: they had to do is just love the Lord thy
Speaker 1: God with all their heart and soul and follow him
Speaker 1: and not to worship other gods. Right, let's continue Deuteronomy eleven,
Speaker 1: verse eighteen. Therefore, therefore you shall lay these words of
Speaker 1: mine in your heart and in your soul, and buying
Speaker 1: them as a sign on your hand, and you shall
Speaker 1: be frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to
Speaker 1: your children, speaking to them that you sit in your house,
Speaker 1: when you walk by the way, when you lie down,
Speaker 1: and when you rise up, and you shall write them
Speaker 1: on the doorposts of your house, on your gates, that
Speaker 1: your days, in your days of your children, may be
Speaker 1: multiplied in the land of which your Lord swore to
Speaker 1: your fathers to give them, like the days of the
Speaker 1: heavens above the earth. Okay, he's basically just saying, like,
Speaker 1: write these things on your heart. Okay, he's saying to
Speaker 1: write them on your doorposts now, because they pass by
Speaker 1: those every day. So it's basically he wants them to
Speaker 1: have a constant reminder. So and he also wants you
Speaker 1: to teach the commandments to your children, ensuring the future
Speaker 1: generations remain faithful. Right, he wants you to teach them
Speaker 1: to your future generations so that they so they have
Speaker 1: it branded on their heart, right, the law the Commandments
Speaker 1: branded on their heart. And he will take care of
Speaker 1: you if you do that. I have verses on my wall,
Speaker 1: on my walls, so I literally do have them on
Speaker 1: my walls in my bathroom, on my kitchen, two of them.
Speaker 1: I also have, you know, things just so just to remind,
Speaker 1: remind us to you know, give thanks to God or
Speaker 1: whatever you know that we have whatever we people tend
Speaker 1: to forget. Sometimes I have them on my wall actually,
Speaker 1: So all right, so let's continue. We're going to be
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy eleven, verse twenty two. For if you carefully keep
Speaker 1: all these commandments which I commanded you to love the
Speaker 1: Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to
Speaker 1: hold fast to him, then the Lord will drive out
Speaker 1: all these nations before you, and you will, and you
Speaker 1: will disposes greater and mightier nations than yourself every place
Speaker 1: on which the soul of your foot treads shall be yours.
Speaker 1: From the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river the river Euphrates,
Speaker 1: even to the western Sea, shall be your territory. No
Speaker 1: man shall be able to stand against you. The Lord,
Speaker 1: your God will put the dread of you and the
Speaker 1: fear of you upon all the land which you tread,
Speaker 1: just as he said to you, So in a will continue.
Speaker 1: So he's basically saying, as long as you are faithful,
Speaker 1: then I will be with you, and I will help
Speaker 1: you to fight against these greater and mightier nations. And
Speaker 1: people are gonna fear you. As long as you fear
Speaker 1: the Lord and love the Lord and walk in his ways.
Speaker 1: As long as you're obedient to the Lord, he's gonna
Speaker 1: take care of you. That's all you gotta do. Let's continue.
Speaker 1: Let's see if there's anything on this part. Sorry, eleven
Speaker 1: twenty four. Have you read there? Yeah? We have, Okay.
Speaker 1: So God promises no one will be able to stand
Speaker 1: against the Israelites if they obey His commandments concerning their
Speaker 1: victory over enemies. Every place where the soul of their
Speaker 1: foot treads will be yours. Yes, that's very interesting right there,
Speaker 1: And let's go back to the teaching points for twenty
Speaker 1: six and twenty eight. Let's go ahead. Eleven Deuteronomy eleven,
Speaker 1: verse twenty six. Behold, I set before you today a
Speaker 1: blessing and a curse. The blessing if you obey the
Speaker 1: commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today,
Speaker 1: and the curse if you do not obey the commandments
Speaker 1: of the Lord your God, but turn aside from which
Speaker 1: I command you today, to go after other gods which
Speaker 1: you have not known. Now. It shall be when the
Speaker 1: Lord your God has brought you out of the land
Speaker 1: which you go to possess, and you shall put the
Speaker 1: blessings of Mount Guerusium and the curse of Mount ebel eball,
Speaker 1: are you not on the other side of the Jordan,
Speaker 1: towards towards the setting sun and the land of the
Speaker 1: Canaanites who dwell on the plane opposite Gigle beside the
Speaker 1: Terriba trees of morale. For you will cross over the
Speaker 1: Jordan and go to possess the land what's the Lord
Speaker 1: your God is giving you, And you will possess it
Speaker 1: and dwell in it. And you shall be careful to
Speaker 1: observe the statutes and judgments, which I said before you today.
Speaker 1: So the choice between blessing and curse. So God presents
Speaker 1: a clear choice blessing for obedience and curse for disobedience,
Speaker 1: underscoring the significance of our decisions. So that is what
Speaker 1: he's doing. Obviously, you're showing this this whole entire chapter
Speaker 1: right here right He is telling you that obedience you'll
Speaker 1: be blessed. Disobedience, you will be cursed. So you kind
Speaker 1: of have a choice there. And they if they would
Speaker 1: have took note of this and took it seriously, and
Speaker 1: that would have been so much better for their nation,
Speaker 1: so much better. So we kind of already kind of
Speaker 1: went over this. But yeah, So the chapter concludes with
Speaker 1: a choice to set before the Israelites blessing if they
Speaker 1: obey God's commandments, and a curse if they disobey. This
Speaker 1: choice es central to the covenant relationship. See today, I
Speaker 1: am setting before you a blessing and a curse. Studonomy eleven,
Speaker 1: verse twenty six. So let's go ahead and go over
Speaker 1: some practical applications for you guys for these verses, for
Speaker 1: these chapters. Cultivate a love for God, make a conscious
Speaker 1: effort to deepen your love for God through prayer, worship,
Speaker 1: and studying His word. And a part of worship is obedience. Okay,
Speaker 1: that is part of worship. Worship like going to a
Speaker 1: church putting your hands up, that is a part of worship. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: you're putting your hand up. You know, your you're, you're
Speaker 1: you know, you're feeling the Holy Spirit and all that stuff. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a part of worship. But a big part of
Speaker 1: worship is obedient to God, God's word. And how often
Speaker 1: are you, guys, h how often are you, guys praying
Speaker 1: to God for obedience? How often are you praying to
Speaker 1: God for obedience? Very important? And also studying His word,
Speaker 1: which we're doing right here, which is which I which
Speaker 1: I try to tell people. It's vastly important. And for
Speaker 1: me to be able to even you know, teach you
Speaker 1: guys and preach you or teach you guys is is amazing.
Speaker 1: God is so greatful allowing me to do that. Reflect
Speaker 1: on God's faithfulness. Regularly we call and share testimonies of
Speaker 1: God's faithfulness in your life to strengthen your trust in Him. So, yes,
Speaker 1: I've had some people on my show that had some
Speaker 1: very powerful testimon my friend Monti Mansfield. He has a
Speaker 1: Instagram or a TikTok now that has like four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people or three hundred thousand people. And he started
Speaker 1: out on my show, not saying that I started him
Speaker 1: out or anything, but he came on my show on
Speaker 1: my podcast, and now his in his TikTok is is
Speaker 1: you know, three hundred thousand people. But he has a
Speaker 1: very good testimony. He was a baseball player that got
Speaker 1: into drugs, and you know, he became a pro baseball
Speaker 1: player and he got into uh he played for a
Speaker 1: Spirit of high school, which is I knew him and
Speaker 1: growing up right, and he he has a really good
Speaker 1: testimony and and he got into drugs and then he
Speaker 1: got got into the Lord and just just beautiful man.
Speaker 1: And it assists so many people. You know, it helps
Speaker 1: so many people when you could share your testimony and
Speaker 1: share what God has done in our life. You know,
Speaker 1: he is he's an example of that. Monty Mansfield. I can, uh,
Speaker 1: you know what, since since he is my one of
Speaker 1: my friends, I could kind of uh see what, Oh
Speaker 1: let me, I can't search t yep. I just want
Speaker 1: to shout out his h is it money Mansfield. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see, I think it's the Hope Dealers what he
Speaker 1: calls himself. Yeah, so it's many Mansfield one nine seven.
Speaker 1: So it's at MANI Mansfield one nine seven. And uh
Speaker 1: the Hope Dealer is what he what he calls himself.
Speaker 1: And uh you could check out his uh his uh,
Speaker 1: his TikTok if you want, three hundred and ninety five
Speaker 1: thousand followers. So he has a lot, and he's always
Speaker 1: given thanks to God and and just just you know,
Speaker 1: it's just a a an example of that. And he
Speaker 1: didn't ask me to do a shout out for him.
Speaker 1: I'm just doing it because I mentioned him. Prioritize obedience,
Speaker 1: Evaluate areas in your life where you may be struggling
Speaker 1: with obedience, and seek God's guidance to align with his will.
Speaker 1: So evaluate areas of your life where you may be struggling
Speaker 1: with obedience. Of course, so you know, if there's an
Speaker 1: area in your life where that you're weak, evaluate it
Speaker 1: and find out what you have to do to correct
Speaker 1: it and do your very best, you know, And it
Speaker 1: might be a slow process or a quick process. It
Speaker 1: just depends. But as you study God's word, it's going
Speaker 1: to give you. It's going to strengthen you and help
Speaker 1: you in those areas that you feel weak. And pray
Speaker 1: to God for obedience and pray and and and you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta, you gotta not only pray, but whatever you pray,
Speaker 1: try to try to live that out, you know, and
Speaker 1: obedience is very important. And then seek God's guidance to
Speaker 1: align with his will. Of course, yeah, definitely we wanna,
Speaker 1: we want to definitely live by God's will. Guarding against idolatry.
Speaker 1: Identify any modern day idols in your life, such as
Speaker 1: materialism or career, and take steps to remove them. Yes,
Speaker 1: so remove the portion that that is making you idolize something.
Speaker 1: So some people might idolize shopping, some people might adalyze,
Speaker 1: you know, the simple things. You know, some people might
Speaker 1: idolize things that aren't good, like drugs or alcohol, or
Speaker 1: pornography or women or lustful thoughts or all these different things.
Speaker 1: You know, you want to make sure that you take
Speaker 1: steps to remove whatever you are idolizing, right, whatever whatever
Speaker 1: that is in your life. Invest in the next generation.
Speaker 1: Be intentional about teaching and modeling God's commandments to children
Speaker 1: and young believers. So, yeah, like youth ministry and and
Speaker 1: those are very important in your children at home. It's
Speaker 1: very important to teach them, raise them, raise them up properly,
Speaker 1: and raise them as believ Young believers choose daily recognize
Speaker 1: that each day presents a choice between obedience and disobedience,
Speaker 1: and commit to choosing God's way. So recognize each day
Speaker 1: presents a choice between obedience. Yes, So every single choice
Speaker 1: that you have, you know, there's choices that happen. There's
Speaker 1: either you know, there's there's good and evil right, or
Speaker 1: there's there's there's obey or disobey, and a lot of
Speaker 1: the choices that we have in life. And when you
Speaker 1: choose to go against God, then when you're a believer
Speaker 1: and you know that it's wrong, you are transgressing against God. Right.
Speaker 1: So we are held to a higher standard when we
Speaker 1: become believers because we are aware. Right when a child
Speaker 1: a is a baby and he does wrong or she
Speaker 1: does wrong and he doesn't know, then you know, obviously
Speaker 1: you're going to be a lot like on them as
Speaker 1: far as punishment. When they become six or seven years
Speaker 1: old and they know, you know, you be a little
Speaker 1: more harsher on them. When they're sixteen, you're going to
Speaker 1: be even more harsher on them because they know for
Speaker 1: sure and they're still disobeying. Right. So us as believers,
Speaker 1: we once you read the Bible, you're held accountable for
Speaker 1: what you have learned. Right, Like myself, I'm I'm held accountable,
Speaker 1: like I'm obviously displaying what I've learned on a podcast,
Speaker 1: So it's it's in the metaverse or whatever you want
Speaker 1: to say, it's actually out there. So if I do
Speaker 1: things that I've already learned, especially over the air, it's
Speaker 1: like I should already know that, right, So I'm going
Speaker 1: to be held accountable and held to a higher standard
Speaker 1: because I know. So we need to understand that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is we don't want to transgress
Speaker 1: like like David when he slept with Bathsheba, Like he
Speaker 1: transgressed against God because he knew that it was wrong,
Speaker 1: and it took him a year. I think I can't
Speaker 1: remember what the amount of time it took, but it
Speaker 1: was like almost a year for him to get back
Speaker 1: right with God. But he transgressed because he knew that
Speaker 1: it was wrong, and it was just the devil just
Speaker 1: still tempted him and then he ended up doing and
Speaker 1: all this stuff. But I'm just letting you guys know
Speaker 1: you have a choice between obedience and disobedience and choosing
Speaker 1: God's way. Right, commit to choosing God's way. It'll it'll
Speaker 1: be vastly important in your life, and it'll assist you
Speaker 1: and everything you do. So all right, let's continue to
Speaker 1: show additional scriptures that you can go back to. Would
Speaker 1: be Joshua one to eight and emphasized the importance of
Speaker 1: meditating on God's word for success and prosperity. One Versus
Speaker 1: one through three describes the blessings of delighting in and
Speaker 1: meditating on God's law. John fourteen fifteen Jesus reiterates the
Speaker 1: connection between love and obedience of his commandments, and then
Speaker 1: James one twenty two through twenty five encourages believers to
Speaker 1: be doers of the word, not just hearers. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, so that's a very important James. If
Speaker 1: you go through that, it's very important as a believer
Speaker 1: to understand that show your faith by your works, right,
Speaker 1: by your obedience. Right, So let's go ahead and continue.
Speaker 1: Like I told you guys when we first started that
Speaker 1: these chapters go quite quickly and uh and a lot
Speaker 1: of it is review. So look at that, we're already
Speaker 1: to chapter twelve. Right, So we went from eight all
Speaker 1: the way to twelve. So far we have a twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes to go. So let's continue Deuteronomy twelve, verse one.
Speaker 1: The title of this as a prescribed place of worship.
Speaker 1: These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be
Speaker 1: careful to observe in the land which the Lord, God
Speaker 1: of your fathers is giving you to possess. All the
Speaker 1: days that you live on the earth. You shall utterly
Speaker 1: destroy all the places which the nations which you shall
Speaker 1: dispose is served their gods, on the high mountains and
Speaker 1: on the hills under every tree, and you shall destroy
Speaker 1: their altars, break their sacred pillars, burn their wooden images
Speaker 1: with fire. You shall cut down the card images of
Speaker 1: their gods and destroy their names. From that place you
Speaker 1: shall not worship the Lord your God with such things.
Speaker 1: So God commands the Israelites to destroy all the places
Speaker 1: where the nations they are disposing dispossessing worship their gods.
Speaker 1: This underscores the importance of worshiping God and the place
Speaker 1: he chooses, emphasizing unity and purity and worshiped. So God
Speaker 1: has a certain way that he wants you to worship them,
Speaker 1: and he's telling them to utterly destroy these sacred pillars,
Speaker 1: wooden images. And I thought this is interesting that that
Speaker 1: the places that that these you know, Canaanites were worshiping
Speaker 1: aren't high mountains right in Biblical cosmology. When I go
Speaker 1: over it, I tell you, guys, that God is above
Speaker 1: the firmament. Right, if you do believe in the globe
Speaker 1: and the and the helocentric model, then God is still
Speaker 1: going to be above the firmament. But I guess it
Speaker 1: would be further and further away or how far away
Speaker 1: it is, I don't know in that model, but and
Speaker 1: I don't know how how far away it is in
Speaker 1: the Biblical cosmology model. But it seems that these these
Speaker 1: Canaanite when they're trying to worship these deities, they're trying
Speaker 1: to go to high mountains because they can get They're
Speaker 1: trying to get closer to Heaven. It's like almost like
Speaker 1: mocking God, that the one true God. And also why
Speaker 1: are they trying to get closer to Heaven? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get too off the off the
Speaker 1: cuspard off the rails here or off the discussion but
Speaker 1: I believe, you know, personally, that the spiritual wars happen
Speaker 1: where the moon's sun and the stars are located, which
Speaker 1: would be the first Heaven. And that's why they're trying
Speaker 1: to go to the highest mountains because where the moon,
Speaker 1: sun and the stars are located is where the spiritual
Speaker 1: battles are happening between Earth and Heaven. That's why when
Speaker 1: that angel and Daniel was coming down and trying to
Speaker 1: answer Daniel's prayer, he was met with the Prince of
Speaker 1: Persia fighting against the Prince of Persia. He calls Michael
Speaker 1: the Arkans will to come and help him, and then
Speaker 1: he comes and talks to Daniel. Right, So in between
Speaker 1: Earth and Heaven there is a battle zone for these
Speaker 1: fallen angels and spirits, you know, fighting angels and fallen angels. Right,
Speaker 1: So so they go up on these high mountains because
Speaker 1: they want to try to get they want to they
Speaker 1: want to speak to these little g gods, which uh
Speaker 1: as you, as I've studied, I believe are fallen angels
Speaker 1: because if you look at Psalms eighty two, verse one
Speaker 1: kind of go over that that it talks about the
Speaker 1: the little g gods that are over these nations, right,
Speaker 1: and they are all sons of God. So those are
Speaker 1: that means that they were sons of the most High,
Speaker 1: which means that they were angels, and they are put
Speaker 1: in a position of leading these nations. If you look
Speaker 1: at a we'll get into it in Doude Army thirty two.
Speaker 1: So okay, So I just want to tell you guys
Speaker 1: that I just think it's interesting how they always try
Speaker 1: to get on these high mountains, right. They want to
Speaker 1: try to get closer to the angels. And some people
Speaker 1: might think I'm crazy, but I do believe the Bible
Speaker 1: describes angels as stars as angels. Not all angels are stars,
Speaker 1: but I think you know the Bible describes stars as
Speaker 1: being angels. Let's continue Deuteronomy twelve, verse five. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: going to be. But you shall seek the place where
Speaker 1: the Lord your God chooses out all out of your
Speaker 1: tribes to put his name for his dwelling place. There
Speaker 1: you shall go. There you shall take your burnt offerings,
Speaker 1: your sacrifices, your ties and heave offering in your hand,
Speaker 1: and vowed offerings, your free will offerings, and the first
Speaker 1: born of your herds and flocks. Then you shall eat
Speaker 1: before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in
Speaker 1: all which you have done have put your hand, you
Speaker 1: and your household in which the Lord your God has
Speaker 1: blessed you twelve verse five. Okay, so exclusive worship. The
Speaker 1: Israelites are instructed not to worship the Lord in a
Speaker 1: way that other nations worship their gods. This highlights the
Speaker 1: need for distinctiveness in worship, setting God's people apart from
Speaker 1: the surrounding cultures. Okay, so, and then joyful worship God
Speaker 1: desires is people rejoice in his presence, bringing their offerings
Speaker 1: and celebrating with their families. Worship is not just a duty,
Speaker 1: but a joyful expression of gratitude and community. That's Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: two seven. So we went through that part. Let me
Speaker 1: see a firstborn herd of flocks. You shall eat before
Speaker 1: the Lord, but we'll we'll read a twelve verse five again.
Speaker 1: But you shall seek the place where the Lord your
Speaker 1: God chooses out of your tribes to put his name
Speaker 1: in his dwelling place. You shall go there. You shall
Speaker 1: take your burn offerings, your sacrifice, your ties, the heave offerings,
Speaker 1: your hand, your vowed offerings, your free will offerings, your
Speaker 1: firstborn herding flocks. There you shall eat the Lord your God,
Speaker 1: and you shall rejoice in all which you have put
Speaker 1: in your hand, in your households, which the Lord has
Speaker 1: blessed you. Okay, so review again, Right, this is kind
Speaker 1: of stuff that we read in Leviticus. Right, and then
Speaker 1: chapter eight is you shall this is a dude on me. Twelve.
Speaker 1: Chapter eight you shall not do. You shall not at
Speaker 1: all do as we were doing here today, every man
Speaker 1: doing whatever is right in his own eyes. As for
Speaker 1: as yet you have not come to the rest and
Speaker 1: inheritance with the Lord your God is giving you. But
Speaker 1: when you cross over the Jordan a dwell in the
Speaker 1: land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit,
Speaker 1: he gives you the rest from your enemies and roundabout
Speaker 1: so you may dwell in safety. Then there will be
Speaker 1: the place where the Lord your God chooses to make
Speaker 1: his name abide. There you shall bring all that I
Speaker 1: command you, your burnt offerings, your sacrifice, your ties, your
Speaker 1: heave offerings in your hand, and your choice offerings which
Speaker 1: you vow to the Lord. You shall rejoice before the
Speaker 1: Lord your God. You and your sons and your daughters,
Speaker 1: your male and female servants, the levite who is within
Speaker 1: your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you,
Speaker 1: take heed to yourselves that you do not offer your
Speaker 1: burnt offerings in every place that you see, but in
Speaker 1: the place which the Lord chooses, in one of your tribes.
Speaker 1: There you shall offer your burnt offerings. There you shall
Speaker 1: do all that I command you. So he's just basically
Speaker 1: just telling them to be obedient to God's commands is
Speaker 1: central to true worship, and also trying to let him
Speaker 1: know that you don't. You shouldn't just go and worship
Speaker 1: wherever you want. You need to worship wherever God chooses. Right,
Speaker 1: so he will let them know. Let's continue, And then
Speaker 1: this is obviously this is review, right, A lot of
Speaker 1: this stuff is reviewed. So this is a Deuteronomy twelve,
Speaker 1: verse fifteen. However, you may slaughter and eat meat within
Speaker 1: your gates whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing
Speaker 1: of the Lord your God, which he has given you.
Speaker 1: The unclean and the clean may eat of it, of
Speaker 1: the gazelle and the deer alike. Only you shall eat,
Speaker 1: not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the
Speaker 1: earth like water. You may not eat within your gates.
Speaker 1: The tithe of your grain, or the new wine of
Speaker 1: your oil, the firstborn of your herd, or your flock,
Speaker 1: of any of your offerings which you vow, or the
Speaker 1: free will offerings of the heave offering of your hand.
Speaker 1: But you must eat them before the Lord your God
Speaker 1: in the place which the Lord your God chooses you,
Speaker 1: and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant,
Speaker 1: your female servant, and the levite who is within your gates,
Speaker 1: and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, and
Speaker 1: all in which you put your hands. Take heed to
Speaker 1: yourselves that you do not forsake the Levite as long
Speaker 1: as you live in your land. So that's obviously a
Speaker 1: review from Leviticus. Let's continue Deuteronomy twelve, verse twenty. When
Speaker 1: the Lord your God enlarges your border, as you promised
Speaker 1: to you, and you say, let me eat meat, because
Speaker 1: you long to eat meat. You may eat as much
Speaker 1: meat as your heart desires. If the place where the
Speaker 1: Lord your God chooses to put his name is too
Speaker 1: far from you, and you may slaughter from the herd
Speaker 1: from your flock which the Lord has given you, just
Speaker 1: as I have commanded you. You may eat within your
Speaker 1: gates as much as your heart desires. Just as them. Oh,
Speaker 1: just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, you
Speaker 1: may eat them. The unclean and the clean alike may
Speaker 1: eat them. Only be sure that you do not eat
Speaker 1: the blood. For the blood is the life. You may
Speaker 1: not eat the life. With the meat, you shall not
Speaker 1: eat it. You shall pour it on the earth like water.
Speaker 1: You shall not eat it, that it may go well
Speaker 1: with you and the children after you, when you do
Speaker 1: what is right and the sight of the Lord. Only
Speaker 1: holy things which you have and vowed offerings, you shall
Speaker 1: take to go to the place which the Lord chooses.
Speaker 1: And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and
Speaker 1: the blood on the altar of the Lord your God.
Speaker 1: The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured on the
Speaker 1: altar of the Lord your God. And you shall eat
Speaker 1: the meat, Observe, and obey all things words which I
Speaker 1: command you, that I may go, that I may go
Speaker 1: well with you and your children after you forever, when
Speaker 1: you do what is good and the right and the
Speaker 1: side of the Lord. Like I said, this is kind
Speaker 1: of review from Deuteronomy. The last thing that he says
Speaker 1: is beware of false gods. This is a review I'm
Speaker 1: sorry of kind of Leviticus that he's just kind of
Speaker 1: revealing to let him know what they can and can't do. Right.
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy twelve, verse twenty nine. When the Lord your God
Speaker 1: cuts off from before the nations which you go to dispossess,
Speaker 1: and you displace them and dwell in their land, take
Speaker 1: heed to yourselves that you are not ensnared to follow
Speaker 1: them after you are after they are destroyed from before you,
Speaker 1: that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, how
Speaker 1: did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise,
Speaker 1: You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way.
Speaker 1: For every abomination to the Lord which he hates, have
Speaker 1: they have done to their gods? They for they burn
Speaker 1: even their sons and daughters on the fires for their gods.
Speaker 1: Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it, that
Speaker 1: you shall not add it or take it away from it.
Speaker 1: So he's saying to obey the way that he says
Speaker 1: to worship him. That's what God is saying, do not
Speaker 1: start taking these these other abominations of the ways that
Speaker 1: they serve their gods. One of the ways that they
Speaker 1: serve their god was Moloch would be having his hands
Speaker 1: out and there'd be fire burning, and they would take
Speaker 1: their their sons and daughters and burn them to their gods,
Speaker 1: human sacrifice to their gods. Right, So he doesn't want
Speaker 1: them to pick up any of those habits and trying
Speaker 1: to worship him, you know, worship God. He he gives
Speaker 1: you strict instruction in Leviticus of exactly how he wanted
Speaker 1: them to worship him. Right, and he's given him strict
Speaker 1: instruction throughout the word the Ten Commandments, He's kind of
Speaker 1: given them. And then the way that he wants them
Speaker 1: to be worshiped is in Leviticus, which we've gone over already.
Speaker 1: Whatever I command you be careful to observe it, you
Speaker 1: shall not add to it or take away from it.
Speaker 1: What happened in Leviticus what Aaron's sons they were burning
Speaker 1: incense the wrong way to God, and God kill them,
Speaker 1: destroyed them. Right. So make sure that whatever I command
Speaker 1: you be careful to observe it, you shall not add
Speaker 1: to it or take away from it. Right, So avoiding idolatry.
Speaker 1: So the Israelites are worn not to inquire about the
Speaker 1: gods of the nations who adopt their practices, don't add
Speaker 1: their practices into worshiping God, is what he's saying, right,
Speaker 1: This serves as a caution against syncretism and the subtle
Speaker 1: allure of idolatry. Avoiding idolatry, He's already said in the
Speaker 1: last couple chapters to avoid that levites thence, So this
Speaker 1: chapter concludes with the reminder to carefully observe all commands
Speaker 1: given by God without adding or subtracting from them. This
Speaker 1: underscores the importance of fidelity to divine instruction. Right, So
Speaker 1: what are some some of the practical applications for this chapter?
Speaker 1: Evaluate worship practices. Reflect on whether you worship practices align
Speaker 1: your worship practice is aligned with Biblical principles, and seek
Speaker 1: to worship God in spirit and in truth. Like I said,
Speaker 1: one of the ways of worshiping God is obedience. So
Speaker 1: what this is saying is reflect on whether your worship
Speaker 1: practice is aligned with biblical principles. How do you learn
Speaker 1: biblical principles by reading the Bible? Right, by reading the
Speaker 1: Word of God and learning the Bible. Definitely, let me
Speaker 1: see how long thirteen is. Thirteen is fairly quick, so
Speaker 1: we'll probably get through thirteen as well. So we'll go
Speaker 1: from chapter eight all the way to thirteen. While we're
Speaker 1: moving quite quickly through the Book of Deuteronomy, let's continue
Speaker 1: cultivate joy and worship. Make worship a joyful and communal experience,
Speaker 1: celebrating God's goodness with family and fellow believers. Fellowship is
Speaker 1: definitely important. That's why going to church is important. You know.
Speaker 1: Fellowship also accountability, and it's definitely important. Guiding against idolatry,
Speaker 1: be villiging, be viligent against modern forms of idolatry that
Speaker 1: can subtly and infiltrate your life and worship. As you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of went over that already different forms of idolatry.
Speaker 1: Practice obedience. Strive to live life, Okay, strive to live
Speaker 1: life that is pleasing to God, aligning your actions with
Speaker 1: His commands and seeking his approval. Above all, of course,
Speaker 1: like I said, prioritize obedience. Pray for obedience. It's something
Speaker 1: that we need, and it's something that a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't pray for. A lot of people will pray
Speaker 1: for other people, or they'll pray for which is good
Speaker 1: to do as well, but they pray for other people's obedience,
Speaker 1: but they forget about their own. You know, we got
Speaker 1: to make sure we pray for that, right, So there
Speaker 1: we go. So that's chapter twelve done, and in the books,
Speaker 1: we'll move to chapter thirteen. I'm going to go over it.
Speaker 1: We have about fifteen minutes, and like I said, it's
Speaker 1: pretty short chapter. These have all been pretty short, and
Speaker 1: they've been pretty much reviewed for us. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and do that real quick. We'll read chapter thirteen
Speaker 1: and I might move through it fairly quickly. So Deuteronomy
Speaker 1: thirt verse one, it says, if there arises among you
Speaker 1: a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives
Speaker 1: you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or
Speaker 1: the wonder comes to pass of which he spoke to you, saying,
Speaker 1: let us go after other gods which you have not known,
Speaker 1: and let us serve them. Sorry about that, hold on,
Speaker 1: let me yeah, I want to make sure that this
Speaker 1: is off. I don't want that going off while I'm
Speaker 1: reading me turn off this phone. Sorry, just to confirm. Okay,
Speaker 1: power off? Sorry about that. Where were we at? That interrupted? Okay,
Speaker 1: let us go after other gods which you have not known,
Speaker 1: and let us serve them. You shall not listen to
Speaker 1: the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams,
Speaker 1: for the Lord your God is testing you that you
Speaker 1: know whether the whether you love the Lord your God
Speaker 1: with your heart and your soul. You shall walk after
Speaker 1: the Lord your God and fear him and his commitments,
Speaker 1: and obey his voice. You shall serve him and hold
Speaker 1: fast to him. But the prophet of that dreamer of
Speaker 1: dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken
Speaker 1: in order to turn you away from the Lord your God,
Speaker 1: who brought you out of the land of Egypt and
Speaker 1: redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you
Speaker 1: from the way which the Lord your God commanded you
Speaker 1: to walk, so you shall put away the evil from
Speaker 1: your midst. So so basically one through through three are
Speaker 1: one through four warns against prophets or dreamers who perform
Speaker 1: signs and wonders but lead people away from God. If
Speaker 1: a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and
Speaker 1: proclaims a sign or wonder to you, and the sign
Speaker 1: of wonder has spoken to you, comes to past, but
Speaker 1: he says, let his Father other gods which you have
Speaker 1: not known, let us worship you. You must not listen
Speaker 1: to the words of that prophet or dreamer, so testing
Speaker 1: of faith Deuteronomy thirteen to three. The passage emphasises that
Speaker 1: God will allow false prophets to test the faithfulness of
Speaker 1: his people. For the Lord r God is testing you
Speaker 1: to find out whether you love him with all your
Speaker 1: heart and with all your soul. So yeah, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be prophets that come. False prophets obviously going to come,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that is if you read Timothy's
Speaker 1: it's actually talking about that. So we have that today,
Speaker 1: false prophets, a lot of them. And if they are
Speaker 1: going to lead you to other gods, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean what as examples of that, Well, we have examples
Speaker 1: like Joseph Smith. You know what I mean, like a
Speaker 1: false prophet. I'm sorry Mormons, if you guys are listening,
Speaker 1: but you have people like Joseph Smith leading you to
Speaker 1: other gods, you have Jehovah's witness. That's another way. Have
Speaker 1: you know, Charles Tate Russell a false prophet leading people
Speaker 1: to different gods? Okay, people might think that Jehovah that
Speaker 1: the Jehovah's witness or worship being the same god, but
Speaker 1: you know it's it's I'm just letting you guys know, okay,
Speaker 1: And there's also false prophets today. You know we see
Speaker 1: in the in the Prosperity Gospel, right, and you might
Speaker 1: be thinking that they're leading you to the God of
Speaker 1: the Bible, but they're leading you to the God of Mammon,
Speaker 1: which is the god of money. So just be careful
Speaker 1: of false prophets and understand that they are going to
Speaker 1: lead you to destruction. All right, So let's continue. We
Speaker 1: have Deuteronomy thirteen, verse six. If your brother, the son
Speaker 1: of your mother, your son of your daughter, the wife
Speaker 1: of your bosom, or your friend who is as your
Speaker 1: own soul, secretly entices you, saying, let us go and
Speaker 1: serve other gods which you have not known, neither nor
Speaker 1: your fathers. Of the gods of the people, which are
Speaker 1: around you, near to you or far off from you,
Speaker 1: from one end of the earth to the other end
Speaker 1: of the earth. You shall not consent to him or
Speaker 1: listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor
Speaker 1: shall you spare him or conceal him. But you shall
Speaker 1: surely kill him. Your hands shall be firced him to
Speaker 1: put him to death, and afterward the hand of all people,
Speaker 1: and you shall stone him with stones until he dies
Speaker 1: because he soughts out to entice you away from the Lord,
Speaker 1: your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
Speaker 1: from the house of Bondas, so that Israel shall hear
Speaker 1: and fear and not again to do wickedness amongst you
Speaker 1: among you. So do you see how vastly important it
Speaker 1: is to not allow people to lead you away from God? Right?
Speaker 1: The chapter underscores the necessity of exclusive worship to the Lord,
Speaker 1: rejecting any form of idolatry or allegiance to other gods,
Speaker 1: and verses six through eleven highlights the communal responsibility to
Speaker 1: address idolatry, even if it involves close family members or friends.
Speaker 1: The community must prioritize faithfulness to God over personal relationships.
Speaker 1: So even if it's your best friend tries to lead
Speaker 1: you away, obviously it's not your real best friend, because
Speaker 1: a best friend would be leading you to the Lord. Right,
Speaker 1: not a way. My dog is right here trying to
Speaker 1: My dog is right here trying to get some love.
Speaker 1: Go leada golda go. I'll let you out. Got ten
Speaker 1: minutes left, buddy, All right, let's continue. Right. So, Yeah,
Speaker 1: even if your mom, your dad, or your sister, your brother,
Speaker 1: your best friend tries to lead you away from God.
Speaker 1: God is warning against that. Here right, let's go to
Speaker 1: do be thirteen verse twelve. If you hear someone in
Speaker 1: one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives
Speaker 1: you to dwell in, saying corrupt men have gone out
Speaker 1: from among you and entice the inhabitants of their city, saying,
Speaker 1: let us go and serve other gods which you have
Speaker 1: not known, then you shall inquire search out and ask
Speaker 1: it diligently. If it is indeed true and certain that
Speaker 1: such an abomination was committed among you, you shall surely strike
Speaker 1: the inhabitants of the city at the edge of the sword,
Speaker 1: utterly destroying it, that it is all that is in
Speaker 1: it and it's livestock with the edge of the sword.
Speaker 1: And you shall gather all its plunder in the middle
Speaker 1: of the street and completely burn with fire the city
Speaker 1: and its plunder. For the Lord your God. It shall
Speaker 1: be a heap forever it shall not be built again.
Speaker 1: So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand.
Speaker 1: But the Lord may turn from you the fierceness of
Speaker 1: his anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you,
Speaker 1: and multiply you just as he swore to your fathers,
Speaker 1: because you have listened to the voice of the Lord,
Speaker 1: your God, to keep his commandments, which I command you
Speaker 1: today to do what is right in the eyes of
Speaker 1: the Lord. So do you see how important this is
Speaker 1: to not be led astray to worship other gods? It
Speaker 1: is so important, right, And uh, yeah, it's happening, right,
Speaker 1: And even the Muslim community, right, they're they're they're having
Speaker 1: you worship another god that's different than the God of
Speaker 1: the Bible. Okay, I know we all feel like we're
Speaker 1: worshiped the same God. But yeah, so this is just
Speaker 1: vastly important to The chapter outlines severe consequences for those
Speaker 1: who lead others astray, emphasizing the seriousness of idolatry and
Speaker 1: the need for communal purity. Okay, So he wants the God,
Speaker 1: wants the whole town or the whole community to be
Speaker 1: worshiping him, Okay, And anybody that's leaving leading anyone astray,
Speaker 1: he wants them, he wants them to bring the sword
Speaker 1: to them, right. And and it's it's very very important, obviously.
Speaker 1: And let's go ahead and go over some practical applications.
Speaker 1: Cultivate discernment regularly study scripture and seek the Holy spirits
Speaker 1: guidance to discern truth from deception and teachings and influences
Speaker 1: around you. Of course, that's why you need to know
Speaker 1: the Bible. You need to know your scriptures so that
Speaker 1: when someone comes you with something that doesn't that goes
Speaker 1: against the scripture, you know, because sometimes they can slightly
Speaker 1: avert or invert the scriptures, and you don't know the
Speaker 1: scriptures well enough that you start to believe these people
Speaker 1: that are talking to you. You see, That's why it's
Speaker 1: good to know when not when a Jehovah's witness knocks
Speaker 1: on your door and tries to tell you something. If
Speaker 1: you know the scriptures, you're able to not be person waded. Right,
Speaker 1: prioritize God's prioritize God above all. Right, evaluate your life
Speaker 1: to ensure that you that your love for God surpasses
Speaker 1: all other relationships and influences. I talk to you guys
Speaker 1: about that, how Jesus says that have loved God so much,
Speaker 1: it looks like you detest others because you're placing God
Speaker 1: first above every single person everything, your wife, your kids,
Speaker 1: your boss, your you know, your employer. Everything. You place
Speaker 1: God first Okay that if you do that, and you
Speaker 1: will just be in such a better place in your life.
Speaker 1: And that's what God wants, right, So you need to
Speaker 1: be obedient, guard your community, encourage, and hold each other
Speaker 1: accountable within your faith community to remain true to God's commandments.
Speaker 1: Accountability is very important, and you know when you have
Speaker 1: you know, it's nice to be part of a small
Speaker 1: church because there's more accountability. The big of the church
Speaker 1: gifts the let's accountability. There's going to be respond to
Speaker 1: false teachings. Be prepared to address and refute false teachings
Speaker 1: with grace and truth, using scripture as your foundation. That's
Speaker 1: what I was talking about. I kind of already went
Speaker 1: over that. But that's why it's good to know the scripture.
Speaker 1: That's why it's good to read the scripture. That's why
Speaker 1: it's good for you to read the scripture and not
Speaker 1: have a pastor read it for you, just like I
Speaker 1: read the scriptures to you, verse by verse. It's good.
Speaker 1: Some some churches they go and they do like subjects,
Speaker 1: you know, teachings, which I'm not trying to put down
Speaker 1: anybody that that if that's the way that that you
Speaker 1: like to teach, then you like to teach, but I
Speaker 1: think it's vastly important to go verse by verse through
Speaker 1: the Bible, okay, and verse by verse, so always using
Speaker 1: scripture as your foundation. So all right, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and stop screen share. So next week and Sunday service,
Speaker 1: we're going to be and do to to be fourteen.
Speaker 1: I will do my best to study as much as
Speaker 1: I can. And we moved through these chapters quite quickly.
Speaker 1: That's because there's short chapters and they are review So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I really appreciate you guys listening. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: hard it was for probably for you to deal with
Speaker 1: the stubbornness of the people. So help us to not
Speaker 1: be stiff necked and help us to be obedient to
Speaker 1: your word. Lord, thank you for everything you do for us.
Speaker 1: We love you, we appreciate you in Jesus' name. Amen,
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