Steve Webb: This is no trivial matter to you. This is your very
life.
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complete this section of the Bible with the final chapters of
Deuteronomy, chapters 32 through 34. You can find this episode
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you'd like to say something to me, before we read, let's pray.
Our Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your word. It is life
and we are so happy that you've given us this time to read
together. Teach us by your Holy Spirit as we hear your words for
us. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. All right, are you ready?
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Deuteronomy chapter 32. Heaven, pay attention and I will speak
Earth. Listen to the words of my mouth. My teaching will fall
like raindrops, my speech will settle like do like gentle rains
on grass, like spring showers on all that is green, because I
proclaimed the Lord's name, give praise to our God, the rock, his
acts are perfection. No doubt about it. All His ways are
right. He's the faithful God, never deceiving. Altogether
righteous and true is he? But children who weren't his own
sinned against Him with their defects? They are a twisted and
perverse generation. Is this how you thank the Lord you stupid,
senseless people? Is it he your father, your Creator? Didn't he
make you and establish you? Remember the days long past?
Consider the years long gone? Ask your father and he will tell
you about it. Ask your elders they will give you the details.
When God most high divided up the nations when he divided up
humankind he decided that people's boundaries based on the
number of the gods. Surely the Lord’s property was his people.
Jacob was his part of the inheritance. God found Israel in
a wild land in a howling desert wasteland. He protected them
cared for them, watched over them with his very own eye. Like
an eagle protecting its nest hovering over its young Gods
spread out his wings to a cold of Israel, carried him on his
back. The Lord alone let Israel no foreign god assisted. God
made Israel glide over the highlands. He fed him with food
from the field nursed him with honey from a boulder with oil
from a hard rock curds from the herd milk from the flock along
with the best of lambs rams from Batian he goats to along with
the finest wheat and for drink wine from the juiciest grapes.
Jacob ate until he was stuffed Jeshua and got fat then
rebellious. It was you who got fat, thick, stubborn Jeshua and
gave up on the God who made him thought the rock of his
salvation was worthless. They made God jealous with strange
gods aggravated him with detestable things. They
sacrificed to demons not to God to deities, of which they had no
knowledge New Gods only recently on the scene, ones about which
your ancestors had never heard you deserted the rock that sired
you, you forgot the God who gave birth to you. The Lord saw this
and rejected out of aggravation his sons and his daughters. He
said I will hide my face from them. I will see what becomes of
them because they are a confused generation. Their children
lacking loyalty. They provoked me with no gods aggravated me
with their pieces of junk. So I am going to provoke them with no
people aggravate them with a nation of fools. A fire burns in
me it will blaze to the depths of the grave. It will destroy
the land and its crops. It will black in the base of the
mountains. I'll throw on them disaster after disaster. I'll
destroy them with my arrows, devastating hunger, consuming
plague, bitter sickness. I'll send animal things after them
venom from dust crawlers to outside in the streets, the
sword will be removed. Inside in the safest room, there will be
terror for young men and women, nursing baby and senior citizen.
I thought about it. I could have struck them down erase them from
human memory. But their enemies rage concern me. Their opponents
might misunderstand. They may say our strong hands not the
Lord’s did all this because they are not a thoughtful nation.
They lack any insight. If they had any wisdom, they would
understand this. They would discern what will become of
them. How could one person chase off 1000 in battle? How could
two people make 10,000 flee for their lives? Only because
they're rock sold them off only because the Lord handed them
over. But no, their rocks can't compare to our rock. Our enemies
are completely stupid. Their roots run straight from Saddam
from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are pure poison.
They're great clusters, nothing but bitter. Their wine is snake
poison. Venom from a cruel Cobra. Don't I have this stored
up sealed in my vaults? Revenge is my domain. So is punishment
in kind at the exact moment their steps lips up, because the
day of their destruction is just around the corner. Their final
destiny is speeding on its way. But the Lord will acquit his
people will have compassion on those who serve him once he sees
that their strength is all gone, that both prisoners and free
people are wiped out. The Lord will ask where are their gods,
the rocks they trusted in who ate up the fat of their
sacrifices, who drank their sacred wine, they should stand
up and help you. They should protect you now. Now look here,
I myself, I am the one. There are no other gods before me. I
am the one who deals death and gives life. I am the one who
wounded but now I will heal. There's no escaping my hand. But
now I'm lifting my hand to heaven. I swear by my own
eternity. When I sharpen my Blazing Sword, and my hand grabs
ahold of justice, I'll pay my enemies back. I will punish in
kind everyone who hates me, I will make my arrows drink much
blood while my sword devours flesh, the blood of the dead and
captured flowing from the heads of enemy generals. heavens
rejoice with God, all you God's bow down to the Lord, because He
will avenge his children's blood. He will pay back his
enemies. He will punish unkind those who hate Him, He will
cleanse his people's land. So Moses came and recited all the
words of this poem and everyone's hearing Joshua none
son joined him. When Moses finished speaking all these
words to Israel, he told them, set your mind on all these
words, I'm testifying against you right now, because you must
command your children to perform carefully all the words of this
instruction. This is no trivial matter for you. This is your
very life. It is by this means alone, that you will prolong
your life in the fertile land you're crossing the Jordan River
to possess. The Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, hike
up the Abra mountains to mount Niebo, which is in the land of
Moab opposite Jericho. Take a good look at the land of Canaan,
which I'm giving to the Israelites as their property.
You will die on the mountain you have hiked up and you will be
gathered to your people just like your brother Aaron, who
died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people because
the two of you were unfaithful toward me in front of the
Israelites at the waters of Marybeth k dash in the Zinn
wilderness because you didn't treat me with proper respect
before the Israelites. You can look at the land from the other
side of the river, but you won't enter there.
Deuteronomy chapter 33. This is the blessing that Moses the man
of God gave the Israelites before he died. He said, The
Lord came from Sinai from SEER he shone like the dawn on us
from paper and mountain he beamed down 1000s of holy ones
were with him. His warriors were next to him ready? Yes, those
who love the nation's all His holy ones. Were at your command.
They followed your footsteps. They got moving when you said
so. Moses gave the instruction to us. It's the prized
possession of Jacob's assembly. A king came to rule and gesture
when when the peoples leaders gathered together when Israel's
tribes were one. I pray that Ruben lives doesn't die, though
his numbers are so few. Moses said this to Judah. Lord, listen
to Judas voice, bring him back to his own people, strengthen
his hands, be his help against every enemy. Then he told Levi,
give your thumb to leave I your urine to your faithful one. The
one you tested at masa, the one you challenged by Mara buzz
waters, the one who said of his own mother and father, I don't
consider them as such of their siblings. I don't recognize them
of their own children. I don't know them, but who obeyed your
words and who guarded your covenant. They teach your case
laws to Jacob, your instruction to Israel. They hold sweet
incense to your nose put the entirely burned offering on your
altar. I pray that the Lord blesses Levi strength favors his
hard work and crushes the insides of his enemies so that
those who hate him can't fight anymore. He said to Benjamin,
the Lord’s dearest one rest safely on him. The Lord always
shields him he rests on God's chest. Then he told Joseph, I
pray that his land is blessed by God with Heavens gifts from
above, with the deep waters stretching out underneath, with
the gifts produced by the sun, with the gifts generated by the
moon, with the best fruit from ancient mountains, with the
gifts of eternal hills, with the gifts of the earth, and all that
fills it, and the favor of the one who lives on Sinai. I pray
that all these rests on Josef's head on the crown of that prince
among brothers, a firstborn bull that is how majestic he is a
wild ox his horns, those are his horns. With them he goes all
peoples completely to the far ends of the earth. His horns are
F freedoms 10s of 1000s his horns are Manassas 1000s. Then
he told Zamberlan Zeb Yulin celebrate when you are out and
about is a car celebrate when you're at home and your tents.
They call all sorts of people to the mountain where they offer
right sacrifices. It's true. They're nourished on the seas
abundance, they are nourished on buried treasures in the sand.
Then he told Gad, may God's broad lens be blessed. He lives
like a lion. He rips an arm even ahead. He chose the best part
for himself because there were the commander's portion was the
leaders of the people gathered together, God executed the
Lord's justice and the Lord's judgments for Israel. Then he
told Dan, Dan is a lion cub. He jumps up from Batian. and then
he told NAFTA lie. NAFTA lie you are full of favor, overflowing
with the Lord's blessing. Go possess the west and the south.
Finally, he told Asher Asher is the most blessed of sons. I pray
that he's his brother's favorite. One who dips his foot
in fine oil. I pray that your deadbolts are iron and copper
and that your strength lasts all your days. Jeff Sherman, no one
compares to God. He rides through heaven to help you rides
majestically through the clouds. The most ancient god is a place
of safety. The eternal arms are a support. He drove out the
enemy before you He commanded destroy them. So Israel now
lives in safety. Jacobs residence is secure in a land
full of grain and wine, where the heavens drip do happy are
you Israel, who was like you? You are a people saved by the
Lord. He's the shield that helps you your majestic sword. Your
enemies will come crawling on their knees to you that you will
stomp on their backs.
Deuteronomy chapter 34. Then Moses went up on mountain Niebo
from the plains of Moab. He went to the top of pisco across from
Jericho. The Lord showed him the whole land. He could see Gilead
as far as Dan, all of NAFTA lie, the territory of Ephraim and
Manasseh. All the territory of Judah as far as the
Mediterranean Sea, the Negev and the Jordan plane, the valley of
Jericho, the city of palms as far as our Then the Lord said to
him, this is the land I promised with an oath to Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob. I said I would give it to their descendants. I have
let you see it with your own eyes, but you may not go there.
As the Lord had predicted, the Lord servant Moses died in Moab.
He was buried in a valley in Moab near Beth peor. Even today,
no one knows where his grave is. Moses was 120 years old when he
died. His eyesight never became poor, and he never lost his
physical strength. The Israelites mourn for Moses in
the plains of Moab for 30 days, then the time of mourning for
him was over. Joshua son of Nan was filled with a spirit of
wisdom, because Moses had laid his hands on him. The Israelites
obeyed him and did what the Lord had commanded through Moses.
There has never been another prophet in Israel, like Moses,
whom the Lord dealt with face to face. He was the one the Lord
sent to do all the miraculous signs and amazing things in
Egypt to Pharaoh to all his officials into his whole
country. and Moses used his mighty hand to do all the
spectacular and awe inspiring deeds that were seen by all the
Israelites.
Today, I've got thoughts on each of our chapters. Let's talk
about Deuteronomy 32. First, chapter 31 ended with the words
and Moses spoke this whole song for all the people of Israel to
hear leaving us with a bit of a cliffhanger. Well, most of
chapter 32 is the song to which the end of 31 referred. The
first four verses are a call to all of creation to listen to
what he's about to say, and the fact that he's proclaiming the
name of the Lord. Start giving him praise for who he is and
what he does. The next two verses state the fact that
Israel has sinned. and then verses seven through 14 Tell how
God has been faithful to Israel throughout history, and that He
has loved them and bless them. In verses 15 through 18, Moses
reminded the people of how Israel responded to God's love
by abandoning him. Verses 19 to 27. Tell how in response to
their rebellion, God left their side and punished them. and then
in the final verses of the song verses 2343, God lists his
charges against Israel in calls them back to himself. Notice
that he calls them back even still. Well, after the song,
Moses encourages Israel with the words, this is no trivial matter
to you, this is your very life. It is by this means that you
will prolong your life on the fertile land, you are crossing
the Jordan River to possess it. Another way to say this is no
trivial matter to you is, this is no meaningless thing this
matters. One of the lies that the enemy tells us when we're in
the midst of sin is what God says, doesn't matter. You can do
what you want. Well, Moses is reminding them that what God
says does matter. and what he says is life itself. and then in
the final five verses of this chapter, God gives Moses his
final instructions, he's told to go up to the place where he will
breathe his last, God says, he'll be able to look across the
Jordan River into the promised land, but because of his sin at
Meribah, k dash, he will not be allowed to go in. and then in
chapter 33, very few of us know the time of our death. But here
in chapter 33 of Deuteronomy, Moses knows that his time has
come because God told him so. and here in chapter 33, Moses
wanted to leave the people that he had led out of Egypt and
through the desert for these 40 years with words that would be
encouraging to them despite their failings. Chapter 34 tells
us about Moses death. Now imagine the bittersweet thrill
that it must have been for Moses to have God show him a view of
the promised land from the top of Mount Niebo. It had to be
disappointing not to get to go in. But since God had already
told him that this would be the case after their sin in Numbers,
chapter 20, Moses must have been somewhat used to the idea, but
the thrill of actually seeing the land with his own eyes had
to have been at least somewhat satisfying. If you'd like to see
a picture of the land that Moses saw when he looked over into the
Promised Land, I've got one and a link on the show notes page at
Lifespringmedia.com slash s 13. E 359. You have thoughts or
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will be history Tuesday, we'll bring that category of the Bible
to a close by completing the Book of Esther with chapters six
through 10
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