Sunday Service #33 Deuteronomy 8-13 By Josh Monday

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on Patreon. Thank you so much, God bless all of you. Hopefully you guys are enjoying the show as well. But yeah, we're going to be in Deuteronomy chapter eight. And I just want to reiterate to let you guys know that this is Moses is giving a sermon to the people. They're going to enter the Promised Land. Okay, we got Joshua, son of None, and we have Caleb that's going to be able to enter, and Joshua is obviously going to

be taking over leadership. And the people that are able to enter are the children of the ones that had to be in the desert for forty days or forty years, right wandering the wilderness because of their lack of faith during the time that when the spies they went to go survey the land and they came back with the report. Joshua came back to the report saying, Caleb came back saying that we're going to be able to take over.

You know, will be good. You know, because the report came back that there was giants in the land and that they had these massive armies, these fortresses, these walls, and you know, seven of the spies came back with with the negative report, and it made the people of Israel grumble once again, lack of faith, saying that they're not going to be able to do it, and that they're going to come in and kill their men, women and children, and uh. And what happened. God punished them

for their lack of faith. Okay, So Moses is not able to enter the Promised Land either, Okay, so he is basically just kind of giving them a sermon, letting him know exactly, you know, what what happened during that time, kind of giving them letting him know what he wants them to do or what, letting him know exactly what God had told him talking about, you know, basically, just give him a pep talk before they go in and uh, and a sermon on exactly what God had showed him

and told him. So we're going to go ahead and start here at Deuteronomy eight, verse one. Every commandment which I command you to do, you must be careful to observe that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your father's. And you shall remember that your Lord, your God, led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness to humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments

or not. So we humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man shall not live on bread alone. But man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. I know you've heard that before. Right. That is stated by Jesus when he's talking to when he's talking to the devil, right, and he is being tempted, when he's on that high mountain. He uses that when

he says to turn the rocks into bread. He said, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that precedes out of the word of God. Right, but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. So very very important part. Right, that is something that Jesus used when he was going against Satan, when Satan was trying to tempt him. So it's something we should obviously memorize and know as well. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did

your foot swell these forty years. You should know in your heart that a man chastens his son, so the Lord, your God, chastens you, chastens you. So understand that God took care of them when they were in the desert for the forty years and forty I keep thinking forty days and forty nights, because Moses was on the mountain for that time. Keeps coming back. For the forty years that they're wanting the desert. God was taking care of them.

Their feet didn't get swolen. God provided manner, God provided food, and they were still complaining, you know. So just it's just he wants the new, the new people that are that are going to be coming to the Promised Land to learn from the mistakes of their ancestors from their mother and father. Because that's really literally how close the generation is. It's it's there the people that complained, it's their children. They get to go into the Promised Land. Uh.

And also Joshua and Caleb. Right, So I'm sure Moses is hoping that this pep talk and also this sermon is going to help them to change their ways. Let's continue Deuteronomy eight, verse six. Let's see if there's anything so so Verses four and five reminds us of God's provision, as their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. This underscores the importance of recognizing God's care in our daily lives. Yeah, so God is taking

care of us, right. Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways and to fear him, for the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs that flow out of valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive,

of oil and honey. A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and of those whose hills can dig deeper or dig copper. When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless your Lord your God for the good land which he has given you.

So what this pastor that I was listening to said was that the promised Land is not a picture of heaven, but it is a picture of Once you get saved and you know you're walking with Jesus, you know now you're in the land of milk and honey, right, that you're in the promised Land. So that's kind of what he was describing. And notice that you don't get into the Promised Land by works, okay, only it's you get

into the Promised Land by faith. Right. That that's why the faith that they that they didn't have in God is what caused them to not be able to go to the promised land, right, So I think that that's important to say. And then also God's promise promises a land of abundance. But they eleven through fourteen is going to warn against the Lord in times of prosperity, emphasizing the danger of pride and self reliance. So let's go

ahead and read that. So Deuteronomy eight, chapter eleven, beware that you do not forget that the Lord your God, by not keeping his commandments, his judgments, his statutes, which I command you today less when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell on them, and when your herds your flocks multiply, and a silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that is multiplied, when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land

of Egypt, from the house of Bondage, who led through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, scorpions, thirsty land which has no water, who brought you water out of a flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know that he might humble you, and he might test you and to do you good in the end that you may say in your heart, my power and might of my

hand have gained me this wealth. So God is saying, is be careful because once you are you know, it's it's easy to depend on God when you're in the wilderness and you're starving, and you're and you're hungry, and you're thirsty. But are you going to depend on the Lord? Also when you're fed and you have your house and

you have your your car. I mean in our life, you know, you know, if if you have you know, the job that you've always wanted, you have the wife that you always wanted, you have the kids that you wanted, and you have the house that you always wanted, and and everything is you know, you're fed and and everything is good. Are you still relying on God? That's kind

of the thing here. He's telling them to beware because when they have their beautiful houses, their herds, their flocks and everything is multiplying, then he doesn't want them to forget about what God has done for them. Right, they're warning against forgetting in the in the in the Lord. In times of prosperity, emphasizing the danger of pride and

self reliance. Of course, and that's why it's important for us for no matter what's going on in your life, for you to stay grounded in the Lord, and also for you to be reading the Bible or having the Bible read to you, because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. I always say that, but it's vastly important, you know. And that's why Jesus says, if you have ears, I need you to hear and

then he speaks because you need to hear it. And no matter what's going on in your life you think it's perfect, it can always go south very quickly. Someone could pass away, a spouse, a kid like I had. Anything can happen at any given time, and you need to make sure that you're grounded in the Lord someone situations like that arise. You're leaning on the Lord. You're not leaning on your self reliance and on yourself because that causes pride, you know, and you don't want that.

You don't want that. You want to be leaning on the Lord no matter what, so you might as well be leaning on him the whole time. So if something does pop then you just continue leaning on him and continue reading the Word, continue praying, continue being reliant on Him through faith, and then you will whenever things arise that are that are that would be very very hard for other people to handle, you'll be able to handle

him better because you're already relying on God. So these these particular people God had taken him out of Egypt. There were slaves. He opened up the Red Sea, they were able to go through. He closed the Red Sea, He closed on all the soldiers. They got out, they got they went through the you know, they went through so much stuff, you know, with the Lord. But the Lord was actually right there. We saw Leviticus where you know, the Lord is actually in the presence of Erin, you know,

like he's speaking of Moses face to face. You know, there's there's all these things that God is doing, which is different than for us. Right, we don't get to see the Lord. We don't get to hear God speak to us. We only have we we believe in We believe in God through faith. Right, so it's a little different. And you know, some of these pastors will say, well, God told me, you know, God told me this, you know, but it's not the same as Moses when he says that,

you know, he spoke to him face to face. So we got to understand that also. There are a lot of these people there, the descendants of the people that we're talking about, were actually at the bottom of Mount Syinai looking up and there was a trumpet blowing from an angel, you know, and God was up there. There's clouds and fire, and it's just you know, they got

to witness something. You know, they should have more faith than someone like us that note don't get to see that, right, But we got to keep our faith right Deuteronomy eight, verse eighteen. And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, and he and that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is to this day, that it shall be if you, by any means forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and serve

them and worship them. I testify to you this day that you shall surely perish, as the nations which the Lord destroys before you, you shall perish because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God. So faith is involved and obedience is involved very important. We should learn from this. We should understand that, yes, we're saved by grace through faith, but also it's very important to God that we are obedient. Okay. Obedience is

very very important, especially not worshiping idols. Okay. It says, and you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth and to establish see his covenant. See God cannot lie right Titus one too, it's impossible for God to lie. He was six verses eighteen, verse eighteen, and then uh. In Deuteronomy, it also says that it says that God is not a man that he should lie. Okay, So that's why he's gonna keep his covenant that he established. Right, He's

gonna keep it and everything that he promised. Then it shall be if any means forget I'm just rereading the verse, okay, So then it shall be by any means, if you forget your lilt gout I follow other gods. It's served there. But worse it, I will testify to you to this day that you shall surely perish. Right. So they came from a very pagan place in Egypt, where there are

other gods. There's raw, there's lit Cyruses, all these different gods, right, So he knows that, so he doesn't want them to forget him, right, And he's they're also going to go through Canaan, right where there's a bunch of other gods there in Pagans and bail and all this different worship Moloch, and he doesn't want them to worship them either. So he says, as the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish because you would not be obedient

to the voice of the Lord, your god. It's like he does not want he's cautioning you against them worshiping other gods. And then in fifteen and sixteen he recounts the miraculous forces of God performs his running water from the rock, reminding the Israelites of his power and faithfulness.

And then when we get to seventeen and eighteen, it's caution against attributing success to one's own strength, urging believers to remember that it is God who gives the ability to produce wealth, of course, and then consequences of forgetfulness. So nineteen and twenty, which I just went over, it concludes with a stern warning about the cont sequences of

forgetting God and following other gods leading to destruction. So yes, so I kind of want to go over a few practical applications here that you could you could use in your own life, right, cultiv cultivate gratitude. It is five in the morning, guys, sorry if I yawned a few times. Five in the morning. No coffee. So I do have a B eight energy low low caffeine energy drink here. I could drink by life, but we'll see if we

can make it through here. Cultivate gratitude. Gratitude is one, okay, regularly, regularly reflect and give thanks for God's provisions and guidance in your life, both in times of need and abundance. So yeah. First Corinthians Uh ten thirty one says, whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God. So if you're eating, if you have food, you have abundance, you have whatever,

you're doing, everything to the glory of God. You are thanking God for what you have, You're recognizing who provided it. You're thanking Jesus for dying on the cross. You know, you're always just thankful for what you have. Right, and if you are in abundance and people need help, help them, you know they're the less fortunate. Jesus talks about it throughout the New Testament. There's a few times that have already gone over in Luke Matthew Mark where Jesus says,

to help the less fortunate. Okay, we are expected to help the less fortunate. That story about the good Samaritan is there. The parable is there for a reason. The priests that have money they're walking around, they left that good Samaritan, right, So you got to understand, we don't want to be doing that. And just like Hebrews thirteen to two says, you never know when you're entertaining an angel, right, entertain strangers because could be entertaining an angel unaware. Very

interesting verse. Stay humble is another one here. Recognize that your abilities and successes are gifts from God and avoid the trap of self reliance and pride. Of course, you know like that my abilities that I have to do this show it came from God. It came from everything that God has done for me, everything that God has blessed me, the personality that God has blessed me with, to be able to do the show is all Him,

and it's all glory to God. And every time someone says great job, or hey, there's this gentleman that I talked to on the phone that he was telling me, oh, you know all this, you know, trying to to my horn, and it's like, it's it's not even me. And I don't even like to accept the compliments too much. I just like to say it's all glory to God, because that's that's what it is, you know, daily dependence on God's word, like I was saying earlier, just as the

Israelites dependent on manna. Make it a habit to nourish your spirits with scripture daily, and that is so vastly important. And I've been doing that and it actually is working incredibly. Two days a week I'm working on the New Testament. Two days a week I'm working on the Old Testament. So I'm kind of getting fed from both angles, which is perfect and it is it's really assisting me in

my walk. And then you know, the three days that I have, I'm either doing at a show on I'm doing a show on you know, Deuteronomy, or I'm doing a show on Luke so I'm actually ex reading the verses out loud to you guys and also hearing at myself, and it's helping me. Now, am I saying I'm perfect? No, All I'm telling you is that it helps so tremendously.

So if I get tempted, it just it assists me greater. Right, It helps me to block the wiles of the devil because my shield of faith gets so big from reading the word of God. My shield of faith is not big because I'm cool, I'm great. No, my shield of faith is gonna be big because I'm following God's word and I'm reading his word daily and it's causing me to a there's a change in my life. And if you do that too as well, there'll be a change

in your life. Guard against forgetfulness established practices such as journaling or sharing testimonies to remember and recount God's faithfulness. Yes, sharing your testimony is very important. I've done that on quite a few shows, and I've had people come through testimonies on my show. It's very important. Excuse me heed warnings. Take seriously the warnings against idolatry and ensure that God

remains the central focus of your life. That is definitely very true, and idols have worked in many different ways throughout time as far back as I can Rea member

one idol is definitely the TV TV shows. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't enjoy life as a Christian and you know, sit around the TV with all your kids and watch a show together, you know, but when you become attached and glued to a TV or attached in a glued to a cell phone, which it's that It's one thing that's very hard for me because I do have a social media account that I'm trying to, you know, answer questions and do stuff, so it is hard for me. I will admit that it's hard for

me not to be on a cell phone. If there was a way that I was big enough show to have an administrator do my social media and then ask me the question, you know, and and then I answer it to the people and say, hey, this person's asking a question that I could get back to that person. It'd be great to where I could just study the word all the time and not and not do all the other portions of podcasting like market and all the other stuff. That'd be cool, But you know what, it's

not the way it works. And I do have to be on my phone sometimes, you know, social media, and yeah, the devil tries to creep in. It tries to creep in for everybody and show you know, on your front page, show you something that you might want to click on. And you just got to be vigilant and and make sure that you don't you don't, you don't do that. You know, that's a way for him to edge his little snaky ways into you and try to get you to do stuff. So just got to be vigilant and

like I said, continue reading his word, God's word and idolatry. Yeah, so all like I was saying, so idols a TV was a big one back in the day. Some people would just watch TV all day and all night. Video games became a big idol for a lot of people. Some people would break up with their girlfriends because they're playing video games so much with their friends. And computer games.

That's another thing that that would suck people in where they would they would live their regular life, you know during the day and I'll playing computer games all night, you know, go to school the next day super tired, and and uh, you know, that's just one example. Of idolatry. Pornography is another one, like sex is one. Drugs was is a big one, right. I was talking about it and on Wednesday service that you know when you're when you get addicted to something where you don't even want

to leave your house without it. Cigarettes, dip, that's chewing tobacco. Uh that the vape. You know, if you're halfway, you know, you start driving and you get gas and you're like already thirty minutes out, you know, away from your house, and you look, you're looking for your vape. Oh, I don't have it, turn around and go all the way back to the house, like because you have to have it. Same thing with the cell phone. I mean, it's just there's just some things you know. But but you won't

you won't do that. If you forgot to pray, you won't do that. If you if you if you forgot to read the word of God, would you would you go? Ah, I forgot to read the word of God. I gotta do that right now. No, you see, that's that's making an idol. So uh, I just said, you know, place God first, right, everything else will follow. Right, seek God first and everything else to follow. Let's continue and some of the connecting additional scriptures to to Deuteronomy eight would

be Matthew four to four. That's Deuteronomy eight three during Jesus's temptation, temptation he was, he was, actually he quoted Deuteronomy eight three. So we'll let you know. Philippians four nineteen. This versus assures us of God's provision, echoing the theme of reliance on him. And then James one seven is another verse. It reminds us that every good and perfect

gift is from above. So everything you get, you know, give glory to the Father is what's kind of what that's talking about, reinforcing the message of acknowledging God's sovereignty. One Corinthians ten eleven. Paul refers to experiences of the Israelites as examples for US highlight and the importance of learning from their history. And I actually quoted First Corinthians ten thirty one. That's interesting. Yeah, so ten eleven refers to pauls of the experiences of the Israelites' examples for

US highlight and the importance of learning from their history. Okay, so all right, now I will go to chapter nine on my notes, and it starts out here. In Deuteronomy nine, it says, here, oh, Israel. So it starts out like that, because you're about to hear the word of God, right, so you need It's kind of like uh in the Book of Romans, where it says faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. It's kind of like where I told you where Jesus was saying, if

you have ears, I need you to here. So this is the way that Moses is opening this verse and the title this is Israel's Rebellions reviewed. It says, Heroes Israel, you are to cross over the Jordan today and go into the disposes. Nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, a people great and tall, the descendants of Anachem, whom you know and whom you heard.

It's still who can stand before the descendants of a knock. Therefore, understand today that the Lord your God is he who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you, and you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you. So he's talking about giants here. Okay, that's why he's talking about the descendants of Anakim and

the descendants of a knock. These are giants. And what he's saying is that the Lord is going to come before you with the consuming fires. So God is going to take care of them first. He will destroy them and bring them down before you, and you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you, God fulfilling his promise right and underscores God's sovereignty and faithfulness to his promises right there. And He's gonna take care of them, and they have to

drive them out. And then and we're gonna go to Deuteronomy nine, verse four. Do you think in your heart after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, because of my righteousness, the Lord has brought me into the and to possess this land. But it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord has

driven them out before you. It is not because of your righteousness or your uprightness of your heart that you go into the possessed their land, because but because of the wickedness of these nations, that your Lord or God drives them out before you, and that he may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Therefore, understand that the Lord your God has not given you this land to possess because of

your righteousness, for you are a stiff necked people, stubborn people. Okay. And he's also letting him know that it's not because of their righteousness. It's because of the wickedness of these people. And they're giants, right. So there, their bloodline came from the Nephelim, right, they are Raphaim. That's what these these these people are. And not all of them, okay, not all of them, but the ones that he's mentioning in verse one through four, those are the ones that are giants,

the descendants of Anakin, the descendants of a Nak. And God gave these people plenty of time. The ones that are not giants to worship him, right, and they are wicked. And it says right here in my notes, it says, Moses ones the igilies do not attribute their sex to their own do not attribute their success to their own righteousness. It is not because of the righteousness or integrity that they are going to take the possession of their land. Yeah.

So it's real easy for you to think that I'm we're God's chosen people because we're righteous, and God says not, no, no, no, you're stiff necked. And I made a promise to your you know, your forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I swore to them, and I am fulfilling that promise. But don't think because you're some great people that I'm doing this. We're not doing this because of your obedience. And then God's going to talk about the stiff necked part, the

stubbornness of Israel. They are stubborn people. Let's let's go over that real quick. Deuteronomy nine, verse seven. Remember he says it with the exclamation point. Remember, do not forget how you provoke the Lord your God to wrath in

the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the line at Egypt until you came to this place, you have you have been rebellions against the Lord, also in Horror, which is Mount Say, and I you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have you to destroy you, angry enough with you to have destroy you, destroyed you. When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the Covenant, which the Lord made with you.

Then I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread, nor ate or drank water. Then the Lord delivered me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire and the day of the assembly. And it came to pass at the end of the forty days and four nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets

of the Covenant. So the ten commandments were written on those stones. Okay, so let's continue Deuteronomy nine to twelve. Then the Lord sending me a rise, go down quickly from here, for the or your people whom you brought out of Egypt were acting corruptly, and they have quickly turned aside from which the way I commanded them, and they made themselves a molded image. Okay, So this is talking about the first time that Moses went up to Mount Sinai for forty days and forty knights, and he

came down, and they made the golden calf. The golden calf Aaron made. The golden calf. Aaron is Moses's brother. Let's continue Deuteronomy nine, verse thirteen. Furthermore, the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have seen his people, and indeed they are a stiff necked people. Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from the under heaven, and I will make you a nation

mightier and greater than they. So I turned and came from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire, and the two tablets of the Covenant were in my two hands. And I looked, and behold, you have sinned against the Lord, your God made yourself, say molded calf. You had turned aside quickly the way which the Lord had commanded you. Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. And I fell down before the Lord. As it as

the first forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed, and doing wickedly in the side of the Lord to provoke him the anger. For I was afraid of the Anger, and not in hot displeasure, which the Lord was angry with you to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me at that time also, and the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him. So I prayed for Erin also at the same time.

Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and grounded it very very small, until it was a fine dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended into the mountain. Something that a pastor was pointing out right here was that he also put it into the brook, and then he made the people drink it. Very interesting the gold, right, I guess, very interesting. So we understand what's going on here. This is kind of a uh.

This is him just reviewing exactly what happened during that time and what he was feeling. Right, He's given a sermon, and the people should be sitting in the back like, wow, you know this is crazy. We'll never do this, you know, That's probably what they're thinking, like, we would never do this. Why would they do that? That's how people always, you know, whenever you read the Bible, like why would Adam sinn like that? That's that's I wouldn't do that against God,

you know. Yeah, Okay. Also at Tebarauh and Massa and Kibberoth habitall you provoke the Lord to wrath like ours. When the Lord sent you to cades Barina, saying go up and possess the land which I had given you, you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, your God, and you did not believe him nor obey his voice. And you have been rebellious against the Lord from the

day that I knew you. So. In verses seven through twenty forty, he recounts Israel's history of rebellion, including the incident of the Golden Calf, illustrating their persistent disobedience and the need for God's mercy. Also, if you guys, remember there was a rebellion that happened where they were rebelling against God. And then God had the earth open up and swallow those people that caused the rebellion. Yeah, and they were rebelling it. They started rebellion against Moses. And

let's continue Deuteronomy nine, verse twenty five. Thus I prostrated myself before the Lord forty days and forty nights. I kept prostrating myself, because the Lord had said he would destroy you. Therefore I prayed to the Lord and said, Oh Lord God, do not destroy your people and your inheritance, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have

brought out of Egypt with the mighty hand. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, do not look on the stubbornness of his people, or on the wickedness of their sin less than land that you brought us. Should say, because the Lord has not been able to bring them out of the land which he had promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness. Yet they are people and your inheritance whom you brought out of your mighty power in your

out your outstretched arm. So kind of what we're saying here is, Oh Lord, do not destroy your people and inheritance, whom you're redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with the mighty hand. Remember your servants. Yes, So reminding God, this is what he did when he was up there. He was reminding God of the promise that he had with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and kind of remember your servants, you know, everything that that they

went through. Do not look on the stubbornness of your people or the weakness of the sin that's the land which he had brought us to. Because the Lord was not able to bring them out of the land which he had promised them, and because he hated them, he had brought him out to kill them in the wilderness. He didn't. He's saying, like, Uh, do you want Egypt to to think that you were not able to bring them out of the land which you have or bring him to the land which you have promised them? Right?

He didn't. Did you want Egypt to think that you brought them to this, to the wilderness to kill them? You know, He's he's kind of reminding God of that, right. And then Moses' intersection or intercession demonstrates the power of prayer and importance of a mediator between God and man. That's kind of what Moses was. He's the mediator between God man. It's a picture of what we have now. Jesus is the mediator between us and God. Right, And I'm not trying to compare Moses to Jesus. Okay, Jesus

is God, right, I'm just saying that. It's It demonstrates the power of prayer and the importance of having a mediator between God and man. What's Jesus is the mediator between us and God right now. He is what makes us holy. Moses did not make them holy, but he, Jesus, is what makes us holy. He bridges the cavern between us and God because we are not holy at all. Right, So let's see if there's a yeah. Some practical applications

for this verse humility and success. Recognize that our achievements are not solely due to our efforts, but the gifts from God, which I talked about kind of last chapter. Cultivate a heart of gratitude. Gratitude and humility very very important, and humility. We need to place all of our stuff on the altar and let God handle it all right, don't try to handle it yourself. Let God handle it. Place it on the altar. Pray, let God handle the things that we think we can handle. Okay, we have

to handle self with gratitude and humility. Self examination regularly examine our lives in areas of pride and self righteousness, seeking God's forgiveness and guidance. Of course, yes, we don't want to have pride and self righteousness. We don't want to We don't want that at all. Intercessory prayer follow Jesus' follow Moses' example by praying for others, especially those

who may be straying from God's path. And yeah, so if you have people in your life that you know, that's that's why you always say, like, hey, I'll pray for you brother, I'm gonna be praying for you, or you pray with them, right there, one of the two. Obviously, you have a lot of internet friends that you know. They might tell you something in secret and you kind of you hear it and then you pray for them,

you know, or something. Maybe one of your friends send you a text message, Hey bro, I'm going through it right now, can you pray for me? Of course, try to guide them and you pray for them. So it's very important, especially when you see someone straying away, it's it's very important to pray for them and guide them. Trust in God's promises in times of uncertainty. You remember God's faithfulness and trust and his promises, knowing that He is in control. Amen to that we know that. So

just yeah, God, like I said, God cannot lie. It's impossible for God to lie. So if there's something in the Bible, you know that God is not lying. Okay, we know that and trust God to take care of you. So the next the next portion, I just want to give additional scriptures we have. Ephesians two eight through nine emphasizes, Yeah, Phesians two eight is going to be we're saved by

grace through faith, not by works. Right, So we're saved by grace through faith, for is a gift of God, none of yourselves, not by works, so that no man shall boast is what it is. It's about God's grace over human righteousness. Okay, So that is one of the scriptures that that is an additional scripture to go through. Romans three twenty three through twenty four reminds us that all have sinned and are justified freely by God's grace,

paralying Israel's need for God's mercy despite their rebellion. We rebel every day, right so in some type of way, so we also are in God's grace right now. First John one nine encourages confession and assurance of forgiveness relevant and the call for self examination and repentance. Okay, we need to have self examination and repentance for sure. Anything else I have here, all right, let's continue. I'll go to my notes for chapter ten, and now we're in Deuteronomy,

chapter ten. The second pair of tablets. So now we're gonna talk about the second pair of tablets, because Moses was talking about the first time he went up the mount SIGNI for forty days and forty nights. He broke those because he saw him with the golden calf. Now he's going to talk about, you know, the second pair of tablets. At that time, the Lord said to me, who for yourselves two tablets of stone like the first, and come to me on the mountain and make yourself

an arc of wood. Now we're talking about the Ark of the Covenant. And now I'll write on the tablets the words that were in the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark. Okay, So now those tablets are going to be in the ark. Instead of him carrying him down where he could break them, he's gonna put him in the Ark of the Covenant.

So I made an arc of Akashawood, who two tablets of stone like the first, and went out the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand, and he wrote on the tablets according to the first writing in ten Commandments, which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the Assembly, and the Lord gave them to me. Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had made, And there they are, just as the Lord commanded me. Let's

get here. So Deuteronomy ten begins with God's instructing Moses to chisel out the two stone tablets like the first ones and come to him. This signifies God's willingness to renew his covenant despite Israel's previous rebellion. So that is showing you the grace of God, Isn't it? That shows you the grace of God, because even though they just made a huge mistake, He's still forgiving them and creating

the Ten Commandments and continuing with his covenant. Deuteronomy ten, verse six says, now the children of Israel journeyed from the walls of Beni. Okay, yeah, this is in parentheses Okay, some people believe that Joshua added this to Deuteronomy. I just want to let you know that it's in parentheses, because sometimes when it's in parentheses, you don't find it in the original manuscript. It got added later somehow. Right, So let's go ahead and go over this. This is

Deuteronomy ten verse six. It says, now the children of Israel journeyed from the walls the wells of Beni Jacan to Masara, where Aaron died, and he was buried in Alia, his son ministered as priests and is stead, from where they journeyed to God Gaddah, and from God Gadah the jata a land of rivers of water. At that time, the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord, to minister to him, to bless him in

his name. To this day, therefore, Levi has has no portion or inheritance with his brethren. The Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God has promised him. So he's just reiterating that portion to let them know that Levi has no portion or inheritance. The Lord is his inheritance. Right, So let's continue. Verse ten. It says, at this time I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. So yes, I talked about that. So Moses went up

there forty days and forty nights. The first time came down, they were in rebellion. The Golden cath broke the ten commandments. I call them back up to the mountain. Moses goes back up there again forty days and forty nights, right, and uh, I think that's that's this is fascinating, right, And it says, uh, the Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you.

Then the Lord said to me, a rise, begin your journey before the people, that you may go in and possess the land which I swore to you and your fathers to give them. So uh so on. So Moses is a scrutiny. Okay, So that's gonna be twelve one through five. Okay, we already went through that, the essence of the law. Okay, let's go over this. This is gonna be Deuteronomy ten, verse twelve. And we're kind of going through these kind of fast because it is a review.

Pretty much. He's doing a sermon. It's a review of stuff we kind of went over in Exodus. So there's it's not as dense as some of the other parts the Book of Deuteronomy, and I'm going over it, but it's okay because it's it's good to review. And this is exactly the way that some of the pastors that I was studying kind of go through it. They're not going through it where they're just a bunch of dense stuff in here. They're kind of just kind of going

through it fairly quickly. They they would they would in a two hour time, they would go over Deuteronomy eight all the way to twelve. So we're making excellent timing right now. Just let you guys know we're already on Deuteronomy ten and verse twelve says and now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his

ways and to love him. To serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statues, which I command you today for your for your good. Indeed, Heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God. Also the earth with all that is in it. Let's pause there real quick. So indeed, heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God. So heaven would be where the moon, sun of the stars are located.

The second heaven is the Firmament. The third heaven, according to the Holy Bible, would be or God's thrones is located. So we say in the heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God. So in some if you go to extra Biblical text and Jewish, they believe there was seven heavens, right, So according to two Corinthians twelve, it says that Paul went to the third heaven. So yeah, that's very interesting that it says, indeed heaven and the

highest heavens belong to the Lord your God. Also the earth, which is in it. So yeah, it's in between it, right, So let's continue. The Lord delighted or you know, the earth is in it, right, and then you have the Son of the Stars, the firmament, God's throne is what I see in the Bible. Other people see other stuff, right, they see space and infinite vacuum and all that stuff. But I see it differently. But anyways, the Lord delighted.

This is going to be ten Verse fifteen. The Lord delighted only in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, to you above all people. And it's in this day. Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart and be stiff necked no longer. For the Lord your God is God of God's, the Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality to take a nor takes a bribe. He administers justice to the fatherless the widow, and loves the stranger, giving

him food and clothing. Therefore, love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him, and to him you shall hold fast and take in his name. He is your praise, and he is your God and has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord of God has made you the stars of heaven in multitude, so seventy persons, like,

who did he go down to? Who are they talking about here? Well, that's going to be Joseph and his family and everybody that he ended up bringing over to Egypt. That's the seventy persons. It's a Joseph, his brothers and everybody that came. Jacob ended up dying, if you guys remember, And that's the seventy persons that went to Egypt. And at the time they were accepted, and Joseph was higher up. But you know, as you know, the Pharaohs quickly forgot

about the Israelites and started making them slaves. So let's go ahead and go to So in in verse twelve, Moses's scrutiny outlines that God requires And now, o Israel, what does the Lord your God ask you to do? But fear the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, to serve the Lord of God with all your heart and with all your soul. Right, That's God's requirements. And then in Deuteronomy ten sixteen, which we went over the physical act of circumcision as a metaphor for a deeper

spiritual reality. God desires a heart that is open and responsive to him. Circumcise your hearts therefore, and stiffen your necks no more. And then in Deuteronomy ten eighteen it highlights that God's character and his call for his people to reflect his justice for love and love. And then in Deuteronomy ten verses twenty one through twenty two, this chapter concludes with the reminder of God's greatness and his mighty deeds, encouraging the Israelites to remember their history and

God's faithfulness. Yes, and then and then Deuteronomy ten through twenty two. Also, the chapter concludes what they call to fear, serve, and hold fast to Lower, acknowledging his mighty deeds and wonders he performed for the for Israel. This re forces the covenantial relationship and response to worship. Okay, that's Deuteronomy ten through twenty two. So let's go ahead and go over some practical applications that you can use for your life.

Reflect on God's requirements. Regularly assess your life, and in light of God's requirements to fear love and serve him wholeheartedly, cultivate a responsible So. Yeah, So regularly assess your life in light of God's requirements of fear love, serve him wholeheartedly. Yes so, yes, obviously you want to love him with all your heart, mind, body, soul, with everything. We kind of talked about this in Wednesday's service, that Jesus wants you to love him so much that it looks like

you despise what was it, detest everybody else? Okay, So he doesn't want you to hate anybody. Okay, someone that's saying in that verse, But he wants you to love him so much it looks like you almost detest everybody else because you have so much love for him, because you're placing him first. Cultivate every sponsive heart. Seek to circumcise your heart by being open to God's leading and

willing to change. Yes, definitely be willing to change. What you're doing right now when you are walking with God is you are changing. Okay, you don't understand it, you don't know, but you are actually having a transformation of how you were before. It takes a while for you to even realize. It takes a while for everything to

kind of kick in. But you're going to be simply dropping these old habits, these bad habits that you had before, that you learned, as you know, as a non believer, and I was even a believer and a non believer at the same time. You know, it's called being lukewarm, where you are. You believe that Jesus died for your sins, but you're still sinning. You know, Like it's just like

a lot. You know, when I was growing up, when I was sixteen, I always believe that I believed in God, right, I believed Jesus, but I was just not walking with God. You know, you could be in that position. So as you kind of mature in your faith and you start reading the Bible and consuming the Word of God a lot more and you start learning, then you're going to you're gonna be start dropping these bad habits and these these a lot of these things that you do. You

might do right now, it's going to happen. You know, you might not think so, but it's definitely gonna happen. Okay, Emulate God's justice and love actively. Look for ways to serve and support the marginalized in your community, reflecting God's heart for justice. Yes, that's what I was talking about. The marginalized, the people that that don't have it as good as you, the people that are homeless, people that

you know need help and assistance. Remember God's faithfulness. Keep a journal of God's faithfulness in your heart to encourage you during challenging times. Yeah, keep a journal of God's faithfulness in your life to encourage. Yeah, you could. You could do that. You could write a journal or you're writing, you know till people do, like a daily journal or

like a diary type deal. And you could write in ways that God has affected you and and assisted you and helped you, and helped you with your testimony, you know, going to give you a testimony, write a testimony out every time God helps you during challenging times. All right, So that is if you notice these chapters are fairly quick. So like I said, you know, we kind of go over them a little fast. But it's okay. This is definitely a review. And now we're in Deuteronomy eleven and

we'll go here. So here we go. This is love and obedience rewarded. Deuteronomy eleven, Verse one. Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep his charge, his statues,

his judgments, and his commandments. Always know today that I do not speak with your children who have not known, who have not seen the chastising of the Lord your God, his greatness, and his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, his signs, his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to all his land, And what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, the chariots, how he made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you,

And how the Lord had destroyed them to this day. What he did for you in the wilderness until he came to this place. And what he did to Dethan and Abram, the sons of Ilieb, the son of Reuben, How the earth opened his mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and their substance which was in their possession in the midst of the Israel. But your eyes have seen very great act of the Lord which he did. That is the that then and Abriam, the

sons of Ilieb. Okay, that's the ones that created the rebellion against Moses, and the earth opened up and swallowed them. And yeah, that's I'm telling you. Supernatural events happen in the Bible that people, you know, some of them people choose not to believe. But we believe this by faith, right, So I'll go ahead and go over uh doud on me eleven one states you shall Therefore, love the Lord your God, and always keep his chape, his charge, his statutes,

his ordinance, and his commandments. This verse emphasizes the importance of loving God as the foundation for obedience. Yes, so, if you love God, you're gonna be obedient to him, just like your wife. If you love your wife like like Christ love the Church, you're gonna be obedient to her. You know, you're not going to go out and do stupid stuff, go out and drink, go out and party, go out and you know, try to get other women or watch other women on your phone, or whatever the

heck you do. You know you don't need to do that same thing. Loving God shows obedience. So you could tell your friends all day long, I love the Lord God. I love God so much. But when you're disobedient to him, you're not showing that you love him. Right. And then two through seven remembering God's Works Okay, so Verses two through seven recounts the mighty works of God, reminding the Israelites of his power and faithfulness. This serves as a

motivation to trust and obey him. Yeah, so it motivates you to trust and obey him. Right, let's continue, We're going to go through all right Deuteronomy eleven, verse eight. Therefore, you shall keep your commandment which I commanded you today, that you may be strong, go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to give your fathers to them their descendants, a

land flowing of milk and honey. For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot as a vegetable garden. But the land which you cross to possesses the land of hills and valleys, which drinks waters from the rain of heaven, a land for which the Lord your God cares. The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end

of this year of the year. You see how it's like a motivational speech, but it's also a sermon at the same time. He's preaching and teaching them, and also he's motivating them at the same time. Right of what they're going to the land that they're going to possess. Right, So let's continue Deuteronomy eleven, verse thirteen. And it shall be that you earnestly obey my commandments, which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, with all your heart, with

all your soul. Then I will give you the rain from your land in its season, their early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather your grain, your new wine, and your oil. And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat

and be filled. Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, that you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them, Lest the Lord's anger be aroused against you, and he shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you. So he is warning them against. So here's the thing it's showing you. Who controls the weather at this time? God right, God can make it rain.

God can make it not rain. To what it's telling you. Who stopped the weather when they were on the boat, Jesus right, He was able to calm the storm and stop the oceans from getting crazy. So that's something that we should look at. That's why they were like, who is he that he's able to control the weather like that? You know. So I just want to tell you guys that and if you see as from a conspiratorial aspect, what's happening. You know, Man wants to do everything they

want to even control the weather. They're doing the geoengineering, chemtrails, all this stuff, climate change, trying to block the sun. You see what they see what they're trying to do. They're trying to mock God. Always always trying to mock God. Right, cause it to rain, Operation Popeye. Oh yeah, we're gonna cloud seed. We're gonna cause it to rain. So there's gonna be some point where they're gonna screw up the system so bad that it's not gonna be able to

rain unless they do that. So they you know, we Man is just very, very stiff necked and ignorant, always trying to take the power away from God. Let's see, let's continue, let's see what my notes say. So in verse sixteen seventeen warns against turning to other gods, highlighting the danger of idolatry and its consequences such as withholding of rain and loss of the land. So if you're gonna go worship other gods, God's gonna make it so that you're gonna have a very tough time because he's

gonna stop the rain you have no produce. So all they had to do is just love the Lord thy God with all their heart and soul and follow him and not to worship other gods. Right, let's continue Deuteronomy eleven, verse eighteen. Therefore, therefore you shall lay these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and buying them as a sign on your hand, and you shall

be frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking to them that you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up, and you shall write them on the doorposts of your house, on your gates, that your days, in your days of your children, may be multiplied in the land of which your Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. Okay, he's basically just saying, like,

write these things on your heart. Okay, he's saying to write them on your doorposts now, because they pass by those every day. So it's basically he wants them to have a constant reminder. So and he also wants you to teach the commandments to your children, ensuring the future generations remain faithful. Right, he wants you to teach them to your future generations so that they so they have it branded on their heart, right, the law the Commandments branded on their heart. And he will take care of

you if you do that. I have verses on my wall, on my walls, so I literally do have them on my walls in my bathroom, on my kitchen, two of them. I also have, you know, things just so just to remind, remind us to you know, give thanks to God or whatever you know that we have whatever we people tend to forget. Sometimes I have them on my wall actually, So all right, so let's continue. We're going to be

Deuteronomy eleven, verse twenty two. For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I commanded you to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to hold fast to him, then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will, and you will disposes greater and mightier nations than yourself every place on which the soul of your foot treads shall be yours. From the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river the river Euphrates,

even to the western Sea, shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand against you. The Lord, your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land which you tread, just as he said to you, So in a will continue. So he's basically saying, as long as you are faithful, then I will be with you, and I will help you to fight against these greater and mightier nations. And people are gonna fear you. As long as you fear the Lord and love the Lord and walk in his ways.

As long as you're obedient to the Lord, he's gonna take care of you. That's all you gotta do. Let's continue. Let's see if there's anything on this part. Sorry, eleven twenty four. Have you read there? Yeah? We have, Okay. So God promises no one will be able to stand against the Israelites if they obey His commandments concerning their victory over enemies. Every place where the soul of their

foot treads will be yours. Yes, that's very interesting right there, And let's go back to the teaching points for twenty six and twenty eight. Let's go ahead. Eleven Deuteronomy eleven, verse twenty six. Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse. The blessing if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from which I command you today, to go after other gods which

you have not known. Now. It shall be when the Lord your God has brought you out of the land which you go to possess, and you shall put the blessings of Mount Guerusium and the curse of Mount ebel eball, are you not on the other side of the Jordan, towards towards the setting sun and the land of the Canaanites who dwell on the plane opposite Gigle beside the

Terriba trees of morale. For you will cross over the Jordan and go to possess the land what's the Lord your God is giving you, And you will possess it and dwell in it. And you shall be careful to observe the statutes and judgments, which I said before you today. So the choice between blessing and curse. So God presents a clear choice blessing for obedience and curse for disobedience, underscoring the significance of our decisions. So that is what

he's doing. Obviously, you're showing this this whole entire chapter right here right He is telling you that obedience you'll be blessed. Disobedience, you will be cursed. So you kind of have a choice there. And they if they would have took note of this and took it seriously, and that would have been so much better for their nation, so much better. So we kind of already kind of went over this. But yeah, So the chapter concludes with a choice to set before the Israelites blessing if they

obey God's commandments, and a curse if they disobey. This choice es central to the covenant relationship. See today, I am setting before you a blessing and a curse. Studonomy eleven, verse twenty six. So let's go ahead and go over some practical applications for you guys for these verses, for these chapters. Cultivate a love for God, make a conscious effort to deepen your love for God through prayer, worship, and studying His word. And a part of worship is obedience. Okay,

that is part of worship. Worship like going to a church putting your hands up, that is a part of worship. Okay, yes, you're putting your hand up. You know, your you're, you're you know, you're feeling the Holy Spirit and all that stuff. Yes, that's a part of worship. But a big part of worship is obedient to God, God's word. And how often are you, guys, h how often are you, guys praying to God for obedience? How often are you praying to

God for obedience? Very important? And also studying His word, which we're doing right here, which is which I which I try to tell people. It's vastly important. And for me to be able to even you know, teach you guys and preach you or teach you guys is is amazing. God is so greatful allowing me to do that. Reflect on God's faithfulness. Regularly we call and share testimonies of God's faithfulness in your life to strengthen your trust in Him. So, yes, I've had some people on my show that had some

very powerful testimon my friend Monti Mansfield. He has a Instagram or a TikTok now that has like four hundred thousand people or three hundred thousand people. And he started out on my show, not saying that I started him out or anything, but he came on my show on my podcast, and now his in his TikTok is is you know, three hundred thousand people. But he has a

very good testimony. He was a baseball player that got into drugs, and you know, he became a pro baseball player and he got into uh he played for a Spirit of high school, which is I knew him and growing up right, and he he has a really good testimony and and he got into drugs and then he got got into the Lord and just just beautiful man. And it assists so many people. You know, it helps so many people when you could share your testimony and share what God has done in our life. You know,

he is he's an example of that. Monty Mansfield. I can, uh, you know what, since since he is my one of my friends, I could kind of uh see what, Oh let me, I can't search t yep. I just want to shout out his h is it money Mansfield. Uh, let's see, I think it's the Hope Dealers what he calls himself. Yeah, so it's many Mansfield one nine seven. So it's at MANI Mansfield one nine seven. And uh the Hope Dealer is what he what he calls himself.

And uh you could check out his uh his uh, his TikTok if you want, three hundred and ninety five thousand followers. So he has a lot, and he's always given thanks to God and and just just you know, it's just a a an example of that. And he didn't ask me to do a shout out for him. I'm just doing it because I mentioned him. Prioritize obedience, Evaluate areas in your life where you may be struggling with obedience, and seek God's guidance to align with his will.

So evaluate areas of your life where you may be struggling with obedience. Of course, so you know, if there's an area in your life where that you're weak, evaluate it and find out what you have to do to correct it and do your very best, you know, And it might be a slow process or a quick process. It just depends. But as you study God's word, it's going to give you. It's going to strengthen you and help

you in those areas that you feel weak. And pray to God for obedience and pray and and and you know, you gotta, you gotta not only pray, but whatever you pray, try to try to live that out, you know, and obedience is very important. And then seek God's guidance to align with his will. Of course, yeah, definitely we wanna, we want to definitely live by God's will. Guarding against idolatry. Identify any modern day idols in your life, such as

materialism or career, and take steps to remove them. Yes, so remove the portion that that is making you idolize something. So some people might idolize shopping, some people might adalyze, you know, the simple things. You know, some people might idolize things that aren't good, like drugs or alcohol, or pornography or women or lustful thoughts or all these different things. You know, you want to make sure that you take steps to remove whatever you are idolizing, right, whatever whatever

that is in your life. Invest in the next generation. Be intentional about teaching and modeling God's commandments to children and young believers. So, yeah, like youth ministry and and those are very important in your children at home. It's very important to teach them, raise them, raise them up properly, and raise them as believ Young believers choose daily recognize that each day presents a choice between obedience and disobedience, and commit to choosing God's way. So recognize each day

presents a choice between obedience. Yes, So every single choice that you have, you know, there's choices that happen. There's either you know, there's there's good and evil right, or there's there's there's obey or disobey, and a lot of the choices that we have in life. And when you choose to go against God, then when you're a believer and you know that it's wrong, you are transgressing against God. Right. So we are held to a higher standard when we

become believers because we are aware. Right when a child a is a baby and he does wrong or she does wrong and he doesn't know, then you know, obviously you're going to be a lot like on them as far as punishment. When they become six or seven years old and they know, you know, you be a little more harsher on them. When they're sixteen, you're going to be even more harsher on them because they know for

sure and they're still disobeying. Right. So us as believers, we once you read the Bible, you're held accountable for what you have learned. Right, Like myself, I'm I'm held accountable, like I'm obviously displaying what I've learned on a podcast, So it's it's in the metaverse or whatever you want

to say, it's actually out there. So if I do things that I've already learned, especially over the air, it's like I should already know that, right, So I'm going to be held accountable and held to a higher standard because I know. So we need to understand that. Okay, So what I'm saying is we don't want to transgress like like David when he slept with Bathsheba, Like he transgressed against God because he knew that it was wrong,

and it took him a year. I think I can't remember what the amount of time it took, but it was like almost a year for him to get back right with God. But he transgressed because he knew that it was wrong, and it was just the devil just still tempted him and then he ended up doing and all this stuff. But I'm just letting you guys know you have a choice between obedience and disobedience and choosing

God's way. Right, commit to choosing God's way. It'll it'll be vastly important in your life, and it'll assist you and everything you do. So all right, let's continue to show additional scriptures that you can go back to. Would be Joshua one to eight and emphasized the importance of meditating on God's word for success and prosperity. One Versus one through three describes the blessings of delighting in and

meditating on God's law. John fourteen fifteen Jesus reiterates the connection between love and obedience of his commandments, and then James one twenty two through twenty five encourages believers to be doers of the word, not just hearers. Okay, yes, and uh yeah, so that's a very important James. If you go through that, it's very important as a believer to understand that show your faith by your works, right, by your obedience. Right, So let's go ahead and continue.

Like I told you guys when we first started that these chapters go quite quickly and uh and a lot of it is review. So look at that, we're already to chapter twelve. Right, So we went from eight all the way to twelve. So far we have a twenty five minutes to go. So let's continue Deuteronomy twelve, verse one. The title of this as a prescribed place of worship. These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the Lord, God

of your fathers is giving you to possess. All the days that you live on the earth. You shall utterly destroy all the places which the nations which you shall dispose is served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills under every tree, and you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, burn their wooden images with fire. You shall cut down the card images of their gods and destroy their names. From that place you shall not worship the Lord your God with such things.

So God commands the Israelites to destroy all the places where the nations they are disposing dispossessing worship their gods. This underscores the importance of worshiping God and the place he chooses, emphasizing unity and purity and worshiped. So God has a certain way that he wants you to worship them, and he's telling them to utterly destroy these sacred pillars, wooden images. And I thought this is interesting that that the places that that these you know, Canaanites were worshiping

aren't high mountains right in Biblical cosmology. When I go over it, I tell you, guys, that God is above the firmament. Right, if you do believe in the globe and the and the helocentric model, then God is still going to be above the firmament. But I guess it would be further and further away or how far away it is, I don't know in that model, but and I don't know how how far away it is in

the Biblical cosmology model. But it seems that these these Canaanite when they're trying to worship these deities, they're trying to go to high mountains because they can get They're trying to get closer to Heaven. It's like almost like mocking God, that the one true God. And also why

are they trying to get closer to Heaven? Well, you know, I don't want to get too off the off the cuspard off the rails here or off the discussion but I believe, you know, personally, that the spiritual wars happen where the moon's sun and the stars are located, which would be the first Heaven. And that's why they're trying to go to the highest mountains because where the moon, sun and the stars are located is where the spiritual

battles are happening between Earth and Heaven. That's why when that angel and Daniel was coming down and trying to answer Daniel's prayer, he was met with the Prince of Persia fighting against the Prince of Persia. He calls Michael the Arkans will to come and help him, and then he comes and talks to Daniel. Right, So in between Earth and Heaven there is a battle zone for these

fallen angels and spirits, you know, fighting angels and fallen angels. Right, So so they go up on these high mountains because they want to try to get they want to they want to speak to these little g gods, which uh as you, as I've studied, I believe are fallen angels because if you look at Psalms eighty two, verse one kind of go over that that it talks about the the little g gods that are over these nations, right,

and they are all sons of God. So those are that means that they were sons of the most High, which means that they were angels, and they are put in a position of leading these nations. If you look at a we'll get into it in Doude Army thirty two. So okay, So I just want to tell you guys that I just think it's interesting how they always try to get on these high mountains, right. They want to try to get closer to the angels. And some people might think I'm crazy, but I do believe the Bible

describes angels as stars as angels. Not all angels are stars, but I think you know the Bible describes stars as being angels. Let's continue Deuteronomy twelve, verse five. Okay, it's going to be. But you shall seek the place where the Lord your God chooses out all out of your tribes to put his name for his dwelling place. There

you shall go. There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your ties and heave offering in your hand, and vowed offerings, your free will offerings, and the first born of your herds and flocks. Then you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all which you have done have put your hand, you and your household in which the Lord your God has blessed you twelve verse five. Okay, so exclusive worship. The Israelites are instructed not to worship the Lord in a

way that other nations worship their gods. This highlights the need for distinctiveness in worship, setting God's people apart from the surrounding cultures. Okay, so, and then joyful worship God desires is people rejoice in his presence, bringing their offerings and celebrating with their families. Worship is not just a duty, but a joyful expression of gratitude and community. That's Deuteronomy two seven. So we went through that part. Let me

see a firstborn herd of flocks. You shall eat before the Lord, but we'll we'll read a twelve verse five again. But you shall seek the place where the Lord your God chooses out of your tribes to put his name in his dwelling place. You shall go there. You shall take your burn offerings, your sacrifice, your ties, the heave offerings, your hand, your vowed offerings, your free will offerings, your

firstborn herding flocks. There you shall eat the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all which you have put in your hand, in your households, which the Lord has blessed you. Okay, so review again, Right, this is kind of stuff that we read in Leviticus. Right, and then chapter eight is you shall this is a dude on me. Twelve. Chapter eight you shall not do. You shall not at all do as we were doing here today, every man

doing whatever is right in his own eyes. As for as yet you have not come to the rest and inheritance with the Lord your God is giving you. But when you cross over the Jordan a dwell in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, he gives you the rest from your enemies and roundabout so you may dwell in safety. Then there will be the place where the Lord your God chooses to make

his name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings, your sacrifice, your ties, your heave offerings in your hand, and your choice offerings which you vow to the Lord. You shall rejoice before the

Lord your God. You and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, the levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you, take heed to yourselves that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see, but in the place which the Lord chooses, in one of your tribes. There you shall offer your burnt offerings. There you shall

do all that I command you. So he's just basically just telling them to be obedient to God's commands is central to true worship, and also trying to let him know that you don't. You shouldn't just go and worship wherever you want. You need to worship wherever God chooses. Right, so he will let them know. Let's continue, And then this is obviously this is review, right, A lot of this stuff is reviewed. So this is a Deuteronomy twelve,

verse fifteen. However, you may slaughter and eat meat within your gates whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God, which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. Only you shall eat, not eat the blood. You shall pour it on the earth like water. You may not eat within your gates.

The tithe of your grain, or the new wine of your oil, the firstborn of your herd, or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, or the free will offerings of the heave offering of your hand. But you must eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God chooses you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, your female servant, and the levite who is within your gates, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, and

all in which you put your hands. Take heed to yourselves that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. So that's obviously a review from Leviticus. Let's continue Deuteronomy twelve, verse twenty. When the Lord your God enlarges your border, as you promised to you, and you say, let me eat meat, because you long to eat meat. You may eat as much

meat as your heart desires. If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his name is too far from you, and you may slaughter from the herd from your flock which the Lord has given you, just as I have commanded you. You may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires. Just as them. Oh, just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, you may eat them. The unclean and the clean alike may eat them. Only be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood is the life. You may

not eat the life. With the meat, you shall not eat it. You shall pour it on the earth like water. You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and the children after you, when you do what is right and the sight of the Lord. Only holy things which you have and vowed offerings, you shall take to go to the place which the Lord chooses. And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured on the

altar of the Lord your God. And you shall eat the meat, Observe, and obey all things words which I command you, that I may go, that I may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and the right and the side of the Lord. Like I said, this is kind of review from Deuteronomy. The last thing that he says is beware of false gods. This is a review I'm sorry of kind of Leviticus that he's just kind of revealing to let him know what they can and can't do. Right.

Deuteronomy twelve, verse twenty nine. When the Lord your God cuts off from before the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, take heed to yourselves that you are not ensnared to follow them after you are after they are destroyed from before you, that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, how did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise, You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way.

For every abomination to the Lord which he hates, have they have done to their gods? They for they burn even their sons and daughters on the fires for their gods. Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it, that you shall not add it or take it away from it. So he's saying to obey the way that he says to worship him. That's what God is saying, do not start taking these these other abominations of the ways that

they serve their gods. One of the ways that they serve their god was Moloch would be having his hands out and there'd be fire burning, and they would take their their sons and daughters and burn them to their gods, human sacrifice to their gods. Right, So he doesn't want them to pick up any of those habits and trying to worship him, you know, worship God. He he gives you strict instruction in Leviticus of exactly how he wanted

them to worship him. Right, and he's given him strict instruction throughout the word the Ten Commandments, He's kind of given them. And then the way that he wants them to be worshiped is in Leviticus, which we've gone over already. Whatever I command you be careful to observe it, you shall not add to it or take away from it. What happened in Leviticus what Aaron's sons they were burning incense the wrong way to God, and God kill them,

destroyed them. Right. So make sure that whatever I command you be careful to observe it, you shall not add to it or take away from it. Right, So avoiding idolatry. So the Israelites are worn not to inquire about the gods of the nations who adopt their practices, don't add their practices into worshiping God, is what he's saying, right, This serves as a caution against syncretism and the subtle

allure of idolatry. Avoiding idolatry, He's already said in the last couple chapters to avoid that levites thence, So this chapter concludes with the reminder to carefully observe all commands given by God without adding or subtracting from them. This underscores the importance of fidelity to divine instruction. Right, So what are some some of the practical applications for this chapter?

Evaluate worship practices. Reflect on whether you worship practices align your worship practice is aligned with Biblical principles, and seek to worship God in spirit and in truth. Like I said, one of the ways of worshiping God is obedience. So what this is saying is reflect on whether your worship practice is aligned with biblical principles. How do you learn biblical principles by reading the Bible? Right, by reading the Word of God and learning the Bible. Definitely, let me

see how long thirteen is. Thirteen is fairly quick, so we'll probably get through thirteen as well. So we'll go from chapter eight all the way to thirteen. While we're moving quite quickly through the Book of Deuteronomy, let's continue cultivate joy and worship. Make worship a joyful and communal experience, celebrating God's goodness with family and fellow believers. Fellowship is definitely important. That's why going to church is important. You know.

Fellowship also accountability, and it's definitely important. Guiding against idolatry, be villiging, be viligent against modern forms of idolatry that can subtly and infiltrate your life and worship. As you know, I kind of went over that already different forms of idolatry. Practice obedience. Strive to live life, Okay, strive to live life that is pleasing to God, aligning your actions with His commands and seeking his approval. Above all, of course,

like I said, prioritize obedience. Pray for obedience. It's something that we need, and it's something that a lot of people don't pray for. A lot of people will pray for other people, or they'll pray for which is good to do as well, but they pray for other people's obedience, but they forget about their own. You know, we got to make sure we pray for that, right, So there we go. So that's chapter twelve done, and in the books, we'll move to chapter thirteen. I'm going to go over it.

We have about fifteen minutes, and like I said, it's pretty short chapter. These have all been pretty short, and they've been pretty much reviewed for us. So let's go ahead and do that real quick. We'll read chapter thirteen

and I might move through it fairly quickly. So Deuteronomy thirt verse one, it says, if there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass of which he spoke to you, saying, let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us serve them. Sorry about that, hold on, let me yeah, I want to make sure that this is off. I don't want that going off while I'm

reading me turn off this phone. Sorry, just to confirm. Okay, power off? Sorry about that. Where were we at? That interrupted? Okay, let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us serve them. You shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you that you know whether the whether you love the Lord your God with your heart and your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and his commitments,

and obey his voice. You shall serve him and hold fast to him. But the prophet of that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk, so you shall put away the evil from

your midst. So so basically one through through three are one through four warns against prophets or dreamers who perform signs and wonders but lead people away from God. If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you, and the sign of wonder has spoken to you, comes to past, but he says, let his Father other gods which you have not known, let us worship you. You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, so testing

of faith Deuteronomy thirteen to three. The passage emphasises that God will allow false prophets to test the faithfulness of his people. For the Lord r God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. So yeah, there's gonna be prophets that come. False prophets obviously going to come, and a lot of that is if you read Timothy's it's actually talking about that. So we have that today,

false prophets, a lot of them. And if they are going to lead you to other gods, you know, I mean what as examples of that, Well, we have examples like Joseph Smith. You know what I mean, like a false prophet. I'm sorry Mormons, if you guys are listening, but you have people like Joseph Smith leading you to other gods, you have Jehovah's witness. That's another way. Have you know, Charles Tate Russell a false prophet leading people

to different gods? Okay, people might think that Jehovah that the Jehovah's witness or worship being the same god, but you know it's it's I'm just letting you guys know, okay, And there's also false prophets today. You know we see in the in the Prosperity Gospel, right, and you might be thinking that they're leading you to the God of the Bible, but they're leading you to the God of Mammon, which is the god of money. So just be careful of false prophets and understand that they are going to

lead you to destruction. All right, So let's continue. We have Deuteronomy thirteen, verse six. If your brother, the son of your mother, your son of your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, let us go and serve other gods which you have not known, neither nor your fathers. Of the gods of the people, which are around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end

of the earth. You shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him. But you shall

surely kill him. Your hands shall be firced him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all people, and you shall stone him with stones until he dies because he soughts out to entice you away from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of Bondas, so that Israel shall hear and fear and not again to do wickedness amongst you among you. So do you see how vastly important it is to not allow people to lead you away from God? Right?

The chapter underscores the necessity of exclusive worship to the Lord, rejecting any form of idolatry or allegiance to other gods, and verses six through eleven highlights the communal responsibility to address idolatry, even if it involves close family members or friends. The community must prioritize faithfulness to God over personal relationships. So even if it's your best friend tries to lead you away, obviously it's not your real best friend, because

a best friend would be leading you to the Lord. Right, not a way. My dog is right here trying to My dog is right here trying to get some love. Go leada golda go. I'll let you out. Got ten minutes left, buddy, All right, let's continue. Right. So, Yeah, even if your mom, your dad, or your sister, your brother, your best friend tries to lead you away from God. God is warning against that. Here right, let's go to

do be thirteen verse twelve. If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you to dwell in, saying corrupt men have gone out from among you and entice the inhabitants of their city, saying, let us go and serve other gods which you have not known, then you shall inquire search out and ask

it diligently. If it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination was committed among you, you shall surely strike the inhabitants of the city at the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, that it is all that is in it and it's livestock with the edge of the sword. And you shall gather all its plunder in the middle of the street and completely burn with fire the city and its plunder. For the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever it shall not be built again.

So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand. But the Lord may turn from you the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you, and multiply you just as he swore to your fathers, because you have listened to the voice of the Lord, your God, to keep his commandments, which I command you today to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord. So do you see how important this is

to not be led astray to worship other gods? It is so important, right, And uh, yeah, it's happening, right, And even the Muslim community, right, they're they're they're having you worship another god that's different than the God of the Bible. Okay, I know we all feel like we're worshiped the same God. But yeah, so this is just vastly important to The chapter outlines severe consequences for those who lead others astray, emphasizing the seriousness of idolatry and

the need for communal purity. Okay, So he wants the God, wants the whole town or the whole community to be worshiping him, Okay, And anybody that's leaving leading anyone astray, he wants them, he wants them to bring the sword to them, right. And and it's it's very very important, obviously. And let's go ahead and go over some practical applications. Cultivate discernment regularly study scripture and seek the Holy spirits guidance to discern truth from deception and teachings and influences

around you. Of course, that's why you need to know the Bible. You need to know your scriptures so that when someone comes you with something that doesn't that goes against the scripture, you know, because sometimes they can slightly avert or invert the scriptures, and you don't know the scriptures well enough that you start to believe these people that are talking to you. You see, That's why it's good to know when not when a Jehovah's witness knocks

on your door and tries to tell you something. If you know the scriptures, you're able to not be person waded. Right, prioritize God's prioritize God above all. Right, evaluate your life to ensure that you that your love for God surpasses all other relationships and influences. I talk to you guys about that, how Jesus says that have loved God so much, it looks like you detest others because you're placing God first above every single person everything, your wife, your kids,

your boss, your you know, your employer. Everything. You place God first Okay that if you do that, and you will just be in such a better place in your life. And that's what God wants, right, So you need to be obedient, guard your community, encourage, and hold each other accountable within your faith community to remain true to God's commandments. Accountability is very important, and you know when you have you know, it's nice to be part of a small

church because there's more accountability. The big of the church gifts the let's accountability. There's going to be respond to false teachings. Be prepared to address and refute false teachings with grace and truth, using scripture as your foundation. That's what I was talking about. I kind of already went over that. But that's why it's good to know the scripture.

That's why it's good to read the scripture. That's why it's good for you to read the scripture and not have a pastor read it for you, just like I read the scriptures to you, verse by verse. It's good.

Some some churches they go and they do like subjects, you know, teachings, which I'm not trying to put down anybody that that if that's the way that that you like to teach, then you like to teach, but I think it's vastly important to go verse by verse through the Bible, okay, and verse by verse, so always using scripture as your foundation. So all right, let's go ahead and stop screen share. So next week and Sunday service, we're going to be and do to to be fourteen.

I will do my best to study as much as I can. And we moved through these chapters quite quickly. That's because there's short chapters and they are review So, like I said, I really appreciate you guys listening. And yeah, so I will see you guys next week, and please do me a favor if you listen all the way to the end. Comment below, please blow up the comment section.

It really helps me out and assist the show. And thank you Jonathan and Jacob for allowing me to do this, and thank you Lord for allowing me to do these Bible studies. I really appreciate it. But like we always do, we're gonna end this in prayer. So Father God and the name of Jesus, and you're shure them a Sheack's name. I appreciate everybody that's listening to this show. I just want to pray for obedience, obedience for everybody that's listening.

I want to pray for obedience for myself. I want to pray that we stay away from false god's, false idols, any type of idolatry, or we stay away from all of that. Also, if there's anybody in our lives, anybody that's listening, that is leading us astray, remove them from our lives. Assist us to remove them from our lives. And any false teachers, false prophets that are that are showing up in anybody's lives. I I I pray that you show us, reveal them so that we can eliminate

them out of our lives. And please protect us against false gods and false teachings. We need, we just need to know and help us to address them and see them for what they are and address them and get them out of our lives. And yes, I see how hard it was for probably for you to deal with the stubbornness of the people. So help us to not be stiff necked and help us to be obedient to your word. Lord, thank you for everything you do for us. We love you, we appreciate you in Jesus' name. Amen,

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