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Shawn Brummund: Hello,
friends, and welcome to
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another edition of the
"Sabbath School Study Hour."
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Welcome to our church
here in the Granite Bay Hilltop
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
in the Greater Sacramento area.
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My name is Pastor Shawn
Brummund, and I have the
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privilege of hosting our
Sabbath School here today.
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Pastor Doug
Bachelor will be our teacher.
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It is always good to be able to
have all our online friends that
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are watching
even live right now.
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Of course, in the future, those
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various broadcasts, we are
always glad that you have made
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that decision to
be able to join us.
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For those of you who have joined
us in the past, welcome back.
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For those of you who are joining
us for the very first time, we
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pray and trust that your
investment in the next hour will
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make a real difference in your
faith, your understanding of
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God's Word, and that you will be
able to look heaven-bound that
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much more clear.
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It's always good to be able to
have our local members here in
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the Granite Bay Church as well.
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I thank you for
coming and joining us as
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we continue to study.
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We're looking
at a new quarterly.
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This particular quarterly
is called "Present Truth in the
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Book of Deuteronomy,"
some of you are saying.
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The ones that have already
got a quarterly, they faithfully
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studied over the last week.
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They know
exactly what it's called.
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So nice to have you here.
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If you haven't studied,
make sure that you pay attention
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because there's lots to be able
to absorb as we look at one of
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the most important books in
the Old Testament, the book of
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Deuteronomy,
written by Moses himself.
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So this is a new quarterly.
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We're looking at lesson
number one, a "Preamble to
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Deuteronomy," as we look at
the context of this particular
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very powerful book.
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And, again, we are glad that you
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and study together.
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Shawn: I want to invite
you to join me as we ask
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the Lord to be
with us in prayer.
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Father in heaven, as we stop, we
pause for a moment in reflection
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of the music in which we have
just received, that we might
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worship You in prayer
and now also in study.
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I want to pray that You will
be with our teacher, Pastor Doug
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Batchelor, as he
brings to us the Word of God.
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And, God, we want to pray that
You will fulfill Your promise,
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that You will send Your
Holy Spirit to guide us into all
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truth and teach us all truth.
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Please give us that promise.
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Give us Your Spirit.
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We pray it in
Christ's name, amen.
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Doug Batchelor:
Thank you, Pastor Shawn.
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Morning, everybody.
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Good to see you here.
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I want to welcome those that are
not only here in the Granite Bay
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Hilltop building, I want to
welcome our friends that are
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watching on "Amazing
Facts" television or Facebook or
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YouTube or one of the
hundreds of different ways now.
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The program seemed to fragment
and multiply, and we're always
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thankful for that.
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Today I'm excited.
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I specifically asked--today
I decided I'm either going to
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preach or teach, and I wanted to
teach because this is the first
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lesson in the book of
Deuteronomy that we're covering
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today, and I don't know if
I've ever shared with you, but
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Deuteronomy is probably one of
my favorite books in the Bible.
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Favorite book in
the New Testament, Luke,
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since you asked.
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Favorite book in the
Old Testament, Deuteronomy.
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And maybe you'll understand
why a little bit better
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as we proceed.
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So this book of Deuteronomy
is really foundational to
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understanding so much in
the Bible, and our title for our
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lesson today--this is lesson
number one--is "Preamble to
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Deuteronomy," and the memory
verse is from 1 John 4, verse 8.
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If you got your Bibles, you can
look that up, and if you want,
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you can say it with me.
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It's a short verse.
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I bet most of you
know if by heart already.
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1 John 4, verse 8, "He who
does not love does not know God,
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for God is love."
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And we talked in our message
last week about the priority of
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knowing God.
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And it says, of course,
that love is the essence of God.
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That quintessential
essence of God is love.
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It doesn't say God
is loving, though He is.
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It doesn't say that God
can be lovable, though He can.
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It's saying His essence is,
if you were to define Him, love.
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When you look at the Ten
Commandments, the first four
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deal with our love
relationship with God.
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Last six deal with
our love relationship with
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our fellow man.
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But it all springs from love.
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Anyway, with that, I
want to dive into our study of
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Deuteronomy with
a little disclaimer.
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We got a lot of folks out there
that watch "Sabbath School Study
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Hour," and some of you are
teachers, and if I don't get all
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the way through the lessons,
the teachers kindly chastise me.
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And I'm telling you in advance,
it may happen again today.
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I'll do my best, but there's
so much I want to say, I may not
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get to all the categories, so
please be patient with me, and
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"I will pay thee
all" at some point.
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All right, Deuteronomy.
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The name Deuteronomy, it comes
from a couple of Greek words.
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It means the second
or repeating of the law.
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In Hebrew, Deuteronomy
is "Devarim," and it means
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"the words."
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The reason for that--if you got
your Bibles, I'm hoping--open
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your Bibles to
Deuteronomy chapter 1.
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It is the fifth book of
Moses in the Pentateuch.
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Pentateuch, five books.
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It may be the sixth book if
Moses wrote Job first, which
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most scholars believe Job was
probably the first book that was
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written, but in the Pentateuch
of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
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Numbers,
Deuteronomy--Deuteronomy is
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the fifth book.
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Deuteronomy transpires
in a short period of time.
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Oh, I was going to
read something to you.
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Look at Deuteronomy chapter 1.
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It says, "These are the words."
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That's where you get the
Hebrew word for the book of
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Deuteronomy."
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Now, sometimes they called it
"Devarim," and sometimes it was
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"Mishneh Torah."
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That means a
repeating of the law.
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And, of course, in
Greek, it's Deuteronomy.
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Now, sometimes I wish that they
had found a shorter title for
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the book because I've still
not learned how to spell that.
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Now, the Book of Deuteronomy is
called the repeating of the law,
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but it is not an
addition to the law.
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In other words, Moses
spends some time reviewing
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God's leading.
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In the Book of Deuteronomy, he
actually expands a little bit.
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Even in the Ten Commandments
that are given in Deuteronomy,
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you'll see that Moses does
a little bit of commentary and
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expansion, but there's no
conflict between what he says in
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Deuteronomy and the other books.
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Deuteronomy--well, let me--you
know what I'm going to do now?
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I'm going to give you the what,
the where, the who, the why, and
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the when of Deuteronomy
before we dive into it.
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Talking a little
bit about the "what."
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Deuteronomy is divided
really into three sections.
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It was probably
delivered over a period of, oh,
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maybe three weeks.
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We're not sure.
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It's sort of the last message
of Moses to the people, and he's
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renewing the covenant.
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You've got verses 1 through--or
chapters 1 through 4 of
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Deuteronomy that are
dealing with what you would call
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the review.
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He's reviewing God's
history and how He led them.
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Then, as you get to chapter 5,
he repeats the Ten Commandments.
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You know, the two principle
places where you're going to
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find the Ten Commandment, Exodus
20 and Deuteronomy chapter 5.
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And then from chapter 5 to
26, you've got the requirements.
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Well, first you've got
the review, then you have the
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requirements, and then, if you
go to chapter 27 through the end
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of the book-- 34
chapters in Deuteronomy.
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There you've got the review.
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He's talking--not the
review. Sorry--the road ahead.
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So he's talking about
the review, the requirements,
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and the road ahead.
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It's broken up
nicely into those segments.
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There are 34 chapters.
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It takes about 2.5 hours to
read the book of Deuteronomy.
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Deuteronomy is basically--it's
a big sermon of Moses renewing
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the covenant.
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Now, why does he need
to renew the covenant?
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Well, when they left
Egypt, how long ago was that?
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Forty years earlier.
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What has happened to virtually
every adult from the time they
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left Egypt to
this point in history?
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They've all died.
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Everybody 20 years
old and upward has died.
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How old was the oldest person
when Moses gives Deuteronomy
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that had left Egypt?
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Fifty-nine or sixty, right?
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Forty plus twenty.
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Am in the right ballpark?
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So you've got a very
interesting dynamic here.
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You've got a nation where
there is no senior citizens.
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Well, not too
many--except three.
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Aaron has died when
Deuteronomy is given.
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Miriam has died.
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Moses is alive,
and Joshua and Caleb.
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Everybody else is young.
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And most of the people--you
know, God told them, "Be
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fruitful and
multiply," and they did.
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You read the beginning of
Exodus, it says the people grew,
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they grew, they multiplied,
they grew exceedingly, and it's
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really emphasizing
that the nation exploded.
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That also
happened in the wilderness.
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God protected them from disease.
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God gave them food every day.
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I mean, a lot of things--they
take out the infants in other
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cultures--they weren't grappling
with, and so you've got this
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explosion of young people, whole
new generation, and they don't
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know everything or
remember everything.
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Many are born during
the wilderness wanderings.
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They don't remember the
plagues that fell on Egypt.
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They need to hear it again.
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In fact, if you read in
Deuteronomy chapter 6, the Lord
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says, "These words that I
command you this day shall be
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in your heart.
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You shall teach them diligently
to your children when you lay
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down, when you rise up, when
you go out, when you come in."
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And so Moses, knowing that he
was about to out, he wanted to
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repeat and remind them of God's
leading, that they would not
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repeat the history of
unbelief of their fathers.
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And so this is a very important
renewal of the covenant that is
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happening here.
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Where does this happen?
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Well, in the first few words
here it says, "He spoke to them
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in the wilderness, in the plain,
opposite Suph, between Paran and
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Tophel, Laban,
Hazeroth, Dizahab.
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It's 11 days's journey from
Horeb by the way of Mount Seir
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to Kadesh Barnea."
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And so this is happening
in the plain on the east side
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of Jordan.
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It's what we would call today
the modern Hashemite Kingdom,
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or the country of Jordan.
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They are on the east side of the
Jordan River, great plain there.
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Now, how many people are there?
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Well, we don't know
exactly, but we can extrapolate.
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The Bible does tell us
there were 600,000 that were
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qualified to fight.
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You had to be 20 years old
or older to fight in a battle.
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We know all of the older ones
had died off, but there's, like,
00:19:52.59\00:19:54.72
600,000 people.
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How many women and
children would there be?
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And so conservative
estimates are there's, like, two
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million-or-plus people that
are gathered here on this plain.
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That's where it happened. Who?
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Moses is speaking, now, is
he speaking to all of Israel?
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Well, it says
here--read right there.
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"These are the words that
Moses spoke to all Israel."
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But if you've got two million
people, and you don't have
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artificial PA, can you really
address two million people?
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One of the greatest preachers
in history, who had the most
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booming voice was George
Whitefield, and he was legendary
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for having a voice that he could
talk to 10,000 people at once
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without a PA system.
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And Benjamin Franklin reports in
his autobiography that he did a
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test, because he had heard about
Whitefield's voice--they were
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actually friends and exchanged
quite a few letters--that, one
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day, when he was preaching
in Philadelphia, Franklin--you
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know, he's always a
scientist--he paced off how far
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away he could go, and I think he
got at least half a mile away,
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and you could still hear
him, which is extraordinary.
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It helps if you're up on an
elevated spot, and even if Moses
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was standing on the mountainside
and talking to the people in the
00:21:07.46\00:21:10.13
plain, it'd be very difficult
for two million people to hear.
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So when it says, "He spoke to
Israel," what they often do--it
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says in other places--they spoke
to the heads of the families.
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And so--and then they would, you
know, subsequently relate this
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thing to the
teachings to their families.
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But probably the 70 elders and
the heads of the families and
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the tribes were at the forefront
in the best seats where they
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could hear and see
what Moses was saying, why?
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As I mentioned, he's renewing
the covenant, and they needed to
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hear it again, when?
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This happens about 1406 B.C.
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That's about the year that
Joshua also led the children of
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Israel into the Promised Land,
and it contains an account of
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what happened in the wilderness
from the first day--it gives you
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the dates here.
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It says, "From the first day of
the 11th month of the 40th year,
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wandering in the wilderness
after the departure from Egypt."
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And the book of Deuteronomy
concludes with the death
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of Moses.
00:22:12.83\00:22:14.20
It actually talks about
30 days of mourning following
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Moses's death.
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And so it's interesting that, in
the 40th year, you've got this
00:22:19.17\00:22:22.10
book that covers about 40 days.
00:22:22.14\00:22:24.71
So God always does
things in a fascinating way.
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All right, and then I
want you to turn with me in the
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Bible--this is one of the most
important books in the Bible.
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Turn with me in
Deuteronomy chapter 27.
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I want to read something to you.
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I'm going to read Deuteronomy
27, verses 1 through 8.
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Deuteronomy is something of
a summary of the covenant that
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they used as their constitution.
00:22:49.90\00:22:52.93
So you think about the most
important documents in America,
00:22:52.97\00:22:57.17
and you're going to think
of the Bill of Rights and the
00:22:57.21\00:22:59.74
Constitution,
Declaration of Independence.
00:22:59.77\00:23:01.88
Probably one of the most
important books for the nation
00:23:01.91\00:23:03.88
of Israel was the
book of Deuteronomy.
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Notice what it says here.
00:23:06.18\00:23:07.62
In verse 1, chapter 27 in
Deuteronomy, "Now Moses, with
00:23:07.65\00:23:11.52
the elders of Israel, commanded
the people, saying, 'Keep the
00:23:11.55\00:23:15.79
commandments which
I command you today.
00:23:15.82\00:23:18.59
And it shall be, on the day when
you cross over the Jordan to the
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land which the Lord your God is
giving you, that you will set up
00:23:22.33\00:23:25.87
for yourself large stones--'"
and this was to happen between
00:23:25.90\00:23:29.44
the mountains of Ebal
and in the area of Ephraim--
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"and whitewash them with lime.
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And you'll write on them
all the words of this law--"
00:23:38.25\00:23:41.65
and he's talking about the book
of Deuteronomy-- "when you've
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crossed over, that you may enter
the land which the Lord your God
00:23:44.32\00:23:47.56
is giving you, 'in a land
flowing with milk and honey,'
00:23:47.59\00:23:50.66
just as the Lord God your
God, the God of your fathers
00:23:50.69\00:23:54.00
promised you.
00:23:54.03\00:23:55.40
Therefore, it shall be when you
have crossed over the Jordan on
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that Mount Ebal, you shall set
up these stones that I command
00:23:58.63\00:24:02.30
you today, and you'll
whitewash them with lime."
00:24:02.34\00:24:05.51
They basically had a form of
primitive concrete back then,
00:24:05.54\00:24:08.84
and they were
going to mix that up.
00:24:08.88\00:24:10.41
You know, they've
been builders in Egypt.
00:24:10.45\00:24:12.05
They knew the best technology--
"whitewash them with lime, and
00:24:12.08\00:24:15.55
there you shall build an
altar to the Lord your God,
00:24:15.58\00:24:17.79
an altar of stones.
00:24:17.82\00:24:19.22
You'll not use an
iron tool on them."
00:24:19.25\00:24:20.59
Don't make any image.
00:24:20.62\00:24:21.99
"You shall build them
with whole stones the altar of
00:24:22.02\00:24:24.26
the Lord your God.
00:24:24.29\00:24:25.63
Offer burnt offerings
on it to the Lord your God.
00:24:25.66\00:24:28.10
You'll offer peace offerings,
and shall eat there, and rejoice
00:24:28.13\00:24:31.10
before the Lord your God."
00:24:31.13\00:24:32.47
Notice verse 8, "And you shall
write very plainly on the stones
00:24:32.50\00:24:38.64
all the words of this law."
00:24:38.67\00:24:41.01
There in the middle of the land,
the Mount Ebal, the opposite on
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the Mount--what are the
two mountains of blessing
00:24:44.91\00:24:47.95
and cursing?
00:24:47.98\00:24:50.95
Is it--okay, blank,
brain cramp, it'll come back.
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On these two mountains--they had
the mountain of blessing, which
00:24:57.09\00:24:59.33
is where they put the stones,
and then they had the other
00:24:59.36\00:25:01.50
mountain where the
people would stand.
00:25:01.53\00:25:05.17
And they were to put these
stones and write on--can you
00:25:05.20\00:25:09.27
imagine being the guy, and
they say, "We need a scribe."
00:25:09.30\00:25:12.37
"Okay."
00:25:12.41\00:25:13.78
"And we want you to write
out the book of Deuteronomy
00:25:13.81\00:25:16.88
in stone."
00:25:16.91\00:25:19.75
Like I said, it takes two
and a half hours, but this was
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so important.
00:25:22.22\00:25:23.55
They wanted to have a big
wall, and on this wall the
00:25:23.59\00:25:27.29
constitution of their covenant
with the Lord in the middle of
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the Promised Land.
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I think that's very significant.
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Something else I
want you to notice.
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Go to Deuteronomy
chapter 17, verse 18.
00:25:34.76\00:25:38.23
Moses is giving
some instructions.
00:25:38.27\00:25:39.77
Deuteronomy 17, verse 18, "Also
it shall be that when he, the
00:25:39.80\00:25:46.37
king that you've chosen--" see,
back in the book of Samuel, when
00:25:46.41\00:25:49.64
the people asked for a king, and
Samuel said, "You know, God is
00:25:49.68\00:25:53.18
your King," God always knew they
would ultimately do that because
00:25:53.21\00:25:55.85
he gives a law here about it.
00:25:55.88\00:25:57.89
He says, "When you pick a
king from among your people," it
00:25:57.92\00:26:01.16
says, "and he sits on the throne
of the kingdom, he shall write
00:26:01.19\00:26:05.23
for himself a copy of this law
in a book, from before one of
00:26:05.26\00:26:12.57
the priests in the Levites.
00:26:12.60\00:26:14.57
And it shall be with him, and
he shall read it all the days of
00:26:14.60\00:26:18.97
his life, that he might learn
to fear the Lord his God and be
00:26:19.01\00:26:22.28
careful to observe
all the words of this law
00:26:22.31\00:26:25.71
and these statutes--"
00:26:25.75\00:26:27.85
now, how many of you
remember the story where the
00:26:27.88\00:26:30.52
priests were cleaning out
the temple of the Lord during
00:26:30.55\00:26:33.05
the time of Josiah?
00:26:33.09\00:26:35.26
And it says,
"We found the book."
00:26:35.29\00:26:37.66
You know what book they found?
00:26:37.69\00:26:39.96
They found the book of the
law that was supposed to be read
00:26:40.00\00:26:41.96
before the king, and
Hilkiah the priest found it.
00:26:42.00\00:26:46.17
He went in and said, "We
have found the book of the law."
00:26:46.20\00:26:48.67
He reads it to King Josiah,
who weeps and tears his clothes.
00:26:48.70\00:26:52.01
He thought, "If I'd
only had this before."
00:26:52.04\00:26:55.18
So you find that the Book of
Deuteronomy was to sort of be
00:26:55.21\00:26:58.81
a constitution for them.
00:26:58.85\00:27:00.68
It was in the
middle of the land.
00:27:00.72\00:27:02.15
It was supposed to be read
before the king, and now to top
00:27:02.18\00:27:05.69
things off, you go
to the New Testament.
00:27:05.72\00:27:08.92
In the temptation of Christ
in the wilderness, you read in
00:27:08.96\00:27:12.29
Matthew chapter 4, devil comes,
and he says, "If you're the Son
00:27:12.33\00:27:15.83
of God, turn these
stones into bread."
00:27:15.86\00:27:18.50
Christ responds, "It is written,
'Man shall not live by bread
00:27:18.53\00:27:24.07
alone but by every word
that proceeds from the mouth
00:27:24.11\00:27:27.21
of the Lord.'"
00:27:27.24\00:27:29.08
What book was Jesus quoting?
00:27:29.11\00:27:31.81
Deuteronomy.
00:27:31.85\00:27:33.38
Well, the devil goes for strike
two, and he says--the devil then
00:27:33.42\00:27:39.92
tempts Him, and he leads Him up
to the temple, and he says, "If
00:27:39.95\00:27:43.66
You're the Son of God,
jump off, for it is written,
00:27:43.69\00:27:46.26
'His angels will bear--'"
00:27:46.29\00:27:47.76
and he's quoting Psalm
91 or misquoting Psalm 91.
00:27:47.76\00:27:50.63
"They'll bear You in Your
hands lest You dash your foot
00:27:50.67\00:27:52.90
against a stone."
00:27:52.93\00:27:54.87
And he leaves out the
part that says, "And keeps You
00:27:54.90\00:27:56.50
in all Your ways."
00:27:56.54\00:27:59.31
And Jesus says, "It is written,"
Matthew 4:7, "You shall not
00:27:59.34\00:28:03.14
tempt the Lord your God."
00:28:03.18\00:28:06.25
And then the devil says, "Bow
down and worship me, and I'll
00:28:06.28\00:28:10.12
give You all these kingdoms.
00:28:10.15\00:28:11.62
You don't need to die."
00:28:11.65\00:28:13.66
And Jesus says, "Away with you,
Satan, for it is written, 'You
00:28:13.69\00:28:17.03
shall worship the Lord your God,
and Him only shall you serve.'"
00:28:17.06\00:28:20.63
Now, all three
times Jesus was tempted,
00:28:20.66\00:28:23.13
He returned to Scripture.
00:28:23.16\00:28:25.30
What Scripture did He return to?
00:28:25.33\00:28:28.10
Deuteronomy 8:3, "So He humbled
you and allowed you to hunger
00:28:28.14\00:28:32.57
and thirst--hunger, and He fed
you with manna that you did not
00:28:32.61\00:28:36.11
know, nor did your fathers know,
that He might make you know that
00:28:36.14\00:28:39.28
man does not live by bread
alone, but by every word that
00:28:39.31\00:28:42.28
proceeds from the mouth of God."
00:28:42.32\00:28:44.49
That's Deuteronomy.
00:28:44.52\00:28:46.35
You read Deuteronomy 6:16, "You
shall not tempt the Lord your
00:28:46.39\00:28:49.99
God as you
tempted Him in Massah."
00:28:50.03\00:28:53.09
You read in Deuteronomy 6:13-14,
"You shall fear the name of the
00:28:53.13\00:28:58.33
Lord your God and serve
Him, and take oaths in His name.
00:28:58.37\00:29:02.54
You shall not go after other
gods--" that's why Jesus said,
00:29:02.57\00:29:05.41
"You shall worship the
Lord your God, and Him only
00:29:05.44\00:29:07.11
shall you serve."
00:29:07.14\00:29:08.74
All three times Jesus
was tempted, what book
00:29:08.78\00:29:11.65
does he resort to?
00:29:11.68\00:29:13.45
Deuteronomy.
00:29:13.48\00:29:14.95
Now, I could be wrong, but I
think it's safe to say Jesus had
00:29:14.98\00:29:18.02
probably memorized this book,
and so I just kind of want to
00:29:18.05\00:29:21.62
give you a little backdrop.
00:29:21.66\00:29:23.56
As you start studying the book
of Deuteronomy, you're studying
00:29:23.59\00:29:26.29
basically the foundation
document of the Old Testament.
00:29:26.33\00:29:30.63
Now, you can read in Deuteronomy
31--actually, I want to go to
00:29:30.67\00:29:35.34
Deuteronomy verse 30.
00:29:35.37\00:29:37.41
Deuteronomy is a
book of prophecy.
00:29:37.44\00:29:40.74
I don't know if you've ever
thought of it that way, but it's
00:29:40.78\00:29:43.55
not just a history
book, it's a prophetic book.
00:29:43.58\00:29:47.12
For example, Deuteronomy 30:1-3,
"Now it will come to pass, when
00:29:47.15\00:29:51.29
all these things come upon you,
the blessings and the cursing--"
00:29:51.32\00:29:54.46
you can read about that in
Deuteronomy 28-- "which I've set
00:29:54.49\00:29:57.56
before you, and you call them to
mind among all the nations where
00:29:57.59\00:30:00.53
the Lord your God drives you,
and you return to the Lord your
00:30:00.56\00:30:03.63
God and obey His voice,
according to all that I command
00:30:03.67\00:30:06.57
you today, you and your
children, with all of your
00:30:06.60\00:30:10.51
heart, with all of your soul,
the Lord God will bring you back
00:30:10.54\00:30:13.61
from captivity, and have
compassion on you, and gather
00:30:13.64\00:30:16.81
you again from all the
nations where the Lord your God
00:30:16.85\00:30:20.05
has scattered you."
00:30:20.08\00:30:21.55
Well, what's in here?
00:30:21.58\00:30:23.05
Moses is saying, "You're
going to play the harlot with
00:30:23.08\00:30:25.52
other gods.
00:30:25.55\00:30:27.39
You're going to be conquered.
00:30:27.42\00:30:28.82
You're going to be
carried off to captivity.
00:30:28.86\00:30:30.53
When you return to Me in your
land of captivity and you pray
00:30:30.56\00:30:32.76
to Me, I will forgive you, and
I'll bring you back, not just
00:30:32.79\00:30:35.50
from the nation but
from all of the nations."
00:30:35.53\00:30:38.80
Now, did God do that?
00:30:38.83\00:30:41.47
Did that all happen?
00:30:41.50\00:30:43.51
Anyone that knows a modicum
of history knows how Israel has
00:30:43.54\00:30:46.31
been carried off twice now, not
only scattered and carried off
00:30:46.34\00:30:49.88
by the Babylonians, but
then conquered by the Romans and
00:30:49.91\00:30:52.31
scattered in many
nations and brought back again.
00:30:52.35\00:30:55.65
And so Moses, of
course, was a prophet.
00:30:55.68\00:30:58.95
Nobody will contest that.
00:30:58.99\00:31:00.42
You look in Deuteronomy 31,
verse 16, "And the Lord said to
00:31:00.46\00:31:05.53
Moses, 'Behold, you will
rest with your fathers, and this
00:31:05.56\00:31:09.10
people will rise up and
play the harlot with the gods of
00:31:09.13\00:31:12.23
foreigners of the land, which
they go to be among them, and
00:31:12.27\00:31:15.84
they'll forsake Me and
break My covenant that I've
00:31:15.87\00:31:18.31
made with them."
00:31:18.34\00:31:19.71
I wonder, you know, "God,
why did you tell that to Moses
00:31:19.74\00:31:22.31
just before he died?
00:31:22.34\00:31:23.78
But, anyway, God said this
was what's going to happen.
00:31:23.81\00:31:27.85
Also one of the most vivid
prophecies of Jesus is found
00:31:27.88\00:31:31.79
in the Book of Deuteronomy.
00:31:31.82\00:31:33.62
Look in Deuteronomy 18, verse
15, "The Lord your God will
00:31:33.66\00:31:37.63
raise up for you a
Prophet like me from your midst,
00:31:37.66\00:31:41.26
from your brethren.
00:31:41.30\00:31:42.86
Him you shall hear, according to
all that you desired of the Lord
00:31:42.90\00:31:46.57
your God in Horeb in the day
of the assembly, saying, 'Let us
00:31:46.60\00:31:50.24
not hear again the
voice of the Lord God anymore.
00:31:50.27\00:31:52.51
Let us not see this great
fire anymore, lest we die.'
00:31:52.54\00:31:57.41
And the Lord said to me,
'What they have spoken is good.
00:31:57.45\00:32:00.38
I will raise up for them a
Prophet--'" in other words, God
00:32:00.42\00:32:03.32
was saying--they were saying to
the Lord, "We can't bear to talk
00:32:03.35\00:32:07.62
to you
face-to-face after Mount Sinai."
00:32:07.66\00:32:10.56
God says, "I will
give you a Mediator.
00:32:10.59\00:32:12.83
I'll speak to Him,
and He will speak to you."
00:32:12.86\00:32:15.30
Jesus is the ultimate Mediator
in that God became a man.
00:32:15.33\00:32:18.97
He says, "The Lord God
will raise up a prophet
00:32:19.00\00:32:21.14
for you like me."
00:32:21.17\00:32:22.54
Moses the prophet, the
priest, the lawgiver, the judge.
00:32:22.57\00:32:27.04
Jesus is our prophet, our
priest, our lawgiver, our judge.
00:32:27.08\00:32:31.11
Moses was the savior born,
you know, there in interesting
00:32:31.15\00:32:35.85
circumstances as a baby.
00:32:35.88\00:32:38.29
Born among the slaves,
but he was not a slave.
00:32:38.32\00:32:40.29
Jesus was born among sinners,
but He was not a sinner.
00:32:40.32\00:32:43.12
There are many, many ways
where Jesus is a type of Moses.
00:32:43.16\00:32:46.46
And the disciples, many times,
when they spoke to Jesus--or
00:32:46.49\00:32:52.50
John the Baptist, they
said, "Are you Elijah?"
00:32:52.53\00:32:55.70
This is Mark 6:15.
00:32:55.74\00:32:57.37
"Are you Elijah?"
00:32:57.41\00:32:59.11
He said, "Or are
you the prophet?"
00:32:59.14\00:33:02.74
They used to say, "Are you that
prophet that we're looking for?"
00:33:02.78\00:33:06.72
They didn't have a name for him,
but they heard that Elijah was
00:33:06.75\00:33:09.28
coming back, but there was this
enigmatic prophet that Moses
00:33:09.32\00:33:13.69
talked about that was nameless.
00:33:13.72\00:33:15.89
So they always
called him "that prophet."
00:33:15.92\00:33:18.69
And so they knew this great
prophet like Moses was coming.
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All right, that
was my introduction.
00:33:23.06\00:33:26.40
I hope it was edifying.
00:33:26.43\00:33:27.80
As I teach other lessons along
the way, I'll be able to delve
00:33:27.84\00:33:32.24
into some more.
00:33:32.27\00:33:34.28
Now let's go to the
first section under Sunday,
00:33:34.31\00:33:37.18
"Love to be Loved."
00:33:37.21\00:33:40.45
The word "love" is
found 25 times in the book of
00:33:40.48\00:33:42.95
Deuteronomy.
00:33:42.98\00:33:44.35
People often say to me, "Oh,
the Old Testament is all law,
00:33:44.39\00:33:48.09
law, law.
00:33:48.12\00:33:49.49
Jesus is love, love, love."
00:33:49.52\00:33:51.03
But, in fact, there's a lot
of love in the Old Testament.
00:33:51.06\00:33:54.10
I don't know if I'll have time
to read them all, but you read
00:33:54.13\00:33:56.90
in Deuteronomy 6, verse
4, "Hear, O Israel--" this is
00:33:56.93\00:34:00.17
called the great Mishnah-- "the
Lord our God, the Lord is one.
00:34:00.20\00:34:05.07
You shall love the Lord your
God with all your heart and your
00:34:05.11\00:34:08.44
soul and your strength."
00:34:08.48\00:34:09.84
That's the great
commandment, Jesus said.
00:34:09.88\00:34:12.15
Deuteronomy 7, verse 8, "Because
the Lord loves you, and because
00:34:12.18\00:34:16.55
He would keep his oath that He
swore to your fathers, the Lord
00:34:16.58\00:34:19.99
has brought you out with a
mighty hand, and redeemed you
00:34:20.02\00:34:22.89
from the house of bondage--" not
just talks about us loving God.
00:34:22.92\00:34:25.89
It says God loves us.
00:34:25.93\00:34:28.10
In Deuteronomy 7:13, "And He
will love you and bless you and
00:34:28.13\00:34:32.33
multiply you.
00:34:32.37\00:34:34.00
He'll also bless the fruit of
your womb and the fruit of your
00:34:34.04\00:34:36.27
grain--" he talks
about God will love us.
00:34:36.30\00:34:39.47
And then Deuteronomy 30, this is
the end of the book or near the
00:34:39.51\00:34:42.28
end: "That you may love the Lord
your God and obey His voice--"
00:34:42.31\00:34:46.98
so the idea of loving God and
keeping His commandments, do you
00:34:47.02\00:34:50.42
just find that in John chapter
14, or is Jesus actually quoting
00:34:50.45\00:34:54.99
the teachings of Moses?
00:34:55.02\00:34:58.16
"Love and obey God."
00:34:58.19\00:35:00.06
In fact, in the Ten
Commandments, do you
00:35:00.10\00:35:02.26
find the word "love"?
00:35:02.30\00:35:06.13
Come on, that's not
a hard question, yes.
00:35:06.17\00:35:10.57
"Showing mercy unto thousands
of them that love Me and keep My
00:35:10.61\00:35:12.87
commandments."
00:35:12.91\00:35:14.74
And so love is the foundation,
it's the heart of the law.
00:35:14.78\00:35:17.18
Now what is our problem?
00:35:17.21\00:35:21.18
Our problem is sin, what is sin?
00:35:21.22\00:35:24.02
Sin is selfishness.
00:35:24.05\00:35:27.16
You want to find an
easy way to define "sin"?
00:35:27.19\00:35:29.42
Whenever I'm thinking sinful
thoughts, I'm thinking selfish
00:35:29.46\00:35:31.53
thoughts.
00:35:31.56\00:35:33.36
Sin always
springs from selfishness.
00:35:33.40\00:35:36.16
Our problem is God created
us where if--God is love, right?
00:35:36.20\00:35:39.77
We all agree?
00:35:39.80\00:35:41.34
God made man in His image.
00:35:41.37\00:35:45.97
Man was made loving, and then,
because of sin, the compass
00:35:46.01\00:35:51.28
needle, God skewed 180 degrees.
00:35:51.31\00:35:54.62
Instead of our thinking of
loving God and loving others as
00:35:54.65\00:35:56.99
we love ourself,
we love ourself first.
00:35:57.02\00:36:01.56
And because of that selfishness,
every other sin flows from that.
00:36:01.59\00:36:05.69
So when we're praying for
salvation, we're praying for
00:36:05.73\00:36:07.66
loving hearts.
00:36:07.73\00:36:09.10
What's the new birth?
00:36:09.13\00:36:11.07
"I'll put a new
heart within you."
00:36:11.10\00:36:13.70
Instead of being
motivated by selfishness,
00:36:13.74\00:36:15.44
we're motivated by love.
00:36:15.47\00:36:17.67
So where did this problem begin?
00:36:17.71\00:36:20.48
It's a perversion of love.
00:36:20.51\00:36:23.81
Instead of our being now
in God's image, we took on the
00:36:23.85\00:36:26.85
image of a new master, Satan,
who rebels, was the highest of
00:36:26.88\00:36:32.72
God's angels, and he began
to think those selfish thoughts,
00:36:32.75\00:36:36.96
wondering why he was not
God, why he did not have all the
00:36:36.99\00:36:39.46
power of God, and you can read
about this in Isaiah 14, "How
00:36:39.49\00:36:44.30
you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning.
00:36:44.33\00:36:47.70
How you are cut down to the
ground, you who weakened the
00:36:47.74\00:36:50.14
nations.
00:36:50.17\00:36:51.97
For you said in your
heart--" something happened
00:36:52.01\00:36:53.64
in his heart--
"I'll ascend into heaven.
00:36:53.68\00:36:56.68
I will exalt my throne--I
want my glory--above the stars
00:36:56.71\00:37:00.12
of God.
00:37:00.15\00:37:01.82
I'll also sit on the mount of
the congregation, the heavenly
00:37:01.85\00:37:04.52
throne, on the
farthest sides of the north.
00:37:04.55\00:37:07.52
I will ascend above the heights
of the clouds--" maybe nebula
00:37:07.56\00:37:10.39
clouds-- "I'll be
like the Most High."
00:37:10.43\00:37:13.90
So Satan was desiring the
place of God, "I, I, I, I, I."
00:37:13.93\00:37:18.67
And God is about
love, love, love.
00:37:18.70\00:37:21.24
And so God created a beautiful
angel that of his own free will
00:37:21.27\00:37:25.51
chose to not live for the glory
of God but to decide to live
00:37:25.54\00:37:28.81
for his own glory.
00:37:28.84\00:37:30.88
And we've all been contaminated
with that selfishness
00:37:30.91\00:37:33.82
and that sin.
00:37:33.85\00:37:35.38
During worship at "Amazing
Facts" this week, I asked the
00:37:35.42\00:37:37.52
question, "If you see a group
photograph, and you're in the
00:37:37.55\00:37:39.59
group, where do you first look?"
00:37:39.62\00:37:43.16
If you're honest, do you
say, "Oh, so-and-so looks really
00:37:43.19\00:37:46.49
good, and they look really--"
first thing you do is you go
00:37:46.53\00:37:49.03
over that picture,
and you look for yourself.
00:37:49.06\00:37:52.00
It's because we've got a broken
compass needle, and it always
00:37:52.03\00:37:55.10
points to self.
00:37:55.14\00:37:57.81
So, of course,
there was a war in heaven.
00:37:57.84\00:38:01.01
We're leading up
to Deuteronomy now.
00:38:01.04\00:38:03.04
There was a rebellion.
Satan was cast to the earth.
00:38:03.08\00:38:05.91
This earth now has taken
on a different master, and
00:38:05.95\00:38:10.82
Satan--even Jesus
calls the devil, "the prince
00:38:10.85\00:38:13.42
of this world."
00:38:13.46\00:38:15.09
That's why Satan said,
"I'll give it back to You.
00:38:15.12\00:38:16.59
You don't have to
die if You worship me."
00:38:16.62\00:38:18.66
So Christ came to redeem
the world in a legitimate way by
00:38:18.69\00:38:22.33
paying the price for our
sin and transforming our hearts,
00:38:22.36\00:38:26.43
re-creating us in His own image.
00:38:26.47\00:38:30.07
That's the new birth, where
God then gives us, once again,
00:38:30.11\00:38:33.84
His own mind.
00:38:33.88\00:38:35.71
The mind of Christ is in us.
00:38:35.74\00:38:37.61
Well, following--you get
the fall of the human race.
00:38:37.65\00:38:41.62
Now we've got the
fall and the flood.
00:38:41.65\00:38:43.69
So God creates man.
00:38:43.72\00:38:46.49
Satan there, in the Garden of
Eden, he tempts Adam and Eve to
00:38:46.52\00:38:49.92
surrender their freedom.
00:38:49.96\00:38:51.99
The Bible says in Romans 6,
"Whoever you obey, that's whose
00:38:52.03\00:38:54.83
servant you are,
whoever you obey."
00:38:54.83\00:38:57.40
And when they chose to obey what
the devil said, instead of what
00:38:57.43\00:39:00.67
God said, they surrendered the
dominion that God had given them
00:39:00.70\00:39:04.11
of this world, to the arch
deceiver, and the devil and his
00:39:04.14\00:39:08.18
angels were ultimately
restricted to this planet.
00:39:08.21\00:39:11.41
Prior to this, I think that they
roamed through the cosmos and
00:39:11.45\00:39:13.88
tried to get other
worlds to follow them.
00:39:13.92\00:39:16.42
Satan had gotten
one-third of the angels.
00:39:16.45\00:39:18.22
He thought he might get another,
maybe, unfallen intelligent
00:39:18.25\00:39:20.79
beings, but there were none
except this beautiful new planet
00:39:20.82\00:39:24.93
where people were made in God's
image, and Satan took this as
00:39:24.96\00:39:28.06
his headquarters.
00:39:28.10\00:39:29.73
This is now the beachhead where
Satan is carrying out the great
00:39:29.76\00:39:31.97
controversy on this planet.
00:39:32.00\00:39:34.34
You can see what happened to the
world in the days of Noah, when
00:39:34.37\00:39:39.24
the sons of God, children of
Seth, who still worshiped God,
00:39:39.27\00:39:44.61
they stayed separate from
his brother Cain and their
00:39:44.65\00:39:48.32
descendants, who were
living purely selfish,
00:39:48.35\00:39:51.09
hedonistic lives.
00:39:51.12\00:39:53.19
When the children of Seth, in
their shopping at the mall, they
00:39:53.22\00:39:56.79
saw the daughters of
men, the daughters of Cain,
00:39:56.83\00:39:59.46
that they were fair.
00:39:59.49\00:40:00.96
The distinction was lost
because the sons of God began to
00:40:00.96\00:40:04.03
intermarry with
the daughters of men.
00:40:04.07\00:40:05.93
Some people think this is
talking about aliens or angels
00:40:05.97\00:40:09.37
marrying with humans, and
they're just totally missing
00:40:09.40\00:40:12.14
the language in the Bible.
00:40:12.17\00:40:13.58
Bible says--what?
00:40:13.61\00:40:15.61
"Behold what manner of love the
Father has bestowed on us that
00:40:15.64\00:40:18.51
we should be
called sons of God."
00:40:18.55\00:40:20.55
When we are saved, the Bible
calls us "sons and daughters
00:40:20.58\00:40:22.62
of God."
00:40:22.65\00:40:23.99
It is used for angels in
other places, but it's used
00:40:24.02\00:40:25.92
for people.
00:40:25.95\00:40:27.29
So these are the children
of Seth, intermarried with the
00:40:27.32\00:40:29.72
children of Cain.
00:40:29.76\00:40:31.36
They lost their spiritual
holiness and identity, and then
00:40:31.39\00:40:35.06
it says, "The thoughts
of men's hearts were only
00:40:35.10\00:40:38.23
evil continually.
00:40:38.27\00:40:39.77
Violence filled the world."
00:40:39.80\00:40:41.70
God then declared
something that's heartbreaking.
00:40:41.74\00:40:43.84
It made God sorry that he made
man, and he said, "I'm going to
00:40:43.87\00:40:47.14
wipe them all out."
00:40:47.18\00:40:49.34
But he said, "I love them,
so I'll save a remnant, and from
00:40:49.38\00:40:53.42
them, I'll repopulate the
world, and we'll try it again."
00:40:53.45\00:40:58.02
So you got the story of Noah and
that he finds grace in the Lord.
00:40:58.05\00:41:04.59
Well, not too long after Noah,
he discovers wine, and we have
00:41:04.63\00:41:08.30
problems again.
00:41:08.33\00:41:10.27
And then you got the Tower of
Babel, and they sort of try and
00:41:10.30\00:41:12.50
develop a man-made religion on
the earth, salvation by works.
00:41:12.53\00:41:17.34
"In case God floods the world,
we'll build a tower to heaven."
00:41:17.37\00:41:20.31
And God confounds
that and scatters them.
00:41:20.34\00:41:23.21
Well, then God says, "I'm going
to call another remnant," and he
00:41:23.24\00:41:27.38
finds a faithful man, a man that
he believes has a heart after
00:41:27.42\00:41:30.65
his heart.
00:41:30.69\00:41:32.09
His name is Abraham.
00:41:32.12\00:41:35.39
And that's in section three.
00:41:35.42\00:41:37.96
And God says in Genesis 12:1,
"The Lord says to Abram--" his
00:41:37.99\00:41:42.16
name isn't Abraham yet-- "Get
out of your country, from your
00:41:42.20\00:41:47.30
family, and from your father's
house, to a land that I will
00:41:47.34\00:41:50.57
show you, and I will
make you a great nation.
00:41:50.61\00:41:55.41
I will bless you and
make your name great,
00:41:55.44\00:41:57.38
and you shall be a blessing.
00:41:57.41\00:41:59.28
And I'll bless those who bless
you, and I will curse him who
00:41:59.31\00:42:01.92
curses you, and in you
all the families of the earth
00:42:01.95\00:42:05.92
will be blessed."
00:42:05.95\00:42:07.59
And He's talking about bless
with the ultimate blessing.
00:42:07.62\00:42:09.86
Now, what is the
ultimate blessing?
00:42:09.89\00:42:12.29
God, through Abraham, God the
Son would come, and Jesus would
00:42:12.33\00:42:18.57
be born, the Messiah.
00:42:18.60\00:42:20.94
And through Jesus, salvation
would come, not just through one
00:42:20.97\00:42:23.64
race of people, but to
all people whosoever will.
00:42:23.67\00:42:27.74
All the nations of the world
would be blessed through Christ.
00:42:27.78\00:42:30.25
It's amazing that the disciples
did not understand until A.D.
00:42:30.28\00:42:35.05
34, that the Gospel was not just
for Jews, but Jesus was meant to
00:42:35.08\00:42:39.95
save everybody because
it's even in the Old Testament.
00:42:39.99\00:42:43.02
So you read in Galatians chapter
3, verse 7--I know I'm bouncing
00:42:43.06\00:42:46.90
around, trying to cover
as much of this as I can.
00:42:46.93\00:42:50.60
"Therefore know that only those
who are sons of Abraham--" I'll
00:42:50.63\00:42:55.74
say that again: "Therefore know
that only those who are sons of
00:42:55.77\00:42:59.01
faith are sons of Abraham.
00:42:59.04\00:43:02.81
And the Scripture, foreseeing
that God would justify the
00:43:02.84\00:43:05.78
Gentiles by faith, preached the
gospel to Abraham beforehand,
00:43:05.81\00:43:09.82
saying, 'In you all the
nations will be blessed.'
00:43:09.85\00:43:13.56
So then those who
are of faith are blessed
00:43:13.59\00:43:16.83
with believing Abraham."
00:43:16.86\00:43:18.99
Now, Jesus made it pretty clear,
John the Baptist made it clear,
00:43:19.03\00:43:24.13
"Think not to say unto yourself
that we are children of Abraham,
00:43:24.17\00:43:27.67
so God has to save us."
00:43:27.70\00:43:29.57
And it's a tragedy when I
encounter people--you know, I've
00:43:29.60\00:43:32.97
got a Jewish family.
00:43:33.01\00:43:34.94
Many of them are indifferent
about looking for God.
00:43:34.98\00:43:37.78
They think they've got
a one-way ticket to heaven
00:43:37.81\00:43:39.58
because they're Jewish.
00:43:39.61\00:43:41.32
I don't know any
other way to say it.
00:43:41.35\00:43:42.72
They're very secular, but they
think, "We're the chosen people,
00:43:42.75\00:43:45.35
and God's going to save us.
00:43:45.39\00:43:47.46
And our ancestors suffered
so much, that we kind of go to
00:43:47.49\00:43:50.73
heaven without passing 'Go.'"
00:43:50.76\00:43:52.29
And it's really sad because the
Bible is clear, Jesus said to
00:43:52.33\00:43:57.10
the religious leaders,
"You're not sons of Abraham.
00:43:57.13\00:44:00.77
You're sons of
your father the devil."
00:44:00.80\00:44:03.97
Children do the works of their
parents, and the Bible says,
00:44:04.01\00:44:08.01
"Many will come from the east
and west and sit down in the
00:44:08.04\00:44:11.25
kingdom with Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and the children of the
00:44:11.28\00:44:14.72
kingdom--" meaning the natural
children of the kingdom--
00:44:14.75\00:44:17.39
"will be in outer
darkness where there is weeping
00:44:17.42\00:44:19.45
and gnashing of teeth."
00:44:19.49\00:44:21.16
You and I can learn from that
also because don't think to say
00:44:21.19\00:44:23.39
to yourself, "Wow,
I've been in this church
00:44:23.43\00:44:24.86
for four generations."
00:44:24.89\00:44:26.26
You ever heard anyone brag
about how many generations their
00:44:26.29\00:44:27.83
family's been in the church?
00:44:27.86\00:44:29.20
Huh?
00:44:29.23\00:44:30.70
Do you get
extra credit for that?
00:44:30.73\00:44:33.17
No, God has no grandchildren.
00:44:33.20\00:44:36.17
Everybody must be born again.
00:44:36.20\00:44:38.97
You must be a
child of God yourself.
00:44:39.01\00:44:41.54
You can't say, "Well, my dad was
a preacher," and that's somehow
00:44:41.58\00:44:44.31
going to give you extra points.
00:44:44.35\00:44:46.41
It doesn't work that way.
00:44:46.45\00:44:48.28
Bible tells us that
"They that believe are
00:44:48.32\00:44:53.05
the children of Abraham.
00:44:53.09\00:44:55.36
He is not a Jew which is one
outwardly in the flesh, he is a
00:44:55.39\00:44:59.76
Jew which is one inwardly."
00:44:59.79\00:45:02.83
And, you know, every Jew or
Gentile can be saved, but we
00:45:02.86\00:45:06.00
must all be grafted into the
stock of Christ, and so this is
00:45:06.03\00:45:10.74
one of the very important
teachings that we encounter.
00:45:10.77\00:45:13.94
So, the Lord saved the nation
of Israel, he called Abraham, he
00:45:13.98\00:45:17.05
put him strategically in
the land specifically for the
00:45:17.08\00:45:21.05
purpose of being the
crossroads to the world.
00:45:21.08\00:45:26.19
I mean, you know, God couldn't
put them everywhere all at once,
00:45:26.22\00:45:28.59
so he picked this humble nation,
started with, wasn't a nation,
00:45:28.62\00:45:31.56
family, picked a man
with no children, says,
00:45:31.59\00:45:35.56
"I'm gonna give you this land.
00:45:35.60\00:45:37.53
This land is at the intersection
of Africa, Asia, and Europe,
00:45:37.57\00:45:42.77
it's a bridge," they
had no airplanes back then.
00:45:42.80\00:45:45.74
And when Jesus comes to that
land and the gospel explodes at
00:45:45.77\00:45:49.28
Pentecost, it's gonna be on the
road--the Roman roads that had
00:45:49.31\00:45:53.75
been built that are gonna take
the gospel quickly to the world
00:45:53.78\00:45:57.59
and ultimately over the oceans
to every corner of the planet.
00:45:57.62\00:46:02.92
And then let me jump--I've got a
couple of sections left and just
00:46:02.96\00:46:07.50
a few minutes, so
let me jump over here.
00:46:07.50\00:46:11.67
And then you can hear the
covenant is repeated at Sinai,
00:46:11.70\00:46:14.27
now, keep in mind, Deuteronomy
covers the period from the
00:46:14.30\00:46:18.71
Exodus, it doesn't
start with Genesis.
00:46:18.74\00:46:20.91
Deuteronomy covers the period
following the Exodus up to the
00:46:20.94\00:46:25.15
death of Moses 40 years later,
and then of course there are
00:46:25.18\00:46:28.45
prophecies about what they
could expect in the future.
00:46:28.48\00:46:31.55
So, the covenant he talks about,
Deuteronomy 4, he reminds them
00:46:31.59\00:46:35.52
of the repeating of
the covenant at Sinai.
00:46:35.56\00:46:38.89
"Or did God every try to go and
take for himself a nation from
00:46:38.93\00:46:42.30
the midst of another nation?
00:46:42.33\00:46:44.10
By trials and by signs and
by wonders, by war, by a mighty
00:46:44.13\00:46:48.44
hand and an oustretched arm, by
great terrors according to all
00:46:48.47\00:46:52.84
the Lord your God did for
you in Egypt before your eyes."
00:46:52.87\00:46:55.54
He said, this has never happened
in history before, never
00:46:55.58\00:46:57.65
happened since.
00:46:57.68\00:47:00.18
"To you it was shown that you
might know that the Lord himself
00:47:00.22\00:47:04.62
is God, and there is
none other besides him."
00:47:04.65\00:47:08.46
He wanted to emphasize that
to him, because all the other
00:47:08.49\00:47:11.33
surrounding nations both
in Egypt and when they would
00:47:11.36\00:47:15.00
ultimately go to Canaan,
they believed in multiple
00:47:15.03\00:47:17.33
different gods.
00:47:17.37\00:47:19.50
Some nations had many gods like
the Greeks, some had, you know,
00:47:19.53\00:47:23.30
one or two pagan gods that they
worship, and he said, "Don't
00:47:23.34\00:47:27.54
forget, there's one God, he made
everything, he's not just the
00:47:27.58\00:47:30.98
god of the rivers or the
oceans or the birds or different
00:47:31.01\00:47:34.38
things, he's the God
that made everything."
00:47:34.42\00:47:37.12
So, Moses wanted to
emphasize that on them.
00:47:37.15\00:47:40.62
He said, "You see what I did
to the Egyptians," and this is
00:47:40.66\00:47:44.36
under the section
"Apostacy and Punishment.
00:47:44.39\00:47:47.30
He reminds them, "Don't turn
from God, it doesn't end well,
00:47:47.36\00:47:52.70
there is justice with God."
00:47:52.73\00:47:55.87
You know, Paul talks about,
"Behold the mercy and severity
00:47:55.90\00:48:00.04
of God," we see both,
you can't really have one
00:48:00.08\00:48:03.81
without the other.
00:48:03.85\00:48:05.65
"You've seen what I did to the
Egyptians and how I bore you on
00:48:05.68\00:48:08.58
eagle's wings, and I
brought you to myself.
00:48:08.62\00:48:12.15
Now therefore if indeed you
will obey my voice and keep my
00:48:12.19\00:48:15.32
covenant, then you will be a
special treasure to me above all
00:48:15.36\00:48:20.03
people, for all the
earth is mine, not just
00:48:20.06\00:48:23.97
the Promised Land."
00:48:24.00\00:48:25.47
So, God is calling his
people to keep him as supreme
00:48:25.50\00:48:30.44
in their lives.
00:48:30.47\00:48:32.11
He says, "Obey me, if you love
me, keep my commandments," and
00:48:32.14\00:48:35.44
Jesus is pretty clear, Matthew
5:19, "Whosoever therefore will
00:48:35.48\00:48:39.88
break one of the least of these
commandments," he's talking
00:48:39.91\00:48:42.38
about the law and the prophets
that Moses wrote, "and teach men
00:48:42.42\00:48:45.35
so, he will be called least
in the kingdom of heaven, but
00:48:45.39\00:48:49.22
whoever does them and teaches
them will be called great."
00:48:49.26\00:48:52.39
Some people think that
Jesus came to do away the law of
00:48:52.43\00:48:54.56
Moses, did he do that?
00:48:54.56\00:48:57.63
Did Jesus come to do
away the law of Moses?
00:48:57.67\00:49:01.94
He said, "Think not that I have
come to do away with the law and
00:49:01.97\00:49:06.64
the prophets, I did not come
to destroy, but to fulfill."
00:49:06.68\00:49:11.15
Now, we all understand that
there was a big transference,
00:49:11.18\00:49:14.05
that a lot of the ceremonial
laws, Christ then fulfilled
00:49:14.08\00:49:16.38
those, but the idea that,
you know, the principles of the
00:49:16.42\00:49:20.16
covenant, the foundation, and
what was the foundation for the
00:49:20.19\00:49:23.09
covenant, written in stone,
it's the Ten Commandments.
00:49:23.12\00:49:26.93
Jesus said, "Don't think that,"
and yet how many of you have
00:49:26.96\00:49:29.53
heard Christian leaders
say, oh, it doesn't matter.
00:49:29.56\00:49:32.73
Isn't that sad?
00:49:32.77\00:49:34.27
Well, we are out of time, and
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ex-wife, and her family were
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real big into drugs, and it
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00:51:20.08\00:51:24.35
absolutely miserable.
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She would go out and sleep with
other guys to get drugs, and
00:51:26.08\00:51:30.02
that ended my marriage, but
during this time I have to get a
00:51:30.05\00:51:33.76
job to build back up to where I
was at to open my shop again, so
00:51:33.79\00:51:37.49
I get a job at Food City,
and when I get this job at Food
00:51:37.53\00:51:40.93
City, there's my wife now,
Rebecca, she's a cashier there,
00:51:40.96\00:51:45.53
and when I walk in, she's the
most beautiful girl I've ever
00:51:45.57\00:51:48.14
seen in my life.
00:51:48.17\00:51:50.07
I was like, man, I could never
have a girl like that, wow,
00:51:50.11\00:51:53.44
she's so beautiful.
00:51:53.48\00:51:54.88
But as I'm working with her,
she's actually kind of mean to
00:51:54.91\00:51:57.58
me, and she's saying, "I don't
want anything to do with you,
00:51:57.61\00:52:01.82
get away from me," but, you
know, I just keeping nice to
00:52:01.85\00:52:05.09
her, and I keep trying to give
her my phone number, and it's
00:52:05.12\00:52:09.16
around Christmas Eve, we'd just
been dating for a little while
00:52:09.19\00:52:12.59
and moved in together, my
ex-wife shows up with my three
00:52:12.63\00:52:16.26
children that I had by her, and
she's like, "Here's your kids,
00:52:16.30\00:52:20.10
here's their birth certificates,
here's their social security
00:52:20.14\00:52:22.27
cards, I'm done."
00:52:22.30\00:52:24.07
And we were starting a
family, we have, already have
00:52:24.11\00:52:26.27
three kids.
00:52:26.31\00:52:28.04
During this time, we spent the
next year watching nothing but
00:52:28.08\00:52:31.41
"Amazing Facts" on YouTube.
00:52:31.45\00:52:33.65
I didn't even know they even had
a website at this time, I just
00:52:33.68\00:52:35.85
knew that this little guy
on YouTube was super smart, was
00:52:35.88\00:52:39.29
teaching Bible, and I wanted
to follow him, I wanted to be a
00:52:39.32\00:52:43.16
Christian, I gave my life to God
now because of these truths that
00:52:43.19\00:52:46.93
I'm learning
from Doug Batchelor.
00:52:46.96\00:52:49.20
Just because Doug taught it
didn't make me real sure about
00:52:49.23\00:52:51.93
going to this church, I really
didn't want anything to do with
00:52:51.97\00:52:54.87
it, but I call the guy up,
and I'm telling him, and I'm not
00:52:54.90\00:52:58.17
very nice about it, actually,
I'm telling him, "Look, we was
00:52:58.21\00:53:01.28
thinking about coming to your
church," and he's really nice,
00:53:01.31\00:53:04.58
and he's like, "Well, you're
more than welcome to, we'd like
00:53:04.61\00:53:07.22
to have you come."
00:53:07.25\00:53:08.68
And I'm like, "Well, hold
on, I'm gonna lay down some
00:53:08.72\00:53:10.25
ground rules."
00:53:10.29\00:53:11.92
I'm telling him, I said, "Look
here, I'm covered in tattoos,
00:53:11.95\00:53:14.62
and I'm a tattoo artist, and he
don't say, well, you know, wow,
00:53:14.66\00:53:18.36
I didn't know all that, don't
come to my church, he says,
00:53:18.39\00:53:20.63
"You're more than welcome,
we would love to have you,
00:53:20.66\00:53:23.43
please come."
00:53:23.47\00:53:26.00
He asked me what I
wanna do, and I said,
00:53:26.03\00:53:27.64
"Well, I want to preach."
00:53:27.67\00:53:29.77
I said, "I have all
these truths, I have all this
00:53:29.80\00:53:31.97
knowledge, stuff I'd never known
before, stuff, if I'd have had
00:53:32.01\00:53:35.41
when I was younger,
that would've been life
00:53:35.44\00:53:37.05
changing to me."
00:53:37.08\00:53:39.11
I said, "I got to
share this with the world."
00:53:39.15\00:53:41.82
I said, "I wanna preach, I wanna
teach," he gives me the Book,
00:53:41.85\00:53:45.32
says, "Study that."
00:53:45.35\00:53:46.76
Well, now that I'm a Bible
worker, I'm able to go reach
00:53:46.79\00:53:48.92
people that most of the normal
churches wouldn't even bother
00:53:48.96\00:53:52.79
to even speak to.
00:53:52.83\00:53:54.40
I'm able to out and reach
to people to who have lived the
00:53:54.46\00:53:57.47
life that I've lived, I'm able
to let them know that I am like
00:53:57.50\00:54:01.64
you, I've been
there, I've done that.
00:54:01.67\00:54:04.04
I wanna show you what my life is
like now, I wanna teach you this
00:54:04.07\00:54:08.28
Bible, I wanna show you
what Jesus can do for you,
00:54:08.31\00:54:11.65
it's not too late.
00:54:11.68\00:54:13.85
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00:54:15.75\00:54:22.92
Andrew: When I
was eight years old,
00:54:32.70\00:54:34.30
I brought home a 5 foot
rattlesnake, and it's gone
00:54:34.34\00:54:37.34
downhill ever since.
00:54:37.37\00:54:38.71
Rattlesnakes, sharks,
cliff diving, free diving.
00:54:38.74\00:54:42.31
I wouldn't call myself
an adrenaline junkie, I just
00:54:42.34\00:54:44.25
realize that the closest that
I've ever been to being alive is
00:54:44.28\00:54:48.58
when I'm so close to death.
00:54:48.62\00:54:50.69
I was raised in the
northern mountains of Mexico.
00:54:50.72\00:54:54.09
I learned English because there
was missionary groups that were
00:54:54.12\00:54:56.46
coming from Colorado and then
going to the northern mountains
00:54:56.49\00:54:59.09
of Mexico, and they were
all changed, in these short term
00:54:59.13\00:55:03.53
mission trips, and they had
these unbelievable experiences
00:55:03.57\00:55:06.87
and their close encounters with
God, and I would share their
00:55:06.90\00:55:09.97
testimony.
00:55:10.01\00:55:11.31
I'd translate for them, and
I was jealous, I was jealous
00:55:11.34\00:55:15.91
because I didn't have a
testimony, I didn't have
00:55:15.94\00:55:19.85
something like that, I
didn't have that life changing
00:55:19.88\00:55:21.92
experience, that
close encounter with God.
00:55:21.95\00:55:25.52
I knew he was there, I just--I
couldn't understand him, and I
00:55:25.55\00:55:30.09
didn't really want anything
to do with him, and part of me
00:55:30.13\00:55:34.36
wanted him not to want
anything to do with me.
00:55:34.36\00:55:37.63
I felt like I was
unworthy of God's love.
00:55:37.67\00:55:41.87
I left Mexico
to come to college.
00:55:41.90\00:55:46.47
Once I got to college, I
realized how expensive college
00:55:46.51\00:55:48.68
was, and so in order to pay for
college I became a commercial
00:55:48.71\00:55:53.55
salmon fisherman in Alaska, and
the first time that I stepped on
00:55:53.58\00:55:57.15
a boat, I knew I was gonna
be a fisherman for the rest
00:55:57.19\00:55:59.52
of my life.
00:55:59.55\00:56:01.92
I met this man in Tennessee in
one of the rivers, and I found
00:56:01.96\00:56:05.19
out that he had an
orphanage in Honduras.
00:56:05.23\00:56:08.30
And he said, you know, "You can
come down to Honduras, you can
00:56:08.33\00:56:10.73
help us put a
support video together."
00:56:10.77\00:56:13.17
And, you know, it's
like, "Maybe you can get some
00:56:13.20\00:56:15.87
college credits out of it."
00:56:15.90\00:56:17.47
I said, "You know, that would be
great, I would do that, I would
00:56:17.51\00:56:19.21
love to do that."
00:56:19.24\00:56:20.61
And so, I flew down to Honduras,
and one of the conversations
00:56:20.64\00:56:23.81
that we had during dinner,
we were talking about this and
00:56:23.85\00:56:27.28
that, and somehow I brought up
rapture, and they said, "Well,
00:56:27.32\00:56:30.79
find us a place in Scripture
where it talks about rapture,"
00:56:30.82\00:56:33.99
and I said, "It's all over the
Bible," and they said, "Is it,
00:56:34.02\00:56:37.09
really though?"
00:56:37.13\00:56:38.46
So, they gave me a DVD that said
"Amazing Facts," and I remember
00:56:38.49\00:56:41.00
coming back to America and I
started watching, and it said,
00:56:41.03\00:56:45.60
"Amazing Facts" presents, and
Doug Batchelor started talking.
00:56:45.63\00:56:49.87
One of the things that he said
is that the word rapture wasn't
00:56:49.90\00:56:52.44
in Scripture, and that was the
first time that I actually heard
00:56:52.47\00:56:56.21
Pastor Batchelor speak.
00:56:56.24\00:56:58.55
And then I run into YouTube,
a video series called, "Prophecy
00:56:58.58\00:57:04.49
Code," and I said, "Oh, this
is gonna be good, sweet," but it
00:57:04.52\00:57:09.82
was just torture, because
everything I knew was just
00:57:09.86\00:57:12.99
getting tossed out the window.
00:57:13.03\00:57:14.96
He was just using Scripture
after Scripture to take away
00:57:15.00\00:57:20.80
everything and all--everything
that I thought was normal and
00:57:20.84\00:57:23.34
everything that I knew
about the Book of Apocalipsis.
00:57:23.37\00:57:28.18
Ever since I've learned
Scriptural truth and I've seen
00:57:28.21\00:57:30.25
the light, I feel like there's
been a fire rekindled in my
00:57:30.28\00:57:34.35
heart, and I have this knowledge
that I wanna share with people.
00:57:34.38\00:57:39.52
It brings me peace, and I think
that it does that for other
00:57:39.55\00:57:43.79
people we've
managed to share with.
00:57:43.83\00:57:47.10
My name is Andrew, I am a
fisherman and a dreamer, I want
00:57:47.13\00:57:51.73
to thank you for
changing my life.
00:57:51.77\00:57:55.50
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