Published: January 7, 2024 | Speaker: Aaron Wells | Series: Deuteronomy - The Law Is Good, If One Uses It Lawfully - Part 1 | Scripture: Deuteronomy 1-4
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all right so we're uh we're undertaking a new study this session um in the book of Deuteronomy um by no means am I going to finish it um this time um I hope you'll
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see as a result of this introduction why that would be a completely unnatural thing to try to slam the whole book uh into one study why it would be unnatural
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to do Deuteronomy as a kind of an overview study um and if one were to do it as an overview study I feel like a few weeks would suffi suffice and and then that would be
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the extent that you could do um this is a uh the choice of Deuteronomy is a is a choice that was kind of made in my in the midst of my personal study I
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actually began uh to study uh through Isaiah but at the very first of Isaiah I mean no lie I I sat down and read the first few verses and saying hereo heaven
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and give ero Earth for Yahweh has spoken children have I reared and brought up but they have rebelled against me and I thought that sounds like Deuteronomy uh and if this is the introduction to the teachings of Isaiah
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I think I'd better uh go ahead and look at Deuteronomy again uh in depth uh it had been 15 years or so since I think I think since my last uh
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read through of that and um I wanted to give careful attention to it and found it to be very fruitful a lot of um a lot of thorny issues uh in the text uh a a a
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wonderful laboratory of how do you really study the Old Testament it being as far back as it is um and and then uh in in choosing it uh knowing that I've
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been putting a lot of time uh into the word of God for a long time uh and want have wanted earnestly throughout the complexity of my time uh among the
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Presbyterians uh and and now to bring these things out as a gift of love to y'all um I am uh I'm not particularly Adept with the with the hands I'm overly
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analytical um my sense of service is limited and I have lots of children that are taking up a lot of my time this is this is what I have to offer um and I
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hope it will not have been worth it uh if if you all are not edified by it that's truly the way I feel um so uh the
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study the title of the study is called the law is good if one uses it lawfully um you have a handout in front of you I'm going to continue to publish handouts I also have published the maps
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for next week uh ahead um because of the reading that I will do today so keep what you have continue to add to it um and I'll uh Faithfully provide
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uh the the additional material uh as we go um I also am perfectly happy to take questions uh at any time but since you have an outline in front of you I would
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encourage it encourage uh I'll pause and ask for questions outside the major points and try to uh be as orderly as possible there but again urgent
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questions I'm perfectly happy to take uh take feedback in the middle of that and I want that I want this to be fruitful for you I'm not committed to a particular pace particular pace I've tried to slow it down a good bit uh
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and if I need to speed up I can always do that um so I guess the first question we have to ask is is why why study Deuteronomy in general at all uh and
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you'd need to look at the first at the at the barriers uh to study really before you get into the positives um right out of the gate from from the first verses of Deuteronomy it says
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these are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan and the the Wilderness in the arabah opposite suf between paron topel Laban hazaro and
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djab it is 11 days journey from Horeb by the way of Mount SE to Kadesh Bara so already that's a mouthful uh and we haven't even gotten past the
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introduction so we may be turned away from Deuteronomy by its ancient setting and strange words um in case you don't know these things are 3500 years in our
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past um and even when translated these kinds of words are are often strange to us they involve there's a lot of proper names uh and then even more thorny the
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the idiomatic language that just never quite makes it in in translation into our language and yet this is where most of us are myself included um but uh
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whether we know the original languages or not um these things were spoken to a people whose cultural conditioning was just far removed uh from our own we don't share their geographical location
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uh we don't share their uh their history in Egypt we don't even share the history of their descendants uh being in in the Middle East um except for a few of us um
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and um we certainly don't share their language uh or the or the way that their culture developed um they experienced things that were as meaningful to them
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as our experiences are to us and they and these words were spoken in view of that experience it were spoken to an audience that was meant to understand uh based on their
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shared past so we have to diving into that is extremely difficult um but I I actually was even more uh troubled and I
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think we we need to wrestle with what Paul says about uh about teaching of the law uh in 1 Timothy this is uh I I put I
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try to put bold references to the things that I'm uh looking up that's for your benefit it doesn't mean you have to look it up but uh I wanted to make sure that you have it for afterwards he says to Timothy as I urged you when I was going
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to macadonia remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different Doctrine nor to devote themselves to myths and endless
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genealogies which promote speculation rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good
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conscience and a sincere Faith certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion Desiring to be teachers of the law
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without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions it's a suitable warning to me
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um that that this is this can be easily perverted um and I think our distance to the setting helps to increase that danger yet I think scripture represents
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to us an imperative to study what is here written um because it represents the Law to us as the Baseline of faith not the Baseline of our faith notice or
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not the basis of our faith I mean the Baseline of faith in other words a back stop against false Faith um in in John the Lord tells Nicodemus
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if I have given for uh concerning the things of the body um and he he actually says uh that the law was spoken to them on Earth
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without ever denying that and we're going to read this in Deuteronomy that that he makes the case that Yahweh let you hear his words from Heaven um but
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the the author of Hebrews is making a very important and Earnest case in talking about the law being spoken to the people on Earth he says see that you
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do not refuse him who is speaking for if they did not Escape when they refused him who warned them on Earth much less will we escape if we reject him who
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warns from warns from heaven and finally L uh in Luke is recorded the words of Jesus if they do not hear Moses and the prophets neither
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will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead so I think we have an opportunity here given that given that scripture represents to us the importance of the
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law and will help us put it in its proper place relative to our faith in Jesus Christ we have an opportunity to learn then how to hear the words of scripture properly and with
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understanding uh in Matthew uh he uh uh the Lord uh tells his disciples not I'm I'm amazed actually that this phrase is not uh replicated for us uh in the other
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Gospels CU it's just a a wonderful saying he says and he said to them therefore every scribe who has been trained for the Kingdom of Heaven is like a master of a house who brings out
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of his treasure what is new and what is old The Scribe trained for the kingdom brings out new and old treasure out of his Storehouse and this struck me that
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it isn't many in theological study and and and then I think in in study of the Old Testament as well this is a tendency is to delve deeper and deeper down get
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look at more and more of what's what's beneath it while bringing nothing out uh but I aim to bring this treasure out into the life of the church which I think is the import of the Lord's words
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there the joy in God's word is known both in moving forward then in the knowledge of Christ and making use of what we already know for Israel that was they knew the law and they moved forward
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in the knowledge of Christ for us we're going to have to work to go back and and reacquire that that old treasure
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um and then finally if I sort of put the other foot down on what Paul says in 1 Timothy he continues now we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully understanding this that the law
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is not laid down for the just but for the Lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and sinners for the Unholy and profane for those who strike their fathers and mothers for murderers the
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sexually immoral men who practice homosexuality enslavers liars perjurers and whatever else is contrary to sound
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Doctrine in accordance with the gospel of the glory of uh of the Blessed god with which I have been entrusted it is for whatever else is contrary to sound
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Doctrine according to the gospel of the glory of the Blessed god with which we have been have been entrusted um so we must look at it so
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how should we study it then if we if we are going to and we see the benefit and the opportunity in that uh first we need to study Deuteronomy as more than a repetition of the law spoken
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beforehand um there is a tendency to look at at redundancy in the in the scripture and think of it as mere redundancy um but it isn't um the name in Greek that we have or the greekish
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name we have for it Deuteronomy it means Second Law uh the Jews simply refer to it as deim which means the words um I think that's a more appropriate uh title
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it just so happens um because it's more than a simple repetition um less than the totality of the law that went before uh is recorded and we need not think
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that the children of Israel were unaware of what is in Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers Deuteronomy is less of the law than that uh and it's um it's less than the
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totality of their history as well so we need to ask the question why did Moses choose these words to speak a second time before the Assembly of Israel uh
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and as to the history it adds a lot of color to what has gone before uh Moses makes comments on their history which are um when you compare them with what's
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in Exodus or numbers uh it's quite interesting and sometimes he even appears to be saying uh something of the opposite of what you would get away or
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Come Away with if you only read Exodus and number numbers and I think he's he's counterbalancing our understanding of that history and assisting Us in the
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understanding so Deuteronomy again becomes a a real opportunity in uh in understanding how to study scripture um so first uh more than a repetition of
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the law spoken beforehand yes would you make anything of the rather unique deim is the first word in the Hebrew right words but it's it's rather
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interesting it's the words of Moses right whereas
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lus and he spoke to Moses it's the Lord speak Exodus obviously the Lord speaking SI you make anything out of that these are the words of Moses I hadn't thought uh I hadn't thought of that um I think
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the what I was seeing was that we have the septu designation of it and it kind of leaves us with a sense of redundancy whereas at the very least it so happens that the Hebrew
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designation for it being the first word or words of the of the uh of the book uh leaves us with something that is it's its own thing uh the the words um not
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just a second law um in other words I'm saying I think Deuteronomy is kind of a misnomer I think that would be even reinforced by the fact that these are the words of of Moses mhm so it's not
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just a reiteration of Si sure kind of Moses's swans right and it's definitely not a repetition of Sinai um there there's a lot to that
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statement that I to unpack would sort of derail things but yeah it is definitely not a repetition of what happened or what was spoken at Sinai it should not be thought of that way um as to its form
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it is a series of spoken discourses uh and it should be read as such so we're going to spend the last half of what we do here today I'm going to read the first discourse uh at a go um because to
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to Simply read it and especially to read it chopped up really doesn't serve you it was spoken to an audience at a time in place and they heard at least every discourse at once uh if not back to back
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um but in those discourses he recounts both histories and laws and these things are used as set pieces for these important sermons so again going back to
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what I was saying before about the laws and the histories he's cherry-picking on purpose the history and the law of Israel now already laid down and already accomplished ends up as a setpiece for
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what he needs to tell them at his last uh months of life um and it's really imperative that we don't lose the whole while contemplating the parts U so in
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this sense the chapter divisions and things like that really do often represent uh a hindrance to understanding Deuteronomy is not episodic uh in nature uh and it's not a
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series of principles to be mined discreetly if I had to say that was the the common tendency that that that I see more than anything with Deuteronomy it's
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that we're we're looking for it for what do I need to know or or what's the what's the principle okay now next thing what's the principle now next thing what's the principle um but Deuteronomy
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resists that it's deeply interconnected it's like a a fabric and it demands that we study it differently U than we're often tempted in our cultural conditioning our cult our cultural
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conditioning is frenetic our cultural conditioning is technical uh and coming to Deuteronomy like a technical manual is just not going to serve us might get away with that with um with other books
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of the law but not this one um there are some things uh it in taking the the whole and using that to help us understand the parts there are things
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that we need to understand uh while studying it uh one is the essential efficiency of the text uh in other words scripture does not waste words um the
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additional information that we require may come to light later not in the sequence that we want it to uh and even and this is especially the case in uh
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where we see a parent contradiction um often the information we need is farther along to explain why did he say it like that and we have to to keep going and not just stop oh gosh that's a
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problematic statement we must move on um and then secondly uh so the essential efficiency of the text is is one thing we need to contemplate while considering
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it the second is um with regard to those apparent contradictions does the text actually say the thing that we're getting out of it or are we reading in
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scripture and implication that's not actually present um I do happen to be of the mind that the words are important and where it doesn't say a thing it's important to let it not say a thing um
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and to look at what he is saying um the connections among the parts in the text are often stream of Consciousness um so I always talk about the speaking of the
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speaking of the speaking of principle with the kids like okay how does this connect folks he's saying speaking of what went what went before which might be a word in that in
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whatever sentence went before we have this next sentence um and the connection among them we would I think find to be tenuous um but that's the way a lot
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especially a lot of the law sections are arranged where they daisy chain together there's a there's one point in this uh law disc or you this this law section
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right here and it's picked up and it becomes the next the next thing um and sometimes they connect uh quite intricately uh some of the more
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troubling uh law sections the ones that just really come out of left field to us uh and I'll just refer to it in general like the um like the the woman who gets
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involved in a fight between two men that why that's there is just glorious but the actual text of it feels like it comes out to us really strangely and and
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the the fact that there's a law about that is often kind of off-putting um but but it has a lot to do with with what's around it and it's I look forward to coming to that
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section uh a lot um so there's a lot to be gained from things which are otherwise otherwise present themselves to us very difficult um and then really
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there's especially little systematic overview I think I said this before that one can draw of Deuteronomy um other than noting where one discourse ends and another begins that's quite clear uh
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there are markers in the text that separate it but they're few and far between um so first we have a more than a repetition uh we need to look at it that
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way uh secondly as a series of spoken discourses um that we need to take as a whole and then the the Third how should uh is U we have an opportunity to study
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a text with a clearly defined long context the the actual history of when it was spoken and the the experience of
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the people listening to it is rather short but that short amount of time defines the whole thing and I find I think that's just very valuable um so oh
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and also we know we can know um a lot about their previous history I would encourage uh during this study look at Exodus look at Leviticus look at numbers
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um you know e even uh again according to your ability uh but knowing anything about what went behind uh will will help a lot especially numbers there's a lot
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of comparisons that are made uh there that are often very Troublesome so knowing something about what number says uh will help you uh give me a lot of uh challenge to explain them to you um any
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questions so far so This Is 40 years after yes that's
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correct we're going to get into that and that's actually the the first thing that we're going to do uh next week is discuss the the the problem of um geography and and how do we how do we see that so we are going to uh jump into
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that um short version is uh the introduction is c can be uh construed as written from the um from the west side
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of the Jordan looking over but this region in in the future history of Israel explicitly in the scripture is called is or sorry in the future history
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of Israel this area is called beyond the river which if you're in as a as a a returned Jew from the Exile and someone
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as you you're traveling around in here and someone asked you where you're from you would refer to it as beyond the river that doesn't mean you were over here when you said it so there's there's technical designations in the geography
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and then also you know uh the fact that Israel eventually entered in here uh could imply that the writer was looking back it also was known that this was the
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land that God promised to Abraham and this came later so there's uh there's a couple of different ways one could look at that U that may be perfectly legitimate we are going to get into that
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detail um anything else okay so I think the third most important question here for us is is is why is Deuteronomy pertinent to us as a church so in other words why
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did I think it was this important uh and it isn't just because I happen to be there in my personal study I see the holy spirit is as guiding our study I've seen numerous instances where um what
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otherwise might be called a coincidence or kismi was uh um for our benefit the Lord guiding us so why so why here um firstly the the new revelation
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of the word of God for the people of Israel Isel was about to cease for a time with the death of Moses okay and what was already written uh was going to
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be their soul guide administered by the priests the written word of God was their primary rule of Faith uh Guided by
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their priesthood uh no Prophet like Moses was Moses was forthcoming um Revelation later was few and far between and usually directed to a single person uh rather than to the
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nation at Large and their prophets were not their judges Moses was Moses was both judge and Prophet for them but in the in the days to come uh their
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prophets were not their judges um one exception would be uh Deborah who was a prophet uh and a judge but um as I've said in my leadup to reading judges uh
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progressively in our assemblies um judges does not get better and Deborah was early um secondly under that point Yahweh was not was no longer to be
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sought on this mountain uh but at the Tabernacle the smoke and the trumpet blast and the reading of the law uh being the memorial of that day when God
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spoke to them out of the midst of the fire um so they were distant from where that Revelation happened uh even geographically and conceptually what they had was a remembrance of it not the
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thing itself um so secondly then the the times which uh believing Israel was to Liv soon after would be dark times of apostasy um everyone around them was an
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Israelite but not all were Israel is to Faith uh and there would not be a visible Shepherd of the whole nation for a long time to come um the great judges
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were mainly Regional uh and they tended to be steadily less and less spiritual reflecting the degrading character of the nation um and then almost nothing is said about the ministry of the priests
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at all in the period of the judges um um it was certainly there uh and we know that the faithful in Israel still went up year after year uh but it seems amazing that it survived during all that
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transpired in the uh in those three centuries um so when the priests finally reemerged then in the narrative if you're familiar with the beginning of 1 Samuel uh centuries after the priesthood
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of fenos the moral Authority that they have over Israel is just almost non-existent yes yeah it's a it's a very important Point you're making I think
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Christians influenced I think a lot by dispensationalism tend to look back on the Old Testament and think that God walked with Israel like he did with Adam in the in the garden but in fact there were huge right
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centuries Longs of time when he did not speak and walked by faith just as we yes
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yes very important point there is a long time between the end of Deuteronomy and the next Revelation yes and I actually think it's important for understanding much of the language in Deuteronomy to
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know that that was coming that almost go from Moses to samel yes and and I'll yes exactly yeah exactly yeah um so they were they were going to be
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they were going to be in a place where they lived I think very much the way we live um you know we we live according to the written word of God Guided by the presence of God in our midst okay what
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that looked like for them is different than it looks like for us our priesthood is not a priesthood on Earth we can see and and and in a way we may have it a bit harder to our senses uh in that
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regard but we must hold fast to the word of God through times then that are difficult to understand I mean I've lived in Greenville all my life and everybody's a Christian here um I very
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much identify with the Unseen believing Israelite in the period of the judges we like everybody's an Israelite and and honestly I it occurred to me during my
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study in Deuteronomy to go oh my goodness I'm surprised that the the tent at chilo was didn't just fall into the Jordan River uh during that time I me because you don't see it you don't see
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the going up year after year at all uh in judges it's only the the that wonderful uh put off by itself Ruth where you see there were still people
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going up uh year after year so it was happening but it it was not the main part of Israel's experience the day-to-day was a slog uh for the people
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of Israel and then the third thing the discourses are there to reatune a people who had suffered under the condemnation of the law in the wilderness who had seen their fathers die there and had
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seen many of their brothers uh die recently before Yahweh for the affair uh with the midianite and moabit women and their their Baal worship
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um they had suffered under the condemnation of the law and Deuteronomy is there to reatune them to the promises of God um something that we can we can get right in there and identify with
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them we who have been redeemed from the curse of sin but have known the laws Scourge to be oriented a new to the promises of God is a is a real blessing
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for us um so unless there are uh questions concerning uh what I've said um we're going to we're going to read the first discourse at a go here um and
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I'd ask for your patience uh this is not a common thing to do but I really do think we can't study it without um all other thorny issues uh we are definitely going to get into those uh so uh sit
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tight and buckle up um and give ear given that this is the this is the closest I can get you to experiencing
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the words of Deuteronomy the way that its original audience did by The Voice these are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in
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the wilderness in the arabah opposite suf between Pon and topel Laban hazarat and djab it is 11 days journey from H by
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the way of Mount seir to cadesh Bara in the 40th year on the first day of the 11th month Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that Yahweh had
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given him in commandment to them after he had defeated seon the king of the amorites who lived in heshbon and OG the king of bosan who lived in ashot and in
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adre beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab Moses undertook to explain this law saying Yahweh Our God said to us in HB
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you have stayed long enough at this mountain turn and take your journey and go over the hill country of the amorites ites and to all their neighbors in the arabah in the Hill Country and in the
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Loland and in the neb and by the Sea Coast the land of the canites and Lebanon as far as the Great River the river Euphrates see I have set the land
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before you go in and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give to them and their seed after
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them at that time I said to to you I am not able to Bear You by myself Yahweh your God has multiplied you and behold you are today as numerous as the stars
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of Heaven May Yahweh the god of your fathers make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you as he has promised you how can I Bear by myself
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the weight and burden of you and your Strife choose for your tribes wise and understanding and experienced men and I will appoint them as your heads
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and you answered me the thing that you have spoken for us to do is good so I took the heads of your tribes wise and experienced men and set them as heads over you commanders of thousands
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commanders of hundreds commanders of 50s commanders of tens and officers throughout your tribes and I charged your judges at that time hear the cases
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between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him you shall not be partial in judgment you shall hear the small and the great alike
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you shall not be intimidated by anyone for the judgment is God's and the case that is too hard for you you shall bring to me and I will hear it and I commanded
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you at that time the things that you should do then we set out from HB and went through all that great and terrifying Wilderness that you saw on
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the way to the Hill Country of the amorites as Yahweh our God God commanded us and we came to Kadesh Bara and I said to you you have come to the Hill Country of the amorites which
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Yahweh our God is giving us see Yahweh your God has set the land before you go up take possession as Yahweh the god of your fathers has told you do not fear or
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be dismayed then all of you came near and said to me let us send men before us that they may explore the land for us and bring word again by of the way by
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which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come the things seemed good to me and I took 12 men from you one man from each tribe and they turned
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and went up into the Hill Country and came to the valley of Esh and SPI it out and they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us and brought us word again and said it
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is a good land that Yahweh our God is giving us yet you would not go up but rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God
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and you murmured in your tents and said because Yahweh hated us he brought us out of the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the amorites to destroy us
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where are we going our brothers have made our hearts melt saying the people are greater and taller than we the cities are great and fortified up to
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heaven and besides we have seen the sons of the anakim there then I said to youo not be in dread or afraid of them Yahweh your God who goes
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before you will himself fight for you just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes and in the wilderness where you have seen how Yahweh your God carried you as a man carries his son all
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the way that you went until you came to this place yet in spite of this word you did not believe Yahweh your God who went before you in the way to seek you out a
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place place to pit your tents in fire by night and Cloud by day to show you by what way you should go and Yahweh heard your words and he was angered and he
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swore not one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give your fathers except calb the son of yefan he shall see it and to
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him and his children I will give the land on which he is trotten because he has wholly followed Yahweh even with me Yahweh was angry on your account and said you also shall not go
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in there Joshua the son of noon who stands before you he shall enter encourage him for he shall cause Israel to inherit it and as for your little
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ones who you said would become a prey and your children who today have no knowledge of good or evil they shall go in there and to them I will give it and
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they shall possess it but as for you turn and Journey Into the Wilderness in the direction of yam then you answered me we have sinned
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against Yahweh we ourselves will go up and fight just as Yahweh Our God commanded us and every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the Hill Country and Yahweh said to me say to
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them do not go up and fight for I am not in your midst lest you be defeated before your before your enemies so I spoke to you but you would not listen listen you rebelled against
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the command of Yahweh and presumptuously went up into the Hill Country and the amorites who lived in that Hill Country came out against you and chased you like bees do and beat you down in seier as
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far as far as horah and you returned and wept before Yahweh but Yahweh did not listen to your voice or give ear to you so you remained
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at cadesh many days the days that you remained then we turned and journeyed Into the Wilderness in the direction of yam souf as Yahweh told me and for many
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days we traveled around Mount SE then Yahweh said to me you have been traveling around this Mountain Country long enough turn northward and command the people you are about to pass through
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the territory of your brothers the people of asau who live in seier and they will be afraid of you so be very careful do not contend with them for I
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will not give you any of the land no not so much as for the soul of the foot To Tread on because I have given Mount seir to asau as a possession you shall
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purchase food from them for money that you may eat and you shall also buy water for them excuse me buy water of them for money that you may drink for Yahweh your
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God has blessed you in all the work of your hands he knows you're going through this Great Wilderness these 40 years Yahweh your God has been with you you have lacked nothing so we went on away
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from our brothers the people of asau who live in seir away from the arabah road from elot and edzon gar and we turned and went in the direction of the Wilderness of Moab and Yahweh said to me
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do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle for I will not give you any of their land for a possession because I have given R to the people of lot for a
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possession the amim formerly dwelt there a people great and many and tall is the anakim like the anakim they also are counted as reim but the moabites call
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them amim the horites also lived in seir formerly but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place as Israel did to the land of their
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possession which Yahweh gave to them now rise up and go over the brook zared so we went over the brook zared and the time from our leaving cadesh
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Bara until we crossed the book Brook zered was 38 years until the entire generation that is the men of War had perished from the camp as Yahweh had
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sworn to them for indeed the hand of Yahweh was against them to destroy them from the camp until they had perished so as soon as the men of War had perished and were dead from among
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the people Yahweh said to me today you are to cross the border of Moab at R and when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon do not harass grass them
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or contend with them for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession because I have given it to the sons of lot for a possession it also is counted as a land
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of reim reim formerly lived there but the ammonites called them tumim a people great and many and tall as the anakim but Yahweh destroyed them before the
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ammonites and they dispossessed them and settled in their place as he did for the people of isau who lived in seier when he destroyed the hor orites before them and they dispossessed them and settled
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in their place even to this day as for the abim who live in The Villages as far as Gaza the Karim who came from kaor destroyed them and settled in their
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place rise up set out on your journey and go over the valley of the arnone behold I have given into your hands seon the Amorite king of esbon and his land
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begin to take possession and contend with him in battle this day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole Heaven who shall hear
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the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you so I sent Messengers from the Wilderness of kimot to seon the king of esbon with words of
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Peace saying let me pass through your land I will go only by the road I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left you shall sell me food for money that I may eat and give me water
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for money that I may drink only let me pass through on foot as the sons of asau who live in seir and the moabites who live in AR did for me until I go over the Jordan into the land that Yahweh our
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God is giving us but cion the king of heshbon would not let us pass by for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate that he might
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give him into your hand as he is to this day and Yahweh said to me behold I have begun to give seon and his land over to you begin to take possession that you
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may occupy his land then seon came out against us he and all his people to battle at yhaz and Yahweh Our God gave him over to us and we defeated him and
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his sons and all his people and we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city men women and children we left no survivors
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only the livestock we took as SPO for ourselves and the plunder of the Cities we captured from arare which is on the edge of the Valley of the arnone and from the city that is in the valley as
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far as Gilead there was not a city too high for us Yahweh Our God gave all into our hands only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near that is
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to the banks of the river yabok and the cities of the Hill Country whatever Yahweh Our God had forbidden us then we turned and went up by the way to Bashan
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and O the king of Bashan came out against us he and all his people to battle at ad but Yahweh said to me do not fear Him for I have given him and
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all his people and his land into your hand and you shall do to him as you did to seon the king of the amorites who lived in Esh bone so Yahweh Our God gave
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into our hand o also the king of bosan and all his people and we struck him down until he had no Survivor left and we took all his cities at that time not
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a city that we did not take from him 60 cities the whole region of the argob the king of the kingdom of O and boson all these were cities fortified high with
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walls Gates and bars besides very many unwalled villages and we devoted them to destruction as we did to seon the king of esbon devoting to destruction every
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city men women and children but all the livestock and spoil of the Cities we took as our plunder in this way we took the land at that time out of the hands of the two kings of the amorites who
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were beyond the Jordan from The Valley of the arnone to Mount Hermon the sidonians call Hermon Sirion while the amorites call it senir all the cities of
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the table land and all Gilead and all Bashan as far as celaka and adre cities of the kingdom of O and Bashan for only o the king of Bashan was left of the
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remnant of the reim behold his bed a bed of iron is it not in in rabah of the ammonites nine cubits was it was its length and four cubits its bread
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according to the common Cubit when we took possession of the land at that time I gave to the reubenites and gadites the territory beginning at arare which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon and
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half the Hill Country of Gilead with its cities the rest of Gilead and all bosan the kingdom of O that is all the region of the argob I gave to the Hal tribe of
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manace all that portion of Bashan is called land of rayim yair the monite took all the region of the Aro that is Bashan as far as the border of the geshurites and the moath itses and
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called The Villages after his own name havat yayer as it is to this day to makir I gave Gilead and to the reubenites and the gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the
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Valley of the Arnon with the middle of the valley as a border as far over as the river yabok the border of the ammonites the AR ARA also with the Jordan as the border from kenet as far
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as the sea of the arabah the salt sea under the slopes of Pisa on the East and I commanded you at that time saying Yahweh your God has given you this land
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to possess all your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers the people of Israel only your wives your little ones and your livestock I
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know that you have much livestock shall remain in the cities that I have given you until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers as to you and they also occupy the land that Yahweh your God gives them
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beyond the Jordan then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you and I commanded Joshua at that time saying your eyes have seen all that
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Yahweh your God has done to these two kings so will Yahweh do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing you shall not fear them for Yahweh your God fights for you and I plead pleaded with
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Yahweh at that time saying oh Lord Yahweh you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your Mighty hand for what God is there in heaven or
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on Earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan that good Hill Country and the
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Lebanon but Yahweh was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me and Yahweh said to me enough from you do do not speak to me of this matter
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again go up on top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes Westward and northward and Southward and Eastward and look at it with your eyes for you shall not go over this Jordan but charge Joshua and
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encourage and strengthen him for he shall go over at the head of this people and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see so we remained in the valley opposite bed
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peor and peor and now oh Israel listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you and do them that
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you may live and go in and take possession of the land that Yahweh the god of your fathers is giving you you shall not add to the word I command to you nor take from it that you may keep
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the Commandments of Yahweh your God that I command you your eyes have seen what Yahweh did at Bal peor for Yahweh your God destroyed from among you all the men
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who followed the Baal of payor but you who held fast to Yahweh your God are all alive to this day see I have taught you statutes and rules as Yahweh my God
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commanded me that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it keep them and do them for that will be your wisdom and your
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understanding in the sight of the peoples who when they hear all these statutes will say surely this great nation a wise and understanding people for what great nation is there with a
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God so near to it as Yahweh our God is to us whenever we call on him and what great nation is there that has statutes and rules so righteous is all this law that I set before you today only take
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care and keep your soul diligently lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life make
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them known to your children and your children's children how on the the day that you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb Yahweh said to me gather the people to me and that I may let them
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hear my words so that they may learn to fear me all the days they live on the earth and that they may teach their children so and you came near and stood at the
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foot of the mountain while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven wrapped in darkness cloud and Gloom then Yahweh spoke to you out of
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the midst of the fire you heard the sound of words but saw no form there was only a voice and he declared to you his Covenant which he commanded you to
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perform it 10 words and he wrote them on tablets of stone and Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules that you might do them in the land
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you were going over to possess it therefore watch yourselves very carefully since you saw no form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you at corab out of the midst of the fire beware lest
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you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves in the form of any figure the likeness of male or female the likeness of any animal that is on the earth the likeness of any winged
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bird that flies in the air the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground the likeness of any fish in the water under the Earth and beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven and when you
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see the sun and moon and stars and all the host of Heaven you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them things Yahweh your God has allotted to All Peoples under the whole heaven but
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Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace out of Egypt to be a people of his own inheritance as you are to this day Yahweh was angry with me
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furthermore because of you and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan that I should not enter the good land that Yahweh is giving you for an inheritance for I must die in this land I must go
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over Jordan but you shall go over and take possession of that good land take care lest you forget the Covenant of Yahweh your God which he made with you
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and make a carved image the form of anything that Yahweh your God has forbidden you for Yahweh your God is a consuming fire a jealous God when you
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father children and children's children and have grown old in the land if you act corrupt ly by making a carved image in the form of anything and by doing what is evil in the sight of Yahweh your
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God so as to provoke him to anger I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today that you will be utterly perishing from the land that you are going over
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the Jordan to possess it you will not live long in it but you will utterly be destroyed and Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples and you will be left few in number among the Nations Yahweh
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will drive you into and there you will serve gods of wood and stone the work of human hands that neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell but from there you
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will seek Yahweh your God and you will find him if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul when you are in Tribulation and all
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these things come upon you in the latter days you will return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice for Yahweh your God is a merciful god not leaving you or destroying you nor forgetting his
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Covenant with your fathers that he swore to them for ask now of the days that are passed which were before you since the day God created man on the earth and ask
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from one end of Heaven to the other whether such a great thing has ever happened or ever been heard of did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as
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you have heard and still live or has any God ever attempted to go in and take a nation for himself from the midst of another Nation by trial by sign by
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Wonders by War by Mighty hand and outstretched arm and by great Deeds of Terror all with which Yahweh your god did for you in Egypt before your eyes to
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you it was shown that you might know that Yahweh is God and there is no other besides him out of Heaven he let you hear his voice that he might discipline
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you on Earth he let you see his great fire and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire and because he loved your fathers and chose their seed after them and brought you out of Egypt in his
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presence by his great power driving out from your presence Nations greater and mightier than yourselves to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance as it is to this day know
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therefore today and lay it to your heart that Yahweh is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath and there is no other therefore you shall keep his statutes and his Commandments which I
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command you today that it may go well with you and with your children after you and that you may prolong your days in the land that Yahweh your God is giv
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you all the days let's pray Our Father we thank you that we are to receive and see a kingdom that will
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not be shaken that we have not come to a mountain that cannot be touched by us the flame and fire and smoke of which and the loudness of the voice and the thunderings make us
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shrink back and beg that no more word be heard be be heard by us but we have come to mount seon and are the saints of God along
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with our Brothers Through Time enrolled there a mountain that we may come up onto since our great high priest has gone through through the heavens and behind the curtain and has abolished the
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separation between separation between us thank you that we are to be ushered into a land that you have promised all of us and the certainty of your promise is your presence among us thank you for
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these words help us to lay them to heart as all of your people have have been charged to do throughout time help us to persevere and to see and to persevere
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into that rest into that land that you are giving us to possess it all the days thank you in Jesus name amen