Published: June 22, 2025 | Speaker: D. Aaron Wells | Series: Deuteronomy - The Law Is Good, If One Uses It Lawfully 2 - Part 7 | Scripture: Deuteronomy 7:7-15
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Okay. Uh if you uh care to follow along in your Bibles, we'll be continuing in Deuteronomy 7. Um the beginning of our I I'll be starting in verse 5 or so. Um
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the the main study today is uh verses u 7- 15 7- 15 or so.
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Um I think or 16. This is an interesting thing because the way the the way the paragraphs are divided up um is uh actually kind of obscures um some of
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the actual structure uh when when one looks at the language and we'll be I I have a diagram in front of you that at some point I'll invite you to follow along with um so that I don't have to
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sit here and explain my way through the process. There it is. It's printed for you. you can u reference it and um study further if you'd like. Um but the but
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the way the paragraphs are divided up kind of obscures that structure. Um so I'm not strictly following the way it's divided in most of your translations. Um so it's even a little confusing for me
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because we like those indentations and visual cues in the printed text. Um and they're just not availing us for now. But we left off speaking um last week of
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the immediate importance of of inner marriage as representing the essence of close association with another people
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group and how how dangerous that is to their fellowship with God and by extension their fellowship with one another. Um, and that's that's not going
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to stop being uh an important point uh in the text because the the reason that that God gives then for in this way
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rather you shall deal with them. You shall break down their altars. These are the the cherished things of their of their people group, right? This is the essence of who they are. It's their
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religion. You shall tear down their altars and break in pieces their pillars and chop down their asharim and burn their carved images with fire. For you
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are a people holy to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession out of all the peoples who were on the face
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of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that Yahweh set his love on you and chose you, for you are the fewest of
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all peoples, but it is because Yahweh loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers that Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand and
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redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. You have known, therefore, that Yahweh your God is God, the faithful God, who
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keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations and repays to the face those who hate
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him by destroying them. He will not be slack with the one who hates him. He will repay him to the face. You shall therefore be careful to do the
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commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today. And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, Yahweh your God will
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keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love he swore to your fathers. He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the
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fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil. the increase of your herds and the young of your flock in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
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You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock, and Yahweh will take away from you all
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sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt which you knew will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.
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So, not because of your being more numerous than any of the other peoples. Um, as a couple of you pointed out last week, Moses mention of the nations and numbering them seven is not an
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expression of them being seven co-equal apples apples to apples comparable nations, but rather a symbolic use of that seven in order to in order to
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express that they are they they are stable. They are set within their place. They are numerous and powerful and they are not to be they are esteemable with
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with an identity as nations. Whereas you, Israel, had no identity except that not because they were more numerous than
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any of the other peoples, but because they are brothers, sons of the same fathers that God promised to give their own seed this land. Okay? So, and I and
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I say that because they are brothers, it it is evident in the text clearly that they are sons of the same father. And I want to extend that naturally to their
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essential unity which has been emphasized numerous times already in what we've studied. They are brothers and that will be of great importance. But first that they are sons of their
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fathers. So th this this phrase uh like many in in this text as Yahweh swore to your fathers is not a throwaway phrase.
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it would be easily seen by us as that because it repeats often. And and secondly, that's not really the way that we often interact with the promises of God. Not not naturally. Certainly not
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the way we interact as a as a society. We don't speak of, you know, uh the this and that of my fathers. That's not a common parlance, but it's not a
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throwaway phrase. Yahweh made an agreement with which sometimes when we're reading uh as a family I I I I'll I'll supplant the word covenant with
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agreement because covenant has with it some baggage and it it tends to be elevated like this this ultra theological word. It's not. It's an
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agreement and it should be seen at at its root as a basic agreement of some sort between two or more parties. Okay. Yahweh made an agreement with Abraham and with Isaac and Jacob and like the
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nations we discussed are not mythical nations sort of mythical backdrop of an imaginary history of Israel. So Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not mythical men.
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They were real men and God made an agreement with them to give these specific people that is Moses' audience right now this land. Okay. And we it
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would be outside the scope of our study to trace uh the agreements with the patriarchs, but you know, a good example can be seen in some of the uh scripture references that I had on your outline
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last weekend. Um and one of which is in Genesis 15. It he on that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram saying to
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your offspring I have given this land. It is a faticon plea. I have given. Okay. and and then he lists out those nations and and the borders of that
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land. Um, and if if we would, and I don't say that anybody in this room actually doubts that, but if we would doubt that given 400 years of space in
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there that that agreement could possibly be enforcable and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob are long dead. Um, I I invite as a
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a look into what the Lord says in Matthew 22 to the Pharisees, excuse me, to the Sadducees, the the leaders of the Jews. Um the the words of God to Abraham
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and Isaac and Jacob are just as fresh in Moses' day as they were when they when Abraham and Isaac and Jacob first heard them. The Lord many centuries later makes the exact same argument to the
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leaders of the Jews, saying in verse 31-32, "As for the as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God? I am
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the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And then he further puts a finer point on it by saying he is not God of the dead but of the living.
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He's treating their fathers as a living entity to whom he's still obligated under the terms of the agreement. Okay? And and it's I I just say as a sidebar, it's a fascinating truth of the language
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there that it implies resurrection. It implies that Abraham and Isaac and Jacob will be alive to receive the fulfillment of the promise. That's a that's an amazing truth
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amazing truth buried in the language of scripture. Um God's obligation then his debt to their fathers is a debt of love to their seed. So it's no surprise that Paul would say
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to us that we should being the people of God should owe nothing to one another but a debt of love. God has obligated himself in a debt of love to these men's children. And to use a human example, if
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if you had a relative who whose a young relative whose parents died and you were designated the guardian, that the sense of solemn obligation and feeling that
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you would have toward that child for the sake of their parents uh is I think obvious. Um this is the same sense in which God is obligated to uh to the people of Israel but with the added
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layer that they that these fathers of theirs whom he set his love on will live. Um live. Um so secondly uh by extension being sons
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of the same fathers they are brothers. Um we're familiar and it was brought up last week um the the the passage in second Corinthians that speaks of says
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that um that believers should not be unequally yolked with uh unbelievers. Um and I won't read the lengthy passage that's 2 Corinthians uh 7 or excuse me
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um the end of 2 Corinthians 6. Um, but I but I want to note that before that phrase, Paul says something really important as the basis for teaching them concerning
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the analogy of yoking. Okay, this is verse 11 of 2 Corinthians 6. We have spoken freely to you Corinthians. Our
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heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us. You are restricted in your own affections. In return, I speak as to children. Widen
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your hearts also. Do not be unequally yolked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has
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light with darkness, etc. And and again, most of us are familiar with that passage. But he he roots his appeal in we've spoken. We've
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been free with you. We have been open with you. We have considered ourselves united to you. Do the same with us. Don't be unequally yolked with
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unbelievers. Open your hearts to us. Do you see the the appeal to the to the affection of the people of God as brothers there? This isn't just the so you know new law
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in the New Testament. See, you have to do that. You got to pay attention to it. Paul is making an appeal that is rooted in the fact that we are brothers. And and I mentioned last week that going
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astray toward the world is indifference toward one another. Our bringing holiness to completion in the sight of God is because we distinct
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from all peoples are loved by God and have these same promises from God that are being expressed in this text. We are to consider ourselves obligated to one
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another in the way that God obligates himself to us. Okay? As he swore to your fathers because he loved them. Right? So we then
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are to be obligated to one another in that same way. Not by a law of works, okay? But in love, willingly and freely.
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That's the attitude that the Holy Spirit is working within each one of us. If indeed we have his spirit
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the and as far as their national identity uh they were I just note that they were already among another nation. Um they were all they started uh mixed in with other nations. Uh
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Abraham did too. uh he was in Ur, uh a denisin of that large and prosperous city and yet was called out and even called away from his own family when it
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became troublesome for when they stopped in um in Haron um he was called away from them too. Not only were they out
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right tremendous lesson there for believers. It it is and miraculously God kept them separate and and in that in this case it was against their will. Um I think I
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think the prophets testify to us that their will was to assimilate as much as possible because that was the comfortable uh that that was comfort to them to do so. But God kept them
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separate on purpose and set the set the eyes of the Egyptians against them. Um, so they they were Yeah. Right. They they were they were never actually separate
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from pagan nations, but kept separate by God uh in in a way that goes beyond what is merely rational. And they were already in the world. And it was for
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them the house of slavery. I don't want to throw away the phrase the house of slavery either. He's speaking of their association with the world that they had already experienced. And later the the
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text will say the diseases of Egypt which you knew. Okay, they they knew all about the world. They had been in the world and it had done them no good. And I um just a sidebar here um even
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separate from the Egyptians as as they were, they were still an obscure people. And I don't know if you've picked this up or have any struggle with this, but I raised an eyebrow at this that on the
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one hand u it is said that they are as numerous as the sand on the shore in in fulfillment of the promise to Abraham. But then here it says you were the fewest of all peoples. Anybody ever
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wondered about that? Okay. Uh as for as for one man's descendants, I think this is the real key. As for one man's descendants, more
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numerous than the sand on the shore. As for the surrounding nations, fewer. So, both are true. And don't lose that. The fact that they've got a couple million of them running around um is may may be
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quite scary to the nations, but it wasn't because they heard that they were more numerous or powerful. It was because they heard about the deeds of their god that they trembled in their cities. Uh
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um Paul says this to us in 1 Corinthians. This is 1 Corinthians 1:26 through 31. For consider your calling, brothers. Not many of you were wise according to the
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flesh. Not many were powerful. Not many of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise. God chose what is weak in the world to
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shame the strong. God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, so that no flesh might
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boast in the presence of God. And from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, so
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that as it is written, "Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord. Any questions before I continue?
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Okay. Note also um in uh in verse 8, let's see, get back to that.
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Verse eight. But it is because Yahweh loves you and is keeping the oath he swore to your fathers that Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
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So they were redeemed and shepherded by one God. one God. God's love for their fathers was extended to them and and that love was to redeem Jacob's children from slavery
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and exact the price of redemption from their captives. their captives. Okay. So, we see something here, which I'll pick up on later, of the of the righteous wrath of God, even that being
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turned as an act of love upon his people. That that serving his love for his people. Um, I put a couple of references in uh in your outline uh
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concerning the um concerning their redemption and their shephering by God and how God promised that to their fathers. Um uh you can look at that on on your own. Uh but it is because Yahweh
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loves you and is keeping the oath. Okay. Um as with their fathers, having nothing to recommend them to God above other nations, these will be commended by
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their faith. God loves them and he keeps his agreements and they are his children if they love him and keep his commands. Do you see the the the analogy there?
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Okay. And that's important because that what what follows here uh and what's it what's being diagrammed for you in the second page of the of the handout is is
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Moses focusing on the fact that if if that that God has loved them and they shall love him. He kept his word to
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their fathers and they shall keep his word. Okay? And teach their children to do the same. So what I have in front of you is again I'm not going to go into it
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in detail. I've tried to underline and bold and and even color uh one thing and italicize to to draw attention to things which correspond to one another as
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threads running through the text. So if it's a weave then the threads cross a lot. Um but it's but it is uh in service of again I think a normal way of
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discoursing uh in in their thought which is which is the you know the keyasm okay which is we we work through some of the
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the concept that some of the message the concept of the message but the real thesis statement is here in the middle of the text And then what follows from
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it points points back to what was said and elaborates on it further. So what is it really goes the other direction,
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right? It it's really both both the beginning and the end of the text point inward. Okay? And what is here on the outskirts as point one
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corresponds to what is said last. And so you'll have something like if you if you remember rhyme schemes for poetry it it would be like a poem where the first and
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last lines rhymed and then the second and second to last ones rhymed etc etc until you got to the middle. Okay. So there'll be a be a B point and uh and a
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you know a corresponding B point. It may even get as and in this case I think it really does get as complex as having a third and and then you get the the main the
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main thesis which is u in in our case remarkably simple. I've waited to say that this is the case for this text because I think it's
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appropriate as I was thinking about how do you how do you teach this without just overwhelming with detail, right? is let's so I' I've driven into the center here and now I'm telling you okay
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remember what you heard because what you hear from now on will correspond to what you've already heard and comparing them is very illuminating as to what as to what Moses is saying um so uh
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keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments but on the other hand lays on those who hate him, his judgments. Okay? And at the very center, you shall
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therefore, this is the the thesis of this chapter 7 in your copies. Okay? You shall therefore keep the commandment and statutes and rules that I command you
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today to do them. Very simple. But as as with our lives, and I certainly found this out in the last couple of weeks, it's messy.
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It requires explanation about things that maybe it should be enough just to say keep the commandments but but it isn't. We are we are a forgetful and fearful people and we need we need the teaching.
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Okay. So also we'll point out that if if it is at the the root of this particular part of the text that you shall
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therefore keep the commandment to do them. Um I'll point out that the people agreed at the mountain speak to us all that Yahweh our God will speak to you
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and we will hear and do it. They agreed to do them. Okay. And excuse me. It will be well, pardon me,
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pardon me, and it will be well with them if they do so. God intends to do exactly what he said he would do. As he has blessed them by promise to Abraham to this point, he
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will bless them in their doing the commands as they promised to do them. Okay? But he will also according to the terms of the agreement make them like the other nations if Israel does as the
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other nations do. That is the terms of the agreement made in front of the mountain. Does anyone doubt that that that is so
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that that the that the law as as an agreement made in front of the mountain was one that must be kept by by the people because God has kept his word. Okay. No problems with that. Um, so
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therefore, keep the commandments. Okay. Yahweh abounds in steadfast love and faithfulness. That is that is really what's given to us in what I've marked as C in your diagram there. What with in
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in verses 9 and 10. He keeps his agreements. He keeps his steadfast love. And if they keep his word, then he will keep his covenant and steadfast love
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with them as he has with their fathers. He has loved them as well. This is again the the the utility of bringing in the the deliverance from Egypt is the
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demonstration. I have loved you. They will continue in that love by loving him and keeping his word. That's that's what's being um uh counterposed
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as you go through the text. He is faithful to and this is uh regarding the words to a thousand generations uh which if you notice um in
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in the diagram I have to a thousand generations italicized and then down in C prime um I have a lot of text um italicized. So there's this litany of
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detail as to what to a thousand generations means like what's uh what's that actually talking about? He's faithful to the unimaginable increase of
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generations. It's not too too uh much time for God to be faithful between the life of Jacob and the lives of these people. A thousand generations wouldn't
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wouldn't exhaust his faithfulness. Um and and his love will be then to the unimaginable increase of the nations. Hence the hence the litany of of detail,
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the increase of your herds and your flocks and your houses being well and your uh families multiplying and and your food multiplying. Okay, those
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correspond to one another. Hence again, hence the utility of noticing this literary structure. This I've I've read some in in my time and this was looking at some issues concerning baptism.
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I've seen some really rash bad statements made about to a thousand generations and what that means. But it's unnecessary to muse on what that
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may mean. The the text tells us he will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, etc., etc., etc. That's what to a thousand
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generations means. It's inexhaustible and it will be great in detail. On the other hand, um looking at the so
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this is I've sort of looked at verse 9 and uh 12-4, Yahweh abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. But the counterposition is
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to those who hate him, right? In verses 10 and 15, Yahweh will by no means clear the guilty. His blessings for the faithful are farreaching and expansive.
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His repayment to those who hate him is to the face, not slack. And I I like the how the language is very staccato for um
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for the repayment to those who hate him. And it doesn't suggest that it's immediate, but it suggests that it is diligent and and on point. Okay? As expansive and and full as his grace is
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to those who love him, his his payment is very diligent. Okay? And I also note that illness seems to be the chosen vehicle of judgment in this context
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because the blessings described are domestic blessings and illness is a domestic affliction. I think it's appropriate to mention illness uh as a key example. Uh both are very close to
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home and personal. These judgments will be close to home and personal as the blessings will be. This is not off in the distance. This is meaningful.
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Yahweh's retribution against those who hate him is intentionally for the benefit of those who love him. Bringing up what I said earlier, he will lay them
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those diseases intended for those who hate him on all who hate you. Thus fulfilling what he said to Abraham that I will bless those who bless you
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and curse those who curse you. And I put in red too um in your in your diagram, you have
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known therefore that Yahweh your God is God, etc. And then down in verse 15, the evil diseases of Egypt which you have known. I don't think that's an accident
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uh at all. Um I think that what is going on there is as sur as they have known his love that they have known his love as surely as they knew the wasting
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diseases of Egypt. Okay. And given what'll follow um in in the text of Deuteronomy in setting before you the blessing and the curse, I think it's appropriate to note that that there is a
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a certainty to their knowing of either one or the other. Um, so in other words, to put it simply, um, the choice is
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yours, Yahweh or the world, and your works will tell where your heart is.
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Any questions about questions or comments about that, please? I think you made
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our position now very similar to Israelites when they were in the land how they were supposed to live. You have a similar
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structure in the New Testament to be
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as believers now we got to do these things that they were told but we also know that we weren't rescued from Egypt into a land right and so our
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of blessing where they were in a physical land of blessing How does this structure and what we learn about their challenge to live to obey and live how does that inform our
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life as
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right? But it's also the unequally yoke starts out with that, right? Which is the language of slavery. Yeah, I think I think the question is excellent. What is the corresponding? Yeah, that one comes to
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mind. I'm not sure about a kayastic structure, but has but has but I also um the things that that Peter says in first Peter I don't want to get
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hung up on the structure is very clear and educates very well and you've done a great job in the past we live a life
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to live in the land that this structure should point us to understanding the fulfillment of this
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command that we're able to live and yet one of the major struggles of the Christian life in the world. How am I supposed to live? Yeah. I think the the the prophets
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point us to what what that reality is. And and I I I say I point out what the prophets say because in in your study of
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scripture, it is insufficient to just read the law as the law and then to try to maybe perhaps you're disturbed by
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knowing your sin and your corruption and and you read the law and now now what? Now I do. Okay. And to go simply try to this is not what you're doing, but to
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simply run to the New Testament is is inappropriate. The prophets pointed to a future fulfillment with the increasing
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knowledge that Israel had fallen short of what they had agreed to do. So the the question that is at the root of why you have a good half of your Bible is
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what now what now the we we failed to drive them out. We failed to obey the law. We have not given rest to the weary. We have not
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cared for the sojourer and the fatherless. We have we have not gone up with right worship. Our hearts are corrupt. Uh our kings are corrupt. Even the good ones, they die.
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What do we do? And so the witness of the prophets is gonna point us in the right direction as to understanding of the New Testament witness in its proper light.
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What were what questions were they giving the ultimate answers to that the prophets gave an answer that pointed forward? So Jeremiah 31 comes to mind as
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well that the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Not like the agreement that I made with their fathers on the day I took them by
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the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. My agreement that they broke though I was their husband, declares Yahweh. But this is the agreement I will make with the house of Israel after
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those days, declares Yahweh. I will put my law within them. I will write it on their hearts. I will be their God and
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they shall be my people. No longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, "Know Yahweh. For they shall all know me from the
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least of them to the greatest," declares Yahweh. For I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.
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So then you then you get into what Paul says in first Corinthians or second Corinthians rather. You get into first Peter and you definitely get where Hebrews picks this up and makes a big deal. And I' I'd then point to Hebrews 2
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and I've made a big deal out of this particular passage. I believe it's Hebrews 10. I think it's Hebrews 10 or 9. Um where he says that the sacrifices and offerings offered according to the
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law, they have been set aside for what is greater. That is one has come who has done the will of God. Right? The sacrifices and offerings, the law is there for transgression. The law is there because you are not righteous.
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But when one comes who does the will of God and inaugurates a new people of whom it is said they do God's will then the
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former is set aside. Okay. And it becomes for us a picture of what is now rather than a prescription for what must be uh in us.
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That's right. Thank you for pointing that out. It is the same for for Abraham. The promise was a fat company. It will be and it is done. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Even better. It is done. Yeah. And
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so it it is appropriate that the Lord from the cross should say it is finished. Yeah. That's a great point. Thank you. Did you have another comment? Just to say that 2 Corinthians 6 through
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That's the core, right? of the identity of God's people. Right. Right. So, uh I actually had written down how then does this picture of obedience tell us about ourselves in Christ. Um I'm not going to
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say that this that even all that I've said may fully answer it for you. I I think we need to think rightly about where we start and and contemplate from
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there. It's intentionally a It's intentionally given to us in scripture without like a nice easy pat answer for us. And so it is meant for
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our edification in contemplating that like all wisdom is wisdom is meant to be comp contemplated. It's not it's not oh good. I got I got my good wise saying and I'm I'm good to go. I just go apply
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it. Well, how though? Okay, it's other wisdom that tells you that. Okay. And you need to get in the mode of of reading scripture for the purpose of
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contemplating further what God has done and how we then live as a wise and understanding people with him with his presence in our midst and him near to us
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whenever we call upon him. How does the picture of obedience tell us about ourselves in Christ? Since we fulfill the law by faith, the
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faith of Abraham, then we have the certainty of God's love remaining with us. That stands to reason. Okay? Scripture teaches, the New Testament teaches us in in many places that we fulfill the law by faith. So
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therefore, what it is said of those who fulfill the law is ours by faith in Christ. Secondly, since we are Abraham's sons by faith in Christ Jesus, we have
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certainty that the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ will raise us from the dead at the last day as he promised and give us the land he swore to our father
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Abraham. That land will be given to us. Just contemplate that. our our
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our our behavior in this world. If we're going to say that, we need to see that as described for us in the law. There's no need to prescribe righteous
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behavior or penalties for unrighteous to those who are righteous. There's no need. You you I don't I don't need to make up rules in my house except when
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there's malfeasants going on. Okay? We we rather are seeing in the law described for us who we are because that same law is written on our hearts as the
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law prescribed so it is for us.
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Um any any questions about or comments before I close? Okay. um to set up next week a little bit a note um to to get
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back to what is being said to Israel. Their generations would not be propagated, speaking of to a thousand generations. Okay? Their generations would not be propagated but quickly cut
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off by generation with the world. But Yahweh's love is to a thousand generations, faithful to all who abide in his love, preserving always in his house the people who love him. Okay. So
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the brotherhood of of the people of God is distinction from other peoples. It entail it implies and entails that. Okay. The preservation of the people of
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God is the destruction of God's enemies. The multiplication of the people of God is the dimmonition of the peoples of the earth of the nations
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because Yahweh is our God and so shall they destroy the nation's gods. Let us pray.
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Our father, we thank you for what you have done in Jesus Christ as we in reading these precepts feel very keenly our own corruption and our own proclivity to fear and forgetfulness.
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We praise you for your glorious grace in Jesus Christ that you would make us by trust in the work and the word of
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Christ. Sons of Abraham, heirs to a promise that cannot be broken because it is impossible for you to lie, having obligated yourself and a debt of love to
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him and a debt of love to us because that seed that you promised came and we are in him. We we ask that you would assist us in
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contemplating the reality that you have set your law in our hearts by your spirit and that you will day by day transform us in heart and mind according
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to that word by the power of your holy spirit. We thank you in Jesus name.