When we go through this, and
I'm just giving you the broad outline of it, and that's why
I give you them, and when you study through the scriptures
yourself, and if you start in Genesis, you've got your survey,
and you can kind of follow it along. But everybody ought to
read the scriptures and really familiarize themselves with them.
But God called preachers to give the sense and the understanding.
today, in the last couple of days, where they didn't have
any teaching priest, they didn't have any people to give sense,
the understanding of the scriptures. Well, God raised up a king named
Asa, and after Asa, Jehoshaphat, and they were good kings, and
they set things in order and appointed teaching Levites and
sent them to all the cities, sent them to every town. and
said, You go teach them the word of God. Teach them God's law.
Teach it to them. And that's what God calls men
to do, is to take the scriptures and open them to our understanding. Some have greater gifts of it
than others, but that's what we're called to do. Now, the
book of Deuteronomy, and look what this opens up with, verse
1, it says, These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel
on this side of Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain against
the Red Sea, between Laban, Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazaroth, and
Dezabbath. And this is the fortieth year.
This is it. Now, Deuteronomy is called the
book of the second law, and as you go through this and read
this, you'll read that Moses He reiterates how God called
him out of Egypt, brought him out of Egypt. And he's going
through the whole law and expounding it and setting up and interpreting
it for them. And all the things that they
did and why they didn't go into the promised land to begin with
because they rebelled against God. They could have went into
the promised land just like that. They sent the spies down there
and ten come back and said, oh no, we can't go down there. Those
people are too big. Joshua and Caleb said, we can go. God's
for us, nobody can be against us. Well, that hard-hearted bunch
got mean, got hard-hearted, and murmured against God. And so
God made them wander around in the same place. It was just about,
I think it was maybe an 8 or 10, 11 days journey from here
to yonder. And they went around in circles
for 40 years. Now, He's expounded the law again
to this new generation. that's fixed to go over into
the promised land. And that's why it's called the
Book of the Second Law, because the Holy Spirit is teaching us
something. And He's showing us that God
did not give His law to keep us from doing wrong and to make
us do right, though He expounded it in Exodus where God gives
His law, the Ten Commandments there, that He didn't give the
law to keep us from doing wrong and to make us do right. He didn't
give the law to teach us how to live or to give us sanctification. Now, I know that God's law keeps
a lot of people from doing certain things. It restrains wicked men
and women from doing much evil that's in them because they're
afraid of punishment. But the Apostle said that we
know that the law is good. Good if a man uses it lawfully.
Now, what does it mean, use it lawfully? Use what it's made
for. And knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous
man. It's like we often say, you know, a lock will only keep
an honest man out. It won't keep a thief out. And
that's the way the law is. The law is made for a righteous
man, but not for the righteous, but for the lawless, the disobedient,
for the ungodly, for sinners, for unholy, and for pain, for
murderers and fathers. men-slayers, whoremongers, for
them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, whoremongers,
that there be any such things, for liars, perjured persons,
and anything that is contrary to sound doctrine, anything that
is not according to the gospel of the blessed God." And let
me tell you, give you a few things about this. The book of Deuteronomy
is quoted ninety times, ninety times in the New Testament, fourteen
books in the New Testament. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself,
when He was tempted of the devil, when He went into the wilderness
and the devil tempted Him, He quoted Deuteronomy three times. For every time the devil tempted
Him, He says, thou shalt not... When He said, you know, cause
these stones to be made bread when he is hungry, He says, thou
shalt not live the bread alone, but by every word which proceeds
out of the mouth of God. That's in Deuteronomy 6. The
next one was, you know, took him up to a high mountain and
said, cast yourself off because the angels gave you charge over
you. So you won't even bump your foot. He said, it is written,
thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. That's Deuteronomy chapter
eight. And then when the Lord Jesus tempted him the last time
and told him that he'd give the world everything in it, he says,
thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve.
Again, Deuteronomy. So this book is mentioned 90
times, quoted from 90 times, out of 14 books in the New Testament.
Our Lord Himself quoted it many times. And Moses' name, in this
particular book, appears 36 times. And he speaks in the first person
four times, which is very rare for this to be done. But let me show you what I mean
by the first person. Look down in verse 6. Excuse me, verse 16, not six,
verse 16. 2 Romans 1, 16. Now see how he takes here and
speaks in the first person? And I charged your judges at
that time saying, Here are your causes. Here are the causes between
your brethren. Judge righteously. And then he
done it again down in verse 18. And I commanded you at that time
all things which ye should do. So God had him in an unusual
place where he could even speak in the first person that I sent.
I sent. And you have to have a call,
and Paul said that. He said, I command. And he gave
lots of things that he said was right. But here we have this
second law, as I've already mentioned to you. Moses is fixing to leave
the scene. And I was reading today where
a lot of these things he said, one fellow put them into different
sermons. He has different ways he'd say things, and he'd move
on to something else. But anyway, it's the last month
of Israel's journey. They're fixing to go into Canaan.
They're going to cross Jordan and go into Canaan. And it begins
with Moses and it ends with Moses telling all of Israel, Joshua,
Joshua's going to take you now into the promised land. I don't
get to go into the promised land because God was angry with me
because of what I did when I smoked the rock twice. Smoked it in
my name. He said God was angry with me.
I don't get to go into the promised land. And that tells us, isn't it,
Moses can't take us nowhere. But Joshua, Joshua, he ends with
Joshua. Moses dies at the end, and Joshua
has the same name as our Savior has. Joshua, Jesus. It means
Jehovah Savior. Jesus, they shall call his name
Jesus. And so the law, and this law
was written. And beloved, the law is our schoolmaster. This is why it's written. It's
our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. And once that law
has brought us and done that, and having brought us to faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ, we become dead to the law, and the
law is dead to us. For the Scriptures tells us Christ
is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. So
when Paul, God, when He gave the law, what He's doing, He
says, and Paul asked this question, here's the second given of the
law. That's what Deuteronomy means. And Paul, he asked this
question over in Galatians. He said, what then serveth the
law? And then the Scriptures tell
us very plainly in Romans and Galatians that the law was given
for two reasons. Two reasons. First of all, it
was given to identify sin in us. Now, you see, we by nature
are self-righteous. Mary and I was talking about
that the other day, and I was mentioning all I knew before I knew the
grace of God, before I heard the gospel. Everybody else was
wrong. You know, I was the one living
right. I was trying to get everybody else to live the way I did. Very
self-righteous, you see. And always, we have this great
capacity for condemning others and justifying ourselves. Everybody
else being wrong and everything we're doing right. But the law,
what it does, the law, is come to law and gives you and me the
knowledge of our sin. And when it gives us the knowledge
of our sin, and it condemns us, it shows us that we're guilty,
it brings us the knowledge of our sin, then we quit looking
around at everybody else, and we like Isaiah says, woe is me.
That's the first thing. By the law is the knowledge of
sin. That's why Paul said, what shall we say then? Is the law
sin? Is the law sin because it showed
me my sinfulness? He said, God forbid, I have not
known sin. But by the law, By God's Word,
by what God's Word said, and by what the law says. He said,
for I had not known what lust was. I did not know what it was
to covet, to desire something that was illicit. I did not know
what was to covet, to go after something, until the law rolled
and come home to my heart and said, Thou shalt not covet. And
what do you think Paul coveted? I'll tell you, by listening to
his own testimony, he coveted recognition. He coveted power. He covered it being one of the
high priests maybe someday. But he was the son of Benjamin,
but he couldn't have been, but he covered it higher power and
position. And also the law showed him that.
And I tell you, when the law comes and it makes us to know
that we're guilty, it'll stop our own mouth. It'll stop our
mouth from condemning everybody else, and we'll condemn just
ourselves. And then secondly, not only is the law given to
identify sin and condemn it, but it's also given to make us
and cause us to run into the faith, into the person in arms
of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's one thing it does. When
you find yourself guilty and condemned, where are you going
to go? Where are you going to go? What are you going to do? You can't go back to the law.
It's going to found you guilty. It's condemned you. You can't
go to who you don't go to. But I'll tell you what the law
does. It makes us flee to Christ, and
once it shows us, beloved, that it demands a righteousness we
can't produce, and then we run to the Lord Jesus Christ as helpless,
as guilty, and we understand that we absolutely have no ability
whatsoever to change our condition. And then we learn what it meant
for our Lord Jesus in His only sinless life And then here's
Dan, banning our sins in his own body on that tree. That that's
where our salvation lies entirely, completely outside ourselves.
And if the law never does... Here, I don't understand, folks.
Well, I do understand. I understand that they don't
know. They just don't know. Nobody's ever told them. Nobody's
ever told them the truth. But when men come... These fellas
call themselves Reformed, and they call themselves Calvinists.
And they'll run to Christ and run to Calvary to get saved. And then they come back to the
law to get sanctified. The law don't say nothing about
sanctifying you. All it does, it says, if thou
doest not these things, cursing is he that continueth not in
all things written in the book of the law to do them. Now, if you don't go down that
route, you're in trouble. But oh, that's why Paul says,
therefore, by the deeds of the law, by the deeds of the law,
no flesh will be justified in God's sight. No flesh. That's why the Lord Jesus Christ
was manifested. And God manifested His righteousness
in His blessed Son. Because we understand that we
all sin and come short of God's glory. And so then God justifies
us freely by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Washes us
in His blood. and gives us and makes us understand
how He can be both just and justifier when we trust the Lord. You've
come to my son, and I'll justify you, but I'm guilty. My son bore
you guilt. If you believe that, if you believe
that, that the only righteousness you have is there, then I'm just
to justify you because He bore you sin. Ain't that, that's,
oh, what a gospel. What a gospel. And whenever you
look at all the sacrifices All the lambs that were offered,
I mean, there's when Solomon built the temple. One day, one
day, he offered 20,000 lambs in a day. You know how many men
it took to offer 20,000 lambs? I don't know how many oxen he
sent. Rivers of blood flowed in Jerusalem that day. and all
the goats, and all the oxen, and all the calves, and all the
other animals. They never put away sin, but
these were just pictures, types of our Lord Jesus Christ and
His bloodshed for the remission of our sins. And the only way,
the only way a sinful man and a holy God can be brought together
is by God making payment. Payment being made to God's justice
that demands our death for our sins. And the only one who can
make that payment is the Son of God Himself with His own precious
blood. And He has done it. Not going
to do it, He has done it. And that's why it says, Christ
has always suffered for our sins and just for the unjust that
He might bring us to God. And oh, beloved, though we're
sinners, though we know that we're sinners by nature, our
Lord Jesus Christ, the scripture says, there's no condemnation,
no condemnation that them that are in Christ. No danger must
be incurred, because Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of
the law. And then He makes us righteous
before God in His law. Then He makes us, look over in
Romans chapter eight, let me show you what I'm talking about.
Me and Moose Park was talking about this yesterday. Talking
about the law, a fellow kept asking Wayne Boyd one time, he
just kept asking him, and Wayne tried to dodge the issue because
he didn't want to get in an argument with the fellow, because they're
supposed to believe the same thing, but kept asking him, what's
your view on the law? What's your view on the law?
What's your view on the law? Would you stand on the law? And
he finally told him, he says, well, I'm dead to the law. The
law's dead to me. Christ redeemed me out from under
its curse. The law has no power over me.
I don't deal with it. Christ dealt with it for me. That fellow didn't like that.
He thought it was supposed to be what our rule of life was
to be and how we're supposed to live by it. How we're supposed
to discipline the church with it. How in the world would I
discipline the church with the law? I ain't seen you do nothing.
What would I do if I saw you do something? You know what I'd do? Do what I hope you'd do for me.
Pray for me. And say, Brother Donnie, I know you're just fresh,
and I hope God will Have mercy on them. You pray for them. If you start going down the law,
how can I get in your mind and tell you what you've done against
God's law? Right since we've been in this service, we've sinned
against God's law sitting in this service. Now, I'm telling
you the truth. It says, love the Lord thy God
with all your heart. And we come in here, and beloved,
it's all we can do is to pay attention for a little while. Now, is that not right? And then
it tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. And then you, you
know, you're supposed to love me. And listen to every word
I say. That's when it comes to the gospel. And we go on and
then we say, you know, honor your father and your mother,
love your husbands, love your wives, even as you love Christ, love
the church. Have you done that today? Did you have her supper fish
when she got home from work? See what I'm telling you? This
is what I'm saying. Beloved, Christ has set us free
from that. And we walk with Him in newness
of life. And look what it said here in Romans chapter 8. This
is what I'm trying to say. And that's why, beloved, we can't
even use the law to discipline the church. Watch what he says there in verse
1. Now, no condemnation to them
which are in Christ Jesus." Watch this now. "...who walk not after
the flesh, but after the Spirit." Now, listen to me. When you walk
after the flesh, that means you're assigned to be justified by your
flesh. Walking after your own fall in nature. But we don't
walk after the flesh. We're not trying to be justified
by our flesh. We're not trying to please God
by our flesh, by our fallen nature. But we walk after the Spirit,
the Spirit for the law, the principle of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus. That Spirit that brought life
to us from Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and
death. Now listen, for what the law
could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh. Nothing
wrong with the law, the problem's with us. So what did God do? Because the law, nothing wrong
with it, the problem was us. God sent his own Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh. Look, just like us, Cried like
us, hurt like us, grieved, and a man like us in all points except
without sin. And then made him an atonement,
a sacrifice for sin, and judged sin in the flesh, in his body
on that tree. Now listen to it, that the righteousness
of the law might be fulfilled in us. How in the world can that
be? Because the Spirit of Christ
in us, the Spirit of life in us, the fact that Christ suffered
our sins in the flesh, and the righteousness of the law is fulfilled
in us. Now watch it. Who walk not after
the flesh, we're not found by... No, we don't... We have no confidence
in the flesh. In the flesh dwells no good thing.
We are not trying to please God, not trying to satisfy God, not
trying to get any blessings from God after the flesh, but we walk
after the Holy Spirit that brought us to Christ. Can you see that?
That's just as plain as the nose on my face to me. I love it. Love it. And then let me tell
you the lesson. And that's why the Scripture
says, Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
It's God that justifies. Who's either condemned? It's
Christ that died, yea, rather, that's risen again. It's even
at the right hand of God. So who's going to separate us
from the love of God and Jesus Christ? Who could possibly do
it? Who could possibly do it? And
so, beloved, let me tell you, as Moses now delivered Israel
into the hands of Joshua, assuring them, telling them, making them
understand that Joshua would take him to possess all of Canaan.
What God does is He takes the law of God, delivers us into
the hands of Christ, just as Moses delivered Israel into the
hands of Joshua to take them into the promised land. God's
law delivers us into the hands of Christ. assuring us that all
the salvation we need is in Him, and all the blessings and all
the grace and glory that God promised us in Christ shall be
ours throughout eternity. Now, there's two themes run throughout
Deuteronomy, not found in Leviticus or Aeschylus either one. First
is our weakness and our inability. You go through this book and
you know it yourself, you've understood it yourself, you know
this Though we've been cleansed before God through the blood
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the rewarding of regeneration by
the Word, we have absolutely, and Moses makes this so plain,
we absolutely have no ability in ourselves at any time to do
anything, anything to get God to do something for us. He made
them understand that time and time again. Time and time again. You know, I'm not taking you
in because you're righteous. I'm driving them other people
out because they're wicked. And don't you dare say in your
heart that I'm doing this because you're a very good people, and
you're a fine bunch of folks, and I think you're the greatest
folks in the world, and I'm going to drive out. No, no. He said,
I'm taking wicked people and moving them out because they're
so wicked. You know, I'm not taking you there because you're
righteous. So he said, everything that God does for us is going
to be because of His grace. And in ourselves, in our flesh,
we have no ability whatsoever to please God. And secondly,
here's the blessedness that I love. It's the Lord our God. The Lord
our God is always with us. God in Christ. God in Christ
fulfills all the demands of His own law. And He dwells with us,
lives with us, and does for us unconditionally. Unconditionally. And everything He demand of us,
He Himself gives it to us. Ain't that something? Everything
He demands, He gives it to us. He supplies it Himself. He stays
with us unconditionally. If it wasn't unconditional, what
could we do? If God's grace and mercy and
salvation was not unconditional and had any condition to meet,
what would we do? What would we do? You might meet
the condition for a while, and then you fail in that condition. And once you ever fail to meet
that condition once, then you're right back where you started
from. Huh? All right, let's go. Let me give
you this outline here real quick, I've talked too long. Moses,
first thing he's done, he's called to obedience. And you'll see
that in chapter one, all the way through chapter four. And
he called to obedience. Now listen, the grace of God
is not conditioned upon our obedience to him. It is not. Never has
been, never will be. Even though obedience is a matter
of personal responsibility, and we do, by God's grace, try to
obey Him in all things. And the reason being that God's
love and grace in our hearts gives us a desire to obey Him,
a desire to live by His Word, a desire to understand His Word,
a desire to obey His Word. And this true obedience, if we
have any obedience toward God, it comes because of His love,
His mercy, His grace, and His goodness to us, and we give thanks
unto Him for that. We don't obey Him because we're
afraid He's going to take out His rod and knock us in the head. We do it because He's already
done something for us. We do it out of love for Him
and out of His love and grace and mercy for us. And then all
the way through chapter 1 through 3, you have all of these souls
that God washed over. Moses talks about them. And he
begins to tell how big a group they are. There's more than 3
million souls. And this is, I've got a thing, and I'll put it
out one of these days, how much it took to supply the needs of
this 3 million people a day. Could you imagine how much water
it took? How much food it took? How much wood it took for fire? Can you imagine how much it took
to take care of this people every single day? Three million people
a day. And all these souls whom the Lord washed over, fed them,
guided them with fire by night and with cloud by day, gave them
water in the desert, manna from heaven, quails sent down, delivered
them from their enemies, and He done it all because He loved
them, all because He chose them to be His people. And that's
why Paul said later that the love of Christ constrains us.
And if our obedience to God and our love for God is not motivated
out of His love towards us and our gratitude to Him, then we've
got no reason. I mean, if we worship Him in
Christ, And we renounce and turn our back on everything that's
unlike Him. And say, I want to know the one
true and live in God and Him alone. And I want to do His will
as long as He lets me live in this world. Because He is so
gracious, so kind, so loving, so pitiful towards me and keeps
me every day of my life. And then from chapter 4 all the
way through chapter 28, Moses explains the law. He begins to
explain. And he doesn't just repeat what
he gave to them from when he got down off Mount Sinai and
the Ten Commandments. No, he did more than that. He
expounds all of the law under the divine inspiration of the
Holy Spirit. They were about to enter into a land inhabited
by idolaters, gross idolaters, pagan idolaters. And what he's
telling them is, is how are you going to live when you get down
there? You can't associate with these people. You can't eat their
food. You can't worship their idols. You don't want them in
your house. You don't want your sons marrying
their daughters and their daughters marrying your sons. You can't
do that, because the minute you do that, you're going to leave
God. So this is what Moses is doing. And look over here in
chapter 6. Look in chapter 6 with me a minute.
In verse 20. And he shows why he does these
things. And we begin here, and we're
sinners entirely dependent upon the grace and goodness of God.
Look what he says in verse 20. And when thy son asketh thee
in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded
you? One of these days, your son's
going to say, What does all these laws mean? What do these statutes
mean? What do these judgments of God mean? Well, these testimonies
have got me. He said, this is what you'll
answer them. Then shalt thou say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's
bondmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with
a mighty hand. And the Lord showed signs and
wonders great and sore upon Egypt, and upon Pharaoh, and upon all
his household before eyes. And he brought us out from this,
that he might bring us in to give us the land. which you swear
unto our fathers. That's the reason why. They said,
you answer that. You answer that. Why do you go
to church? Bill used to ask me, why do you
all go to church so much? Because he just didn't like to
come. He'd always say, how long you
going to preach, Poppy? And then Mary all the time said,
when are you going to sing? Because he knows when we sung
the last song, he was leaving. And that's why. But you know,
this is why we tell them. God, we were bondmen in Egypt. We were bondmen in the world,
and God's brought us out. And He brought us out to bring
us in. Brought us out of sin to take
us to glory. Brought us out from death to
bring us into life. Brought us out of darkness to
bring us into light. Brought us from disobedience
into righteousness. And oh, beloved, and then look
over here in chapter 7. And he shows us that everything
that God does for us, and everything that he does, he reminds us what
it takes to bring us out of Egypt and take us into the promised
land, and then he shows us that everything he does, he does because
of his own matchless and free grace. Look on verse 6. This
is what God says now. For thou art an holy people unto
the Lord thy God. What makes them holy? The Lord
thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself,
above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The Lord
did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were
more in number than any people. For you were the fewest of all
people. But because the Lord loved you, and because he would
keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath he brought
you, the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed
you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh. So you see, I've done it because
I will do it. I will do it. So we are brought
back to this, beloved, knowing that salvation, salvation is
of the Lord. Completely of the Lord. Look
over in chapter 9. Let me show you this. Again,
I read it to you a minute ago. We see here salvations of the
Lord. Don't you speak in your heart after the Lord has cast
them out before you, saying, For my righteousness the Lord
hath brought me in to possess this land, but for the wickedness
of these nations the Lord doeth drive them out. Not for your
righteousness, or for their prideness above your own heart do you go
in to possess the land, but because of the wickedness of those nations
before you. So, beloved, when you think that
you're getting a blessing because of your righteousness, only for Christ's sake, only
for Christ's sake. And then chapter 27 through 28,
Moses again, he talks about the covenant, that God made a covenant
with God. And this is one of the things
that he does, and you can read this yourself. And I brought
a message on this here all year or so ago, on the God of blessing
in person. And what happens was that this
covenant, and they were to do this occasionally, and then what
he would do is say the children of Israel would get up on two
different mountains, gather up on two mountains. One of them
was Mount Ebal, and the other one, I forget which one it was,
but Mount Ebal, and I forget the other one. But anyway, they
were together, six tribes gathered over on this mountain. Six tribes
gathered over on this mountain. And they give the law. They give
the law. And they're supposed to do this,
observe this every once in a while. And then the Levites would call
out blessings. They'd call out blessings. This
is the blessings of the Lord. And they'd say, Amen, and Amen. And then the other would call
out a cursing. If you do this, cursed be. And they say, Amen.
And they went through all these things, all the blessings and
all the cursing. You'll be blessed if you do this.
You'll be blessed if you do that. You'll be blessed if you do this
other thing. You'll be blessed going in, going out and all.
And then they say, but if you don't do this, you'll be cursed,
you'll be cursed. But every time, whatever they
said, they say blessing or cursing, they say, Amen. You know why?
Because that's the way we bow before our sovereign God. Blessing
or cursing, we're in complete agreement with God. If He blesses
or if He curses, if He gives life or He passes one by, we
bow to God's sovereign providence. And then, beloved, over in chapter
29, Moses shows us that God left us in this world, in this flesh,
constantly struggling with the world, the flesh, and the devil.
So we can constantly look to Christ, trusting Him alone as
our Savior. Trusting Him alone as our blessed
Savior. And you read all of this here,
and you'll see that the only way in the world we can be saved
is looking to Christ. And then I do want you to see
this in verse 6 of chapter 30, showing you that circumcision
was always something of the heart. Circumcision in the Old Testament
was a sign and seal of God's covenant with His people. And
it was a picture of the new birth and the circumcision of our heart. Christ is the Savior sent to
God. But look here what he says in verse 6. And the Lord thy
God will circumcise thine heart. And what does he mean, circumcise
your heart? that He'll take away the uncleanness. He'll take away
the fleshly part. He'll take away the part that's
not His. And the heart of thy seed, He'll
circumcise your heart, the heart of your seed. And He does this
to love the Lord thy God with all the heart, with all the soul,
that thou mayest live. That thou mayest live. So God
circumcised the heart. That's what real circumcision,
true circumcision is. And then, last of all, Moses
began to sing a song. Moses began to sing a song. In
chapter 31 and verse 30, this is the song of Moses. Look what
he says here as he starts singing in verse 30. And Moses spake in the ears of
all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until
they were ended. And then you go all the way through
this song. Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and O earth,
hear the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the
rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, and as the small
rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass. Behold, I will publish the name
of the Lord, and ascribe to you greatness unto our God. He is
the Rock. His work is perfect, for all
His ways are judgment, a God of truth. without iniquity, just
and right is He. And you know, you look at this
when you get home. In Revelations 15, in verse 3,
it says there that they sang the song of Moses, the servant
of God. Sang the same thing. The Lord
our God is our salvation. He's our rock. You know, they
sang the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works,
Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, thou
King of saints. And, beloved, that's the way
God beholdeth us in Christ. In our Joshua, we sing praises
unto His holy name, giving glory unto Him. And then Moses dies. Look over here with me. Let me
show you this real quick. Chapter 34. Verse 4 says this, And the Lord
said unto him, This is the land which I swear unto Abraham, unto
Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed.
I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt
not go over there. So Moses, the servant of the
Lord, died there in the land of Moab according to the word
of the Lord. And that's what they're going
to say about us one of these days. Donny Bell died in such a place
according to the word of the Lord. And God said that about
every single one of us. You know that? We're going to
die according to the word of the Lord. And look what he goes
on and buried him. Now, the Lord did this. The Lord
buried him in a valley. In the land of Moab, overgeth
Bethphior, but no man north of his sepulcher unto this day.
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye
was not dimmed, nor his natural force abated." And then it says
in verse nine, "...and Joshua the son of Nun." Our Jesus, our
Joshua, was full of the spirit and wisdom after Moses had laid
his hands upon him. And the children of Israel hearkened
unto him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses. And there arose
not a prophet since in Israel, like unto Moses, whom the Lord
knew face to face." So God took Moses and buried him. And then let me say this in closing. Look with me in Deuteronomy 33,
verse 26, and we'll close right here. This is God telling us
now. This is the end of Moses' assault. And this is what saved sinners
sing now. There is none like unto the God
of Geshurun, who rides upon the heaven in thy help and in his
excellency on the sky. Listen to this now. This is us
speaking to us. This is our song. The eternal
God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. We
sing that song, everlasting arms. And he shall thrust out the enemy
from before thee, and shall say, Destroy them. Israel then shall
dwell in safety alone. The fountain of Jacob shall be
upon the land of corn and wine. Also his heaven shall drop down
due. Now listen. Blessed art thou,
O Israel, who is like unto thee, O people, saved by the Lord. the shield of thy health, and
who is the sword of thy excellency, and thine enemies shall be found
liars unto thee, and thou shalt tread upon their high places."
And God said that He'll tread Satan under our feet very shortly,
very shortly. I pray that's a blessing. You
keep those, and when you study Deuteronomy, you'll have a little
outline to go through.