Deuteronomy 34. We sing a hymn, 361 in the hymn booklet,
Sweet Hour of Prayer. The third verse says, Sweet hour
of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, may I thy consolations share. Till from Mount Pisgah's lofty
height, I view my home and take my flight. Mount Pisgah. That's what we're going to look
at this morning. Deuteronomy 34, the top of Pisgah. Let's look at the
first eight verses together in Deuteronomy 34. And Moses went up from the plains
of Moab unto the mount of Nebo to the top of Pisgah. That is
over against Jericho. And the Lord showed Moses all
the land of Gilead unto Dan. And all Naphtali and the land
of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the
uttermost sea, and the south of the plain of the valley of
Jericho, the city, palm trees, unto Zoar. And the Lord said
unto Moses, This is the land which I swear unto Abraham, and
unto Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed. I, says God, have caused thee
to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land
of Moab according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him
in a valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor. But no man knoweth of his sepulcher
unto this day. And Moses was a hundred and twenty
years old when he died. His eyes was not dim, nor his
natural force abated. And the children of Israel wept
for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. So the days of weeping
and mourning for Moses were ended. Now this We read these are the
last days of Moses here in Deuteronomy 34. Particularly we read of the
conversation that Jehovah God had with him and that Jehovah
God took Moses up to Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah to see the
land that God had promised Israel. This is Canaan. This is the new
land. This is the new territory versus
that old tyrannical property in Egypt where they left. There's
nothing good in Egypt and there's nothing good in this world. Now
we do good things, humanly speaking. We have our jobs. We do different
things, pay taxes, we enjoy company, neighbors, this type of thing.
But this world is dying. Do not put your stock in this
world, or the things of the world, or the people of the world. What
I want to notice is what is said regarding Moses in the 120th
year of his life. Let's look at it quickly. Verse
1 of Deuteronomy 34. The Lord showed him. Moses went
up from the plains of Boab to the top of Pisgah. And the last
part, the Lord showed him all the land. The Lord did this for
his servant. The second thing I want to notice
is verse 2, verse 3. He shows him all the land. Now turn with me to Deuteronomy
chapter 3. And this is reiterated after
Moses smote the rock and spoke harshly in Deuteronomy 3. And verse 27,
the Lord was speaking to Moses, Get thee up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward,
northward, southward, and eastward, and behold it with your eyes."
So basically, the 360, he got to see everything. North, south,
east, west. In our language, that's all-inclusive,
that's everything. So he got to see everything that
the Lord showed him. All directions, all the land.
Verse 4, this is the land that I, the Lord Jehovah God, who
cannot lie, promised. I'm giving it to the people based
on my promise. Because they were already murmured
in the wilderness, they caused rebellion, etc., etc. The Lord
promised. He says, I give it. I give it. That's grace. It's all of grace. And we know this, the life of
Moses. Our life is a life of grace from stem to stern, from
birth to the end. He says, I caused thee to see
it with your own eyes. Verse 4, I have caused thee,
I have, I'm the initiator of grace. I'm the first cause of
all things. That's why we don't get upset.
We do get upset when something goes wrong. We're promised something
by somebody and they don't fulfill it. Or they say something and
their word's not true. Or we don't follow through with
what we say we're going to do. Or we open a newspaper, this
and that. I cause thee to see it. We understand
the world's reformed and framed by God. We understand that God
is sovereign. That means He's over all things.
He cannot do wrong. Whether we're His or not, He
can do no wrong. I caused you to see it. And look
at verse 7. This is amazing. And Moses, he
was 120 years old. He died. But when he died, his
eyes were like a youth. This is what this is saying. His eye was not dim. And the
Lord, whether He miraculously at this time, maybe Moses was
120 and feeling it, But then when he went up to Pisgah, and
you try that at 120 years old, he went up there, the Lord, it
says his eye was not dim, and it says his natural force was
not abated. And I looked, it has to do with
moisture and skin, his skin was not wrinkly, is what that's saying. It was as a young man. So the
Lord's abounding grace was given to Moses regarding the physical
nature or state of his being. His eyes were not dim, nor his
natural force abated. He saw, as in his youth, and
he walked, he moved as a younger man. He went up to Pisgah. In His natural flesh, He couldn't
do such a thing. And the beautiful thing is that
the Lord promised to give him, the Lord promises to Abraham,
I don't need to find it here, I kind of got it You don't have to look here,
but Genesis 15, 15, the Lord's speaking to Abraham, but it's
a promise that he's given to his people. He says, Thou shalt
also go down to the grave in a good old age. I'd say the Lord's
fulfilled this to Moses, because you can look this up if you want
to, you know, it's in Exodus. Moses was 120 years old, his
father was 137, his grandfather was 133, and his great-grandfather
was 137. It's playing in the scriptures
these days. So the Lord did give him to die
in a good old age. But when we look at this, the
top of Mount Pisgah, what do I mean by that? What do I mean
by that? For us to be on Mount Pisgah,
brought there by the promise of God, brought there by the
grace of God, not of our ability, we're there on Pisgah to look
over into the promised land is what we are to do by faith every
day. So what do I mean? To see Pisgah
is to view by faith all the blessings God has for us now and in heaven,
in the now and in the time to come. particularly as they are in Christ. Okay? Just as Moses was led,
which is grace, and his body was supernaturally kept to view
all the land's blessings, blessings of grace, may we, this morning,
be enabled to view as if already accomplished, and we know they
are in Christ, our sure inheritance by the blood of His everlasting
covenant. to view all the land, to basically
just to get our eyes off of this afternoon, we got things to do,
just to get our eyes, don't think about that. Tomorrow, even us
retired folk, we got a schedule, but let's not think about that. Let us get our eyes off of the
horizontal and get them vertical. He said in that passage in Deuteronomy
3, the north, the south, the east, the west. North. In times
of coldness, maybe we don't see His face. Maybe we pray and nothing
seems to be going through. He seems to hide His face from
us. Look to the north. He's still there. His blessings
of grace are still there. They're not diminished. What
about the south? Oh, the warmth. Come back from the conference
and everybody, you know, this beautiful, and the messages,
and the fellowship, and we saw people there we hadn't seen for
10 or 15 years. The blessing. Oh, look in the
north. Blessings are there. Look in
the south. Warm times. He's near us. We're certain,
we're sure, we have full assurance. The east. The morning. Morning
by morning, new mercies I see. Look to the east, He's there
in the mornings, in our youth. Look to the west, in our twilight
years. The sun's going down, but it's
not going to go down forever. We'll raise in newness of life
and be just like our Savior. We're always blessed in Christ.
Not just a few things scattered here and there, but these are
all covenantal truths, all covenantal blessings and benefits given
to the children of light. May we observe and enter into
the height, the breadth, the width of the things which He
has prepared for those who love Him, His remnant people, those
whom He foreknew, foreloved, and chose from before the foundation
of the world, Ephesians 1 says. Let us go to the top of Pisgah
this morning. I want you to view with me some
of the sights and truths that are only found at Pisgah's Hike. Turn to Romans 8. Romans 8. Let us view God's covenant
love for us in Christ. Be reminded once again. Romans chapter 8. He, verse 32,
that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,
how shall He not, with Him, freely give us all things? Who shall
lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is He that condemneth? It
is Christ that died. Yea, rather, that is risen again,
who is even at the right hand of God, and who also makes intercession
for us. Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? And he lists a bunch of things.
Nothing. Nothing. shall be able to separate
us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
View from Pisgah's height God's covenantal love for us in Christ. Ephesians chapter 1. Ephesians
chapter 1. What about grace bestowed to
the wicked, to the ungodly, full and free, without any cause in
us, Ephesians 1 verse 3, Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings
in heavenly places in Christ. Another view from Pisgah's Hype. Salvation is had only in Christ. You don't have to turn to Acts
chapter 4 verse 12. There is salvation in no other
name. No other name. No other person. No other thing.
No other entity, no other government. But in the name of Christ, there's
only one name given among men where we must be saved. The Lord
Jesus Christ. And from Pisgah, when we gather
together, every time we gather together, in a sense, we're at
the top of Pisgah. We're looking over. We're not
worried about things that are going to happen in the future
or things that did happen in the past. We do this, though.
We're human. But that's why we gather together,
to get our minds off of these things. Fourthly, all the promises
of God are bottled up in Christ for us because of Christ. 2 Corinthians 1, verse 20, all
the promises in Christ are yes and amen. All the promises. How about the absolute sureness
and steadfastness of all things necessary for our eternal security? Turn to John chapter 10. I know
you know these things, but I was just amazed when I looked at
this. I never thought about it. This is the last days of Moses.
But don't wait to the last of your last days. Don't presume
that God will do something for you at the end of your time and
you twile out of your age here on earth. Look to Him now. These
blessings are all blessings to be had in Christ. And Moses,
he couldn't go over, but he looked over and he was, like in the
old times, they were persuaded that they were sure of Him. Though
they had not received Him, he was sure of Him. He was sure
of Him. the absolute sureness and steadfastness
of all things necessary for our eternal security. John chapter
10 and verse 28, 29 and 30. I give unto them eternal life
to the sheep and they shall never perish, neither shall any man
pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them Me
is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them from My
Father's hand. I and My Father are one." If
you're in Christ, you cannot lose your salvation. And some
people say, I don't know. Well, they may not initially
have known Him. But if you're there in Christ,
you're eternally secure. Nextly, the glorious Comforter
seals all the covenant blessings that Moses was seen, they were
blessed and sealed to him, and none will fail. None will fail. Ephesians 4 and verse 30, Grieve
not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of
redemption. You are sealed unto the day of
redemption. 1 Corinthians 2. Verses 10-16, 1 Corinthians 2,
verses 10-16, But God hath revealed them to us by His Spirit. For
the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
For what man knoweth the things of man, sayeth the Spirit of
man which is in him. Even so, the things of God knoweth
no man but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the
Spirit of the world. but the Spirit which is of God
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of
God." That's Pisgah. That's beyond Pisgah, I'm sorry.
That's over in Canaan. That's what he's done for his
people. And there are many more views to be had. They are ours
through the righteousness of Christ. Now I've got one more
point. It probably should have been
the first point and the only point. Remember, back in our text, this is Moses
up at Pisgah. All these sites and views were
from Pisgah. Do you know what Pisgah means
in the Hebrew? I can't make this stuff up. I
wouldn't. I don't know the Hebrew. I looked it up. It means cleft. Who is our cleft? Who is the
cleft of the rock? We sing that hymn. It's Christ. So Moses, and that's why I said
it, looking at the specific wording, I brought you up. I swear to
Abraham and your brethren. I've caused you to even see.
I've done all this. and you're standing on a rock,
you're standing on a precipice, you're standing at the highest
point of Mount Nebo, Pisgah, you're standing in the cleft.
And I put you there. By sovereign, free, undeserved
grace, I placed you in Christ. So, back to our text. Moses is
upon, or in, or on Pisgah. Here on Pisgah, he sees what
God would have him see. Cleft of the rock. It's clear,
it's true, it's certain. If Christ be not our foundation,
our rock, our everything, if we are not in the cleft of the
rock, resting our everything on, in, and because of Him, Guaranteed,
we will not see anything godly. We will not see anything that
God has for us. But only a fearful looking for
judgment and destruction. I ask you, I ask myself, can
we view, can we see, can we behold our Pisgah, our everything, Christ,
living, dying, and raising for us, and therefore in Him we see, says Romans 8, the glories
that shall be revealed. Every time we gather together,
we open this book, this without error book, errorless book, this
truth, and He tells us about Himself, and shows us who He
is, Even if Moses knew about Canaan, he heard
about Canaan, they've been going towards Canaan. He can't get
into Canaan because he represents the law. The law is never going
to cross, but that's beside the point. Moses, he got to see everything. And so do we. And we know who's
in charge, we know who's placed us there, we know who's given
us the sight to see. By faith, Christ. He is the sum and substance of
everything. We are and hope to be and we
shall be. Look to Him and live. Look to Him and live. Bruce,
would you close this please?