What Am I Supposed to Learn from Deuteronomy?

Deuteronomy:“YOU FAIL ME, BUT I NEVER FAIL YOU.”

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Deuteronomy• Israel’s Philosophy• Divine Principles•Moses Speaks to the People

“Beware least you forget.”

God reminds the people of the covenant he made.

THEMES

Choice: choose life rather than death (30:19-20)

“Hear”, “do,” “keep,” “observe”

God commands out of a heart of “love”

EMPHASES:

Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

KEY WORD: COVENANT

13 and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

KEY WORD: COVENANT

Deuteronomy 30:19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

KEY WORD: COVENANT

20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

KEY WORD: COVENANT

Formal ratification of the covenant.

KEY CHAPTER: (27)

Moses’ three sermons:

1.Retrospective -God’s dealing with Israel (1:1-4:43)

2.Introspective -God’s dealing with Israel (4:44-26:19)

3.Prospective -God’s future dealing with Israel (27-34)

Moses’ Epitaph

Deuteronomy 34:10 Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

11 who did all those miraculous signs and wonders the LORD sent him to do in Egypt--to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land.

12 No one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

1.“I am the only true God.”

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Deut. 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

2.“I brought you out to bring you in.”

Deut. 6:23 But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers.

3.“What loving Me means?”

Deut. 10:12 O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

13 and to obey the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

Deut. 5:28 ...“I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good.

29 Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!

Deut. 30:6 The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.

Deut. 34:5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said. 6 He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.

Jude 9 But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, ...”

Matthew 17:2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.