D6 Reminder to Obey God and enjoy prosperity

What instructions did Moses give to Israel?

D6:4-9 “...Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. "These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. "You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates...”

D6:12 “... watch yourself, that you do not forget the Lord...”

D6:13 “...fear only the Lord...”

D6:16 Don’t test God. (Embrace His Intentions and Expectations)

D6:17 “...diligently keep the commandments...”

D6:18 “...do what is right and good...”

D7 Reminder to make no covenant with the lands inhabitants

How does God want to Interact with Israel?

D7:12-15 “...Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers. "He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. "You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle. The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you...”

D7:21 “...You shall not dread ...for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God...”

Why would it take time to clear the land of evil?

D7:22 “... The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the wild beasts would grow too numerous for you...”

What dangers exist in the world?

D7:3,4 “...you shall not intermarry ...they will turn ...from following Me to serve other gods...”

D7:16 "...nor shall you serve their gods, ...a snare to you...”

D7:25 “...you shall not covet the silver or the gold ...nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it...”

D7:26 “...You shall not bring an abomination into your house, ...you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it ...”

What do TVs, computers, and smartphones bring into homes?

D8 God’s grace. God’s judgment.

Where does God lead? What does He accomplish?

D8:2-6 “...You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. "He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. "Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. "Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. "Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him...”

What is the danger? To what does this lead?

D8:11-17 “...Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, ...He led you through the great and terrible wilderness ...He brought water for you out of the rock ...He fed you manna ...you may say in your heart, 'My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth...”

D8:19,20 “...It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish ...because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord...”

D9

What point did God emphasize by repeating it three times?

D9:4-6 “...Do not say in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them out before you, 'Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,' but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you. "It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm the oath which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. "Know, then, it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stubborn people...”

D9:13 “...The Lord spoke further to me, saying, 'I have seen this people, and indeed, it is a stubborn people...”

Are we privilege or purpose oriented (entitled or His intentions)?

How invested was Moses in God’s purposes?

D9:9 “... When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone ...then I remained on the mountain forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water...”

D9:15-17 “... I ...came down from the mountain ...And I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God. You had made for yourselves a molten calf ...I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes...”

D9:18-20 “... I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and nights... I neither ate bread nor drank water ...For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was wrathful against you in order to destroy you, but the Lord listened to me that time also. The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time...”

D9:22-25 “...Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath ...you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; ...So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and nights, which I did because the Lord had said He would destroy you...”

What are two prominent aspects of rebellion?

Deut.9:23 “...When the Lord sent you ... saying, 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you,' ... you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; you neither believed Him nor listened to His voice...”

D10

Where were the new tablets kept?

D10:3-5 “... made an ark of acacia wood and cut out two tablets of stone like the former ones, ...He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, the Ten Commandments ...and the Lord gave them to me ....I ...put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are...”

What does the Lord expect?

D10:12-13 “...Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the Lord's commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?...”

D10:16 “... So circumcise your heart, and stiffen your neck no longer...”

D10:18 ...justice for the orphan and the widow ...love for the alien...

D10:20 “... You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name...”

Micah 6:8 “... He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?...”

Sever fleshly desires and stop resisting His purposes.

D11

How would Canaan be superior to Egypt?

D11:10,11 “... For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your foot like a vegetable garden. But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,..”

D11:13-15 “...It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul, that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil. "He will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied...”

People’s part? [listen, love, serve]

God’s part? [rain, grass, satisfaction]

Alternative if people didn’t do their part?

D11:16-17 “...Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them. "Or the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you...”

What determines Blessing or Curse?

D11:26-28 "...See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am commanding you today; and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by following other gods which you have not known...”

How to easily remember that choices have consequences?

D11:29-32 “...when the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, that you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal ... For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall possess it and live in it, and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today...”

D12

How will God prevent any merging of belief systems.

D12:2-3 “...You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. "You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place…”

Good and Evil can’t be decided upon by fallen humanity.

D12:8 “...You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;...”

D12:13,14 “...Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see, but in the place which the Lord chooses...”

God’s perfect way is superior to every preference of man.

Not just an Old Testament reality!

2 Cor.6:14,17 “...Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? ..."Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate," says the Lord. "And do not touch what is unclean; And I will welcome you...”

Rev.18:4 “...I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues;...”

Meat eating - legitimate, but ...

D12:20 “...when ...you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat ...only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood Is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh...”

Set Apart

D12:30-32 “...beware that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, 'How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?' "You shall not behave thus toward the Lord your God, for every abominable act which the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. "Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it...”

D13 Shun idolatry

D13:4 ”...You shall follow the Lord your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him...”

Severe consequences? What is God’s intention?

D13:6-9 “...If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods' (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him. "But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people ...Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you...”

D14

What does it mean to be chosen? Who belongs to Whom?

D14:2 “... For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession...”

Dietary restrictions.

D14:3-6,9,11 Can eat ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, mountain sheep, water dwellers with fins and scales, clean birds.

D14:7-8,10,12-19,21 Can’t eat camel, rabbit, shaphan, pig, water dwellers without fins and scales, eagles, vultures, buzzard, kite, falcon, raven, ostrich, owl, sea gull, hawk, pelican, cormorant, stork, heron, hoopoe, bat, teeming life with wings, anything that dies of itself.

D14:21 “...You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk...”

Tithing rules: Who owns it? Why does He want it?

D14:22 “...You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year...”

D14:23 “...You shall eat in the presence of the Lord your God ...the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always...”

D14:28 “...At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your town. The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do...”

Would this help eliminate poverty?

D15

D15:1 “...every seven years you shall grant a remission of debts...”

D15:4 “...there will be no poor among you, since the Lord will surely bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess,..”

D15:11 “...the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land...”

Mark 14:7, John 12:8 “...you will always have the poor with you...”

How can there “...be no poor...” yet “...the poor never cease to be...”?

Deut.15:5,6 “...if only you listen obediently to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today. For the Lord your God will bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you...”

God’s blessing is sufficient. His ways work. We can’t eliminate all poverty, but we can make a difference where we live, with those willing to surrender to God’s will.

D16

Where were the feasts to be celebrated?

D16:5 “... You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your towns which the Lord your God is giving you; but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name, you shall sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt...”

D16:10,11 “... Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God ...in the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name..”

D16:13,15 “...You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths ...in the place which the Lord chooses...”

D16:16 “...in the place which He chooses ...the Feast of Unleavened Bread...”

D16:20 “...Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you...”

What does justice look like?

D16:19 “...You shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous...”

Righteousness is perverted by bribes and partiality.

Any bribes where you live? Are PACs legal bribes?

D17 Examples of God ordained Justice, “...to purge the evil from Israel...”

D17:2-7 Stoning someone who serves other gods, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, not just one. Witness starts the stoning.

D17:8-11 Difficult cases decided by Levitical priest or judge.

God knew that eventually the people would want a king!

D17:14,15 “... When you enter the land ...and you say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’ ...set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one from among your countrymen ...you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman...”

God’s expectations for a king!

D17:16,17 “...he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, ...He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself...”

D17:18 "... he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. "It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,...”

D17:20 “...his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left,...”

Would these insure good leadership?

Solomon’s downfall? Current leadership struggles in countries?

D18

D18:5 The Levitical priests “... the Lord your God has chosen him and his sons ...to stand and serve in the name of the Lord forever...”

What are the detestable things?

D18:10 “... There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead...””

What does God thinks of palm reading? Horoscopes? Fortune Cookies?

What would happen when Moses was no longer leading?

D18:15,18 “...The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, ...and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak ...all that I command him...”

How can a person identify false prophets?

D18:20 “...But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die...”

D18:22 “... When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him...”

D19

D19:1-13 Cities of Refuge available for unintentional killers, but not for premeditated murderers.

D19:14 God appointed boundaries not to be changed.

D19:15-19 A single witness isn’t enough. False witnesses to receive the outcome they intended for another.

What was the underlying intent of these regulations?

D19:19,20 “... you shall purge the evil from among you. The rest will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you...”

D20

Battle Plans

D20:3,4 “...Do not be afraid, or panic, or tremble ...for the LORD your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'...”

D20:5-8 Excused from service, the man that “...has built a new house and has not dedicated it ...has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use its fruit ...is engaged to a woman and has not married her ...is afraid and fainthearted...”

D20:10-15 Cities FAR are first offer peace, but destroyed if refuse.

D20:16-18 Cities NEAR, in inherited land, utterly destroy “...so that they many not teach you to do according to all their detestable things ...so that you would sin against the Lord your God...”.

D20:19-20 Always save the fruit trees.

D21

Who defines moral correctness and appropriate justice?

D21:1-9 Forgiving unsolved blood guilt in the midst of the people.

D21:10-14 Respecting a captured woman.

D21:15-17 Double portion to firstborn even if offspring of less loved wife.

D21:20,18-21 Stubborn, rebellious, and unrepentant sons to be stoned.

D21:22-23 Death by hanging.

Who correctly defines good and evil? Are we taught by God, by culture, by political correctness?

D22

Does being set apart require intentional decisions?

D22:1-4 Not allowed to neglect other’s needs.

D22:6,7 Mother bird with young to be respected.

D22:8 Building with safety features.

Does God want to keep His creative distinctions in place?

D22:5 Cross dressing is an abomination.

D22:9-11 Don’t mix seed, plow team, material.

Does God have well defined sexual guidelines? Why?

D22:1-20 Virginity. D22:22 Adultery. D22:23-30 Fornication, Rape. Incest.

D22:21 “... you shall purge the evil from among you...”

D23

People not welcome in the assembly:

D23:1-6 Emasculated, illegitimate, Ammorite, Moabite.

People welcome in the assembly:

D23:7,8 “...You shall not detest an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land...”

We are aliens in this world. Having been freed from this world, we are not to detest those in the world.

People need to avoid evils:

D23:9-14 Sanitation. D23:15,16 Escaped slave. D23:17-18 Prostitution.

D23:19-20 Usury. D23:21-23 Vows. D23:24-25 Help yourself limited.

D24 Proper handling of situations

D24:1-4 “...When a man ...marries ...writes her a certificate of divorce ...not allowed to take her again to be his wife ...for that is an abomination...”

D24:5 “...new wife ...not go out with the army ...free at home one year...”

D24:6-16 Don’t take livelihood in pledge. Kidnapping thief shall die. Proper care of Infections. Sensitive care of poor and hired servants. Only the soul that sins is responsible.

D24:17-22 “...You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow's garment in pledge ... When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, ... When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. ...”

Our laws lead to our results. God’s laws lead to God’s results.

Interesting difference between destroying the inhabitants completely and providing for the alien. [brutality vs generosity]

D25

D25:1-3 Limited beating of the wicked D25:4 Don’t muzzle the ox.

D25:5-10 Brother to marry dead brother’s wife. [family lines saved]

D25:11-12 Protecting body parts with severe penalty.

D25:13-16 Fair and honest transactions.

D25:17-19 Amalek to pay for inappropriate behavior.

D26

What is the result of doing all God asks?

D26:1-11 Firstfruits given to the Lord as His deliverance is remembered.

D26:12-14 “...When you have finished paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied ...the sacred portion ...according to all that You have commanded me...”

D26:19 “...He will set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated people to the LORD your God, as He has spoken..."

D27 Curses of Mount Ebal

D27:1-8 “... on the day when you cross the Jordan ...set up for yourself large stones ...and write on them all the words of this law, ...set up on Mount Ebal, these stones, ...you shall build there an altar to the Lord your God ...offer on it burnt offerings ...sacrifice peace offerings and rejoice before the Lord ...write on the stones all the words of this law very distinctly...”

D27:16-26 “...Cursed is the man who makes an idol ...he who dishonors his father or mother ...he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark ...he who misleads a blind person ...he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow ...he who lies with his father’s wife ...any animal ... His sister ...his mother-in-law ...he who strikes his neighbor in secret ...he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them...”

D28 Blessings of Mount Gerizim

D27:11 “... When you cross the Jordan ...stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people...”

D28:1-2 “...Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. "All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your God:...”

D28:3-6 “...Blessed shall you be in the city ...in the country ...the offspring of your body ...the produce of your ground ...the offspring of your beasts ...the increase of your herd ...the your of your flock ...when you come in ...when you go out …”

D28:7-13 “...enemies ...defeated ...will flee ...blessing upon you in your barns ...in the land ...all the peoples of the earth ...will be afraid of you ...The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens ...give rain ...make you the head...”

D28:14 “...do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them...”

The blessings for following diligently, carefully, and without deviation are wonderful, but the most import thing is:

D28:10 “...all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord...”

What are the consequences of disobedience?

D28:16,19 Cursed in the city and the country, coming and going.

D28:17,18 Cursed basket, bowl, offspring, produce, herd and flock.

D28:20-22 The Lord sends confusion, rebuke, pestilence, fever, inflammation, blight, mildew.

D28:27,28 The Lord will smite with boils, tumors, scab, itch, madness, blindness, bewilderment.

D28:30-32 Loss of wife, house, prosperity, children.

D28:42 “...The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower...”

D28:47,48 “... Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you...”

D28:59 Severe and lasting plagues, miserable and chronic sickness.

D28:65,66 “...The Lord will give you a trembling heart ...despair of soul ...dread night and day ...no assurance of your life...”

D29

Are we keeping and doing what God is speaking to us?

D29:9 “...keep the words of this covenant to do them, that you may prosper in all that you do...”

D29:12,13 “...you may enter into ...covenant with the Lord ...in order that He may establish you ...as His people and that He may be your God...”

What is the alternative?

D29:25-27 “...they forsook the covenant of the Lord ...they went and served other gods and worshiped them ...Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land...”

The reality of curses came true with the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities 700 to 600 years prior to Christ. There was another scattering during the post Christ Roman oppression.

What have you seen in your lifetime?

D29:29 “...The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law...”

D30 All is not lost if people will repent.

Restoration is possible, but it requires “calling to mind” what God expects and “returning” to Him with all your heart and soul. What is God’s part and what is our part?

D30:2-3 “... return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul ...then the Lord your God will restore you ...and have compassion on you, and will gather you again...”

D30:6 “...the Lord ...will circumcise your heart ...and the heart of your descendants ...to love the Lord ...so that you may live...”

D30:9 The Lord will prosper you, and rejoice over you.

D30:11 His commands are not too difficult nor out of reach.

D30:14 “...the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it...”

D30:19,20 “... I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life ...that you may live in the land ... Life and death are set before you - choose...”

D31 Change of leadership

What is God’s part? What is man’s part?

D31:3,5,6,8 “...Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you ...The Lord will deliver ...Be strong and courageous ..He will not fail you or forsake you ...Do not fear or be dismayed...”

How was the covenant recorded and remembered?

D31:9-13 “... Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel ...Moses commanded them ...every seven years ...at the Feast of Booths ...your shall read this law in front of all ....so that they may hear and learn and fear the Lord your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law ...Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn...”

God knew what was coming. What did He have Moses do?

D31:16-18 “...this people will ...forsake Me and break My covenant ...I will forsake them ... I will surely hide My face...”

D31:19-21 “...write this song for yourself, and teach it to the sons of Israel ...when ...they ...spurn Me and ...many evils and troubles have come upon them ...this song will testify before them as a witness...”

D32 The Song of Moses

Could you recite the 43 verses of Moses song? How about 2?

D32:39 “...no god besides Me. It is I who put to death and give life...”

D32:47 “...For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess..."