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00:13 ♪♪♪ 00:35 Shawn Brummund: Hello, friends, and welcome to 00:36 another edition of the "Sabbath School Study Hour." 00:39 Welcome to our church here in the Granite Bay Hilltop 00:42 Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Greater Sacramento area. 00:45 My name is Pastor Shawn Brummund, and I have the 00:47 privilege of hosting our Sabbath School here today. 00:50 Pastor Doug Bachelor will be our teacher. 00:53 It is always good to be able to have all our online friends that 00:56 are watching even live right now. 00:58 Of course, in the future, those who are watching on different 01:00 various broadcasts, we are always glad that you have made 01:03 that decision to be able to join us. 01:06 For those of you who have joined us in the past, welcome back. 01:08 For those of you who are joining us for the very first time, we 01:11 pray and trust that your investment in the next hour will 01:14 make a real difference in your faith, your understanding of 01:16 God's Word, and that you will be able to look heaven-bound that 01:20 much more clear. 01:22 It's always good to be able to have our local members here in 01:25 the Granite Bay Church as well. 01:27 I thank you for coming and joining us as 01:28 we continue to study. 01:30 We're looking at a new quarterly. 01:32 This particular quarterly is called "Present Truth in the 01:34 Book of Deuteronomy," some of you are saying. 01:38 The ones that have already got a quarterly, they faithfully 01:40 studied over the last week. 01:41 They know exactly what it's called. 01:43 So nice to have you here. 01:44 If you haven't studied, make sure that you pay attention 01:46 because there's lots to be able to absorb as we look at one of 01:48 the most important books in the Old Testament, the book of 01:52 Deuteronomy, written by Moses himself. 01:55 So this is a new quarterly. 01:57 We're looking at lesson number one, a "Preamble to 01:59 Deuteronomy," as we look at the context of this particular 02:01 very powerful book. 02:03 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You will send Your Holy Spirit to guide us into all 10:41 truth and teach us all truth. 10:43 Please give us that promise. 10:45 Give us Your Spirit. 10:47 We pray it in Christ's name, amen. 10:51 Doug Batchelor: Thank you, Pastor Shawn. 10:53 Morning, everybody. 10:55 Good to see you here. 10:56 I want to welcome those that are not only here in the Granite Bay 10:58 Hilltop building, I want to welcome our friends that are 11:01 watching on "Amazing Facts" television or Facebook or 11:04 YouTube or one of the hundreds of different ways now. 11:09 The program seemed to fragment and multiply, and we're always 11:12 thankful for that. 11:13 Today I'm excited. 11:15 I specifically asked--today I decided I'm either going to 11:18 preach or teach, and I wanted to teach because this is the first 11:22 lesson in the book of Deuteronomy that we're covering 11:25 today, and I don't know if I've ever shared with you, but 11:29 Deuteronomy is probably one of my favorite books in the Bible. 11:32 Favorite book in the New Testament, Luke, 11:35 since you asked. 11:36 Favorite book in the Old Testament, Deuteronomy. 11:39 And maybe you'll understand why a little bit better 11:42 as we proceed. 11:44 So this book of Deuteronomy is really foundational to 11:49 understanding so much in the Bible, and our title for our 11:53 lesson today--this is lesson number one--is "Preamble to 11:59 Deuteronomy," and the memory verse is from 1 John 4, verse 8. 12:04 If you got your Bibles, you can look that up, and if you want, 12:07 you can say it with me. 12:08 It's a short verse. 12:09 I bet most of you know if by heart already. 12:11 1 John 4, verse 8, "He who does not love does not know God, 12:17 for God is love." 12:20 And we talked in our message last week about the priority of 12:24 knowing God. 12:25 And it says, of course, that love is the essence of God. 12:31 That quintessential essence of God is love. 12:35 It doesn't say God is loving, though He is. 12:39 It doesn't say that God can be lovable, though He can. 12:43 It's saying His essence is, if you were to define Him, love. 12:48 When you look at the Ten Commandments, the first four 12:50 deal with our love relationship with God. 12:53 Last six deal with our love relationship with 12:55 our fellow man. 12:57 But it all springs from love. 12:59 Anyway, with that, I want to dive into our study of 13:04 Deuteronomy with a little disclaimer. 13:08 We got a lot of folks out there that watch "Sabbath School Study 13:11 Hour," and some of you are teachers, and if I don't get all 13:17 the way through the lessons, the teachers kindly chastise me. 13:21 And I'm telling you in advance, it may happen again today. 13:26 I'll do my best, but there's so much I want to say, I may not 13:28 get to all the categories, so please be patient with me, and 13:33 "I will pay thee all" at some point. 13:37 All right, Deuteronomy. 13:39 The name Deuteronomy, it comes from a couple of Greek words. 13:43 It means the second or repeating of the law. 13:46 In Hebrew, Deuteronomy is "Devarim," and it means 13:51 "the words." 13:53 The reason for that--if you got your Bibles, I'm hoping--open 13:55 your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 1. 13:59 It is the fifth book of Moses in the Pentateuch. 14:03 Pentateuch, five books. 14:05 It may be the sixth book if Moses wrote Job first, which 14:10 most scholars believe Job was probably the first book that was 14:13 written, but in the Pentateuch of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, 14:17 Numbers, Deuteronomy--Deuteronomy is 14:19 the fifth book. 14:21 Deuteronomy transpires in a short period of time. 14:25 Oh, I was going to read something to you. 14:26 Look at Deuteronomy chapter 1. 14:28 It says, "These are the words." 14:31 That's where you get the Hebrew word for the book of 14:34 Deuteronomy." 14:35 Now, sometimes they called it "Devarim," and sometimes it was 14:39 "Mishneh Torah." 14:41 That means a repeating of the law. 14:43 And, of course, in Greek, it's Deuteronomy. 14:46 Now, sometimes I wish that they had found a shorter title for 14:49 the book because I've still not learned how to spell that. 14:53 Now, the Book of Deuteronomy is called the repeating of the law, 14:56 but it is not an addition to the law. 14:59 In other words, Moses spends some time reviewing 15:02 God's leading. 15:04 In the Book of Deuteronomy, he actually expands a little bit. 15:07 Even in the Ten Commandments that are given in Deuteronomy, 15:11 you'll see that Moses does a little bit of commentary and 15:14 expansion, but there's no conflict between what he says in 15:18 Deuteronomy and the other books. 15:20 Deuteronomy--well, let me--you know what I'm going to do now? 15:23 I'm going to give you the what, the where, the who, the why, and 15:27 the when of Deuteronomy before we dive into it. 15:31 Talking a little bit about the "what." 15:33 Deuteronomy is divided really into three sections. 15:38 It was probably delivered over a period of, oh, 15:42 maybe three weeks. 15:45 We're not sure. 15:47 It's sort of the last message of Moses to the people, and he's 15:50 renewing the covenant. 15:53 You've got verses 1 through--or chapters 1 through 4 of 15:56 Deuteronomy that are dealing with what you would call 15:59 the review. 16:01 He's reviewing God's history and how He led them. 16:04 Then, as you get to chapter 5, he repeats the Ten Commandments. 16:07 You know, the two principle places where you're going to 16:09 find the Ten Commandment, Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy chapter 5. 16:15 And then from chapter 5 to 26, you've got the requirements. 16:19 Well, first you've got the review, then you have the 16:21 requirements, and then, if you go to chapter 27 through the end 16:25 of the book-- 34 chapters in Deuteronomy. 16:27 There you've got the review. 16:30 He's talking--not the review. Sorry--the road ahead. 16:32 So he's talking about the review, the requirements, 16:36 and the road ahead. 16:38 It's broken up nicely into those segments. 16:40 There are 34 chapters. 16:42 It takes about 2.5 hours to read the book of Deuteronomy. 16:46 Deuteronomy is basically--it's a big sermon of Moses renewing 16:51 the covenant. 16:53 Now, why does he need to renew the covenant? 16:56 Well, when they left Egypt, how long ago was that? 17:00 Forty years earlier. 17:03 What has happened to virtually every adult from the time they 17:07 left Egypt to this point in history? 17:10 They've all died. 17:12 Everybody 20 years old and upward has died. 17:16 How old was the oldest person when Moses gives Deuteronomy 17:18 that had left Egypt? 17:21 Fifty-nine or sixty, right? 17:24 Forty plus twenty. 17:26 Am in the right ballpark? 17:28 So you've got a very interesting dynamic here. 17:30 You've got a nation where there is no senior citizens. 17:35 Well, not too many--except three. 17:38 Aaron has died when Deuteronomy is given. 17:41 Miriam has died. 17:42 Moses is alive, and Joshua and Caleb. 17:48 Everybody else is young. 17:50 And most of the people--you know, God told them, "Be 17:52 fruitful and multiply," and they did. 17:54 You read the beginning of Exodus, it says the people grew, 17:57 they grew, they multiplied, they grew exceedingly, and it's 18:00 really emphasizing that the nation exploded. 18:03 That also happened in the wilderness. 18:06 God protected them from disease. 18:07 God gave them food every day. 18:10 I mean, a lot of things--they take out the infants in other 18:14 cultures--they weren't grappling with, and so you've got this 18:16 explosion of young people, whole new generation, and they don't 18:22 know everything or remember everything. 18:23 Many are born during the wilderness wanderings. 18:26 They don't remember the plagues that fell on Egypt. 18:29 They need to hear it again. 18:31 In fact, if you read in Deuteronomy chapter 6, the Lord 18:37 says, "These words that I command you this day shall be 18:38 in your heart. 18:40 You shall teach them diligently to your children when you lay 18:42 down, when you rise up, when you go out, when you come in." 18:46 And so Moses, knowing that he was about to out, he wanted to 18:49 repeat and remind them of God's leading, that they would not 18:54 repeat the history of unbelief of their fathers. 18:58 And so this is a very important renewal of the covenant that is 19:02 happening here. 19:04 Where does this happen? 19:06 Well, in the first few words here it says, "He spoke to them 19:08 in the wilderness, in the plain, opposite Suph, between Paran and 19:13 Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, Dizahab. 19:18 It's 11 days's journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir 19:22 to Kadesh Barnea." 19:24 And so this is happening in the plain on the east side 19:26 of Jordan. 19:28 It's what we would call today the modern Hashemite Kingdom, 19:31 or the country of Jordan. 19:32 They are on the east side of the Jordan River, great plain there. 19:36 Now, how many people are there? 19:38 Well, we don't know exactly, but we can extrapolate. 19:41 The Bible does tell us there were 600,000 that were 19:46 qualified to fight. 19:48 You had to be 20 years old or older to fight in a battle. 19:52 We know all of the older ones had died off, but there's, like, 19:54 600,000 people. 19:56 How many women and children would there be? 19:59 And so conservative estimates are there's, like, two 20:02 million-or-plus people that are gathered here on this plain. 20:08 That's where it happened. Who? 20:11 Moses is speaking, now, is he speaking to all of Israel? 20:16 Well, it says here--read right there. 20:18 "These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel." 20:20 But if you've got two million people, and you don't have 20:23 artificial PA, can you really address two million people? 20:28 One of the greatest preachers in history, who had the most 20:30 booming voice was George Whitefield, and he was legendary 20:35 for having a voice that he could talk to 10,000 people at once 20:39 without a PA system. 20:41 And Benjamin Franklin reports in his autobiography that he did a 20:45 test, because he had heard about Whitefield's voice--they were 20:47 actually friends and exchanged quite a few letters--that, one 20:50 day, when he was preaching in Philadelphia, Franklin--you 20:53 know, he's always a scientist--he paced off how far 20:57 away he could go, and I think he got at least half a mile away, 21:00 and you could still hear him, which is extraordinary. 21:04 It helps if you're up on an elevated spot, and even if Moses 21:07 was standing on the mountainside and talking to the people in the 21:10 plain, it'd be very difficult for two million people to hear. 21:15 So when it says, "He spoke to Israel," what they often do--it 21:18 says in other places--they spoke to the heads of the families. 21:24 And so--and then they would, you know, subsequently relate this 21:27 thing to the teachings to their families. 21:31 But probably the 70 elders and the heads of the families and 21:34 the tribes were at the forefront in the best seats where they 21:38 could hear and see what Moses was saying, why? 21:42 As I mentioned, he's renewing the covenant, and they needed to 21:44 hear it again, when? 21:45 This happens about 1406 B.C. 21:50 That's about the year that Joshua also led the children of 21:54 Israel into the Promised Land, and it contains an account of 21:58 what happened in the wilderness from the first day--it gives you 22:00 the dates here. 22:02 It says, "From the first day of the 11th month of the 40th year, 22:05 wandering in the wilderness after the departure from Egypt." 22:10 And the book of Deuteronomy concludes with the death 22:12 of Moses. 22:14 It actually talks about 30 days of mourning following 22:17 Moses's death. 22:19 And so it's interesting that, in the 40th year, you've got this 22:22 book that covers about 40 days. 22:24 So God always does things in a fascinating way. 22:28 All right, and then I want you to turn with me in the 22:32 Bible--this is one of the most important books in the Bible. 22:35 Turn with me in Deuteronomy chapter 27. 22:38 I want to read something to you. 22:40 I'm going to read Deuteronomy 27, verses 1 through 8. 22:46 Deuteronomy is something of a summary of the covenant that 22:49 they used as their constitution. 22:52 So you think about the most important documents in America, 22:57 and you're going to think of the Bill of Rights and the 22:59 Constitution, Declaration of Independence. 23:01 Probably one of the most important books for the nation 23:03 of Israel was the book of Deuteronomy. 23:06 Notice what it says here. 23:07 In verse 1, chapter 27 in Deuteronomy, "Now Moses, with 23:11 the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying, 'Keep the 23:15 commandments which I command you today. 23:18 And it shall be, on the day when you cross over the Jordan to the 23:22 land which the Lord your God is giving you, that you will set up 23:25 for yourself large stones--'" and this was to happen between 23:29 the mountains of Ebal and in the area of Ephraim-- 23:35 "and whitewash them with lime. 23:38 And you'll write on them all the words of this law--" 23:41 and he's talking about the book of Deuteronomy-- "when you've 23:44 crossed over, that you may enter the land which the Lord your God 23:47 is giving you, 'in a land flowing with milk and honey,' 23:50 just as the Lord God your God, the God of your fathers 23:54 promised you. 23:55 Therefore, it shall be when you have crossed over the Jordan on 23:58 that Mount Ebal, you shall set up these stones that I command 24:02 you today, and you'll whitewash them with lime." 24:05 They basically had a form of primitive concrete back then, 24:08 and they were going to mix that up. 24:10 You know, they've been builders in Egypt. 24:12 They knew the best technology-- "whitewash them with lime, and 24:15 there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, 24:17 an altar of stones. 24:19 You'll not use an iron tool on them." 24:20 Don't make any image. 24:22 "You shall build them with whole stones the altar of 24:24 the Lord your God. 24:25 Offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. 24:28 You'll offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice 24:31 before the Lord your God." 24:32 Notice verse 8, "And you shall write very plainly on the stones 24:38 all the words of this law." 24:41 There in the middle of the land, the Mount Ebal, the opposite on 24:44 the Mount--what are the two mountains of blessing 24:47 and cursing? 24:50 Is it--okay, blank, brain cramp, it'll come back. 24:57 On these two mountains--they had the mountain of blessing, which 24:59 is where they put the stones, and then they had the other 25:01 mountain where the people would stand. 25:05 And they were to put these stones and write on--can you 25:09 imagine being the guy, and they say, "We need a scribe." 25:12 "Okay." 25:13 "And we want you to write out the book of Deuteronomy 25:16 in stone." 25:19 Like I said, it takes two and a half hours, but this was 25:22 so important. 25:23 They wanted to have a big wall, and on this wall the 25:27 constitution of their covenant with the Lord in the middle of 25:30 the Promised Land. 25:31 I think that's very significant. 25:33 Something else I want you to notice. 25:34 Go to Deuteronomy chapter 17, verse 18. 25:38 Moses is giving some instructions. 25:39 Deuteronomy 17, verse 18, "Also it shall be that when he, the 25:46 king that you've chosen--" see, back in the book of Samuel, when 25:49 the people asked for a king, and Samuel said, "You know, God is 25:53 your King," God always knew they would ultimately do that because 25:55 he gives a law here about it. 25:57 He says, "When you pick a king from among your people," it 26:01 says, "and he sits on the throne of the kingdom, he shall write 26:05 for himself a copy of this law in a book, from before one of 26:12 the priests in the Levites. 26:14 And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of 26:19 his life, that he might learn to fear the Lord his God and be 26:22 careful to observe all the words of this law 26:25 and these statutes--" 26:27 now, how many of you remember the story where the 26:30 priests were cleaning out the temple of the Lord during 26:33 the time of Josiah? 26:35 And it says, "We found the book." 26:37 You know what book they found? 26:40 They found the book of the law that was supposed to be read 26:42 before the king, and Hilkiah the priest found it. 26:46 He went in and said, "We have found the book of the law." 26:48 He reads it to King Josiah, who weeps and tears his clothes. 26:52 He thought, "If I'd only had this before." 26:55 So you find that the Book of Deuteronomy was to sort of be 26:58 a constitution for them. 27:00 It was in the middle of the land. 27:02 It was supposed to be read before the king, and now to top 27:05 things off, you go to the New Testament. 27:08 In the temptation of Christ in the wilderness, you read in 27:12 Matthew chapter 4, devil comes, and he says, "If you're the Son 27:15 of God, turn these stones into bread." 27:18 Christ responds, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread 27:24 alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth 27:27 of the Lord.'" 27:29 What book was Jesus quoting? 27:31 Deuteronomy. 27:33 Well, the devil goes for strike two, and he says--the devil then 27:39 tempts Him, and he leads Him up to the temple, and he says, "If 27:43 You're the Son of God, jump off, for it is written, 27:46 'His angels will bear--'" 27:47 and he's quoting Psalm 91 or misquoting Psalm 91. 27:50 "They'll bear You in Your hands lest You dash your foot 27:52 against a stone." 27:54 And he leaves out the part that says, "And keeps You 27:56 in all Your ways." 27:59 And Jesus says, "It is written," Matthew 4:7, "You shall not 28:03 tempt the Lord your God." 28:06 And then the devil says, "Bow down and worship me, and I'll 28:10 give You all these kingdoms. 28:11 You don't need to die." 28:13 And Jesus says, "Away with you, Satan, for it is written, 'You 28:17 shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'" 28:20 Now, all three times Jesus was tempted, 28:23 He returned to Scripture. 28:25 What Scripture did He return to? 28:28 Deuteronomy 8:3, "So He humbled you and allowed you to hunger 28:32 and thirst--hunger, and He fed you with manna that you did not 28:36 know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that 28:39 man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that 28:42 proceeds from the mouth of God." 28:44 That's Deuteronomy. 28:46 You read Deuteronomy 6:16, "You shall not tempt the Lord your 28:50 God as you tempted Him in Massah." 28:53 You read in Deuteronomy 6:13-14, "You shall fear the name of the 28:58 Lord your God and serve Him, and take oaths in His name. 29:02 You shall not go after other gods--" that's why Jesus said, 29:05 "You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only 29:07 shall you serve." 29:08 All three times Jesus was tempted, what book 29:11 does he resort to? 29:13 Deuteronomy. 29:14 Now, I could be wrong, but I think it's safe to say Jesus had 29:18 probably memorized this book, and so I just kind of want to 29:21 give you a little backdrop. 29:23 As you start studying the book of Deuteronomy, you're studying 29:26 basically the foundation document of the Old Testament. 29:30 Now, you can read in Deuteronomy 31--actually, I want to go to 29:35 Deuteronomy verse 30. 29:37 Deuteronomy is a book of prophecy. 29:40 I don't know if you've ever thought of it that way, but it's 29:43 not just a history book, it's a prophetic book. 29:47 For example, Deuteronomy 30:1-3, "Now it will come to pass, when 29:51 all these things come upon you, the blessings and the cursing--" 29:54 you can read about that in Deuteronomy 28-- "which I've set 29:57 before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where 30:00 the Lord your God drives you, and you return to the Lord your 30:03 God and obey His voice, according to all that I command 30:06 you today, you and your children, with all of your 30:10 heart, with all of your soul, the Lord God will bring you back 30:13 from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather 30:16 you again from all the nations where the Lord your God 30:20 has scattered you." 30:21 Well, what's in here? 30:23 Moses is saying, "You're going to play the harlot with 30:25 other gods. 30:27 You're going to be conquered. 30:28 You're going to be carried off to captivity. 30:30 When you return to Me in your land of captivity and you pray 30:32 to Me, I will forgive you, and I'll bring you back, not just 30:35 from the nation but from all of the nations." 30:38 Now, did God do that? 30:41 Did that all happen? 30:43 Anyone that knows a modicum of history knows how Israel has 30:46 been carried off twice now, not only scattered and carried off 30:49 by the Babylonians, but then conquered by the Romans and 30:52 scattered in many nations and brought back again. 30:55 And so Moses, of course, was a prophet. 30:58 Nobody will contest that. 31:00 You look in Deuteronomy 31, verse 16, "And the Lord said to 31:05 Moses, 'Behold, you will rest with your fathers, and this 31:09 people will rise up and play the harlot with the gods of 31:12 foreigners of the land, which they go to be among them, and 31:15 they'll forsake Me and break My covenant that I've 31:18 made with them." 31:19 I wonder, you know, "God, why did you tell that to Moses 31:22 just before he died? 31:23 But, anyway, God said this was what's going to happen. 31:27 Also one of the most vivid prophecies of Jesus is found 31:31 in the Book of Deuteronomy. 31:33 Look in Deuteronomy 18, verse 15, "The Lord your God will 31:37 raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, 31:41 from your brethren. 31:42 Him you shall hear, according to all that you desired of the Lord 31:46 your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let us 31:50 not hear again the voice of the Lord God anymore. 31:52 Let us not see this great fire anymore, lest we die.' 31:57 And the Lord said to me, 'What they have spoken is good. 32:00 I will raise up for them a Prophet--'" in other words, God 32:03 was saying--they were saying to the Lord, "We can't bear to talk 32:07 to you face-to-face after Mount Sinai." 32:10 God says, "I will give you a Mediator. 32:12 I'll speak to Him, and He will speak to you." 32:15 Jesus is the ultimate Mediator in that God became a man. 32:19 He says, "The Lord God will raise up a prophet 32:21 for you like me." 32:22 Moses the prophet, the priest, the lawgiver, the judge. 32:27 Jesus is our prophet, our priest, our lawgiver, our judge. 32:31 Moses was the savior born, you know, there in interesting 32:35 circumstances as a baby. 32:38 Born among the slaves, but he was not a slave. 32:40 Jesus was born among sinners, but He was not a sinner. 32:43 There are many, many ways where Jesus is a type of Moses. 32:46 And the disciples, many times, when they spoke to Jesus--or 32:52 John the Baptist, they said, "Are you Elijah?" 32:55 This is Mark 6:15. 32:57 "Are you Elijah?" 32:59 He said, "Or are you the prophet?" 33:02 They used to say, "Are you that prophet that we're looking for?" 33:06 They didn't have a name for him, but they heard that Elijah was 33:09 coming back, but there was this enigmatic prophet that Moses 33:13 talked about that was nameless. 33:15 So they always called him "that prophet." 33:18 And so they knew this great prophet like Moses was coming. 33:23 All right, that was my introduction. 33:26 I hope it was edifying. 33:27 As I teach other lessons along the way, I'll be able to delve 33:32 into some more. 33:34 Now let's go to the first section under Sunday, 33:37 "Love to be Loved." 33:40 The word "love" is found 25 times in the book of 33:42 Deuteronomy. 33:44 People often say to me, "Oh, the Old Testament is all law, 33:48 law, law. 33:49 Jesus is love, love, love." 33:51 But, in fact, there's a lot of love in the Old Testament. 33:54 I don't know if I'll have time to read them all, but you read 33:56 in Deuteronomy 6, verse 4, "Hear, O Israel--" this is 34:00 called the great Mishnah-- "the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 34:05 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and your 34:08 soul and your strength." 34:09 That's the great commandment, Jesus said. 34:12 Deuteronomy 7, verse 8, "Because the Lord loves you, and because 34:16 He would keep his oath that He swore to your fathers, the Lord 34:20 has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you 34:22 from the house of bondage--" not just talks about us loving God. 34:25 It says God loves us. 34:28 In Deuteronomy 7:13, "And He will love you and bless you and 34:32 multiply you. 34:34 He'll also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your 34:36 grain--" he talks about God will love us. 34:39 And then Deuteronomy 30, this is the end of the book or near the 34:42 end: "That you may love the Lord your God and obey His voice--" 34:47 so the idea of loving God and keeping His commandments, do you 34:50 just find that in John chapter 14, or is Jesus actually quoting 34:55 the teachings of Moses? 34:58 "Love and obey God." 35:00 In fact, in the Ten Commandments, do you 35:02 find the word "love"? 35:06 Come on, that's not a hard question, yes. 35:10 "Showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me and keep My 35:12 commandments." 35:14 And so love is the foundation, it's the heart of the law. 35:17 Now what is our problem? 35:21 Our problem is sin, what is sin? 35:24 Sin is selfishness. 35:27 You want to find an easy way to define "sin"? 35:29 Whenever I'm thinking sinful thoughts, I'm thinking selfish 35:31 thoughts. 35:33 Sin always springs from selfishness. 35:36 Our problem is God created us where if--God is love, right? 35:39 We all agree? 35:41 God made man in His image. 35:46 Man was made loving, and then, because of sin, the compass 35:51 needle, God skewed 180 degrees. 35:54 Instead of our thinking of loving God and loving others as 35:57 we love ourself, we love ourself first. 36:01 And because of that selfishness, every other sin flows from that. 36:05 So when we're praying for salvation, we're praying for 36:07 loving hearts. 36:09 What's the new birth? 36:11 "I'll put a new heart within you." 36:13 Instead of being motivated by selfishness, 36:15 we're motivated by love. 36:17 So where did this problem begin? 36:20 It's a perversion of love. 36:23 Instead of our being now in God's image, we took on the 36:26 image of a new master, Satan, who rebels, was the highest of 36:32 God's angels, and he began to think those selfish thoughts, 36:36 wondering why he was not God, why he did not have all the 36:39 power of God, and you can read about this in Isaiah 14, "How 36:44 you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning. 36:47 How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the 36:50 nations. 36:52 For you said in your heart--" something happened 36:53 in his heart-- "I'll ascend into heaven. 36:56 I will exalt my throne--I want my glory--above the stars 37:00 of God. 37:01 I'll also sit on the mount of the congregation, the heavenly 37:04 throne, on the farthest sides of the north. 37:07 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds--" maybe nebula 37:10 clouds-- "I'll be like the Most High." 37:13 So Satan was desiring the place of God, "I, I, I, I, I." 37:18 And God is about love, love, love. 37:21 And so God created a beautiful angel that of his own free will 37:25 chose to not live for the glory of God but to decide to live 37:28 for his own glory. 37:30 And we've all been contaminated with that selfishness 37:33 and that sin. 37:35 During worship at "Amazing Facts" this week, I asked the 37:37 question, "If you see a group photograph, and you're in the 37:39 group, where do you first look?" 37:43 If you're honest, do you say, "Oh, so-and-so looks really 37:46 good, and they look really--" first thing you do is you go 37:49 over that picture, and you look for yourself. 37:52 It's because we've got a broken compass needle, and it always 37:55 points to self. 37:57 So, of course, there was a war in heaven. 38:01 We're leading up to Deuteronomy now. 38:03 There was a rebellion. Satan was cast to the earth. 38:05 This earth now has taken on a different master, and 38:10 Satan--even Jesus calls the devil, "the prince 38:13 of this world." 38:15 That's why Satan said, "I'll give it back to You. 38:16 You don't have to die if You worship me." 38:18 So Christ came to redeem the world in a legitimate way by 38:22 paying the price for our sin and transforming our hearts, 38:26 re-creating us in His own image. 38:30 That's the new birth, where God then gives us, once again, 38:33 His own mind. 38:35 The mind of Christ is in us. 38:37 Well, following--you get the fall of the human race. 38:41 Now we've got the fall and the flood. 38:43 So God creates man. 38:46 Satan there, in the Garden of Eden, he tempts Adam and Eve to 38:49 surrender their freedom. 38:52 The Bible says in Romans 6, "Whoever you obey, that's whose 38:54 servant you are, whoever you obey." 38:57 And when they chose to obey what the devil said, instead of what 39:00 God said, they surrendered the dominion that God had given them 39:04 of this world, to the arch deceiver, and the devil and his 39:08 angels were ultimately restricted to this planet. 39:11 Prior to this, I think that they roamed through the cosmos and 39:13 tried to get other worlds to follow them. 39:16 Satan had gotten one-third of the angels. 39:18 He thought he might get another, maybe, unfallen intelligent 39:20 beings, but there were none except this beautiful new planet 39:24 where people were made in God's image, and Satan took this as 39:28 his headquarters. 39:29 This is now the beachhead where Satan is carrying out the great 39:32 controversy on this planet. 39:34 You can see what happened to the world in the days of Noah, when 39:39 the sons of God, children of Seth, who still worshiped God, 39:44 they stayed separate from his brother Cain and their 39:48 descendants, who were living purely selfish, 39:51 hedonistic lives. 39:53 When the children of Seth, in their shopping at the mall, they 39:56 saw the daughters of men, the daughters of Cain, 39:59 that they were fair. 40:00 The distinction was lost because the sons of God began to 40:04 intermarry with the daughters of men. 40:05 Some people think this is talking about aliens or angels 40:09 marrying with humans, and they're just totally missing 40:12 the language in the Bible. 40:13 Bible says--what? 40:15 "Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that 40:18 we should be called sons of God." 40:20 When we are saved, the Bible calls us "sons and daughters 40:22 of God." 40:24 It is used for angels in other places, but it's used 40:25 for people. 40:27 So these are the children of Seth, intermarried with the 40:29 children of Cain. 40:31 They lost their spiritual holiness and identity, and then 40:35 it says, "The thoughts of men's hearts were only 40:38 evil continually. 40:39 Violence filled the world." 40:41 God then declared something that's heartbreaking. 40:43 It made God sorry that he made man, and he said, "I'm going to 40:47 wipe them all out." 40:49 But he said, "I love them, so I'll save a remnant, and from 40:53 them, I'll repopulate the world, and we'll try it again." 40:58 So you got the story of Noah and that he finds grace in the Lord. 41:04 Well, not too long after Noah, he discovers wine, and we have 41:08 problems again. 41:10 And then you got the Tower of Babel, and they sort of try and 41:12 develop a man-made religion on the earth, salvation by works. 41:17 "In case God floods the world, we'll build a tower to heaven." 41:20 And God confounds that and scatters them. 41:23 Well, then God says, "I'm going to call another remnant," and he 41:27 finds a faithful man, a man that he believes has a heart after 41:30 his heart. 41:32 His name is Abraham. 41:35 And that's in section three. 41:37 And God says in Genesis 12:1, "The Lord says to Abram--" his 41:42 name isn't Abraham yet-- "Get out of your country, from your 41:47 family, and from your father's house, to a land that I will 41:50 show you, and I will make you a great nation. 41:55 I will bless you and make your name great, 41:57 and you shall be a blessing. 41:59 And I'll bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who 42:01 curses you, and in you all the families of the earth 42:05 will be blessed." 42:07 And He's talking about bless with the ultimate blessing. 42:09 Now, what is the ultimate blessing? 42:12 God, through Abraham, God the Son would come, and Jesus would 42:18 be born, the Messiah. 42:20 And through Jesus, salvation would come, not just through one 42:23 race of people, but to all people whosoever will. 42:27 All the nations of the world would be blessed through Christ. 42:30 It's amazing that the disciples did not understand until A.D. 42:35 34, that the Gospel was not just for Jews, but Jesus was meant to 42:39 save everybody because it's even in the Old Testament. 42:43 So you read in Galatians chapter 3, verse 7--I know I'm bouncing 42:46 around, trying to cover as much of this as I can. 42:50 "Therefore know that only those who are sons of Abraham--" I'll 42:55 say that again: "Therefore know that only those who are sons of 42:59 faith are sons of Abraham. 43:02 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the 43:05 Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, 43:09 saying, 'In you all the nations will be blessed.' 43:13 So then those who are of faith are blessed 43:16 with believing Abraham." 43:19 Now, Jesus made it pretty clear, John the Baptist made it clear, 43:24 "Think not to say unto yourself that we are children of Abraham, 43:27 so God has to save us." 43:29 And it's a tragedy when I encounter people--you know, I've 43:33 got a Jewish family. 43:34 Many of them are indifferent about looking for God. 43:37 They think they've got a one-way ticket to heaven 43:39 because they're Jewish. 43:41 I don't know any other way to say it. 43:42 They're very secular, but they think, "We're the chosen people, 43:45 and God's going to save us. 43:47 And our ancestors suffered so much, that we kind of go to 43:50 heaven without passing 'Go.'" 43:52 And it's really sad because the Bible is clear, Jesus said to 43:57 the religious leaders, "You're not sons of Abraham. 44:00 You're sons of your father the devil." 44:04 Children do the works of their parents, and the Bible says, 44:08 "Many will come from the east and west and sit down in the 44:11 kingdom with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the children of the 44:14 kingdom--" meaning the natural children of the kingdom-- 44:17 "will be in outer darkness where there is weeping 44:19 and gnashing of teeth." 44:21 You and I can learn from that also because don't think to say 44:23 to yourself, "Wow, I've been in this church 44:24 for four generations." 44:26 You ever heard anyone brag about how many generations their 44:27 family's been in the church? 44:29 Huh? 44:30 Do you get extra credit for that? 44:33 No, God has no grandchildren. 44:36 Everybody must be born again. 44:39 You must be a child of God yourself. 44:41 You can't say, "Well, my dad was a preacher," and that's somehow 44:44 going to give you extra points. 44:46 It doesn't work that way. 44:48 Bible tells us that "They that believe are 44:53 the children of Abraham. 44:55 He is not a Jew which is one outwardly in the flesh, he is a 44:59 Jew which is one inwardly." 45:02 And, you know, every Jew or Gentile can be saved, but we 45:06 must all be grafted into the stock of Christ, and so this is 45:10 one of the very important teachings that we encounter. 45:13 So, the Lord saved the nation of Israel, he called Abraham, he 45:17 put him strategically in the land specifically for the 45:21 purpose of being the crossroads to the world. 45:26 I mean, you know, God couldn't put them everywhere all at once, 45:28 so he picked this humble nation, started with, wasn't a nation, 45:31 family, picked a man with no children, says, 45:35 "I'm gonna give you this land. 45:37 This land is at the intersection of Africa, Asia, and Europe, 45:42 it's a bridge," they had no airplanes back then. 45:45 And when Jesus comes to that land and the gospel explodes at 45:49 Pentecost, it's gonna be on the road--the Roman roads that had 45:53 been built that are gonna take the gospel quickly to the world 45:57 and ultimately over the oceans to every corner of the planet. 46:02 And then let me jump--I've got a couple of sections left and just 46:07 a few minutes, so let me jump over here. 46:11 And then you can hear the covenant is repeated at Sinai, 46:14 now, keep in mind, Deuteronomy covers the period from the 46:18 Exodus, it doesn't start with Genesis. 46:20 Deuteronomy covers the period following the Exodus up to the 46:25 death of Moses 40 years later, and then of course there are 46:28 prophecies about what they could expect in the future. 46:31 So, the covenant he talks about, Deuteronomy 4, he reminds them 46:35 of the repeating of the covenant at Sinai. 46:38 "Or did God every try to go and take for himself a nation from 46:42 the midst of another nation? 46:44 By trials and by signs and by wonders, by war, by a mighty 46:48 hand and an oustretched arm, by great terrors according to all 46:52 the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes." 46:55 He said, this has never happened in history before, never 46:57 happened since. 47:00 "To you it was shown that you might know that the Lord himself 47:04 is God, and there is none other besides him." 47:08 He wanted to emphasize that to him, because all the other 47:11 surrounding nations both in Egypt and when they would 47:15 ultimately go to Canaan, they believed in multiple 47:17 different gods. 47:19 Some nations had many gods like the Greeks, some had, you know, 47:23 one or two pagan gods that they worship, and he said, "Don't 47:27 forget, there's one God, he made everything, he's not just the 47:31 god of the rivers or the oceans or the birds or different 47:34 things, he's the God that made everything." 47:37 So, Moses wanted to emphasize that on them. 47:40 He said, "You see what I did to the Egyptians," and this is 47:44 under the section "Apostacy and Punishment. 47:47 He reminds them, "Don't turn from God, it doesn't end well, 47:52 there is justice with God." 47:55 You know, Paul talks about, "Behold the mercy and severity 48:00 of God," we see both, you can't really have one 48:03 without the other. 48:05 "You've seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on 48:08 eagle's wings, and I brought you to myself. 48:12 Now therefore if indeed you will obey my voice and keep my 48:15 covenant, then you will be a special treasure to me above all 48:20 people, for all the earth is mine, not just 48:24 the Promised Land." 48:25 So, God is calling his people to keep him as supreme 48:30 in their lives. 48:32 He says, "Obey me, if you love me, keep my commandments," and 48:35 Jesus is pretty clear, Matthew 5:19, "Whosoever therefore will 48:39 break one of the least of these commandments," he's talking 48:42 about the law and the prophets that Moses wrote, "and teach men 48:45 so, he will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but 48:49 whoever does them and teaches them will be called great." 48:52 Some people think that Jesus came to do away the law of 48:54 Moses, did he do that? 48:57 Did Jesus come to do away the law of Moses? 49:01 He said, "Think not that I have come to do away with the law and 49:06 the prophets, I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill." 49:11 Now, we all understand that there was a big transference, 49:14 that a lot of the ceremonial laws, Christ then fulfilled 49:16 those, but the idea that, you know, the principles of the 49:20 covenant, the foundation, and what was the foundation for the 49:23 covenant, written in stone, it's the Ten Commandments. 49:26 Jesus said, "Don't think that," and yet how many of you have 49:29 heard Christian leaders say, oh, it doesn't matter. 49:32 Isn't that sad? 49:34 Well, we are out of 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