North Glencoe Baptist Church
Week #9 / Deeper
Join us this week as Pastor Thom continues the "Deeper" series with notes on Deuteronomy! This was recorded live on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
Locations & Times
North Glencoe Baptist Church
1119 Chastain Blvd, Gadsden, AL 35903, USA
Wednesday 6:00 PM
Author: Moses (See notes on Exodus). 31:9 “Then 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.”. External Evidence : Joshua 23:6, 1 Kings 2:3, Malachi 4:4, Matthew 19:7-8, and Romans 10:19.
Date: 1446 B.C. - 1406 B.C. (See notes on Exodus). This book is a record of the speeches that Moses delivered on the Plains of Moab at the end of the wandering in the wilderness.
When translated from the Greek Septuagint, the word “Deuteronomy” means “second law,” as in Moses' retelling of God's laws. This name I'd derived from Deuteronomy 17:18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.”
That being said, Deuteronomy emphasizes that it is not a new law, but the preaching of the original law given at Sinai.
Theme:
Deuteronomy, the final book in the Pentateuch, contains Moses’ last three sermons and two prophetic poems about Israel’s future. Reflecting on the nation’s past mistakes, Moses urges the people not to repeat those errors when they enter the Promised Land. Possessing Canaan will fulfill the promises made to the patriarchs, but if the people fall into idolatry or fail to keep the law, they will be exiled.
Date: 1446 B.C. - 1406 B.C. (See notes on Exodus). This book is a record of the speeches that Moses delivered on the Plains of Moab at the end of the wandering in the wilderness.
When translated from the Greek Septuagint, the word “Deuteronomy” means “second law,” as in Moses' retelling of God's laws. This name I'd derived from Deuteronomy 17:18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.”
That being said, Deuteronomy emphasizes that it is not a new law, but the preaching of the original law given at Sinai.
Theme:
Deuteronomy, the final book in the Pentateuch, contains Moses’ last three sermons and two prophetic poems about Israel’s future. Reflecting on the nation’s past mistakes, Moses urges the people not to repeat those errors when they enter the Promised Land. Possessing Canaan will fulfill the promises made to the patriarchs, but if the people fall into idolatry or fail to keep the law, they will be exiled.
Outline:
Prologue (1:1–5)
Deuteronomy 1:1 “These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.”
Moses’ First Sermon: Background (1:6–4:43)
Remember: Deuteronomy 4:32-35 “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.”
Moses’ Second Sermon: General Covenant Stipulations (4:44–11:32)
Deuteronomy 6:1-3 "Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Prologue (1:1–5)
Deuteronomy 1:1 “These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.”
Moses’ First Sermon: Background (1:6–4:43)
Remember: Deuteronomy 4:32-35 “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.”
Moses’ Second Sermon: General Covenant Stipulations (4:44–11:32)
Deuteronomy 6:1-3 "Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Moses’ Second Sermon: Specific Covenant Stipulations (12:1–26:19)
Deuteronomy 17:14-15 "When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,' you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.”
Moses’ Third Sermon: Blessings and Curses (27:1–28:68)
Deuteronomy 27:15-16 “'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.' "'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'”
Moses’ Third Sermon: Final Exhortation (29:1–30:20)
Deuteronomy 29:2-4, 29 “And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear..."The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
Deuteronomy 17:14-15 "When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,' you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.”
Moses’ Third Sermon: Blessings and Curses (27:1–28:68)
Deuteronomy 27:15-16 “'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.' "'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'”
Moses’ Third Sermon: Final Exhortation (29:1–30:20)
Deuteronomy 29:2-4, 29 “And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear..."The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
Succession of Leadership (31:1–34:12)
Deuteronomy 31:1-3, 7-8 “So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel. And he said to them, "I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.' The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken...Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it. It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
Deuteronomy 31:1-3, 7-8 “So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel. And he said to them, "I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.' The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken...Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it. It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”