Transcript The Greatest Story Ever Told

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The Greatest Story
Ever Told
How To Read And Understand
DEUTERONOMY
(Part 2)
Deuteronomy: An Overview
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Final three speeches by Moses before his death
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Written as a covenant with three parts
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History of God’s involvement with his people (Ch. 1-4)
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Review of the laws God had given to his people (Ch. 4-26)
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Promise of blessings if Israel obeys God’s laws,
warning of curses if Israel disobeys God’s laws
(Ch. 27-30)
Transfer of leadership to Joshua
(Ch. 31-34)
Reflection:
Deuteronomy 29:10-13
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“You are standing today all of you before the
Lord your God…so that you may enter into
the sworn covenant of the Lord your God,
which the Lord your God is making with you
today, that he may establish you today as his
people, and that he may be your God,
as he promised you, and as he swore
to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob.”
Today’s Lesson:
God Chooses His People
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Who is this God who chooses a people for himself?
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Why did he choose this people?
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What do his chosen people get?
Who Is This God Who Chooses
A People For Himself?
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The one true God (Deuteronomy 4:32-39)
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“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 beside him.”
Who are the false gods in my generation?
Who Is This God Who Chooses?
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The sovereign God (Deuteronomy 7:17-19)
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“If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I.
How can I dispossess them?’ you shall not be afraid of them
but you shall remember what the Lord your God did to
Pharaoh and to all Egypt…So will the Lord your God do to all
the peoples of whom you are afraid.”
Does anything seem too hard for my God?
Mad Gab Mania!
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Sample: Canoes He Wad Ice He
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Plea See Chores Hoop
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Thigh Sing Gone Thick Ache
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Noggin Hock Ooze Their
Why Did He Choose This People?
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Not because of their goodness (Deuteronomy 9:46)
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But because of his love (Deuteronomy 7:6-8)
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“Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you
this good land to possess because of your righteousness,
for you are a stubborn people.”
“It was not because you were more in number than
any other people…for you were the fewest of all
peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and
is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers”
Why would God choose me?
What Do His Chosen People Get?
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The law (Deuteronomy 27:4-8)
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“And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set
up these stones…and you shall write on the stones all the
words of this law very plainly”
Reflection:
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
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“Hear, O Israel: The Lord 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. And
these words that I command you today shall be on
your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your
children, 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. You shall bind
them as a sign on your hand, and they shall
be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall
write them on the doorposts of your house
and on your gates.”
What Do His Chosen People Get?
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The law (Deuteronomy 27:4-8)
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Descendants (Deuteronomy 10:22)
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“And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set
up these stones…and you shall write on the stones all the
words of this law very plainly”
“…the Lord your God has made you as numerous
as the stars of heaven”
Land (Deuteronomy 11:11)
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“The land that you are going over to possess…”
The Greatest Gift Of All
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God’s own presence
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“For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as
the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?”
(Deuteronomy 4:8)
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“Do not fear or be in dread…for it is the Lord your God who
goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
(Deuteronomy 31:6)
Do I feel God is near to me?
Reflection:
Deuteronomy 33:27
 “The
eternal God is your dwelling
place, and underneath are the
everlasting arms.”
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