Lessons from Deuteronomy: Divine Partnership and Obedience
Explore the lessons from Deuteronomy focusing on the divine partnership with God, the importance of obedience to His commands, and the call to repentance. The text highlights the story of Israel coming to the promised land and emphasizes being peaceable and obedient to God. Biblical parallels from Philippians and Romans are drawn to deepen the understanding of these lessons.
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Map of the Tribal Map of the Tribal Allotments of Israel Allotments of Israel = where Moses speaks Deuteronomy to the Israelites = Israelites coming up from 40 years in the wilderness = the land taken from King Og and King Sihon
Lessons from this text: 1. Covenant relationship with God is a divine partnership.
Lessons from this text: Deuteronomy 2:33 33And the LORD our God gave him [King Sihon] over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people.
Lessons from this text: Deuteronomy 2:33 33And the LORD our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. New Covenant Parallel: Philippians 2:12-13
Lessons from this text: 1. Covenant relationship with God is a divine partnership. 2. We should be peaceable people who are firmly obedient to the commands of God.
Lessons from this text: Deuteronomy 2:26 26 So I [Moses] sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace
Lessons from this text: Deuteronomy 2:26 26 So I [Moses] sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace New Covenant Parallel: Romans 12:17-18 John 15:18-20
Lessons from this text: 1. Covenant relationship with God is a divine partnership. 2. We should be peaceable people who are firmly obedient to the commands of God. 3. Repent TODAY from your sin, or your heart will harden towards God.
Lessons from this text: Deuteronomy 2:30 30But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.
Lessons from this text: Deuteronomy 2:30 30But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. New Covenant Parallel: Hebrews 3:13
Lessons from this text: 1. Covenant relationship with God is a divine partnership. 2. We should be peaceable people who are firmly obedient to the commands of God. 3. Repent TODAY from your sin, or your heart will harden towards God. 4. We must deal lethally with the wickedness preventing us from obtaining God s promised blessings.
Lessons from this text: Deuteronomy 2:34 34And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.
Lessons from this text: Deuteronomy 2:34 34And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. New Covenant Parallel: Colossians 3:5-11
Lessons from this text: 1. Covenant relationship with God is a divine partnership. 2. We should be peaceable people who are firmly obedient to the commands of God. 3. Repent TODAY from your sin, or your heart will harden towards God. 4. We must deal lethally with the wickedness preventing us from obtaining God s promised blessings. 5.With God, no giant or fortified city is too insurmountable to keep us from experiencing what God has promised for us.
Lessons from this text: Deuteronomy 3:4 4And we took all his cities at that time there was not a city that we did not take from them sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.5All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.
Lessons from this text: Deuteronomy 3:4 4And we took all his cities at that time there was not a city that we did not take from them sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.5All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages. New Covenant Parallel: 2 Peter 1:3
Lessons from this text: 1. Covenant relationship with God is a divine partnership. 2. We should be peaceable people who are firmly obedient to the commands of God. 3. Repent TODAY from your sin, or your heart will harden towards God. 4. We must deal lethally with the wickedness preventing us from obtaining God s promised blessings. 5.With God, no giant or fortified city is too insurmountable to keep us from experiencing what God has promised for us.
Troubling Text: Deuteronomy 2:32-35 32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.33And the LORD our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. 34 And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. 35 Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured.
Wrestling with God over Deuteronomy 2 and 3
Wrestling with God over Deuteronomy 2 and 3 The issue: My definition of love does not allow for the Israelites (with the help/approval of God) killing every man, woman and child of these two kingdoms.
Things I affirm which make this text troubling: 1. I believe this is an historical account of something that actually happened. (not allegory) 2. I believe God is perfect, unchanging (not an evolving being) and all-loving towards all people. the bible itself says clearly that this is an expression of God s love
Psalm 136:17-22 17to him who struck down great kings, His love endures forever. 18and killed mighty kings His love endures forever. 19Sihon king of the Amorites His love endures forever. 20and Og king of Bashan His love endures forever.
Wrestling with God over Deuteronomy 2 and 3 Question: Can killing someone ever be motivated by love? (theoretical example: gunman in the church)
Gods forbearance with the Amorites: 13Then the LORD said to him (Abraham), Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.14But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.15You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.16In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure. Genesis 15:13-16
Human wickedness is the cause of Gods loving wrath: Human wickedness is the cause of God s loving wrath: Deuteronomy 9:5 Not because of your (Israelite s) righteousness or uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Examples of Gods judgement seeming too extreme to me: The worldwide flood (Noah) Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah Killing of the firstborn in Egypt Killing of the Amorites Killing of the Canaanites Killing of the Israelites by Assyrian and Babylonian invasion Killing of Jesus on the cross Killing of humans in Revelation by plague and wars Hell
Lesson: God s wrath against wickedness is an expression of love. Application: We must remind/teach each other that every decision we make has consequences. (we live in a consequence laden reality)
