August 10, 2025 • 53 mins
On the edge of the Promised Land, Moses warned Israel: “When you eat and are full, take care lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of Egypt.” Abundance often makes us forget our dependence on God.
Moses knew this struggle personally—his own disobedience at Meribah cost him entrance into Canaan. Yet instead of hiding his failures, he wrote them down, reminding us that he was never the hero of the story.
In this episode, host Kate traces Israel’s journey from slavery to abundance and uncovers our own temptations to dictate how God should give or to take credit for His gifts. But she also reveals the astonishing grace of Christ—the true hero who redeems our forgetfulness with His faithfulness.
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Kate (00:00):
Hey guys, this is Kate from abidible.
com and you're listening to TheAbidible Podcast.
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Moses didn't get to enter thepromised land.
Have you ever spent any timethinking about that?
Our guy, Moses, who we havebeen with for the last eight
weeks in this series, wasn'tallowed into Canaan.
God wouldn't let him in.
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Let's look at our new set ofverses today and then we'll
circle back on this idea ofMoses not entering the land.
In the end of Deuteronomy,chapter 6, verse 10, and then
into verses 11 and 12, Moses isdescribing this land that we
talked about last week.
He said to the people the landthat God is giving you, as he
promised to his fathers, is landwith great and good cities that
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you did not build and housesfull of all good things that you
did not fill, and cisterns,wells that you did not dig and
vineyards and olive trees thatyou did not plant.
This is what the land is goingto be like, Moses says.
He paints a vibrant picture ofhow blessed they will be to
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enter this land.
But then he issues a soberwarning and when you eat and are
full, then take care lest youforget the Lord who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out ofthe house of slavery.
Today we're going to take acloser look at Moses' story,
with an important contextualunderstanding that the man
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telling Israel not to forget theLord had himself forgotten God.
We're going to be able to seethis command not coming from a
perfect hero, as Moses is sooften painted, but from a flawed
and broken man who knewfirsthand the grief attached to
forgetfulness.
We'll see this command as lessof Moses shaking his finger at
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the people and as more of afather pleading with his
children to not make the samemistakes he had made.
Moses was a very different manby the end of his life, and
we're going to take a look athow and why.
We're also going to identifythe two main problems we have
with remembering the good thingsthat God has done for us, and
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we'll do that in light of thepeople we can relate so closely
to, the Israelites.
What had their circumstancesbeen like both in Egypt and in
the wilderness?
We need to have this in thefront of our mind to understand
this temptation to forget God.
It's a temptation we all faceto forget God and to believe
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that we are the hero of thestory when we are not.
Moses wasn't the hero of thestory.
Joshua wasn't the hero of thestory.
When the Israelites conqueredCanaan, they weren't the heroes
of the story.
There is only one hero of thestory.
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Okay, so back to Moses.
When I get to heaven, I hope Iget to sit at Moses' feet and
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hear his stories and learn fromhim for at least a few decades.
I admire Moses so much.
His story is unbelievable.
He got to see God work so manymind-blowing miracles and he was
so bold and courageous andfaithful.
I love him and one of thethings I love most about him is
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that he wrote his own story withfull transparency.
Think about it as the author ofthe Pentateuch of Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers andDeuteronomy.
Moses could have sanitized theevents he was a part of in order
to make himself look better.
I would have been massivelytempted to do that.
I don't want to record for alltime the most embarrassing and
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shameful moments of my entirelife.
I would absolutely want toclean up the record to paint
myself in a better light.
Maybe Moses was tempted torewrite the story a little bit,
but he didn't, because he knewhe wasn't the hero of the story
and because of that, when westudy the Bible, we get to see
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Moses as the man that he was, asthe friend of God who, yes, met
with him face to face, but as aman who was also imperfect in
many ways.
In this "God is One series onDeuteronomy 6, 4 through 13,.
We've already talked about afew of Moses' massive mess-up,
sin moments.
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I still want to briefly giveyou a list of examples now.
But what I'm really getting at,what I really want to talk
about, as I said at thebeginning of this episode, is
what prohibited Moses from beingallowed to enter the promised
land.
Here are some of the momentswhere we see Moses forgetting
God as a result of his ownmoments of fear or doubt, or
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anger or pride.
The first few are all fromMoses' interaction with God at
the burning bush, exodus 3 (06:08):
11.
But Moses said to God who am Ithat I should go to Pharaoh and
bring the children of Israel outof Egypt?
Moses doubts his worthiness andability to carry out God's call
, even though God, in verse 12,promises to be with him.
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Moses' fear reveals a lack ofconfidence in God's empowering
presence.
Then in Exodus 4:1, it saysMoses answered but behold, they
will not believe me or listen tomy voice.
Again, Moses questions theeffectiveness of God's call and
seems to distrust that God'spower will be enough to persuade
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others.
Then in Exodus 4:10, he says ohmy Lord, I am not eloquent.
I am slow of speech and oftongue.
Moses here expresses anxietyover his speaking abilities.
Despite God's repeatedreassurance, Moses focuses on
his own limitations and then, inExodus 4: 13-14, he just says
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oh my Lord, please send someoneelse.
This is a pivotal moment ofoutright resistance.
Is a pivotal moment of outrightresistance, God responds with
anger in verse 14, showing thatMoses' hesitation has crossed
from honest doubt intodisobedience.
Here's another crazy examplefrom Exodus 4: 24-26.
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It says At a lodging place onthe way the Lord met him, Moses,
and sought to put him to death.
Before reaching Egypt, Moseshad neglected to circumcise his
son, a covenant sign given toAbraham.
Moses' wife, Zipporah,intervenes and performs the
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circumcision.
This moment of spiritualnegligence shows Moses' failure
to fully honor God's covenantcommand.
And then here's the big one.
It's what I started the episodewith, the action on Moses' part
that led him to not beingallowed to enter the Promised
Land.
If you've ever thought aboutthis part of the story and felt
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that God was being harsh orunjust, or you just didn't
understand, let's take a momentto figure out what really
happened.
This is from Numbers 20:7-12.
It says and the glory of theLord appeared to them.
And the Lord spoke to Moses,saying Take the staff and
assemble the congregation, youand Aaron, your brother, and
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tell the rock.
Tell the rock before their eyesto yield its water.
And Moses lifted up his handand struck the rock with his
staff twice.
God had commanded Moses tospeak to the rock so water would
flow to the Israelites in thewilderness, but instead Moses
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struck it and spoke rashly tothe people.
He was super frustrated withthe relentless grumbling and
stubborn ungrateful hearts ofthe people.
And we see in this action thatMoses was also angry with God
for not correcting the behaviorof the people.
So instead of speaking to therock, he cracked his staff
against it twice.
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This act of disobedience was amisrepresentation of God's
character, as David Gusick says.
"What Moses did was an unholything.
He made God look no differentthan an angry man or one of the
temperamental pagan gods.
He did not reflect the heartand character of God before the
people and it cost him entranceinto the promised land.
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God said this is Numbers 20,12,.
Because you did not believe inme to uphold me as holy in the
eyes of the people, you shallnot bring this assembly into the
land Devastating.
Can we just pause here for amoment and grieve alongside
Moses and his friend God.
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A line had been crossed and theconsequence for that decision
permanently doled out.
Friend, even Moses sinned.
Even he was unable to perfectlyuphold the very law he'd been
tasked with giving the people.
This moment at Meribah is theclearest example of unbelief and
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unfaithfulness in Moses' life.
This was not just a personalfailure, but a public distortion
of God's holiness and mercy.
The ESV study notes say "as theprime mediators of God's law to
Israel, moses and Aaron had tobe exemplary in their obedience.
Their failure to follow thedivine instruction exactly led
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to their forfeiting their rightto enter Canaan.
Some have suggested thatanother factor was involved,
since God had told Moses in theearlier incident getting water
from a rock I will stand beforeyou there on the rock.
That's from Exodus 17.6,.
Moses should have known thatGod was present here on the rock
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as well.
Therefore, moses speaking tothe rock would be actually
speaking to God.
And so when Moses struck therock with his staff twice, it
was a serious manifestation ofanger against God, and it is not
surprising that God punishedMoses severely.
I love Moses, but he is not thehero of the story.
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Moses for all his faithfulnessand intimacy with God, had very
real moments of fear of man,fear of failure, self-doubt and
insecurity, neglect of God'scovenant, public disobedience
and unbelief.
Thank God he was willing andhumble enough to write it all
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down.
Returning to our passage here inDeuteronomy 6, we remember that
this is Moses' farewell sermonto the people.
He is standing on the plains ofMoab, just outside the Promised
Land the people are about toenter.
He will not go in.
This is the Moses who hasendured confronting the most
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powerful man on earth, with theplagues of God in Egypt, the
deliverance of his people out ofthe house of slavery, the
pursuit of Pharaoh and theparting of the Red Sea.
He has experienced the pillarof cloud by day and fire by
night, the manna from heaven,water springing out of rocks,
the holy mountain of God, thefailures of the people speaking
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with God face to face and 40years of taxing, arduous,
burdensome leadership in thewilderness.
Now he's reminding the peopleof God's promise to their
fathers.
And he's not a man of doubtanymore.
Let me read you Exodus 8.
Yeah, I'm going to read you thewhole chapter because it is
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that important to our versestoday.
As I read it, think about ourguy Moses, who has publicly and
profusely failed, now pleadingwith the people to remember.
"he whole commandment that Icommand you today.
You shall be careful to do that.
You may live and multiply andgo in and possess the land that
the Lord swore to give to yourfathers, and you shall remember
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the whole way that the Lord,your God, has led you these
forty years in the wilderness,that he might humble you,
testing you to know what was inyour heart, whether you would
keep his commandments or not.
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Know then in your heart that, asa man disciplines his son, the
LORD your God disciplines you.
So you shall keep thecommandments of the LORD your
God by walking in his ways andby fearing him.
For the LORD your God isbringing you into a good land, a
land of brooks of water, offountains and springs, flowing
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out in the valleys and hills, aland of wheat and barley, of
vines and fig trees andpomegranates, a land of olive
trees and honey, a land in whichyou will eat bread without
scarcity, in which you will lacknothing, a land whose stones
are iron and out of whose hillsyou can dig copper.
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And you shall eat and be full,and you shall bless the LORD
your God for the good land hehas given you.
Take care lest you forget theLORD your God by not keeping his
commandments and his rules andhis statutes, which I command
you today, lest, when you haveeaten and are full and have
built good houses and live inthem, and when your herds and
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flocks multiply and your silverand gold is multiplied and all
that you have is multiplied,then your heart be lifted up,
and you forget the LORD yourGod, who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the houseof slavery, who led you through
the great and terrifyingwilderness, with its fiery
serpents and scorpions andthirsty ground where there was
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no water, who brought you waterout of the flinty rock, who fed
you in the wilderness with mannathat your fathers did not know,
that he might humble you andtest you, to do you good in the
end.
Beware lest you say in yourheart, 'My power and the might
of my hand have gotten me thiswealth.
' You shall remember the LORDyour God, for it is he who gives
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you power to get wealth, thathe may confirm his covenant that
he swore to your fathers, as itis this day.
And if you forget the LORD yourGod and go after other gods and
serve them and worship them, Isolemnly warn you today that you
shall surely perish.
Like the nations that the LORDmakes to perish before you, so
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shall you perish, because youwould not obey the voice of the
LORD your God.
" Deuteronomy is a book aboutGod's grace and mercy.
He gives and gives and gives.
This is a description of theland where they're going.
It's like moving into a $30million mansion after living in
a van down by the river.
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Remember where they're comingfrom.
For 400 years, this people livedin Egypt as slaves, likely in
or near the Nile Delta regioncalled Goshen.
They likely lived in small,cramped, mud-brick houses, which
were often just one room andprobably shared by extended
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family.
The land around them wasagriculturally rich, but they
were slaves.
Because of their oppression,they had no rights to ownership
or rest in this fertile land.
They faced daily gruelingphysical labor making bricks
without straw, building storecities like Pithom and Ramses,
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and working in the hot sun underconstant surveillance.
For food, they were completelydependent on what was rationed
or left over likely simplegrains, onions, leeks and fish.
And they faced tremendousviolence.
Their babies were murdered andbeatings were common.
They were despised and theirlives were considered expendable
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.
In short, the Israelites hadroofs over their heads but no
rest, no freedom and no dignity.
Then they entered the wilderness.
For 40 years they lived inportable tents made of animal
skins, goat hair or woven linen.
These structures were temporaryand functional and were
clustered around the tabernacleby tribe.
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They were nomadic, movingfrequently at God's direction
with the pillar of cloud andfire.
For food, god provided dailymanna, occasional quail and
water from miraculous sources.
The environment was a hotdesert with extreme temperatures
and severely limited vegetation.
Though imperfect, theircommunity was organized and
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deeply spiritual.
It was literally centeredaround the presence of God.
Here's the key contrast toEgypt: Though physically
uncomfortable, they were freeand God dwelled in their midst.
They had daily provision,divine direction and a growing
sense of identity as God'speople.
This is where they'd been.
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Where does Moses say they'regoing?
They are about to enter thepromised land, Canaan.
The first homes they wouldinherit were established homes.
These were stone or mud brickhouses, likely two-room homes
with courtyards, way morepermanent and spacious than
anything they'd ever experienced.
They would also be given wellsfor water, no longer waiting for
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water to spring from a rock inthe desert.
These cisterns would havealready been hewn out of the
rock.
Instead of scarce vegetation,they would be given established
vineyards and mature olive trees.
Can you imagine howincomprehensible this would have
been to the people?
Mercy upon mercy, blessing uponblessing, and all already in
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place.
And that's not all.
In this new Promised Land therewould be a radical shift.
Now they would be landownersrather than slaves.
They would experience security,walled cities and stable
agriculture.
The promise here was one ofrest and abundance.
Moses confidently promises allthis on the edge of the promised
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land.
Think about the transformationthat has taken place in Moses to
make these promises at thismoment in time.
Spurgeon says,"We cannot but notice in this
passage the confidence withwhich Moses assured the
Israelites respecting theirultimate success in reference to
their occupation of the land ofCanaan.
They had not yet passed overJordan, yet does he speak to
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them as if they were in fullpossession of the land, so
certain was it that God wouldfulfill to them all the promises
that he had made unto theirfathers?
There is now no doubt for Moses.
He's been tried and testedalong with the people in the
wilderness.
Moses now knows God's promiseswill stand, despite his own
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unfaithfulness, despite thestubbornness of the people, and
even without his physicalpresence leading them into the
land.
But he says be careful, watchout, beware when you eat and are
full, when you are surroundedby good things and blessing on
every side, do not forget thatall of it is from the Lord.
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Pride and ungratefulness.
We have two problems.
Just like Israel did, we wantto tell God how he ought to give
His gift because we think weknow better than he does, and we
don't want to acknowledge Godas the giver of gifts because we
want to claim all the credit.
We think we know better thanGod and we want his goodness to
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be on our terms.
Let's talk about problem numberone.
We want to tell God how heought to give his gifts.
We see this over and over againwith the Israelites in the
wilderness.
God provides daily manna, aliteral miracle falling from the
sky every morning and they saywe are so tired of this bread,
we want meat.
Numbers 11 (21:46):
4- 6 says, oh, that we had meat to eat.
We remember the fish, oh, thedelicious fish that we ate in
Egypt.
But now there is nothing at allbut this manna to look at.
They wanted God's provision,but only if it matched their
personal menu preferences.
Then there's the golden calf inExodus 32.
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While Moses is on Mount Sinaireceiving God's word for the
people, they decide they want agod they can see, a god they can
control.
Verse 1 says, "Up make us godswho shall go before us.
As for this Moses, we do notknow what has become of him.
God's presence wasn't enough ifit didn't look the way they
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wanted it to, and this attitudedidn't magically disappear when
they crossed the Jordan into thepromised land.
It's not as though thetemptation to dictate the terms
of God's gifts evaporates oncewe step into blessing.
In Joshua 7, right after themiraculous victory at Jericho,
god gives a clear command Don'ttake anything devoted to
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destruction.
But Achan decides to upgradethe gift of victory by keeping a
beautiful Babylonian cloak andsome silver and gold for himself
.
Joshua 7.21 records his words Isaw among 1 Samuel 8,.
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Israel demands a king "like allthe other nations, instead of
receiving the Lord as their king.
Verse 7 says the Lord said toSamuel they have not rejected
you, but they have rejected mefrom being king over them.
God had given them hisleadership and protection, but
they insisted on rewriting theterms.
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We still do this today.
We may not be asking for quailor Babylonian cloaks, but our
hearts whisper the same demands.
Lord, I'll be content when yougive me this job instead of the
one I have.
God, I'll trust you to provide,but only if it feels safe and
familiar.
I'll serve you wholeheartedlyonce my schedule finally frees
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up.
I want spiritual growth, butwithout hardship, pruning or
wilderness seasons.
We keep trying to direct theGiver.
And this same heart postureshows up when we talk about the
land of Israel.
Psalm 24 (24:22):
1 reminds us "the earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, the world andthose who dwell therein.
God owns it all.
He can give his creation towhomever he chooses.
The Bible is very clear.
God gave this land to Israel asan everlasting possession.
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Deuteronomy 7:1 lists thenations that they were to drive
out the Hittites, theGirgashites, the Amorites, the
Canaanites, the Perizzites, theHivites and the Jebusites.
Deuteronomy 7:10-11 says "herepays to their face those who
hate Him and commands Israel tobe careful to obey Him.
Deuteronomy 12.31 tells us thatthe people in Canaan were doing
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every abomination the Lordhates, even burning their sons
and their daughters in the fireto their gods.
This wasn't a random land grab.
Deuteronomy 9.4-6 says Goddidn't give Israel the land
because of their ownrighteousness, but because he
had set His love on them andsworn an oath to Abraham, isaac
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and Jacob.
As GotQuestions put it, theconquest of Canaan was an act of
God's judgment on an extremelywicked culture.
The Canaanites' practices,including child sacrifice, had
reached a point where God'sjustice required their removal.
And here's the important thingfor us as believers today, God's
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covenant promise to Israelregarding that land still stands
.
None of those originalCanaanite nations are the
ancestors of the modernPalestinian population.
The political realities todayare complicated, but the
biblical foundation is simple.
This is the land God promisedto Israel and that promise
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hasn't expired.
When we resist that or try toredefine it, we're doing the
same thing Israel did in thewilderness, telling God how he
ought to give His gifts.
And that brings us to oursecond problem with remembering
what God has done.
If the first problem is tellingGod how he ought to give His
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gifts, the second problem iswhat happens after we've
received them.
We take the credit ourselves.
This is exactly what God warnedIsrael about in Deuteronomy
6:12.
"Take care lest you forget theLord who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the houseof slavery.
Through the prophet Jeremiah,god paints this heartbreaking
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picture.
And you, o generation, beholdthe word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness toIsrael or a land of thick
darkness?
Why then, do my people say weare free, we will come no more
to you?
Can a virgin forget herornaments, or a bride her attire
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?
Yet my people have forgotten me.
Days without number.
Jeremiah 2, 31-32.
In other words, god is sayinghave I ever failed you?
Have I been cold toward you?
Saying have I ever failed you?
Have I been cold toward you,unkind, neglectful?
Of course not.
God had been their light, theirlife, their constant provision,
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and yet they acted like theydidn't need him anymore.
Can you relate to that?
David Guzik puts it plainly: "God planned to bring Israel (27:42):
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into an abundant, prepared land.
In this abundant blessing Godhad for Israel, there was an
inherent danger that they wouldforget the Lord who brought them
out of the land of Egypt.
This cycle would be repeatedthroughout the history of Israel
, especially in the time of thejudges.
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God would bless and obedientIsrael, and they would prosper.
They would begin to set theirheart on the blessings instead
of the Lord who blessed them.
God would allow chastisement toturn Israel's focus back upon
Him.
Israel would repent and obeyagain, and God would again bless
and obedient Israel, and theywould prosper.
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And bless an obedient Israeland they would prosper.
We usually fail to appreciatethe danger of success and
prosperity; we agree there is atheoretical danger in those
things, but rarely think itapplies to us.
" Isn't that so true?
We all nod along and say yes,yes, success can be dangerous
spiritually, but then wesilently assume I'm the
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exception, I can handle it.
John Trapp warns about thatexact mindset.
"When times are good, it is mucheasier to forget the Lord who
brought you out from the houseof bondage.
When there are no adversecircumstances compelling the
remembrance of God, we are nosooner grown rich, but we are
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apt to utter that ugly word.
This I may thank myself for andIsrael's history proves the
point this wasn't just awilderness problem.
Forgetting the giver followedthem right into the promised
land.
Judges 2, 10-12 says and therearose another generation after
them who did not know the Lordor the work that he had done for
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Israel.
They abandoned the Lord, theGod of their fathers.
The next generation didn't evenknow what God had done.
They were living in theblessing but had lost the story.
Can you relate to that?
This is 2 Chronicles, 26, 15-16.
King Uzziah was marvelouslyhelped till he was strong, but
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when he was strong he grew proudto his destruction.
Success swelled his head and hecrossed lines God had drawn for
his own good and Hosea 13, 5-6says it was I who knew you in
the wilderness.
But when they had grazed theybecame full, they were filled
and their heart was lifted up.
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Therefore they forgot me.
"If we're honest, we do the exact
same thing today.
God provides the job you prayedfor, and within a year you're
sure it was your own networkingskills.
God restores your marriage andsoon you're convinced it was
because you finally learned howto communicate better.
God opens a door for ministryand before long you feel
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entitled to the platform.
God answers a financial prayerand you attribute it to your own
hard work and smart planning.
God heals and you quietlycredit the doctor alone.
The danger of full cupboards andcomfortable lives is that we
start to believe we filled themourselves.
But Deuteronomy 8 (30:59):
17-18 pushes back.
We read this.
"Beware lest you say in yourheart my power and the might of
my hand hath gotten me thiswealth.
You shall remember the Lord,your God, for it is he who gives
you power to get wealth.
And 1 Corinthians 4, 7 asks thehumbling question what do you
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have that you did not receive?
If, then, you received it, whydo you boast as if you did not
receive it?
Even our desires to do goodcome from Him.
Philippians 2.13 says For it isGod who works in you, both to
will and to work for His goodpleasure.
The antidote to forgetting thegiver is humility, continually
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pointing every blessing back tothe one who gave it and refusing
to believe our own press.
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We've seen the pattern.
Moses failed.
Israel failed.
We fail.
Not because the gifts weren'tgood, but because our hearts
aren't good.
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Paul Tripp says it so well.
"Christian maturity is notabout arriving at the point
where you no longer need grace,but about a deeper sense of need
for, and appreciation of, thegrace that you've been given.
Moses' warning in Deuteronomy6.12, when you eat and are full,
take care lest you forget theLord wasn't just a call to
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mental recollection.
Forgetting God isn't a lapse inmemory, it's a moral choice,
it's a turning of the heart.
Hopefully you looked up theHebrew word and saw that this
word "forget means to cease, tocare, to mislay, to be oblivious
of from want of memory orattention.
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In Jeremiah 2, that verse thatI read, where it says God says
my people have forgotten me,days without number.
The note there is that God issaying my people have grown
weary of me.
So this is not just a memorylapse, it's a moral choice.
Like I said, it's a turning ofthe heart.
The ESV study Bible notes sayto forget is less a memory
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problem than a moral one.
It's more a parallel todisobedience.
And here's the sobering reality.
Israel was walking into a landdripping with grace--c ities
they didn't build, vineyardsthey didn't plant, houses they
didn't fill-- and they stillwouldn't have the power to keep
themselves from forgetting theLord.
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Moses didn't fail because thelaw was unclear.
Israel didn't fail becauseGod's promises were weak.
We fail because our hearts arebent toward pride, toward
self-reliance and toward sin.
The law could warn them.
The law could guide them.
The law could convict them.
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But the law could not changethem.
And so the story is buildinghere to a tension so great that
it demands resolution.
If Moses, God's chosen leader,who met with him face to face,
couldn't obey perfectly.
.
.
if Israel, God's chosen nation,couldn't remain faithful in the
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land.
.
.
if we, God's people today, arestill so quick to forget, then
who can?
The hero we need isn't Moses,it isn't Joshua, it isn't Israel
and it definitely isn't us.
That's why the gospel is thebest twist in all of Scripture,
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because it answers the tensionthe Old Testament leaves hanging
in the air.
Moses didn't enter the promisedland because the law stops
short.
It shows the standard but can'tmeet it for us.
But then there is this momentin Matthew 17, the
Transfiguration.
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Where is Moses?
He's standing in the PromisedLand, next to Jesus.
The law couldn't get him there,but Jesus could.
And there's the hero of thestory.
All God had ever been trying todo was to show us his goodness.
From the first page ofScripture, we see it-- light
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breaking into darkness, orderinto chaos, and beauty into
emptiness.
And what did God do?
He called it good.
But time and time again Hispeople spat back at Him, "your
goodness isn't enough.
We'll take it from here.
And in the greatest act ofgoodness the world has ever
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known, he sent his goodness tous.
Not just a law, not just a land,but a person.
Jesus, the real hero of thestory, the God who created every
good thing in Genesis 1, nowsteps into his creation in human
flesh, just as Titus 3 says"For we ourselves were once
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foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and
pleasures.
But when the goodness andlovingkindness of God, our
Savior, appeared, he saved us.
Did you hear that?
Once slaves just like Israeland Egypt?
Jesus himself said in John 8,34, truly, truly, I say to you
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everyone who practices sin is aslave to sin.
The law could reveal ourslavery, but it could not break
our chains.
But what the law could not do,jesus could our chains.
But what the law could not do,jesus could.
And here is my aha moment.
I've read the gospels dozens oftimes, but I had never made
this connection until I saw avideo this week.
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Moses did enter the promisedland, maybe not physically, but
certainly spiritually.
Think about it.
God told Moses in Deuteronomythat he wouldn't set foot in
Canaan because of hisdisobedience at Meribah.
And in the Old Testament thatwas true.
He died on Mount Nebo, lookinginto the land from a distance.
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But then, in Matthew 17, we'retaken up a mountain with Jesus.
It's the transfiguration.
His face shines like the sun,his clothes become white as
light and suddenly there's Mosesstanding in the land next to
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Jesus.
Do you see it?
The law couldn't get him there,but grace could.
Moses is standing with Elijah,representing the law and the
prophets, on either side ofJesus, the One who fulfills them
both.
The transfiguration is like Godsaying, "his is my son, the
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fulfillment of every promise,the true hero you've been
waiting for.
It's not just about Mosesgetting his feet on Canaan's
soil.
It is a preview of the realpromised land, god's presence,
and the only way any of us getthere is through Jesus.
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Here's the big idea.
Moses isn't the hero of thestory.
Israel isn't the hero of thestory.
You are not the hero of thestory.
Jesus alone is the hero of thestory.
If you've been living likeyou're the hero of the story,
making your own rules, writingyour own script, and you've
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never bent your knee to the truehero, the author of life, the
God of all good gifts, you cando that today.
I implore you don't wait.
The Bible says in Romans 3:23that "all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God.
And in Romans 6.23 that thewages of sin is death, but the
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free gift of God is eternal lifein Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Jesus himself said in Mark 1 15, the time is fulfilled and the
kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent and believe in thegospel.
And in Romans 10 9-10, paulwrites If you confess with your
mouth that Jesus is Lord andbelieve in your heart that God
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raised him from the dead, youwill be saved.
That's the invitation To turnfrom your sin.
Lay down your pride and trustthe only one who can save you.
Jesus died in your place, roseagain in victory and offers you
forgiveness, freedom and lifewith Him forever.
If that's your step today, talkto Him right now.
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Confess your sin, tell Him youbelieve and surrender your life
to Him.
And for those of you whoalready belong to Him, what now?
Well, live like he's the hero.
Give Him the glory in your work, your rest, your relationships
and your victories.
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Let gratitude replace pride.
When you see blessing, rememberthe Giver.
When you see provision,remember the Provider.
When you see yourself temptedto take the credit, stop and
say, "not to us, o Lord, not tous, but to your name, give glory
.
That's Psalm 115.1.
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Charles Spurgeon put it thisway: "Pride is the peculiar sin
of prosperity, and pride standsside by side with forgetfulness
of God.
Instead of remembering whenceour mercies came, we begin to
thank ourselves for theseblessings and God is forgotten.
Be it ours to remember that itis God who gives us strength to
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It is God who gives us strengthto get wealth or get position
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Because here's the truth.
God didn't just bring you outof slavery to sin--H e brought
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you into fullness in Christ.
Just like Israel walked intocities, homes, wells and fields,
they didn't labor for, you nowstand in grace you didn't earn,
life you didn't build, andblessings you didn't manufacture
.
Think about it.
For Israel it was great andgood cities that they did not
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build.
For us it's the Kingdom of Godand the Church we didn't create.
For Israel it was houses fullof all good things that they did
not fill.
We get the indwelling Spiritwho lives in us and every
spiritual blessing in Christ.
Israel got cisterns they didnot dig.
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We get living water freelygiven.
Israel was given vineyards theydid not plant.
We get fruitfulness that flowsfrom abiding.
And finally, Israel had olivetrees they did not plant and
we've been given anointing andpeace we didn't earn.
This is grace upon grace.
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I want to close by saying thisto you in love: You didn't earn
your place.
You were invited in.
You didn't fill this house, Goddid.
You didn't dig for living water.
Jesus offered it to you freely.
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You didn't plant this vineyard.
It's his fruit in you.
And you didn't graft yourselfinto the tree.
You were brought near by hismercy.
So remember, the hero of yourstory is not you, Not Moses, not
Joshua, not Israel.
The hero is Jesus and he'sstill writing his story through
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your life.
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Go ahead and begin working onour final verse in this series,
Deuteronomy 6:13, on pages 52-55 in your study workbook.
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One found on pages 56 to 58.
Ideally, you would have thesesections done before you listen
to the next episode, number 64.
Sections done before you listento the next episode, number 64.
In this episode we will seewhat it means to fear God,
serving Him and swearing by Hisname alone.
The verse next week isDeuteronomy 6, 13.
It is the Lord, your God.
You shall fear Him, you shallserve, and by His name you shall
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swear.
Next week we will alsosummarize our entire series in
Deuteronomy and then I'll betemporarily signing off the
podcast for my major surgeryhappening next week.
More details on that in myfinal episode on Monday.
I'll pray for us and then closeus out with our memory work for
verses 11 through 12.
"Oh my gosh, lord, god, you arethe hero of the story.
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Please, lord, forgive us forthe times when we try to rewrite
the story and put ourselves andour name in the spotlight in
big, bold letters underliningourselves and the things that we
think that we've done in ourown strength and try to get
ourselves the glory.
Lord, please forgive us fordictating to you how you are
supposed to give us gifts, whenyou are supposed to give them
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and in what measure.
Please forgive us forforgetting that the whole earth
is yours and everything in itand everyone in it, and that you
are the author of life and thecreator of all and the giver of
good gifts, that you know whatyou're doing and you are good
and you are in control and yourpromises stand and are true and
are firm.
God, I thank you for your Wordand for people like Moses, who
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we can relate to on so manylevels, because we fail, we fall
short, we doubt, we havepeople-pleasing tendencies and
we are afraid.
And so, Lord, I thank you thatyour Word is true and
transparent and we can see ineach story the work that you do
in people, how you took Mosesfrom a stumbling, stuttering,
fearful, doubting man into theleader who brought his people to
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the edge of the Promised Landand still, despite his own
inability to go in, declared thepromises that you had said
would happen, believing itwholeheartedly.
I thank , L ord, for Jesus, whois the ultimate fulfillment.
He is, the greater Moses, thegreater Joshua, the greater
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
He is the fulfillment and thehero that we've all been waiting
for.
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He came and did what the lawwas powerless to do and what the
prophets told would happen, andwe are just so grateful for
Jesus.
Lord, we thank you for the workthat he does and is doing in
our lives.
We thank you for any one personwho maybe gave their life to
you today in the podcast, wouldyou just plant the seeds of
truth in them and water them andgrow them into a disciple who
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understands who you are as thegood Giver of all gifts and when
you bless them and bring theminto the Promised Land and the
blessings that you have for themand the gifts that you have for
them, and even the challengesand the testing that you have
for them, that that person wouldstand firm and steadfast in the
faith.
Lord God, help us to be apeople who remember, who
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remember what's true, whodeclare what you have done and
who eagerly await all of yourpromises one day in heaven.
I pray this in Jesus' name,amen.
Okay, let's close by doing ourmemory work together.
I'm going to repeat Deuteronomy6: 11 through 12, five times.
Say it out loud with me orquietly to yourself.
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"And houses full of all goodthings that you did not fill,
and cisterns that you did notdig, and vineyards and olive
trees that you did not plant--and when you eat and are full,
then take care lest you forgetthe LORD, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of thehouse of slavery.
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"Deuteronomy 6: 11-12.
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Remember you are able to abidein the Bible.
We'll see you next time.
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Moses didn't get to enter thepromised land.
Have you ever spent any timethinking about that?
Our guy, Moses, who we havebeen with for the last eight
weeks in this series, wasn'tallowed into Canaan.
God wouldn't let him in.
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Let's look at our new set ofverses today and then we'll
circle back on this idea ofMoses not entering the land.
In the end of Deuteronomy,chapter 6, verse 10, and then
into verses 11 and 12, Moses isdescribing this land that we
talked about last week.
He said to the people the landthat God is giving you, as he
promised to his fathers, is landwith great and good cities that
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you did not build and housesfull of all good things that you
did not fill, and cisterns,wells that you did not dig and
vineyards and olive trees thatyou did not plant.
This is what the land is goingto be like, Moses says.
He paints a vibrant picture ofhow blessed they will be to
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enter this land.
But then he issues a soberwarning and when you eat and are
full, then take care lest youforget the Lord who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out ofthe house of slavery.
Today we're going to take acloser look at Moses' story,
with an important contextualunderstanding that the man
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telling Israel not to forget theLord had himself forgotten God.
We're going to be able to seethis command not coming from a
perfect hero, as Moses is sooften painted, but from a flawed
and broken man who knewfirsthand the grief attached to
forgetfulness.
We'll see this command as lessof Moses shaking his finger at
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the people and as more of afather pleading with his
children to not make the samemistakes he had made.
Moses was a very different manby the end of his life, and
we're going to take a look athow and why.
We're also going to identifythe two main problems we have
with remembering the good thingsthat God has done for us, and
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we'll do that in light of thepeople we can relate so closely
to, the Israelites.
What had their circumstancesbeen like both in Egypt and in
the wilderness?
We need to have this in thefront of our mind to understand
this temptation to forget God.
It's a temptation we all faceto forget God and to believe
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that we are the hero of thestory when we are not.
Moses wasn't the hero of thestory.
Joshua wasn't the hero of thestory.
When the Israelites conqueredCanaan, they weren't the heroes
of the story.
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Okay, so back to Moses.
When I get to heaven, I hope Iget to sit at Moses' feet and
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hear his stories and learn fromhim for at least a few decades.
I admire Moses so much.
His story is unbelievable.
He got to see God work so manymind-blowing miracles and he was
so bold and courageous andfaithful.
I love him and one of thethings I love most about him is
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that he wrote his own story withfull transparency.
Think about it as the author ofthe Pentateuch of Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers andDeuteronomy.
Moses could have sanitized theevents he was a part of in order
to make himself look better.
I would have been massivelytempted to do that.
I don't want to record for alltime the most embarrassing and
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shameful moments of my entirelife.
I would absolutely want toclean up the record to paint
myself in a better light.
Maybe Moses was tempted torewrite the story a little bit,
but he didn't, because he knewhe wasn't the hero of the story
and because of that, when westudy the Bible, we get to see
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Moses as the man that he was, asthe friend of God who, yes, met
with him face to face, but as aman who was also imperfect in
many ways.
In this "God is One series onDeuteronomy 6, 4 through 13,.
We've already talked about afew of Moses' massive mess-up,
sin moments.
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I still want to briefly giveyou a list of examples now.
But what I'm really getting at,what I really want to talk
about, as I said at thebeginning of this episode, is
what prohibited Moses from beingallowed to enter the promised
land.
Here are some of the momentswhere we see Moses forgetting
God as a result of his ownmoments of fear or doubt, or
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anger or pride.
The first few are all fromMoses' interaction with God at
the burning bush, exodus 3 (06:08):
11.
But Moses said to God who am Ithat I should go to Pharaoh and
bring the children of Israel outof Egypt?
Moses doubts his worthiness andability to carry out God's call
, even though God, in verse 12,promises to be with him.
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Moses' fear reveals a lack ofconfidence in God's empowering
presence.
Then in Exodus 4:1, it saysMoses answered but behold, they
will not believe me or listen tomy voice.
Again, Moses questions theeffectiveness of God's call and
seems to distrust that God'spower will be enough to persuade
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others.
Then in Exodus 4:10, he says ohmy Lord, I am not eloquent.
I am slow of speech and oftongue.
Moses here expresses anxietyover his speaking abilities.
Despite God's repeatedreassurance, Moses focuses on
his own limitations and then, inExodus 4: 13-14, he just says
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oh my Lord, please send someoneelse.
This is a pivotal moment ofoutright resistance.
Is a pivotal moment of outrightresistance, God responds with
anger in verse 14, showing thatMoses' hesitation has crossed
from honest doubt intodisobedience.
Here's another crazy examplefrom Exodus 4: 24-26.
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It says At a lodging place onthe way the Lord met him, Moses,
and sought to put him to death.
Before reaching Egypt, Moseshad neglected to circumcise his
son, a covenant sign given toAbraham.
Moses' wife, Zipporah,intervenes and performs the
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circumcision.
This moment of spiritualnegligence shows Moses' failure
to fully honor God's covenantcommand.
And then here's the big one.
It's what I started the episodewith, the action on Moses' part
that led him to not beingallowed to enter the Promised
Land.
If you've ever thought aboutthis part of the story and felt
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that God was being harsh orunjust, or you just didn't
understand, let's take a momentto figure out what really
happened.
This is from Numbers 20:7-12.
It says and the glory of theLord appeared to them.
And the Lord spoke to Moses,saying Take the staff and
assemble the congregation, youand Aaron, your brother, and
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tell the rock.
Tell the rock before their eyesto yield its water.
And Moses lifted up his handand struck the rock with his
staff twice.
God had commanded Moses tospeak to the rock so water would
flow to the Israelites in thewilderness, but instead Moses
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struck it and spoke rashly tothe people.
He was super frustrated withthe relentless grumbling and
stubborn ungrateful hearts ofthe people.
And we see in this action thatMoses was also angry with God
for not correcting the behaviorof the people.
So instead of speaking to therock, he cracked his staff
against it twice.
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This act of disobedience was amisrepresentation of God's
character, as David Gusick says.
"What Moses did was an unholything.
He made God look no differentthan an angry man or one of the
temperamental pagan gods.
He did not reflect the heartand character of God before the
people and it cost him entranceinto the promised land.
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God said this is Numbers 20,12,.
Because you did not believe inme to uphold me as holy in the
eyes of the people, you shallnot bring this assembly into the
land Devastating.
Can we just pause here for amoment and grieve alongside
Moses and his friend God.
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A line had been crossed and theconsequence for that decision
permanently doled out.
Friend, even Moses sinned.
Even he was unable to perfectlyuphold the very law he'd been
tasked with giving the people.
This moment at Meribah is theclearest example of unbelief and
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unfaithfulness in Moses' life.
This was not just a personalfailure, but a public distortion
of God's holiness and mercy.
The ESV study notes say "as theprime mediators of God's law to
Israel, moses and Aaron had tobe exemplary in their obedience.
Their failure to follow thedivine instruction exactly led
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to their forfeiting their rightto enter Canaan.
Some have suggested thatanother factor was involved,
since God had told Moses in theearlier incident getting water
from a rock I will stand beforeyou there on the rock.
That's from Exodus 17.6,.
Moses should have known thatGod was present here on the rock
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as well.
Therefore, moses speaking tothe rock would be actually
speaking to God.
And so when Moses struck therock with his staff twice, it
was a serious manifestation ofanger against God, and it is not
surprising that God punishedMoses severely.
I love Moses, but he is not thehero of the story.
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Moses for all his faithfulnessand intimacy with God, had very
real moments of fear of man,fear of failure, self-doubt and
insecurity, neglect of God'scovenant, public disobedience
and unbelief.
Thank God he was willing andhumble enough to write it all
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down.
Returning to our passage here inDeuteronomy 6, we remember that
this is Moses' farewell sermonto the people.
He is standing on the plains ofMoab, just outside the Promised
Land the people are about toenter.
He will not go in.
This is the Moses who hasendured confronting the most
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powerful man on earth, with theplagues of God in Egypt, the
deliverance of his people out ofthe house of slavery, the
pursuit of Pharaoh and theparting of the Red Sea.
He has experienced the pillarof cloud by day and fire by
night, the manna from heaven,water springing out of rocks,
the holy mountain of God, thefailures of the people speaking
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with God face to face and 40years of taxing, arduous,
burdensome leadership in thewilderness.
Now he's reminding the peopleof God's promise to their
fathers.
And he's not a man of doubtanymore.
Let me read you Exodus 8.
Yeah, I'm going to read you thewhole chapter because it is
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that important to our versestoday.
As I read it, think about ourguy Moses, who has publicly and
profusely failed, now pleadingwith the people to remember.
"he whole commandment that Icommand you today.
You shall be careful to do that.
You may live and multiply andgo in and possess the land that
the Lord swore to give to yourfathers, and you shall remember
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the whole way that the Lord,your God, has led you these
forty years in the wilderness,that he might humble you,
testing you to know what was inyour heart, whether you would
keep his commandments or not.
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Know then in your heart that, asa man disciplines his son, the
LORD your God disciplines you.
So you shall keep thecommandments of the LORD your
God by walking in his ways andby fearing him.
For the LORD your God isbringing you into a good land, a
land of brooks of water, offountains and springs, flowing
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out in the valleys and hills, aland of wheat and barley, of
vines and fig trees andpomegranates, a land of olive
trees and honey, a land in whichyou will eat bread without
scarcity, in which you will lacknothing, a land whose stones
are iron and out of whose hillsyou can dig copper.
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And you shall eat and be full,and you shall bless the LORD
your God for the good land hehas given you.
Take care lest you forget theLORD your God by not keeping his
commandments and his rules andhis statutes, which I command
you today, lest, when you haveeaten and are full and have
built good houses and live inthem, and when your herds and
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flocks multiply and your silverand gold is multiplied and all
that you have is multiplied,then your heart be lifted up,
and you forget the LORD yourGod, who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the houseof slavery, who led you through
the great and terrifyingwilderness, with its fiery
serpents and scorpions andthirsty ground where there was
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no water, who brought you waterout of the flinty rock, who fed
you in the wilderness with mannathat your fathers did not know,
that he might humble you andtest you, to do you good in the
end.
Beware lest you say in yourheart, 'My power and the might
of my hand have gotten me thiswealth.
' You shall remember the LORDyour God, for it is he who gives
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you power to get wealth, thathe may confirm his covenant that
he swore to your fathers, as itis this day.
And if you forget the LORD yourGod and go after other gods and
serve them and worship them, Isolemnly warn you today that you
shall surely perish.
Like the nations that the LORDmakes to perish before you, so
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shall you perish, because youwould not obey the voice of the
LORD your God.
" Deuteronomy is a book aboutGod's grace and mercy.
He gives and gives and gives.
This is a description of theland where they're going.
It's like moving into a $30million mansion after living in
a van down by the river.
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Remember where they're comingfrom.
For 400 years, this people livedin Egypt as slaves, likely in
or near the Nile Delta regioncalled Goshen.
They likely lived in small,cramped, mud-brick houses, which
were often just one room andprobably shared by extended
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family.
The land around them wasagriculturally rich, but they
were slaves.
Because of their oppression,they had no rights to ownership
or rest in this fertile land.
They faced daily gruelingphysical labor making bricks
without straw, building storecities like Pithom and Ramses,
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and working in the hot sun underconstant surveillance.
For food, they were completelydependent on what was rationed
or left over likely simplegrains, onions, leeks and fish.
And they faced tremendousviolence.
Their babies were murdered andbeatings were common.
They were despised and theirlives were considered expendable
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.
In short, the Israelites hadroofs over their heads but no
rest, no freedom and no dignity.
Then they entered the wilderness.
For 40 years they lived inportable tents made of animal
skins, goat hair or woven linen.
These structures were temporaryand functional and were
clustered around the tabernacleby tribe.
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They were nomadic, movingfrequently at God's direction
with the pillar of cloud andfire.
For food, god provided dailymanna, occasional quail and
water from miraculous sources.
The environment was a hotdesert with extreme temperatures
and severely limited vegetation.
Though imperfect, theircommunity was organized and
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deeply spiritual.
It was literally centeredaround the presence of God.
Here's the key contrast toEgypt: Though physically
uncomfortable, they were freeand God dwelled in their midst.
They had daily provision,divine direction and a growing
sense of identity as God'speople.
This is where they'd been.
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Where does Moses say they'regoing?
They are about to enter thepromised land, Canaan.
The first homes they wouldinherit were established homes.
These were stone or mud brickhouses, likely two-room homes
with courtyards, way morepermanent and spacious than
anything they'd ever experienced.
They would also be given wellsfor water, no longer waiting for
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water to spring from a rock inthe desert.
These cisterns would havealready been hewn out of the
rock.
Instead of scarce vegetation,they would be given established
vineyards and mature olive trees.
Can you imagine howincomprehensible this would have
been to the people?
Mercy upon mercy, blessing uponblessing, and all already in
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place.
And that's not all.
In this new Promised Land therewould be a radical shift.
Now they would be landownersrather than slaves.
They would experience security,walled cities and stable
agriculture.
The promise here was one ofrest and abundance.
Moses confidently promises allthis on the edge of the promised
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land.
Think about the transformationthat has taken place in Moses to
make these promises at thismoment in time.
Spurgeon says,"We cannot but notice in this
passage the confidence withwhich Moses assured the
Israelites respecting theirultimate success in reference to
their occupation of the land ofCanaan.
They had not yet passed overJordan, yet does he speak to
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them as if they were in fullpossession of the land, so
certain was it that God wouldfulfill to them all the promises
that he had made unto theirfathers?
There is now no doubt for Moses.
He's been tried and testedalong with the people in the
wilderness.
Moses now knows God's promiseswill stand, despite his own
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unfaithfulness, despite thestubbornness of the people, and
even without his physicalpresence leading them into the
land.
But he says be careful, watchout, beware when you eat and are
full, when you are surroundedby good things and blessing on
every side, do not forget thatall of it is from the Lord.
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Pride and ungratefulness.
We have two problems.
Just like Israel did, we wantto tell God how he ought to give
His gift because we think weknow better than he does, and we
don't want to acknowledge Godas the giver of gifts because we
want to claim all the credit.
We think we know better thanGod and we want his goodness to
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be on our terms.
Let's talk about problem numberone.
We want to tell God how heought to give his gifts.
We see this over and over againwith the Israelites in the
wilderness.
God provides daily manna, aliteral miracle falling from the
sky every morning and they saywe are so tired of this bread,
we want meat.
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4- 6 says, oh, that we had meat to eat.
We remember the fish, oh, thedelicious fish that we ate in
Egypt.
But now there is nothing at allbut this manna to look at.
They wanted God's provision,but only if it matched their
personal menu preferences.
Then there's the golden calf inExodus 32.
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While Moses is on Mount Sinaireceiving God's word for the
people, they decide they want agod they can see, a god they can
control.
Verse 1 says, "Up make us godswho shall go before us.
As for this Moses, we do notknow what has become of him.
God's presence wasn't enough ifit didn't look the way they
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wanted it to, and this attitudedidn't magically disappear when
they crossed the Jordan into thepromised land.
It's not as though thetemptation to dictate the terms
of God's gifts evaporates oncewe step into blessing.
In Joshua 7, right after themiraculous victory at Jericho,
god gives a clear command Don'ttake anything devoted to
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destruction.
But Achan decides to upgradethe gift of victory by keeping a
beautiful Babylonian cloak andsome silver and gold for himself
.
Joshua 7.21 records his words Isaw among 1 Samuel 8,.
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Israel demands a king "like allthe other nations, instead of
receiving the Lord as their king.
Verse 7 says the Lord said toSamuel they have not rejected
you, but they have rejected mefrom being king over them.
God had given them hisleadership and protection, but
they insisted on rewriting theterms.
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We still do this today.
We may not be asking for quailor Babylonian cloaks, but our
hearts whisper the same demands.
Lord, I'll be content when yougive me this job instead of the
one I have.
God, I'll trust you to provide,but only if it feels safe and
familiar.
I'll serve you wholeheartedlyonce my schedule finally frees
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up.
I want spiritual growth, butwithout hardship, pruning or
wilderness seasons.
We keep trying to direct theGiver.
And this same heart postureshows up when we talk about the
land of Israel.
Psalm 24 (24:22):
1 reminds us "the earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, the world andthose who dwell therein.
God owns it all.
He can give his creation towhomever he chooses.
The Bible is very clear.
God gave this land to Israel asan everlasting possession.
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Deuteronomy 7:1 lists thenations that they were to drive
out the Hittites, theGirgashites, the Amorites, the
Canaanites, the Perizzites, theHivites and the Jebusites.
Deuteronomy 7:10-11 says "herepays to their face those who
hate Him and commands Israel tobe careful to obey Him.
Deuteronomy 12.31 tells us thatthe people in Canaan were doing
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every abomination the Lordhates, even burning their sons
and their daughters in the fireto their gods.
This wasn't a random land grab.
Deuteronomy 9.4-6 says Goddidn't give Israel the land
because of their ownrighteousness, but because he
had set His love on them andsworn an oath to Abraham, isaac
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and Jacob.
As GotQuestions put it, theconquest of Canaan was an act of
God's judgment on an extremelywicked culture.
The Canaanites' practices,including child sacrifice, had
reached a point where God'sjustice required their removal.
And here's the important thingfor us as believers today, God's
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covenant promise to Israelregarding that land still stands
.
None of those originalCanaanite nations are the
ancestors of the modernPalestinian population.
The political realities todayare complicated, but the
biblical foundation is simple.
This is the land God promisedto Israel and that promise
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hasn't expired.
When we resist that or try toredefine it, we're doing the
same thing Israel did in thewilderness, telling God how he
ought to give His gifts.
And that brings us to oursecond problem with remembering
what God has done.
If the first problem is tellingGod how he ought to give His
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gifts, the second problem iswhat happens after we've
received them.
We take the credit ourselves.
This is exactly what God warnedIsrael about in Deuteronomy
6:12.
"Take care lest you forget theLord who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the houseof slavery.
Through the prophet Jeremiah,god paints this heartbreaking
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picture.
And you, o generation, beholdthe word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness toIsrael or a land of thick
darkness?
Why then, do my people say weare free, we will come no more
to you?
Can a virgin forget herornaments, or a bride her attire
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?
Yet my people have forgotten me.
Days without number.
Jeremiah 2, 31-32.
In other words, god is sayinghave I ever failed you?
Have I been cold toward you?
Saying have I ever failed you?
Have I been cold toward you,unkind, neglectful?
Of course not.
God had been their light, theirlife, their constant provision,
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and yet they acted like theydidn't need him anymore.
Can you relate to that?
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into an abundant, prepared land.
In this abundant blessing Godhad for Israel, there was an
inherent danger that they wouldforget the Lord who brought them
out of the land of Egypt.
This cycle would be repeatedthroughout the history of Israel
, especially in the time of thejudges.
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God would bless and obedientIsrael, and they would prosper.
They would begin to set theirheart on the blessings instead
of the Lord who blessed them.
God would allow chastisement toturn Israel's focus back upon
Him.
Israel would repent and obeyagain, and God would again bless
and obedient Israel, and theywould prosper.
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And bless an obedient Israeland they would prosper.
We usually fail to appreciatethe danger of success and
prosperity; we agree there is atheoretical danger in those
things, but rarely think itapplies to us.
" Isn't that so true?
We all nod along and say yes,yes, success can be dangerous
spiritually, but then wesilently assume I'm the
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exception, I can handle it.
John Trapp warns about thatexact mindset.
"When times are good, it is mucheasier to forget the Lord who
brought you out from the houseof bondage.
When there are no adversecircumstances compelling the
remembrance of God, we are nosooner grown rich, but we are
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apt to utter that ugly word.
This I may thank myself for andIsrael's history proves the
point this wasn't just awilderness problem.
Forgetting the giver followedthem right into the promised
land.
Judges 2, 10-12 says and therearose another generation after
them who did not know the Lordor the work that he had done for
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Israel.
They abandoned the Lord, theGod of their fathers.
The next generation didn't evenknow what God had done.
They were living in theblessing but had lost the story.
Can you relate to that?
This is 2 Chronicles, 26, 15-16.
King Uzziah was marvelouslyhelped till he was strong, but
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when he was strong he grew proudto his destruction.
Success swelled his head and hecrossed lines God had drawn for
his own good and Hosea 13, 5-6says it was I who knew you in
the wilderness.
But when they had grazed theybecame full, they were filled
and their heart was lifted up.
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Therefore they forgot me.
"If we're honest, we do the exact
same thing today.
God provides the job you prayedfor, and within a year you're
sure it was your own networkingskills.
God restores your marriage andsoon you're convinced it was
because you finally learned howto communicate better.
God opens a door for ministryand before long you feel
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entitled to the platform.
God answers a financial prayerand you attribute it to your own
hard work and smart planning.
God heals and you quietlycredit the doctor alone.
The danger of full cupboards andcomfortable lives is that we
start to believe we filled themourselves.
But Deuteronomy 8 (30:59):
17-18 pushes back.
We read this.
"Beware lest you say in yourheart my power and the might of
my hand hath gotten me thiswealth.
You shall remember the Lord,your God, for it is he who gives
you power to get wealth.
And 1 Corinthians 4, 7 asks thehumbling question what do you
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have that you did not receive?
If, then, you received it, whydo you boast as if you did not
receive it?
Even our desires to do goodcome from Him.
Philippians 2.13 says For it isGod who works in you, both to
will and to work for His goodpleasure.
The antidote to forgetting thegiver is humility, continually
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pointing every blessing back tothe one who gave it and refusing
to believe our own press.
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We've seen the pattern.
Moses failed.
Israel failed.
We fail.
Not because the gifts weren'tgood, but because our hearts
aren't good.
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Paul Tripp says it so well.
"Christian maturity is notabout arriving at the point
where you no longer need grace,but about a deeper sense of need
for, and appreciation of, thegrace that you've been given.
Moses' warning in Deuteronomy6.12, when you eat and are full,
take care lest you forget theLord wasn't just a call to
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mental recollection.
Forgetting God isn't a lapse inmemory, it's a moral choice,
it's a turning of the heart.
Hopefully you looked up theHebrew word and saw that this
word "forget means to cease, tocare, to mislay, to be oblivious
of from want of memory orattention.
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In Jeremiah 2, that verse thatI read, where it says God says
my people have forgotten me,days without number.
The note there is that God issaying my people have grown
weary of me.
So this is not just a memorylapse, it's a moral choice.
Like I said, it's a turning ofthe heart.
The ESV study Bible notes sayto forget is less a memory
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problem than a moral one.
It's more a parallel todisobedience.
And here's the sobering reality.
Israel was walking into a landdripping with grace--c ities
they didn't build, vineyardsthey didn't plant, houses they
didn't fill-- and they stillwouldn't have the power to keep
themselves from forgetting theLord.
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Moses didn't fail because thelaw was unclear.
Israel didn't fail becauseGod's promises were weak.
We fail because our hearts arebent toward pride, toward
self-reliance and toward sin.
The law could warn them.
The law could guide them.
The law could convict them.
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But the law could not changethem.
And so the story is buildinghere to a tension so great that
it demands resolution.
If Moses, God's chosen leader,who met with him face to face,
couldn't obey perfectly.
.
.
if Israel, God's chosen nation,couldn't remain faithful in the
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land.
.
.
if we, God's people today, arestill so quick to forget, then
who can?
The hero we need isn't Moses,it isn't Joshua, it isn't Israel
and it definitely isn't us.
That's why the gospel is thebest twist in all of Scripture,
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because it answers the tensionthe Old Testament leaves hanging
in the air.
Moses didn't enter the promisedland because the law stops
short.
It shows the standard but can'tmeet it for us.
But then there is this momentin Matthew 17, the
Transfiguration.
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Where is Moses?
He's standing in the PromisedLand, next to Jesus.
The law couldn't get him there,but Jesus could.
And there's the hero of thestory.
All God had ever been trying todo was to show us his goodness.
From the first page ofScripture, we see it-- light
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breaking into darkness, orderinto chaos, and beauty into
emptiness.
And what did God do?
He called it good.
But time and time again Hispeople spat back at Him, "your
goodness isn't enough.
We'll take it from here.
And in the greatest act ofgoodness the world has ever
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known, he sent his goodness tous.
Not just a law, not just a land,but a person.
Jesus, the real hero of thestory, the God who created every
good thing in Genesis 1, nowsteps into his creation in human
flesh, just as Titus 3 says"For we ourselves were once
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foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and
pleasures.
But when the goodness andlovingkindness of God, our
Savior, appeared, he saved us.
Did you hear that?
Once slaves just like Israeland Egypt?
Jesus himself said in John 8,34, truly, truly, I say to you
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everyone who practices sin is aslave to sin.
The law could reveal ourslavery, but it could not break
our chains.
But what the law could not do,jesus could our chains.
But what the law could not do,jesus could.
And here is my aha moment.
I've read the gospels dozens oftimes, but I had never made
this connection until I saw avideo this week.
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Moses did enter the promisedland, maybe not physically, but
certainly spiritually.
Think about it.
God told Moses in Deuteronomythat he wouldn't set foot in
Canaan because of hisdisobedience at Meribah.
And in the Old Testament thatwas true.
He died on Mount Nebo, lookinginto the land from a distance.
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But then, in Matthew 17, we'retaken up a mountain with Jesus.
It's the transfiguration.
His face shines like the sun,his clothes become white as
light and suddenly there's Mosesstanding in the land next to
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Jesus.
Do you see it?
The law couldn't get him there,but grace could.
Moses is standing with Elijah,representing the law and the
prophets, on either side ofJesus, the One who fulfills them
both.
The transfiguration is like Godsaying, "his is my son, the
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fulfillment of every promise,the true hero you've been
waiting for.
It's not just about Mosesgetting his feet on Canaan's
soil.
It is a preview of the realpromised land, god's presence,
and the only way any of us getthere is through Jesus.
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Here's the big idea.
Moses isn't the hero of thestory.
Israel isn't the hero of thestory.
You are not the hero of thestory.
Jesus alone is the hero of thestory.
If you've been living likeyou're the hero of the story,
making your own rules, writingyour own script, and you've
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never bent your knee to the truehero, the author of life, the
God of all good gifts, you cando that today.
I implore you don't wait.
The Bible says in Romans 3:23that "all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God.
And in Romans 6.23 that thewages of sin is death, but the
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free gift of God is eternal lifein Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Jesus himself said in Mark 1 15, the time is fulfilled and the
kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent and believe in thegospel.
And in Romans 10 9-10, paulwrites If you confess with your
mouth that Jesus is Lord andbelieve in your heart that God
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raised him from the dead, youwill be saved.
That's the invitation To turnfrom your sin.
Lay down your pride and trustthe only one who can save you.
Jesus died in your place, roseagain in victory and offers you
forgiveness, freedom and lifewith Him forever.
If that's your step today, talkto Him right now.
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Confess your sin, tell Him youbelieve and surrender your life
to Him.
And for those of you whoalready belong to Him, what now?
Well, live like he's the hero.
Give Him the glory in your work, your rest, your relationships
and your victories.
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Let gratitude replace pride.
When you see blessing, rememberthe Giver.
When you see provision,remember the Provider.
When you see yourself temptedto take the credit, stop and
say, "not to us, o Lord, not tous, but to your name, give glory
.
That's Psalm 115.1.
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Charles Spurgeon put it thisway: "Pride is the peculiar sin
of prosperity, and pride standsside by side with forgetfulness
of God.
Instead of remembering whenceour mercies came, we begin to
thank ourselves for theseblessings and God is forgotten.
Be it ours to remember that itis God who gives us strength to
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It is God who gives us strengthto get wealth or get position
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God didn't just bring you outof slavery to sin--H e brought
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Just like Israel walked intocities, homes, wells and fields,
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Think about it.
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For us it's the Kingdom of Godand the Church we didn't create.
For Israel it was houses fullof all good things that they did
not fill.
We get the indwelling Spiritwho lives in us and every
spiritual blessing in Christ.
Israel got cisterns they didnot dig.
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We get living water freelygiven.
Israel was given vineyards theydid not plant.
We get fruitfulness that flowsfrom abiding.
And finally, Israel had olivetrees they did not plant and
we've been given anointing andpeace we didn't earn.
This is grace upon grace.
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By the way, if you want all theverses I've mentioned in today's
episode, the transcript isavailable now in our abidible+
community.
I want to close by saying thisto you in love: You didn't earn
your place.
You were invited in.
You didn't fill this house, Goddid.
You didn't dig for living water.
Jesus offered it to you freely.
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You didn't plant this vineyard.
It's his fruit in you.
And you didn't graft yourselfinto the tree.
You were brought near by hismercy.
So remember, the hero of yourstory is not you, Not Moses, not
Joshua, not Israel.
The hero is Jesus and he'sstill writing his story through
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your life.
And that's it for this episode.
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supporter For those of youfollowing along in the workbook.
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Go ahead and begin working onour final verse in this series,
Deuteronomy 6:13, on pages 52-55 in your study workbook.
You can also complete yourfinal recap section on "God is
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One found on pages 56 to 58.
Ideally, you would have thesesections done before you listen
to the next episode, number 64.
Sections done before you listento the next episode, number 64.
In this episode we will seewhat it means to fear God,
serving Him and swearing by Hisname alone.
The verse next week isDeuteronomy 6, 13.
It is the Lord, your God.
You shall fear Him, you shallserve, and by His name you shall
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swear.
Next week we will alsosummarize our entire series in
Deuteronomy and then I'll betemporarily signing off the
podcast for my major surgeryhappening next week.
More details on that in myfinal episode on Monday.
I'll pray for us and then closeus out with our memory work for
verses 11 through 12.
"Oh my gosh, lord, god, you arethe hero of the story.
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Please, lord, forgive us forthe times when we try to rewrite
the story and put ourselves andour name in the spotlight in
big, bold letters underliningourselves and the things that we
think that we've done in ourown strength and try to get
ourselves the glory.
Lord, please forgive us fordictating to you how you are
supposed to give us gifts, whenyou are supposed to give them
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and in what measure.
Please forgive us forforgetting that the whole earth
is yours and everything in itand everyone in it, and that you
are the author of life and thecreator of all and the giver of
good gifts, that you know whatyou're doing and you are good
and you are in control and yourpromises stand and are true and
are firm.
God, I thank you for your Wordand for people like Moses, who
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we can relate to on so manylevels, because we fail, we fall
short, we doubt, we havepeople-pleasing tendencies and
we are afraid.
And so, Lord, I thank you thatyour Word is true and
transparent and we can see ineach story the work that you do
in people, how you took Mosesfrom a stumbling, stuttering,
fearful, doubting man into theleader who brought his people to
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the edge of the Promised Landand still, despite his own
inability to go in, declared thepromises that you had said
would happen, believing itwholeheartedly.
I thank , L ord, for Jesus, whois the ultimate fulfillment.
He is, the greater Moses, thegreater Joshua, the greater
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
He is the fulfillment and thehero that we've all been waiting
for.
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He came and did what the lawwas powerless to do and what the
prophets told would happen, andwe are just so grateful for
Jesus.
Lord, we thank you for the workthat he does and is doing in
our lives.
We thank you for any one personwho maybe gave their life to
you today in the podcast, wouldyou just plant the seeds of
truth in them and water them andgrow them into a disciple who
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understands who you are as thegood Giver of all gifts and when
you bless them and bring theminto the Promised Land and the
blessings that you have for themand the gifts that you have for
them, and even the challengesand the testing that you have
for them, that that person wouldstand firm and steadfast in the
faith.
Lord God, help us to be apeople who remember, who
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remember what's true, whodeclare what you have done and
who eagerly await all of yourpromises one day in heaven.
I pray this in Jesus' name,amen.
Okay, let's close by doing ourmemory work together.
I'm going to repeat Deuteronomy6: 11 through 12, five times.
Say it out loud with me orquietly to yourself.
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"And houses full of all goodthings that you did not fill,
and cisterns that you did notdig, and vineyards and olive
trees that you did not plant--and when you eat and are full,
then take care lest you forgetthe LORD, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of thehouse of slavery.
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"Deuteronomy 6: 11-12.
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Remember you are able to abidein the Bible.
We'll see you next time.
Until then, let's abide.
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