October 21, 2025 • 26 mins
Episode 797:
In this episode, we delve into Deuteronomy 31, where Moses, at 120 years old, prepares to pass the leadership baton to Joshua. He reminds the Israelites of God's unwavering presence and encourages them to be strong and courageous as they prepare to enter the Promised Land. We discuss the significance of Moses' farewell address, where he reiterates that God will go ahead of them, ensuring that they do not face their challenges alone.
In this episode, we delve into Deuteronomy 31, where Moses, at 120 years old, prepares to pass the leadership baton to Joshua. He reminds the Israelites of God's unwavering presence and encourages them to be strong and courageous as they prepare to enter the Promised Land. We discuss the significance of Moses' farewell address, where he reiterates that God will go ahead of them, ensuring that they do not face their challenges alone.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey, everybody, good morning, it's good to be here.
It is good to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I thought you were gonna say something else.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
No, I just I just I usually do.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
What wonderful thing is Chris going to say today? I
just and I was just in rapture.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Sometimes I ramble, and then sometimes I just hand it over.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Just drop it. That's right, that's right, and then I'm
not sharp enough to keep up with you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
So well, you're probably prepping for something as good.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I guess that's okay.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So, hey, my name is Chris, this is Jeff. We're
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today we are in the middle of a series and
it's our favorite promises of God in different contexts. Yes, okay,
so we should call the series like context or something.
Promises of context or promises in context.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, that sounds riveting.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I think it does.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's just the promises because again,
the premise behind these promises for us while we're doing
it is because so many people stay worried. So many
people struggle with their faith because they just don't know
what God has promised. Right, if we know God's word,
we have way more faith. Hearing comes or faith comes
by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So
our faith is built the more words of God we know. Right,
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those two things go together, and so a lot of
times the people are struggling with their faith, it's usually
because they don't know God's promises. And so hey, we're
gonna kind of bunch these promises together for the next
five or six, seven, I don't know, ten weeks, whatever
it is. We're gonna do TVD. Yeah, and we're gonna
kind of bunch them together. So this week, this whole
week is just that God is with you, right, that's
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if you're a follower of Christ. God's promises to be
with you.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So before we get Divino that we have a segment
and this is a would you rather There's five of
them and We're gonna have to just pick whether it's
me or you. Okay, you want to read the excuse
me the first one.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Let me see, would you rather always have an itch
you can't scratch or always have to sneeze but never do?
Those are terrible? Those are always yawn when you don't
want to.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, no kidding, Okay, so you get to pick one.
Both are absolutely horrible. I would have to say the itch,
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So I feel a little itchy right now because I
read it. Does that happen to you?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well? The same with the bugs, right, Yeah, you see
a bug and all of a sudden a bug on me.
But yeah, I think I've gotten used to an itch.
Have you ever been in a situation where you had
an itch and you couldn't scratch because like you're in
a dentist chair or something, right, and then and it's like, okay,
I'm gonna have to ignore it. Well, you find out
that it is possible sometimes to ignore it. But I'm
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not sure you could ignorra sneeze.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's hard.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That that was hard.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Come I was in the dentists chair and they had
that thing in your mouth to keep your mouth all
the way open.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
While you're doing work.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I mean, and I finally had to so he couldn't
take it out. And then I'm like, and he realized
what was going to happen, he just cover it all.
I know, I was panicking.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You know, depending on how much saliva builds up, you
could do a guys on that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It was terrible. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Number two, would you rather only be able to whisper
or only be able to shout? So this is a
very basic question and yet very extremism on the results.
What do you think.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Whisper? I think I would only want to wish.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, they're terrible, yes, but whisper is definitely the option.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Can you whisper loudly?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't say
you can't.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And you could also whisper in a megaphone.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, that's right, in a microphone. Just carry little microphone
thing around with you.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Mister microphone.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah all right, okay. Would you rather be able to
talk to animals but they all hate you? Or be
invisible but only when no one is around? I think
we've done it being visible when no one is around thing,
have we?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Because we talked about there's no point in being invisible.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, unless you're gonna do something wrong like rob a banker.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Right, but on this one, respying somebody on this one,
I don't want to talk to animals that hate me.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, So I'd rather be invisible and no one's around. Yeah,
because because it's inconsequential.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Right right, there's no consequence to me. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, but but but animals constantly talk to animals hate you. Know,
you'd be like, all of a sudden, you're just sitting there,
mind your business. Here comes a cat and you're like, oh, yeah,
this cat hates me. He's gonna he's gonna tell me
all about it. Which, by the way, most cats hate.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You, that's right, Yeah, they do. Most cats would eat
you if they could.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Do you think that's big enough? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That's so funny? All right? Is this me?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
All right? Number three?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Number four? Would you rather eat only Halloween candy for
every meal in October? Ooh or have to hand out
raisins at every trick or treat event and defend your choices? Wow,
there is no doubt in my mind I would hand
out raisins.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I was going to say I would too. I think
we've read on every one of these.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean none are good options, but I mean,
are you kidding me? Only Halloween candy for the entire mine?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I do love as long as there's all chocolate. I
could do it. No, I could do it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I could not do that for thirty I could do it.
You could not. Your body couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I could do it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
No, your body would reject it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Okay, here's the last one. Would you rather have a
permanent theme song play every time you in a room?
Or be followed by a guy with a kazoo who
plays dramatic sound effects.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh, I like the second one. I just don't know
how long I'd like the second one.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Dunk dunk dum.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, that would be funny. It would be great for
a while.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, you like that one, Yeah, for a while. Okay,
I would rather have the theme song when I walk in.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, I would have to too, because but then it
also depends on, like how long is the theme song?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And do you get to pick it right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Because if it's a long theme song. Have you ever
heard the old eighties theme songs? They're go on forever?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, that's okay, I like it so. In baseball, In baseball,
when a guy's coming out to hit, you know, he
gets to choose this theme song when he walks. Yeah,
so that's that's what I would like. Those guys they
get to pick cool songs. I would pick wild Thing,
remember from well yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
What was that baseball movie?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Uh? Major League?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah? Major League?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, it's great, wold Thing and you had the skull
and cross billings on his glasses. It's great.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What would your theme song be?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I I think I've always chosen bad to the Bone,
and so I think it'd have to be Bad to
the bone only because of my nostalgia connection. So when
I was like big salesman and they brought me up
on stage, I chose that song back then, and then
ever since then, it's for you. I've always chosen that song.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Hey, by the way, have you ever heard Brian Reagan
talk about theme songs? Do you remember this? When he
was talking about his wife picked out.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Beg's I don't remember remember this.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So anyway, Brian Reagan is one of my favorite m Yeah.
He's he's really good, and he says, he goes, he goes.
Let me tell you about a thing that actually happened.
He said, I was playing at this comedy club and
apparently they play like theme songs for people, but I
didn't know that, and I didn't pick out a theme song.
My wife was in the sound booth because she didn't
know where to stand, and they said, oh, if you
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want to, you can go stand back in the sound booth.
So my wife goes up in the sound booth. The
DJ who plays vinyl actually looked over at my wife
and says, hey, is there any music in particular that
your husband likes? And so she doesn't know why he's asking, huh.
So she leans over and she sees all the vinyl
and she just goes. But he likes the be GI's.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And so that's going to be his theme song.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So listen. So so he has no idea. He's in
the front back of the house, right and he goes,
and he goes, he goes, They introduce him and they
go ladies and gentlemen, Brian Reagan, and he goes. He
walks out to more than a woman, more than a
woman to me. He walks out. He says, I look around, like,
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what is that happen?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's so funny. Yeah, okay, Well I'm glad you didn't
pick that thing up. Okay, well, I have no idea
how to transition into this.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, I was gonna say that was a silly segment.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Silly segment, you know, it's not so, you know, that's silly.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Deuteronomy, all of Deuteronomy.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, yeah, Douteronomy. So Deuteronomy is the last book of Moses. Right, Genesis, Exitus,
Slaviticus numbers in Deuteronomy. Those make up what the Israelites
the Jews would call the Torah. And it, yes, that's right,
the five books. And it establishes God's law, It establishes
God's authority as the creator, It establishes God's covenant to
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the people of Israel. It establishes how God rescues the
people of Israel, sets them free at the First Passover.
And then it establishes how God sets up his kingdom
through the people of Israel, how they're supposed to worship,
and their moral code that they're supposed to live by. Right,
and so that's all through Moses. And it's all during
the forty years that Moses is leading the people of Israel.
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And now at this point you get to chapter thirty one.
He's a very old man there's only a couple of
chapters left. He's one hundred and twenty years old. Yeah,
and he God's letting you know, hey, you you run
your race, you're about done. Less. Button this thing up,
and it's time to hand it over to Joshua.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Which, by the way, that would mean that if they're
at the end of their forty years wandering in the wilderness, right,
that would mean that he was eighty when he started.
When he started, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He was forty when he fled Egypt. He was in
the backside of the desert for forty years. Married Jethro's daughter,
was just a shepherd hiding when that pharaoh, the second
Pharaoh died. That's when God used him and sent him
back to the new pharaoh and to set my people free.
He was eighty years old and then he led them
for forty years.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, isn't amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Charleston Heston was much younger, much younger.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, he was, he was. He was fifty five, max.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Not that he's young.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Was he was? He young? I don't know. His beard
was white.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So yeah, well, they definitely, they definitely put him in
a No matter how they tried, they could make him
look ad.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Right, So here you go. Here's what it says in
Joshua chapter thirty one. We'll read like the first eight
verses or so, maybe ten verses, thirteen verses. When Moses
had finished giving these instructions to all the people of Israel,
so he gave all the laws of God, and then
he reads them to everybody. He said, I am now
one hundred and twenty years old, and I am no
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longer able to lead you. The Lord has told me
you will not cross the Jordan River. But the Lord
your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He
will destroy the nations living there, and you will take
possession of their land. Joshua will lead you across the river,
just as the Lord promise. The Lord will destroy the
nations living in the land, just as he destroys Sihan
and ag the kings of the Emrits. The Lord will
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hand over to you the people who live there, and
you must deal with them as I have commanded you.
So be strong and courageous, Do not be afraid, and
do not panic before them, for the Lord your God
will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail
you nor abandon you. Then Moses called for Joshua, and
as all Israel want, she said to him, be strong
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and courageous, for you will lead these people into the
land that the Lord war to their ancestors, who he
would give them. You are the ones who will divide
it among them as their grants of land. Do not
be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go
ahead of you. He will be with you. He will
neither fail you nor abandon you. So Moses wrote this
entire book of Instruction in a book and gave it
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to the priests who carried the ark of the Lord's
covenant to the elders of Israel. And now Moses gave
them this command at the end of every seventh year,
the year of Release or the year of Jubilee is
another term for that during the festival shelters, you must
read this book of Instruction to all the people of Israel.
When they assemble before the Lord your God at the
place he chooses. Call them all together, men and women
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and children, and the foreigners living in your towns, so
they may hear this book of instruction and learn to
fear the Lord your God, and carefully obey all the
terms of these instructions. Do this so that your children,
who have not known these instructions, will hear them and
will learn to fear the Lord, your god. Do this
as long as you live in the land. You're crossing
the Jordan to occupy. And then the Lord said to Moses,
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it's your time to die well, And so he says,
called Moses, called joshuall present yourself.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Right, And apparently it's my time to yawn. Yeah, go ahead,
go ahead, No, no, no, I've I've already be.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
You keep yawning. Well, it's a thing, A big fan
of yawning.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well in low lights. Yes, everybody knows that. But I
in particularly did not sleep well.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Less didn't sleep. You have a toothache, big time. You
are suffering, see of things.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, it was a mistake for me to wait to
get this thing done. But but I actually have a
tooth cracked in half all the way up.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
All the way up, and so I mean work on it.
I got my pocket knife with me. I don't know
if I'd be good.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I just got chills all the way to.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
The I might be good at it.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I never tried the pocket knife. The dentist was afraid
to move it. Yeah, and even touch it.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But you're gonna All you need is a rubber mallet.
I'll go back in the back finally knock you on
the head, take it out. That would got a pair
of plyers.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
That wouldn't work.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You could knock somebody out with the rubber mouth.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I don't know. Maybe I'll try to kill them before
you might not.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
That too, Never know, try. Oh that's funny, Okay. So
Joshua becomes the nation's leader at this point, and Moses
is wrapping things up, and in this big set of
instructions that he's passing on to the people and to Joshua,
he gives this promise. Now, what's interesting is that yesterday
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the Book of Hebrews, in yesterday's podcast, the Book of
Hebrews quoted.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
This this verse, yeah, Deuteronomy.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And so here we are the next day reading Deuteronomy
thirty one six, the original promise, the original promise.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yes, So yesterday he promised, don't get obsessed with money,
be satisfied with why God had, because God's never going
to abandon.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He said, Remember, the Lord will never fail you, He'll
never abandon.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And he's quoting this passage. What doesn't have anything to
do with money, correct, It has everything to do with
the battles we fight in our lives.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Right, which is why I remember I said, hey, we
should call it context because it is the promise that
God will never fail you, he'll never abandon you. And
you could apply it to honey or contentment or whatever
it is gratitude, right and uh. And so it's the
promises applied to different contexts and and which is which
is wonderful? And uh and what's interesting about this is that, uh,
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that that he gives us instruction, uh, that he'll never
leave you nor forsake you. And here's here's what I
want to mention before we even talk about you know,
this exact thing that gives us confidence that promises of
the Old Testament can be applied in the New Testament.
Right now, I'm only saying that because some people may
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not think so.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
A lot of people dismiss the Old Testament. Oh, that's
just old Testament, and they forget that the New Testament writers,
including Jesus, quote it all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, at worst they'll dismiss the Old Testament. But but
at best they'll say, well that maybe that promise was
given just to the people not to me, right, right, right,
And so they'll say, oh, isn't that a contextual.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Promise, that was a promise only to Israel, correct, right, right.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
But here's the Book of Hebrews. The writer of the
Book of Hebrews. Because we don't know who the author is,
he's anonymous. Some people think it's Paul, by the way,
and some people don't. Who do you think it is.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I think it's either it's likely to be Paul or Barnabas. Huh, God,
I would love it.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
We don't have a writer, and it's a question in heaven. Yeah, exactly.
Oh yeah, we said last week it would be awesome
if it was Barnabas, because Barnabas always takes us a
back seat, so for him to be the anonymous writer, yeah,
it would be great. But there's some people who think
it might be Priscilla and Aquilla, that they wrote it,
and that's why there's not a name on it, because
it would be Priscilla and Aquila writing. So there's some
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of those I don't know. There were a few really
great teachers during that time. Apollos is mentioned. I don't
think Peter wrote it. Peter wasn't really a theology.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It doesn't feel like Peter style yet.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Right, So this was an extreme theologian who was extraordinarily
capable in connecting the Hebrew beliefs to the Jesus move
yes and you connect those and that was very skilled.
There's only a few people. It'd be a missionary kind
of a person that can do that. Yeah, so that's
why it's barnabas Apollos.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well, Paul would definitely understand it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, the style is a little different than some of
the ways he writes in some of the other books.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
But yeah, So anyway, the point is is that some
people would dismiss it, and so the writer of Hebrews
is saying, hey, you can take this promise that was
given in this context to the children of Israel and
you could bank on it because the promise is about God. Right,
So the promise isn't about some sort of circumstance that
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they find themselves in. This promise is about God's nature.
It's about who God is. And God is never going
to leave you. God is never going to fail you,
He'll never abandon you. And what's interesting is that's Hebrews.
Was it thirteen to five or whatever it was. But
this one is Deuteronomy thirty one six, and it also
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has more words. It says he will always, It says
he will go before you, doesn't it right, So it
adds to it. It's not only will he will, he
never fail you.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah. The reason why I can be strong and courageous
heading into the battle, yes, because God's already there. Right,
I don't have to be afraid.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Hey, if the if the biggest, toughest person you know
is out in front walking into the problem, you're gonna
be okay following them. That's that's what he's saying. So
you can be strong and courageous and you don't have
to be afraid. Don't panic. The devil loves it when
we panic. He's a roaring lion. He loves it when
one of the gazelle's panics and leaves the herd. Right,
don't panic. Don't make a decision while your decision maker
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is broken, because God is personally ahead of you. And
he says already there.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
He says, be strong and courageous three times. Yeah, and uh.
And so think about this too. This is also a
speech that he's given to the next generation. And this
is the speech that they should have listened to forty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yes, one percent. That's why he keeps saying.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yes, yes, yes. So he's saying, God's.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Already there, be strong and courageous.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
God is going to give you the promised land. So
Joshua and Caleb and the other ten spies go over
the wall. They come back. Everybody goes, oh, no, they're
too big.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
We're like grasshoppers.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
We're like grasshoppers. And it was only Joshua, who, by
the way, strange enough, is now the next leader. But
he was the one that tried to rally the troops.
He gave the brave heart speech, Right, would you trade
from this day to that had one chance at freedom?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
He's that guy, right, And he says, and him and Caleb,
and then he gives this big rousing speech and the
very next verse says, and the people wanted to stone him.
And because you'd expect people to go, you know, but
they don't. They want to stone him like that. Kill
kill that guy, shut him off, because I ain't going
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over there, see those guys. So so so they so
they had fear. That's what they struggled with. They struggled
with fear. Yes, and and and many times when God
gives promises, isn't it true, we struggle with either we
don't understand the promise right, or so we have lack
of clarity, like what does that mean? And sometimes we
do understand the promise. In this case, they understood it
perfectly clear, go take over the promised land. They just
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struggle with fear. And then sometimes we actually we understand
it and we try to get over our fear, but
then we struggles as the situation unfolds. We struggle with probability, right, like, oh,
there's no way God can defeat these odds. Well, in
this case, because they struggle with fear, they were punished
and they had to wander the wilderness for forty years.
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And so Moses, you know, he doesn't get to go
into the promised Land because that's a whole nother story altogether, right,
But he's saying it's now your time, and he's connecting
the promises of God to their fear, and he's saying,
be strong and courageous because x.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Y Z, because I'm out ahead of you. I'm already
in the thing that you're afraid of. Yes, right, they
were afraid of Jericho which was the most powerful city
in that region. They were afraid of the giants that
had been there for the last time. They're afraid of
all those things. And he says, I'm already there. Don'
worry about it. Hey, I'm here looking around. It's pretty great.
Come on in the water, right, So he said, come on, man,
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I'm going to be there with you. So there's this
thing that happens rate before. So we started in the
first verse of thirty one. But remember the Bible wasn't
originally written with chapters and verses. I know, it's shocking,
what so this is just an ongoing event that's happening.
Moses has just read the entire law to the people,
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the whole law. He reads the whole thing, all of
what we would consider the Book of Deuteronomy. He reads
the whole thing, and then he comes down to the
end and he says, today I've given you a choice
between life and death, between blessings and curses. And now
I call on heaven and on earth to witness the
choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life so
that you and your descendants might live. You can make
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this choice by loving the Lord your God, obeying him
and committing yourself firmly to him. And this is the
key to your life life. And if you love and
obey the Lord, you will live long in the land
that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. He's talking about big if. Then promises, Yeah, yeah,
that's right. That's a big that's a big end. It's
a big ning. So then then when he's finished, that's
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how we start chapter thirty one. When he finished giving
these instructions, he says, now, listen, I'm one hundred and
twenty years old. Let's talk about what's gonna happen. God's
gonna put Joshua in charge, so be strong and courageous.
He says it three times. He reminds him of the
promise I'm never gonna forsake you. I'm never going to
abandon you. Two times he mentions that. And then when
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he's all done with that, listen, I'm gonna go ahead
of you, and you could trust me. Choose life, don't
choose death. If the way you choose life is obeying
me and loving me and making you me first in
your life, and then I'm gonna make all your wildest
dreams come true. Then if you choose not to obey
my commands, then it's just cursing. And then there's no
all curses in your life, and you're gonna wonder why
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you oppressed all the time. He wrote about that earlier
in that same chapter. So then when he gets to
these theesis, so be strong and courageous, because I'm ahead
of you, just like he just promised, you will live
long in the land the Lord's swore to your ancestors.
I promised it. So now I'm already there. Be strong
and courageous and follow me. Don't be afraid. And then
he pauses and goes, So, now make sure you tell
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your children these things every year, same festival, every year.
Read this entire book to them again, because they don't
know what you know. They haven't experienced the blessings of
God and their life like you did. It's just a
story for them, so they need to learn it for
themselves too. And a lot of parents, I think struggle sometimes.
Oh I don't want to force my faith on my kids.
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I want my kids to choose from themselves, and God
never endorses that idea. God says, I blessed you. Now
you teach your children that if they will obey me
and they choose life and not death, then I will
bless them too if they obey me and make me
number one. Right, And so he connects both their current promises.
He says, so that you and your children, you and
your descendants might live, That's what he says. And then
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he reaffirms for them, be strong and courageous because I'm
going out in front of you. And then he says,
so don't forget to tell your kids, and that I
think all of those things go together for us. That
it's supposed to be an all encompassing life of knowing
God's words, claiming his promises, and teaching our children to
know God's words so they can claim their promises. Yeah,
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the promises of God. They're not just for you, They're
for your old family.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
That's right. And it's definitely an all encompassing speech because
it's Moses's last one. Yeah, And so he's giving this
grand speech about your entire lives. Right, live this way
and then pass it on to your children and talk
about a vision. Moses is having a vision of future generations. Hey, listen,
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I've been with you a long time. I care about you.
God has chosen me to lead you, and I'm passing
the baton. And this is an this is the new regime.
This is George Washington to John Adams. Right, this is
this is this is the big deal. And then he says,
so let me just give you these overall instructions. And
then and I love the fact that again, this is
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a whole nother sermon altogether. I just can't help not
to say this. But like when Moses started leading them
forty years ago, God part of the Red Sea, right,
that was the first you know, the sort of the
culmination of the deliverance from the first Passover and everything else.
And so they crossed the Red Sea. They were delivered
out of slavery. And then you know they're gonna they're
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gonna take the Promised land. They have to take their
licks for forty years for an entire generation. And now
you know they haven't seen anything like the Red Sea,
but they've heard about it from their parents. And then
in this verse right here that you read, it says
he will not cross the Jordan River, but the Lord
will go ahead of you. And then he says, Joshua
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will lead you across the river and then and then,
and then what does God do? God gives a mini
parting of the Red Sea in the party of the
Jordan River with Joshua and so going into the Promised Land.
Once again, God is reminding the people the same thing.
I am with you. I will never fail you. I
said it back then and I'm saying it again. I
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did it with the Red Sea, and now I'm doing
it with the Jordan River. I did it with your
first leader, and I'll do it with this leader. And
so God's consistency and symbolism of partying the Jordan River
I just love because again it's just reminding the people
of who God is, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
So that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
That is our time. So hey, we will see you
hopefully tomorrow on the Bible. Guys,
You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey, everybody, good morning, it's good to be here.
It is good to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I thought you were gonna say something else.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
No, I just I just I usually do.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
What wonderful thing is Chris going to say today? I
just and I was just in rapture.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Sometimes I ramble, and then sometimes I just hand it over.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Just drop it. That's right, that's right, and then I'm
not sharp enough to keep up with you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
So well, you're probably prepping for something as good.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I guess that's okay.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So, hey, my name is Chris, this is Jeff. We're
the Bible Guys. If this is your first time listening in,
we definitely encourage you to go and watch some of
our archives Bible Guys podcast. We have seven hundred and
ninety six of them, and then even one hundred and
fifty hg dailies before that, and so anyway, welcome, and
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today we are in the middle of a series and
it's our favorite promises of God in different contexts. Yes, okay,
so we should call the series like context or something.
Promises of context or promises in context.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, that sounds riveting.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I think it does.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's just the promises because again,
the premise behind these promises for us while we're doing
it is because so many people stay worried. So many
people struggle with their faith because they just don't know
what God has promised. Right, if we know God's word,
we have way more faith. Hearing comes or faith comes
by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So
our faith is built the more words of God we know. Right,
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those two things go together, and so a lot of
times the people are struggling with their faith, it's usually
because they don't know God's promises. And so hey, we're
gonna kind of bunch these promises together for the next
five or six, seven, I don't know, ten weeks, whatever
it is. We're gonna do TVD. Yeah, and we're gonna
kind of bunch them together. So this week, this whole
week is just that God is with you, right, that's
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if you're a follower of Christ. God's promises to be
with you.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So before we get Divino that we have a segment
and this is a would you rather There's five of
them and We're gonna have to just pick whether it's
me or you. Okay, you want to read the excuse
me the first one.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Let me see, would you rather always have an itch
you can't scratch or always have to sneeze but never do?
Those are terrible? Those are always yawn when you don't
want to.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, no kidding, Okay, so you get to pick one.
Both are absolutely horrible. I would have to say the itch,
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So I feel a little itchy right now because I
read it. Does that happen to you?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well? The same with the bugs, right, Yeah, you see
a bug and all of a sudden a bug on me.
But yeah, I think I've gotten used to an itch.
Have you ever been in a situation where you had
an itch and you couldn't scratch because like you're in
a dentist chair or something, right, and then and it's like, okay,
I'm gonna have to ignore it. Well, you find out
that it is possible sometimes to ignore it. But I'm
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not sure you could ignorra sneeze.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's hard.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That that was hard.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Come I was in the dentists chair and they had
that thing in your mouth to keep your mouth all
the way open.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
While you're doing work.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I mean, and I finally had to so he couldn't
take it out. And then I'm like, and he realized
what was going to happen, he just cover it all.
I know, I was panicking.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You know, depending on how much saliva builds up, you
could do a guys on that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It was terrible. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Number two, would you rather only be able to whisper
or only be able to shout? So this is a
very basic question and yet very extremism on the results.
What do you think.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Whisper? I think I would only want to wish.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, they're terrible, yes, but whisper is definitely the option.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Can you whisper loudly?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't say
you can't.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And you could also whisper in a megaphone.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, that's right, in a microphone. Just carry little microphone
thing around with you.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Mister microphone.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah all right, okay. Would you rather be able to
talk to animals but they all hate you? Or be
invisible but only when no one is around? I think
we've done it being visible when no one is around thing,
have we?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Because we talked about there's no point in being invisible.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, unless you're gonna do something wrong like rob a banker.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Right, but on this one, respying somebody on this one,
I don't want to talk to animals that hate me.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, So I'd rather be invisible and no one's around. Yeah,
because because it's inconsequential.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Right right, there's no consequence to me. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, but but but animals constantly talk to animals hate you. Know,
you'd be like, all of a sudden, you're just sitting there,
mind your business. Here comes a cat and you're like, oh, yeah,
this cat hates me. He's gonna he's gonna tell me
all about it. Which, by the way, most cats hate.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You, that's right, Yeah, they do. Most cats would eat
you if they could.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Do you think that's big enough? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That's so funny? All right? Is this me?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
All right? Number three?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Number four? Would you rather eat only Halloween candy for
every meal in October? Ooh or have to hand out
raisins at every trick or treat event and defend your choices? Wow,
there is no doubt in my mind I would hand
out raisins.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I was going to say I would too. I think
we've read on every one of these.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean none are good options, but I mean,
are you kidding me? Only Halloween candy for the entire mine?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I do love as long as there's all chocolate. I
could do it. No, I could do it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I could not do that for thirty I could do it.
You could not. Your body couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I could do it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
No, your body would reject it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Okay, here's the last one. Would you rather have a
permanent theme song play every time you in a room?
Or be followed by a guy with a kazoo who
plays dramatic sound effects.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh, I like the second one. I just don't know
how long I'd like the second one.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Dunk dunk dum.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, that would be funny. It would be great for
a while.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, you like that one, Yeah, for a while. Okay,
I would rather have the theme song when I walk in.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, I would have to too, because but then it
also depends on, like how long is the theme song?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And do you get to pick it right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Because if it's a long theme song. Have you ever
heard the old eighties theme songs? They're go on forever?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, that's okay, I like it so. In baseball, In baseball,
when a guy's coming out to hit, you know, he
gets to choose this theme song when he walks. Yeah,
so that's that's what I would like. Those guys they
get to pick cool songs. I would pick wild Thing,
remember from well yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
What was that baseball movie?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Uh? Major League?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah? Major League?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, it's great, wold Thing and you had the skull
and cross billings on his glasses. It's great.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What would your theme song be?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I I think I've always chosen bad to the Bone,
and so I think it'd have to be Bad to
the bone only because of my nostalgia connection. So when
I was like big salesman and they brought me up
on stage, I chose that song back then, and then
ever since then, it's for you. I've always chosen that song.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Hey, by the way, have you ever heard Brian Reagan
talk about theme songs? Do you remember this? When he
was talking about his wife picked out.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Beg's I don't remember remember this.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So anyway, Brian Reagan is one of my favorite m Yeah.
He's he's really good, and he says, he goes, he goes.
Let me tell you about a thing that actually happened.
He said, I was playing at this comedy club and
apparently they play like theme songs for people, but I
didn't know that, and I didn't pick out a theme song.
My wife was in the sound booth because she didn't
know where to stand, and they said, oh, if you
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want to, you can go stand back in the sound booth.
So my wife goes up in the sound booth. The
DJ who plays vinyl actually looked over at my wife
and says, hey, is there any music in particular that
your husband likes? And so she doesn't know why he's asking, huh.
So she leans over and she sees all the vinyl
and she just goes. But he likes the be GI's.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And so that's going to be his theme song.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So listen. So so he has no idea. He's in
the front back of the house, right and he goes,
and he goes, he goes, They introduce him and they
go ladies and gentlemen, Brian Reagan, and he goes. He
walks out to more than a woman, more than a
woman to me. He walks out. He says, I look around, like,
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what is that happen?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's so funny. Yeah, okay, Well I'm glad you didn't
pick that thing up. Okay, well, I have no idea
how to transition into this.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, I was gonna say that was a silly segment.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Silly segment, you know, it's not so, you know, that's silly.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Deuteronomy, all of Deuteronomy.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, yeah, Douteronomy. So Deuteronomy is the last book of Moses. Right, Genesis, Exitus,
Slaviticus numbers in Deuteronomy. Those make up what the Israelites
the Jews would call the Torah. And it, yes, that's right,
the five books. And it establishes God's law, It establishes
God's authority as the creator, It establishes God's covenant to
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the people of Israel. It establishes how God rescues the
people of Israel, sets them free at the First Passover.
And then it establishes how God sets up his kingdom
through the people of Israel, how they're supposed to worship,
and their moral code that they're supposed to live by. Right,
and so that's all through Moses. And it's all during
the forty years that Moses is leading the people of Israel.
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And now at this point you get to chapter thirty one.
He's a very old man there's only a couple of
chapters left. He's one hundred and twenty years old. Yeah,
and he God's letting you know, hey, you you run
your race, you're about done. Less. Button this thing up,
and it's time to hand it over to Joshua.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Which, by the way, that would mean that if they're
at the end of their forty years wandering in the wilderness, right,
that would mean that he was eighty when he started.
When he started, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He was forty when he fled Egypt. He was in
the backside of the desert for forty years. Married Jethro's daughter,
was just a shepherd hiding when that pharaoh, the second
Pharaoh died. That's when God used him and sent him
back to the new pharaoh and to set my people free.
He was eighty years old and then he led them
for forty years.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, isn't amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Charleston Heston was much younger, much younger.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, he was, he was. He was fifty five, max.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Not that he's young.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Was he was? He young? I don't know. His beard
was white.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So yeah, well, they definitely, they definitely put him in
a No matter how they tried, they could make him
look ad.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Right, So here you go. Here's what it says in
Joshua chapter thirty one. We'll read like the first eight
verses or so, maybe ten verses, thirteen verses. When Moses
had finished giving these instructions to all the people of Israel,
so he gave all the laws of God, and then
he reads them to everybody. He said, I am now
one hundred and twenty years old, and I am no
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longer able to lead you. The Lord has told me
you will not cross the Jordan River. But the Lord
your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He
will destroy the nations living there, and you will take
possession of their land. Joshua will lead you across the river,
just as the Lord promise. The Lord will destroy the
nations living in the land, just as he destroys Sihan
and ag the kings of the Emrits. The Lord will
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hand over to you the people who live there, and
you must deal with them as I have commanded you.
So be strong and courageous, Do not be afraid, and
do not panic before them, for the Lord your God
will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail
you nor abandon you. Then Moses called for Joshua, and
as all Israel want, she said to him, be strong
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and courageous, for you will lead these people into the
land that the Lord war to their ancestors, who he
would give them. You are the ones who will divide
it among them as their grants of land. Do not
be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go
ahead of you. He will be with you. He will
neither fail you nor abandon you. So Moses wrote this
entire book of Instruction in a book and gave it
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to the priests who carried the ark of the Lord's
covenant to the elders of Israel. And now Moses gave
them this command at the end of every seventh year,
the year of Release or the year of Jubilee is
another term for that during the festival shelters, you must
read this book of Instruction to all the people of Israel.
When they assemble before the Lord your God at the
place he chooses. Call them all together, men and women
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and children, and the foreigners living in your towns, so
they may hear this book of instruction and learn to
fear the Lord your God, and carefully obey all the
terms of these instructions. Do this so that your children,
who have not known these instructions, will hear them and
will learn to fear the Lord, your god. Do this
as long as you live in the land. You're crossing
the Jordan to occupy. And then the Lord said to Moses,
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it's your time to die well, And so he says,
called Moses, called joshuall present yourself.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Right, And apparently it's my time to yawn. Yeah, go ahead,
go ahead, No, no, no, I've I've already be.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
You keep yawning. Well, it's a thing, A big fan
of yawning.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Well in low lights. Yes, everybody knows that. But I
in particularly did not sleep well.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Less didn't sleep. You have a toothache, big time. You
are suffering, see of things.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, it was a mistake for me to wait to
get this thing done. But but I actually have a
tooth cracked in half all the way up.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
All the way up, and so I mean work on it.
I got my pocket knife with me. I don't know
if I'd be good.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I just got chills all the way to.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
The I might be good at it.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
I never tried the pocket knife. The dentist was afraid
to move it. Yeah, and even touch it.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But you're gonna All you need is a rubber mallet.
I'll go back in the back finally knock you on
the head, take it out. That would got a pair
of plyers.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
That wouldn't work.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
You could knock somebody out with the rubber mouth.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I don't know. Maybe I'll try to kill them before
you might not.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
That too, Never know, try. Oh that's funny, Okay. So
Joshua becomes the nation's leader at this point, and Moses
is wrapping things up, and in this big set of
instructions that he's passing on to the people and to Joshua,
he gives this promise. Now, what's interesting is that yesterday
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the Book of Hebrews, in yesterday's podcast, the Book of
Hebrews quoted.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
This this verse, yeah, Deuteronomy.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And so here we are the next day reading Deuteronomy
thirty one six, the original promise, the original promise.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yes, So yesterday he promised, don't get obsessed with money,
be satisfied with why God had, because God's never going
to abandon.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He said, Remember, the Lord will never fail you, He'll
never abandon.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And he's quoting this passage. What doesn't have anything to
do with money, correct, It has everything to do with
the battles we fight in our lives.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Right, which is why I remember I said, hey, we
should call it context because it is the promise that
God will never fail you, he'll never abandon you. And
you could apply it to honey or contentment or whatever
it is gratitude, right and uh. And so it's the
promises applied to different contexts and and which is which
is wonderful? And uh and what's interesting about this is that, uh,
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that that he gives us instruction, uh, that he'll never
leave you nor forsake you. And here's here's what I
want to mention before we even talk about you know,
this exact thing that gives us confidence that promises of
the Old Testament can be applied in the New Testament.
Right now, I'm only saying that because some people may
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not think so.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
A lot of people dismiss the Old Testament. Oh, that's
just old Testament, and they forget that the New Testament writers,
including Jesus, quote it all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, at worst they'll dismiss the Old Testament. But but
at best they'll say, well that maybe that promise was
given just to the people not to me, right, right, right,
And so they'll say, oh, isn't that a contextual.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Promise, that was a promise only to Israel, correct, right, right.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
But here's the Book of Hebrews. The writer of the
Book of Hebrews. Because we don't know who the author is,
he's anonymous. Some people think it's Paul, by the way,
and some people don't. Who do you think it is.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I think it's either it's likely to be Paul or Barnabas. Huh, God,
I would love it.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
We don't have a writer, and it's a question in heaven. Yeah, exactly.
Oh yeah, we said last week it would be awesome
if it was Barnabas, because Barnabas always takes us a
back seat, so for him to be the anonymous writer, yeah,
it would be great. But there's some people who think
it might be Priscilla and Aquilla, that they wrote it,
and that's why there's not a name on it, because
it would be Priscilla and Aquila writing. So there's some
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of those I don't know. There were a few really
great teachers during that time. Apollos is mentioned. I don't
think Peter wrote it. Peter wasn't really a theology.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It doesn't feel like Peter style yet.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Right, So this was an extreme theologian who was extraordinarily
capable in connecting the Hebrew beliefs to the Jesus move
yes and you connect those and that was very skilled.
There's only a few people. It'd be a missionary kind
of a person that can do that. Yeah, so that's
why it's barnabas Apollos.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well, Paul would definitely understand it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, the style is a little different than some of
the ways he writes in some of the other books.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
But yeah, So anyway, the point is is that some
people would dismiss it, and so the writer of Hebrews
is saying, hey, you can take this promise that was
given in this context to the children of Israel and
you could bank on it because the promise is about God. Right,
So the promise isn't about some sort of circumstance that
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they find themselves in. This promise is about God's nature.
It's about who God is. And God is never going
to leave you. God is never going to fail you,
He'll never abandon you. And what's interesting is that's Hebrews.
Was it thirteen to five or whatever it was. But
this one is Deuteronomy thirty one six, and it also
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has more words. It says he will always, It says
he will go before you, doesn't it right, So it
adds to it. It's not only will he will, he
never fail you.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah. The reason why I can be strong and courageous
heading into the battle, yes, because God's already there. Right,
I don't have to be afraid.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Hey, if the if the biggest, toughest person you know
is out in front walking into the problem, you're gonna
be okay following them. That's that's what he's saying. So
you can be strong and courageous and you don't have
to be afraid. Don't panic. The devil loves it when
we panic. He's a roaring lion. He loves it when
one of the gazelle's panics and leaves the herd. Right,
don't panic. Don't make a decision while your decision maker
(18:34):
is broken, because God is personally ahead of you. And
he says already there.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
He says, be strong and courageous three times. Yeah, and uh.
And so think about this too. This is also a
speech that he's given to the next generation. And this
is the speech that they should have listened to forty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yes, one percent. That's why he keeps saying.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yes, yes, yes. So he's saying, God's.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Already there, be strong and courageous.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
God is going to give you the promised land. So
Joshua and Caleb and the other ten spies go over
the wall. They come back. Everybody goes, oh, no, they're
too big.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
We're like grasshoppers.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
We're like grasshoppers. And it was only Joshua, who, by
the way, strange enough, is now the next leader. But
he was the one that tried to rally the troops.
He gave the brave heart speech, Right, would you trade
from this day to that had one chance at freedom?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
He's that guy, right, And he says, and him and Caleb,
and then he gives this big rousing speech and the
very next verse says, and the people wanted to stone him.
And because you'd expect people to go, you know, but
they don't. They want to stone him like that. Kill
kill that guy, shut him off, because I ain't going
(19:47):
over there, see those guys. So so so they so
they had fear. That's what they struggled with. They struggled
with fear. Yes, and and and many times when God
gives promises, isn't it true, we struggle with either we
don't understand the promise right, or so we have lack
of clarity, like what does that mean? And sometimes we
do understand the promise. In this case, they understood it
perfectly clear, go take over the promised land. They just
(20:10):
struggle with fear. And then sometimes we actually we understand
it and we try to get over our fear, but
then we struggles as the situation unfolds. We struggle with probability, right, like, oh,
there's no way God can defeat these odds. Well, in
this case, because they struggle with fear, they were punished
and they had to wander the wilderness for forty years.
(20:30):
And so Moses, you know, he doesn't get to go
into the promised Land because that's a whole nother story altogether, right,
But he's saying it's now your time, and he's connecting
the promises of God to their fear, and he's saying,
be strong and courageous because x.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Y Z, because I'm out ahead of you. I'm already
in the thing that you're afraid of. Yes, right, they
were afraid of Jericho which was the most powerful city
in that region. They were afraid of the giants that
had been there for the last time. They're afraid of
all those things. And he says, I'm already there. Don'
worry about it. Hey, I'm here looking around. It's pretty great.
Come on in the water, right, So he said, come on, man,
(21:09):
I'm going to be there with you. So there's this
thing that happens rate before. So we started in the
first verse of thirty one. But remember the Bible wasn't
originally written with chapters and verses. I know, it's shocking,
what so this is just an ongoing event that's happening.
Moses has just read the entire law to the people,
(21:29):
the whole law. He reads the whole thing, all of
what we would consider the Book of Deuteronomy. He reads
the whole thing, and then he comes down to the
end and he says, today I've given you a choice
between life and death, between blessings and curses. And now
I call on heaven and on earth to witness the
choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life so
that you and your descendants might live. You can make
(21:52):
this choice by loving the Lord your God, obeying him
and committing yourself firmly to him. And this is the
key to your life life. And if you love and
obey the Lord, you will live long in the land
that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. He's talking about big if. Then promises, Yeah, yeah,
that's right. That's a big that's a big end. It's
a big ning. So then then when he's finished, that's
(22:17):
how we start chapter thirty one. When he finished giving
these instructions, he says, now, listen, I'm one hundred and
twenty years old. Let's talk about what's gonna happen. God's
gonna put Joshua in charge, so be strong and courageous.
He says it three times. He reminds him of the
promise I'm never gonna forsake you. I'm never going to
abandon you. Two times he mentions that. And then when
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he's all done with that, listen, I'm gonna go ahead
of you, and you could trust me. Choose life, don't
choose death. If the way you choose life is obeying
me and loving me and making you me first in
your life, and then I'm gonna make all your wildest
dreams come true. Then if you choose not to obey
my commands, then it's just cursing. And then there's no
all curses in your life, and you're gonna wonder why
(23:00):
you oppressed all the time. He wrote about that earlier
in that same chapter. So then when he gets to
these theesis, so be strong and courageous, because I'm ahead
of you, just like he just promised, you will live
long in the land the Lord's swore to your ancestors.
I promised it. So now I'm already there. Be strong
and courageous and follow me. Don't be afraid. And then
he pauses and goes, So, now make sure you tell
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your children these things every year, same festival, every year.
Read this entire book to them again, because they don't
know what you know. They haven't experienced the blessings of
God and their life like you did. It's just a
story for them, so they need to learn it for
themselves too. And a lot of parents, I think struggle sometimes.
Oh I don't want to force my faith on my kids.
(23:43):
I want my kids to choose from themselves, and God
never endorses that idea. God says, I blessed you. Now
you teach your children that if they will obey me
and they choose life and not death, then I will
bless them too if they obey me and make me
number one. Right, And so he connects both their current promises.
He says, so that you and your children, you and
your descendants might live, That's what he says. And then
(24:06):
he reaffirms for them, be strong and courageous because I'm
going out in front of you. And then he says,
so don't forget to tell your kids, and that I
think all of those things go together for us. That
it's supposed to be an all encompassing life of knowing
God's words, claiming his promises, and teaching our children to
know God's words so they can claim their promises. Yeah,
(24:28):
the promises of God. They're not just for you, They're
for your old family.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
That's right. And it's definitely an all encompassing speech because
it's Moses's last one. Yeah, And so he's giving this
grand speech about your entire lives. Right, live this way
and then pass it on to your children and talk
about a vision. Moses is having a vision of future generations. Hey, listen,
(24:52):
I've been with you a long time. I care about you.
God has chosen me to lead you, and I'm passing
the baton. And this is an this is the new regime.
This is George Washington to John Adams. Right, this is
this is this is the big deal. And then he says,
so let me just give you these overall instructions. And
then and I love the fact that again, this is
(25:16):
a whole nother sermon altogether. I just can't help not
to say this. But like when Moses started leading them
forty years ago, God part of the Red Sea, right,
that was the first you know, the sort of the
culmination of the deliverance from the first Passover and everything else.
And so they crossed the Red Sea. They were delivered
out of slavery. And then you know they're gonna they're
(25:38):
gonna take the Promised land. They have to take their
licks for forty years for an entire generation. And now
you know they haven't seen anything like the Red Sea,
but they've heard about it from their parents. And then
in this verse right here that you read, it says
he will not cross the Jordan River, but the Lord
will go ahead of you. And then he says, Joshua
(25:58):
will lead you across the river and then and then,
and then what does God do? God gives a mini
parting of the Red Sea in the party of the
Jordan River with Joshua and so going into the Promised Land.
Once again, God is reminding the people the same thing.
I am with you. I will never fail you. I
said it back then and I'm saying it again. I
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did it with the Red Sea, and now I'm doing
it with the Jordan River. I did it with your
first leader, and I'll do it with this leader. And
so God's consistency and symbolism of partying the Jordan River
I just love because again it's just reminding the people
of who God is, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
So that's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
That is our time. So hey, we will see you
hopefully tomorrow on the Bible. Guys,
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