Deuteronomy

Danny Watton

Deuteronomy • Sermon • Submitted 5 years ago • Presented 5 years ago

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Introduction

Good Morning! My name is Danny Watton and I am your service Pastor. I want to thank you all for coming this morning and I hope that you had a blessed week.

Thank you to the worship team who lead us in worship this morning to get our hearts prepared as we are about to start into our new sermon series.

Many of you who have been here know we just finished up our sermon series in Acts. Acts was a rich book that really showed us how the early church took on the task of the Great Commission. We saw that Paul knew who God was because he saw the resurrected Jesus on the Road to Damascus. Paul Knew his own identity in Christ and he was telling people about the Gospel. We learned that the Gospel is for everyone, not just one group of people, it is for all who believe in Jesus Christ.

Last week we looked at what that meant for us as the present day church. We are the next chapter of Acts and we are to be just as committed to the Great Commission as Paul was.

We are now going to focus our time in the Old Testament. As you see in your bulletins that we are going to be going through the book of Deuteronomy. There are 34 chapters in Deuteronomy so be prepared to spend the next 34 weeks in this wonderful book. Just Kidding!

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Since there are so many chapters in this book I think what I am going to try and do is pick out important parts for us to glean from and preach on those topics.

Also we are heading into the holiday season so we might take a break from this sermon series to go into the Christmas season.

before we start lets pray!

Why the OT is still relevant today

What I wanted to do this morning is go through what Deuteronomy is and talk about why the Old Testament is still relevant today.

Many people that I have talked to tell me that they don’t bother reading the Old Testament because the Gospel story of what Christ did only presents itself in the New Testament.

Or they say that Christ came, died and was resurrected making the Old Testament null in void. So they were not going to spend their time in the Old Testament and would only focus on what happened after Christ came to the scene.

I have to tell you and I told them that if that is how they approach the Bible then they are missing out on so much of who God is and where we came from.

Imagine if you didn’t know where you came from? If you suddenly woke up one day and you forgot all your memories and you didn’t know your past....where you grew up....where you learned how to walk. How you were loved from your parents or not loved.

You see not knowing who you are or where you came from causes some serious implications. Not understanding all the valuable lessons you learned through your trials and struggles you had to labor through to turn into the person you are today. Not know how to impart those lessons you learned through pain, sweat and tears to your children, friends and families.

Or through all the successes you were able to celebrate because of the grace love and favor you have experienced in life. Or maybe the success you enjoyed and celebrated through the same trials and pain.

But you see understanding who you are through good and bad experiences is a blessing and something that would be a huge loss if you could not look back and see how far you have come. Those experiences have made us

stronger,

more loving,

more understanding,

more willing to extend grace,

to encourage,

o hope for the

to hope for the future.....

That is what the Old Testament is to Christians.

We understand who we are in the plan that God has for His people and or us individually.

If we don’t look to the Old Testament to teach us who we are or more importantly who God is

then we are missing out on all the treasures of who God is and we would be missing a huge chunk of where our identity lies.

Looking through the Old Testament shows us who the God we love and serve is more deeply. We see that He has created us for a purpose and that He loves us so much that He has gone through great lengths to love us when it would have been pretty easy to allow us to perish when He flooded the earth.

Without the Old Testament we would not be able to see the progressive redemptive plan of how God was going to save us through Jesus Christ.

Do you realize the power of the Old Testament. When Jesus was just about to start His ministry Jesus would have only had the Old Testament to read from. The New Testament had not been written.

During Jesus time fasting for 40 days and 40 nights He was tempted by Satan. Satan tried to mis quote scripture to get Jesus to follow him and distract him from the mission God sent Him there to accomplish.

Listen to this:

English Standard Version Chapter 4

The Temptation of Jesus

4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written,

“ ‘Man shall not live by bread alone,

but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple 6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,

“ ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’

and

“ ‘On their hands they will bear you up,

lest you strike your foot against a stone.’ ”

7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ” 8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” 10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written,

“ ‘You shall worship the Lord your God

and him only shall you serve.’ ”

11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.

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Jesus used scripture from Deuteronomy to speak against Satans attacks against Him. He told Satan to be gone using truth that is still applicable to us today. Deuteronomy is a book filled with beauty and encouraging words to edify us. It is also filled with truth that we can write into our hearts so we can trust that we are never alone and that God will never leave us.

I wanted you to know that the Old Testament is just as relevant as the New testament and that we should be excited to dive into every aspect of the Word of God. Even the not so exciting portions.

Deuteronomy Video

What I wanted to do this morning is not go into one particular chapter but rather I would like to talk about the book of Deuteronomy in its entirety and give us an overview of all 34 chapters. That way when we jump around the book we have a full understanding of the story it tells us.

I have a video I would like to show you to give us that overview and I think it would explain it better then I could. Plus it has pictures and I understand things better when I watch cartoons :-)

6 MINUTES

Where we see Jesus in Deuteronomy

We see that Deuteronomy is a great book for study and to see how God chose to love Israel even though they consistently chose to forget God and worship other Gods. But we see that God did not let it end there.

He was active in their lives, molding them, rebuking them and loving them at all stages of their disobedience.

What we learn from Deuteronomy is that we are just like the Israelites. God has delivered us from sin and death and he was provided for us in abundance. We live greater then so many people in the world.

I know that I live more abundantly then my parents did at my age. And what I have to remember is that I did not receive all these blessings on my own. But I have been given much through Gods grace and love.

And if I remember this then I will not turn to other Gods as the Israelites did. And if I give all glory to God then I can point people to Christ and what He did on the cross.

Conclusion

Church. Remember the story that you have been made part of! Remember the God who gave you everything. Do not be like the Israelites who walked into the promise land and began worshipping other Gods, who forgot where they came from. Live everyday knowing that God is the author of grace and love.

As we walk through hope that you can see how important it is for you to look to the Old Testament to see that you serve a God that is the same God from the beginning the same right now and will continue being the same at the end.

We…you are so important to God. He loves you and cares for every need that you have. You may be here today in celebration of all God has done in your life or you may be here angry at God because you are walking through tragedy and pain. You may be here indifferent because you don’t believe in God.

Whatever the reason you are here God is still the King and ruler of everything and wants to give you peace and love. He gave us peace and love by sending Christ to die on the cross and raise three days later. That knowledge is the most important thing we need to have written on our hearts.