Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000504
00:16 Hello, and welcome back to His Words Are Life.
00:18 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you for coming apart with me right 00:22 now to read the word of God together. 00:23 Let's pray before we start. 00:25 Dear God, we want to come into Your presence in a special and 00:31 very conscious way right now to sit at Your feet, and to be 00:34 taught from Your word the things that we need to live a life 00:40 pleasing in Your eyes, and the life that You have created us to 00:43 live to Your glory. 00:44 Please be with us now and teach us. 00:46 Amen. 00:47 We're reading in the book of Deuteronomy. 00:50 Moses has brought the children of Israel together to review 00:54 with them various promises and commands, and the history of 00:58 God's deliverance in their lives. 01:00 And across the top of my Bible page right now it says that the 01:04 section we're reading today is the words of the covenant: 01:07 the covenant that God wishes to make with Israel, 01:09 and the covenant that he extends to us as spiritual Israel 01:13 in many cases. 01:14 Let's continue to read together Deuteronomy, chapter 28, 01:17 starting with verse 60, and this is the King James Version. 01:22 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, 01:26 which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 01:29 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in 01:32 the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, 01:35 until thou be destroyed. 01:36 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the 01:40 stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey 01:44 the voice of the Lord thy God. 01:46 And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to 01:51 do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice 01:54 over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; 01:57 and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest 02:00 to possess it. 02:01 And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one 02:05 end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt 02:08 serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, 02:11 even wood and stone. 02:13 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall 02:17 the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee 02:21 there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow 02:25 of mind: and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; 02:31 and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none 02:35 assurance of thy life: in the morning thou shalt say, 02:39 Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God 02:43 it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt 02:46 fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 02:49 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, 02:53 by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more 02:57 again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for 03:01 bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. 03:05 We're continuing in chapter 29 of the book of Deuteronomy, 03:09 and this is the King James Version. 03:10 These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord 03:14 commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land 03:17 of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with 03:20 them in Horeb. 03:21 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, 03:25 Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land 03:28 of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all 03:32 his land; the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, 03:36 the signs, and those great miracles: yet the Lord hath not 03:39 given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, 03:42 and ears to hear, unto this day. 03:44 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes 03:48 are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old 03:51 upon thy foot. 03:52 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong 03:55 drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord Your God. 04:00 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of 04:03 Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto 04:06 battle, and we smote them: and we took their land, and gave it 04:10 for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, 04:13 and to the half tribe of Manasseh. 04:14 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, 04:18 that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 04:20 Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; 04:25 your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, 04:30 with all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and thy 04:33 stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto 04:36 the drawer of thy water: that thou shouldest enter into 04:40 covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the 04:43 Lord thy God maketh with thee this day: that he may establish 04:47 thee today for a people unto himself, and that he may be 04:51 unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn 04:55 unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 04:58 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 05:02 but with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord 05:04 our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: 05:07 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we 05:10 came through the nations which ye passed by; and ye have seen 05:13 their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, 05:16 silver and gold, which were among them:) lest there should 05:20 be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart 05:23 turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve 05:26 the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root 05:30 that beareth gall and wormwood; and it come to pass, when he 05:34 heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his 05:37 heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the 05:40 imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: 05:43 the Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and 05:47 his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses 05:50 that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord 05:53 shall blot out his name from under heaven. 05:56 And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes 06:00 of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are 06:02 written in this book of the law: so that the generation to come 06:06 of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger 06:10 that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the 06:13 plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath 06:16 laid upon it; and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, 06:20 and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, 06:23 nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and 06:26 Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his 06:29 anger, and in his wrath: even all nations shall say, Wherefore 06:35 hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the 06:38 heat of this great anger? 06:40 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of 06:45 the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he 06:48 brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: for they went 06:51 and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they 06:55 knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: and the anger 06:59 of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all 07:02 the curses that are written in this book: and the Lord rooted 07:05 them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great 07:08 indignation, and cast them into another land, 07:10 as it is this day. 07:12 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those 07:16 those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our 07:20 children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. 07:25 We're continuing to read the word. 07:27 This is Deuteronomy, chapter 30. 07:30 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon 07:35 thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before 07:38 thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, 07:42 whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, and shalt return 07:45 unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all 07:48 that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all 07:52 thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then the Lord thy God 07:56 will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, 08:00 and will return and gather thee from all the nations, 08:03 whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. 08:05 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of 08:09 heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, 08:12 and from thence will he fetch thee: and the Lord thy God will 08:16 bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, 08:19 and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, 08:22 and multiply thee above thy fathers. 08:25 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, 08:29 and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all 08:33 thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 08:37 And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine 08:41 enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. 08:44 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, 08:47 and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. 08:50 And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of 08:54 thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy 08:57 cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord 09:00 will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy 09:05 fathers: if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy 09:09 God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are 09:12 written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord 09:16 thy god with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 09:18 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not 09:22 hidden from thee, neither is it far off. 09:25 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up 09:29 for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, 09:31 that we may hear it, and do it? 09:32 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, 09:36 Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, 09:38 that we may hear it, and do it? 09:40 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, 09:45 and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 09:48 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, 09:54 and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love 09:59 the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his 10:03 commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, that thou 10:06 mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless 10:11 thee in the land whither thou goest to posseses it. 10:13 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, 10:18 but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, 10:21 and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall 10:25 surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the 10:28 land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 10:31 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, 10:35 that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: 10:41 therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 10:48 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest 10:51 obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he 10:55 is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest 10:59 dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, 11:02 to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. 11:05 Continuing with Deuteronomy, chapter 31. 11:08 This is the King James Version. 11:10 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. 11:15 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old 11:18 this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the Lord hath 11:22 said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 11:24 The Lord thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will 11:28 destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt 11:31 possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, 11:35 as the Lord hath said. 11:36 And the Lord shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, 11:40 kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, 11:43 whom he destroyed. 11:44 And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do 11:47 unto them according unto all the commandments which I have 11:50 commanded you. 11:51 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: 11:56 for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; 12:01 he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 12:04 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight 12:08 of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must 12:12 go with this people unto the land which the Lord hath sworn 12:15 unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them 12:18 to inherit it. 12:19 And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee, he will be with 12:25 thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, 12:28 neither be dismayed. 12:29 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests 12:33 the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, 12:36 and unto all the elders of Israel. 12:38 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every 12:41 seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, 12:44 in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to 12:47 appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall 12:50 choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel 12:54 in their hearing. 12:55 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, 12:58 and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, 13:01 and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, 13:04 and observe to do all the words of this law: and that their 13:09 children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn 13:13 to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land 13:16 whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 13:18 And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that 13:23 thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the 13:26 tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. 13:30 And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the 13:33 tabernacle of the congregation. 13:35 And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a 13:38 cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door 13:41 of the tabernacle. 13:42 And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with 13:46 thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go whoring 13:50 after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to 13:53 be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which 13:56 I have made with them. 13:57 then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, 14:00 and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from 14:02 them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and 14:06 troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, 14:09 Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is 14:11 not among us? 14:12 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils 14:16 which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto 14:20 other gods. 14:21 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it 14:25 the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song 14:28 may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 14:31 Thank you for joining with me today. 14:34 Goodbye. |
Revised 2014-12-17