Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000505
00:17 Hi, and welcome back to His Words Are Life.
00:19 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you for joining with me today to 00:22 read the word of God together. 00:23 Let's pray before we start. 00:24 Dear Jesus, thank You so much for blessing us with the words 00:30 that have been kept by Your hand down through the centuries 00:34 to bring us light and life into what we're facing right now, 00:38 and each of the lives of those watching and listening. 00:40 Please speak to our hearts through the power of Your 00:43 Holy Spirit, to bear fruit for You. 00:45 We love You. 00:46 Amen. 00:47 We've been reading in the book of Deuteronomy, and when we left 00:51 off Moses was just concluding a whole, basically a sermon 00:57 to the children of Israel, where he's reviewed with them the 00:59 history of God delivering them out of Egypt, and he's given 01:03 them warnings. 01:04 He's promised them blessings if they will remain 01:06 faithful to the Lord. 01:08 And now the Lord, speaking through Moses, has told 01:11 him to write a song for the children of Israel. 01:14 We're going to pick up on that song, and that part of the story 01:18 right now in Deuteronomy, chapter 31, 01:21 starting in verse 20. 01:23 This is the King James Version. 01:25 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware 01:29 unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they 01:33 shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; 01:36 then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, 01:39 and provoke me, and break my covenant. 01:42 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are 01:46 befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a 01:50 witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of 01:54 their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, 01:58 even now, before I have brought them into the land 02:00 which I sware. 02:01 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it 02:05 the children of Israel. 02:07 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, 02:11 Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the 02:15 children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: 02:18 and I will be with thee. 02:20 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the 02:25 words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 02:28 that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of 02:31 the covenant of the Lord, saying, take this book of the 02:34 law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the 02:37 Lord your God, that it may be there for a 02:40 witness against thee. 02:41 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, 02:46 while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been 02:49 rebellious against the Lord; and how much more 02:51 after my death? 02:52 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, 02:56 that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and 03:00 earth to record against them. 03:02 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt 03:05 yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded 03:08 you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will 03:12 do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger 03:15 through the work of your hands. 03:16 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel 03:20 the words of this song, until they were ended. 03:24 We're continuing in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 32. 03:28 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, 03:34 the words of my mouth. 03:35 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill 03:39 as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the 03:42 showers upon the grass: because I will publish the name of the 03:46 Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 03:50 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are 03:54 judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and 03:59 right is he. 04:00 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of 04:04 his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. 04:07 Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? 04:12 Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? 04:15 Hath he not made thee, and established thee? 04:18 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many 04:22 generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; 04:25 thy elders, and they will tell thee. 04:28 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, 04:31 when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the 04:35 people according to the number of the children of Israel. 04:38 For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot 04:42 of his inheritance. 04:43 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling 04:47 wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him 04:52 as the apple of his eye. 04:54 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, 04:58 spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on 05:01 her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no 05:06 strange god with him. 05:08 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, 05:11 that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him 05:14 to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 05:17 butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, 05:22 and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of 05:26 kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood 05:30 of the grape. 05:31 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, 05:35 thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he 05:39 forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock 05:44 of his salvation. 05:45 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, 05:49 with abominations provoked they him to anger. 05:51 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they 05:58 knew not, to new gods that came newly up, 06:00 whom your fathers feared not. 06:02 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, 06:05 and hast forgotten God that formed thee. 06:08 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the 06:12 provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 06:14 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their 06:18 end shall be: for they are a very forward generation, 06:22 children in whom is no faith. 06:24 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; 06:28 they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will 06:31 move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; 06:33 I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 06:37 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the 06:40 lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, 06:43 and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 06:46 I will heap mischief's upon them; I will spend 06:49 mine arrows upon them. 06:50 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, 06:54 and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of 06:58 beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 07:01 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the 07:05 young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man 07:07 of gray hairs. 07:08 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the 07:12 remembrance of them to cease from among men: were it not 07:16 that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries 07:18 should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should 07:21 say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this. 07:24 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any 07:29 understanding in them. 07:30 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they 07:34 consider their latter end! 07:36 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to 07:40 flight, except their Rock had sold them, 07:42 and the Lord had shut them up? 07:44 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies 07:47 themselves being judges. 07:49 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of 07:52 Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters 07:54 are bitter: their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel 07:58 venom of asps. 07:59 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among 08:03 my treasures? 08:04 To me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall 08:09 slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, 08:12 and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 08:14 For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for 08:18 his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, 08:21 and there is none shut up, or left. 08:23 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom 08:27 they trusted, which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, 08:30 and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise 08:32 up and help you, and be your protection. 08:35 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: 08:40 I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is 08:47 there any that can deliver out of my hand. 08:50 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 08:55 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on 08:59 judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, 09:02 and will reward them that hate me. 09:03 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall 09:07 devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the 09:11 captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 09:13 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the 09:18 blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his 09:20 adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, 09:23 and to his people. 09:24 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the 09:29 ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 09:33 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all 09:37 Israel: and he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the 09:41 words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command 09:45 your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 09:48 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: 09:53 and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, 09:56 whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. 09:58 And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, 10:03 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, 10:08 which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; 10:11 and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children 10:15 of Israel for a possession: and die in the mount whither thou 10:19 goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother 10:23 died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: 10:26 because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel 10:30 at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; 10:34 because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the 10:38 children of Israel. 10:39 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not 10:43 go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. 10:46 Continuing in Deuteronomy, chapter 33, and this is the 10:51 King James Version. 10:52 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God 10:57 blessed the children of Israel before his death. 11:00 And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir 11:04 unto them; he shined forth from Mount Paran, and he came with 11:07 ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery 11:10 law for them. 11:12 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: 11:16 and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive 11:18 of thy words. 11:19 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the 11:23 congregation of Jacob. 11:24 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people 11:28 and the tribes of Israel were gathered together. 11:30 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few. 11:34 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Lord, 11:38 the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his 11:42 hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him 11:45 from his enemies. 11:46 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with 11:51 thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom 11:55 thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; who said unto his 11:59 father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he 12:02 acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: 12:04 for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. 12:07 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: 12:10 they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice 12:14 upon thine altar. 12:15 Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: 12:20 smite through the loins of them that rise against him, 12:23 and of them that hate him, that they rise not again. 12:26 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell 12:30 in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day 12:34 long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. 12:36 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the 12:42 precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that 12:46 coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by 12:49 the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, 12:52 and for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the 12:55 precious things of the lasting hills, and for the precious 12:59 things of the earth and fullness thereof, and for the good 13:02 will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come 13:05 upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him 13:08 that was separated from his brethren. 13:10 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns 13:14 are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the 13:18 people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the 13:21 ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands 13:23 of Manasseh. 13:24 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; 13:28 and, Issachar, in thy tents. 13:31 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall 13:34 offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall 13:37 suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures 13:40 hid in the sand. 13:41 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: 13:46 he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the 13:49 crown of the head. 13:50 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, 13:53 in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with 13:56 the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the 13:59 Lord, and his judgments with Israel. 14:01 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap 14:05 from Bashan. 14:06 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, 14:10 and full with the blessing of the Lord: possess thou the 14:14 west and the south. 14:15 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; 14:19 let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his 14:22 foot in oil. 14:23 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall 14:28 thy strength be. 14:29 Until we come together again, may you go forward 14:32 in God's strength. 14:33 Goodbye. |
Revised 2014-12-17