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Life-Study of Deuteronomy

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An Introductory Word    Message 1
The Crucial Points    Message 2
A Review of the Past (1)    Message 3
I. The benefit of reviewing the past
A. Bringing us new light and new revelation
B. Helping us to know God's heart and God's hand
C. Helping us to know ourselves, to condemn the flesh, and to learn to reject the self and the flesh
II. The governing thought of reviewing the past
A. Showing God's loving heart and righteous governmental dealing
B. God's blessing requiring man's obedience and faithfulness
C. Man's heart turning away from God resulting in serious tragedy
III. The journey from the mount of God to the entry of the holy land
A. Having been equipped with the knowledge of the law
B. Having been equipped with the revelation of the tabernacle and the ark
C. Having participated in the building up of God's dwelling place on the earth
D. Having been built up as a priesthood to serve God
E. Having been formed into an army to journey and fight with God
F. Under the leading of God in the cloud
G. From the mount of Jehovah
H. To Kadesh-barnea — the entry to the holy land
I. A distance of eleven days' journey
J. Almost forty years wasted in the wandering in the wilderness
IV. The slaying of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, and Og, the king of Bashan
A. Ending the wandering of the children of Israel in the wilderness
B. Opening the gate to enter into the promised land
V. God's charge to the children of Israel to leave the mount of God
VI. The appointing of officers
A. Indicating that it was not easy to keep the condition of the children of Israel in a good order
B. To keep a good order being needed for God's dwelling and service and for fighting the enemies
C. Needing the deputy authority and the submission
VII. The failure at Kadesh-barnea
A. Because of their unbelief toward God and toward His promise
B. In spite of God's carrying them
C. All the unbelieving ones being consumed in the wilderness in the wandering of thirty-eight years
D. Only Caleb and Joshua being exceptions
E. Unbelief causing disobedience to God
A Review of the Past (2)    Message 4
VIII. The wandering from Kadesh-barnea to the crossing over of the brook Zered
A. The wandering of thirty-eight years
B. To consume man's flesh and unbelief and to manifest God's mercy and blessing
C. To consume all the unbelieving ones
D. To produce a new generation for the fulfilling of God's purpose
IX. The defeating of King Sihon and King Og and the taking possession of their lands east of the Jordan
A. The defeating of the two gate guards of the land of Canaan
B. The beginning of taking possession of the good land
C. The land taken being given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh
D. As a security to the victory and possession of the remainder of the God-promised good land
X. Moses being refused in the matter of entering into the God-promised good land, and Joshua being assigned to bring the people to possess the land as their inheritance
A. Showing God's righteous governmental administration
B. Causing the children of Israel to have more fear of God's righteous dealing
XI. Moses' hearty advice to the children of Israel
A. Like an aged, loving father to his beloved children
B. Charging the children of Israel to keep God's statutes and judgments, especially not to make idols and worship them
C. Warning them with God's judgment
D. Assuring them with God's mercy and blessing
XII. Moses setting apart three cities of refuge east of Jordan
A. The manslayer losing the right to live in the good land
B. By the cities of refuge the manslayer still having a way to live in the land
Deuteronomy—a Book Concerning Christ    Message 5
The Rehearsal of the Law (1)    Message 6
The Rehearsal of the Law (2)    Message 7
The Rehearsal of the Law (3)    Message 8
The Rehearsal of the Law (4)    Message 9
The Rehearsal of the Law (5)    Message 10
God's Choice—the Definite Ground for the Worship of God    Message 11
The Rehearsal of the Law (6)    Message 12
A Word Concerning Division and Apostasy    Message 13
The Rehearsal of the Law (7)    Message 14
The Rehearsal of the Law (8)    Message 15
The Rehearsal of the Law (9)    Message 16
C. Concerning the worship of God
1. By giving tithes of all the produce of both their cattle and their crop
a. To be offered at the place which Jehovah would choose for His habitation
b. To be eaten before God with joy
c. To be enjoyed with the Levites who lived with them
d. Learning to fear God always
2. By offering the firstborn males of the herd and of the flock
a. To be sanctified to Jehovah God
b. To be eaten before Jehovah God in the place which he would choose
c. Not sacrificing to Jehovah God any animal having a blemish, lameness, or blindness
3. By keeping the three main annual festivals
4. By not having any mixture of idolatry
a. The planting of an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah being prohibited
b. The erecting of a pillar, which Jehovah hates, being prohibited
5. By stoning to death those who transgressed God's covenant and served other gods
6. By keeping a vow to Jehovah
a. The children of Israel not delaying to pay the vow they had vowed to Jehovah their God
b. It not becoming sin in them if they refrained from vowing
c. Keeping and doing what proceeded out of their lips
7. By offering some of the first of all the fruit of the good land after entering it and possessing it as an inheritance
a. The children of Israel bringing some of the first of all the fruit from their land and taking it to the place where Jehovah would choose to cause His name to dwell
b. Going to the serving priest and making a declaration to Jehovah their God
c. The priest taking the offering and placing it before the altar of Jehovah their God, and the children of Israel responding and relating their history before Him
d. They, the Levites, and the sojourners among them rejoicing in all the good which Jehovah their God had given to them
The Rehearsal of the Law (10)    Message 17
D. Concerning the government among the people
1. The appointing of judges and officers
a. In all the cities according to the tribes
b. To keep justice
c. To pursue righteousness
2. The judgment of a complicated civil suit
a. The case being brought to the place which Jehovah God would choose
b. The case being investigated and judged by the Levitical priest and the judge
c. The people doing according to the word of the sentence declared by the priest and the judge
d. The one not listening to the priest or to the judge being put to death
3. The setting of a king over the people
a. The king being a brother chosen by God
b. The king not amassing horses to himself by turning the people back to Egypt
c. The king not amassing wives to himself, so that his heart would not turn aside
d. The king not to amass silver and gold to himself in great amounts
e. The king writing out for himself a copy of the law in a book and reading in it all the days of his life
f. The king's heart not being lifted up above his brothers
4. The judgment of any iniquity or any sin
a. To be done at the word of two or three witnesses
b. A malicious witness rising up against a man
c. The judges investigating thoroughly
d. The children of Israel doing to the false witness as he intended to do to his brother
e. The evil being utterly removed from the midst of the children of Israel
f. Those who remained hearing and fearing and never again doing anything like that evil
g. Their eye not pitying
5. The judgment of one who murdered a man, the slain one being found in the field in the good land
a. The elders and judges going out and measuring the distance to the cities that surrounded the slain man
b. The elders of the city that was nearest the slain man bringing a heifer to a river valley and there breaking its neck
c. The priests, the sons of Levi, drawing near, and by their word every dispute and every assault being settled
d. All the elders of the nearest city washing their hands over the broken heifer, declaring their innocence, and praying for Jehovah to cover his people Israel
e. The guilt of the innocent blood being utterly removed from the midst of Israel
The Rehearsal of the Law (11)    Message 18
The Rehearsal of the Law (12)    Message 19
The Rehearsal of the Law (13)    Message 20
The Rehearsal of the Law (14)    Message 21
The Rehearsal of the Law (15)    Message 22
N. Concerning taking care of others' interests
1. An Israelite not neglecting his brother's straying ox or sheep but returning them to his brother
2. The brother not being nearby or not being known and an israelite bringing the straying ox or sheep to his own house until his brother demanded it
3. An Israelite not neglecting his brother's donkey, clothing, or any of his brother's lost things
4. An Israelite not neglecting his brother's donkey or ox which had fallen by the way
5. When building a new house, an Israelite making a low wall around the edge of his roof
O. Concerning mixtures of any kind
1. A woman not putting on a man's belongings, and a man not wearing a woman's garment
2. An Israelite not sowing his vineyard with two kinds of seed
3. An Israelite not plowing with an ox and a donkey together
4. An Israelite not wearing clothing of mixed materials
5. An Israelite making twisted cords upon the four corners of his garment
P. Sparing the producing animals
1. An Israelite coming upon a bird's nest and not taking the mother with the young
2. An ox not being muzzled while it treads out grain
Q. Concerning the losing of the right to enter the congregation of Jehovah
1. He who had been wounded in the testicles or had the male organ cut off not entering the congregation of Jehovah
2. An illegitimate child not entering the congregation of Jehovah, even to the tenth generation
3. An Ammonite or Moabite not entering the congregation of Jehovah, even to the tenth generation
4. The children of Israel not abhorring an Edomite nor an Egyptian
The Rehearsal of the Law (16)    Message 23
Warning (Implying Grace) (1)    Message 24
Warning (Implying Grace) (2)    Message 25
II. The children of Israel listening diligently to the voice of Jehovah their God and doing all His commandments, and Jehovah setting them high above all the nations, and all the blessings coming upon them and overtaking them
A. Being blessed in the city and in the field
B. Blessed being the fruit of their womb, of their ground, and of their animals, the offspring of their cattle and the young of their flock
C. Being blessed in their coming in and in their going out
D. Being blessed in their storehouses, in all their undertakings, and in the God-given land
E. Jehovah striking down their enemies
F. Jehovah establishing them as a holy people to Himself
G. Jehovah giving them rain for their land in its season
H. Jehovah making them the head and not the tail
III. The children of Israel not listening to the voice of Jehovah their God and not doing all His commandments and His statutes, and all the curses coming upon them and overtaking them
A. Curses coming to every place, on everything, and in every way
B. Curses in discomfiture in all undertakings, in a plague, in consuming diseases, in burning heat and drought, and in blight and mildew
C. Curses in the heaven above their head becoming brass, in the land under their feet becoming iron, and in the rain becoming powder and dust
D. Curses in being struck down before their enemies
E. Curses in being brought to a nation as a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples
F. Curses in their enemies coming to eat the produce of their cattle and the fruit of their ground and to besiege all their towns
G. Curses coming in great and persistent plagues, in malignant and persistent sicknesses, and in all the illnesses of Egypt to reduce them in number
H. Curses in being scattered among all the peoples, in living a life in captivity, and in being brought back to Egypt
Christ in Deuteronomy—the Monument, the Altar, and the Offerings    Message 26
The Enactment of the Covenant    Message 27
The Final Exhortation and Charges    Message 28
The Song of Moses    Message 29
The Blessing of Moses and the Death of Moses, and His Successor    Message 30
I. The blessing of Moses
A. The introductory word
B. The blessing
1. Concerning Reuben
2. Concerning Judah
3. Concerning Levi
a. Jehovah's Thummim and Urim being with His godly men
b. Levi showing Jacob Jehovah's judgments and Israel His law
c. Jehovah blessing His might and accepting the work of his hands
4. Concerning Benjamin
5. Concerning Joseph
a. His land being blessed of Jehovah
b. Having majesty, and his horns being the horns of the wild ox
6. Concerning Zebulun and Issachar
7. Concerning Gad
8. Concerning Dan
9. Concerning Naphtali
10. Concerning Asher
C. The Concluding word
1. There being no one like the God of Jeshurun
2. The God of old being their habitation
3. Driving out the enemy before them
4. Israel dwelling securely
5. Israel being happy
II. The death of Moses, and his successor
A. The death of Moses
1. Jehovah telling Moses to go up to the mountain of Abarim, Mount Nebo, and see the land of Canaan, and die in the mountain
2. Seeing the land from a distance
3. Moses going up to Mount Nebo, and Jehovah showing him the land
4. Moses dying there in the land of Moab according to the word of Jehovah
5. Moses being a hundred twenty years old when he died
6. The children of Israel weeping for Moses
B. The successor of Moses
1. Joshua being filled with the spirit of wisdom
2. There not having arisen a prophet since then in Israel like Moses
III. The four particular matters implied in deuteronomy
A. God's governmental dealing
B. Israel's stubbornness
C. Moses' character
D. Christ's uniqueness
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