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
A Review of the Past (2) Message 4
Deuteronomy—a Book Concerning Christ Message 5
The Rehearsal of the Law (1) Message 6
I. For the training of the new generation after the purging of the old generation through their wandering of thirty-eight years in the wilderness
II. The rehearsing of the ten commandments
A. The ten commandments being the covenant God made with Israel at Horeb
B. The ten commandments as the base of the entire law
1. The first commandment
2. The second commandment
3. The third commandment
4. The fourth commandment
5. The fifth commandment
6. The sixth commandment
7. The seventh commandment
8. The eighth commandment
9. The ninth commandment
10. The tenth commandment
III. The general advices and warnings
A. Keeping the commandments, statutes, and judgments of God
B. Loving Jehovah their God and keeping, teaching, and writing his words
C. In their enjoyment remembering Jehovah, fearing him, serving him, and not going after other gods
D. Not testing Jehovah their God, diligently keeping His commandments, testimonies, and statutes, and doing that which is right and good in His sight
E. Telling them what to say to the son who asks about the significance of the testimonies, statutes, and judgments
The Rehearsal of the Law (2) Message 7
F. Utterly destroying all the nations, not making any covenant with them, not making marriage alliances with them, tearing down their altars, shattering their pillars, and burning their idols
G. Realizing that Jehovah their God is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with those who love Him and keep His commandments
H. Not being afraid of the nations but remembering that which Jehovah their God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt
I. Keeping the whole commandment which Moses gave them so that they might live and multiply and might enter and possess the promised land
J. Keeping the commandments of Jehovah their God, walking in His ways and fearing Him
K. Being careful lest they forget Jehovah their God by not keeping His commandments, judgments, and statutes
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
The Rehearsal of the Law (10) Message 17
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
The Rehearsal of the Law (16) Message 23
Warning (Implying Grace) (1) Message 24
I. Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanding the people to keep the whole commandment which he was commanding them that day
A. The people erecting large stones on Mount Ebal, coating them with plaster, and writing upon them all the words of the law
B. Building to Jehovah their God an altar of stones and offering up burnt offerings upon it to him, sacrificing peace offerings, eating there, and rejoicing before him
C. Israel, having become the people of Jehovah their God, listening to His voice and doing His commandments and His statutes
D. Moses commanding that six of the tribes should stand upon Mount Gerizim to bless the people and that six tribes should stand upon Mount Ebal for cursing
E. The Levites responding
F. The ones who were to be cursed
G. The children of Israel, being fallen in nature, not measuring up to keep the commandments, statutes, and judgments of their God
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
I. The introductory word
A. A covenant besides the covenant God made with the people at Horeb
B. Based upon the experiences of the past
1. All that the children of Israel saw which Jehovah did in the land of Egypt with great signs and wonders
2. All that they had experienced in the wilderness
3. Slaying Sihon, the king of Heshbon, and Og, the king of Bashan, and taking their land
C. The objects and the purpose of the enactment of the covenant
1. The objects
2. The purpose
a. For the children of Israel to enter into a covenant with Jehovah their God and into His oath
b. For God to establish the children of Israel as His people and Himself as their God
II. The contents of the covenant
A. There not being among the children of Israel any man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turned away from Jehovah their God, to go and serve the gods of the nations, and there not being among them a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood
B. The following generation of Israel and the foreigner coming from a distant land, seeing the plagues of the land and its diseases
C. The children of Israel, while living among the nations, returning to Jehovah their God and listening to His voice with all their heart and with all their soul, and He turning their captivity
III. The concluding word
A. The commandment which Moses was commanding the children of Israel not being too difficult for them, nor being distant
B. Moses putting before the children of Israel life and good, and death and evil
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