The Study Of Deuteronomy

Gracius Strother, We thank you tonight for your goodness, your

mercy and your kindness. Thank you because you're good to

us and you're good all the time, and we bless

you tonight. We think you for this night of studying.

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and I'll just bring them Sunday when we're together. What

I'm hoping to do is to get you. It's about

one hundred and thirty two pages, and I have it

spiral bound so that if you are if you miss

Bible study, you still will be able to follow through

what we're following through. But it is an intensive and

it is also a method where you can take notes

as well as, like I said, you can follow along.

You will need your Bible because what we're going to do,

I'm going to give you some background and hopefully I

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I'll still try. Okay, if we're doing the Book of Deuteronomy,

and the reason why we're doing the Book of Deuteronomy

is because that's what the Lord told me to do.

But I'm going to give you guys some background. But

we're actually going to be using the Bible. So I

want us to get used to using the Bible because

we're actually going to use the Bible. And this is

actually going to be Bible study. It's not going to

be a uh cheerleading session. It's going to be Bible studies.

So you will need the notes. But when you get

a copy of what I have, it will help you.

It's spiral bound to write your notes because what I

have found board get your Bible. What I have found

out is and I have been amazed by this, especially

these last few days. I've been amazed by the fact

that everything in the New Testament is actually fulfilled in

the New Testament, and I actually see it. So they're

gonna be some things that in Deuteronomy are archaic, meaning

they don't apply to today, but they will help us

to understand Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, the other books in

the Bibles. That's the good thing about this particular Bible study.

The Deuteronomy is a part of the Penter took, and

I know these are gonna be heavy words. Pinder took

and spelled p e n t a t e u

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a t e u c h. And the pincer took

deals with the first five books of the Bible. And

all of us should know first five books of the

Bible Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Then it takes over,

Joshua takes over. And when Joshua takes over, it changes

the whole leadership. But the Bible is one book. It

starts from Genesis, the creation of man, and it goes

on down. So it is one book. It's not a

bunch of books. Is one book. When we deal with

as we deal with the Pentertook, we're dealing with the

first five books of the Bible, and they are the

books that are written by Most. Okay, they are the

books that are written by married Phone.

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So we deal with the first five books of the

Bible with all the books that are written by Moses,

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have access to actually mute them. Okay. So with that,

there you go. Okay. So with that, what's going to

happen is as we look at these first five books

of the Bible, you're going to know how to actually

interpret the whole Bible. Because once you know basic things,

it will open you up to other things. Okay, So

that's that's the So Deuteronomy is the is the is

the fifth book of the pedative. But it is also

called the Torah t o r a h the Torah.

The Torah is the books of the Law. And you

may hear a lot of Old Testament people uh saying

the Torah the us. The Jewish people only have five books.

So the Jewish religion, which is totally different from Christianity,

only has five books. The Jewish Bible only deals with Genesis, Exodus,

Leviticus numbers Deuteronomy. So with that, when we look at

the Torah, we're talking about the first five books, and

we're talking about the story of the children of Israel

coming out of bondage into a place of freedom. I'll

go ahead and tell you, and some people you know

hate it when you when you when you hit the

best part. But I will tell you it is in

Deuteronomy that they actually cross over into the Promised Land.

But let's do a few things. I want to give

you the definition of the word covenant covenant, and you

need to write these things down because a covenant is

a formal agreement or promise between two or more parties

to do a specific action. I'll say that again. A

covenant is a formal agreement, and I underline agreement or promise,

and your underlying promise between two or more parties to

do a specific action. And some people call it a contract,

some people call it an agreement. Most covenants are sealed

in blood, and our covenant is sealed in blood. And

I think that's very important because our church name is

Covenant Church. So I think it's very essential for us

to understand what a covenant is. It is a formal

agreement between two parties, and it's usually sealed in blood.

But it's also a promise between two or more parties

to do something specific. God promises he's going to do something,

we agree to it, and so once we agree, we

are now in covenant, the covenant of marriage. Two people

get together and they say, we promised to love, to

cherish and sickness, and in hell, that's a covenant, Okay.

So it is agreement. And what you see from Genesis, Exodust,

Leviticus numbers Douteronomy, you're going to see that what God

is doing is he is constantly making a covenant. Other

words for covenant are agreement. Other words for agreement are testament.

So God is constantly making a covenant. He's constantly making

agreement with his people, and he's constantly making agreement with us.

He's constantly promising to do something if we would do something.

And that's what you're gonna see in the Book of Deuteronomy,

and you will see in the Torah, the first five

books of the Bible. Okay, So with that, I also

need to give you the information that there are one thousand,

four hundred and fifty idols in Israel during Bible times.

One thousand, four hundred and fifty idols in Israel. So

when the Lord tells them to tear down an idol

and build an altar, it is a serious thing. It's

not just something simple. They're over one thousand, four hundred

and fifty and we have to think about this from

the mindset of the Bible. That's a lot. That's a

lot in one geographical area today in the United States,

if I told you there were one thousand, four hundred

and fifty idols, you wouldn't be surprised. But that's that's

a lot of idols. And God's problem with them was

he brought them out of idle worship, just for them

to keep continuing the same pattern. If you're writing notes,

you should write God does not want us to continue patterns.

Cycles have to be broken. Patterns have to be broken,

Habits have to be broken, Attitudes have to be broken.

And that's even in the Bible. He wants us to

break cycles, habits. Sometimes you have to disconnect from people.

Sometimes you have to disconnect. And we're going to see

that later on in Deuteronomy, because well, I'm sure the

preachers on him may know. God has a big problem

with Moab. Moab. He has a big problem with Moab.

He tells people letter On, He tells the man, don't

marry a more bite woman. He tells people, when you

go into app make sure you don't connect yourself with

the more app people. The problem with that is this,

everybody in the Bible is related to each other. Now

I've told you this before. When Jacob gets married, he

marries two women. He marries Rachel and he marries Leah.

Those are his cousins. Because from the beginning of Genesis

all the way to the end, and y'all might have problems,

all of us is related. So we're all related we're

all connected, We're all joined together some kind of way.

It is not until you start getting into the second, third,

and fourth generation that you start to see that the

relationship line gets broader. Okay, the second thing I need

to tell you is we need to mention that when

God gives this commission for Moses to get the children

of Israel out of Egypt, he also uses a man

by the name of Aaron, And we want to go

ahead and establish that Aaron a A r N Aaron

is the brother of Moses, because Moses feels inadequate. Moses

feels like I can't speak. Moses feels like I'm not

as smart as some other folks. Moses feels like I'm

not as qualified as some other folk. So what ends

up happening is Aaron, the brother of Moses, helps him.

But something happens in the end. And what happens in

the end is Aaron messes up. He makes a golden cow.

And when he makes a golden cow, that's why people

will say now and they get upset. They say people

have problems, or certain groups of people have problems with

gold ear rings, with wearing gold, with wearing gold and

necklaces because what he did was while Moses was in

preparation up talking to God, the people come to him

and they say to him, we want a God. We

want a god we can touch, we want a God

we can feel, we want a God that we can see.

And when he says this, he starts to listen to

the people. And it is encumbering on our leadership that

we not listen to people, because people will talk you

into doing stuff that is against the will of God.

So Aaron takes say give me your goal. I ring

give me your goal. Change, give me all your goal,

and he melts all of the goal and formulates it

into a cow. Now he formulates it into a cow

because the god, the famous god of that time, was

a bull. It was the look the image of a bull.

And with it being an image of a bull, he

was just duplicating it because it was something that was

already common to everybody in Israel. Okay, so those those

are kind of like our our brief They're gonna be

some more so Genesis, because because I want to get

you to Thudonomy. Genesis is the book of beginnings, and

the word Genesis itself means beginnings. It is the first murder.

It is the first marriage, it is the first job,

it is the first temptation. So all first are in

the book of Genesis. So Genesis is the book of beginnings.

It is the birth of the generation and the beginning

of all men. We see the creation of the whole

white world, the first man, and then it goes from there.

But again, it is a continuous story. Is not different

people in Exous, different people in Louke, different people in Matthew.

It's a continuous story. These are our ancestors. This is

where we all of us came from Adam. And that's

important because all of us have the same promises of Abraham.

The promises that are made to Abraham and Genesis are

fulfilled in Deuteronomy, are fulfilled in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.

What God said he was gonna do for David, he's

doing for us. I said he's gonna do for Abraham.

He's doing for us. Well, God said he was going

to give us, He's giving us. So we have the

promises of Abraham, the promises of David, the promises of Moses.

And that's very important to know. Okay, the second thing

is Exodus. Exodus is just what it says it's an

exit out of Egypt, and Egypt, in case somebody does

not know, is in Africa. So it is our exodus

from Africa to the Promised Land. Now what is chilling

is they get to a place called kardsh Barana Kadesh Barana,

and they get there four times more times they were

on the break of going into the Promised Land and

missed it. So exodus is the exit. It's the way

out of Egypt. It's where God is revealing to the

people they can be free, they no longer have to

be in bondage. It's where God the best word for exodus,

if you're trying to remember it, when one word is freedom.

But they don't make it to the Promised Land until Deuteronomy.

And that's why we're studying Deuteronomy, because that's when they

make it to the Promised Land. But then God says

to them in Deuteronomy, you can't do this in the

promise of the land. You can't take this attitude of

the Promised Land. You can't do this. The wilderness is

a buffer. So whenever God allows you personally to go

through a wilderness, what he's really doing is is he's

trying to get some things out of you before you

receive your promise. So the wilderness is a buffer. God's

trying to get some stuff out of you before he

takes you into your promise. Then you have Leviticus. Leviticus

is the guidebook for teaching God's people about holy living.

To us, a lot of that will be archaic, but

it is the guide book that teaches us about holy living.

It is where we find the rules for the woman

in the New Testament with the issual blood. If a

woman has the issual blood, she's not to send on

her stool, and she sits on her stool, nobody can

sit on the stool after her. If a woman has

the issual blood and she lays in the bed, nobody

can lay in the bed with her, beside her or

after her. Because all of that was considered unclean. It

was it was they didn't Things that they didn't understand

will unclean, leprosy, unclean, today age unclean. Things that they

had no control of or no understanding were considered unclean.

And by the same token, what was happening is stuff

that they could not control. They figured that God was punishing.

We don't take the stance to believe God allowed age

as a punishment. We don't take the stance of God

allowed leprosy for punishment. Now let me go, let me

go back, because there is one case that can prove

that leprosy is a judgment. When Moses gets ready to

get mad, he gets married to a black woman. His

sister Miriam gets upset and goes and confronts Moses, and

God strikes her with leprosy. And the Bible says, from

that point on, she is what we call white, because

you don't we don't know white people. We think we

know white people, but we don't know white people. Very

seldom do you see a white person. You see pink people,

you see people that are shades of white, but a

true white person is really white. And normally that is

from Miriam, a curse of leprosy because she came against

the man of God and try to correct him. So

white people, they used to teach being black as a curse,

I will tell you, according to the Bible, being white

as a curse. Also in that same note, if you

look around the world, three fourths of the whole white

world is our color. Indians are color Africans. Maybe a

little bit darker, but most of them are our color.

So understand, don't ever let anybody tell you black folk

are cursed. We're not cursed. He cursed Miriam and she

became according to the scripture, she became white. Okay. So'

and I mean when I say white, I don't mean

like we see people today. I mean very very like

like the like the color white, because most of us

are not black or white, if you notice it. Okay,

all right, So numbers is the other part of the book.

Numbers recurds is what's experienced, what journeying through the wilderness.

So this is where we see the wilderness was going on.

That's right, you find numbers recourse isra's experience, what journeying

through the wilderness. The people's disobedience, their lack of faith,

how they accused God. It made them wonder in the desert.

And you might as well go ahead and know now

it was a result of murmuring and complaining. They stayed

in the wilderness. Remember, and somebody should write this in

the notes. It is eleven eleven day journey, but they

stay out there for forty years. I mean, excuse me,

forty days, forty years a punishment for an eleven day journey.

They keep going around in circles, and that should say

to us from the psychological perspective, that should say to

us that when you see a person going round and

round the same cycles that we were talking about in

the beginning, that's normally proof that a person is out

of the will of God. They're murmuring, they're complaining, they're

not accepting the will of God. God wants us to

accept his will. We see it in the New Testament,

and we can understand scripture better because it says, not

my will, but God will be done. That's what God

wanted from Israel in the Old Testament, and they wouldn't

do it. And then finally to Deuteronomy, Douuronomy is it's

rich to God's people when they entered the promised Land.

I'm gonna go ahead and let you know, three generations

die before they get to the promised land. Three whole

generations die before they get to the Promised Land. Okay,

and that's because that God had to allow them to

die off they did not inherit or see the promise.

But we also want to correct the fact that when

Moses didn't make it to the Promised Land. Yes he did.

Moses made it to the Promised Land, but he was

not allowed to enter the Promised Land. But what God

said to him from the beginning was take the people

of Israel. Two he didn't say, intrue to the Promised Land. Okay.

Moses is basically, for our understanding, Moses is the pastor,

he's the prophet, he's the shepherd, he's the leader, he's

the head of the church, the people, and there are

some six million people following Moses. Six millions, so it's

the largest church we've ever seen in the world. And

he's taking them from one place to another. So this

is a lesson about how you move people. Before you

can move them physically, you got to be able to

move them mentally. Before you can move them physically, you

got to be able to move them spiritually. Okay. So

with that, uh, if you would open your bibles and

this is I'm gonna the Bible that I'm using is

going to read slightly different, but it's I promise you

it is the Bible. Chapter one is where we're going.

This is God giving them the command to enter Cana

And somebody, please tell me when ten minutes is up

so we can have questions in the last fifteen minutes.

So Israel is God's chosen people. Israel is also us

even today, Israel is God's chosen people. That's why we

should be nervous about everything that's going on across seas,

because they're God's chosen people. They walk in the same

land that Jesus walked in, they talk in the same

area that Jesus talked in, they get baptized in the

same at the Willing Wall. All those things we see

in the Bible are still there today. So Israel is

God's prosen chosen people. And we are spiritual Israel. Though

we were not born in Israel, we are spiritual Israel,

meaning that is our heritage. There is a difference between

the jew and the Christian, but Moses is accepted in

the Christian religion as well as in the Jewish religion.

So Moses's name means in the Hebrew drawn out, drawn out.

We know his experiences. He sees a bush that's burning

with fire, and Pastor Marcus, we've got to make sure

we preach this correctly, because some people, when they preach it,

they don't give the intensity the fire is burning. The bush.

But what gets Moses' attention is the bush does not

burn up. The fire burns, but the bush is not

on fire. The fire is just in the bush. It's

just he can see the fire, and so he turns aside.

Because it is common in the wilderness to see fires.

Tumba weeds they catch on fire, so it was common

to see a fire, it was not common to see

a bush burning and not burning up. So it gets

Moe's attention. Then out of that he hears the voice

of the Lord. And I'm here to tell everybody's on

the Bible studdy of the night, anybody who may be listening,

I'm here to tell you you're getting ready to enter a

period with God where you're going to hear see his

voice everywhere. God uses everything. He uses the wind, he

uses the thunder, he uses the snow, he uses the

red birds, the blue birds. And if you are sensitive

to hearing God, you will hear or see Him in

every aspect of nature. People used to laugh. We went

to see Purple Rain back in the day, and we

were in there shouting. Because God will speak to you,

even through movies, even through television shows, even through people

that are not saved, God will speak to you. And

I want everybody to understand that God is getting ready

to heighten your sensitivity so that you're going to hear

and see God. Because there are many manifestations of God

that we've never experienced, that we've never paid any attention to.

So that's a new phase of your life where you're

getting ready to hear Him. And sometimes we have to

make our hearing more sensitive to him because sometimes he's

speaking and we're going past it because we think, oh,

that's just me talking, or that's just my stomach talking,

or that's just my mama talking. But you have to

be sensitive to the voice of the Lord because he

uses everything in order to speak. So Chapter one, these

are the words which Moses spoken to all Israel. And

hopefully you have your Bible on this side of the Jordan,

in the wilderness and the plane over against the Red

Sea between Paran tofal and Levan and Hazardth and desert

have So God is now speaking to the whole generation.

And excuse but he's using Moses to speak. This is

Moses' third time because two generations have already died off.

So now he's speaking again to a general, a new generation.

And I used to wonder why we have had to

repeat things at our church. It's because sometimes one generation

dies off and you haven't introduced God to the next generation.

So he's introducing them. So when he does this, he's

actually getting ready to release the Second Law. I would

say to you, anything that God says, he says it

more than once. He may say it a different way,

he may use a different person, but he always anything

that's important, he's going to reiterate. So Moses in the

previous book has come down with the ten Commandments, his

brother Aaron, has listened to his brother Aaron, who is

the assistant investor, has listened to the people and has

formulated a cow. And one of the commandments on the

tablet says thou should have no other God before me.

He throws the tablets down and he breaks the ten Commandments.

So here in Deuteronomy, we're going to see God again

because the tablets were different. It wasn't something Moses created.

It was like the bell of a temple. God did

it because what he did was he etched on stone

what he wanted to say, and Moses just brought it down.

So God again is going to have to etch in

stone what he wants to say. Verse two says there

are eleven days. This is it bears the fact that

this is an eleven day journey from horror now horror

in your Bible. You should take horror and you should

draw a line. When you get this Bible study book,

you'll be able to do it in here because it

has the Bible on the left. It has place for

notes on the right. But Horror is Mount Sinai. They're

the same place. And it's important that we know that

Sinai is Horror because Horror is where God gave the

law the first time Sinai mount Sinai, mount Horror by

the way of Mount seer unto kordesh Barana. In the

inner that second verse, what you should know is kdessh

Barana is less than three hundred miles from the Promised Land.

It's less than less than The whole passage helps us

to understand that geographically from Egypt to the Promised Land,

it's two hundred and fifty miles. So they're walking two

hundred and fifty miles and it takes them forty years

when it should have only taken them eleven days. And

of course today we don't want to walk nowhere, we

would drive. But in Bible days they didn't have Christ

Loers and Bury and Mercedes, so walking was their normal

way of getting to a place. So it's not anything strange.

First three says, and it came to pass in the

fortieth year, so forty years. And in the eleventh month

forty years, eleven months, and on the first of the

month that Moses spoken to the children of Israel, according

to all that the Lord had given him in the

commandments unto them. And you need to underline the word commandment,

because God does not just speak in commandments. We have

ten commandments. The Jewish faith has six hundred and twelve laws,

so if they want to be a good Jew they

have to do six hundred and twelve laws that they

have to obey. But you got the commandments, you got

the six hundred and twelve laws, you got the Bible,

and you have the word of God that comes or

proceeds out of the mouth of God. And there you

should have thought about the scripture. Man should not live

by read a law, but by every word that precedes

out of the mouth of God. So when God speaks,

he's not just speaking through the Commandments. He's not just

speaking through the laws. He's not just speaking through the Bible.

He can speak audibly. He can speak through the wind,

he can speak through the rain. So you have to

be sensitive to hear his voice. Verse four says after

he had slain Siam, the king of the Amorites, which

dwell in Hespond, and all the king of Bashah, which

dealt at Astrat in Ederra, this is dealing with Moses.

Moses has conquered the king because while all of these

people are connected, they broke off and fragmented into other people.

And what ended up happening is some of the other groups,

once they broke off, they got their own identity, and Israel,

although they were kin to them, became their enemies. And

it's like people in our life who all of a

sudden come our enemies, and we don't know why, or

they don't agree with what we agree with, so all

of a sudden, what they do is they become our enemies. Okay.

Verse five says, on this side of Jordan, in the

land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying

you should circle mo Ab because Moab is going to

be a very important place in our lesson. Remember I

say in the beginning Moab. God has something against Moab

because Moab not only broke off from Israel became their enemy.

They sneak attacked them, They attacked them. Everybody else attacked

them face to face. Moab snuck up on them and

attack them from the back. So God puts a curse

on Moab. However, Moab is related to the children of Israel,

because all of these people are related. Remember what I

said verse six. So the Lord, our God spoke unto

us in horror, so he's reminding them. The Lord spoke

to us at Sinai. He gave us a tinkermandmage. But

he said to them, you have dwelt here in bondage

too long, and on the notes that you're gonna get

us as horror as a place where the commanders who

were given and the name means a dry place or

a glowing heat. I will end and open up for

questions at verse six by telling you God was the

fire in the bush that Moses heard. God was the fire.

It was not just a fire, It was God himself

in the bush. But the bush did not get consumed.

Later in this book, we're going to see that God

can be a consuming fire, meaning not only can God

occupy a bush and speak out of the fire, God

also can consume the person. He can burn the person up,

He can burn your life up. Because God is and

you heard this for years, but I want you to

know where this stuff comes from. God is, and you

should write this in your notes. God is a consuming fire.

But when God is a consuming fire, he is bringing judgment.

We want the fire that burns in the bush that

speaks to us so we know God. We don't want

to be at the end of the consuming fire, because

the consuming fire is the judgment of God. Okay, so

we're gonna stop at verse seven because at verse seven,

Moses is he has them right on the promised land.

If I was saying this tonight to you, I was saying,

you get your only two steps from your promise. You're

right on the brink of your miracle. But before he

does that, he's got to say some things. He's got

to get them ready because they want the fire that

burns in the bush and not the consuming fire. And

if we were balancing it with the New Testament, we

would say this, no, ye, not judgment. Begins in the

house of God. God never does anything without a warning,

never does anything without speaking to us. And that's not

for us to be afraid of him. That's not for

us to be scared of him. That is for us

to understand how God works. The scripture says to take commandments.

Say God is a jealous God. He doesn't want to

share us with anybody. He doesn't want us to have

our attention on anything other than him. We'll open the lines,

Lady Howard, will open the lines so that people who

may have questions about what I've taught can get it.

The lines are open. If you have questions, you can

raise your hand, or you can just speak. It may

be don't be afraid. It may be a question that

somebody else has too, or something to help you understand.

Everybody has to unmute themselves. It won't let me use them.

You have to unmut yourself. Ask questions. Nobody has any questions.

I say God had a problem because say that against Chad.

Okay, you said God had a problem Moa because of

the Idol worship and because he snuck attack the children

of Israel, and he was part of the children of Israel.

Yeah, it's a group of people. Whenever we see these

names like Moab, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Purchase Sights,

all of those are part of the twelve original Sons

of Israel. But what happens is they become the enemy

of each other. And when Moabs group came out, instead

of them facing Israel and fighting them face to face

like a family fight, they would sneak attack. And when

they would sneak attack, it may God bring judgment on them.

So God says, don't marry a mobile woman. God said,

you know, don't dwell in more Ab because more Ab

was one of those groups that turned away from God

and all of them started becoming great heavy idol worshipers. Okay,

thank you, thank you. Yes, you're sending to welcome other questions.

And I want us to understand the Bible. I don't

want us just to be reading it. I want us

to understand it. And I promise you, as we go deeper,

this is going to help you to understand the New Testament.

Why God says this, Why God told Moses this to God?

Tell Peter this, Why did God say this to Paul?

You will understand it as we go along. If you

stick with me. But like I said, we're going to

have a guide that you'll still be able to follow

us even when you can't be on here. If if

you have to miss a week or something, you'll still

be able to follow. Other questions, no questions. I'm trying

to see if I got my question people on here? Yeah,

no other questions, Yes, James Jen The answer is yes. Basically,

it's a study of Deuteronomy because we want to study

the Book of Deuteronomy, because I promise you the more

knowledge you have of the I think that shouting is good.

I think there screaming is good. But if we don't

know how to interpret the Bible and make it applicable

to our own lives, we miss the essence. You just

hear a preacher say turn here, and you don't know

what they're talking about. It's going to be important that

we know. Like we just said about Moab, the sons

of it's a car, who are they? Why are they

in our Bible? Because they're not just mentioned in the

Old Testament, they're mentioned in the New Testament. They grow

out and they start to expand. So we need to

know all of these groups and know why they're in

our Bible. So basically, this is a study of Deuteronomy

so that we can understand the entire Bible, and we'll,

you know, we'll keep going down. And I'm trying to

make it so simplistic that even if our young people

get on here, they will be able to understand it.

What's the title the book Apossible? The Study of Goodiful?

What book the God? Oh, it's one that I made.

Howard has seen it and she can vouch for it.

It's one that I made because what it does is

it puts the Bible down. I already have notes on here,

but it also helps you to expand your notes. Is

what it's going to do is it's gonna make you think,

if you if you do your work outside of us

being here together for an hour, if you do your work,

it's going to help you understand the whole entire Bible.

Because it has notes. That's some kind of way I

can put it up. But I don't know all that

how to do all that. But it has notes. It

defines because when anytime you study in the Bible, you

want to know what a name mean, what his name

Moses mean. Everybody should know. Its drawn out. Why does

God call him drawn out? Drawn out? Is he was

in the river and God picked him up. I'll give

you another example, and that I let minister Howard talk.

If you would look in the Book of Genesis, because

I'm doing Genesis like I'm doing Deuteronomy now. In the

Book of Genesis it says that there was a river

that went through the garden of Eton, and it went

in four different directions. What we should take from something

like that is this God intends for us to be successful.

That everybody listening tonight has four streams of income because

each one of those streams went into a different place.

So not only to teach you what the Bible says,

but to teach you revelation and how to interpret the Bible,

and how to know what is saying and not take

somebody else's word for it, Lady Howard.

Yes, sir Bishop. So my question is we know that

Moses grew up in Pharaoh's house. Is his first encounter

with God although his mother was an Israelite? Is his

first encounter with God with the bush? In seeing the bush?

I mean his first one? Is that his first knowledge

of God is what I'm saying, or had he been

taught in that way, in the way.

His first knowledge of the true and living God is

the bush the pharaoh's house. And please let me tell

you and everybody's your this in your notes. Pharaoh is

not a person. It's a system. It's a system of

bondage you oppressed, to keep you down, to keep you

mentally drained. That's what a pharaoh is. A pharaoh in

Israel is like a king. Okay, he's just like a king.

So he's in charge of the land. However, remember I

keep telling you there are Moses encounters three different pharaoh rameses,

and we'll go through all that later three. But his

first encounter is he grows up in the house of

the pharaoh. God allows him to grow up in the

house of his enemies, to learn how they act, to

talk like they talk, to live like they live. But

then he's going to have to leave them because he

hears the voice of God that says, now leave them

and go back and save your people. So he's a liberator,

he's a shepherd, he's a prophet, he's a priest. And

now he's been given his assignment. His assignment is out.

But God gave him the background knowledge to know how

things work in Pharaoh's house. That's unique, but I can.

Let's put that with life. Each one of you don't

even realize it. The assignment that God has for your

life is based on what you've been living. I worked

at Salem College, and when I got there, I had

to do job descriptions. I had to do all of

this stuff. I'm like, Lord Jesus, I got this job.

I thought this job was going to be wonderful, but

the Lord knew I was going to need to know

how to be a pastor. I learned how to be

a pastor working at Salem College. And I promise you

whatever your feel of expert, he says, God is preparing

you for your spiritual assignment. You just don't know it.

He teaches you, and you don't know you've been taught.

Most didn't know he was being taught. But he's on

the backside of medium for forty years. But Moses keeps

having to go through these forty year preparations. We don't

have time in our land to go through forty years

of preparation. Hopefully I answered your question. You did bishuh,

thank you? Okay, I have.

One yes, yeah, darl I got a question on the

doom the book of You went back.

When you're going.

Back and you're talking about the three generations, who are

the three generations?

The three generations are all people from that that like us.

The child Israel, but dies because they won't listen. The

last part I say, broach generation dies out because they

won't listen. And we don't want to be part of

a generation that dies out because we're not listening to God.

Right this and this is the third generation. The third

generation enters into the Promised Land because Moses, Moses has

to go back and tell them because you questioned God,

because you questioned me as your pastor, because you acted

like you acted murdering the complain, you will not see

the Promised Land. And if y'all remember in the Book

of Numbers, they send twelve spies go check out the

Promised Land and tell me how it is. Only two

spies come back with a good report. So it is

how you look at things. Are you a half half

field cut or are you a do you see the

whole thing? Are you optimistic or are you pestimistic? Do

you question everything or do you just And the Greek

word is p I s t O S trust God.

He wants us to trust them when we can't trace them,

Trust them when you can't figure it out. Trust them

with your life, trust them with your job. Trust him

that he that he's doing what his word says. We

say it, all things work together for good to them

that love God, but we don't really believe it, because

if we believed that, we will believe in the providential

nature of God. Everything God does is good. It's for

our will. It hurts. I don't understand it, but sometimes

it's like a toothache. God gotta let your tooth hurt

before you go to the Dennist Right. You know you

got writing tea, but God, I gotta let it hurt. Then,

when when he let it hurt, you say, oh Lord,

I can't take this no more. You break up with somebody,

When you break up with from God gotta let it

hurt because that person wasn't for you and you got

to start that old no good. He wasn't no good,

no way. Why did you see that ten years ago?

Now you see it and you said, I don't never

want to deal with him. God sometimes has to allow

pain in order for us to change our direction. And

that's what he's doing to the children of visual Okay,

thank you, got time for one more question?

I got one for you, Bishop, go ahead, he is,

I mean, it's a simple one, but so he said,

The Pentitook. The Pentitook is the first five books of

the Bible written by Moses. So does it start at

Deuteronomy or does it start at Genesis.

It starts at Genesis, and it's amazing that he's writing

the story of what happened even before he can on

the scene.

So in study, why do we start with Deuteronomy.

We started with Deuteronomy because I think Deuteronomy gives us

a full picture looking back. And what we'll do is

we'll go back to some of the other books, especially Genesis,

because I love Genesis where it talks about and the

spirit of God moved on the face of the earth.

We didn't have rain in Genesis. The way that the

earth got water is like it gets watered. Now if

you go out every morning, there's dew on the grass.

But something happens to mess that up. But we want

to deal with the aspects of the Deuteronomy church because

it's going to help us to understand our relationship with

our leader, our relationship with God and our personal relationship.

But we'll probably go backwards now. We may not deal

with Leviticus because Leviticus is deep. Leviticus have all of

us scratching our head on what right, what ain't right,

because a lot of that is religious