“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

2 Timothy 4: 7, 8 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 

Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

Hallelujah 

We, the bride, the church should not lose the eternal life but should safeguard it.

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated that we, the bride, the church in our journey of faith, we must hold on to eternal life. This is because to spoil the eternal life many fleshly thoughts will come in us and will fight with us. In that fight each one of us must safeguard our salvation and we must fight and overcome it. That is why, he is leading the Israelites along the way of Mount Seir and to possess the land of Canaan he is showing this as a pattern. Therefore, the word of God in Romans 6: 17 – 23 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 

And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 

What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 

But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We meditated according to the above-mentioned words of God. 

Next, what we will be meditating is that from Deuteronomy 1: 9 till Chapter 32 in the above-mentioned verses, God is telling Moses after he told what to tell the children of Israel, Moses tells them that in the journey of faith the things that God had said and what the children of Israel did and the things that God did and the lands through which God led and brought them and the paths and all the things that happened and after he said these things he told them: “Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe—all the words of this law. For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.”

By what you can prolong; what he is saying is that Deuteronomy 32: 1 – 43 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as raindrops on the tender herb, and as showers on the grass.

For I proclaim the name of the Lord: Ascribe greatness to our God.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, a God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.

“They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, because of their blemish: a perverse and crooked generation.

Do you thus deal with the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

“Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you:

When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

“He found him in a desert land and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.

As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings,

So the Lord alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.

“He made him ride in the heights of the earth, that he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty rock;

Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs; and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the choicest wheat; and you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.

“But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you grew fat, you grew thick, you are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, and scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger.

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they did not know, to new gods, new arrivals that your fathers did not fear.

Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, and have forgotten the God who fathered you.

“And when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith.

They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

‘I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.

They shall be wasted with hunger, devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within for the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, “Our hand is high; and it is not the Lord who has done all this.”’

“For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them.

Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had surrendered them?

For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of cobras.

‘Is this not laid up in store with Me, sealed up among My treasures?

Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them.’

“For the Lord will judge His people and have compassion on His servants, when He sees that their power is gone, and there is no one remaining, bond or free.

He will say: ‘Where are their gods, the rock in which they sought refuge?

Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, and be your refuge.

‘Now see that I, even I, am He, and there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.

For I raise My hand to heaven, and say, “As I live forever,

If I whet My glittering sword, and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, and repay those who hate Me.

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the heads of the leaders of the enemy.”’

“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His servants and render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”

Before singing the above-mentioned words as a song what Moses is saying is that this is not a futile thing for you. Deuteronomy 31: 16 – 22 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. 

Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’ 

And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.

“Now therefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel. 

When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them; and they will provoke Me and break My covenant. 

Then it shall be, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify against them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten in the mouths of their descendants, for I know the inclination of their behaviour today, even before I have brought them to the land of which I swore to give them.”

Therefore Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the children of Israel.

In the above-mentioned words Behold, you will in rest with your fathers; In this manner God is telling Moses that the Israelites will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’ And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.

In this manner, God told Moses to write the words of the song and teach it to the children of Israel. In the same way Moses taught it among the children of Israel. For what God is telling this is that when he brought the children of Israel to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which he swore to their fathers, and they ate and filled themselves and grew fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them; and they will provoke Me and break My covenant. Then this song will testify against them as a witness; Therefore Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the children of Israel. Also, to Joshua God said in Deuteronomy 31: 23 Then He inaugurated Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land of which I swore to them, and I will be with you.”

Next, God is telling regarding bringing the children of Israel to the land which he swore to them through Joshua. When Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, that Moses commanded the Levites Deuteronomy 31: 26 – 30 “Take this Book of the Law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there as a witness against you; 

for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord, then how much more after my death? 

Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 

For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.”

Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were ended:

In this manner, he spoke till the words of this song were ended. Then after the song was finished in the same day God told Moses in Deuteronomy 32:  49 – 52 “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho; view the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel as a possession; 

and die on the mountain which you ascend, and be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people; 

because you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin, because you did not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel. 

Yet you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.”

The above-mentioned words are a pattern for us. This is because in the matter of the waters of Meribah God spoke with anger you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.

Therefore, my dear people he is explaining and showing us clearly the pattern so that all of us will not lose the land of Canaan, which is the eternal life but will safeguard it. Few explanations regarding this God willing through grace we will meditate tomorrow. Therefore, let us all inherit eternal life.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly. 

- To be continued