1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,960 Hearing the book of Deuteronomy today, The book of Deuteronomy, 2 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,880 just so you know, this was furnished to me, so there's at 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,840 least one person that wants y'all to be quiet for a moment. 4 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,320 I'm glad this worked because my next event was to bring my 38. 5 00:00:33,410 --> 00:00:35,330 Welcome to the service. It's good to see you in the 6 00:00:35,330 --> 00:00:38,890 Lord's house this morning. We come to the very last of our 7 00:00:38,890 --> 00:00:42,090 series that we've been involved with in the spring and summer of 8 00:00:42,090 --> 00:00:45,330 this year, and that is looking at the life of Moses. 9 00:00:45,690 --> 00:00:48,050 We've moved from the life of Moses, from the little baby in 10 00:00:48,050 --> 00:00:51,090 the bulrushes all the way through to our sermon today, 11 00:00:51,090 --> 00:00:55,210 which is the legacy of Moses. So here now the word of the Lord 12 00:00:55,210 --> 00:00:58,940 from Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter 32. 13 00:01:01,180 --> 00:01:03,620 That very day the Lord spoke to Moses. 14 00:01:04,620 --> 00:01:09,820 Go up this mountain of Aberine Mountain Nebo, which is in the 15 00:01:09,820 --> 00:01:14,380 land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, 16 00:01:14,580 --> 00:01:19,100 which I'm given to the people of Israel for a possession, and die 17 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:24,760 on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people 18 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,800 as Aaron, your brother, died at Mount horns, gathered to his 19 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,440 people, Because you broke faith with me in the midst of the 20 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,000 people of Israel, at the waters of Meribakadesh, in the 21 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,040 wildernesses Zen, and because you did not treat me as holy in 22 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:40,600 the midst of the people of Israel. 23 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:44,880 For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go 24 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,720 there into the land which I'm giving to the people of Israel. 25 00:01:49,610 --> 00:01:53,490 Then the account of ACT Moses actually doing this is found a 26 00:01:53,490 --> 00:01:55,810 couple of chapters over in chapter 34. 27 00:01:57,290 --> 00:02:00,250 Then Moses went up from the plains of Lohab to Mountain Nebo 28 00:02:00,250 --> 00:02:03,330 to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. 29 00:02:03,330 --> 00:02:07,290 And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan 30 00:02:07,650 --> 00:02:12,170 naturally the land of Efraim Manassa, all the land of Jude as 31 00:02:12,170 --> 00:02:16,550 far as the Western sea, the Negev, and the plain that is the 32 00:02:16,550 --> 00:02:20,310 valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as follows the war. 33 00:02:20,670 --> 00:02:24,710 And the Lord said to him, This is the land of which I swore to 34 00:02:24,710 --> 00:02:28,670 Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to your 35 00:02:28,670 --> 00:02:31,470 offspring. I have let you see it with your 36 00:02:31,550 --> 00:02:33,710 eyes, but you shall not go over there. 37 00:02:34,870 --> 00:02:38,150 So Moses the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of 38 00:02:38,150 --> 00:02:40,710 Moab, according to the word of the Lord. 39 00:02:40,910 --> 00:02:44,590 And he buried him in the valley, in the land of Moab, opposite 40 00:02:44,590 --> 00:02:47,600 Beth Peor. But no one knows the place of 41 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:52,520 his burial to this day. Now Moses was 120 years old when 42 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,120 he died. His eye was undemned, and his 43 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,960 vigor unabated, And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the 44 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:03,320 plains of Moab for 30 days. Then the days of weeping and 45 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,040 mourning for Moses were ended, and Joshua the son of none, was 46 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,040 full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses has laid his hands on 47 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,960 him. So the people of Israel obeyed 48 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,560 him, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. 49 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:21,600 And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like 50 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:26,360 Moses whom the Lord knew face to face, none like him. 51 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,960 For all the signs and wonders that the Lord sent him to do in 52 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,880 the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all the servants into all 53 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,640 his land. And for all the mighty power and 54 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:42,440 all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of 55 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,750 all Israel, the word of the Lord. 56 00:03:46,750 --> 00:04:02,710 You may be seated. This is the legacy of Moses. 57 00:04:04,550 --> 00:04:09,470 Moses life falls into conveniently 40 year periods. 58 00:04:09,470 --> 00:04:15,090 First 40 years he was in Egypt, trained and reared in the 59 00:04:15,250 --> 00:04:18,810 Egyptian culture. Then you know the story. 60 00:04:18,810 --> 00:04:22,890 He went into the wilderness and there in the wilderness of 61 00:04:22,890 --> 00:04:28,490 Midian he was for 40 years there the Lord was training him the 62 00:04:28,490 --> 00:04:33,010 ways of the wilderness. And then God called him at the 63 00:04:33,010 --> 00:04:38,890 burning Bush to go back to Egypt and to lead God's people out of 64 00:04:38,890 --> 00:04:45,120 Egyptian bondage through 40 years of wandering in the 65 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,880 wilderness. And then we come to this moment 66 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,000 here. It's interesting that the 67 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:56,040 scripture says in the reading there that very day the Lord 68 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,880 spoke to Moses. Go up to this mountain, mountain 69 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:06,240 Nebo, and die on the mountain. What an interesting thing. 70 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,720 Moses was blessing the people. He was. 71 00:05:10,490 --> 00:05:12,810 He just got through preaching. One of the longest sermons 72 00:05:12,810 --> 00:05:16,330 you'll read anywhere, and that is basically the book of of 73 00:05:16,330 --> 00:05:21,130 Deuteronomy, is a is a an address to the people on the 74 00:05:21,130 --> 00:05:25,930 plains of Moab, which is the desert southeast of the Canaan 75 00:05:25,970 --> 00:05:30,930 and the land. And there's no more pleasure for 76 00:05:30,930 --> 00:05:33,850 a preacher than to be able to preach like that for 30 77 00:05:33,850 --> 00:05:37,650 something chapters. It's a good day for Moses. 78 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,480 Blessing the people Canaan land was just insight. 79 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,840 He wasn't reduced in any of his capacity. 80 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,520 His eye was not dim, His strength was not gone. 81 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:57,720 He was still healthy. And the Lord said on this very 82 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,440 day, go up to the mountain and die. 83 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,240 I'll let you know. That's the way the Lord's timing 84 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,390 works. We never know the moment when 85 00:06:07,390 --> 00:06:09,550 the Lord will say to us it's time to come home. 86 00:06:11,910 --> 00:06:16,590 You just look at the graveyard, You'll see dates of death and 87 00:06:16,590 --> 00:06:19,270 dates of birth, and you calculate ages, and you'll see 88 00:06:19,270 --> 00:06:23,110 everything from infancy to people over 100 years old. 89 00:06:24,070 --> 00:06:28,750 You don't know the time when the Lord will call you home, but the 90 00:06:28,750 --> 00:06:31,350 Lord does. The Lord knows when it's time 91 00:06:31,350 --> 00:06:35,060 because He's given you a work to do, a life to live. 92 00:06:35,060 --> 00:06:40,180 He has blessed you with life and he has a time. 93 00:06:40,180 --> 00:06:43,980 It is appointed unto man once to die. 94 00:06:44,660 --> 00:06:48,780 It's an appointment. And Moses had it. 95 00:06:50,140 --> 00:06:52,620 What's interesting to me is some of the negative things that are 96 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:54,820 said here. And yet, you know, talk about 97 00:06:55,020 --> 00:06:59,060 God calling Moses home at this particular time, God saying to 98 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:01,460 Moses, you can see the promised land. 99 00:07:01,980 --> 00:07:05,570 He brought him up to a mountain and then it to a peak on the 100 00:07:05,570 --> 00:07:09,210 mountain that he could see literally pretty much across the 101 00:07:09,210 --> 00:07:11,490 whole topography. He could see all the way across 102 00:07:11,490 --> 00:07:15,050 to the Mediterranean, he could see the land, and he spells out 103 00:07:15,050 --> 00:07:16,730 all the different parts of the land. 104 00:07:16,970 --> 00:07:19,770 The northern part of the land would be inhabited by Dan. 105 00:07:20,090 --> 00:07:23,290 The southern part of the land would be down in the in the 106 00:07:23,290 --> 00:07:28,610 deserts, in the in the South and in the land of Judah that would 107 00:07:28,610 --> 00:07:30,610 be there in the middle in the Hill Country. 108 00:07:30,690 --> 00:07:33,130 And the Lord showed him the whole panoramic view. 109 00:07:33,770 --> 00:07:36,290 But he said you're not going in. He said this is the land that I 110 00:07:36,290 --> 00:07:39,130 promised Abraham, God, He promised it. 111 00:07:39,130 --> 00:07:42,410 Abraham again to Isaac and Jacob, they're going to inherit 112 00:07:42,410 --> 00:07:44,010 the land. God's going to keep his promise. 113 00:07:44,570 --> 00:07:48,850 And Moses has been an important part in the strategic part of 114 00:07:48,850 --> 00:07:52,690 God bringing these people along. In fact, Moses found the people 115 00:07:52,690 --> 00:07:55,890 of this of Israel down in Egypt, and they were just a 116 00:07:56,410 --> 00:08:01,850 discombobulated clan of people and families. 117 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,480 And through the wilderness he had brought them all the way 118 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,400 through to now. They were an organized, 119 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:14,440 militarized, healthy young. Everybody there was about age 40 120 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,680 or younger because the older generation had died in the 121 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,440 wilderness. God has now a organized a 122 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,680 religious people, a people who have a sacrificial system of 123 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,630 people that have a governmental system of people that have a 124 00:08:28,630 --> 00:08:32,070 welfare system, people that have an education system. 125 00:08:32,190 --> 00:08:35,789 That's what the book of of Leviticus and Numbers that are 126 00:08:35,789 --> 00:08:38,870 all about. The penalty tells us there in 127 00:08:38,870 --> 00:08:42,190 that story from Nexus to these passage here how God put all 128 00:08:42,190 --> 00:08:44,790 this stuff together. Incredible. 129 00:08:44,790 --> 00:08:48,710 The things that Moses had done, in fact some of these things 130 00:08:48,710 --> 00:08:52,230 that Moses had done, would be kind of what you would think of 131 00:08:52,230 --> 00:08:57,640 as a, as a king would do a supreme organizer of the nation, 132 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,920 putting together a nation and establishing all the things that 133 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:02,760 have to be established with a nation. 134 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,440 And kind of that's who Moses is in a way. 135 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:11,480 The legacy of Moses is that he was proto PROTO. 136 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,920 It means first in an order. It means before all. 137 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:20,400 He was kind of the first one that did the things functionally 138 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:24,640 that had to be done. He was a de facto king. 139 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:29,040 He was a de facto priest and he was a prophet. 140 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,520 Prophet is the office that's usually designated to him. 141 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,120 But these were the offices that God was going to expand and 142 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,720 enlarge and continue and make more and more meaningful. 143 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,120 All throughout the rest of the Old Testament history. 144 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,800 God was going to enhance the leadership office that Moses 145 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,760 had, that is of King. Moses had done a lot for the 146 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,910 people already as king. He had saved them, an ancient 147 00:09:53,910 --> 00:09:55,990 king, with someone who rescued his people. 148 00:09:56,110 --> 00:09:59,470 He delivered them in battle. He had redeemed them by the 149 00:09:59,470 --> 00:10:01,950 strong arm of the Lord. He was now their leader. 150 00:10:02,190 --> 00:10:06,230 The staff that God gave him to be the symbol of authority, 151 00:10:06,230 --> 00:10:10,950 where the the rod and the scepter is the symbols of kingly 152 00:10:10,950 --> 00:10:14,790 authority. God had given that to him and he 153 00:10:14,790 --> 00:10:18,390 was the leader of the people. He was the provider for the 154 00:10:18,390 --> 00:10:21,340 people in the ancient world. The king was seen as the last 155 00:10:21,340 --> 00:10:24,780 resort of the one who provides everything the people need. 156 00:10:25,140 --> 00:10:27,820 He had provided food in the manner he had provided. 157 00:10:27,820 --> 00:10:32,540 He had provided the quail, the meat on several occasions. 158 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:35,940 He had actually been the one that God used to provide the 159 00:10:35,940 --> 00:10:39,340 water in the desert. In fact, it was on one of those 160 00:10:39,340 --> 00:10:42,260 occasions he got in trouble because instead of just speaking 161 00:10:42,260 --> 00:10:47,660 to the rock, he smoked the rock. And he did two things when that 162 00:10:47,660 --> 00:10:50,140 happened. Scriptures tell us otherwise 163 00:10:50,140 --> 00:10:54,700 that if you understand that right, he actually struck smote 164 00:10:55,380 --> 00:10:57,340 Christ because Christ was that rock. 165 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:00,220 Christ was that fountain of living water. 166 00:11:01,060 --> 00:11:05,260 And in so doing also Moses had failed to sanctify the Lord, 167 00:11:05,260 --> 00:11:10,340 make the Lord holy and he had not kept the the image and the 168 00:11:10,340 --> 00:11:12,660 proper proclamation of God going. 169 00:11:12,660 --> 00:11:15,420 Can you imagine that all that we've been through with Moses, 170 00:11:15,420 --> 00:11:17,580 how that even there he fell short? 171 00:11:18,410 --> 00:11:20,690 I'll make a second application of Moses life. 172 00:11:21,090 --> 00:11:24,090 I don't care how wonderful a Christian you are, even if 173 00:11:24,090 --> 00:11:27,210 you're a Christian leader of some sort, you will fall so 174 00:11:27,210 --> 00:11:34,370 short of the glory of God you will be so deficient in those 175 00:11:34,370 --> 00:11:38,210 gifts and talents that are necessary for serving the Lord 176 00:11:38,210 --> 00:11:41,650 to the optimum. And there's no reason for any 177 00:11:41,650 --> 00:11:46,340 servant of the Lord ever to be proud when you've done all that 178 00:11:46,340 --> 00:11:49,140 you can do. Jesus said you still are an 179 00:11:49,140 --> 00:11:53,380 unworthy servant. So even Moses, even Moses, 180 00:11:53,700 --> 00:11:58,740 needed a savior. Even Moses needs the king and 181 00:11:58,740 --> 00:12:01,460 the Lord. Moses, the Bible says in the New 182 00:12:01,460 --> 00:12:04,660 Testament, was a servant in the House of the Lord. 183 00:12:04,660 --> 00:12:07,740 Only a handful of people were called servants of God. 184 00:12:07,740 --> 00:12:10,100 Abraham was called a servant. David was called a servant of 185 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:12,080 God. Israel was called a servant of 186 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,160 God, and one OK, even a foreign king was called a servant of the 187 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,120 Lord. The servant of the Lord is a 188 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,200 pretty restricted group of people, and that's who Moses had 189 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:25,040 been and he had been before the people as a king, not only as a 190 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,800 savior and leader and provider, but also as a lawgiver. 191 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,360 It is the king, the Kingly office that establishes the law. 192 00:12:32,810 --> 00:12:36,090 Now, when I say Moses did this and Moses did that, you've heard 193 00:12:36,090 --> 00:12:38,690 the story. The Lord used Moses to provide 194 00:12:38,690 --> 00:12:40,770 those things. It is the Lord who ultimately 195 00:12:40,770 --> 00:12:43,610 provided that. And if I'll apply this message 196 00:12:43,610 --> 00:12:45,130 again, I'll tell you that's what happens. 197 00:12:45,130 --> 00:12:48,810 Everything comes from the Lord, doesn't matter how it's mediated 198 00:12:48,810 --> 00:12:51,570 to us. Its source is the Lord himself, 199 00:12:51,570 --> 00:12:55,490 in all of his riches in glory, is who what he gives his people, 200 00:12:55,810 --> 00:12:58,690 and he uses mediators. And that's really the primary 201 00:12:58,690 --> 00:13:02,760 office to to describe what Moses did for God's people and for the 202 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,240 Lord is he was a mediator. He was the man in between. 203 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:12,200 Here was God up here, transcendent, ineffable in his 204 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:18,640 name beyond knowing in so many ways no one had ever seen God, 205 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,000 and God raised up Moses to be that person. 206 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,960 In the middle the Bible says that he saw God face to face and 207 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,720 another case said Jesus said nobody can see my face. 208 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:30,800 John said nobody can see the Lord and live. 209 00:13:31,180 --> 00:13:34,940 So it's a it's a a way of expressing that he had that 210 00:13:35,220 --> 00:13:40,060 first hand auditory vision of God. 211 00:13:40,420 --> 00:13:44,500 The Lord made himself known unmistakably and spoke to Moses 212 00:13:45,220 --> 00:13:48,020 in the words. Moses got things first hand. 213 00:13:48,420 --> 00:13:52,300 We looked a few weeks ago where it says behold, I have put my 214 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:57,980 words in thy mouth. And so Moses was the go between. 215 00:13:57,980 --> 00:14:04,740 He was the mediator between God and man, and in this mediatorial 216 00:14:04,740 --> 00:14:09,740 work he occupied in a de facto manner these three classic 217 00:14:09,740 --> 00:14:12,300 biblical offices. We've mentioned King. 218 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:15,620 Let's mention a little bit of what he did by way of profit, 219 00:14:15,620 --> 00:14:19,110 which we've already mentioned. He was the spokesman for God. 220 00:14:19,110 --> 00:14:22,710 What are the things the prophets of Israel would be doing for God 221 00:14:22,710 --> 00:14:25,150 is they would speak for God? How many times in the Old 222 00:14:25,150 --> 00:14:27,910 Testament, especially in the writing prophets, do we hear the 223 00:14:27,910 --> 00:14:30,830 term? Thus saith the Lord. 224 00:14:31,470 --> 00:14:36,230 Well, it's the Lord speaking through the mouth of the prophet 225 00:14:36,710 --> 00:14:40,630 and that's what Moses had done. Moses not only occupied the 226 00:14:40,630 --> 00:14:43,270 office of a prophet and did the things that a prophet did, but 227 00:14:43,270 --> 00:14:48,800 it is Moses that spelled out for us independent Duke itself, the 228 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:54,080 way we can tell and discern a false prophet from a true 229 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,000 prophet. And Moses laid out those 230 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:03,120 particular criteria points that we would know how to discern. 231 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,400 And it was mainly A prophet's prophecies come to pass. 232 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,080 They are fulfilled the true prophet. 233 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,840 There's a sense in which you kind of know after the fact, but 234 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:20,560 most importantly, it was Moses that that wrote down the things 235 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,360 of God. The prophets were literate. 236 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,280 In fact, if you read the writing prophets of the Old Testament, 237 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,240 the Hebrew scriptures, if you read Isaiah and Jeremiah and 238 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,920 Jose and Amos and Joel and all the rest of them, you'll find 239 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:34,000 they're highly literary. In fact, it's written in a 240 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 poetical form most of their books. 241 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,680 It's not just prose. It's poetry. 242 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,520 It's highly, highly literate. And the prophets were the ones 243 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,600 that had been trained in the words of God and the letters of 244 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,000 God, and they're the ones that wrote the things. 245 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,960 In fact, the prophets wrote the the scriptures. 246 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,840 Samuel wrote a lot of it. Moses himself wrote these first 247 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,640 five books that we have. Joshua probably wrote some of 248 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,000 it. Samuel wrote Judges and and 249 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,160 First Samuel. And so you could go through, and 250 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,880 God does it all the way down to Jeremiah, one of the last 251 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,790 prophets of the Kingdom. Jeremiah was spending his time 252 00:16:12,790 --> 00:16:17,070 with the books, with the scroll. He even had a fulltime 253 00:16:17,070 --> 00:16:20,510 Emmanuelsis, the secretary Baruch, who spent his time 254 00:16:20,510 --> 00:16:24,350 working with Jeremiah to keep the words of the Lord in 255 00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:28,070 scripturating. Writing down that which God had 256 00:16:28,070 --> 00:16:30,990 said orally is always been important to God. 257 00:16:30,990 --> 00:16:32,590 That's why we have the New Testament. 258 00:16:32,950 --> 00:16:35,390 The events of the New Testament took place without anybody 259 00:16:35,390 --> 00:16:39,480 writing down a word. But then the Lord made sure that 260 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,360 everything that was important for us to know about those 261 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,600 events, that is the life in the ministry of Christ, the early 262 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:50,280 apostles and all of that came to us by specific individuals that 263 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,880 were called to write it down in Scripturation. 264 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,400 That is something that is written down that you can see 265 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:01,480 and understand and heed and live out in your life is a biblical 266 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:09,920 concept. Yeah, I've got a couple of 267 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:11,359 minutes. I'm going to take a detour. 268 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,359 That's what's made America great. 269 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,680 We in our heritage, principally in America going back to the 270 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,720 Magna Carta and some some precedent in the English 271 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,319 speaking world. We have what is known as in 272 00:17:27,319 --> 00:17:33,680 scripturated word, that is, people are willing to obey a 273 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,920 document. They have the words of the 10 274 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,240 commandments, the words of the Lord, the words of the apostles, 275 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:43,920 the words of the Gospels, the structures. 276 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:48,920 God has trained A godly people to live according to a written 277 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:53,120 word. An ungodly people will not live 278 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:57,400 according to a written word. And when this country was 279 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,680 founded as a country, we had what was called a constitution. 280 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,000 And the only thing that enforces that constitution is the 281 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:12,480 willingness of a godly people to submit themselves and subject 282 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:18,320 themselves to a document. Not to a king yielding a sword, 283 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:24,840 not to a great army, not to threats, but to a document which 284 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:29,720 is enforceable only by the sworn oath in the conscience of the 285 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,820 subjects. And when a people become so 286 00:18:33,820 --> 00:18:37,020 ungodly that they cannot submit themselves first to the word of 287 00:18:37,020 --> 00:18:41,180 God, you'll never find them submitting themselves to the 288 00:18:41,180 --> 00:18:46,420 words of man in a constitution. And some people have observed 289 00:18:46,420 --> 00:18:50,820 the unconstitutionality of so many things that goes on in our 290 00:18:50,820 --> 00:18:53,420 life and in our culture and in our government today. 291 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:57,820 How it is not according to those in scripturated words of the 292 00:18:57,820 --> 00:19:00,740 Founding Fathers. When you read the Federalists, 293 00:19:00,740 --> 00:19:02,380 you go through their Federalist 15. 294 00:19:02,380 --> 00:19:05,300 And you know I'll try to find what what what all these guys 295 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:06,660 meant when they said what they meant. 296 00:19:07,340 --> 00:19:09,100 What are the amendments mean First Amendment. 297 00:19:09,100 --> 00:19:10,980 Second Amendment. What are these amendments mean? 298 00:19:11,580 --> 00:19:13,460 Because we're trying to understand in Scripture rated 299 00:19:13,460 --> 00:19:18,620 word, and a people that are not skilled at interpreting in 300 00:19:18,620 --> 00:19:23,740 scripture rated word will not understand nor live according to 301 00:19:23,740 --> 00:19:28,540 a constitution at all. If you didn't get anything else 302 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,720 when you learn to read in elementary school, you know that 303 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:36,160 was God's determinate plan for this country. 304 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:41,440 When you learn to interpret written word and then live your 305 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,320 life accordingly and match up to written word, you are living in 306 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:50,160 a godly stream. But if you don't know how to 307 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:55,920 read, if you don't know how to interpret and understand written 308 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:00,880 word, then you're just liable to do anything with that old 309 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,720 document. Probably the most important 310 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,720 thing, critically, practically, that you'll do. 311 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,440 Just ignore it and go on and live according to some other 312 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,880 word, some word that comes from some other source, or some 313 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,960 inclination of your own sinful heart. 314 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,160 And when enough people start living like that. 315 00:20:23,980 --> 00:20:26,740 They've broken themselves away from the word of God. 316 00:20:27,140 --> 00:20:33,220 They're not going to in any way shackle themselves to a 317 00:20:33,220 --> 00:20:36,660 political document or a constitution or anything else. 318 00:20:38,140 --> 00:20:39,380 It took a minute longer than I thought. 319 00:20:39,380 --> 00:20:42,860 But does that make sense to anybody? 320 00:20:45,620 --> 00:20:50,460 A constitutional government will not work with an unbiblical 321 00:20:50,740 --> 00:20:54,270 people. So to the extent that you're 322 00:20:54,270 --> 00:21:00,150 ignorant of the Bible, you're incapable of understanding the 323 00:21:00,150 --> 00:21:03,750 concepts and the truths of the founding documents of our 324 00:21:03,750 --> 00:21:06,950 country. I think that's going to ever 325 00:21:06,950 --> 00:21:09,710 happen in America, that we're going to slip a little. 326 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:13,070 Yeah, I think so. Where was I in the sermon? 327 00:21:13,590 --> 00:21:15,150 Well, I'm talking about. I'm talking about being a 328 00:21:15,150 --> 00:21:18,430 prophet, but the most important thing not only does a does a 329 00:21:18,430 --> 00:21:21,150 prophet speak the word of God, but he writes the word of God. 330 00:21:21,150 --> 00:21:23,070 He helps us discern the difference between true and 331 00:21:23,070 --> 00:21:26,670 false prophets. But there's something that is 332 00:21:26,670 --> 00:21:35,630 above it all and that is that Moses is a not just a proto king 333 00:21:36,190 --> 00:21:41,870 or a proto prophet, but he's also a proto priest. 334 00:21:42,790 --> 00:21:46,610 Now Aaron was the high priest. They were from the House of 335 00:21:46,610 --> 00:21:48,650 Levi. That was the priestly tribe. 336 00:21:49,450 --> 00:21:51,530 Moses had anointed and designated. 337 00:21:51,530 --> 00:21:53,810 The Lord had designated. We saw a couple of weeks ago how 338 00:21:53,810 --> 00:22:00,090 the Lord gave indication that Aaron was his a chosen 1 by the 339 00:22:00,090 --> 00:22:04,770 blossoming of the rod. And so we we we know that Aaron 340 00:22:04,770 --> 00:22:08,850 held that office formally. But it was Moses that set it all 341 00:22:08,850 --> 00:22:11,490 up. It was he that went to the 342 00:22:11,490 --> 00:22:14,930 mountain and found out how to construct the entire Tabernacle 343 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:20,320 and all of its furnishing, and how the whole sacrificial system 344 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,080 worked, and how the annual calendar worked. 345 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,120 All the feast days and the festivals, and all of that was 346 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:29,760 structured and put together by the Lord as he gave it to Moses. 347 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,520 And he told Moses to do it exactly the way the God 348 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,960 instructed him to do it on the mountain. 349 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:39,840 And so he did that. And not only that did was Moses 350 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,430 the one who set up the entire priestly or religious system for 351 00:22:44,430 --> 00:22:47,590 Israel, with all of its atonement rituals and all of its 352 00:22:47,590 --> 00:22:50,470 cleansing rituals and all of its anointing rituals. 353 00:22:51,470 --> 00:22:57,230 But Moses also was the one that had had been to the Lord. 354 00:22:57,270 --> 00:23:01,670 And it heard the Lord speak. But believe me, he also heard 355 00:23:01,670 --> 00:23:04,430 the people speak. We've seen that the last few 356 00:23:04,430 --> 00:23:08,210 weeks, haven't we? We've got Korra talking to us in 357 00:23:08,210 --> 00:23:11,370 rebellion. We've got Miriam and Aaron and 358 00:23:11,370 --> 00:23:14,130 many of the other people. Moses had all kinds of people 359 00:23:14,570 --> 00:23:18,250 that that would back talking. And so he had heard the the 360 00:23:18,250 --> 00:23:22,970 complaining, the murmuring, the grumbling, the in the wilderness 361 00:23:22,970 --> 00:23:26,570 and all that went on. And Moses had become the 1:00. 362 00:23:26,570 --> 00:23:30,210 And we saw this time and again had become the intercessor for 363 00:23:30,210 --> 00:23:32,370 the people. He prayed for the people. 364 00:23:32,980 --> 00:23:36,060 He was the one that would take their plea, take their heart, 365 00:23:36,340 --> 00:23:38,940 and take it before the Lord and plead their cause. 366 00:23:39,620 --> 00:23:44,580 Even when the Lord was ready to do an act that would be very 367 00:23:44,580 --> 00:23:48,140 radical, Moses would plead with the Lord based upon the Lord's 368 00:23:48,140 --> 00:23:49,660 heart, his compassionate all that. 369 00:23:49,660 --> 00:23:52,700 The Lord, of course was compassionate that he would find 370 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:56,340 a way to to mitigate the circumstances and not destroy 371 00:23:56,340 --> 00:23:58,900 Israel completely at that point and to move along. 372 00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:03,690 Moses interceded for the people. He also was the one that 373 00:24:03,690 --> 00:24:07,410 sanctified the people. That is, that it was the setting 374 00:24:07,410 --> 00:24:11,170 aside, according to the command of God through Moses, that the 375 00:24:11,170 --> 00:24:14,650 holiness code came into being. How that all the people, first 376 00:24:14,650 --> 00:24:16,770 of all the people themselves, were set apart. 377 00:24:17,130 --> 00:24:18,890 That's what the word sanctified means. 378 00:24:18,890 --> 00:24:22,690 It means taken and set apart and then cleaned up and put into 379 00:24:22,690 --> 00:24:25,090 service. That's the that's the whole 380 00:24:25,090 --> 00:24:29,490 range of sanctification. And that's what Moses, through 381 00:24:29,490 --> 00:24:31,330 the command of the Lord, had done to the people. 382 00:24:31,780 --> 00:24:34,180 Apparently there'd been some problems with that because the 383 00:24:34,180 --> 00:24:37,540 Lord said you failed to make me holy before the people. 384 00:24:39,380 --> 00:24:42,420 I sure hate to see preachers get in trouble for what unsanctified 385 00:24:42,420 --> 00:24:46,900 congregations do, but that's what happened here in this, in 386 00:24:46,900 --> 00:24:49,900 this instance. So it it's interesting to see 387 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:54,140 all the ways in which Moses was a proto king. 388 00:24:55,100 --> 00:25:02,310 He was a proto prophet and he was a proto priest in making 389 00:25:02,310 --> 00:25:05,670 intercession, offering sacrifices, anointing, and doing 390 00:25:05,670 --> 00:25:08,670 all the things that the that in praying interceding all the 391 00:25:08,670 --> 00:25:11,790 things that a priest did. Why do I say he was a proto 392 00:25:12,830 --> 00:25:16,830 means before, but before what? Before Christ? 393 00:25:18,030 --> 00:25:23,310 It is Moses who set out the template, who who gave the broad 394 00:25:23,310 --> 00:25:26,510 contours of the mediatorial work of Christ. 395 00:25:26,950 --> 00:25:30,350 It is Christ who's now going to function in terms of a prophet. 396 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,520 He's going to be that great prophet about whom Moses 397 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,400 prophesied in Deuteronomy 18. Jesus is going to be that 398 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,440 prophet. Jesus is going to say the 399 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:40,920 people. If you knew Moses, you would 400 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:48,880 know me, for he wrote of me. It's important that that people 401 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:54,880 know Moses because in order to know Moses, I mean in order to 402 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,600 know Christ, you have to know Moses. 403 00:25:57,790 --> 00:26:00,590 In fact, in the in the book of Acts, in Acts chapter 15, when 404 00:26:00,590 --> 00:26:03,230 they had what's called the first council of the church, the 405 00:26:03,230 --> 00:26:06,150 Jerusalem Council, one of the things they had going for him 406 00:26:06,150 --> 00:26:08,670 when they made the decision that they made it were getting rather 407 00:26:08,870 --> 00:26:12,030 ready to send it out to all the churches through the various 408 00:26:12,190 --> 00:26:16,070 people that were there, Paul and and and Barnabas and many 409 00:26:16,070 --> 00:26:18,870 others. One of the things that they said 410 00:26:18,870 --> 00:26:26,550 was that Moses was read in the synagogue in every city 411 00:26:27,750 --> 00:26:30,630 throughout that Roman Empire, that known world. 412 00:26:31,030 --> 00:26:34,310 In other words, Moses had gone before through the Jewish 413 00:26:34,310 --> 00:26:39,310 people, as they had been scattered by various Diaspora 414 00:26:39,710 --> 00:26:42,310 dispersions. They had been carried off into 415 00:26:42,310 --> 00:26:45,390 Babylon, they had been scattered into into the world. 416 00:26:45,390 --> 00:26:50,470 They had been been in every major province of the of the 417 00:26:50,470 --> 00:26:53,990 Empire. There were Jewish people, many 418 00:26:53,990 --> 00:26:58,080 of them refugees, and they had synagogues, and in those 419 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,480 synagogues they read Moses. And by reading and understanding 420 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:07,720 Moses then it was fertile ground, and the groundwork had 421 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,520 been laid and the contours had been put out to where you come 422 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,000 straight in there and preach Christ. 423 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,480 Because Christ was the fulfillment of the law. 424 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:22,280 Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. 425 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,340 What scriptures? The book of Leviticus where it 426 00:27:26,340 --> 00:27:29,260 describes the sin offering and the trespass offering and the 427 00:27:29,500 --> 00:27:33,140 guilt offering and the cool idea of substitution that the the 428 00:27:33,140 --> 00:27:35,140 innocent could die for the guilty. 429 00:27:35,140 --> 00:27:39,380 The whole idea of the shedding of blood, the whole 1 concept 430 00:27:39,380 --> 00:27:41,900 after another that we understand the death of Christ. 431 00:27:42,020 --> 00:27:46,260 We understand because Moses heard the Lord and set up a 432 00:27:46,260 --> 00:27:51,940 sacrificial system that perfectly prophesied, foretold 433 00:27:52,180 --> 00:27:54,340 the meaning of the death of Christ. 434 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,560 So the gospel writers didn't have to write all about 435 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,480 substitution and forgiveness and the life of the flesh being in 436 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,400 the blood. And and when I see the blood I 437 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:10,360 will pass along that had all been in scripturated in Moses 438 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:19,200 and Jesus, said he, Moses wrote of me. 439 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,240 It's interesting, they're on the Emmaus Rd. after the 440 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,650 resurrection, when Jesus was walking with the two disciples 441 00:28:25,650 --> 00:28:28,290 along the road to Emmaus and they didn't recognize him. 442 00:28:28,290 --> 00:28:32,170 And what he began to do was he opened the scriptures, and 443 00:28:32,170 --> 00:28:37,730 beginning at Moses and the prophets, he opened their eyes 444 00:28:37,730 --> 00:28:40,930 to understand the Scriptures. And then that evening hit the 445 00:28:40,930 --> 00:28:44,130 same thing with the disciples in in the the room there in 446 00:28:44,130 --> 00:28:48,170 Jerusalem where they had gathered beginning with Moses. 447 00:28:48,890 --> 00:28:53,280 And the prophets enabled them to interpret and to understand the 448 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,560 scriptures. We understand Christ because 449 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,520 Moses had taught us. That's what the word Torah 450 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,800 means. The Torah is the teaching. 451 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:09,600 He had taught us Christ. And so as I wrap it up here, let 452 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,600 me just let you vision this little brief scenario. 453 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:23,350 The Lord told Moses to go up on the mountain and die from all 454 00:29:23,350 --> 00:29:25,710 eternity past. That's God's plan with Jesus 455 00:29:25,710 --> 00:29:28,830 Christ. He told Jesus Christ to go up on 456 00:29:28,830 --> 00:29:36,750 the mountain and die. Moses goes to Pisgah, Christ 457 00:29:36,750 --> 00:29:41,590 goes to Calvary. And on Mount Calvary Jesus hung 458 00:29:41,590 --> 00:29:46,230 there between heaven and earth, a mediator between God and man, 459 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:52,920 and pour bore the sins of his people in his own body, on the 460 00:29:52,920 --> 00:30:02,800 tree that we may live eternally. God took Moses and buried him 461 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,640 there in the valley in Moab. Israel's experience in Moab had 462 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,240 been kind of miserable, by the way, you remember Balam and the 463 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,120 talking donkey and all that stuff that took place there in 464 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,640 Moab not too long before this event. 465 00:30:16,270 --> 00:30:18,590 But he buried him there. Nobody knows where he's buried. 466 00:30:19,270 --> 00:30:22,510 Jesus was buried. But I'm here to report to you 467 00:30:22,510 --> 00:30:26,350 that Jesus did not buy a burial plot. 468 00:30:27,510 --> 00:30:30,430 He knew he wouldn't need it. He didn't even take out a 469 00:30:30,430 --> 00:30:33,830 shortterm lease on one because he knew he wouldn't need it but 470 00:30:33,830 --> 00:30:38,270 for a couple of nights. And so it was perfect that he 471 00:30:38,270 --> 00:30:43,550 was buried in a borrowed tomb, and before it was over the tomb 472 00:30:43,550 --> 00:30:49,330 was empty as an open testimony to a living Christ. 473 00:30:50,290 --> 00:30:55,090 It is not Moses to whom I call you today, to faith and 474 00:30:55,090 --> 00:30:58,450 repentance. Although Moses was wonderful, he 475 00:30:58,450 --> 00:31:02,090 served the Lord in the Lord's house faithfully, the Bible said 476 00:31:02,970 --> 00:31:09,970 in the book of Hebrews twice. But Jesus came and served God 477 00:31:10,450 --> 00:31:15,550 with an eternal sacrifice, and he is a priest that lives 478 00:31:15,550 --> 00:31:18,310 forever. Christ is a prophet that is the 479 00:31:18,310 --> 00:31:24,710 pure truth of God's word, and he is a king, the king of the kings 480 00:31:25,070 --> 00:31:30,070 and the Lord of the Lords. Christ is what Moses was talking 481 00:31:30,070 --> 00:31:34,390 about, the legacy of Moses. It's Christ. 482 00:31:34,870 --> 00:31:35,870 It's Jesus Christ.