Deuteronomy

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Deuteronomy

• awful book
• or awe-full book?

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Islam declares death on foreigners

• Islam declares death on evildoers
• Islam declares death on unbelievers
• Islama backward religion

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Have Gods laws changed?

• Tie the laws to your forehead and your forearms.
  Write them on your doorposts gates
• Dont shear the firstborn sheep or put the
  firstborn ox to work
• Dont wear clothes of wool and linen
• Celebrate the feasts of Passover, Tabernacles and
  Weeks

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Has God changed?

• Obey God and
• You will enjoy long life life will go well with
  you
• None will be childless in your day
• You will have no disease

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Has God changed?

• Disobey God and
• your children will be enslaved
• youll be driven mad by what you see
• youll have incurable boils
• youll eat your children
• youll be destroyed
• and theres more...much more

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Deuteronomy

• Written by Moses to
• Israelites not Christians
• people who existed in a different
  covenant with God
• whose laws were related to the land of
  Canaan

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If Deuteronomy is for believers...

• why do we ignore most of the commands?
• THE END

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But theres more

• People who die before theyre 70
• the sick
• the childless
• are condemned to guilt and
• categorised as not walking with God

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What valueDeuteronomy?

• Laws dont mean an absence of love
• We have a history that influences us
• The OT is valuable
• Overhearing conversations between other people
  and God can be profitable

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Recommendations

• Listen to the confirmation of the NT
• Listen to the confirming voice of the Spirit
• Be prepared to be encouraged
• The law was good for the Jews
• but Jesus is better for Christians
• The law was good for the Jews
• but the Spirit is better for Christians
• Look to the form of the book

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What does the form of these laws show?

• God spoke then through the Law
• God still speaksbut through the Spirit
• God guided then through the Law
• God still guidesbut through the Spirit
• God was there then in the Law
• God is still herebut through the Spirit
• As the Jews did well to listen to and obey their
  laws
• Christians should listen to and obey their Guide

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Deuteronomy

• Is a good book
• but no match for the Spirit
• Good
• but not the best
• Maybe thats the message behind these laws
• a better law giver is coming
• listen to him as the Jews did to the Law