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Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Today we started a new book and the last book of the law or the Torah as it's known in the Jewish world. Of all the Old Testament books quoted in the New Testament, Deuteronomy ranks third and it's the second most quoted by Jesus. So you may recognize a lot of what we read. The word Deuteronomy means second law.
We're going to revisit some old laws as well as see some practical application of them. In many ways, Deuteronomy serves to recap everything we've read so far. Moses never goes very deep into any of the stories, but he does skim the surface of a lot of things that will be familiar to you. And that's all perfectly timed for us.
Because after we wrap up Deuteronomy, we're about to move into a more narrative story with lots of new characters, so it'll be great to have a quick refresher on everything we just learned. Plus, they say you have to hear something eight times before you retain it, so this is all serving to embed it into our hearts and minds.
And anytime we do come across something familiar, I have two challenges for us. First, resist the potential frustration that might come from this. Be grateful you're recalling the things you've already read. That means you really learned it. That's worth celebrating. Second, even in the familiar stories, try to learn something new about God than you learned the first time we covered these things.
Ask Him to give you wisdom to see something new that you've never seen before. Most of these 34 chapters are kind of a motivational sermon by Moses just before he dies. They're his final words to these people that he spent the past 40 years serving. He's loved them, sacrificed for them, fought for them, rebuked them, and now he realizes he won't be there to guide them anymore.
And while he trusts God to fulfill his promises to them, he also knows the Israelites really well and seems to be kind of nervous that they're going to screw things up again somehow. Stay tuned to see how that goes. So let's dig in. When the Sinai covenant between God and the Israelites was originally set in place, it was established with the parents of the people here today.
Their parents didn't do a great job of keeping the covenant, so Moses is setting up a covenant renewal here, kind of like when married couples renew their vows. Moses will be reminding the people that God promised them this land and that there are things required of them by this covenant as well.
Today, he starts by going over a few highlights of their time in the desert, and in the days to come, he'll revisit some of the laws with these new people to make sure they grasp what they're entering into. One thing that could be confusing in this conversation is that Moses refers to them as you, even though many of these people hadn't been born yet.
He's referring to them as a people, not them specifically. He's walking through all the things he's experienced with the Israelites, dead or alive, since they left Egypt. He reminds them of all God has done for them. And he also reminds them of the things that have gone wrong because of their sin.
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