Deuteronomy 5:1-4 Bible Study | Episode 852

January 14, 2025

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

Deuteronomy 5:1-4 Bible Study | Episode #852

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to Hope Alive, applying God's word to your daily life. Hi, this is Chad Harrison and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God will open up his word to you and allow you to see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day, especially today in Jesus name.

Well, good morning. Welcome to Lake Community Church's morning Bible study. We are in Deuteronomy chapter 5. And this is a important chapter to kind of remember. Just remember in your brain because it's the chapter where we get the. Get the Ten Commandments and not the first chapter gets ten commandments. This chapter where Moses is explaining to the children of Israel that are going into the promised land. And he's explaining how they got it because some. Most of these people were either young children or they weren't born when this happened, when, when they received the covenant and the ten Commandments. And so Moses is explaining it to them and he goes into some detail. And I think it's important that we kind of deal with that detail in the sense of. I just want to take you through this morning, just one of those Bible studies where we, we talk about the plan of God and his plan through the covenants and you understanding the covenants, because understanding the covenants is one of those. It's one of those kind of outlines in Scripture that you can follow in your own mind to kind of think through God's eternal plan for, for humanity. And obviously these covenants are eternal contracts that are contracts, but they're eternal contracts that won't be broken. And so understanding that those contracts are contracts that won't be broken is a, is a well, important understanding. And then understanding, you know, what they're for and how they're in the. In what order they're in. Says in verse one of chapter five, and Moses called all Israel and said to them, hero Israel. The statutes and judgments which I speak to you, to your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them. Then the Lord God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Notice you've got this, you've got a writer here who's telling us that God made a covenant with Orb there's, there the, the, the book is, is telling them what Moses did and then making commentary on it. It says, the Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who were alive, who are alive. And so what he's saying is he didn't make it with our forefathers before Egypt. He didn't make it with our forefathers in Egypt. He made it with us who were the children of Israel who have. Who've been brought out of Egypt. He made it with us at Horeb in the wilderness. And the Lord did not make the covenant with our fathers, but with us and those who are here today, all of us who are alive. The Lord talked with you, with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire. And so he's explained to him how this process came about. Now, this is the fourth of five Old Testament covenants. And these covenants are important because they lead us to Jesus, who is the sixth and final covenant. Some would say there's a seventh covenant that deals with the kingdom coming afterwards. But I believe that numerically six is the proper number because six is man. God's making a covenant with me. And the number six is for man. And so you have these covenants. And the first covenant is covenant with Adam and Eve. It's called the Adamic covenant. And it's the covenant that God says, listen, I promise that I am going to fix this problem that you have created in the garden. I'm going to. I'm going to come and I'm going to crush the head of the serpent. I'm going to crush his power. And I'm going to bring you into, into line with, with, with my plan, with my kingdom, with my purposes. It's called the Adam covenant. Now the second covenant is the Noadic covenant. And it's, it's kind of what we call an anti. Covenant. And what I mean by that. Well, the covenant he makes with Noah, which is symbolized by the rainbow, is the covenant that God will not destroy the earth by water ever again. And that is ultimately the covenant. What he's saying is, I am not going to destroy humanity and the earth ever again by water. Now, he's going to destroy ultimately one day by fire and create a new heaven and a new earth. But he promises that this issue of floods, this issue that's going to come with rain, which they had not experienced in the way they experienced it in the flood, this issue with those things is not going to happen anymore. You don't have to worry about that, I promise. It's really a covenant with not only humanity, but it's a covenant with his creation, with the earth, that he is never. He's never going to destroy the earth by flood. So you've got a covenant that God is going to fix the problems. You've got a covenant that even though he is destroying the earth, destroying humanity and doing a reset on humanity, that, that being said, he's never going to do that again. Then that's followed by the Abrahamic covenant. And that's really the first covenant of faith. And that's. And that's the third covenant. And that covenant, that covenant says, God says, if you will trust Me, I'll make you great. I will. I will make you a part of my family. I'll make you a great nation. I'll make you a part of my kingdom. It's a covenant with a singular human being and his offspring. And remember, those offspring don't always have to be biological. We understand from the New Testament that those offspring can also be spiritual. And that is taught in Romans and Hebrews, especially in Hebrews. And so that understanding kind of teaches us that God is going to make a covenant with humanity based off of his redemptive work. And that's pictured in that covenant because they have sacrifices. And the Holy Spirit moves between the sacrifices. And I'm not going into detail about those covenants because we dealt with them in Genesis. But what I am saying to you is, is that covenant tells us that God is going to do a work of redemption through the sacrifice of life. He's gonna. He's gonna redeem us out of that. And that redemption is for all humanity, but it is specifically for his people. And not only just his people that are biologically the sons of Abraham, but his people who are spiritually made alive again, alive again by Him. And so you have the Abrahamic covenant, that's followed by the Mosaic covenant. So you have a covenant of faith in the Abrahamic covenant where God gives us the ability to trust him and the ability to know him, and then the ability to walk in that. Then that's followed up by the Mosaic covenant, which is a covenant where God says, okay, I'm going to reveal myself to you. So you have the ability to do these things. Now I'm going to reveal myself so that you can actually marry that up with your faith. You have the ability to trust me, the ability to know me. Now I'm going to let you know me. I'm going to let you know who I am. And I'm going to let you know that you have that there. There are certain things that tell us that we can't reach God on our own. I'm going to let you know my will and my way. And then I'm going to promise something to come that will make it possible that you can marry that faith with my character. And that leads us to. That leads us to the sixth covenant. And that covenant is called the Davidic covenant. And it's the covenant with David. And that's a covenant of redemption and kingdom. Meaning that God is going to send someone in David's line who is going to. Who is going to set everything right and is going to redeem his people, Israel. And he's going to redeem humanity too, because Israel is going to be alike to the nations. And so we get to the end. And so you've got a covenant of God's promise that sin is not going to rule the earth forever. And Adam, God promise that even though he is a judgment of sin and he is going to bring about destruction for sin, that sin, that destruction is limited. And it's limited by his grace and his mercy. And he's not going to do it that way all the time. You can trust that he has showed you that he has a wrath towards sin, but he also has a redeeming and ability to save people from that. He has a salvific work that can be done in the midst of that. Then you have the Abrahamic covenant where you have a man who trusts God and believe God and is credited to him as righteousness. So boom, you've got the Abrahamic covenant that it's possible for man to trust God. Then you have the Mosaic covenant, which is the covenant here where God gives us his character and nature. Problem is, is that even though we can trust him, we can't attain to that character and nature. We can't live. We can't live by the law. We're broken and we're unable to. And then finally the Davidic covenant where there is a promise that there would be one to come who would make it possible that we could fulfill the law. We could be fully following the law, living by the law, and yet. And yet not living by the law, but living by grace and faith in Jesus Christ. And that covenant points to a king to come. And that king being Jesus. And so the final covenant is the covenant. This is the New Testament covenant that God gives us. And that New Testament covenant is with Jesus Christ. It is the final covenant. It's the complete covenant. It is the fulfillment of all the other covenants. Just like he came to fulfill the law, he came to be the fulfillment of all the promises of God. He is the embodiment of all the promises of God. And so as we, as we, as we deal with Jesus, we deal with the summation of all those five covenants together. And so oftentimes we want to just, you know, we want to just talk about Jesus. We won't talk about this stuff that happened in the Old Testament. Problem is, Jesus is the. Encompasses all those things. He's the embodiment of those things. And so you can't just totally say, you know, I'm going to do it this way, because it doesn't work that way. You have to, you have to say, I'm going to do it the way that God has for me to do it. I'm going to do it in his reveal plan, which includes the Old Testament and includes these covenants. Jesus is the fulfillment of those covenants. He is, he's the fulfillment of those things. And so when Moses talks about this covenant before he gives them 10, the 10 commandments, he's letting them know this is an eternal contract. It's a contract that's not limited by time or space. It's eternal. It has no beginning or end. It is an eternal promise that God has made. And it has requirements for us and it has benefits for us. And so we, we are in that covenant relationship with him, and we're in that covenant relationship not because of Adam, not because of Noah, not because of Abraham, not because Moses, not because David, but because of Jesus. And Jesus encompasses all of them. Now, I hope that you, I hope you can kind of get that in your head and put that in your brain as you think about things, as you, as you, you know, as you think through the Bible. But you, as you, you know, as you think through Jesus, you gotta remember, he understood all this completely. He had an answer for all the questions that were asked about him, about this. He dealt with Moses, he dealt with Abraham, he dealt with David, he dealt with those things. He. He even dealt with Noah. And so we know that he is, he is the fulfillment of those covenants. And so as you're, as you're thinking through today, a momentous day for sure, but a day in which the Lord is made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. This is the day to think about a little bit about God's promises, His eternal promises that he's made.

As you go today. I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you, that he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.