Deuteronomy 11:22-25 Bible Study | Episode 885

February 28, 2025

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

Deuteronomy 11:22-25 Bible Study | Episode #885

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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Transcript

This is Chad Harrison and you're listening to Hope 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 would 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 11. Deuteronomy, chapter 11. And the passage that we're going to deal with today, verses 22 through 25 is A. Is one of those memorable passages. In fact, when I say it's memorable, it ought to be memorized. Some of the verses here are one are verses that you should memorize because, well, they, they, they carry out through the rest of scripture, in fact, are quoted in, in scripture. Some of them are actually re quotes of this chapter. And you go, what do you mean re quotes of this chapter? Well, this chapter is kind of interesting. Just take us back through it just for a second. He says in 11, 1, therefore you shall love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his judgments and his commandments. Always remember we talked about how what that is, is that's defining broadly. He's trying to give us all the words that kind of define broadly his revelation to them, which would have been in the form of charges, statutes, judgments and commandments. He told them to do this. He said these are the rules. His judgments would have been the things he told them. When there were trouble or problems and Moses inquired of him, he gave him his judgments and his commandments. He said, but you should love the Lord your God. How do you do it? By doing what he says. And Jesus even says that if you love me, you'll keep my commandments. And he's saying that love brings about a desire to do the will of God. And so you see that in verse one. And then verse eight tells us that we got to keep his commandments. Then verse verse 13 says, and it shall be that if you earnestly obey my commandments, which I command you today to love the Lord your God and serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. Notice, he says, it shall be that if you earnestly obey my commandments, which I command you today, meaning I'm commanding you to love me. I'm commanding you to. To. To love me. That, that's. That's the commandment I'm commanding today. That's the commission I'm giving you today. And, and so that fits in this passage. He says, first, you know, you need to keep my commandment, you need to keep my statutes, all the things, and that'll show that you love me. And then he comes back and says, if you love me, you. You'll keep my commandments. And then we get to the passage we're at today, verse 22. Third time, he goes through this idea from a different perspective. He comes at it in a different way. For if you carefully keep all the commandments, which I command you to do, notice if you carefully keep all the statutes, what I command you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, Notice he's pulling them together. If you keep all the commandments and the way that's done is to love God and then to walk in his ways. Well, walking in his ways means I take his judgment, statutes, all those things that he's revealed to me, which are his ways, and I walk in them. Now notice he says to walk in them, to walk in his ways, meaning to carry them out. To carry them out. To do the things that God wants us to do, to be who God wants us to be, to live it out. Walking is a. Is symbolic in the Bible all the time of living something out you. If you walk in darkness, you're living out darkness. If you're walking the light, as he is in the light. Let's look at John. I love First John. If he says, he said, walk in the light as he is in the light, that what? Well, then what am I doing? I'm living in the light of God's revelation. I'm living in the light of his truth. I'm living in the light of his love. I'm living in all this stuff. So he says, for if you carefully keep all commandments, which I command you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways and to hold fast to him, meaning be intentional about what you're doing and who you are. Be intentional about your nature being different and changed, hold fast to him, then the Lord will drive out all the nations from before you. What he's saying is, I'm going to give you the promised land and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations. Than yourself. You said, well, what's the passage that we ought to memorize? Well, I think you ought to memorize the first one. For if you carefully keep all the commandments which I command you to do, and they are to love the Lord your God and to walk in all his ways, you ought to memorize that. That'll be something you think about. I want to keep God's commandments which God commanded me. And what are they? To love God and to walk in his ways and to hold fast to him. That's what, that's the summation of all the commandments is to love God and to walk in him, walk in his ways. Then the next one is one that you're gonna, that we're really gonna deal with a whole lot. In Joshua, it says, every place when I walk in his ways, when I walk in who he is, every place on which the sole of your foot tread shall be yours. God said, if you love me, you'll walk in my ways, you'll hold fast to me. And when you begin to walk in my promises, I give you everywhere you walk, I give you everywhere you live it out. I'm intentionally take it and give it to you so many times we get so focused. And I even had a thing happen yesterday, even though it was snowing and we were, you know, not out, but you know, know I was talking to somebody on the phone and, and you could just tell they got angry about something. Not about me, but they were, you know, buying something at a, at a fast food joint and they got angry about their order. You could just tell that they got angry. And you know, it's just one of those walking in your own way rather than walking in God's way. And, and you don't even realize sometimes that you're going back to your way rather than God's way. And he says, don't do that, walk in my way. If you do, I'm going to give you everywhere you place your foot, meaning every promise you walk in, I give to you. Every, every commandment statutes that you walk in, I, I give it to you. I'm, I'm. I give it as your possession. He says, he says, from the wilderness of Lebanon, Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, to even the western sea. So listen, if you're reading this, you go, well, that's not Israel where we think of it. Yeah, it is. It's from the river to the western sea, which is from the river to the sea is what the Palestinians chant that they want to take from the river to the sea, and that's where modern day Israel is. But he says that he's going to give them all the way up to the wilderness of Lebanon, which is almost to the Syrian border. And then he. Then he says, I'm going to give you from. I'm going to give it from the great river Euphrates, which is all of all of Syria, all of Transjordan, all the way out through Iraq to the great river Euphrates. He says, I'm giving you everywhere you take your foot, place your foot, and they've yet to take any of that. They've yet to walk in his ways and his promises enough to get that. But he says, if you'll do it, I'll give it to you. Remember, notice he promised it. They have not taken it yet. I believe that one day they will. And I believe actually they're in the process of doing it today. But he says, I'll give you more than you know. You're walking in even today. And so many of us just want sometime to just hang on to what we got right now. And God is not in the business of you hanging on to what you got right now. If you stopped, you're losing ground. God's in the business of giving you more than you got right now. He's giving you more than he wants to give you more in his promises than you have right now. I need, you really need to hear this so many times. We think we've arrived and we're just going to stay where we're at in our Christian walk and we're going to be okay right here, right now. And it is not true. That does not. That is not. That is a wrong impression. It's a wrong impression of how to live. You must be taking God's promises and taking his territory all the time. You ought to be being changed all the time. You ought to be progressing. You ought to be becoming. You ought to be doing new things and different things and becoming new and more things. And you ought to be doing it when you're young and, and, and, and excited about being a Christian and, and excited about life. You ought to be doing it when you're struggling and you're trying to get good at your jobs and try to. Trying to raise young children. And it's, it's just such a hard, difficult thing to do. You ought to be growing. You ought to be becoming, y'all. You ought to be growing and becoming. Even when you're dealing with them teenagers and they seem like you, you, you you had some beautiful children and you know, somehow they turned into aliens and, and, and, and, and all of a sudden I've gone from trying to be good at my job to being in charge of people over my. And now, now I've got to not only do my job well, but I've got to be. Learn how to take on some leadership roles and handle things. And then all of a sudden your children leave the house and, and everything's different and you, you're. You're. Then you're trying to figure out how to be. Be by yourself again and by. Or. Or, you know, you and your wife, you know, have. Have been living with these kids all your life and you're trying out. You. Y. But you ought to be taking ground then. You ought to be taking ground then. And then, then as your hair gets gray and you get older, you ought to be taking ground. You ought to be doing more, being more, growing more, be becoming more in the kingdom. You ought to experiencing new things, bigger things, being changed more and more. You ought to. He says no man shall stand against you, be able to stand against you. See nothing in the flesh going to be able to stop you. And the Lord your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as he has said to you. Meaning it's like it's going to melt away in front of you. The issues of the past that seem so difficult and seem maybe that you'll never. You'd never ever overcome them. They just kind of melt in. In front of you sometimes when you get to this place that he's talking about getting you to, and I'm going to tell you, I've had a little taste of that and it's true. It really is true. Things begin to melt away in front of you. Problems and issues become not even a problem anymore. They just all of a sudden begin to melt away because your character's being changed and your personhood's being changed and you're growing and becoming. Listen, at 52 years old, I'm hopeful that over the next 20 to 30 years of the rest of my life, I'm being changed myself. I'm hoping that I'm never not being changed. I hope my life is always being grown and becoming more and more because if it's melting away this fast, there's no telling what kind of territory I can take in my 60s and 70s. And I want to take that territory and I want to see the best of God and I want to see lives changed and I want to see a kingdom that cannot be destroyed taken. I want to see all that and I hope you do too. And I pray that that'll be a part of who you are because these are the promises of God. He says every place on which you solid your foot tread shall be yours I will give you everywhere you place your foot. That's what he says Joshua. So we ought to remember that says to Joshua every place you place your foot I give you everywhere you place your foot. He says he says that to Joshua personally but he says to the nation of Israel back in the book before it every place on there on every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Need to get to walking don't we? Need to get to becoming need to get to taking all the goodness of God.

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.