Deuteronomy 19:14 Bible Study | Episode 915

 April 11, 2025

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

Deuteronomy 19:14  Bible Study | Episode #915

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 19, and we're going to deal with verse 14, and we're going to deal with it pretty quickly.

And the reason is because it deals with something that we use even to our modern times.

It is a important idea as far as our culture and our economy.

And we get it from the Bible. And also it is something that you need to understand about Israel itself and meets all kinds of criteria for a good understanding, a good study on civics on our way of doing life.

It says, you shall not remove your neighbor's landmark which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you will inherit in the land the Lord your God has given you to possess.

What does that mean? Well, Obviously there were 12 tribes, 11 of which would get the land as the inheritance for their tribe when they entered into the promised land. And so each tribe had clans and each clans had families.

And all those smaller and smaller groups of people would get a portion of their higher group of people's land. So each tribe, the clans, if there were 30 clans, then they would split it up into 30.

They would split it up into 30 pieces of land. Now, there weren't 30 clans. There's usually five or six. And then the families that came from those clans, they'd split those up and they would make.

They would place markers. Now, in modern times, and really it's not modern when this happened, but we have pins that have been placed and they were placed in the 1800s.

They were placed in the 1800s all over the state of Alabama and all over other states around the country. And these pens are driven deep in the ground. They're very long,

can be as long as 5, 6, 8ft long were driven in the ground. And they are markers for boundary lines. And in fact, the state of Alabama is broken up into Townships and ranges and, and they're, they're.

I can't remember exactly how many off the top of my head, but it seems like 16 or 32 different townships that, that the state of Alabama is, is cut up into.

And those, those boundary lines identify the corners of those areas. And so I think each township has like six it.

Number of acres. And when you go to the pins, when you find the pins, you can't accurately survey the land out and tell where the boundary lines for pieces of property are.

And surveyors, that's when you see people on the side of the roads with the, and they're not, you know, they're not working for the state. They usually have their own business name on them and they're wearing the vest and they've got these things that they're on tripods and they're looking through.

That's a surveyor, and they're surveying from a pin somewhere, somewhere nearby, somewhere within, you know, a quarter or half mile away. And they're surveying over and they're finding the boundary line for a piece of property.

Now, those boundary lines are set by those pins. Now we also know where the pins are by satellite now, but we, we, we can tell how to, how to look for them.

They're using satellites with those pieces of equipment that they have, the surveying equipment that they have. And they're set obviously for, for,

for hundreds of years because they've been there for some of them as much as 200 years, especially along the east coast, some of them for almost 300 years, two and 100, two and a half and 300 years.

And, and those poster are pretty cool. I mean, that's pretty neat. In fact, somewhere near your house, I don't know how far away, but somewhere near your house, there's a pin out in the woods that surveyors know exactly where it's at on a map, and they will find it.

And then they will survey off that pin to tell where the boundary line of your one and a half acre lot is where your house sits.

Now that's pretty cool.

And so in Israel,

they set out boundaries and they set out markers or landmarks to mark the boundaries. And usually those would have been some type of rock or it would have been a place where it was obvious that that would not change.

Maybe an outcropping somewhere of rock sticking up out of the ground.

They would set those landmarks and those landmarks would determine where the land lines were for people's property.

And he says, you shall not remove those things. Why? Because God gives us.

God gives Us, his promises. And his promises, I want you to hear me, are property.

And you go. Well, what do you mean by that? Well, they're yours. A gift is yours. If God gives me something, he intended to give it to me. It's the word, Ida.

In order for it to be a gift, intent, delivery and acceptance.

He intended to give it to me. He delivered it to me by the Holy Spirit.

And then when I receive it or when I walk in it, it's mine,

given to me by God.

That's why his gift and calling or his anointing is irrevocable. Meaning God's not going to revoke it or call it back because it's yours. Once God gives you, he intends something for you, he delivers it to you, and you receive it.

Accept it, meaning you do an affirmative act to take control of it, which is what we call faith. Once you do that, it's yours.

God's not going to take it back from you. God's not going to remove it. It might be. It might go dormant. You may leave it over in a corner to rot, but that doesn't mean it's gone.

That just means you're not using it. That just means you're not taking advantage of it. It's still there for you. So any. Any gift that you've been given is yours.

Any gift that you've been given is yours forever. It's an eternal gift. It can't be taken away. If God gives it to you, it is yours.

Now the question is, is whether or not you're going to take advantage of what God's given you. That's what the sermon yesterday was about. Well, we. We must take advantage of what God's given us because they.

They are eternal gifts that are not with repentance. Meaning God is not going to take them away. He's not going to revoke them from you,

so you need to walk in them. Likewise, when God gave Israel the boundaries of the Promised Land and then they. They. They marked them out with landmarks so that everybody knew where their boundaries were.

That land's theirs.

Now. You're going to hear people claim that, you know, the Jews are just colonializers. They just colonialize the land from the people that were there. Well, that. That's just a lie.

It's just a lie from hell. Really.

The Jews aren't colonializers. That's been their land for 3,500 years.

They've lived there. They've been attacked. They've been. They've been.

Genocides have been performed against them, they've been taken into exile and yet that's still their land. As far as God's concerned, it's still their land today.

And so if, if, if the, if the gifts God gives me are irrevocable, the gifts God's given them are irrevocable. So when you hear somebody tell you that, you know, the Jews are just, they're just colonializers, they come and stole somebody else's land.

They haven't.

And by the way, the devil will come and tell you that you stole something from God that's not really yours. That's not. God didn't really mean that for you.

He's a liar too. Don't believe him.

Don't allow him to take away what God clearly intended for you and delivered unto you. And at some point in time you walked in, you, you accepted, you took control over it, you controlled it yourself.

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.