Deuteronomy 29:1-9 Bible Study | Episode 947

May 27, 2025

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

Deuteronomy 29:1-9  Bible Study | Episode #947

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 29, working. We're only six chapters away from being out of Deuteronomy and into Joshua.

And from now on,

there's a great preparation to head into the promised land. And so we're going to deal with Joshua and we're going to deal with Moses and God's dealings with Moses before they go into the promised land and the transfer of leadership and all kinds of things like that.

But what must happen first is that when you're reading your Bible and you see the headline,

I guess the title to the chapter that Bible publishers will put in Scripture.

This is not scripture.

Mine says the covenant renewed in Moab. And you'll see some Bibles don't have them at all. And some Bibles have a.

A title.

It's. It's for the purpose of giving you some idea of what's going on in that chapter so that you can.

When you're looking for something, you can find it more easily, maybe quickly.

But the truth is, is that it. This one's not a terrible. It's not a terrible title.

And what. What does that mean? Well, why does God renew the covenant? Well, I'm gonna tell you, God.

God does renew his relationship with you.

He does.

His mercies are new every morning. Why? Because we need it. It's not because he changes. It's because we. I mean, we need it. We need the change.

We need God to step into our situations. We wander off. I mean,

I do, and I have been pastoring for long enough to know that everybody else does, even if they don't think they does. Okay?

They. They do. They. They wander off. We all wander off.

And when. When we wander off,

the. The covenant relationship we have with God, he steps in and makes them new. His mercies are new every morning,

and they are. And they're good. His mercies are good.

And they, they, they do guide us in the right direction. We're not on a straight line headed toward God's will perfectly.

We're more of a.

I can't. I can't. I think they call them a dope chart where you find yourself in a different spot every, every day. And, and it's generally heading in the right direction.

But you'll find yourself in weird spots on that chart.

And it's not in the center of the line of God's will.

And when you're not,

you have to.

God has to get you back where you need to be.

And the children of Israel definitely weren't in the middle of God's will all the time. And God wanted to make sure that they understood the covenant he had with them.

And so he renews it. He lets them know this is the.

God's not changing,

but he lets them know what the covenant is. He sits down with them and renews it. And aren't you glad that God speaks to you more than once about a matter of great importance?

Because I need to hear from him a lot about it, because oftentimes I don't hear him the first time.

It says, these are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab.

Now notice he's already made a covenant with him on the mountain.

But he is. He is.

He. He. He. He is. He's given. These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded to Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab.

So now they've, you know, they've gone through the wilderness experience.

They're in Moab where they have,

where, where they have taken control.

And,

and it says, besides the covenant which he made with them in horrid. And that doesn't mean he's setting that aside.

That means that he is, he is adding to a little bit because they're in a new place,

but he is also renewing what he already did.

Okay, there's going to be, I mean, there's going to be some nuance difference, you know, in, in your life. God's, God's covenant, what he's doing in your life is going to be different each year, each.

Each decade. But, but now what he's generally doing in your life is not going to be different.

It's not. Because,

you know, his redemption and his work is going to be the same.

You and your circumstances and you and how you've walked with him are going to be different.

And so what's changed? You've changed.

What does God do? Well,

he renews.

He explains.

He may reveal more about his plan for you.

But he didn't change his plan. He's just.

You've changed. So he's walking you through it.

Like I said, praise God, he does. Now, Moses called all Israel and said to them,

you have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt. Now, this is what. He did this on Mahora,

on the mountain.

I mean, he did that with them. He explained to them how he delivered them to Pharaoh and all his servants, what God did to Pharaoh in the land of Egypt, then all his servants and to all his land the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs and those great wonders.

And what is he talking about?

What he's talking about is that you've seen me on the mountain.

You've seen me destroy enemies before you. You've seen me provide manna from heaven. You've seen the quail. You've seen. I mean, you've seen the water from the rock.

I mean, you've seen all the things that I've done. You've seen what I did to deliver you out of Egypt. Okay? And let me say this. That's pretty normal in our relationship with Him.

God shows us where he's delivering us from because we're walking into darkness, and he calls us out of that darkness. So he shows us the darkness that we're coming from.

And he probably does some pretty cool stuff in your life at the very start to make your life livable with Him.

You know, I have a lot of people who, you know, are struggling with this, that or the other, and God delivers them from that. And that is a miraculous work God does in their life.

And he says, you've seen all the trials and all. You've seen all the signs and those great wonders that I did for you.

He's reminding you of what he delivered you out of. He's reminding you what he. What he delivered you from so that you can. You can have that.

That good land. You can live there. You can live in the. In his plan for you. Yet the Lord has not given you heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear to this very day.

And that's one of those passage. That's one of those verses right there that I.

When I read that,

it makes me. It makes. It hearkens to the words of Jesus. It makes me. Makes me think about what Jesus said that he's going to give us ears to hear and eyes to see.

And what that means is that they're not born again. I don't think.

I think that they are God's children. I think they have the promises of God.

I think that those promises are, yes, and amen,

they're going to happen.

But I think until you are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and given a new spirit that you don't truly have a heart to perceive and an eyes to see and ears to hear, and he says, the Lord has not given you those things.

And so I think that's a little bitty, just a little sign right there in the passage that tells me God is saying to us in the New Testament that we've been given something more than them and therefore we're held to a greater account for it.

They're not held to the account we are because you actually have the spirit of God living inside of you. Now, I'm not sure that Moses wasn't born again and Joshua and some other people in the New Testament, but I'm not sure that the whole assembly was born again.

And, you know, that's one of those things I struggle with all the time about Old Testament saints and how God worked his.

His. What he did in the New Testament for us, how he worked that in them, I don't know. I believe David was born again for sure,

but other than that. And I believe John the Baptist. And you go, well, he's New Testament. No, he's not. He's. He's the last Old Testament prophet.

I think he was born again. So I think people in the Old Testament were born again. I'm just not sure that everybody.

And these little verses here that give me those insights right here,

verse 4. Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear to this very day.

Now,

that's to that day.

But then we get to Jesus and he says, I'm giving you ears to hear and eyes to see.

That would tend to indicate that the Messiah Jesus gives the ears to ear and the eyes to see to all his people.

He says, you've not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may not may know that I am the Lord your God. What he's saying is,

you've eaten the manna and you've not had wine to drink.

You're not living. You've not lived normally out here in the wilderness. I have sustained you.

And this is for the purpose that you would know that I sustain you and that all this other stuff doesn't sustain you.

And so he's saying to him, I'm not giving you eyes to see and ears to hear.

I have taken care of you, I have sustained you. And you go, what does that got to do with ears to ear and eyes to see? Well, because in the New Testament,

our faith, us trusting God,

us walking alongside of God,

our efforts,

does play a role in our salvific process and our sustenance. I mean, God,

God rewards our faith. God, God,

God blesses our faith.

And our faith is a more powerful faith than one who is not born again. Why? Because I have the Holy Spirit living inside of me.

It's more effective.

They did not, and I've already said that they didn't.

And they just had to be totally sustained by God without really any perception or understanding. You're not that way.

You do have perception and understanding. You can hear God and you can hear his voice and walk with him, and you can exercise your faith according to his revelation to you, according to his revealing Himself to you.

And so you're not wandering around in darkness.

I want you to hear me. You're not.

He says, and when you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og, king of Bashan came out against us to battle and we conquered them. Notice they're conquering.

Even in the midst of not having eyes to see and ears to hear,

God has sustained them and he's made them a conquering people.

So how much more should we be as his people today?

We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh.

Therefore, keep the words of this covenant and do them that you may prosper in all that you do. And this first chapter of this passage, it's not a super long chapter like the last one was, which was a chapter of cursings and boy, that was rough.

But, but this chapter is a he. What? He's, he's setting them up and he said, and he's saying to them, I've done these things. This is the position you find yourself in.

This, this first paragraph, basically saying this is the position you find yourself in.

And one of the positions is that he delivered you out of Egypt.

Secondly, that you're not totally understanding.

Thirdly, I have done miraculous things to sustain you and take care of you, to include defeating other armies.

And therefore you need to keep the words of my covenant, because I am the one that's protecting, sustaining and keeping you And I am going to lead you into the Promised Land.

All right,

now, I'm going to say this to you. That, that, that as we go with pictures,

this generally kind of looks like a young Christian,

a young believer. And God doesn't want them to just stay in the wilderness. God wants them to enter into the Promised Land. And how do they enter into the Promised Land?

Well, we're going to see that Joshua has to begin to transition from, from being blind and ununderstanding and being sustained by God to walking his faith out.

And that's really what the Promised Land's about,

us glorifying God by proving that he can take a broken thing and not only make it new and alive,

but he can make it powerful and walk powerful before Him. And that's what he does with us.

And so that's really what. If you want to get into the beautiful picture of the Old Testament deliverance from Egypt into the Promised Land,

it is the premier, the primary story of Scripture because it is the primary story of the Old Testament, and then it is the primary picture of what God does for us in the New Testament.

So he delivers us out of bondage and slavery in this world and delivers us into new life and gives us eyes to see and ears to hear and gives us the ability to trust him in powerful ways and walk with him as he would have us walk with Him.

And,

and that's why we study these things, because they are.

They give us those powerful backgrounds in our mind to understand what God is doing.

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.