Deuteronomy 32:44-52 Bible Study | Episode 958

June 11, 2025

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

Deuteronomy 32:44-52  Bible Study | Episode #958

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 32, and we're finishing out the chapter this morning.

It is really the beginning of the transition. Moses in the next chapter is going to basically speaks words of blessing over the tribes. And then after that,

he's going to go up on Mount Nebo and he's going to see the promised land. And then there he is going to be with his forefathers. And that's. That's that.

That is how how basically Deuteronomy ends.

But remember,

in the last two Bible studies, we went through his. His song, the song that he wrote,

it is scripture. It is Deuteronomy, chapter 32. So it is scripture.

And it's important because I want you to hear what Moses has to say about the word of God, about what God's word says it says. So Moses came with Joshua, son of,

and spoke all the words of his song in the hearing of the people.

Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel. Now he understands that what he wrote as far as a song is a part of God's word because it's going to be a part of the five books that he's writing.

He's written of the Bible. It's going to be a part of scripture.

So he knows that these songs are going to be a part of scripture.

Sometimes when a writer is writing,

writing a book in the Bible,

that person knows that it's going to be the word of God to future generations. Many times they don't.

The truth is that's not really relevant whether they know or don't know.

But what matters is that he does know. He knows that he is giving them the word of God. In fact, he is quite intentionally writing it down. And Moses would have been a unique person to do that.

Moses was chosen.

One of the reasons Moses was chosen is because he would be able to do that. Why? Because he grew up in Pharaoh's house.

He knew how to write.

He knew how to write. Now, were there other Jews that knew how to write? Sure there were.

Were there other Jews that knew how to write God's word?

Absolutely there were,

but that was not the common thing. In fact, they were in slavery in Egypt. So the truth is that wouldn't have education, would not have been a thing that they would have had.

And so at that,

Moses was really a. A pivotal figure in all kinds of ways. And one of the pivotal ways that we rarely talk about as far as Moses is concerned, one of the ways we rarely talk about is that he was.

Well,

he was in a unique position in his ability to write God's word. And so understanding that is somewhat important. I'm going to fix this camera.

Understanding that would. Would have been something of great importance for Moses. And so it says here,

he said, so Moses fin speaking all these words to all Israel. And he said to them, set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today.

Notice he's saying, tune your hearts in to what I am testifying God has said,

which you shall command your children to be careful to observe all the words of this law, meaning,

make sure that you are obedient by faith to what I'm teaching you, what I'm telling you, what I'm commanding you, what I'm ordering you,

what I'm relating to you. All these words work together to understand that this is the revelation of God. This is the revealing of God to them. For it is not a futile thing for you,

because it is your life. What he's saying is, it's not something that you're just doing. You're not doing this for no reason.

We're doing this for a reason. We're doing this because it is life to you.

It is important that you.

This. It's important that you live a life in such a way that you get this. Because in the end,

it will be. It will be everything to you. It is your life.

And by his, by this word, you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess. What he's saying is you're going to remain in God's best in God's promises when you remain in his word.

When you don't remain in his word, well,

you don't remain in his promises.

He says, then the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying, go up to the mountain,

to Abiram, Mount Nebo,

which is in the land of Moaz, across from Jericho.

View the land of Canaan, which I give the children of Israel to possess and die on the mountain which you ascend and be gathered to your people.

Just as Aaron, your brother, died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

Because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh,

in the wilderness of Zin.

Because you did not hallow or honor me in the midst of the children of Israel.

Yet you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go there. Into the land which I'm given to the children of Israel. Now, I want you to notice what God's saying.

You're going to not go into the promised land. I'm going to allow you to go up. You've told the people to listen and follow the law, follow what I've taught you.

You've taught them to do that, but you're not going to go in. And why aren't they?

Why isn't he going to go in?

Because he did not do what God told him to do.

And dishonored God in the midst of the people at Meribah Kadesh, in the desert of Zin. That's when he went and struck the rock. When God told him to tap the rock, he struck it twice and God just told him to tap it.

And you go, well, that seems like such a minor thing.

Well, I'll say this to you. It's not a minor thing to refuse to do what God has said in His Word.

And especially when you know it and you live by it. It is not a minor thing to refuse to do or to specifically not do what God has said to do in the way he said to do it.

And God's revelation is very important to Him. In fact,

John in,

in the Gospel of John seems to indicate, doesn't seem to just outright indicates that Jesus is the Word made flesh.

And so his desire for us to know him and know His Word is very powerful. Because I can't know him without His Word. And if I can't know him without His Word, then His Word is of the utmost importance.

If I can't know him without the revelation of the Holy Spirit, well, then the Holy Spirit's work is of the utmost importance.

If I can't know him without knowing His Word and knowing the Holy Spirit and being obedient to it, well, then it is of the utmost importance that I be obedient to God's Word.

It's really, really important to God that I be obedient to His Word.

And without obedience, there's no way to know Him. There's no way to understand.

You're not going to see God's revelation play out in your life until you begin to be obedient to His Word and trust him with it so that you can see how His Word works in your life.

You're never going to be able to swim until you get in the pool and swim.

You're never, ever going to be able to accomplish a task until you begin the process of that task.

You're never, ever going to see God in His fullness. You're never going to ever understand God in His fullness until you begin to practice the discipline of faithful obedience or obedience that is born of faith.

Okay?

And when God reveals Himself to you in that,

it is important that you do it. Now, for Moses, he was the leader of God's people.

And for Moses,

his whole life after he met the Lord God on that mountain was based off of.

Was based wholly off of God's word. God's revelation to him. God's revelation in the bush, God's revelation to him each through each one of the plagues, God's revelation to him leading them out of Egypt, God's revelation to him as far as crossing the Red Sea, going up on the mountaintop,

all these things were important. And it was important to God, too.

When. When. When Moses was being attacked by Aaron and Miriam. And God said, you know, to other men, I speak in visions and dreams, but Moses, I speak face to face.

So it was very important to God for Moses to be faithfully obedient. In fact, he honored Moses because of that.

And then when Moses, at a very important time in Israel's history, when. When he was to be teaching them how to be obedient in a struggle in a difficult time,

a time where they didn't have any water,

a time where they were very childish in their moaning and whining and crying about what was going on in that season. And in that time,

he did not do what God told him to do and dishonored God in the process.

And so he doesn't get to go in the Promised Land.

Now, if God did that for Moses, I want you to hear me. It's important that you get this.

If God didn't allow Moses to go in the Promised Land,

it's you. You've got it. You've got to. You got to get that.

It's important that you walk in a faithful obedience to God,

to his general revelation. In creation.

You know, don't, you know, don't go up on top of a building and jump off and say, God's going to save me. That God created the universe a certain way.

And you seeing him in that universe and realizing that gravity is going to cause you to hit the ground real is important.

You need to hear God in his specific revelation, his personal specific revelation, which is the word of God through Jesus Christ.

You need to be obedient to the word of God as he's, as he's teaching you in it.

And then finally,

you have to learn to be obedient to the voice of the Holy Spirit, who takes God's Word and makes direct application to your life with God's word. So when God tells you to do something with your life, you learn to be obedient in that also.

And so this is a, this is a, this is a life process.

And you know,

he says, you know, it is your life, for it is not a futile thing for you because it is your life.

And by his words, you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over to the Jordan.

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.