Deuteronomy 34:9-12 Bible Study | Episode 963

June 18, 2025

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

Deuteronomy 34:9-12   Bible Study | Episode #963

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

Speaker A: 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.

Speaker B: His word to you and allow you.

Speaker A: 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.

Speaker B: Well, good morning. Welcome to Lake Community Church's morning Bible study. We are in Deuteronomy, chapter 34,

I guess. Exciting, satisfying. Time to finish out the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament.

As I've said before,

you know, this is, this is a completion, along with the book of Psalms of somewhere between 30.

I'm at 25 and 35% of.

Of the Bible.

Now you go, that's only six books. And there's 66 books. Yes, but the six books we've done are some of the largest books of the Bible.

Some of the Old Testament prophets are really large, obviously,

and also the book of Proverbs is fairly lengthy,

but really these are maybe six of the ten biggest books in the Bible. So we have really covered a lot of ground over the last five years.

It is a transition. It's a transition in authors.

We move on from Moses. Moses is the writer of the first five books of the new Test, you know, the Old Testament. And we move on to many, many more writers of Scripture.

Joshua is going to just be covered by, by Joshua. And then you've got Judges,

which is a long, long period of time in Israel's history because it covers the life of many, many people.

And then, then we move into 1st and 2nd Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1st and 2nd Chronicles,

and we have Ruth and a few more books sprinkled in that are fairly shorter. But those books all deal with the Kings.

And so we've got a lot of good Bible studies to come.

All this points to the New Testament.

Joshua points to going into the promised land and following into the promised land. So it is a plethora of, of great biblical insights that give us,

give us understandings of the New Testament. The Old Testament really is our, our teacher, our guide.

It, it in many ways captures or,

or it frames the New Testament so that we can truly understand the teachings of Christ. My father said so, so many times. He said, you really can't understand the New Testament until you know the Old Testament.

And,

and he's right because Jesus, of all the things Jesus for sure was,

he was a Jewish rabbi. And so knowing his Judaism,

understanding his context, because he's the author of the Old Testament and the New Testament understanding that allows you to have insights into the truth and the eternality of,

of his teaching. And so we get to Joshua and really this is not the first time Joshua's mentioned. Joshua's mentioned several other times throughout the Pentateuch because,

well, not throughout it,

starting in Exodus, he's mentioned and he is really what we would call,

as many would say he's Moses chief lieutenant.

He's the vice president in our modern American culture.

He's the one, one who is,

who is being groomed to take over when Moses passes off the scene. And, and let me say this, this is,

this is one of those,

one of those passing of the torches that really works. It doesn't always work in life and it doesn't always work in scripture.

But when it's done well, it can really, really be powerful and right here.

Joshua was a loyal,

a loyal and a learned disciple of Moses. He,

he watched, he heard,

he became.

And even though Moses name is going to be much greater than Joshua, Joshua in many ways is going to operate in as much if not more power in, in his, in his doing, of the task.

Just like Elijah,

who is a lot,

just like Elisha is Elijah's prodigy. And Elisha has a double portion of Elijah's anointing.

And so therefore he's more powerful. Elijah is the one we remember and he is the one that is thought of as being greater. But the truth is Elisha was greater in many ways.

I would say Joshua was greater because going into the promised land is a picture of living out the Spirit filled Christian life.

And so if we're going to compare,

that's why really I like Joshua so much.

He is one of those people in Scripture who is faithful all the time.

And I desire to be faithful all the time.

I'm not a Joshua for sure.

Daniel is the other one in the Old Testament. Joshua and Daniel are two men in the Old Testament. Nothing negative is said about them because they were steady at the work God had put them to do.

And even through some of the most difficult of times,

the most difficult of times, they were steady at it.

It says now Joshua the son of nun was full of the spirit of wisdom.

For Moses had laid his hands on him.

So we see that he is full of the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

That's what it's telling us.

And Moses had placed his hands on him, meaning he'd passed the torch to him.

He placed his anointing on him.

So he gets his insights from God and he gets Moses insights from God. God. And he does,

he gets his power that comes from his obedience and he gets Moses's power that comes from Moses obedience,

it says. So the children of Israel heeded him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. So what, what they're doing is they're following him as they followed Moses and they heeded him because Moses had placed his hands on him.

He. He placed him in that position. And Joshua, son of nun, was, was true to the task. He was, he was up to doing the job that he was called to do because,

well, he'd learned wisdom.

He was full of it because he watched being alongside Moses. He learned many of the lessons Moses learned,

but he learned them in the secondary role.

And a good, a good follower, a good disciple does those things.

And he was a, he was excellent Adam. But since then, there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. And what, what it's saying is, is that Moses was a special one.

And he was, he was special because he'd seen, he'd spoken to God face to face. He, he had, he had been the one that was willing to go and, and confront Pharaoh.

And even though his willingness failed him at the start and sometimes in the middle,

he eventually lived out his faith by doing what God had asked him to do, by living out the revelation that God had given him. And so he says, and all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt before Pharaoh, before all his servants,

and in all his land,

he said, you know, God, God, God sent him and he did it.

And, you know,

we don't really talk a lot all the time,

and rightly so,

about the faults of Moses. Moses had a lot of faults, but he did what God told him to do. And really, you just remember that he's the lawgiver, he's the prophet, he's the great one.

Why? Because, you know, many times people,

when you do do it the right way,

in the end,

what they remember is not the flaws.

They remember the accomplishment of the life and what a great way to do it.

I think for human beings who are so apt to get focused on the wrong and the evil in the end, for The Christian life,

we remember the good things. We remember the great things that, that life accomplished. And Moses was that,

by the way, that's a good way to do the ministry of the dying, the ministry of those who are passing on.

We don't focus on the flaws of the human being. We focus on the grace of God that was clear and evident in their life.

And when we do that, there's great joy.

And when we do that, there's great comfort that comes from it.

And so when God is showing up and showing out,

it is a beautiful thing to see the king at work.

And so when he's doing that in someone's life,

you know,

no matter what their misgivings are,

in their own difficulty trying to walk in it, and no matter what their missteps are, in their failures,

when we see God at work in someone's life, it is a miracle of his grace.

And so he was, Moses was the great prophet.

And Israel from that moment on began to search for the prophet that Moses said would come, that would be greater than he.

And so when we see Jesus,

he is, as in the line of Moses, he is the great prophet.

And so it says. And by all the mighty power and the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel,

we love to,

to think about those things in those days.

And so many, so many times, I can't even remember, there was some guy,

I was watching something,

a documentary, as I'm apt to do,

and they were questioning some little bitty thing about Moses, about the story,

whether or not it could be true, because is this really true?

And I go,

are you forgetting the plagues in Egypt? Are you forgetting the Red Sea?

You're questioning whether or not he had a hangnail,

whether or not he had a rash on his ankle.

And failing to recognize that obviously something great happened.

Obviously this story,

this story has great significance and has great historical value because we, we have historical evidence of, of all of this.

And,

and you're trying to throw a. Throw, throw, sling mud from, from afar off. Well, it's hard to sling mud at Moses.

We know his flaws, and yet God did great things through those flaws, which really proves the enormity of who God really is.

And he wants to do that in our lives.

And he is at work doing that in our lives. We have to learn to be obedient to his revelation,

no matter where we're at and what our circumstances.

Speaker A: As you go today, I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep.

Speaker B: You, that he'll make his face to.

Speaker A: Shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.