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August 12 - Deuteronomy 34 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's a Tuesday.
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  It's the 12th of August. Great to have your company
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  wherever you are, no matter what's going on in your world.
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  I wonder where we all are at the moment.
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  Here I am in Canberra, fighting a very chilly winter, but that's
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  OK. Enjoying my training, having a
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  great time. I wonder how you're going.
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  Is it at the beginning of your day?
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  Have you still got it all ahead of you, or are you just resting
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  toward the end? Or are you in the thick of it,
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  maybe driving in your car or going for a run?
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  Wherever you are, friends, whoever you're with right now,
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  so good that you have invited me to come into your day so that we
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  can today read this short but epic reading.
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  Where Moses dies, the end of the life of this incredible prophet,
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  this man who is responsible for the penteuct, his first five
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  books of the Bible authored by him in his tradition, by his
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  authority. Phenomenal figure.
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  And here we celebrate or mark the end of his life.
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  So with that, let's read it, friends.
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  It's a brief one, but it's a powerful 1.
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  So let us enjoy this reading final of Deuteronomy.
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  Deuteronomy chapter 34. Then Moses went up to Mount Nebo
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  from the plains of Moab and climbed Pisgah Peak, which is
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  across from Jericho. And the Lord showed him the
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  whole land from Gilead as far as Dam, all the land of Naphtali,
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  the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah,
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  extending to the Mediterranean Sea, the Negev, the Jordan
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  Valley with Jericho, the city of palms as far as Zoa.
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  And the Lord said to Moses, This is the land I promised on oath
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  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. When I said, I will give it to
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  your descendants, I have now allowed you to see it with your
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  own eyes, but you will not enter the land.
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  So Moses the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of
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  Moab, just as the Lord had said. The Lord buried him in the
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  valley near Bethpeo in Moab. But to this day no one knows the
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  exact place. Moses was 120 years old when he
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  died, yet his eyesight was clear and he was as strong as ever.
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  The people of Israel mourned for Moses on the plains of Moab for
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  30 days until the customary period of mourning was over.
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  Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the Spirit of wisdom, for
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  Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed
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  him, doing just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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  There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses
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  whom the Lord knew face to face. The Lord sent him to perform all
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  the miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt against
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  Pharaoh and all his servants and his entire land.
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  With mighty power, Moses performed terrifying acts in the
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  sight of all Israel. Our Lord, what a beautiful
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  picture of you being with your people and you living with Moses
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  in his time, knowing him, as the Scripture says, face to face.
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  Our Lord, thank you for the intimate way that you journey
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  with your people, that you journey with us, and that we
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  know you face to face too, because you have given us Jesus
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  and we look into the face of Jesus and we see you and what
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  you are all about and your true character.
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  Thank you for this revelation and thank you for the example of
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  this man Moses, who served you diligently through the long
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  years of his life. May we too be your servant of
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  that calibre, serving you through all the days of our
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  life. So today we recommit ourselves
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  freshly to you, our Triune God, our loving Father, our kind
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  Saviour and our ever present Spirit.
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  We worship you now and always. Amen.