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- 0:00Steve Webb: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
- 0:10Coming to you from Riverside, California, this is the
- 0:12Lifespring family audio. But podcasting since 2004. I'm your
- 0:17OG God caster Steve Webb. This is the daily show where we're
- 0:21reading through the entire Bible in a year. Today's Monday, the
- 0:24day we read from the law, we'll read Deuteronomy four through
- 0:27six. I'll have some comments after we read. We'll have an on
- 0:31this date in church history. And we'll have a time of prayer. I'm
- 0:34calling today's episode, the unified one. The show notes page
- 0:38for today's episode is at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 299.
- 0:43I welcome your comments. And my email address is Steven
- 0:47Lifespring. media.ca. Let's begin.
- 0:52Deuteronomy chapter four. Now Israel, in light of all that,
- 0:56listen to the regulations and the case laws that I'm teaching
- 0:59you to follow, so that you may live, enter and possess the land
- 1:03that the Lord your ancestors, God is giving you. Don't add
- 1:08anything to the word that I'm commanding you and don't take
- 1:10anything away from it. Instead, keep the commandments of the
- 1:14Lord your God that I am commanding all of you. You saw
- 1:18with your own eyes, what the Lord did concerning the Baal of
- 1:20Peor, the Lord your God destroyed everyone who followed
- 1:24the Baal of peor. But all of you who stayed true to the Lord,
- 1:27your God are alive today. So pay attention. I am teaching all of
- 1:32you the regulations and the case laws exactly as the Lord my God
- 1:35commanded me. You must do these in the land you're entering to
- 1:39possess. Keep them faithfully, because that will show your
- 1:42wisdom and insight to the nations who will hear about all
- 1:45these regulations, they will say, Surely, this great nation
- 1:49is a wise and insightful people. After all, is there any great
- 1:53nation that has gods as close to it as the Lord our God is close
- 1:57to us whenever we call to him? Or does any great nation have
- 2:01regulations in case laws is righteous as all this
- 2:04instruction that I'm setting before you today, but be on
- 2:08guard and watch yourselves closely so that you don't forget
- 2:11the things your eyes saw, and so they never leave your mind as
- 2:14long as you live? Teach them to your children and your
- 2:17grandchildren. Remember that day when you stood before the Lord
- 2:21your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, gather the people to
- 2:25me, I will declare my words to them so that they will learn to
- 2:29fear me every day of their lives on the fertile land, and teach
- 2:32their children to do the same. Then you all came close and
- 2:36stood at the foot of the mountain. The mountain was
- 2:38blazing with fire up to the sky with darkness, cloud and thick
- 2:42smoke. The Lord spoke to you out of the very fire itself. You
- 2:47heard the sound of words, but you didn't see any form, there
- 2:50was only a voice. The Lord declared his covenant to you,
- 2:54which he commanded you to do the 10 commandments, and wrote them
- 2:58on to stone tablets. At that time, the Lord commanded me to
- 3:02teach you all the regulations and the case laws that you must
- 3:05keep in the land that you are entering to possess. So watch
- 3:08your conduct closely because you didn't see any form on the day
- 3:12of the Lord spoke to you at Hora about of the very fire itself.
- 3:16Don't ruin everything and make an idol for yourself, a form of
- 3:19any image, any likeness, male or female, or any likeness
- 3:23whatsoever. Whether of a land animal, a bird that flies in the
- 3:27sky, an insect that crawls on the earth, or a fish that lives
- 3:31in the sea, don't look to the skies to the sun, or the moon,
- 3:35or the stars, all the heavenly bodies and be led astray,
- 3:38worshipping and serving them. The Lord your God has granted
- 3:42these things to all the nations who live under heaven. But the
- 3:46Lord took you and brought you out of that iron furnace out of
- 3:49Egypt, so that you might be his own treasured people, which is
- 3:53what you are right now. The Lord was angry with me because of
- 3:57your deeds and swore that I couldn't cross the Jordan or
- 4:00enter the wonderful land that the Lord your God has given you
- 4:03as an inheritance. I will die here in this land. I won't cross
- 4:08the Jordan River, but you will and you will take possession of
- 4:11that wonderful land. So all of you watch yourselves. Don't
- 4:15forget the covenant that the Lord your God made with you by
- 4:18making an idol or an image of any kind or anything the Lord
- 4:22your God forbids, because the Lord your God is an all
- 4:25consuming fire. He is a passionate God. Once you have
- 4:29had children and grandchildren and have grown old on the land,
- 4:33if you ruined things by making an idol in any form whatsoever,
- 4:37and do what is evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and anger
- 4:40him. I call heaven and earth as my witness against you today.
- 4:44You will definitely disappear and quickly from the land that
- 4:48you are crossing over the Jordan River to possess. You won't
- 4:52extend your time there but will instead be totally destroyed.
- 4:56The Lord will scatter you among the nation's only a very few
- 5:00Have you will survive in the countries where the Lord will
- 5:02drag you. There you will worship other gods made of wood and
- 5:06stone by human hands. Gods that cannot see, listen, eat or
- 5:11smell, you will seek the Lord your God from there, and you
- 5:14will find him if you seek Him with all your heart, and with
- 5:17all your being in your distress. When all these things happen to
- 5:21you in the future, you will return to the Lord your God, and
- 5:25you will obey his voice. Because the Lord your God is a
- 5:28compassionate God. He won't let you go, he won't destroy you.
- 5:33And he won't forget the covenant that he swore to your ancestors.
- 5:37Now look into it into the days long past before your time, all
- 5:41the way back to the day God first created human beings on
- 5:45earth, from one end of heaven to the other. Has anything this
- 5:49amazing ever happened? Has anything like it ever been heard
- 5:53of before? Has any people ever listened to a God's voice
- 5:57speaking out of fire as each of you have and survived? or has
- 6:02any God ever tried to take one nation out of another nation
- 6:05using tests miracles, wonders wore a strong hand and an
- 6:09outstretched arm, or awesome power, like all that the Lord
- 6:13your God did for you in Egypt while you watched you were shown
- 6:17these things so that you would know this. The Lord is the only
- 6:21God. There is no other God except Him. From heaven, He made
- 6:26you hear his voice in order to discipline you. On Earth, he
- 6:30showed you his great fire. You heard his words from that very
- 6:34fire. And because he loved your ancestors and chose their
- 6:37descendants after them, God brought you out of Egypt with
- 6:41his own presence by his own great power in order to remove
- 6:45larger and stronger nations from before you and bring you into
- 6:49their land, giving it to you as an inheritance. That's where
- 6:53things stand right now. No Then today. And keep in mind that the
- 6:58Lord is the only God in heaven above or on Earth below. There
- 7:02is no other. Keep the Lord's regulations in His commandments.
- 7:07I'm commanding them to you today for your well being and for the
- 7:11well being of your children after you so that you may extend
- 7:14your time on the fertile land that the Lord your God is giving
- 7:17you forever. Then Moses set aside three cities on the
- 7:21eastern side of the Jordan River, so that anyone who killed
- 7:25someone accidentally and without prior hatred could flee to one
- 7:29of those cities and be safe Beezer in the wilderness on the
- 7:32plateau for the Reubenites Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites
- 7:37and Golan invasion for the Manasa sites. Now this is the
- 7:42instruction that Moses set before the Israelites. These are
- 7:45the laws and the regulations and the case laws that Moses made to
- 7:49the Israelites when they came out of Egypt. This took place
- 7:52across the Jordan River in the valley opposite Beth peor in the
- 7:57land of Sai Han the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, who Moses
- 8:01and the Israelites defeated when they came out of Egypt. They
- 8:05took possession of his land and the land of org Bayesians King,
- 8:09the two Amorite kings across the Jordan River to the east, from
- 8:13Aroer, which is on the banks of the Arn and River all the way to
- 8:16Mount Zion, also known as Herman, and all the desert
- 8:20regions across the Jordan River on the east down to the Dead
- 8:23Sea, beneath the slopes of Mount Pisgah.
- 8:27Deuteronomy chapter five. I sent for all the people of Israel.
- 8:32Here's what I said to them, Israel, listen to me, here are
- 8:35the rules and laws I'm announcing to you today. Learn
- 8:39them well, be sure to follow them. The Lord our God made a
- 8:43covenant with us at Mount Horeb. He didn't make it only with our
- 8:46parents. He also made it with us. In fact, he made it with all
- 8:50of us who are alive here today. The Lord spoke to you face to
- 8:54face, his voice came out of the fire on the mountain. At that
- 8:59time I stood between the Lord and you. I announced to you the
- 9:02Lord's message. I did it because you were afraid of the fire. You
- 9:06didn't go up the mountain. The Lord said, I am the Lord your
- 9:11God. I brought you out of Egypt. This is the land where you were
- 9:15slaves. Do not put any other gods in place of me. Do not make
- 9:20statues of gods that look like anything in the sky or on the
- 9:24earth or in the waters. Do not bow down to them or worship
- 9:28them. I am the Lord your God. I am a jealous God. I punish the
- 9:33children for the sin of their parents. I judge the
- 9:36grandchildren and great grandchildren of those who hate
- 9:39me. But for all time I come to show love to all those who love
- 9:43Me and keep My commandments. Do not misuse the name of the Lord
- 9:48your God. The Lord will find guilty anyone who misuses his
- 9:52name. observe the Sabbath day. keep it holy just as the Lord
- 9:57your God commanded you. Do all of you Your work in six days,
- 10:02but the seventh day is the Sabbath in honor of the Lord
- 10:05your God. Do not do any work on that day. The same command
- 10:09applies to your sons and daughters, your male and female
- 10:12servants, your oxen, your donkeys, and your other animals.
- 10:17It also applies to any outsiders who live in your cities. I want
- 10:21your male and female servants to rest, just as you do. Remember
- 10:25that you were slaves in Egypt, the Lord your God reached out
- 10:29his mighty hand and powerful arm and brought you out of there. So
- 10:33He has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day. Honor your
- 10:38father and mother just as the Lord your God commanded you,
- 10:41then you will live a long time and the land he is giving you
- 10:44and things will go well with you there. Do not commit murder. Do
- 10:49not commit adultery, do not steal. Do not give false witness
- 10:53against your neighbor. Do not long for your neighbor's wife.
- 10:58Do not long to have anything that belongs to your neighbor.
- 11:01Do not long to have your neighbor's house or land male or
- 11:04female servant, ox or donkey. Those are the commandments the
- 11:09Lord announced in a loud voice to your whole community. He gave
- 11:12them to you there on the mountain. He spoke out of the
- 11:15fire cloud and deep darkness. He didn't add anything else. Then
- 11:20he wrote the commandments on two stone tablets, and he gave them
- 11:23to me. The mountain was blazing with fire. You heard the voice
- 11:28coming out of the darkness. So your elders and all of the
- 11:31leaders of your tribes came to me. You said, The Lord our God
- 11:35has shown us His glory and majesty, we have heard his voice
- 11:39coming out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can still
- 11:43stay alive even if God speaks with him. But why should we die?
- 11:47This great fire will burn us up will die if we hear the voice of
- 11:51the Lord our God again. We have heard the voice of the living
- 11:54God. We've heard him speaking out of the fire. Has any other
- 11:59human being ever heard him speak like that and stayed alive. go
- 12:03near it. Listen to everything the Lord our God says, then tell
- 12:07us what he tells you. We will listen and obey. The Lord heard
- 12:12you when you spoke to me. He said to me, I have heard what
- 12:16these people said to you. Everything they said was good.
- 12:20But I wish they would always have respect for me and their
- 12:22hearts. I wish they would always obey all of my commands, then
- 12:27things would go well with them and their children forever. Go
- 12:30and tell them to return to their tents, but you stay here with
- 12:34me. Then I will give you all of my commands, rules and laws. You
- 12:39must teach the people to follow them in the land I am giving
- 12:41them as their very own. So be careful to do what the Lord your
- 12:46God has commanded you. Don't turn away from his commands to
- 12:49the right or to the left. Live exactly as the Lord your God has
- 12:53commanded you to live, then you will enjoy life in the land you
- 12:57will soon own things will go well with you there. You will
- 13:01live there for a long time.
- 13:03Deuteronomy chapter six. Now this is the commandment. And
- 13:07these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your
- 13:10God has commanded to teach you that you may observe them in the
- 13:13land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear
- 13:17the Lord your God to keep all His statutes and His
- 13:20commandments which I command you, you and your son and your
- 13:23grandson all the days of your life, and that your days may be
- 13:27prolonged. Therefore, Hero Israel and be careful to observe
- 13:31it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply
- 13:35greatly as the Lord God of your fathers as promised you a land
- 13:38flowing with milk and honey. Here, O Israel, the LORD our
- 13:42God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all
- 13:47your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. In
- 13:51these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.
- 13:55You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk
- 13:58of them when you sit in your house. When you walk by the way,
- 14:02when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as
- 14:06a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between
- 14:08your eyes, you shall write them on the doorposts of your house
- 14:12on your gates. So it shall be when the Lord your God brings
- 14:16you into the land of which he swore to your fathers, to
- 14:19Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful
- 14:23cities which you did not build houses full of all good things
- 14:27which you did not fill hewn out wells which you did not dig
- 14:31vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant. When you have
- 14:34eaten and are full. Then beware lest you forget the Lord who
- 14:38brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage.
- 14:42You shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him and shall take
- 14:45holds in his name. You shall not go after other gods, the gods of
- 14:50the peoples who are all around you. For the Lord your God is a
- 14:53jealous God among you, lest the anger of the LORD your God be
- 14:57aroused against you and destroy you from the Face of the Earth,
- 15:01you shall not tempt the Lord your God as you tempted him and
- 15:04Massa, you shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord
- 15:07your God, His testimonies and his statutes which He has
- 15:11commanded you. And you shall do what is right and good in the
- 15:15sight of the Lord, that it may be well with you. And then you
- 15:18may go in and possess the good land of which the Lord swore to
- 15:21your fathers to cast out all your enemies from before you, as
- 15:25the Lord has spoken. When your son asks you in time to come,
- 15:30saying, What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes,
- 15:33and the judgments which the Lord our God has commanded you? Then
- 15:37you shall say to your son, we were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt,
- 15:40and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. And
- 15:44the Lord showed signs and wonders before our eyes great
- 15:47and severe, against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household,
- 15:51then he brought us out from there that he might bring us in
- 15:54to give us the land of which he swore to our fathers. And the
- 15:58Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the Lord
- 16:02our God for our good always, that he might preserve us alive
- 16:06as it is this day, then it will be righteousness for us if we
- 16:10are careful to observe all these commandments before the Lord our
- 16:13God, as he has commanded us.
- 16:17In chapter six, verses four and five, Moses is telling the
- 16:21children of Israel, the great commandment, the one that
- 16:24encompassed all the others. It's the commandment that Jesus
- 16:27quoted when the Pharisees asked him, which was the greatest of
- 16:30all the commandments, those verses our hero, Israel, the
- 16:34LORD our God, the Lord is One, you shall love the Lord your God
- 16:38with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your
- 16:41strength. Well, since Jesus said that this is the greatest
- 16:45commandment, we should understand it as clearly as
- 16:48possible, don't you think? Well, we haven't talked about the
- 16:51concept of the Trinity much on the show. But this verse seems
- 16:55like a good place to spend a few minutes on the subject. Now many
- 16:58of you probably have a pretty good grasp on the idea of a
- 17:01Triune God, but I know there are some in the Lifespring family
- 17:04who are fairly new to Christianity. And this is such
- 17:08an important topic that I do want to at least touch on it.
- 17:11This won't be an in depth word study, but more like a 30,000
- 17:15foot flyover view. Okay, so you might say, The Lord our God is
- 17:19one. What about Jesus and the Holy Spirit? They're gods,
- 17:23aren't they? No, they're not. And what I mean by that is,
- 17:26they're not separate gods. And this is where the idea of the
- 17:30Trinity comes in. Orthodox Christianity, or traditional
- 17:34Christianity, if you prefer, believes that God is a trinity,
- 17:38that there are three distinct persons who are together, one
- 17:42God, not three gods, one God, it can be difficult to sort of get
- 17:47your head around this. So let's look at the word that was used
- 17:50in the original language Hebrew for the word that we translated
- 17:54into English as one. Here in Deuteronomy six for the Hebrew
- 17:59word Aecon is used. Here, O Israel, the LORD our God. The
- 18:03Lord is echoed, echoed refers to a single item made up of
- 18:09multiple parts, it's called a unified one. Well, are there
- 18:14other places in the Bible that the word Eckhart is used? Yes,
- 18:18there is. Let's look at a few. The first time we see this word
- 18:21echoed is in Genesis one five, the UN's literal translation
- 18:26renders it this way. And there is an evening, and there is a
- 18:29morning, day one. It was one day with two parts evening and
- 18:35morning, echoed day, day one, one day. In Genesis 224, we
- 18:42read, Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and
- 18:45be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh or
- 18:49Ekkehard flesh, in Exodus 26, six, and you shall make 50
- 18:55clasps of gold, and couple of the curtains together with the
- 18:58clasps, so that it may be one tabernacle. Well, obviously, the
- 19:03tabernacle was made up of many parts. And here it is called,
- 19:07One tabernacle. echoed tabernacle. Listen to Ezekiel
- 19:123715, through 17. Again, the word of the Lord came to me
- 19:16saying, As for you, Son of man, take a stick for yourself and
- 19:20write on it for Judah, and for the children of Israel, his
- 19:24companions, and then take another stick and write on it
- 19:28for Judah, the stick of Ephrem, and for all the houses of
- 19:31Israel, his companions, then join them one to another for
- 19:35yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your
- 19:39hand, two sticks become echoed. So the idea of three persons in
- 19:44echoed God is not foreign to Scripture. And there is a Hebrew
- 19:49word by the way for a single item made up of one alone, that
- 19:54word is your heat. And this word is used in connection to one god
- 19:59Exactly. The zero times in the Old Testament. Nowhere does the
- 20:03Bible say that the one God is a single entity. He is always
- 20:09referred to as a god, god. Here's some examples of Yeah,
- 20:13he'd from the Bible just so you see how it's used. In Genesis
- 20:17222, we read, He said, Now take your son, your only son, or your
- 20:23EOC heed son, whom you love Isaac, and go to the land of
- 20:27Moriah and offer him there is a burnt offering on one of the
- 20:30mountains in which I will tell you in Judges 1134 Now she was
- 20:35Jeff those one and only jockeyed child besides her, he had no son
- 20:41or daughter. And one more time Zechariah 1210 They will look on
- 20:46Me whom they have pierced. And they will mourn for him as one
- 20:50mourns for an only Yeah, he'd son. So I think you're beginning
- 20:54to see the difference between Yeah, heed as one and only and
- 20:58echoed a unified one. So let's move on. Again, in verse four,
- 21:04we read the Lord our God, the Lord is one. So in the phrase,
- 21:08the Lord our God, the Hebrew word for God, here is Elohim.
- 21:13Well, Elohim is a plural word, L is singular, Elohim is plural.
- 21:20And in Genesis 126, we read, then God said, Let us make man
- 21:25in our image, the word for God, there is Elohim. Then Elohim
- 21:30said, Let us make man in Our image, according to our
- 21:34likeness, let us our image or likeness, the Father, the Son,
- 21:39and the Holy Spirit, were all present at the creation as one
- 21:43God. And at Jesus baptism, we had Jesus there being baptized,
- 21:48the Holy Spirit descended from heaven like a dove. And the
- 21:51father spoke, saying, This is My beloved Son in whom I am well
- 21:55pleased. All three persons of the Triune God were present at
- 22:00the baptism of Jesus, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We have
- 22:05many, many verses that teach us that God is one. And in him,
- 22:09there are three distinct persons. And there are many who
- 22:12misunderstand or who don't want to understand this concept, but
- 22:16it's important for believers to at least trust that this is true
- 22:20by faith. So what do you think? Did you find this interesting,
- 22:24enlightening. You have more questions about it? Let me know
- 22:27on the show notes page at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 299.
- 22:32Tomorrow is history Tuesday, and we'll read Second Chronicles 25
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- 25:39On this date in church history, June 27 1736, as a member of the
- 25:44Holy Club, to which John and Charles Wesley also belonged,
- 25:48future English revivalist George Whitefield preached his first
- 25:52sermon at the age of 21. Whitefield went on to preach
- 25:561000s More sermons and became a force in colonial America's
- 26:00Great Awakening.
- 26:09Let's pray. Our heavenly Father when the disciples asked Jesus
- 26:13to teach them to pray, he taught us to address the father when we
- 26:17pray, but we understand that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- 26:21And when we pray, we pray in Jesus name. And the Holy Spirit
- 26:24helps us as we pray, Lord, even in prayer, you're so lavishly
- 26:29giving and gracious far beyond what we deserve. I've prayed
- 26:32many, many times that you would give us a thirst for your word
- 26:35and a desire to know you better. And now I ask that you would
- 26:39help us to be better and more committed people of prayer.
- 26:42Because in prayer, we do learn more about you and we become
- 26:46more aligned with your will. Since Jesus spent so much time
- 26:50in prayer, how much more time should we spend? I know, Lord,
- 26:53that I don't spend as much time as I should in prayer. And I ask
- 26:56you now to forgive me in Jesus name. I will try to do better
- 27:00Lord, and I ask that you help me. I thank you for the
- 27:03Lifespring family. Lord, please use this humble podcast to bring
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- 27:10listening here would be given back to them multiplied many
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- 27:18Amen. If you have a prayer request, if you have a praise,
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- 27:51Tomorrow we show number 300 If you receive value from the show,
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- 28:09name is Steve Webb.
- 28:10Bye