Come Follow: Me Reading: Deuteronomy 1-5

Come Follow Me: Reading: Deuteronomy 1-5

Readings: Deuteronomy 1-5

Deuteronomy 1: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/1?lang=eng

Moses begins the recitation of all that befell Israel during forty years in the wilderness.

How does looking over the events of your own life bless you? How does remembrance bring gratitude and direction?

Deuteronomy 2: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/2?lang=eng

Moses continues recounting: The children of Israel press forward to their promised land.

Vs 5 The Lord doesn’t want Israel to meddle with Esau. Mount Seir was given to Esau for a possession.

Vs 9 Meddle not with Moabites. Ar is given to Lot for a possession.

Vs 24 Other lands was Israel commanded to take.

Deuteronomy 3: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/3?lang=eng

Moses sees the children of Israel overtake the lands for their inheritance, but he does not enter the Promised Land himself. He counsels and strengthens Joshua.

23 And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,

24 O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

26 But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

Deuteronomy 4: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/4?lang=eng

Moses exhorts the children of Israel to keep the commandments, to teach them to their children, and to be exemplary before all nations—They are forbidden to make graven images or worship other gods—They are to witness that they have heard the voice of God—They will be scattered among all nations when they worship other gods—They will be gathered again in the latter days when they seek the Lord their God—Moses extols the mercy and goodness of God to Israel.

1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.

Agency is given to us, and when we use it to follow the Lord, we live, and we will eventually have eternal life with Him in the kingdom of His Father.

4 But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.

Moses reminds the people what great blessings they’ve been given, how favored they have been. They need to remember to keep the statutes of the Lord and to be faithful to the covenant.

They saw the fire in the mount, and they heard the voice of the Lord.
Have you felt the fire in your heart? Have you heard His voice in your mind?

13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Are His laws and ordinances written in your heart?

20 But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

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The Book of Deuteronomy is a wonderful book. Moses reminds the children of Israel how blessed they've been. They saw the fire in the mount; they heard the voice of the Lord; they saw the matchless power of the Lord and they lived through His many miracles. He brought them to salvation.

Throughout Deuteronomy, Moses acts very Grandfatherly towards all of Israel. He pleads with them to remember Jesus, to keep His statutes, and to marry within the covenant.

Moses tells them of the tender mercies of the Lord. Though we forget Him and stray from Him, when we remember, when we repent and turn back to Him, He also will remember us; He never can forget. We are graven upon the palms of His hand and in His heart. He who keeps promises, remembers the covenants He made with our Fathers. When we seek Him, He will renew those covenants in and through us.

39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Deuteronomy 5: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/5?lang=eng

Moses tells of the covenant God made with Israel in Horeb—He reviews the Ten Commandments—Sabbath observance also commemorates the deliverance from Egypt—God talks with man—Blessings flow from obedience.

2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

3 The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

4 The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

24 And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.

27 Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

28 And the Lord heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.

29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Look to God, follow His prophet, be obedient and Live.