I Need a New Moses, Part 2

Jeannie Greer live in our souls with a sense of fear and under the dread of condemnation and simply saving us does not take that spirit out of us. But in Christ, God has made you part of a new family. That means you don't have to live under this cloud of condemnation where you expect to keep suffering for past six. Your daddy says no there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, the oldest nominee was Tom find a list of rules and expectations for its followers to adhere to the gospel message found in the Bible is different because it's not about anything that we need to do all about accepting what's been done for us and that's our subject today on Senate life pastor Jeannie Greer is continuing to teach the series called the whole story. The Birdseye view of the story of salvation from Genesis to Revelation and today were looking at the final sermon that Moses delivered to the Israelites before his death in discovering how even in the Old Testament. Moses was already pointing to Jesus.

The gospel of grace. Let's get started Jewish people. Moses was more celebrity. Moses was larger than life is not just a celebrity was a delivery was the national founding father. He was the lawgiver he was revered in life and even more so after death.

So there is no doubt that Moses really shot them surprise them. In Deuteronomy 1815, when he said in his final sermon to them, the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you from your brothers is to him that you actually listen.

She Moses ends his life in his final sermon, pointing to a new profit a better profit you say it would do for the Israelite people what Moses had been unable to accomplish himself. Moses you see in many ways, have been a failure. Given the law to the Israelites faithfully, but he had been unable to get the people actually obey the law, the history of Exodus to Deuteronomy it reads like one long continuous list of failures.

Furthermore, Moses turns out to be a deeply flawed leader himself.

Moses had himself been simple and I'm believing in Numbers 20 Israelites ran another one of their complaining fits again about whether to find water.

So God tells Moses go out and speak to the rock in the presence of the people and I'll make water flow out of the rock for them and instead of speaking to the rock like God had said he hits it twice with his staff. Instead, God said that it was more than just frustration and impatience on Moses as part was unbelief and it was a failure of love. So Moses said I'm not the final profit that you need is another one common this coming prophet will do what I've never been able to do, I could explain the law accurately to you, but I have not been able to lead you to obey it. So let me stop before we go any farther and tell you why that is so important for us is just like with Israel. Number one, we need a law that can change us for most of us. The problem is not that we don't know that we should be different. Our problem is that we can't make ourselves be different. We know we should be more honest, more moral, more diligent, more loving more courageously be better students are better dad. The problem is not that we don't know these things. The problem is we can't convince our hearts to act that way all the time so number one the wall to changes.

We need a law, the J number two because our greatest enemies like Israel are within us, not outside of this, he just like with the Israelites within the problem is out there. We need deliverance we need another Moses. We may not say that literally, but we need some kind of change and situate the political or economic delivery to come and save it. We need somebody who can break open change or somebody you could make America great again or somebody to make us all prosper aside, that's what I need. There is no law, no liberation, no external or circumstantial change that can transform the heart of man you need something different you need something more powerful something that even a perfect law cannot supply to you. Number three.

We need somebody who will love us unconditionally in order for real love for God to grow in us. We need a leader who will show was perfect and unconditional love all of our life. We crave that unconditional love. We look for first and her parents. Then we look forward and the spouse and until we find in our hearts are fearful and distressed true virtue grows only in the soil of security. It is only in the security of God's love for me that love for God grows in me.

Here's number four. We need somebody who can actually bridge the gap between God and us Moses wall was effective at showing us how simple we were.

There was a bedroom at showing us how terrible our sin was, but he couldn't. Changes what Moses promises is extremely relevant to us as well.

The Lord your God will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers. Another one is to handle actually listen, there's a couple important characteristics that he gives us in that one verse right there about this coming prophet. First he says is good to be from among your brothers and other characteristics as you like me let me consider this. Like Moses, Jesus was a Jew, like Moses, Jesus was born during a time when Israel was impressed like Moses when Jesus was born a local leader try to kill all the Hebrew boys a Moses case, it was Pharaoh in Jesus's case, it was Herod like Moses, Jesus chose to leave his royal family to identify with his people, like Moses, Jesus spent time of the wilderness before his ministry began.

Jesus was the scapegoat sin into the wilderness bearing our deal on it said it was the bronze serpent lifted off so we could be healed.

The rock struck by the anger of God so that we could drink the water of life, the man of the draw from heaven, so that we could be filled with the bread of life. Everything that Moses gave in shadow.

Jesus fulfilled in substance and I'm like Moses, Jesus blood actually cleanses us to that we can be safe again in God's presence because he Jesus blood does what no religious observance and do it's not water that we need to wash the field of our bodies is something that we need to watch the Philip off of our souls.

Most importantly, unlike Moses this new profit never grows weary with us and he never falters in obedience. Jesus did not get mad and strike the rock in frustration like Moses did in love. He took the stroke of justice so that we can escape it.

Jesus is the truer and better.

Moses tells us what Moses did, never gives us what no law can ever gives us to see now that you know that we can spend our last few minutes here looking at the actual sermon that Moses preached all book of Deuteronomy is one long sermon.

After he's given that they fail the law.

This is his final words to them under two primary themes in the sermon to print which you and I can listen to even better than they listen to because we know the actual profit he was talking about. The sermon is, summarize in chapter 6 of the Barbie chapter 6 meet for pickup is a couple things in their two things in the sermon. The first thing is remember, remember and repeat this command. Some 24 times in Deuteronomy.

At least that's how many we counted Israel's spiritual wandering is always good to be marked by time of spiritual forgetting is amnesia that leads to idolatry, but they physically could not remember like they had a mental problem which is that these things lost their prominence in their minds.

So what is he command them to remember verse 12. Take care lest you forget the Lord brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery would give you three things are supposed remember from that verse. The first one. A. Slavery of sin.

Remember the slavery that Sam had led you into you to stop and remember where your Sam had taken you so you can look back at your own life and remember that cancer you can remember where you were without God. You remember the emotional turmoil.

The anxiety that you live with your really want to go back there. Some of you are young you been raising Christian homes and you don't have a life that's been scarred by sin. Yet, thank God you need to think about where simple choices can take you because you had a choice right now that you can take a life of freedom and blessing, and goodness that leads to eternal life or one of bondage and bitterness and dissatisfaction and strength that leads to hell and you need to stop and remember where these choices are to lead you. He says secondly B you need. Remember that you been delivered. Take care lest you forget the Lord who brought you out. Don't just forget that you were in slavery. Also, don't forget that God brought you out.

You see God's deliverance process listen to God's deliverance process is not just taken you out of bondage is taken, the spirit of bondage.

You sometimes last thing is harder than the first thing.

Imagine an infant boy taken in the foster care system was placed into a home where the father abuses him and the boy spent the first seven or eight years of his life in that home. This dad never tells the boy that he loves him he called him names and demeans him one day this daddy comes home drunk and he kicked open the door.

He knocks on the boy's teeth out this little boy didn't have a bed.

Yes, asleep in the corner of a room even sleep in pajamas because his dad will barely buy them enough food, much less buying pajamas. This little boy never gets toys or games when he's at school yes to bar food from his friends and shoved in his pocket so that we get home. He's got something to eat. Then one day when is about seven years old child protective services takes this child away and he's adopted by a good family with a good father. This dad starts to speak of love and life into the boy. He says things like son, I'm proud of you or I love you. This boy is never in his life heard those words, he's never experienced unconditional love this father cleans them up buys a new close gives him a bed and toys and lots of things to eat. One night the father walked in the kids bedroom and the little kid is curled up in the corner sleeping on the floor was a father nearly walks over to pick them up and says you'll have to sleep on the floor anymore. You can sleep in the bed that was your old family. This is your knowing your daddy now you are logged in your cherished ear sometimes and the father comes home a little boy hides in the closet and the daddy says you'll have to do that anymore either never hurt you I love you one night at the dinner table. Dad sees the little boy taken food and shoving it into his pockets and the dad says you'll have to do that anymore either. I'll never let you go hungry. This is your new family time your dad always provide for you see, that's the story of every single Christian sin has damaged us so that we live in our souls with a sense of fear and under the dread of condemnation and simply saving us is not take that spirit out of us. But in Christ is made you part of a new family. That means you don't have to live under this cloud of condemnation where you expect to keep suffering for past mistakes. So your divorce. Oh, you messed up. Oh you got pregnant. Oh you got fired. Things are over for you. Your daddy says no there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

The old is gone.

The newest calm.

We don't have to live with the fear that we are going to be abandoned and end up in poverty because I know that my God shall supply all your need healers every hear this on your head got them all counted not one falls about his knowledge of course he's not gonna let you go hungry.

I can lay down every single night with the assurance that surely goodness and mercy of followed me all the days of my life will follow me all the days of my life as I know that he that did not spare his own son for me. I was his enemy in the vanity. Now that I'm his child.

You want to feel shame, because God's chosen you he is cleansed you and changed you and you are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that he is appointed for you. You have to compete any longer for the approval of others, to prove to yourself or anybody else that you have worth because in Christ you got the absolute approval of the only ones opinion really matters anyway.

Your new person adopted into a new family, new father, you are a cherished son or daughter who will never be forgotten. Moses says now live that way. Never forget it because it will change everything C says you gotta remember the graciousness of the God who saved you see that they care was to forget the Lord himself. Remember, the character of this God is when you forget this character that obedience becomes drudgery. That's when you forget this God that you lose your joy is grasp rat grasping the trustworthiness of God that enables you to obey with freedom and joy that I look at this verse later, Moses anticipates a conversation that can take place one day between daddies who salt God to the Red Sea thing and boys their sons who did verse 20 when your son asked you in time to come is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord your God has commanded you what will likely obey all these rules limiting what I would say instinctively uncivil son. The reason I gave us the rule about adultery is because it's better in marriage to have one partner for life.

It leads to lifelong intimacy.

Sex is the best sex and keep things like STDs, gives us from a lot of heartbreak. God's way is better. And the reason he told us to take one day off a week is because psychologists have proven that you need at least one day a week, that your heart rate slows that you're not doing thing that a normal pace leads to a healthier and happier life. And so ultimately it's better if we take out the Sabbath.

That's why God told us that his way is always the best. That's what I would've said that is no concept that is what got this next verse you shall save your son why we obey when we were slaves in Egypt, the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and then he gave us the statues to fear him for our good always but he might preserve us alive, as we are this day the why we are based on because the God who gave us these rules is a God who saved us and we know that if you say this is thinking about our good and so I want to sit around and try to figure out if I agree with him because I know that a God who did not abandon me in slavery is a God that I can trust with my life I supposed to let me ask you this. If you believe that Jesus Christ died for you, which I know that the majority of you sitting here listening to me. Do if you believe that Jesus Christ died for you. Do you honestly think that you can't trust them when it comes to things like sex and marriage. How schizophrenic is that that you would believe that he cared enough to die for you, but you got a better plan that he does know about with marriage and sex and friendship. You can't really trust him with your life that is absolute and total insanity.

You see, they only had the Red Sea we have now Calvary.

I know that the God who gave me every single role. The God who beckons me to give me my give him my life is a God that I can trust with my life because he proved it at Calvary. All of our trust in God is founded on what we saw him do for us at the cross saw movie couple weeks ago called miracles from heaven. Great movie little girl gets deathly sick. Her mother really struggles with faith in some amazing things happen for the mother, Jennifer Garner, learns to believe again. Now it's an amazing movie based on a true story, but the one thing that it leaves out all these movies leave this out. I guess Hollywood just doesn't have the capacity to communicate this question never answers is why why would I trust God in the middle. Why would I trust God when somebody that I love is hurting. Why would you trust God in the midst of the world like the one we live in the answer for the Christian is very simple because of the cross because that's what I see the depths of God's love because I see that regardless of what else is happening in my life. It's not because God has stopped loving me is not because God has lost his power because I know that a God who did not give up on me when I was his enemy is certainly not to give up on the now that I am his child, and so the old proverb says it like this, even when I can't trace God's hand. I can trust his heart because I learn who we use from how he delivered me and I based the rest of my life on what I saw there.

You see, as you get older in the faith. The cross needs to grow larger in your life is to get more dominant in your life to the point that it becomes a filter through which you see everything because when the cross is large in your life.

Your obedience will have joy because you will trust God and will be able to persevere through trials and will confidently because you'll know that the God who didn't abandon you with the crosses and abandoning you now. So Moses says remember these things and if you remember them, then you're going to live joyfully commendable. One is to remember. Remember to cling to the word as you go to cling to this word. Whatever sex these words that I command you today, the need to be on your heart. Teach them diligently to your children talking them when you sit in your house for you wall by the way the words in your family life around the dinner table work life.

Thanks for your work in light of these things when you lie down your eyes all morning and night by them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Your your hand will be looking toward your actions. The frontlets of your eyes. It doesn't do you think you shall write them on the doorpost of your house and your household on your gates that your political thinking needs to be guided by Scripture cling to this word he says because these promises. These promises are everything.

Deuteronomy 3247. This is not a nifty word.

These words are life itself is a byword, God spoke the world into existence by the word God gives sight to the blind.

He made the lame walk, it's byword that God raised Jesus from the dead. It's by his word that God brings salvation to the believing heart is byword that he breaks the chains of addiction in your life is byword that he pieces back together the broken shards of your marriage is byword that he renews and transforms your children. This word Moses said it is light is light is salvation. It redeems reconciled restores renews is not an empty word that your life don't you want to know, don't you want to know what you want your kids to know it every week in our small groups. We go deeper into what we read the Bible with individual. Some of us for the first time we take our kids through the Bible as well say this because some of you have started off strong but you gonna fall off the wagon here. Time for you to get back in.

This is not an idle word. It's not curiosity at your life and live your family for some of you. You've never taken this step to get into the Christian life begins somewhere where begins is something that we call baptism known to be very clear. The gospel is that Jesus Christ died for your sandpaper all your sin and the offers. It is a free gift to all who will receive you don't receive it by being baptized, you'll receive it by raising your hand don't receive it by filling out a card walk in and I'll wait you receive God's offer of salvation as you believe it with your heart and you just take it as a gift.

He offers it to you.

He says whosoever will make on that if you will, if you will surrender to him and to see Jesus or the Lord, and you'll receive his offer salvation will save after you do that however you were supposed to declare that publicly by baptism. Baptism is the public ceremony of salvation.

It's where you go public and Jesus said it is to be the first act of obedience.

After you trust in Christ. Now there's a number of you that have never taken that step of obedience and over the years I've been given lots of reasons why one I get is I just don't see this being that important. I mean differences are going to make it's a little inconvenient and it's, humiliating getting wet in front of a bunch of people and our response. That is always who are you to tell Jesus which of his command, you think are important which ones are not. That is not the way to start out your Christian life. It's almost like getting married and telling your wife on your honeymoon night you can go hang out with the boys. That's not the way to start a marriage in ways that you start surrender to the Lordship of Jesus is not about picking and choosing which command you can obey which ones are not as important as he said it was important. I say well, people say well here's one for say what I was baptized as a baby listener will be very careful with this one because under different churches do things in different ways and there are major things in their minor things every time. Listen, hear me out every time she baptism in the Bible. It's always, always, no exceptions.

Not one exception. It's always a profession of your face you do it after you have made a decision to follow Christ is not one example anywhere of somebody was baptized on behalf of somebody else. Faith. Actually, if you believe you about is actually if you believe you… Succeed you believe you got is always in that order. When you got baptized as a baby. That was the fate of your own to declare of your parents favorite was being declared it was and thank God for your parents faith right they were hoping the reason I baptize you as they were hoping that when you got older he would follow Jesus and now you are. So when you get baptize as a profession to your faith is not a repudiation of their faith is such an affirmation of their faith. You are ratifying the decision that they made for you, 10, 15, 30, 60 years ago called them up afterwards. I was a mom and dad. I got good news for you were hoping for me.

When you baptize me when I was a baby. It happened on following Jesus now and I just ratified what you did when I was a baby out of ratified it and said I agree with what my mom and dad were open for me and I'm fulfilling all their dreams for me. It will be a glorious day it will be a glorious day for you and for them is disobedience and rebellion for you to put off until tomorrow what God has told you to do today.

For many of you this is the moment God is saying it's time to go public is equipped with missiles.

It's time for you to start disobeying because delayed obedience and disobedience and I want you to do what you know I want you to respond to God to help you learn more in your walk of faith. Be sure to get in touch when you call us right now. 663-3552 20 or by visiting JD Greer.com been talking a lot about prayer in the last few weeks and I was able to sit down and talk in more detail with Pastor JD about it.

I asked him the difficult question many of us have. Is there such thing as an answered prayer, not really. What if your godchild not really because the father never turned a deaf ear to his job now. That said, there are there are prayers that God redirects because as a dad.

He knows better than us.

Sometimes God God in love answered your prayer the way they would have asked him if he knew what he nearing so just because it doesn't look like an answered prayer doesn't mean it is an answered prayer. Furthermore, there's a lot of things I got was to give us the persistence and asking which is a repeated theme in Jesus's teaching. God is testing out with all his goodness or belief that he really is good. So much of our Bibles was written in the posture people were waiting on God believing that he is going to answer and come through I will address that question. Throughout this book.

Just ask is been one of the biggest impediments been one of the one of the areas.

Ironically, God is used to deepen my own spiritual life and increase my trust in him, so he just asked. We really cannot get into that, say practically how do you let that you would motivate your prayer life rather than stymie invited JD Greer.com. We pray that as you read this back to be encouraged and challenged in how you talk to God. You're welcome to request it.

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