1. Genesis
2. Exodus
3. Leviticus
4. Numbers
5. Deuteronomy

The revealed, taught, remembered, and applied Word of God is the life of God’s people as they enter the land, take possession of the land, and live as God’s people in the land. God’s word instructs, prepares, warns, protects, and blesses God’s people (30.19-20; 32.45-47).

Deuteronomy 30.19 "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

Deuteronomy 30.20 by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

1. The Lord has brought his people from Canaan to Egypt, and now to the Plains of Moab.
2. Israel is the theocratic nation, the priest nation.
3. The Exodus generation, who refused to believe that the Lord would make them victorious over the Canaanites and give them the promised land, has died off.

1. The events of Deuteronomy happened in 1445 BC, just prior to Joshua taking the Israelites across the Jordan and into Canaan.

1. Wrote, 5 times
2. Law, 24 times; 16 times in 27-33
3. Commandment, 9 times
4. Commandments, 37 times
5. Statutes, 29 times
6. Remember, 15 times
7. Obey, 14 times
8. Bless, 21 times; Blessing, 12 times; Blesses, 2
9. Not obey, 6 times
10. Curse, 11 times; curses, 6 times
11. Life, 20 times

1. Moses
2. Joshua
3. Aaron
4. Miriam

The second generation Israelites are on the Plains of Moab, north of the Dead Sea and east of the Jordan River. Moses prepares them for the conquest by delivering three messages. First, he reviews God’s blessings to them during the wilderness wanderings. Then, Moses reviews the Law that God gave at Sinai so that they know God’s will and what God expects of them. Finally, Moses challenges this generation to learn and follow the Sinai Law. That done, Moses dies and Joshua leads.

1. Moses reviews God’s wilderness blessings, 1-4
2. Moses reviews God’s statues and ordinances, 5-26
3. Moses charges Israel to keep God’s commandments, 27-30
4. Moses’ Final Words and Death, 31-34

Chapter 1: Recap—Sinai to Kadesh

Chapter 2: Recap—Edom to Moab to Sihon of Heshbon

Chapter 3: Recap—Og of Bashon, and Gilead

Chapter 4: Israel, Watch yourselves—blessing or cursing

Chapter 5: Moses recalls the Horeb Covenant

Chapter 6: Listen, fear, obey, love the Lord

Chapter 7: Remove the Canaanites

Chapter 8: Remember the Lord your God

Chapter 9: God’s grace, not Israel’s righteousness

Chapter 10: Fear, walk, love, serve, keep

Chapter 11: Blessing or cursing in the land

Chapter 12: The central sanctuary

Chapter 13: Capital punishment for idolatry

Chapter 14: Clean and unclean. Tithe

Chapter 15: Seven year loans. Poor. Servants. Firstborn

Chapter 16: Annual feasts. Judges

Chapter 17: Idolaters, trials. King

Chapter 18: Levites, omens, a prophet

Chapter 19: Cities of refuge. Witnesses

Chapter 20: Warfare

Chapter 21: War bride. Double portion. Incorrigible son

Chapter 22: Good neighbors. Boundaries on sex

Chapter 23: Regulations on people, foreign slaves, loans

Chapter 24: Divorce, Loans, Poor

Chapter 25: Court case, brother’s wife, weights and measures

Chapter 26: First of produce. Tithe to Levites. His people

Chapter 27: The Law, Mt Ebal, and Mt Gerizim

Chapter 28: Blessings and cursings

Chapter 29: Lord’s covenant with Israel

Chapter 30: Choose life and live

Chapter 31: Joshua, the song, the law

Chapter 32: Moses’ song is Israel’s life

Chapter 33: Moses blesses Israel

Chapter 34: Moses dies, Joshua leads

1. Divine Revelation. 1.6
2. Delegated authority and leadership. 1.13
3. Uniqueness of Israel. 4.7-8
4. Spiritual alertness. 4.9
5. God provides for his people. 4.14
6. Divine Discipline. 4.24
7. Ten Commandments. 5.6
8. Teaching children. 6.7
9. Testing. 8.2
10. Importance of the Word of God. 8.3
11. Self-righteousness. 9.4
12. Abrahamic Covenant and Theocratic line. 9.5
13. Mosaic Law. 9.9
14. Blessing and cursing. 11.26
15. Divine Attributes. 13.17
16. Faith-Application—Learn, Consider, Apply. 11.13
17. Central sanctuary. 12.11
18. False Prophets. 13.1
19. Capital Punishment. 13.9
20. Tithing. 14.22
21. Poor people. 15.11
22. Canaanite religion. 18.9
23. Future Prophet. 18.15
24. Judicial witness. 20.15
25. Deterrence of crime. 19.20
26. Holy War. 20.3
27. Rebellious son. 21.18
28. Blessing before cursing. 28.1, 15
29. Repentance and blessing. 30.1
30. Life and death, blessing and the curse. 30.19
31. Spiritual Courage. 31.6
32. Fear of the Lord. 31.13
33. Passing the leadership mantle. 34.1
34. Land Covenant. 34.1
35. Abrahamic Covenant. 34.4

1. God’s Word is our life (8.3; Matthew 4.4; Luke 4.4; James 1.21-25; 1 Peter 2.2; 2 Timothy 3.16-17).
2. Communication of the Word (31.9-13; 1 Timothy 1.3; 6.17; 2 Timothy 2.2, 11, 15; 4.2-5).
3. Faith-Application, choose blessing or cursing (1.30-8; 4.10, 14, 15, 23; 6.1 11.26-32; 28.1-2, 15; 30.19-20; Acts 17.27; Romans 6.6, 11, 12-13; Philippians 4.8-9; Colossians 3.23-25; Hebrews 4.1-16;James 1.21-25).
4. Spiritual courage (1.30-38; 31.6; John 16.33; Acts 23.11; 2 Corinthians 4.16).
5. Divine discipline (4.24; 1 Corinthians 11.29-30; Hebrews 12.5-13).
6. Punishment deters crime (19.20; Romans 13.3-4; 1 Thessalonians 4.6).
7. Faith focusing on Christ (Occupation with Christ) is like fear of the Lord (31.13; Galatians 2.20; Colossians 3.1-3; Hebrews 12.2).