Alright, turn to Deuteronomy chapter 2. The first thing I'm going to do is say look at chapter 1, but have your place ready at chapter 2. Our goal today is to go all the way through chapter 2 and the first 20 verses of chapter 3. And then, next week, we're gonna finish chapter three, which is a fairly easy task compared to today, because there's only 29 verses, so we only have nine verses next week. And then, I don't know what you're gonna do after that, because I'm gonna be gone for the next two weeks after that. What you're gonna do is you're gonna be in chapter four, both of those two weeks. So that's where we're at, that's kind of the pace that we're taking. So we're gonna start Deuteronomy chapter two, verse one today, but what I want you to do is just look up at verse 40 of, of, uh, chapter one, because what we looked at, uh, last week and what we need to remember is, is Moses is, is rehearsing to the second generation of wanderers, if you will. And he's seeking to encourage them regarding the future entrance into the promise land. In chapter 1 verse 40 it's talking to the first generation and it says but as for you and I think we understand they have Rejected what God wanted them to do which was go in because of the report of the spies They've rejected and rebelled against that and he says as for you turn you away Take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea So that that is a that is a picture of all they had to do they were at the doorstep They were at the doorstep of the promised land. They had to proceed north That's all they had to do and he says turn you and and this in verse 40 means now they have to head south Which is the opposite direction of what God wanted for him, but because of rebellion, that's what happened So now look in verse number 1 of chapter 2 says then we turn and We took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea as the Lord spake unto me and we compassed Mount Seir Many days now, let me just say this That's all we're gonna read right now that right there and I'll explain why is one of the saddest verses in the Word of God That one verse sums up 38 years for 3 million people that that one verse I mean it says then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea as the Lord spake unto me and we compassed Mount Seir many days and that that is it's just wild I mean dreams you know what this verse says without saying it dreams were dashed they were right there dreams were dashed the people had their backs now to the promised land heading in the opposite direction of where God wanted him to go. The vision of inheriting that land had vanished. And now get this, Moses, now keep in mind, Moses turned with them. And here's what I mean by that. Go back to chapter 1. Look at verse 43 through 46. Just take your eyes and scan. In 43 through 46 of chapter 1. You know what you see? You see a lot of you, you, you, you. You know why? Moses didn't rebel right there. The people rebelled. And Moses is telling them, you, you, you. Look at verse 1 of chapter 2. Because even if you're the leader, sometimes you have to take the consequences with the people. He says, we. That is heartbreaking. That is heartbreaking. Now Moses had his own issues between him and God, why he couldn't go, but that rebellion that the people did, did not involve Moses. The penalty for this rebellion and this wandering for four decades did not Become as a result of Moses, but he still had to bear the the we in that so I think that's very important as you're reading that that you go honestly from you you to we and Moses again did not take part in the rebellion against God, but he's their leader and he must walk with them in the wilderness for 40 years now this section of scripture I believe that as you just read that one verse, and as we know what's right in front of us, and what we kind of understand with what's going on, there is a term that I used last week that really should fill your emotion, and that is waste. It's amazing. You hear people talk about Moses. Moses lived to be 120 years old. And they say, Moses, for 40 years, Moses was in the house of Pharaoh. And that's true. That's true. For 40 years, he was like second in command. He was a great, If you read other history, he was an accomplished general. The battles and the negotiations and the things he did between Egypt and Ethiopia were recorded outside of the Bible in history. 40 years, Moses did that. Then for 40 years, they say that Moses was in the backside of the desert and he was learning how to shepherd and he was learning how to lead and to guide. He was also learning how to survive in the wilderness. We understand that. That was 40 years. But now look, we're not going to glamorize the last 40 years because the word waste comes to mind to me. He spent the last 40 years of his life leading a people and trying to accomplish something that was never going to take place. because of rebellion and sin. I mean, it is very sad. I just keep thinking of the word waste and how it's wasted 40 years. Now, it's not wasted in the sense of God was continuing to work, and I'll show you that, but it's just the wasted goal of the promised land. the wasted previous 80 years, Moses wasn't able to implement the way he thought he was. Now, God had a plan and we understand all that. But to Moses, that last 40 years, he's leading a people who he knows they're all going to die in the next generation is going to be successful. Now, imagine waking up every day and doing what God wants you to do, knowing that at the end of this, it's just you're not going to get what you thought you were going to get because of sin. Man, it's crazy. Go to Numbers chapter 14. Go to Numbers chapter 14. Almost everything we read in Deuteronomy is enhanced. Numbers remember the word Deuteronomy means Second law means the retelling of the law which we haven't got to yet, which is what we'll start basically in the chapter 4 Because he's gonna have to tell us where we came from before he can repeat the law to us The whole book of Deuteronomy is not the the history of a journey that we're gonna be done with the journey today but Numbers enhances almost every story. Look at Numbers chapter 14. Look at verse number 29 in Numbers chapter 14. Numbers chapter 14 verse 29. Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness and all that were numbered of you according to your whole number from 20 years old and upward which have murmured against me. Drop down to verse number 32. These are the people that are going to fall in the wilderness. Verse number 32. And as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness and your children shall wander in the wilderness 40 years and bear your whoredoms until your carcasses be wasted. This is so sad. Be wasted in the wilderness. So a couple things we get from that passage in numbers We get the term wander a lot of people are oh, we always talk about wandering in the wilderness It's because it's a Bible term that they wander and what I want you to understand is that Is that word wandering? To you and me, sometimes we think, well, that's just the sense that they had lost their way. But that's not what it means. They weren't mindlessly just roaming around going, is this the right way? No, we got to backtrack. That's not what they were doing. They were wandering in a sense that they were not traveling towards their goal. That's what wandering means. Now, by the grace of God, this is just amazing to me that we see these people rebel. We see God say, you have to turn. We see that their carcasses are going to be wasted. You understand that those who die, they didn't just die. They died because of the hand of God. I mean, this was judgment based on consequences. This was an amazing account, but it's only summed up in one verse in Deuteronomy. You know, it's only summed up in one verse, but these are just crazy deaths that will take place. And the phrase, many days, it says here, it says in the last two words of chapter two, verse one, many days, that describes 38 years. It's just mind-blowing to me. And here we see that God was leading them in this circuitous route, and there's a lot of maps out there where you can see how they wandered, but it says right here that they encompassed Mount Seir. Now, that doesn't mean that Mount Seir's right here and they did a tight circle around it. It means they did a 40-year, 38-year lap that area that's what that means and they did that for many days now that's just sad because Moses could have he could have said many years he could have said many decades he could have said many months but there's 14,000 days that Moses saw waste and he whittled down their experience to days many days. I mean, this is just, I just really want you to capture the mindset of what's going on. You know what that tells me? God is very patient. You know, in our Bible reading over the last couple of weeks, we've seen where God has told Abraham about a special land that he's going to be giving to his people. That's what he's talking about. God is patient. Do you think God is like 40 more years? God's waited centuries up into this point. And if you're not going to accept the land the way that I'm giving it to you, I'll just wait. I'm God. I am a patient God. And that's what he's going to do. So God is very patient. He established that land centuries before. So 40 years, that's nothing to God. But I also believe this, that during that 40 years, there was nothing those people could have done to change God's mind. And think about that. The the the sentence now God is gracious. God is patient. God is merciful The God is absolute And and he he gave the consequences There was nothing they were going to be able to do to change God's mind the wandering that we read about in verse number 1 of chapter 2 Very sad. I hope we understand that it is extremely sad And what is sadder though is again this one verse captures it all I think that's even sadder like it means nothing of Specifics happened that he wanted to retell you know now in numbers He does break it down into detail, but when he's giving his last will and testament He's not like you remember that one time where we do that birthday party now like there's like no memories and There's no memories that in 40 years that he's rehashing. He's just saying for 14,000 days. I watched as that generation and their carcasses became wasted in the wilderness. That, whew, wandering, that's wild. That's wild. Imagine how long those dreary days were for Moses. I mean, again, Moses, he's a great leader. In fact, you know, a lot of things we don't talk about, we talk about his leadership all the time. But imagine leading people when you, it's just bad circumstances. And Moses still woke up. Do you understand that the cloud and the flame still guided them during this time? They were still being fed during this time. God's grace was still on them during this time. In fact, God protected the second generation during this time. God was very present and Moses was needed for that. Okay? We say wandering like it's purposeless, but God is faithful in guiding his people. Look at verse number two. and the Lord spake unto me, saying, ye have compassed this mountain long enough, turn you northward. So for 40 years, again, it said in verse number one, they had to turn south against the promised land. Their backs are to the promised land. And now for 40 years, they've wandered. And now he says, it's been long enough. Turn northward. Now, the first generation is still alive at this point, but I'll show you the exact point where the second generation is now the only ones alive, plus Caleb and Joshua. So I'll show you that because it is here in scripture today. But keep in mind, God is faithful during this whole time and throughout this whole entire series of scripture that we read. God is continually guiding for the people. It's kind of like what I was thinking is they're in a holding pattern. You ever flown in to Chicago at night? It's beautiful. It's beautiful because you see all the planes just circling the airport waiting for their turn to land. They're in a holding pattern. Now, praise God, there's a schedule for them to land and you don't see them drop out of the skies. This is a holding pattern where the schedule is you're going to run out of fuel first. That's what this is. You're circling the airport, but you're not cleared to land. You're not cleared to land and they start just dropping their carcasses. I mean God could have used a nicer term here But they could have not rebelled against God So let's just keep some perspective here God brought them all this way and he's provided for him and they've rebelled Do you understand rebellion how serious this is? So they're like in this holding pattern. So let's recap. Okay, so we have 40 years ago Goshen they're in Goshen Egypt the Passover takes place and Okay, they get their stuff they leave the Egyptians are actually showering them with treasure on their way out of town They they leave and they make their way to Mount Sinai Mount Sinai Moses goes up and down and up and down the mountain. He's receiving the law. He's receiving the the Pattern the instructions for the tabernacle. They start gathering the material for the tabernacle They spend one year remember about one year in Mount Sinai. They're very very comfortable. They've figured this out They've built the tabernacle now God says okay 11 days from now. You're gonna go to K dash Barney in So they're gonna 11 days. They're gonna go there. They go there. They're gonna like hey, let's send some spies in They send some spies in the spies come back after 40 days. They're at Kadesh. They hear the report. They say no God says turn and now 40 years later. Okay, so we're all caught up because we're going to jump right into this. So it's 40 years later. Look at verse number 46 of chapter 1 because it's probably on the same page for most of you. So you abode in Kadesh many days according unto the days that you abode there. So they had to regroup You don't remember because they thought they were going to fight the battle themselves. God said, don't go. They went. They had to lick their wounds because they were chased like a swarm of bees chased them. So now they've come back. God said, go south. Put your backs to what I've given you. I don't know about you, but you don't receive good things from the backside. Okay, never have, never will. And so God said, put your backs against what I want to give you, what I wanted to give you, what I promised you, you've rejected. So now in verse number two and three, we see he says, turn northward again. It's very exciting, very promising. Now, What's amazing is, keep in mind, all this time, the mercy of God is still speaking to these people during the rejection. It says, and the Lord spake to me. He is surrounded by people that's rejected God, and Moses, during this time, is still receiving the word from God. That tells you a lot about God. I want you to understand that it tells you a lot about God it during all these people's rejection God is still speaking and he is still gracious and he's still generous and the power of God was on display as you read numbers about the things that God did even though they're disobedience and here's what that tells me I've been really thinking about this but here's what it tells me because I used to say Something similar to this but now I'm changing it. But listen, there is nothing I've said this before there's nothing you can do to make God stop loving you I've said that I told my kids there's nothing you can do to make me stop loving you but get this There's nothing you can do to make God love you more Okay, there's nothing you can do make up obey him God is love God is giving you all, when you become a child of his, New Testament Christian, he has given you all the love that he can give you. It's your sin and my sin and my rebellion that clogs up the works. So there's nothing you can do to make God stop loving you, but there's nothing you can do to make God love you more. And I mean, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. And not only that, his love was unconditional and is unconditional, and it's impartial, and it's everlasting, and it's finite, and it's perfect. And you see that in the first three verses, because he's still speaking to Moses, even though he's got three million people rebelling against him. It's just crazy. So now they're going to move on. And at the same time, we know that God loves us. You gotta understand, there are still consequences to sin. We looked at this last week. Can two things, more than two things be true at the same time? Absolutely. God can love you, and he can love you all he can love you. And he can't love you anymore, but at the same time, you sin, I sin, there's consequences. And we gotta deal with that. Okay, so two things can happen at the same time. You might wander, your carcass might fall, you might be wasted, but God still loves you. Remember that so I mean Moses is processing this for 14,000 days Okay, now take your eye scan verses 4 through verse 8 we're not gonna read them But here's what 4 through 8 is they're gonna go He God told the Israelites on your way to the promised land. You're gonna have to be traveling through the land that the Edomites own and the Edomites are gonna be fearful of of the Israelites, and you are not supposed to, and the Bible uses this word, you're not supposed to meddle with them. Verse 5 says, meddle not. You're not even supposed to meddle with them. These are descendants of Esau. Now get this, God says the Edomites are going to be fearful of you. Now think back, Do you remember when Jacob was fearful of Esau? I love that. God is now saying, no, no, no, no. They're going to be fearful of you. They're going to be because you're doing what I want you to do now. You're in my will. We're heading back. We're going to do what you're going to do. And it is interesting that Jacob was fearful, but now Esau is going to be fearful. But God gives them now in verses four through eight extremely specific Details about what instructions about what to do and because he calls the Edomites their brother He calls them their brother their brethren And so they are, again, they're descendants of Esau. And so they're not to engage in conflict with them. That's what you see in verses 4 through 8. They're said, hey, the land belongs to them. You're the children of Jacob. Your land is somewhere else. This is their land. The land belongs to them. You're not going to be taking their food or their water. You need to buy their food or water if you need their food or water. I'm still supplying your food and water, so I don't know why, but if you need a candy bar, don't steal it. You need to pay for it, because here's the bottom line. As we're going through their land, you are not to be a burden for them. I have something else in store for them. You're just going through. So that's what verses 4 through 8 say. Then we get down to verses 9 through 12, and again, after passing through the land of Edom, they go towards the land of the Moabites. Now, when you get to verses 10 through 12, It's kind of a parenthetical telling the reader telling the here. Here's the history of the land of the Moabites now verses 13. Let's read that Now, rise up, I say, and get you over the brook Zerid. And we went over the brook Zerid. So let's hold on right there. So they're going to go through the Edomites. There's very specific instructions, the land of the Edomites. They're going to go through the land of the Moabites. If you're doing your Bible reading this week, you understand that Lot and his oldest daughter are the founders of the Moabite family. OK. And so Lot was related to Abraham. So God says same thing applies. Okay, basically the same rules of what applied with the Edomites applies to the Moabites. It's their land. I've got something in store for them later. You're not going to mess with the Moabites. Okay, so it says now in verse number 13, they're going to go over the book, the brook Zared. Okay, now crossing the brook Zared that is a pivotal stage in Israel's journey to Canaan. They were leaving Edom. They were getting ready to enter Moab. They're getting ready to do this. And when they go from Edom to Moab, that is the last of the first generation. Okay. So in verse number 13, you can find the first generation is now gone. And now the second generation All this left so it says right here verse number 14 in the space in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we were come over the brook Zerod was thirty and eight years until the generation of the men of war were Wasted there's that word again out from among the host as the Lord swear unto them for indeed The hand of the Lord was against them to destroy them from among the hosts until they were consumed So their deaths were were not just of old a they they're Their deaths were from directly the hand of the Lord now He is involved and allows everything for everyone, but I want you to understand their deaths were specific Okay, because of who they were and what they did verse 16 so it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people that the Lord spake unto me saying Thou art to pass over through our the coast of Moab this day So the instructions relative again to Edom are going to be the same Against Moab and at this point, like I said, the first generation's gone the land Given to them by the Lord was theirs and the children of Israel were not to trespass on this or to take it without Moab Moabite permission and again, we know who Moab was now I Look at look at here also scan with your eyes starting in verse number 19 all the way down to verse 23 you're gonna see another person and that's Ammon and the Ammonites in your Bible reading you understand that lot and his youngest daughter are the founders of the Ammonites and we just read that like three days ago And so the same thing is going to apply but this is now the second generation They're not to do anything with the Ammonites just like the Moabites and just like the Edomites now Here's where you got to understand things when you're doing your Bible reading you got to keep in mind the difference between Ammonites and Amorites two completely different things And sometimes we read real fast and we get confused, okay? Ammonites are from Lot, and Ammorites are unrepentant scallywags that are squatting in a land that doesn't belong to them. And we'll get to them in a minute. So keep that in mind. Ammorites are different than Ammonites. So you got to understand that. The Ammonites and the Moabites, they were not to be messed with. Their land, God was given to them, and he was going to deal with them in a separate way. Verse number 24, let's read that. So he says, so 19 through 23, the exact same thing. Going through the Ammonites, you're dealing with them just like the two previous groups of people. Verse 24. Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon. Behold, I have given unto thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it and contend with him in battle. So now, now we're at the land that God has promised him. But there's these unrepentant squatters that don't belong there that we now need to deal with in a holy war. That's what's going on here. The Amorites are there, but this is the land that God has given to his people. So keep that in mind. They had arrived at Arnon River, and if you ever go there, it's really, it's this deep ravine, and it forms the traditional border between Moab and the Amorites. It's like a real life place, like you can go there. You can go there on Google Maps. And you can see it. So again, don't get confused with Amorites as we go forward and Ammonites But this time the instruction is completely different. I mean it's completely different It's hey the Amorites. They are not your brother They are not your brethren You need to deal with them. They were foes of the Lord They were foes of his people and they are occupying a land that does not belong to them Okay, so keep that in mind a nation This is written like this a nation someone wrote it like this a nation of hopelessly Unrepentant squatters who had to be removed from the lands promised to Israel's forefathers Tells you everything you need to know about Amorites right there, but they're occupying a land and God says battle with them I don't think one second though. That's just harsh. No, it's not this has been in the play for centuries and Centuries that God is giving his people a land keep that in mind today. God is giving his people a land and so That's what the instructions were now if you go down to You can see that the command was to engage Sihon king of the Amorites in battle and he liberate that land which he illegitimately Occupied so that's what you see all the way down in the rest of chapter 2 from verse 25 Because he God says I'm gonna put a dread on him. You're gonna go you're gonna go deal with them It gets all the way down to verse number 37. You can scan that with your eye This is what we're going to do. You're gonna utterly destroy all the men the women the little ones Every city you're gonna leave nothing to remain and then we're gonna get to chapter 1 chapter 3 sorry verse number 1 Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan and Og the king of Bashan came out against us He and all his people to battle at Idril. So they've battled Sihon and then they marched 50 miles to go battle And if you want to read about the battle, that's the first 11 verses of chapter number 3 where they're battling Og and again, this was to the north. They would March 50 miles But here's the thing you need to know go to back to Deuteronomy chapter 1 Deuteronomy chapter 1 Look at verse number 3 and it came to pass in the 40th year of in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all the Lord had given him to commandment unto them, after he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwell in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt and Astaroth in Idril on this side of Jordan so they haven't you know we all the song we haven't crossed over Jordan yet we're still on this side of Jordan keep that in mind that's very important for the next part on this side of Jordan in the land of Moab began Moses to declare this law so all this all the rest of chapter 1 all of chapter 2 this rehearsing of what is taking place like he's like telling him things that happened last week at this point because he's like I just killed Og Just I just killed him and that's what he wrote in chapter 1 that he was going to kill him And so just keep that in mind. So then we get all the way down to verse number 12 of chapter 3 We're on we still haven't crossed over Jordan. We're still on this side of Jordan behind us is The Ammonites behind them is the Moabites behind them is the Edomites behind them is Kadesh Barnea So we're we're in it now. We're in the promised land, but we're on this side of Jordan and Now, in Numbers, it gives you more detail. Numbers chapter 32 gives you more details. But what here it says in verse number 12, it says that some tribes say, hey, listen, we want to stay right here. We're a herdman and this, this plateau is good for our industry. So we would like to stay right here. Numbers chapter 32 gives you way more detail. First five verses, you can read it, but look at verse number 12, chapter three, Deuteronomy. And this land, which we possessed at that time from Aurore, which is by the river Arnon and half Mount Gilead and the cities thereof gave I into the Reubenites and to the Gadides. Then it goes into more detail in Numbers, but again, it's because it was suitable to their industry of farming. So keep that in mind. It doesn't really go into detail here how the request was made, but representatives came. You can read it to Moses. They talked about it. Numbers 32, first five verses. You can read that but they were interested in these plains and the plateaus. So the Rubenites and the Gadonites which are descendants of Jacob's eldest sons by Leah, Leah's first and Leah's slave girl, Zilphah, her Her first boy. So is the first wife's boy and the first slaves boy. They both want to stay there Okay, now these these two tribes are very specific because they are even though they're herdsmen. They're actually really skilled warriors and influencers simply because of the order of things how that their families were born and all this stuff and so Moses says this look at verse number 18 and I commanded you at the time chapter 3 verse 18 I told you we're gonna get to chapter 3 verse 20 so we're almost done and I commanded you at this time saying the Lord your God has given you this land to possess it ye shall pass over armed before before your brethren the children of Israel all that you all you are meat for the war but your wives and your little ones in your cattle for I know that you have much cattle shall abide in your cities which I have given you until the Lord have given rest until your brethren as well as unto you and until until they also possess the land which the Lord your God hath given them beyond Jordan and then Shall you return every man to his possession which I have given you so so not only yes Yes, you can have this land, but you have to lead what's going to happen next the distribution of the land to the other tribes because you have to go over Before not with you have to lead and so that because of their cunning ability to make war and And so that's what's taking place here. What's going to happen then is it's going to shift gears in verse 21, which we're going to look at next week. And he's going to start talking to Joshua. And then really, then they're going to start rehearsing because Deuteronomy is called second law. They're going to start rehearsing all the things God told him. So Moses and the first two and a half chapters of the book has just rehearsed 40 years of history to him. Some stuff that he even they even did last week. I mean, like this is hot off the press. You know, he's like just last week, you know, we let Reuben, you know have that land because that's that's that's how fresh this is and now we're ready to conquer it now, let me just tell you one more thing and Then we'll be done go to 2nd Chronicles chapter 20 fast-forward 400 years from right then So 400 years after that, we've gone through Edom, don't mess with them, they're your brethren. We've gone through Moab, don't mess with them, they're your brethren. We've gone through Ammon, don't mess with them, they're your brethren. We've gone through the Amorites, make war, destroy them utterly and now we're 400 years after that we're at the king of Judah is joshua fat and he's a good king he ends bad and his son then becomes bad but joshua fat is a good king and in verse number 20 I'm sorry chapter number 20 verse number one Jehoshaphat finds himself in an issue 400 years after what we just read it came to pass after this also that the children of Moab and the children of Ammon and with them others besides the Ammonites came against Jehoshaphat to battle So what he does because he is a good King as he prays he doesn't know what to do So he prays and if you look and maybe you have little words in your Bible that kind of give headers He's going to pray starting in chapter 20 verse 5. He's gonna pray for deliverance So we're gonna jump right into the middle of his prayer. Look at verse number 10. He's praying to God Okay He's not speaking to the people, he's praying to God. He says, and now behold the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and destroyed them not. Behold, I say, how they reward us. To come to cast us out of thy possession which thou has given us to inherit I love this. It's 400 years later We understand there's gonna be a lot of history between the Moabites and the Ammonites and we understand Ruth and there's just a lot of reason why they weren't to touch the Moabites then but here's the deal Jehoshaphat says thy possession If you went back to our text and you looked at verse number 20 again It says until the Lord has given rest unto your brethren as well as unto you and until thy they also possess the land which the Lord Your God hath given them beyond Jordan and then shall you return every man unto his possession God listen God is allowing them to possess the land and but it's God's land. We need to understand this today. Like America, we don't have 400 years of history. I hope you understand that. But Jehoshaphat is looking back to history 400 years ago and he's saying, Lord, this is your people and this is your land. And so long story short, what ends up happening is God says, I'll take care of it. And so high level, Jehoshaphat takes the choir and says hey, why don't you go out to battle first and sing praises to God? We'll be right behind you and so instead of fighting they just go sing praises to God high level here There's a whole you can read it and then the Lord takes care of it 400 years after this but the bottom line is the point is we have to remember this is God's land Israel is got thy possession is what Joshua said Israel is God's people in God's land. We must not ever forget that. And the story of the first part of Deuteronomy tells us exactly how it became that. So it's very exciting. It's very sad. You hear waste and things like that. But it's going to change because it's about giving the second law. So now we're going to start getting into how you need to conduct yourself in God's land, if you're God's people. And with that, let's get ready for Big People Church.