Deuteronomy Chapter 34. Deuteronomy
Chapter 34. Our subject this morning is lessons
from Mount Pisgah. Deuteronomy Chapter 34. We read here about Mount Nebo
where Moses died according to the will of God and by the hand
of God. As we read these nine chapters,
these nine verses, these first nine verses of Deuteronomy 34,
it seems obvious that God brought Moses to this mountain, showed
him all the land of Canaan, and buried him in the mountain so
that no man knows the place of his grave, and did so for specific
reasons to teach us specific lessons about the gospel of his
free grace. When Moses looked out from Mt. Pisgah, he saw all the land of
Canaan that God promised to Israel. All of it. I remind you of what
I told you last week. He saw everything. He saw the
distance of 120 miles in one direction and 60 miles in another
direction. He saw these things in the full
strength of his health. He was just as strong as an old
man as he was when he was 20 years old, just as healthy as
he was when he was 20 years old. You can talk to Joe here. I've
never asked him about this, but I suspect There's no doctor around
who's ever seen a fellow who died who was in perfect health. Have you ever seen anybody that's
in perfect health? That doesn't happen. Moses did. Moses did. In perfect health. And died. Let's watch it now. Deuteronomy
34, verse 1. And Moses went up from the plains
of Moab unto the mountains of Debo to the top of Pisgah. that
is over against Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the
land of Gilead under Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of
Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah under the utmost
sea, and the south and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the
city of palm trees under Zor. And the Lord said unto him, This
is the land that I swear unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed. I have caused
thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. How did Moses see these things? God said, I caused you to see
it with your eyes. Now turn over to 1 Corinthians
chapter 2. First Corinthians chapter 2.
Here's the first lesson to be learned from Mt. Pisgah. God
help you to learn it. All spiritual knowledge and understanding
is by divine revelation. All spiritual knowledge and understanding
is by divine revelation. If you learn the things of God,
you must be taught of God. And we teach our children things
in the scriptures. Teach them. We teach them facts. Teach them. Every time I stand
to preach to you, I preach to you as a result of much study,
presenting the doctrine of Christ. I present things as logically,
as reasonably as I can, showing you that which is revealed in
scripture. And I can make you learn doctrine. I can make you learn facts so
that you can repeat them back to me just as I have given them
to you. But I cannot teach you anything
spiritual. I cannot give you spiritual understanding
about anything. That comes only by divine revelation. That comes only by divine revelation. Everything we know and see by
faith. We know and see by the revelation
of God the Holy Spirit through his word. With eyes of faith
given by God the Spirit, we have eyes of faith that look upon
and see things eternal. We see things eternal. Spiritual
things. Eternal things. Things that cannot
be apprehended by carnal knowledge or carnal reasons. Things that
cannot be understood by mere human logic and human learning.
Nothing spiritual. Nothing about the things of God.
Nothing about Christ nothing about his salvation nothing about
grace nothing about righteousness Nothing about anything having
to do with eternal things can be known Except God show it to
you Except God by his spirit open his word and calls you to
see what's written in the book Look in first Corinthians chapter
2 verse 11 What man knoweth the things of
a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? You look at
somebody and say, I can read your thoughts. No, you can't.
I don't care how well you know me, you can't read my thoughts.
Not going to happen. Not going to happen. The only
way you're going to know what I'm thinking is if I open my
mouth and tell you. The only way you can know what's
inside a man is if he opens his mouth and speaks his mind to
you. So it is with the things of God, read on. Even so, the
things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God. Now we
have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit
which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely
given unto us of God. Verse 13. Which things also we
speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth. comparing spiritual things with
spiritual. But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God. The natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God. He won't have it. He
won't have it. You talk to a natural man about
anything spiritual, and doesn't matter what you say, almost anything
you say, his first word of response is but. That's what goats do
all the time, a lot of butting. And they butt this, butt that,
and they stumble over the stumbling stone. They will not rest on
the rock of foundation. But they find some reason not
to understand, not to receive, not to believe what's written
in the book of God. He receiveth not the things of
the Spirit of God. How come? Because of the foolishness
to it. The foolishness to it. Foolishness
to him. He hasn't any ability to understand
them. I have a very dear friend I'll
see this week, Brother Stephen Doyle, who's a brilliant fellow. Man, he's smart. How many smart. He has been commissioned to write
a number of books for, what's that space program, for NATO,
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, on the non-nuclear proliferation
of space. And I got the books. He's my friend. And I read them. I really did. I read every word.
Do you know what I know about the non-nuclear proliferation
of space now? Just about as much as I did the
day I was born. I have absolutely no understanding
of what I read in over 1,200 pages of reading. I mean no understanding. I can recite the words and I
can look them up and give you the definition. I don't have
a clue what he wrote about. More than that, I don't really
have any interest. The only reason I read them is
because my friend wrote the book. That's the only reason I read them.
That's not even close to what Paul is saying here. The natural
man, the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit
of God for their foolishness to him. The foolishness to it. He doesn't even consider them
mysteries beyond his apprehension. He considers them things to be
trampled under his foot, not even worth remembering. Foolishness
to it. Foolishness to it. Neither can
he know them. Now, here's the reason. Because
they're spiritually discerned. We know Christ not after the
flesh, but after the spirit. You have an option from the Holy
One, and you know all things, John says. They're spiritually
discerned, spiritually undisturbed, understood. People say, well,
if you could show me this, prove this to me, then I'd believe.
No, you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't. No, faith doesn't come by proof. Proof comes by faith. Understanding
doesn't come, and then you have faith. Faith is given, and then
you have understanding. By faith, We understand that
the worlds were made by the Word of God. Do you know how much
trouble I had believing that God created all things out of
nothing? Do you know how much trouble
I had believing that? About as much trouble as I have
taken a breath. Well, how can you believe that? I know God. I know God. Creation's not a
problem to Him, He's God. Well, how do you explain all
the mysteries about creation? I don't need to. He's God. He's
the one who made the mysteries. And he made the mysteries so
you'd stumble over and go to hell. It's exactly right. That's exactly right. We understand
by faith. So I got to have more than that.
I know you do. I know you. I understand that.
I do. Because it's foolishness to you
until God gives you life. Until God gives you faith. But
he don't. But he that is spiritual judgeth. The word is discerns. He rightly judges all things. He judges things politically,
civically, morally, scientifically, all of those things he rightly
judges. He judges things in providence,
judgments, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, murders, wars, rapes,
incest. He judges all things. He understands. He understands. He understands
the nature of man, and he understands the nature of God. He's spiritual,
judgeth all things, yet he himself, nobody's got a clue about him.
The world knoweth us not. He's judged of no man. For who
hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? Who
do you think you are to challenge God? But we, we. Don Ranieri has the mind of Christ. We have the mind of Christ so
that we understand all things. Back in Deuteronomy 34 again.
That's the first lesson. Everything we know and see by
faith, we know and see by divine revelation, by eyes of faith
that God the Holy Spirit has given us. Now let's pick up in
verse 5, Deuteronomy 34. So Moses, the servant of the
Lord, died there in the Mount of Moab, according to the word
of the Lord. And he buried him in a valley
in the land of Moab, over against Bethphior. But no man knoweth
of his sepulcher unto this day. Moses was buried in the land
of Moab. among Moabites, where there's
nothing but the curse of God. That's where Moses was buried.
In the land of Moab, where there's no hope. In the land of Moab,
where there's nothing but darkness. That's where Moses was buried.
Read on now, verse 7. And Moses was 120 years old when
he died. His eye was not dimmed, nor his
natural force abated. And the children of Israel wept
for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. So the days of weeping
and mourning for Moses were ended and Joshua the son of Nun was
full of the spirit of wisdom for Moses had laid his hands
upon Joshua and the children of Israel hearkened unto Joshua
and did as the Lord commanded Moses. Here's the second thing
taught on Mount Pisgah. Most people Never, never learn
this. Most people refuse to acknowledge
it, but here it is. Now this is deep stuff. I'm talking to you now. I'm talking
to you about stuff that you, you just, you're not going to
get this just anywhere. This is profound theology. Write it
down. Three words. Moses is dead. Did you get that? Moses is dead. Dead. Throughout this book, from
Genesis, well I should get to Exodus, from Exodus through Malachi,
Moses represents the law. Moses' name is synonymous with
the law. Beginning at Moses, the Lord
Jesus taught things concerning himself. Moses, speaking of the
Pentateuch, the first five books of the law of the prophets, the
law of Moses. So throughout the book, Moses
represents law and Moses is dead. Let's see if you rightly deduce
things. Well, brother Don, that means
the law is dead, doesn't it, though? The law is dead. Oh, no. How can you say that? The Lord Jesus did not abrogate
the law. I beg your pardon. He most certainly
did. He killed the law. He said, I didn't come to destroy
the law. He didn't do that. No, no. He fulfilled it. And
by fulfilling it, brought it to its conclusion. Now, it won't
be long before Bob Duff is going to stand in my casket, and I'll
be dead. He'll say, well, Brother Don's
come to the end of his life here. Or I'm going to stand at yours,
and I'll say, well, Brother Bob's come to the end of his life.
And you know what I'll mean by that? I don't expect him to get
up. I'm not expecting to hear him
groan. I'm not expecting to hear him
say, Brother Don, got anything to eat? He's dead. He's dead. The scriptures tell
us plainly that the law is dead, dead to all who trust Christ. Now, after taking the land of
Canaan into full vision, after surveying all the fulfillment
of God's covenant promises, Moses stands on Mount Pisgah And he
has in his mind all that God promised to Abraham back there
when God called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees. And God said,
I'm going to show you all of it. And it looks over the whole
terrain of God's covenant promises. And having seen all of those
things, Moses died and thus the law died. Moses could not bring
Israel into the land of promise. He could not cause them to come
in and possess the heritage God gave to Abraham because Moses
failed to sanctify God in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Isn't that amazing? God said, speak to the rock,
and Moses smoked the rock the second time. And thus the Lord
said, you did not sanctify me in the eyes of my people. For
that, you can't go into the land of promise. You did not show forth my wholeness
as God. For that, you cannot go into
the land of promise. You did not show my holiness. For that, you must die here on
Mount Nebo. Now, here's a picture of the
law's death. If we are dead to the law, is
that what the book says? Romans chapter 7, dead to the
law. Galatians chapter 2, dead to the law by the body of Christ.
If we are dead to the law as God's word declares we are, then
the law is dead to us. Moses died on Mount Nebo, but
Joshua lived. So it is spiritually. The law
is dead, but Christ lives. The law died as Moses died on
Mount Nebo, so the law died. But Christ Jesus, our Redeemer,
our Mediator, our covenant surety, He who fulfilled the law lives
forever. Turn to Colossians chapter 2.
Colossians chapter 2, I want you to see this. Now there are
five things clearly stated in this portion of Scripture, verses
8 and 9 of Deuteronomy 34. Five things by which God the
Holy Spirit gives us a picture of our complete freedom from
the law of Moses in Christ Jesus, who is the end of the law for
righteousness to everyone that believeth. First, Moses died. The law died, having fulfilled
all his appointed purpose. Moses died, having fulfilled
all his appointed purpose. But wait. God told Moses he was
going to bring Israel into the land of Canaan. He did. He just
couldn't go with him. He brought them right into the
land of Canaan, laid his hands on Joshua. He said, Joshua, you're
going to carry them over. And so Moses brought Israel up
to the land of Canaan and by his appointment and by his work
brought them into the land of Canaan through Joshua, the man
whom God set to serve him after Moses. And so our Lord Jesus
Christ brings complete salvation to his people in accordance with
the law, but the law has nothing to do with the salvation. You
got that? Christ brings us into all the
blessedness of God's salvation and complete fulfillment of the
law, but the law could never bring us into the land of promise.
Colossians chapter 2. In order for Christ to bring
us in, Moses has got to die. In order for Christ to give us
life, the law must be crucified. Colossians chapter 2, verse 8.
Beware lest any man spoil you. through philosophy and vain deceit,
after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world,
and not after Christ." Now, it will be shocking to some to discover
that Paul is not here talking about, when he talks about philosophy
and vain deceit and the traditions of men and the rudiments of the
world, he's not talking about Scientology And he's not talking
about the philosophies of the intellectual world. He's not
talking about the psychology world. He's not talking about
the world around us. He's talking about the religious
world. He's talking about philosophy in the pulpit. Vain deceit in
the pulpit. The traditions of men in the
pulpit. The rudiments of the world. The rudiments of the world. He's talking about the commandments
of the law. Let's say that's not so. Look at it now. Verse
9. For in him, that is in Christ,
dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And you are
complete in him. He is completely God and you
are as complete in him as he is completely God. which is the
head of all principality and power, in whom also ye are circumcised
with the circumcision made without hands." Now, circumcision in
the Old Testament didn't have a thing on earth to do with believers'
baptism. Those yahoos who try to convince you that sprinkling
babies, they do that because they want to bring that baby
in the covenant, that's how circumcision is represented in the New Testament.
That's an invention of Rome and it won't stand. It won't hold
water. Circumcision referred to the new birth. Circumcision
in the Old Testament was the portrayal of the new birth in
the New Testament in the gospel of God's grace It's a circumcision
made without hands. We are the circumcision which
worship God in spirit and have no confidence in the flesh We
are the true Israel of God who've been circumcised in our hearts.
We don't now the in the putting off of the body of sins of the
flesh by the circumcision of Christ verse 12 Buried with Christ
in baptism wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith
of the operation of God. That is, if you believe, you
believe by divine operation. Faith is given by God, faith
is sustained by God, faith functions by the power and grace of God,
who hath raised us, who hath raised him from the dead, verse
13. And you being dead in your sins,
And the uncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickened, regenerated
together with Christ, having forgiven you all trespasses.
Now watch this, verse 14. Blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us. Blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us. Somehow, somehow that's connected
with forgiveness of sin. The handwriting ordinances that
was against us, the forgiveness of sin, the handwriting ordinances
must be blotted out. Oh, but that's talking about
the law of circumcision, and that's talking about the dietary
laws, and that's talking about whether or not you ought to make
restitution, and that's talking about the sacrifices in the morning
and sacrifices in the evening and the feast days and all that
stuff. No, those things weren't against
us. Same word against it. Where do
you find anywhere in the scripture where any ritual of the law was
against anybody? Oh No, the handwriting of ordinances
that was against us is the Word of God that says thou shalt not
covet It's the Word of God says love God with all your heart
soul mind and be love your neighbor as yourself. Now, that's against
you That's against you. We don't blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances which was against us, which was contrary to us,
and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. And having spoiled
principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing
over them in it. Verse 16. Let no man therefore
judge you. Let no man condemn you. Let no
man bring you under the sentence of guilt again. Meat or drink
or in respect to an holy day of the new moon or Sabbath days? Don't let anybody make you think
you've got to live by the Sabbath day We live by the Sabbath day
Christ Jesus the Lord Our Sabbath is a Sabbath of faith in Christ
Jesus if you want to Not do anything on Sunday, but worship God. I
highly commend it, but don't you call it Sabbath keeping?
Frank and Stacey couldn't be here this morning if we were
keeping a Sabbath day. You live too far away. You can't travel that
far on a Sabbath day. No, no, no. We keep the Sabbath
spiritually by faith in Christ. We have no regard for anything
that's referred to in any way as a holy day. And we will not
be brought in bondage. I don't care how much folks cuss
us concerning it. Read on. Verse 17, which are
a shadow of things to come. But the body is of Christ. Let
no man beguile you. Beguile you. That's a strong
word. That's the word that would be
used to describe what a young man does with a young lady with smooth words and kind gestures. persuades her to let him have
his way with her. That's the word. Beguiling her. That's what Satan did with Eve
in the garden. He beguiled her. It's the strongest
word you can use for deceit. The strongest word you can use
for getting people to do something, thinking that it's well when
it's all wrong. Let no man beguile you. Hear
me! Oh hear me now! The whole religious
works world is beguiling. It's beguiling. Let no man beguile
you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels,
intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed
up by his fleshly mind, and not holding Christ the head from
which all the body, by joints and bands, having nourishment,
ministered and knit together, increaseth with the increase
of God. Wherefore, if ye be dead with Christ, watch this now,
from the rudiments of the world, If you're dead with him, why,
as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances?
What ordinances? Touch not, taste not, handle
not. Don't eat this, don't drink that, don't go there, don't wear
that. Most of what's called conservative
religion, most fundamentalist religion, most liberal religion
has rules. Rules adopted from Rome. Rules that say evil is out there
and if you'll quit doing this, you'll be good. All you got to
do to be holy is don't eat that, don't touch that, don't go there.
Now I know we got to have the grace of God to help us along
the way, but as long as you don't, everything will be all right.
That's nothing on this earth but carnal Fake, false, self-righteous,
works religion. Read on, read on. Verse 23, which
things have indeed a show of wisdom in, what does it say? Will worship. All works religion,
nothing but will worship. All attempts at man making himself
righteous, nothing but will worship. All claims that man can make
himself holy, nothing but will worship. It is man worshipping
himself as God. Man sitting in the house of God,
demanding that he be worshipped as God. And preachers everywhere
completely happy to go along with it, for they're engaged
in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body, not
in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. to the satisfying
of the flesh. Religion, oh, how religion pleases
the flesh. Religious works, religious doings,
religious commotions, oh, how those things please the flesh.
Men love religion. They love it. They practice it
dutifully all the time. It gratifies them. Oh, don't
you feel good now? You came to church this morning.
Just imagine how bad you'd feel if you stayed home and slept
in. Oh, I'm coming tonight, too, brother. I'll be there Tuesday
night. Oh, now don't you feel good? You could have stayed home
and watched gun smoke. It gratifies the flesh. As God buried Moses
in Mount Nebo, and hell can't dig up his body, so Christ buried
the law. And hell itself can't dig it
up again. Satan stood before Joshua as
the angel of the Lord stood by and accused Joshua and sought
to bring Joshua under sentence of guilt because Joshua had defiled
his garments while he was in Babylon. And Joshua stood before
the angel of the Lord as a bran plucked out of the burning. And
the Lord God said, take his dirty clothes off and put clean raiment
on him. Put a crown on his head, wash
him. I have forgiven his iniquities. And so our Lord Jesus Christ
stands by the merits of his blood and his perfect obedience as
our substitute and we stand accepted of God in him. Thank God nobody
can find Moses' body and raise it up against us. Here's the
second thing. The children of Israel wept for
Moses and mourned. You see that? Back in Deuteronomy
34, the children of Israel wept and mourned. Moses died and they
cried. These are the same folks who
tried repeatedly to kill him. Now Moses is dead and they cried.
They cried. Cried crocodile tears. So the
natural man mourns for the dead letter of the law ever clinging
to it. ever seeking to make himself
righteous by obedience to the law, by the vain delusion of
law obedience. Not many that I know would say
we're justified by works. There's some, there's some. Say
we save ourselves by our obedience. You've got to do good if you'd
be safe. Not many that I know, but almost everybody I know,
almost everybody I know, reformed and non-reformed. Calvinist and
Armenian almost everybody I know says now we are saved by the
grace of God We're justified by the blood of Christ, but but
now you've got to sanctify yourself You've got what once God's done
once God's given you new life Then you got to make yourself
hold that once God's given you a new nature You've got to improve
that nature until you by your obedience to the law you get
better gooder and gooder and gooder and gooder until at last
you're ripe for heaven and God just, almost like you're zenith
and God translates you. Not hardly. Not hardly. Tell me, you that desire to be
under the law, tell me you that desire to be made perfect by
the flesh, how did you receive Christ Jesus the Lord? Was it
by faith or by the works of the law? Galatians chapter 3 verse
1. Was it by faith or by the law? It's by faith. Then do you
think you're going to make yourself perfect by law? Oh, no, no, no,
no. We live by faith in Christ. As you, therefore, have received
Christ Jesus, the Lord. So walk in him. How did you receive it? Oh, brother,
Donna, I didn't have anything. And I couldn't do anything. I
didn't even have any good feelings. All I had was sin and guilt and
filth. A hard, vile, wretched heart. And I came to God trusting His
Son alone for righteousness and redemption. Walk on to glory
like that. Walk on to glory like that. You
can't go any other way. You can't go any other way. Tell
me, you that desire to be under the law, do you know what law
says? This is what law says. Cursed is everyone that continueth
not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
If you're going to make yourself good, holy, righteous by obeying
God's law, you've got to obey God's law perfectly. There's
no such thing as partial obedience. All right, here's the third thing.
Joshua was full of the spirit and wisdom of God. Moses died and Joshua was full
of wisdom and the spirit of God was on him. That's our Redeemer. Christ Jesus is made of God and
to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. He is the wisdom of God. That is, he is the one by whom
God makes himself known to men and by whom God directs his people
and makes them wise. He's the word of God. He's made
of God unto us righteousness. Whatever righteousness there
is, whatever righteousness there is that a man possesses, it is
what we have because of Christ and in Christ, not what we have
on our own. Justifying righteousness sanctifying
righteousness judgment day righteousness. His name is Jehovah's in Kenya
the Lord our righteousness we have none else and Sanctification
Christ is made of God and to us sanctification. The word is
holiness holiness How can I say things right there
and clearly. We desire. Michael Campbell,
you're looking at me like you want to know if I'm going to
tell you the truth. And that's right, you should. What's he
about to say? I want to be perfectly holy. That's either truth or I've been
lying to you your whole life. I want to be perfectly holy in
my own experience of things. Someday I shall be, but not any
day on this earth. I denounce all pretense of personal
holiness. I have none. I cannot arrive
at any. But the book says, follow peace
with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.
Oh, there was Brother Joe. He's such a holy man. Oh, did
you ever hear him pray? Did you? Did you? Do you know
how much money he gave? Do you know how often he witnessed
the folks? Do you know how he governed his
diet? Did you see the way he dresses? Do you know how he speaks
to people? Oh, he's such a holy man. Do
you know he reads his Bible through once a month? He's such a holy
man. That's a vain delusion. That holiness without which no
man shall see the Lord is Christ the Redeemer. And he's mine. And I am sanctified, perfectly
holy in him. redemption Deliverance from all
sin and all evil by the blood of Christ and the power of his
free grace Redemption Christ is made of God unto us wisdom
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption Why does God do
that that according as it is written? He that glorieth let
him glory in the Lord If there were something that
you do, even if nobody knew about it
but you, if there's something you do,
something you feel, some work you perform, some decision you
make, by which you make yourself, Just a smidgen better than Linja
Campbell. You're going to glory in it. You're going to pop your suspenders.
You're going to glory in it. Man, if I'm playing my wife in
a game where Rook can beat her, I tell the world about it. I tell the world about it. I
beat her this time, she can beat me one time in a thousand, beat
me a thousand times in a row, and me beat her once. I beat
her this time, and we're glorying it, and that's nothing. So it
is with all things spiritual. If you've got something by which
you think you differ from another, you're glorying it. Alan Kidby,
I've got something. by which I differ from all the
world, that something is Christ by wisdom and righteousness and
sanctification and redemption. So that he that glorieth, let
him glory in the Lord. Joshua was full of the Spirit
of God wisdom. And Moses, fourthly we're told,
laid his hands on Joshua. Before he died, Moses said, this
is the man. Moses said, I approve of this
man. Moses said, God approves of this
man. And so it is with our Lord Jesus.
The law fully approves of him and all his work. The law fully
approves of his obedience and his death is our substitute.
You remember in Luke 17, those lepers who came to the Lord Jesus
for healing. These 10 lepers, they came to
the Savior for healing and the Savior said, he said, go show
yourselves to the priest. You remember that? He said, you
go do what the law said do. Show yourselves to the priest.
The priest under the law have got to say you're clean. You
go show yourself to the priest. And they, they turned and started
to go to the priest. And as they were going, They looked, and they were perfectly
clean. They came to the Savior as lepers,
and they turned again to the law, completely whole. Here I stand before God's holy
law, with no reason to be uncomfortable. Completely whole. Completely
holy. through Christ the Redeemer,
made righteous by His righteousness. And fifthly, with Joshua as their
head, the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. Now, I think I mentioned this
last week, but if you read the book of Joshua, you'll see that
Israel no more obeyed Joshua than they did Moses. In fact,
you can look this up later in Joshua 24, Joshua said to the
children of Israel you cannot serve the Lord You cannot serve
the Lord for he's holy God said walk before me and be holy for
I'm holy and Joshua you can't do it. You cannot serve the Lord
for he's holy He said he's a jealous God. He will not forgive your
transgressions know your sins and Yet we're told in Joshua
24 19 That the Lord God or chapter
23 rather verse 24 that the Lord God fulfilled all His covenant
promises to the children of Israel in Joshua. All of them. Everything that
God promised Abraham back in Genesis, everything He promised
him, God fulfilled it in Joshua 23. He said, I take you to record
this day, anybody here, Anybody here who will tell otherwise
God has this day Fulfilled everything he promised Abraham. They said
amen. He fulfilled it all nothing like
it So it is that we in Christ Jesus have fully obeyed God's
law We have fully obeyed God's law when he lived on this earth
in righteousness and We lived in righteousness in Him. When
He died at Calvary, we died in Him. When the law spent itself
on the Savior, the law spent itself on His people. And now
God is pleased with all who believe on His Son and declares that
we are freed from sin, dead to the law, alive unto God by Jesus
Christ His Lord, our Lord. Here's one more thing. I want
you to see it. I'll send you home rejoicing.
In Christ. We are free from the law. The children of Israel. Never saw Moses again. They never saw him again. They never saw him again. Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord will not impute sin. Believe on the Son of God and
go home free from the law with this assurance that Christ our
God will never charge you with sin. Amen.