Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter five, please. Deuteronomy chapter five. We're gonna read verse one. And Moses called all Israel and said unto them, hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them and keep them and do them. Deuteronomy is one of the most significant books of the entire Bible. It really is. This book, it's for several different reasons. This book is either quoted or cited nearly 200 times in the New Testament. That's a pretty big deal. Of great importance, if you were to look through Matthew chapter 4, verses 1 through 11, Satan tempted the Lord Jesus Christ. And Satan tempted the Lord Jesus Christ in the same way he tempted Adam and Eve, in the same way he tempts you and I, with the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. And I'd be lying to you if I didn't tell you with each reply that Jesus had, he quoted scripture and he quoted the book of Deuteronomy. Did you catch that? He quoted the book of Deuteronomy. All three times, with all three temptations, he quoted the book of Deuteronomy. I've got them written down here, we can look at them if you like. And if you have Matthew, or you can just write them down, in Matthew chapter four, let's go ahead, now that I've piqued your interest, let's look at it. Matthew chapter four, verse four. Let's see, verse three, and when the tempter came and said to him, if thou be the son of God, this is verse three, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, it is written, it is written in Deuteronomy chapter eight, verse three, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. In Matthew chapter seven, chapter six, chapter four and verse six, it says, and God saith unto him, and he saith unto him, Satan saith unto him, if thou be the son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands he shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Oh yes, Satan can quote scripture too. Jesus said unto him, it is written, Deuteronomy 6, verse 16. Again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. in Matthew chapter four and verse nine. And the devil saith unto him, all these things will I give thee. When he took him to the top of the high mountain and show him all the kingdoms. And then saith unto him, these things will I give thee if thou will fall down and worship me. Then Jesus saith unto him, get thee hence or get away Satan, for it is written in Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 20, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Yes, Deuteronomy is a most important book. If some of you are still around by the time we get through Genesis and Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers and we go through the book of Deuteronomy, it's going to take us years to get through this book. It's no small fact at all that the Lord did rebuke the devil these three times from this book. The Lord maintained his victorious and supreme status by all manner of temptation in the desert at the hands of Satan. It says in Hebrews chapter 4, if you would please, if you'd look there, to see the qualifications of our Lord as being high priest. In Hebrews chapter 4, and let's see, verse, 15, for we have not a high priest which cannot be touched, Hebrews 4, 15, for we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities or weaknesses, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. So he tempted him in all points, and what were those points? Lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. If the Lord found it wise to call upon this precious book in times of His temptations, how could we dare not do the same thing? At least for a little while today and throughout our lives, most assuredly. The book of Deuteronomy is a work that clearly declares the glory of God. If you were to read through it, it would show the glory of God, what God has done for His people. and the instruction for God's people to hear, learn, keep, and do all that the Lord had commanded him. That's the subject for today. Hear, learn, keep, and do. Hear, learn, keep, and do. It's right there in our text verse, Deuteronomy chapter five, verse one. The book of this rehearsal of the glory of God and of instruction is a field manual, okay? It's a field manual. It's a manual that you're supposed to use when you're having problems in the field or when you're out supposed to be doing something. The intention is for the people of God, believing and serving God, to go into the promised land and live lives of victory by faith in the God that had delivered them. That's the intention of this book. The principle we should see in this, though we are not promised Canaan, is we may enjoy a life of victory, not wealth, not honor, prestige, or anything like that, a life of victory by honoring some simple concepts that the Lord has laid out for us right here in chapter five, verse one. And Moses called all Israel and said unto them, hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day. that ye may learn them and keep them and do them." Moses, let's first cover Moses. We know who Moses is. He's the man that God had called to bring Israel out of Egypt and had given them the judgments and statutes of God. We'll get into what those are in a moment. I know Lex is going to ask at the cart before the horse. But Moses was the man that God had put as a representation of himself, okay? He's talking to a particular people and He says, hear, okay? So you gotta get the context here. There's a man that's called for a people and this people was called for this man, okay? He didn't go to the Jebusites or the Gergesites or the Philistines or anybody else to say, hear what God says. He went to God's people and said, hear what God says. And God's people didn't go out to YouTube or go down to the local shaman or whatever and try to hear what God may have said. No, they heard the words of God's man. You see the relationship there. But also Moses in this place here, you can read through these five books of Moses, that Moses also is a very good representation of Jesus Christ in many accounts. So we're to hear the words that God would have told us here through the words of Moses. How important are the words of Moses? Well, this important. Remember that rich man in Luke 16? Abraham said they have Moses and the prophets. Hear them, right? Don't look for signs, don't look for wonders. Hear Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. So let's hear what Moses has to say. Again, who is the nation of Israel? This is no surprise to us. It's the nation of promise from Genesis 12, Genesis 15, Genesis 17, Genesis 19, Genesis 28. It's the same group of promise that we've been studying on Sunday afternoons. That people that God had promised, that he had purposed to himself from before the foundation of the world, that they would be his people and they would be his God. Or he would be their God, rather. They would be his people, he would be their God. It's a very specific group here. By now, there are about 3 million people. So a bunch of people. When he says, Moses saying, he says, unto them, hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments. Let's get into what those are before the hear, learn, keep, and do. It's important. The statutes are the ordinances of the limits. These are God's statutes and limits. Basically telling the people of God how you're supposed to live. Okay? There's an ordinance in town. You can see it as you're driving back down this way. It says, City Ordinance. No engine braking within city limits. These big trucks that come by here, instead of using their brakes and wearing out their brake pads, they'll gear down and you'll hear them. Whenever you hear a truck going, coming down the road, they're engine braking. They're violating the city ordinance, okay? And they put that city ordinance because the neighborhoods and people are sick of that sound, right? But that's an ordinance, it's a law, and they violate it. It's legislation, it's an enactment. It authoritatively states an act as a procedure. God says, this is how I want you to do things. These are my statutes, okay? If you continue reading through chapter five, you're gonna see the 10 commandments again right there. Judgments. So if he has statutes, but he doesn't have judgments, he loses the weight of his statutes. Okay, so what are judgments? Judgments are justice or verdict. He has the right as the high court and supreme God to decide that his statutes or his laws are right and good. Being God, he can say, I've said to do this, and because I've said to do this, it is right. Okay? It's the verdict. It's deciding in a case of right and wrong. He has declared that his statutes by his judgments are good and well. What is he telling Israel? He's telling Israel that by these statutes and by these judgments, you don't get to decide how you live your life, and I don't get to decide how to live my life. And because he has decided that, how we should live our lives, we should not live our lives according to our own judgments, which involve our emotions, our feelings, our logic. The best reports we can come by know we're to live by faith that God's statutes and His judgments are right and well and live according to them by faith. Faith unto victory. His decisions or divine law. The law, that song that was just sung, the law found everyone guilty. Every single person was found guilty according to the law. So when Moses is saying, hear O Israel, the statutes and judgments, he not only is bringing up through the course of this book, the law, the 10 commandments, but there's also mention of the sacrifices and the types and the tabernacle. So get into that, dig into that. Within the sacrifices of the law, Every sin that was committed required a sacrifice by law so that there would be forgiveness or remission of sins or atonement, right? There was no forgiveness of sins by those sacrifices, but atonement, a putting off of sin. And that sin was put upon that animal and that animal's blood was shed And every sin that was committed, there was a sacrifice and it was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ taking the sins of His people, making His people free, and Himself dying as though He had committed the offense. Every sin, every day, thousands of animals, blood and rivers of blood flowing from this place. Here, the statutes and judgments of God, they are right and they are good. We were all found guilty. Every one of us requires a sacrifice. Either Christ is that sacrifice, or sin or you are the sacrifice. That sin that was sacrificed for, we've read so many times, but it's necessary. As Moses tells us to hear the judgments and the statutes of God, it's necessary for us to be reminded of Hebrews chapter 10, if you would turn there, Hebrews chapter 10. the statutes and the judgments, having a shadow or a picture of good things to come. These are good things. And not the very image of the things, can never, with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually to make the comers there unto perfect, they never, ever, ever brought a solution for sin. For then they would have ceased to be offered. If it did the job, then they could quit. Right? If it finished it, then they could finish, they could stop. Because that the worshippers once purged should have no more conscience of sins, or it would have worked. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. That was the day of atonement. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. When you read through the book of Leviticus, you read the different kinds of sacrifices and everything there were, and it was morning, and even if it were possible for three million people, again, three million people, to go through the day and not commit sins, they still had to make sacrifices morning and night, morning and night, every day, morning and night. I'm convinced that these priests at the mouth of the tabernacle gate, that they were exhausted by the end of the day for all the sacrifices that were made, but they never took away sin. They never took away sin. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, Christ, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body thou hast prepared me. Christ, the physical body. burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou has no had no pleasure then said I lo I've come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will O God what was the will of God that Jesus Christ would die in the place of his people the fulfillment the That's what the shadow of those good things. The good thing is Christ died for his people. That's good above when he said sacrifice an offering and burn offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not neither has that pleasure therein which are offered by the law then he said lo I come to do that will oh God he take it the way the first put it into the Old Testament that he may establish the second the covenant of grace by the which we will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all And every priest standeth daily, not just yearly, daily ministering and offering, oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sin, same model. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God, one sacrifice for sins forever. The statutes and judgments of God demand justice according to the law. Hear that Christ died for sins. Hear that. Died, buried, risen again. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified, whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness unto us. For after that he had said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts. I'll put my statutes and my judgments into their hearts. And in their minds will I write them, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission or forgiveness of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Jesus paid it all. Hear, oh brothers and sisters in Christ, hear these things, the statutes and the judgments of God. The more we hear Learn, keep, and do the statutes and judgments of God, the more appreciation we ought to have for the Lord Jesus Christ. The more we ought to desire to serve him and bring glory to his name, instead of me serving myself and you serving yourself. And us all worshiping ourselves, we ought to desire to serve our living God. So those four things, hear, learn, keep, and do. We're going to see that if we do any of these, and not all of them, that it's undone, that it's necessary that we do all here. First he says, hear. That doesn't just mean know there's a sound going on, that you hear it, but hear with attention, is how that word is translated. Hear with attention or interest. Listen. Intelligently listen. Right? I've been accused, and it's true many times, that my wife and I will be speaking with one another and I'll be saying, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. And I have no idea what she said. But I'm agreeing. I wasn't hearing her. I wasn't listening to her. You see the difference? Just being present when noise is going on is not listening. It's not hearing. Hear with attention. Hear with interest. Well, what should our attention and our interest be? My attention and my interest should be listening and hearing for the glory of God to be presented. Right? For the glory of God. And how can I take what the glory of God has been said and go somewhere else and share more of the glory of God? We're going to get into that when we look at Learn. But hear, we're to hear. My dad was a pretty great mentor to me in a lot of different ways. He's a sinner, saved by grace, lots of deficiencies, but he was also a pretty great mentor. One of the wisest things he ever told me, he said, I can teach you a lot of things, son, but I can't teach you to care. Think about that. That's true. He can teach me a lot of things, but he can't teach me to care. I could preach the rest of my life, and that without stopping, never removing from this building, but I can't make you care. I can't make me care. Right? I mean, I have influence in that. But if the hearers have no desire to hear, and they make no effort to hear, I can't change that. I used to play high school football with a guy, and he went on to coach high school football, and he was complaining that all these other teams, because he went two seasons without a win. That's 0-20. That's bad. So he was complaining that these other teams had this going for them and had that going for them and whatever, and I asked him, I said, is there still a track around that football field? And he said, yes. I said, are there still bleachers on the sidelines? And he said, yes. I said, is there still a weight room there? He said, yes. I said, well, your biggest problem is you're not getting your kids to care. Right? Because it's not that they're dumb. They just don't care. You're not motivating them. They don't care. You can't teach somebody to care, and caring is very important to listening. Again, I don't want to say that oftentimes that I don't care what my wife is saying, but that's really how it plays out. Right? And that's an awful thing. I'm not listening because I'm not interested, because I don't care, and what a sinner I am in that. You know, that happens to the people of God and the house of God, too. I've been in church before, and leaving, if somebody asked me what was even being talked about, I couldn't tell you, and what was the subject, and I couldn't even tell you, because I wasn't interested. I wasn't listening. I didn't hear what was being said. I could make all kinds of different changes, maybe, but we all have to be committed to hearing. Minimally, we have to be committed to hearing. That's why he starts there. You can't start somewhere else, okay? And that's uncomfortable, but it's an honest truth. You can't start somewhere else. You must make the proper arrangements to hear the Word of God. If you come down here, if we just started and say, learn the statutes and judgments of God and keep them and do them, but we didn't hear them first, if we weren't listening and interested and seeing what it's all about in the first place, then we could get off. on our learning and even our teaching, we can get off in keeping them because we didn't learn them in the first place and hear them in the first place and forget about doing them because now we don't know what we're doing. We have to hear them first. My kids are at that age where school is starting to get kind of hard, right? And a lot of times when they make their mistakes it's because they didn't hear the directions at the beginning. They just started doing stuff, right? You've got to hear the statutes and judgments of God. Hear them. Hear them. Be interested. And as Brother Shane said earlier today, and I really appreciate that, we have to come into this humbly, not infallibly, but humbly, knowing that God is right and we are wrong. And how are we to behave? How am I to behave? A very helpful tool in hearing is also reading along in Scripture. It's helpful for me anyway. And this accentuates or improves the intention or interest, right? If I'm not interested, but I turn to it and I see it, then it engages my eyeballs so that I'm reading along and hearing at the same time. It provokes interest, right? Even if the guy's not talking about anything, it provokes interest because the Word of God is being read. It's so much more than just hearing noise. It helps with intelligence and understanding, reading along does. Taking notes can be a helpful tool. Note-taking can come in very different forms. My note-taking varies from Sunday to Sunday, just about my strategy, but taking notes is very helpful as well. But note-taking can also become a distraction. Raise your hand, I'll raise too. Who's ever been taking notes before and before you know you got a picture, a page full of pictures and no scriptures written down? Who's ever done that before? I've done that. We must be very careful that the pens and paper in our hands are not tools of distraction that would take away from our hearing and take away from our interest. Right? So be careful of that. One of the points of assembling, I don't know what that is. One of the points of assembling is to hear the glory of God. We said that earlier, but also hear in such a way that you as a hearer will be able to explain it to someone else afterward. That would be a good healthy exercise for us as you're going home. Talk about the messages of the day. Have you ever noticed that whenever you have a problem and you can't quite figure it out, and you start talking about it and you present the problem to somebody else, that you come up with your own solution because you've gone over the problem again in your head? Well, sometimes by talking with others about the scriptures that have been brought out, and you're hearing that you're also, when you describe it, you're also re-teaching yourself and establishing those truths. That's why it's so important that God told Moses to tell the children of Israel, in your uprising and in your down setting, to discuss the Word of God with your children, to confirm those things that you've heard. Make sure you're listening with attention. If you desire to speak about these things, ask your church for clarification. If you have a desire to go out and witness to a lost and dying world, Well, hear it first, okay? Hear it through the word of God. Again, Moses, God's man, to God's people. Now, you can study on your own, and many people know things by going to different assemblies, and I'm not saying there's nobody that can learn independently, but God does have a way of teaching his people through his word in his church. Hear it. Now, he doesn't just say, hear me, He doesn't just say, hear, he says, hear which I speak. Not opinions, not flatterings, but the word of God. Moses was God's appointed man for the congregation. He was appointed for them, and they were appointed for him. Y'all are appointed for me, and I'm appointed for you. Y'all took a vote a couple years ago and said, yes, come over. We're stuck. For now, anyway, until you vote me out, we're stuck. Israel was not to run to Korah and see what Korah said about things. We already saw what God's opinion was on that. And Israel was not to jump on the YouTube and use any tool necessary to contradict what Moses had said. Moses had responsibility. He was not to be a storyteller. Moses was not to be a man that would pour flowers upon people so that life would be easier for them. His job was to get the people of Israel ready to go live lives of victory. He went to Pisgah, Mount Pisgah, and God took him out. He didn't get to go in. His job was merely preparation work, preparatory work. Moses, many times, as the meekest and humblest man. It says in Numbers 12 and verse 3 that he was such a humble man. He was no milk toast. He was no manby-pamby. He was not wishy-washy or mealy-mouthed or anything else you want to say. He was a man that pointed out plainly the facts of the Word of God. He was very direct in stating the judgments and statutes of God. Not his judgments and statutes, the judgments and statutes of God. He didn't push his agenda. He declared the words of God. And he says, hear these judgments and hear these statutes, why? That you may learn them. So hear and learn. Learn is a fun one. Learn is a very fun one. This isn't a brow beating exercise, this is an encouragement. Deuteronomy is an encouraging book. Again, Christ called upon the book of Deuteronomy in time of and time of temptation. We're to learn them. Learn as being taught, but learn as also to be a teacher. Okay? We're to learn as future teachers. Every one of us. Deuteronomy chapter 6, verses 4 through 9. Look at this. Deuteronomy chapter 6, verses 4 through 9. Hear, O Israel. See how it starts with hearing. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart, and thou shalt teach them. Deuteronomy six, verse seven now. And thou shalt teach them. Well, how can you teach something if you haven't first learned it? And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children. And thou shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest in by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand. And they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the post of thy house, and on thy gates. You wanna live a life of victory, you hear what God says, you teach what God says, you learn it. You hear it, you learn it, you teach it. Why? Because He's glorious. He is worthy of such. He is most worthy of these things. He says, hear it and learn it. Learn it with the intention of teaching it. And when you hear it and learn it with the intention of teaching it, then keep it. Gar, or observe. It's the same word that was used in Genesis, speaking to Jacob. If you turn to Genesis chapter 28. Genesis chapter 28, verse 15. Same word. And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee, observe thee, hedge thee about, protect you as precious. This is God speaking to Jacob. And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places, whether thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land, for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. Same word in verse 20. And Jacob bowed a vow, saying, if God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, So that I come again in my father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God. Same word, keep. We ought to strive and now it'll be impossible for us to keep or guard or protect or hedge as precious in the same capacity that God Almighty could do. But it ought to be my intention to strive or guard the word of God and that for his glory as an honorable and reasonable service. to keep it, to guard it, to observe it, to hold it with the same intensity. It ought to be my intention. I know I will fail, but it ought to be my intention by everything that is within me to guard and keep the things that God has told us to do after hearing and learning to keep them. The dangers. Here's some dangers before we get to do some dangers. These are pitfalls that are common. These are pitfalls that I myself have fallen into, every one of them. The dangers of not hearing. First of all, danger is not hearing for the lost, eternal damnation. I can't make you hear. Really, if we want to get technical, you can't make you hear either. Only God can make you have ears to hear. But there's good news, there's good news in Romans chapter 10. If you join, we're gonna do a little bit of turning here, so get your fingers ready. Romans chapter 10, there's good news sinner. Romans chapter 10, verse 13. As it is written, let's see, that's chapter nine, chapter 10, verse 13. For whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him of whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? Will you have boy after boy, man after man, person after person declaring the gospel unto you on a regular basis? How shall you do it? And how shall they preach, except they be sinned? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel, priests, and bring glad tidings of good things. But they have not obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Hear the word of God. Sinner, you're lost. First and foremost, you cannot learn, you cannot keep, you cannot observe or do you must hear and believe the gospel. Child of God, if you're not hearing and attentive to the Word of God, you're missing out on the life of victory in the Lord Jesus Christ. Missing out. I would encourage you to take interest in the things of God. But if we're hearing, but we're not learning, there's danger there. For the lost, you may have a head knowledge. I had a head knowledge. I could out-argue a lot of people as a lost man. But I only had, as it says in Jude verse 10, I only had head knowledge as a brute beast, and I had no idea what I was talking about. But for the child of God, your intention, you're supposed to be hearing with the intention of learning. With that intention of learning, also be teaching. Look at 2 Timothy, if you would. 2 Timothy. 2 Timothy chapter 2, verses 1 and 2. This is Paul speaking to Timothy. 2 Timothy chapter 2, verse 1. Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and the things that thou hast heard. It's amazing how certain words just pop out at you when you're looking at them. And the things that thou hast heard of men among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men." How could he teach other faithful men? Well, he had to learn them first, right? He's heard, he's learned, now he's committing, he's teaching. Who shall be able to teach others also? And others and others and others all the way through time here at the Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Sillsby, Texas. It's a very great formula that God has put out there for His people, isn't it? It really is. The intention of hearing is so that you can learn, and the intention of you learning is so that you can teach others. And it doesn't stop there, though. So if you hear and learn, but you don't keep the statutes and judgments, you don't keep these words, for the lost you can't guard or keep that which you don't have. You need to hear, that message doesn't change. But for the child of God, keeping yourselves, look at in Jude, we've read that before, Jude verse 20 and 21. It says here in Jude verse 20, But ye, beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And then tell, and of some having compassion, making a difference. Keeping yourselves in the love of God, as God hath kept and preserved you by his wondrous grace. Guard these things. Jude, he used the same word keep, which also means guard and preserve. That same word in Jude 21 is the same word in verse one, preserved, kept in Jesus Christ. So as much as we're kept in God by the work of Jesus Christ, we're to keep or observe the love of God. If we're keeping and observing the love of God, we're keeping and observing His statutes according to the Gospel as Moses declares to us here in Deuteronomy 5 and verse 1. Now, if we're hearing and learning and observing or keeping, but we're not doing, To do, that should be easy, right? To work, to fashion, to act, to put in order, to produce. Lost person, you cannot reasonably think that you can do anything that is pleasing to God. Hebrews chapter 11, verse six, it says, without faith it is impossible to please God. You cannot do anything that pleases God. Because you have no faith, you have not heard. But child of God, you must reasonably also remember your memory verse, that we are ordained, that we should walk in them or do good works. Right. That's Ephesians chapter two verses verse 10. There's a couple sayings that we're to not just talk the talk but walk the walk. You see if we're hearing and we're learning and we're keeping but we're not doing, that we're talking the talk but we're not walking the walk. There's another saying that we're not supposed to just sing it, we're supposed to bring it, right? Don't just sing it, bring it. Do it. We could read books on how to do it and form committees how to do it and then have different breakout sessions and prayer meetings on how to do it. But at some point we got to do what God has told us to do. Luke chapter six. And I say all these things encouraged by the amount of doing that this assembly does. This assembly, I am encouraged in that, but we need to always be looking for ways to do it more. Right? None of us have arrived. I have not arrived. Luke chapter 6, please, verse 44. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good. An evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil. For the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. Look at this. And why call ye me Lord, Lord? Why do you say you've heard me? Why do you say you've learned of me? Why do you say you observe or keep the things that I've said and do not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayings and doeth them, right, cometh and heareth. He learned them, he kept them, now he's doing them. I will show you to whom he is like. He is like a man which built a house and digged deep and laid the foundation on a rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently or harshly upon that house and could not shake it, for it was founded upon the rock. It didn't stay there because he dug deep. It stood because of the rock. The house didn't stand because he was a good builder. It stood because of the rock. But he that beheareth, and doeth not, he that has heard, and he's learned, and he's kept, but has not done, he is like a man without a foundation upon the earth, against which the stream did beat. For Himalaya, the storms of life still come, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great." Who wants to live a life of great ruin? Raise your hand. You've got to hear the words and do them, we've seen. So, conclusion. Moses called all Israel and said unto them, he says unto us here today, hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments that God has laid out a law and it is right. We're all guilty under the law and that sacrifice must be made according to those transgressions for forgiveness of sins. Hear the statutes and judgments. Hear the gospel of Christ, His death, burial, and resurrection, which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn in order to teach, and keep, observe, guard, and do them. Don't just tell people you're a Christian. Live it. Live it. Don't just sing it, bring it. Sinner, you're lost. You're as lost as you could ever possibly be. There's nobody in this world more lost than you are. No one in this world needs to be saved more than you do. There's no greater sinner in this world than you are. And that might sound terrible, but it's an absolute fact. And in just a little while, in just a series of seconds, eternity will be here upon us. In that courtroom that was sung about earlier. What will be your reply? Will your reply be, yes, I did it and be guilty and sentencing? Or will your reply be the blood of Jesus Christ? Jesus paid it all and all to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. Matthew chapter 11 verse 28, come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. John chapter 10, turn to that one, John chapter 10. I want you to see the wording. Now that we've concentrated on hearing and learning and keeping and doing, look at John chapter 10. If you would please. We know this passage. John chapter 10. Look at verse 26, please, if you would. Yeah, verse 26. Ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. They heard, they learned, They kept, then they did, they followed, they went. There's a pretty great illustration in the life of Bartimaeus in the book of Mark, that when the Lord had saved him, he followed him. He followed Christ in the way. Sinner, we bring this back, you can do nothing. But for salvation, you must hear the gospel call, repent, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. Child of God. What an encouragement that we are given a four-part plan to live lives of victory. Hear, learn, keep, and do. That's not a promise that everything would be hunky-dory and A-OK and we'll have no problems. Read in Deuteronomy. He promised them a land of hills and valleys. He promised them a land of struggle that I won't give it to you all at once, but little by little. They were promised to have conflict. but they were promised victory by hearing, learning, keeping, and doing the words of God. May the Lord bless.