If you wanted to find out what happened in Deuteronomy, you’d read Chapter Thirty. It’s the last chapter Moses wrote. Chapters Thirty-one through Thirty-four are the appendices – added after Moses died. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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Moses might be at the point in Deuteronomy where the audience could shout out, “So what?!” Moses was done reciting the Law of God; so what should the response be? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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I can see the children of Israel wanting to ask, “are we there yet?” but Moses just kept talking! They were almost to the Promised Land – but the restating of God’s Law continued. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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Lots of odd things happen when people live together in a society. Laws are made, to promote the public welfare. The next three chapters of Deuteronomy cover various laws, in no particular order. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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The Jews were headed into city life, out of the wilderness. As in all cities, there would be criminals and crime; so they needed laws to govern them. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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Sometimes I say that we’re the fun Church, or I use the word ‘fun’ to describe what we’re doing. I mean Christian joy that is just flat fun! (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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Christians are great at looking at the customs of the world, then redeeming them to reveal what we really believe. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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We build our services upon a simple model: Worship of God and the Word of God. Everything is subordinate to these two objectives. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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The peril of prosperity is that we tend to forget the Lord. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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A ‘walkabout’ was originally a nomadic excursion into the Australian bush made by an Aborigine. It now describes any walking tour of the countryside. The Christian life is the ultimate walkabout! (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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Sayings or slogans can be helpful in keeping you on track. If we wanted to assign a slogan to the next chapters of Deuteronomy, it might be, Keep the main thing, the main thing! (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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When Moses delivered the series of sermons we call the Book of Deuteronomy he wanted the people to remember the things that were really important. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)
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