WEBVTT 00:00:01.300 --> 00:00:08.067 You're listening to the Midweek Motivation Podcast from DeSoto Hills Baptist Church in South Haven Mississippi. 00:00:08.067 --> 00:00:13.272 Here's your hosts Mark Lewis, david Burgess and Pastor Grant Stegall. 00:00:16.861 --> 00:00:23.051 Welcome to the Midweek Motivation Podcast for February 19th here at DeSoto Hills Baptist Church. 00:00:23.051 --> 00:00:29.128 I'm Mark Lewis, I'm Grant Stegall and we hope this programming can encourage folks throughout DeSoto County and beyond. 00:00:29.128 --> 00:00:33.264 Be sure to subscribe and share our link on social media. 00:00:33.264 --> 00:00:50.729 We always start the podcast with some important things coming up here at the church I always mention we don't always have a lot of time in our regular programming on Sundays and Wednesdays to talk about all this stuff in depth, so we choose this platform here to talk about some of that stuff. 00:00:50.729 --> 00:00:55.531 We've got that preteen retreat coming up in a few weeks, on February the 28th and March 1st. 00:00:55.531 --> 00:00:58.529 That is Disciple Now for our children. 00:00:58.529 --> 00:01:01.360 It is an incredible event, grant. 00:01:01.360 --> 00:01:06.641 You've had all but one of your children, I guess, go through the pre-teen retreat before. 00:01:06.641 --> 00:01:14.965 Yep, um, we basically have, like the vbs band, really a really great band, good speaker, uh, the kids come up here on friday night. 00:01:14.965 --> 00:01:17.671 They, they get to eat, they get to play games. 00:01:17.671 --> 00:01:19.402 It's, it's a lot of fun. 00:01:19.441 --> 00:01:20.385 They have a lot of fun. 00:01:20.686 --> 00:01:24.361 All of my kids have loved it yes, and we do programming on saturday morning. 00:01:24.361 --> 00:01:36.340 You'll pick your child up around lunchtime, so it's not going to take up your whole weekend, but it will give you and your wife or you and your husband a good chance to go out on a date Friday night with no kids. 00:01:36.340 --> 00:01:43.265 So you need to sign up for that now, though, because that registration is going to close quickly in the next week. 00:01:43.265 --> 00:01:46.751 March 9th Grant wanted us to remind everybody. 00:01:46.751 --> 00:01:47.793 March 9th is coming up. 00:01:47.793 --> 00:01:49.439 That is Daylight Savings Time Boy. 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:51.647 They have really squashed Daylight Savings. 00:01:51.668 --> 00:01:52.290 Yes, they have. 00:01:52.290 --> 00:01:54.504 I'm fine if they do away with it. 00:01:55.408 --> 00:02:01.188 Yes, and that was one of the things, politically, that I had heard might happen in the future. 00:02:02.141 --> 00:02:05.507 It's been talked about before, that's one thing that's bipartisan for sure. 00:02:06.162 --> 00:02:07.727 Everybody seems to want to get rid of that. 00:02:09.162 --> 00:02:11.427 So I would not expect us. 00:02:11.427 --> 00:02:15.925 I mean, we're going back to daylight savings, but this may be the last time. 00:02:15.925 --> 00:02:16.867 We'll just have to see. 00:02:16.888 --> 00:02:18.412 All right, spring forward that day. 00:02:18.412 --> 00:02:19.544 Spring forward, fall back. 00:02:19.544 --> 00:02:20.247 Spring forward. 00:02:20.247 --> 00:02:22.100 Yes, you're going to lose an hour. 00:02:23.021 --> 00:02:28.748 We want to shoot way off in the calendar just a little bit, because we want you to save these dates and be aware of them. 00:02:28.748 --> 00:02:31.532 April 6th is the Grand Prix. 00:02:31.532 --> 00:02:34.295 Okay, this thing, second annual. 00:02:34.295 --> 00:02:49.991 This thing is so much fun and people have absolutely gone nuts over it in just the one time we did it and so explain to everybody. 00:02:50.010 --> 00:02:50.391 It's a derby race. 00:02:50.391 --> 00:02:50.753 It's a derby race. 00:02:50.753 --> 00:02:56.205 You get a block of wood and you, your child, your child, gets to carve and make a car out of it. 00:02:56.205 --> 00:03:00.212 Um, I mean, it comes in a car and a you buy a kit. 00:03:00.212 --> 00:03:11.504 So when you pay the money to, to laura, it gets the wood block, wheels, everything you would need to make it, except for paint and stuff. 00:03:11.504 --> 00:03:17.121 And then laura has a work day a week before the, the the grand prix. 00:03:17.121 --> 00:03:18.562 So the grand prix is on the 6th. 00:03:18.562 --> 00:03:37.713 So the week before that um, she had on Saturday you can come up here and work on your car, and then the day before the race, she typically lets you come up here and run your car on the track just to test it, to make sure it works and if there's a few little modifications. 00:03:37.713 --> 00:03:39.847 So she does a lot to help you get ready. 00:03:39.847 --> 00:03:43.431 And then that night, yeah, it's the car. 00:03:43.431 --> 00:03:45.167 You put them on those tracks and let them go. 00:03:45.167 --> 00:03:48.067 And, man, it's a lot of fun. 00:03:48.427 --> 00:03:59.775 You pay that fee, you get that car and then, when your child destroys it and messes it up, you get to go to Hobby Lobby and rebuy all the parts to fix it right here. 00:03:59.900 --> 00:04:08.370 This dad had to do that last year and then I was a little bit tardy getting in there last year because we did have the sunday night service. 00:04:08.370 --> 00:04:19.903 Um, at the same time this year we will just be having the grand prix, but it was very evident to see all the dads hovering very close to the track with the children they were. 00:04:19.903 --> 00:04:25.093 It seemed like they were invested quite heavily into seeing how those races came out. 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:28.970 Yeah, because I'm sure a lot of them were heavily invested in the building. 00:04:28.970 --> 00:04:29.932 That's what we're saying. 00:04:29.932 --> 00:04:31.204 We're not saying it. 00:04:32.380 --> 00:04:34.889 We're saying it but we're not saying it. 00:04:34.889 --> 00:04:36.920 All right. 00:04:37.322 --> 00:04:40.670 April 13th we have a churchwide Easter egg hunt. 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:44.245 Now is that in the afternoon evening on that Sunday it's going to be at 2. 00:04:44.245 --> 00:04:55.218 And so to give you time to go get some lunch and come back, and it won't be all the kids together, like Miss Bonnie will have a preschool area and Laura will have a children's area. 00:04:58.439 --> 00:04:59.302 So big kids won't be trampling small kids. 00:04:59.302 --> 00:05:03.593 Typically they've done that, you know deer in a Wana or something like that. 00:05:03.593 --> 00:05:09.533 But since we're not doing a Wana on Sunday nights, they're going to do it on a Sunday afternoon. 00:05:09.533 --> 00:05:10.115 We've tried before. 00:05:10.115 --> 00:05:21.940 Before they started doing a WANA, we tried on Saturdays and things like that and people are just so busy on Saturdays, so Sunday seems to be a good time to do it, so that will be at two o'clock on that Sunday afternoon. 00:05:21.940 --> 00:05:24.764 That'll be the Sunday before Easter Palm Sunday. 00:05:25.245 --> 00:05:27.548 Awesome, Looking way, way out ahead. 00:05:27.548 --> 00:05:30.793 We want you all to go ahead and mark Summer gets busy quick. 00:05:30.793 --> 00:05:39.649 We want you to go ahead and be aware that our Vacation Bible School is going to be that first week of June, June 2nd through the 6th. 00:05:39.649 --> 00:05:46.783 So please go ahead and mark that on your calendar and avoid that week for vacations with the family, because we want your children here. 00:05:46.783 --> 00:05:52.713 That is an event that we invest heavily in here at DeSoto Hills. 00:05:52.713 --> 00:06:01.624 Our programming and what we really want you to do is have your children bring other kids who maybe need to hear the gospel. 00:06:01.624 --> 00:06:03.447 So please, please, please. 00:06:03.447 --> 00:06:05.713 June 2nd through the 6th, be aware of that. 00:06:05.713 --> 00:06:13.528 July 3rd through the 7th is going to be our youth camp and they're taking over with Floyd Mountain Village in Gatlinburg. 00:06:13.528 --> 00:06:25.769 They have all kinds of amazing things to do at that youth camp and our church is taking that over, so we'll have a private retreat center for that week. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:26.723 We did our own camp. 00:06:26.723 --> 00:06:30.831 Last year it was down at the beach, and so this year we're doing our own again in the mountains. 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:41.644 It went well last year, so we're looking for the same this year, Right and Gatlinburg's obviously got a lot of fun stuff, and David has hinted that there will be some of that stuff that will be a part of the week as well. 00:06:41.644 --> 00:06:56.571 Also, right on top of that and this is something that we've tried to do for several years now and we finally were able to do it our children's camp will also be that week, july the 4th through the 6th, and it's going to be right up here up the road at Camp Cordova. 00:06:56.571 --> 00:07:05.153 So they've got a lot of amazing amenities there as well, so the kids are going to have an amazing camp week. 00:07:05.153 --> 00:07:10.488 We want to make you aware that DeSoto County Schools actually released next year's school calendar last week. 00:07:10.488 --> 00:07:22.771 So if you want to check out the school calendar for family planning that has been released, you can go to the DeSoto County Schools website and find that information. 00:07:22.771 --> 00:07:26.961 For any of our events that we've got coming up, you can always check our website. 00:07:26.961 --> 00:07:32.052 We have all of the registration information for those events on the website. 00:07:32.052 --> 00:07:42.802 If you don't see registration stuff for an event that you know is on the calendar coming up, that just means that registration hasn't opened yet, or if it's a really close event, it may have closed already. 00:07:42.802 --> 00:07:43.805 But, as always. 00:07:43.805 --> 00:07:47.812 We want you to call our church office if you have any question about that, because there are ways. 00:07:47.812 --> 00:07:51.122 Sometimes, if we've got space, we will slip you in If we can. 00:07:51.122 --> 00:07:52.206 We will absolutely do that. 00:07:52.206 --> 00:07:53.709 All right, grant. 00:07:54.480 --> 00:08:04.338 Coming up Sunday, march 2nd is the Oscars, so we'll go ahead for our listeners and release a caveat that we understand. 00:08:04.338 --> 00:08:08.605 Hollywood is not of God and it's of the world. 00:08:08.605 --> 00:08:13.040 Ok, and me and Grant certainly understand that, but we do, we do. 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:22.939 I do love cinema and movies and anybody who knows me knows that I live in the world of media and making videos and films and I have been that way for most of my life. 00:08:22.939 --> 00:08:26.156 I was tinkering with this stuff long before we had digital. 00:08:26.156 --> 00:08:29.564 I was using vcrs and stacking vcrs and making little movies and stuff. 00:08:29.564 --> 00:08:33.740 So, uh, there are obviously there's lots of different types of movies. 00:08:33.801 --> 00:08:40.289 Most films that that are going to get awards for the oscars are what we would call art films, are not necessarily the blockbusters. 00:08:40.289 --> 00:08:42.211 In fact, they hate blockbusters. 00:08:42.211 --> 00:08:44.472 Top Gun didn't even win a few years ago. 00:08:44.472 --> 00:08:46.335 Everybody's like that's the best movie ever. 00:08:46.335 --> 00:08:54.000 But there were a couple of decent movies that were what we would call art films. 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:57.702 This year the one that I found the film entertaining. 00:08:57.702 --> 00:09:35.240 Grant was just because I'm fascinated with history and that movie took a deep dive into how we assume, possibly, that the cardinals all get together for the election of a pope and it's a very political sort of story that happens behind those closed doors and from my understanding, we really don't know what goes on because that's a very private thing and I guess you have to be a cardinal to know what's going to go on behind those doors I guess I didn't see that and I yeah, it was a very interesting film. 00:09:35.621 --> 00:09:45.465 Uh, certainly don't go into a three-hour movie like that expecting for a lot of action like it's a drama, a very slow, unfolding drama. 00:09:45.465 --> 00:09:48.860 That one's actually rated PG, so it's okay. 00:09:48.860 --> 00:09:53.097 There was nothing really terrible in it other than you just have to know what you're getting into. 00:09:53.097 --> 00:09:54.894 It's a thriller. 00:09:54.894 --> 00:09:56.318 Essentially it's a thriller. 00:09:56.318 --> 00:10:04.320 I wanted to ask you, since it is Oscar time, if you have a favorite movie that you have gravitated towards through the years. 00:10:06.049 --> 00:10:08.923 I don't know a favorite movie that you have gravitated towards through the years. 00:10:08.923 --> 00:10:14.581 I don't know a favorite, a favorite movie, like there are several that I have that I enjoy. 00:10:14.581 --> 00:10:18.114 I you know just, I guess, my background. 00:10:18.114 --> 00:10:32.153 I enjoy the sport, old, good feeling sports movies you know Rudy Miracle the Rookie, I guess. 00:10:32.394 --> 00:10:33.298 Remember the Titans? 00:10:33.298 --> 00:10:37.681 That's probably way up there for me. 00:10:37.681 --> 00:10:43.462 Actually, when I was a student minister, every trip we went on. 00:10:43.462 --> 00:10:50.951 Every trip we went on the first our bus. 00:10:50.951 --> 00:11:01.433 We had a 30 passenger bus and it had a vcr on it and a tv and so, um, one of the first trips that we went on, we watched that movie on the way back and it and then we watched several movies that first trip. 00:11:01.433 --> 00:11:04.139 But that movie it became a tradition. 00:11:04.139 --> 00:11:10.979 Like the kids, one trip I wasn't going to show it and they were like we have to watch. 00:11:10.979 --> 00:11:13.313 Remember the Titans, we have to watch it. 00:11:13.313 --> 00:11:14.118 It's tradition. 00:11:14.118 --> 00:11:20.263 So yeah, that's probably really up there. 00:11:20.990 --> 00:11:22.355 I have a whole list of movies. 00:11:22.355 --> 00:11:26.931 I like action movies, so movies like the Bourne Identity. 00:11:27.111 --> 00:11:28.754 I love the Bourne Identity. 00:11:28.894 --> 00:11:34.051 Great, great trilogy of movies, movies that I come back to a lot. 00:11:34.051 --> 00:11:37.481 There is a movie called Margin Call. 00:11:37.481 --> 00:11:46.644 It does have a lot of language in it, but it is basically just a drama about the unfolding of the night before the stock market crash of 2008. 00:11:46.644 --> 00:11:56.342 And it's the first bank that's about to have to take those steps, and of course they're freaking out because they know that this is going to be bad, the way that happens. 00:11:57.049 --> 00:11:58.655 Jeremy Irons, he's a great actor. 00:11:58.655 --> 00:11:59.458 He's in that movie. 00:11:59.458 --> 00:12:01.798 A lot of really good actors are in that movie. 00:12:01.798 --> 00:12:06.620 Glory Road is probably you talked about favorite movies. 00:12:06.620 --> 00:12:10.220 That may be my favorite sports movie. 00:12:10.220 --> 00:12:14.599 A close second would be 42 with. 00:12:14.619 --> 00:12:14.960 Jackie. 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:15.522 Robinson. 00:12:15.522 --> 00:12:19.505 I also liked Moneyball with Brad Pitt. 00:12:19.505 --> 00:12:20.190 Do you remember that one? 00:12:20.190 --> 00:12:21.812 Yes, yes, it's good. 00:12:21.812 --> 00:12:23.094 Do you remember that one? 00:12:23.094 --> 00:12:23.595 Yes, yes, it's good. 00:12:23.595 --> 00:12:31.346 True story about trying to play the game with getting baseball players when you don't have a whole lot of money on a professional team, right. 00:12:35.797 --> 00:12:41.331 So when you're watching a movie, your favorite snack, what I eat all the time when I watch a movie, is popcorn. 00:12:41.331 --> 00:12:50.573 But the problem with it is every time it gets stuck in a kernel, gets stuck in my teeth and um the rest of the movie. 00:12:50.573 --> 00:12:53.019 I'm trying to get it out no shame, every time. 00:12:53.259 --> 00:12:53.782 No shame. 00:12:53.782 --> 00:12:59.321 I have dental floss sitting right on the tv tray I'll do it right there in front everybody. 00:12:59.321 --> 00:13:00.102 I do not care. 00:13:00.102 --> 00:13:03.817 Popcorn is my favorite. 00:13:03.817 --> 00:13:08.424 Uh, my favorite type of popcorn is the Pop Secret movie theater butter. 00:13:08.424 --> 00:13:09.635 It has to be a certain kind. 00:13:09.635 --> 00:13:13.421 If I'm traveling, that's probably in my backpack on the plane. 00:13:13.421 --> 00:13:16.610 I'm telling you right now I'll take my own popcorn, I don't have any problems. 00:13:16.610 --> 00:13:17.630 So do you know? 00:13:19.772 --> 00:13:23.254 one of my kids I think it was Sam. 00:13:23.254 --> 00:13:26.456 One of my kids, I think it was Sam in the eighth grade. 00:13:26.456 --> 00:13:41.988 In our homeschool community they do a science project and one year one of the projects was which popcorn is the best to pop in the microwave, and I'm pretty sure Pop Secret came out as the best to pop in the microwave Pop. 00:13:42.027 --> 00:13:45.836 Secret, but it's got to be the Pop Secret movie theater butter. 00:13:45.836 --> 00:13:51.756 And now you have to be careful to look on the pack, because they had the little, what they call snack packs, which are tiny, and I don't want that. 00:13:51.756 --> 00:13:52.779 I want the family. 00:13:53.301 --> 00:13:54.644 I want the family size dog. 00:13:54.750 --> 00:13:59.265 Yes, I want the family size one so it's got to be the pop secret movie theater butter. 00:13:59.265 --> 00:14:01.291 I mix my own popcorn salt. 00:14:01.291 --> 00:14:03.894 Yes, I said it out loud. 00:14:03.894 --> 00:14:07.359 Jennifer is rolling her eyes right now, she's listening to this. 00:14:07.359 --> 00:14:11.524 I get the Colonel Seasons butter popcorn seasoning mix. 00:14:11.524 --> 00:14:20.283 It is not very salty, that's just like a light butter taste, and then I mix it with the Colonel Seasons popcorn salt, which is way too salty. 00:14:20.283 --> 00:14:26.553 I literally open the containers and mix them together and then take a butter knife down in there and stir it up. 00:14:26.553 --> 00:14:32.317 It makes the perfect popcorn snack for the movie occasions. 00:14:32.317 --> 00:14:33.268 I'm just telling you right now. 00:14:33.268 --> 00:14:35.793 If y'all need any more tips about that, hit me up at church. 00:14:35.793 --> 00:14:38.735 I'll tell you all about mixing the popcorn salt. 00:14:38.875 --> 00:14:41.899 We don't do microwave popcorn, but we pop it in a microwave. 00:14:41.970 --> 00:14:52.316 We just buy brown bags, use just regular popcorn kernels what like kernels that you're going to put on a stovetop with the old style and somebody has somebody. 00:14:52.456 --> 00:14:53.278 A friend of ours has. 00:14:53.278 --> 00:14:58.695 They grow popcorn, so they give us fresh popcorn seeds and you put it. 00:14:58.695 --> 00:15:02.482 You just put it in a brown like lunch bag and put it in the microwave. 00:15:02.482 --> 00:15:02.990 It pops. 00:15:02.990 --> 00:15:03.591 The same. 00:15:03.591 --> 00:15:09.442 I even saw a video the other day of people who put the butter in and salt in before it popped. 00:15:09.442 --> 00:15:12.211 Stop it Now. 00:15:12.211 --> 00:15:20.544 The bag came out very buttery, but they said on the video that it was fantastic the butter and salt. 00:15:21.289 --> 00:15:24.340 So you source this popcorn from where that y'all use. 00:15:25.129 --> 00:15:34.817 We have a friend that has some homemade, but we also just you know you can buy it in the grocery store, just where you buy the microwave you just buy regular popcorn in a container. 00:15:34.909 --> 00:15:39.990 You just pour it in like a black I mean a brown lunch sack, yes, and seal it up. 00:15:39.990 --> 00:15:46.018 Seal it up, roll the top, and then you put it in the microwave for how long it's like two, two and a half minutes. 00:15:46.018 --> 00:15:49.081 And if it stops popping just like a regular bag, you take it out. 00:15:49.601 --> 00:15:50.503 Pops just the same. 00:15:50.503 --> 00:15:51.283 It's cheaper. 00:15:51.283 --> 00:15:53.086 That's probably a way cheaper way to do it. 00:15:53.145 --> 00:15:54.147 It's cheaper. 00:15:54.147 --> 00:16:04.904 Now that all our listeners are wondering what podcast they've actually clicked on to, we are now going to actually shift to our devotion portion of the podcast that we call the midweek moment. 00:16:13.653 --> 00:16:15.259 As we continue going through this. 00:16:15.259 --> 00:16:28.317 I tell you just to be honest real quick, I've enjoyed listening to David and Laura's take because they've been doing the same thing of just kind of following along with our reading and devotion and they've done such a great job. 00:16:28.317 --> 00:16:35.269 But we approach it differently and so I love that you see our different personalities and how we do it. 00:16:35.309 --> 00:16:36.897 That's what I love about the podcast period. 00:16:36.897 --> 00:16:39.336 Everybody's a little different, it's great. 00:16:39.437 --> 00:16:40.711 That's fun, that's fun. 00:16:40.711 --> 00:16:49.831 And so tomorrow, if you're up on the readings and you may be a little bit behind, that's fine, my encouragement to you. 00:16:49.831 --> 00:16:55.224 Let me encourage you this If you've gotten behind, don't try to make it all up at one time. 00:16:55.224 --> 00:16:57.714 Just get back in it. 00:16:57.714 --> 00:16:58.817 Don't put it off. 00:16:58.817 --> 00:17:00.881 Don't say, well, I'm so far behind, I'm giving up. 00:17:00.881 --> 00:17:01.772 Don't do that. 00:17:01.772 --> 00:17:06.702 Just slowly get back in it, um, and, and pick it up. 00:17:06.702 --> 00:17:18.118 You know you might pick up two days and as opposed to one or something, but you know, don't, don't, don't feel like I can't do it, I'm so far behind, and if you're behind, it's fine. 00:17:18.118 --> 00:17:24.861 Just pick it back up and and go with it and you'll catch up and it'll, and it'll be fine. 00:17:24.861 --> 00:17:26.003 The goal is to read it. 00:17:26.003 --> 00:17:28.233 If you read it in a year, great. 00:17:28.233 --> 00:17:31.603 But the goal for us is to engage with Scripture, so do that. 00:17:31.603 --> 00:17:36.722 But if you're on the reading tomorrow, you should start the book of Deuteronomy. 00:17:36.722 --> 00:17:45.422 The 20th I believe that's correct you start the book of Deuteronomy, and so let's talk just a little bit to prepare us for Deuteronomy. 00:17:45.422 --> 00:17:50.912 What we've been doing is looking at what we have read, but let's be prepared for Deuteronomy Real quickly. 00:17:50.971 --> 00:17:54.622 Deuteronomy is the pregame speech. 00:17:54.622 --> 00:17:59.540 So Joshua comes after Deuteronomy. 00:17:59.540 --> 00:18:01.538 That's when Israel enters the land. 00:18:01.538 --> 00:18:05.279 Deuteronomy is right before. 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:15.557 So you had Exodus and Leviticus, where God gave the people of Israel the law at Mount Sinai, and then you have Numbers where they were going. 00:18:15.557 --> 00:18:16.621 They rebelled. 00:18:16.621 --> 00:18:21.142 God said nope, we're going to let the next generation go in. 00:18:21.142 --> 00:18:23.270 So right, 40 years in the wilderness. 00:18:23.525 --> 00:18:25.874 Deuteronomy picks up right before they're going in. 00:18:25.874 --> 00:18:30.376 Moses is about to die and they're about to go into the promised land. 00:18:30.376 --> 00:18:33.474 So what Moses does is he gives the pregame speech. 00:18:33.474 --> 00:18:42.329 Here's what you need to do to be ready to go into the promised land and also I'm dying, joshua's taking over. 00:18:42.329 --> 00:18:45.493 Here's things you need to do to be prepared for that. 00:18:45.493 --> 00:18:50.851 And so he's helping them get ready, and so it's kind of a retelling of the law. 00:18:50.851 --> 00:18:57.571 So if you struggle through Leviticus going oh my stars, this law he's about to do that. 00:18:57.571 --> 00:18:58.574 So be ready for that. 00:18:58.653 --> 00:19:00.117 But look at it a different way. 00:19:00.117 --> 00:19:10.413 It's really based on three different speeches of Moses, so it's not just one pregame speech, it's three, and it's three speeches where he goes through and a lot of it. 00:19:10.413 --> 00:19:29.969 You can get caught up in the details, but remember this as you're reading the point of the law, and I think the point that Moses is trying to make is what they should be focusing on is their relationship with God At this point should be focusing on is their relationship with God At this point. 00:19:29.969 --> 00:19:37.671 Their relationship was based on obedience to the law, and so he's calling them to keep the law a lot, but the focus on keeping the law is so they can be in relationship with God. 00:19:37.671 --> 00:19:43.534 God has said that I will be your God, you will be my people, if you keep this law, and so that's what he's doing. 00:19:43.534 --> 00:19:49.016 So he's telling them, but today I just wanted us to focus right in the middle of Deuteronomy 6. 00:19:51.066 --> 00:19:53.535 We know this is the Shema or Shema. 00:19:53.535 --> 00:19:59.012 People say it different ways, but here's what he says Deuteronomy 6, verse 1. 00:19:59.012 --> 00:20:05.473 Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the Lord, your God, commanded me to teach you. 00:20:05.473 --> 00:20:09.790 That you may do them in the land which you are going over to possess it. 00:20:09.790 --> 00:20:21.528 That you may fear the Lord, your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all these statutes and his commandments, which I command you all the days of your life. 00:20:21.528 --> 00:20:23.791 That your days may be long. 00:20:23.791 --> 00:20:35.593 Hear, therefore, o Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you and that you may multiply greatly, as the God of your fathers has promised you in a land flowing with milk and honey. 00:20:35.593 --> 00:20:38.873 Hear O Israel, the Lord, our God. 00:20:38.873 --> 00:20:40.016 The Lord is one. 00:20:40.016 --> 00:20:44.692 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might. 00:20:44.692 --> 00:20:48.015 And these words I command you today shall be on your heart. 00:20:48.015 --> 00:20:56.336 You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise. 00:20:56.336 --> 00:21:01.217 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 00:21:01.217 --> 00:21:05.148 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 00:21:05.148 --> 00:21:06.509 And so this is. 00:21:06.851 --> 00:21:10.493 You know, in the New Testament they question Jesus what's the greatest commandment? 00:21:10.493 --> 00:21:13.817 He said you should love the Lord, your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. 00:21:13.817 --> 00:21:17.362 This is where he's quoting Deuteronomy, chapter six, right there. 00:21:17.362 --> 00:21:20.613 This is the commandment here the Lord, your God is one. 00:21:20.613 --> 00:21:23.834 You should love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. 00:21:27.444 --> 00:21:33.352 And so this verse, I think, is I don't know if you could say it's the theme verse of Deuteronomy, because there's a bunch, but it is A. 00:21:33.352 --> 00:21:35.472 It is pointing to Israel. 00:21:35.472 --> 00:21:41.152 You have this covenant relationship with God and at this point it's two covenants. 00:21:41.152 --> 00:21:49.476 You have the Abrahamic covenant, where God has promised Abraham land, descendants and blessing the earth. 00:21:49.476 --> 00:21:56.729 So they're under that covenant. 00:21:56.729 --> 00:22:01.313 But they're also under the Mosaic covenant or the covenant of Mount Sinai, where he says I'm going to be your God, you're going to be my people, keep the law. 00:22:01.313 --> 00:22:12.417 And so he's calling them to do that, but he's pointing them to the focus of the law Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might and with all your strength. 00:22:13.105 --> 00:22:21.613 Now, for us, in the New Testament, it's a little bit different, because the law is still important to us, but we're not under the law, we're under grace. 00:22:21.613 --> 00:22:26.075 Jesus kept the law perfectly because we can't. 00:22:26.075 --> 00:22:38.505 Jesus kept the law perfectly because we can't and he applies that to us so that now, because Jesus has done that and because we've received mercy and grace from him, we can love the Lord, our God, with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. 00:22:38.505 --> 00:22:48.032 So as you read Deuteronomy, as you continue to go through this yes, I know you can get caught up in the detail and it just seems overwhelming. 00:22:48.032 --> 00:22:52.714 But remember, all of this is pointing us to, it was pointing Israel to. 00:22:52.815 --> 00:22:54.218 This is how you love God. 00:22:54.218 --> 00:22:57.230 This is focus on these things. 00:22:57.230 --> 00:23:04.050 This is how you love God and for us we can see okay, we are able to love God because Jesus did all this for us. 00:23:04.050 --> 00:23:06.433 He kept all of these laws for us. 00:23:06.433 --> 00:23:09.438 He did it perfectly and rightly so. 00:23:09.438 --> 00:23:11.540 We can be in relationship because of Jesus. 00:23:11.540 --> 00:23:13.571 But it doesn't do away with these things. 00:23:13.571 --> 00:23:25.883 Now what it does, instead of bringing us into relationship, and then it doesn't even keep us in relationship with God it just tells us this is how we can grow in our relationship with God. 00:23:26.565 --> 00:23:27.770 All right, a couple of questions. 00:23:27.770 --> 00:23:36.153 Okay, why did God issue, or why did they have, the law in the Old Testament when we don't have it in the New Testament? 00:23:36.153 --> 00:23:38.313 Why were they given the law in the first place? 00:23:38.566 --> 00:23:38.826 Okay. 00:23:38.826 --> 00:23:46.737 So Paul's going to say in Romans what the law does is help you recognize that you're a sinner. 00:23:46.737 --> 00:23:49.871 It's really what it does for us. 00:23:49.871 --> 00:23:52.614 In the Old Testament, they didn't view it that way. 00:23:52.614 --> 00:24:01.690 What it was is a covenant, is an agreement, right where you come in and there's stipulations I'm going to do this, you're going to do that. 00:24:01.690 --> 00:24:03.453 So that's the covenant. 00:24:03.453 --> 00:24:07.711 God says I'm going to be your God, I'm going to protect you, I'm going to take care of you. 00:24:07.711 --> 00:24:18.766 He even said in places in Exodus that he is going to send his angels ahead of them and as they just take over Canaan, the promised land, they're not going to have to. 00:24:18.766 --> 00:24:22.396 They really weren't going to have to fight If they would have just obeyed and trusted. 00:24:22.396 --> 00:24:24.109 God was going to take care of all of that. 00:24:24.109 --> 00:24:25.452 All they had to do. 00:24:25.452 --> 00:24:32.246 He was going to be their God, they were going to be his people. 00:24:32.246 --> 00:24:32.846 All they had to do was obey. 00:24:32.846 --> 00:24:33.307 They didn't do that. 00:24:33.307 --> 00:24:33.509 So great. 00:24:33.528 --> 00:24:36.595 So the curses came instead of the blessings, but it was given. 00:24:36.595 --> 00:24:39.946 This is how you can be in relationship with God. 00:24:39.946 --> 00:24:43.515 It also holiness, which he calls us to be holy. 00:24:43.515 --> 00:24:45.865 It means set apart and separate. 00:24:45.865 --> 00:24:50.694 So it was how Israel separated themselves from the rest of the nations. 00:24:50.694 --> 00:25:03.338 A lot of the laws that we don't particularly keep anymore were laws that were given that separated them from the rest of the nations. 00:25:03.338 --> 00:25:04.931 So sacrifice, for instance. 00:25:04.931 --> 00:25:12.717 Well, sacrifice was, yes, that's one of them, but sacrifice is different from that, because sacrifice pointed to a Savior. 00:25:12.717 --> 00:25:31.699 We don't sacrifice because the Savior has come, but things like wearing clothes made of two kinds of material, not shaving the corners of your beard, I mean there are things like that that don't apply, because those are the things that just that was just separating them from the people. 00:25:32.345 --> 00:25:33.912 Second question covenant. 00:25:33.912 --> 00:25:40.513 What's a good definition for that for listeners who may not understand, Because that's a word that's thrown around the Old Testament all the time? 00:25:40.755 --> 00:25:41.676 That's a great question. 00:25:41.676 --> 00:25:47.797 It's like a treaty, almost. 00:25:47.797 --> 00:25:50.673 We would look at it almost as a. 00:25:50.673 --> 00:25:58.787 It's just an agreement. 00:25:58.787 --> 00:25:59.871 I'm trying to think of the word. 00:25:59.871 --> 00:26:01.980 There's a legal word now and I can't think of what it is and when we get done I'll go. 00:26:01.980 --> 00:26:03.125 You grant you knew what that was, but it's, it's a. 00:26:03.125 --> 00:26:03.546 It's a. 00:26:03.546 --> 00:26:12.593 It's a, it's agreement where you come in and say, okay, I'm gonna do this, you're gonna do this, and this is how we're going to be in relationship. 00:26:13.275 --> 00:26:14.396 Got it, love it. 00:26:14.396 --> 00:26:22.932 Thank you so much for listening today. 00:26:22.932 --> 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