Deuteronomy 9:1-10:11, Do You Learn From Your Mistakes?

Deuteronomy chapter 9 starting verse 1 hear the word of the Lord Here o

Israel you are to cross over the Jordan today to go into dispossessed nations greater and mightier than yourselves

Cities great and fortified up to heaven a people great and tall the sons of the

Anakim whom you know And of whom you have heard it said who can stand before the sons of Anak?

Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the

Lord your God He will destroy them and subdue them before you so you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly as the

Lord has promised You do not say in your heart after the Lord your God has thrust you out before you It is because of my righteousness that the

Lord has brought me in to possess this land Whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the

Lord is driving them out before you Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart

Are you going in to possess their land but because of the wickedness of those of these nations the

Lord your God is driving them out from before you and That he may confirm the word that the

Lord swore to your father's to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob Know therefore that the

Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness

For you are a stubborn people Remember and do not forget how you provoke the

Lord your God To wrath and the wilderness from the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place

You have been rebellious against the Lord even at Horeb You provoke the Lord to wrath and the

Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone the tablets of the covenant that the

Lord made with you I remained on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights I neither ate bread nor drank water and the

Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God and on Them were all the words that the

Lord has spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly and at the end of 40 days and 40 nights the

Lord gave me the two tablets of stone the tablets of the covenant Then the

Lord said to me arise Go down quickly from here for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly

They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made themselves a metal image

Further more the Lord said to me I have seen this people and behold it is a stubborn people Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven

And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than day So I turned and came down from the mountain and the mountain was burning with fire and the two

Tablets of this covenant were in my two hands and I looked and behold you had sinned against the

Lord your God You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the

Lord had commanded you So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes

Then I lay prostrate before the Lord is before 40 days and 40 nights I neither ate bread nor drank water

Because of all the sin that you had committed and doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the Lord bore against you so that he was ready to destroy you

But the Lord listened to me that time also and the Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time then

I took the sinful thing the calf that you had made and Burned it with fire and crushed it grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust

And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain at Taraba also and at Masa and it

Kibroth hot of a you provoked the Lord to wrath and when the Lord sent you from Kedesh Barnea saying go up and take possession

Of the land that I have given you then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God and did not believe him or obey

His voice you have been Rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you

So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these 40 days and 40 nights Because the

Lord had said he would destroy you and I prayed to the Lord Oh Lord God Do not destroy your people and your heritage whom you have redeemed through your greatness

Whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand Remember your servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob do not regard the stubbornness of this people or their wickedness or their sin

Lest the land from which you brought us say Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them and because he hated them

He brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness for they are your people and your heritage whom you brought up By your great power and by your outstretched arm

At that time the Lord said to me cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first and come up to me on the mountain and make an arc of wood and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke and you shall put them in the ark

So I made an arc of acacia wood and cut two tablets of stone like the first and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand and he wrote on the tablets in the same writing as before the

Ten Commandments that the Lord had spoken to you on The mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly and the

Lord gave them to me then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the Tablets in the ark that I had made and there they are as the

Lord commanded me the people of Israel journeyed from bear off been jock on to Mosara then

Aaron died and there he was buried in his son Eliezer ministered as priests in his place from there they journeyed to good

God and from go -go -da to Just batha a land with brooks of water at that time the

Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the Covenant of the Lord to stand before the Lord to minister to him and to bless his name to this day

Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The Lord is his inheritance as the Lord your

God said to him I myself stayed on the mountain as at the first time 40 days and 40 nights and the

Lord listened to me this time also The Lord was unwilling to destroy you and the

Lord said to me arise Go on your journey at the head of the people so that they may go in in and possess the land

Which I swore to their fathers to give them And the Lord had his blessings to the reading of his

Holy Word I'll never do that again you ever say that and Then you're back to doing whatever it is.

You said you'd never do again Maybe eating that whole carton of ice cream texting while driving arguing online

Buying stuff you don't really need online being late Maybe hitting the snooze alarm on in the morning

You reach the point where you resolved to stop before you finish the carton of ice cream or or to not look you resolved to not look at the phone while you're driving or To let some ignorant person on Facebook go unanswered.

Are you resolved? You'll not click on that thing on Amazon or you'll you'll finally start to take into account all the little things that you have to do to leave and arrive on time or You resolved to not try to snatch that extra five to ten minutes of sleep in the morning but What happens next time all the ice cream just tastes so good

You can't stop You think well, you think a quick text won't be too dangerous while you're driving and that's smart

I like on Facebook. He needs to be answered back to or that that thing is on sale

Right on Amazon you can get it right now you think well I have plenty of time to make to make it to my destination, even though I haven't started to get ready yet Or this bed is so comfy.

I'm so sleepy. I don't want to get up now just five more minutes or hurt and Then you realize to quote that lofty famous theologian

Britney Spears Oops, I did it again The question is do you learn from your mistakes?

Do you realize that unless you change something that you're going to keep making the same mistake?

So you resolve to make a change maybe you Maybe like me you buy a smaller carton of ice cream.

So if you finish it, you know It's only like a cup or a pint. It's really no big deal. So if you you know

You're not gonna get too fat off of that Unless you eat one every day and then you're back to where you started you put maybe you put your phone in a driving mode but they have it it doesn't receive text while you drive or disable some social media or You put your credit cards away like one person who froze their credit cards and blocks of ice

So in the time it took them to melt the ice, you know They could have time to think whether they they really wanted to buy this thing or you just got to change your mindset

So, you know, you know if you got to get somewhere in 15 minutes You know, you got to start to leave in half an hour Give a half hour time all the little things you got to do to get out the door or maybe you put the alarm

That's what I used to do. I was in college get up at 515 every morning put the alarm across the room So what you have to get up and walk across the room to turn it off and then you're up Do you do you learn from your mistakes and make changes to ensure that you won't make them again?

Maybe the big lesson though is not about the ice cream. It is just so good or the texting or your need for more sleep

Maybe it's something about you about what you're made of About what your weaknesses are why you're prone to make those mistakes over and over again

Maybe your mistake is you haven't learned about yourself yet Do you learn from your mistakes?

Well, I hope so here in Deuteronomy chapter 9 and 10 here We see that Israel is challenged to learn from its mistakes before they can go forward before we can go forward they we

Need to learn from our mistakes and we see that here in four parts And first where they are second the wrong lessons they might learn and third the right lessons they should learn and Finally let's review let's review our mistakes first Where are you now?

Here they are on the verge of the promised land technically They are already really in it because that part of the land just east of the

Jordan River where they are camp now It becomes part of the promised land. So there They're on the edge of it.

They're within it's begun, but it's not they don't have the whole thing yet They're supposed to cross over the Jordan soon next

It says today in verse 1 you today you'll cross over but I think the word Should be translated as at this time

This is the time for us to win This is the now we have arrived now Moses is saying at the time for you to cross over and invade the land

All the preparation is over every stage before is over now is the time to get the land Of course, they need to be careful that they don't make the same mistakes that their parents did a generation earlier when they were supposed to invade the land and That is they refused to obey they refused to believe that they could do it and so they

Didn't do it about 40 years earlier when the twelve spies returned and reported how big the people were They how big you know those

Canaanites were many of them Anyway, how well fortified their cities were they believed that they would be destroyed if they did what the

Lord was telling them That was their mistake then now Will they learn from their mistakes?

It's interesting to me I think that rather Compare this to our approach what we would want to do if we're preparing

Israel to second chance to go take the promised land Compared to what we do. What Moses here does is the opposite, you know rather than Talking down the

Canaanites Yeah, they're really not so tough Yeah, they looked at their they looked up but they're not really that tough their walls really aren't so high

Their military is not so great. They can they can be beaten. Don't worry about them or Rather than talk down the

Canaanites or talk up their own abilities, you know, you've got this Here Moses does the opposite notice in verse 1

They are greater and mightier than you. I don't know if in the military

You probably don't do that before a battle. Do you go into battle? Our enemy is stronger than we are Yeah, this is face it they have us outmatched

You probably don't go into battle with its top with a speech like that from your commanding officer Yeah, but that's what Moses is here doing.

They're superior to us This is the fact they are in verse 2 great and tall.

Some of them are that because the Anakim Sons of Anak like like Goliath that David will later meet

Everyone said about them who could stand before the sons of Anak. Certainly not you Israelites Now at first given our assumptions

Today about how you prepare yourself for some endeavor There's conflict and gotta have a positive attitude right your attitude determines your altitude

I think every public school in America has got to have that on a poster somewhere Self -esteem and so on that this looks like the exact wrong thing to say

You know, you should be we would we would tell Moses Moses. What's wrong with you? You should be puffing the

Israelites up giving them a pep talk, you know, like a coach before the big game now Go out there and show those

Anakim what you're made of Catted here here Moses. That's the opposite. He reminds them the

Canaanites. They're too strong for you They're greater than you are. They're tougher than you are. Why?

Why does he do that? won't they won't that Prepare them to make the same mistake.

They made a generation before just be too intimidated to obey No Because their mistake earlier

Wasn't that they didn't believe in themselves enough that wasn't their mistake It was it wasn't a lack of self -esteem of faith in themselves

It was a lack of faith in the Lord So here he doesn't talk down the Canaanites So they think they can they can take them out we can take those people easily or he doesn't talk up their own abilities

So that they're self -confident He talks up Faith in the

Lord their mistake before Was not believing in the Lord not not believing in themselves

So after two verses of reminding the Israelites that the Canaanites really are greater and mightier than you

Moses says in verse 3 no, therefore Because you're called to dispossess them anyway that he who goes before you

Notice the Lord isn't just with them in the previous couple chapters He's reminded Israel that the

Lord is with you. But now here he's he's the one who has gone before them and He is a consuming fire

Here's where is the book of Hebrews tells us that our God is a consuming fire. He goes before you like There's another military illusion like a bomber dropping loads of napalm on the enemy.

It burns them up The Lord is a consuming fire who is going before you

Preparing your way. No because because your mistake before was not enough faith in the

Lord know That he will he will destroy the enemy. He will subdue them the result at the end of verse 3

You shall drive them out and make them perish quickly not because of you Because what the

Lord's is going to do now now Where are we at? What were they at?

They're on the verge of the promised land to cross over and take it Where are we at? Well now where we're at. We know that our real enemies are spiritual.

We wrestle not with flesh and blood They are cosmic powers over this present darkness.

They're the world the flesh That's our own sinful nature and the devil and they are indeed like here.

Those enemies are greater and mightier than we are We're outmatched

By the left to ourselves. Anyway, if we think that what we need to overcome sin It's just a psych ourselves up You know more self -confidence tell ourselves you were more than conquerors

Just by ourselves leaving out the through Christ part Or that we can overcome the world just by our own good judgment

We can out think them just by our own philosophy Rather than renewing our minds with the

Word of God Or that we can walk in the flesh that is walking our own abilities and still have victory over the flesh

Or that we can overcome the devil just by our own willpower If that's what we think We've made a mistake and we'll keep making the same mistake until we learn that our enemies are

Greater and mightier than we are They just are we can't beat them on our on our own

And we don't need to talk ourselves up and we don't need to talk our enemies down We need to believe the

Lord believe what he has done that Jesus has Overcome the world that he has gone before us

He's the firstborn from the dead He's risen from the dead that our flesh was crucified with him that he's given us authority to tread on Demonic snakes and scorpions and nothing will hurt us

We believe in him Not ourselves Who are we at now? Well, we two are on the verge of the promised land

The enemies are greater and mightier than we your sin is more than you can handle So we've got a common saying out there on the the popular religion.

God will never give you more than you can handle Oh, that's totally false. It's holy totally false. He's already given you more than you can handle

In fact, he's trying to teach you a lesson from that that this is your enemies are greater and mightier than you are

You cannot handle them Death can't be overcome by positive thinking you know, you just can't you're just not gonna live forever because you

You you say the right mottos and wake up every morning with a cheery attitude. It doesn't work that way Just believing in yourselves don't make the mistake that you can defeat sin and get the promises of God get that is get heaven by just more willpower

More religion more of what comes from you If you keep making that mistake, well, you'll keep failing instead of believing in yourself

Believe in the Lord That he has gone before you that he is a consuming fire who is right now destroying all your enemies

That's where we are We're behind the Lord Who has gone before us?

Do you learn from your mistakes Well, some people learn the wrong lesson from their mistakes

Someone had a cat they learned the lesson that all the good treats come from the fridge And so learn to and whenever one anyone open the fridge step inside the fridge when the and the the owner decided to teach the cat a lesson by Quickly closing the door on the cat's nose

And the cat learned the lesson to quickly jump in the fridge It's a wrong lesson here beginning of verse 4

They are told to learn the right lesson from their upcoming conquest like last week in chapter 8

Remember where they are warned that they will get rich. They're gonna go in that land. They can live a comfortable life they're gonna be prosperous and Then they're gonna think well, look what

I've done. Look what I've earned I like the Puritans who came to America to worship God biblically and along the way they became prosperous as they said

Godliness beget prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother So they were warned when you're comfortable when you have your family you have the nice house

And the money is rolling in don't learn the lesson from that in chapter 8 verse 17 that my power my

Hard work my discipline my smarts my business ability gave me all this.

That's the wrong lesson He says there in chapter 8 Here in this chapter, he takes that a step further

Maybe they won't learn the lesson that their power their power did it that that was the secret that gave them the victory

They're going to they're going to be victorious over the Canaanites. Okay, maybe they won't say to themselves

Well my ability they were greater and mightier than me It wasn't my ability my our military might that did it that gave us his promised land and then the comfortable life that comes from it instead don't think

I'll think it was their morality. It was their religion because with that That they won

God's support. They won his blessing That's how they got God to go before them as a consuming fire.

And so that's how they get the promised land They were just great people. They were moral and they were religious.

They did the right rituals and God you're saying Don't think that That's the wrong lesson.

So they're warned when they've conquered the nation's there We're indeed greater and mightier than them don't conclude in verse 4.

It is because of my Righteousness the Lord rewarded me Because I'm moral because I'm religious

I Kept the rules So I earned his blessings.

I earned his heaven. I earned all the good stuff that he has given me The wrong lesson in chapter 8 is trusted my natural ability trusted what

I bring in my own hands what I've earned I earned this prosperity. Well, that's obvious arrogance

The second here in chapter 9 is more pernicious Because it can be disguised as trust in the

Lord because it mentions the Lord the Lord gave me this promised land Well, that sounds very pious doesn't it?

but it's still really trusted oneself in our morality because it goes on the Lord gave us this promised land because This is what they're gonna be tempted to think because we kept the rules

We did the right religion Something in our hands we brought To earn his blessings our actions earned from the

Lord this blessing it assumes that God is like God's like a machine like a vending machine.

He's a blessing and Cursing machine and like a vending machine, you know, if you put in the right coins

Out comes the drink or whatever snack you want and so with God if you put in the put in the right morality

Put in the right rituals the right religion you keep the rules you go to church you get baptized So forth that out comes from God The blessings you want and if someone puts in the wrong rituals, well, they get a curse

It's like that the rock they put in the wrong morality. They get they get punished They that's many people's attitude how

God works. But here Moses says don't learn the wrong lesson about God don't say I got this because of my righteousness because I earned a

Right relationship with God and therefore he gave me these blessings. I kept his rules

So he he was a consuming fire that went before me and gave us the victory. No again in verse 5

It's not because of your righteousness. It's because Of his grace It's because he made a covenant at the end of verse 5 to Abraham Isaac and Jacob To assemble people gather people like the stars in the sky from every nation to bless them

Why are you among the blessed? It's because of your righteousness Is that the lesson you've learned because of your ritual that you've done your baptism your church attendance?

No He's warning us against that don't learn that lesson Not because of your goodness or your religion is what it's not what sets you apart

It's not because you forced him to take you as one of his Because of how right you were

Compared to everyone else how maybe how right in your rituals how right in your life? No, you can't manipulate him with right behavior or right doctrine or the right prayer or the right sacraments

You can't earn his blessings now You could earn his judgment by giving in to sin like these

Canaanites, but you can't get his life The promised land a new heaven and a new earth salvation by just being better than other people

Everyone who is condemned like these Canaanites earns it Everyone who was saved like these

Israelites is given it as a gift It's grace The wrong lesson from their condemnation and your salvation is

That your morality Your religion earned it That's the wrong lesson.

The right lesson is that nothing in your hands you bring But only to the cross of Christ You should cling

Do you learn from your mistakes One mistake is to think that you know, we've earned it.

We've earned salvation We've earned God's blessings because we're right and others aren't Have you learned the right lesson?

from that mistake They are listed the right lessons are listed in verses six and seven No, therefore

Was he saying first don't think those wrong lessons verse six

Instead learn these right lessons know this Because the wrong lesson is the salvation is earned by you being right.

So learn the right lesson of how unright You are you are stubborn

You tend to be stuck in the same mistakes the same sins Sometimes maybe you're so stuck in them.

You won't even recognize they are mistakes or sins One of them is that you believe in yourself rather than the

Lord if you've been making that mistake That your salvation you've been making the snake the mistake that salvation comes from you being better than others the first right lesson you need to learn is

About your own sinfulness to get a feel For your own depravity

Not simply that you've been falling into a few mistakes over and over again, but of why?

You fall into those sins It's because you're stubborn You're prone to be unteachable just to cling to your old ways

Even when they keep producing the same bad fruit keep making the same Bad bad mistakes over and over again.

Remember how in verse 7 you provoke the Lord who was a consuming fire You wouldn't want to provoke a consuming fire

But remember how you provoke him to anger how on this pilgrimage to the promised land you keep making the same mistakes

If you've been congratulating yourself for your blessings You say it's because of me because I was

I'm right. I have the right doctrine or other right religion Yeah, that's how I got salvation then you have been making the mistake of forgetting who you really are

The second lesson you need to learn the right lesson remember the

Lord's mercy Learn the lesson that your relationship with the Lord that right relationship that he has put you in righteousness the promised land

He's already begun to bring you into salvation Glorification learn that that is a gracious Gift it's not because you're better than other people or because of anything you've done

It's because he made a covenant a commitment to you from eternity past Looking into the future seeing you and he committed to himself.

I will save him I will save her I will bless them and give them a life so great

They can't even imagine it this side of the river Why did he do that for us?

Well like earlier in chapter 7 The Lord loves us Because he loves us

It's not because of anything about us. It's what the Old Testament calls Steadfast love what we call amazing grace

Learn the lesson that that is Where your blessings come from?

So let's review from chapter 9 verse 8 to chapter 10 verse 11 Let's review.

Do you learn from your mistakes? Repetition is the mother of learning they we need to learn the right lessons not learn the wrong ones.

So let's review Maybe a review what you've heard before but maybe it hasn't really sucked in yet so that you you haven't yet really learned it

When I was a teaching assistant at the University of Chicago part of my job was to review The main points that the professor had taught so that the students would be ready for the test

Let's review what the professor had lectured on I made the test and so now actually wrote up the test and so I I Reviewed what would be on the test if everyone learned all the students that they had learned what we had reviewed

They would all get in a Instead despite the review the average grade was 78 a high

C. We need to learn from our mistakes and Review until we do

Let's review the giving of the Ten Commandments They're gonna be tempted. We're going to be tempted to credit ourselves for God's blessings

It is that the lesson that we've learned There were blessed because we're better Really, is that it?

Is that the lesson you've gotten? if so Let's review You know

Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights in prayer I'm out horrible so called Sinai getting two tablets of stone written with the finger of God He says tablets of the covenant.

He calls them in verse 11. God had made it had made a covenant With them. He's made a covenant with you

Now here's what you are to do in response to that You keep the Ten Commandments the Lord told

Moses to go back down to the people because they have acted corruptly Keep in mind keep in mind though the context of this remember

These are the people who are going to be tempted to say because of my righteousness. The Lord has given us these blessings

They've acted corruptly Review that they made a middle image an idol. The Lord says in verse 13

That they're stubborn They don't learn from their mistakes So in verse 14, the

Lord says let me alone that I might destroy them He threatened to blot out their name so that Israel would be no more remembered than any of the other

Many little nations that are destroyed in the Bible that we you know Have a hard time pronouncing their their names

Israel could have ended up like that. The Lord offers to start all over with Moses Do you think you're entering the promised land going to heaven?

That's what we might call it having eternal life Because you're more righteous than others

Is that the lesson that you've gotten? Becoming a church by following the Lord by by faith

Well, let's review review your own life review your own

Propensity to sin like Paul in Romans 7 You see the sin

That still clings so closely and see in Romans chapter 7 verse 18

Nothing good dwells in me and cry out Wretched man that I am

Who will deliver me from this body of death? Do you think you're getting a promised land getting glory?

Because you're better than average Well, let's review here review of the golden calf. Moses is away

Look just a little over a month, you know 40 days a little over a month and they revert back Quickly to idolatry twice

Moses used the term quickly quickly you reverted to that and just a little over a month

That's what you're made of and you think you're more righteous than everyone else Moses comes down from the mountain mountains burning with fire comes down with two tablets in his arms and he sees the sin

He sees that golden calf and these people These people who are going to learn the wrong lesson

That they are more that they got God's blessings because they are more righteous than everyone else these people so quickly

Turned away from the Lord so Since these people broke the law

Moses broke the tablets to teach them the right lesson That they are lawbreakers

Now, why didn't the Lord destroy them then? Why hasn't the Lord destroyed you for your sins

Is it because they because we are more righteous is that the lesson we've gotten

No, because they because we Have an intercessor now for them.

It was Moses He goes back up to pray for another 40 days and 40 nights interceding for them four times in this passage

He reminds them of how he went up there and he interceded for them after God had said let me let me alone

I'll destroy them Moses went and interceded for them. They had an intercessor We have an intercessor and Hebrews chapter 7 verse 25 says

Christ always lives to make intercession for us So justice here our lawgiver is our intercessor the same one who tells us how to live intercedes for us to the father when we fail

He gives he takes away our intercessor takes away God's anger at us for our sins our lawgiver is

Our intercessor and greater than Moses our Savior Are you tempted to thank yourself for your blessings now for being righteous?

That's why God's given me all this good things He's given me because I'm you know I got baptized and I go to church all that To think it must come from something that you bring to the

Lord in your hands you hand it to the Lord Here's my religion Lord, and he just he is just so pleased with that.

He gives you blessings back Is that what you was that the lesson you've learned? If so, let's review

Like here Moses feared in verse 19 that the wrath of God would destroy the people so he interceded he prayed for them

Now today many tell us that we don't need to fear the anger of the Lord the anger and hot displeasure of the

Lord Because because they tell us well God's not like that Well, they'll never learn the right lesson that God has demands and they are in his law

But we can't meet them We haven't met them. And so it's not the labor of our hands that can fulfill his laws demands

That our work for sin could not atone If that's so Who must save Who alone?

Well Moses knew that our God is a consuming fire so he interceded for Israel and for his own brother Aaron and then

He destroyed this sinful thing. He destroyed that idol, you know, if you're not learning from your mistakes

You need to destroy those things that make you fall Then these people who will be tempted to think that the

Lord blessed him for the righteous think of that They're gonna be tempted to think God gave me all these blessings this promised land because I were just so righteous

It says Moses says over and over again you provoked the Lord to wrath in verse 22 then

They didn't obey the first command 40 years earlier to take the land because they didn't believe the

Lord They were stubborn and rebellious never learning from their mistakes never learning first That they're stubborn and rebellious and so Moses prayed for them

In verse verses starting verse 29 and onward their lawgiver Like ours was their intercessor and he pleaded for them.

Notice that prayer starting in verse 29. He pleads for them You're not just because these are great people.

They didn't mean what they did there You should save them because of all the all that they can bring for you.

No, he pleaded with the Lord on the basis of Not anything that they could give to God but on the basis of God's glory.

He pleads with God, you know If you destroy them The unbelievers pretty good the Egyptians are the unbelievers will think the

Lord just wasn't able to save them He didn't have the ability. It was beyond God's capacity to save these people.

So we had to destroy them So what that happens God will be dishonored If he destroys Israel now, that's the way

Moses is is appealing to the Lord. He's thinking about what glorifies the

Lord Do you make the mistake of? Only praying on the basis of what makes you happy this will make me happy this blessing this thing

I want So that's why you pray for so make you come up me comfortable if I get this. This is my heart's my heart's desire

Learn from that and start praying for the Lord to be glorified Do you think that your salvation your blessings your eternal life is because you're you're just better than others

It's about your glory You haven't been learning from your mistakes

Let's review a little more in chapter 10 Moses remade the tablets had

Israel make a container the Ark He calls it the Ark of the Covenant and God wrote again

The law on those tablets and Moses put them in that Ark of the

Covenant so that it would be the the law They're stored in the Ark of the Covenant would be constantly

Reminding the people of the laws that they had disobeyed so they wouldn't think

They had earned God's blessings, but just by being so righteous The law would be there telling the people to learn from your mistakes

That's why we that's why we read the Bible. So I come to hear it preached so we remember

That it wasn't our righteousness That earned God's favor, so we'll learn

Not to make that mistake again Do you learn from your mistakes? Well Israel had 40 years of wandering around just Probably not much to do but review their mistakes

Reminded it with every footstep in the hot sand that they had made the mistake of not trusting the Lord Verses six to nine review some of the places they they went some hard -to -pronounce places and how

Aaron who had been spared eventually died and was replaced how they had now they have a whole tribe of priests and intercessors in verse 8 to Stand before the

Lord to minister to him and to bless his name Moses reminds them by repeating

Because repetition to the mother of learning That he interceded for them For 40 days fasting and so the

Lord listened to him The Lord was unwilling to destroy you in verse 10. So finally the

Lord let Moses lead them to the verge of the promised land their lawgiver was their intercessor our lawgiver and Intercessor is our our

Savior who goes before us and takes us in to the promised land

Do you think your salvation your promised land Comes because you're better than others

Is that the lesson you've learned? Well, that's a mistake Learn from it

Learn that just like these people You're stubborn Falling again and again into the same sins learn like these people

You're rebellious you're resistant to the kingdom to the rule of God learn from your mistakes

Learn that Paul was right That nothing good dwells in us and that we should cry out

Wretched man that I am Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Who must save? Who alone? Don't listen to those today

Who tell us just to talk up ourselves? Our self -confidence talk down our enemies our sin we can overcome it the right attitude.

No don't Believe in yourself Don't look to yourself to your work to your religion

Even if your zeal for religion could no respite.

No, even if your tears You know trying to teach yourself to learn from your mistakes, even if your tears could forever flow all of that For sin could not atone he

Your intercessor your Savior Jesus Christ who will deliver you