 as we have. Okay. Okay. Before we could begin our class, can I request one of us to lead us in prayer? Who will lead us in prayer today? Let me pray. Father God, I come before Your presence in the name of Jesus. Father God, thank You so much for this time so that we can come together in Your name and learn from Your word. You bless our man as he teaches the word of God. And also, Lord, You open the eyes of our understanding so that our hearts are accepted to Your word. And Lord, through this session also, as we learn from the Old Testament, He will give us the important insight through the power of Your Holy Spirit. In Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank You so much, Zatholi, for your prayer. And it is very important to start the class with prayer because we all know that, you know, it's the Holy Spirit who teaches us. He leads us and He guides us. Okay. So as we depend on the Holy Spirit, we should also depend, as I depend on the Holy Spirit to teach in Him through me. It's so very important even each of us to depend on Him to give us the understanding, isn't it? It's only He can help us understand. He can help us to understand so that we remember all the things that has been taught in the class when we read through our Bible. You know, each and every word has been returned as inspiration to each of us. So today, we're going to study on the book of, which book? The book of Deuteronomy. The book of Deuteronomy, which is a very important book. Okay. So before we could start, I would like to project the book of Deuteronomy, the notes to us. Do we all have the notes with us? We also keep the notes and the Bible ready. So the book of Deuteronomy, the author of this book is, who's the author of this book? We all know. Who's the author of this book? Moses. Moses is the author of this book. Okay. So, unlike numbers, this book, Deuteronomy, was written approximately in 1406 BC. And it was written in the course of 40 years in the wilderness. So Moses put a final form to this book before you could enter the promised land. The book of Deuteronomy literally means the second law. In Greek, it is called as Deuteronomos, which means the second law. And it is the fifth book in Torah, where it is also in Hebrew. This book is called as Deverem, D-E-V-A-R-I-M. In Hebrews, this book is called as Deverem. Why? Because the very first verse in this book starts with, these are the words of Moses. It starts with these are the words. So Deverem means the words or the words of Moses. So it is named after the very first verse of the first word in Hebrew. And this is the first book in the Christian Old Testament. And it is also the fifth book in the book of Moses or the Pentateuch or it's called as Torah. It is also known as the book of transition because it marks them into a four-fold way. In what way? The first one, it talks about the transition of a new generation with the leadership of new leaders. Who are the two new leaders? Joshua and Caleb are the two new leaders under their leadership. This book is transitioning. The second, yes, Moses passed on the leadership to Joshua, but then he became very prominently active. In leading the new generation of the people. The second, we see the transition to a new possession or to a new land they are going. And third point we see transition to the new way of life, a new experience for them. Where they are living in houses instead of tents, a settled life instead of wandering. All these 40 years they have been wandering all around Mount Sinai, now they are going to settle. And even the food they are going to eat would be something different like milk and honey and the corn and the wine. Instead of the diet food that they had at the wilderness. The fourth transition we see is the new revelation of God. As God is a God of love, God is a God of mercy. Because from Genesis to Numbers we see when people rebelled what happened, they had to face their consequences. And in this book we see how God was merciful to them. You know how God was merciful and we see Moses himself stating that to the people. Can we turn to Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 31 and one of y'all can read verse 37. For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not forsake you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them. Because he led your forefathers and chose their descendants after them. He brought you out of Egypt by his presence and his great strength. So we see in verse 31 it says God is merciful. See Moses is saying the new picture the people are seeing the revelation of God who actually God is. So Moses is portraying God as God is merciful. And then we also see he is saying in verse 37 God is love. Because he loved father therefore he chooses their descendants after them. And he brought you out of Egypt with his presence and his mighty power. See the love of God that has saved you. That has heard the very cry of your fathers and it brought you out of Egypt. And Moses is showcasing God the real God. Because they had a different mindset of God different revelation of God. Moses is saying God is merciful and God is love. So people are getting the revelation of who God is. This is the fourth translation that people would be going through. And we see the the central message of this book is God's divine faithfulness. See that in chapter 6 verse 4 to 5. Can we turn to chapter 6 verse 4 to 5 please? Can one of us please read? The Lord our God the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your strength. Amen. Do you remember this verse is very familiar and we also read the same verse in the New Testament. Can one of us please turn to Mark chapter 12 verse 30 and read please. Mark chapter 12 verse 30. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Yes. So what does it say? Love your Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your strength. It's the same verse. It's the same verse that has been said here. It's also been noted in the book of Mark loving the Lord our God. That's the basic truth. Here we can we can split this in you know three fold statement of truth. The fact here is he brought us out and we also move on. Okay. Here is the worship of God that we need to love the Lord how we need to worship the Lord. We need to love the Lord with all our heart with all our soul and with all our strength. It is very important with this. We will move on to the same chapter. Chapter 6 verse 23 verse 23. But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our Lord for us. He brought us out from there that he might bring us in to give us the land of which he swore to our fathers. Can we split this in three fold statement of truth? The first is the fact that he brought us out. You see that's the fact. Fact is that God brought us out of the land of Egypt and the very purpose we see that he might bring us in into the promised land. That which he promised Father Abraham. He wants to fulfill that very purpose of promising. So God who promised is bringing us back the very purpose behind the fact. And the reason behind both the fact and the purposes he swore unto our fathers. There's a promise involved and because God is a promise keeper. That he made to his children. So to fulfill that covenant God is keeping that promise. So he says that I swore to your fathers. So you see there are three fold in this statement of truth. In this one verse we see the fact, the very purpose and the reason behind the fact and the purpose is the promise. The covenant that God made with his son. So a God is a covenant keeper. Every promise that he makes, he will see to it that he will fulfill no matter of difficult our circumstance can be. But the promise that God made, he will keep it. He's not a man to lie, but he's a God who keeps the covenant. With this we'll see the essence of the law. We'll move on to chapter 10. Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 12 to 13. Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 12 to 13. And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? But to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways and to love him. To serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. And to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes which I command you today for your good. Amen. Thank you so much. And the same verse has been repeated in the gospel, all three gospels. Can one of you take out Matthew chapter 22 verse 37? Matthew chapter 22 verse 37. I'll just put it in the chat. And one of you all take Mark chapter 12 verse 30. Matthew chapter 22 verse 37. And another person take Luke chapter 10 verse 27. Yes, we have taken Matthew, please go ahead. Matthew 22 verse 37. Jesus said unto him, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind. Amen. Mark, can you please read the gospel of Mark? Mark chapter 12 verse 30. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your spirit. Gospel of Luke. Luke 10 verse 27. So he answered and said, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your mind and with and your neighbor as yourself. Amen. It talks about love, how we need to worship the Lord. Something that is there in the Old Testament, we see it's been repeated even in the gospel. Stating the same thing, how we need to love with reverence, with all reverence, we need to love the Lord our God. This is what is required, this is the commandment. This is what is required a duty, a requirement, a commandment that is needed from us, like love a Lord our God with all our heart, with all our mind and with all our strength. It is very important, it is a demand that we need to love, love a Lord with all obedience. This love should flow from our heart, like of a child of God. Because our God is a God who is glorious God, he is faithful God, he is merciful, he is loving. If this God is dwelling inside each of us, then we need to worship the Lord with reverence. Reverence means, you know, with honor, with all reverence, with all trust, you know, worshiping the Lord that God, you are our God, you're above everything. Giving Him the first place, there's nothing else. There's no other place, giving God the first place and God delights that worship. God expects His children to be dependent on Him and give Him that first place of honor, first place of reverence. When year we see, the fear we see, the fear of God is not to, you know, it's not the other type of fear, like how we fear when we see something bad. Fear means reverence, giving all our self to God, worship God, saying, God, you are control of everything. You are my Creator, you are my God, you are my Father, you know, giving Him that first place and worshipping Him. We see obedience in this book of Deuteronomy. The word called obedience is the keynote. Almost in every chapter, this word occurs and it occurs more than 50 times, saying that God, you know, we need to obey God in all our ways. Now, why should we obey God? Why should we obey God? Three things. For what He has done for us. Second, He is God. Third, He is a God of holy. The law that He gave is perfect. We need to worship God. We will just go through our notes. We will go through each chapter, the division of each chapter and after this, the purpose. We will first go through the purpose and the unique feature and then I'll take you all through the chapters. The purpose of this book is to give detailed instruction about God's law and his covenant with Israel. When we went through the book of Genesis, we saw how the Israel was formed. And then in Exodus, we see the redemption. And then in the book of Leviticus, it talks about the sanctification, how we need to be sanctified because our God is a holy God. And numbers tells us the direction of God. And in the book of Deuteronomy, it gives us the instruction, the law of God. And it also exhorts Israel to pay attention to God's instruction, which is very important. And when we keep the word of God, there's blessing. There's blessing in obedience. And also in disobedience, there is curse. Because we see that in the book of Deuteronomy and the consequence of disobedience. Also Moses clearly states in this the reward for obedience and punishment for disobedience. The unique features we see in this book is just as Leviticus Deuteronomy places great emphasis on the word of God, which is very important. And we also see Jesus, when he began his ministry, how we quoted during the 40 days after his fasting, the Bible records a three temptation of Jesus and the wilderness. And each time he quotes the scripture from the book of Deuteronomy to overcome the temptation. If one of us can read the quote from Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter eight verse three, and one of y'all can take up Matthew chapter four verse four. Again, Matthew chapter four verse seven, Deuteronomy chapter six verse 16. Matthew chapter four verse 10 and Deuteronomy six verse 13. We see the same verse has been repeated. Maybe we can read only the book of Deuteronomy so that we know we have read the gospel, right? So we can compare to the verses. First is Deuteronomy chapter eight three. Deuteronomy allowed you to hunger and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know that he might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Amen. You see the word man shall not live by every man shall not live by word but that proceeds from mouth, but by every word of God. Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. This is what it says. And the next verse six 16. Deuteronomy chapter six verse 16. Do not test the Lord your God as you did at Massa. You shall not tempt the Lord your God as you tempted him in Massa. It's so very important. Do not tempt the Lord your God. These are the very quotes that Jesus quoted when he faced the temptation in the wilderness. Next verse 13. Deuteronomy chapter six verse 13. You shall fear the Lord your God and serve him and shall take oath in his name. Amen. You shall fear the Lord your God and serve him and shall take oath in his name. Praise God. These are the words. And also Moses prophesies, prophesies over Israel saying what are the consequences, the victory that they would face and what are the consequences that will happen to the Israelites. And we see that some of the prophesies been also fulfilled. We see victorious entrance into Cana. And we see that in the book of Joshua and the sin while in Cana, in the book of Judges and Second Kings it's been recorded. And again the Israelite will be taken into exile. We see that in Second Kings and also in the book of Ezekiel and Daniel. Then the return from exile in chapter 30, we see that in the book of Ezra and Nehemiah. With this we will move on to the outline. Outline we can go through our own. There are sermons here, sermon topics which we can take. The blessing Deuteronomy 28 is the chapter of blessing and also the curse. Very important. We have heard many testimonies come out of this chapter when people have claimed the blessing of God from this chapter and also they have obeyed by keeping the commands and the statutes of God. They have experienced the blessing. It's not only then, it's even now. And the final words of Moses we will go through chapter wise. I'll just present. There are 34 chapters in this book. The chapter 1 to chapter 11 talks about Moses opening speech. And chapter 12 to chapter 26 we see the collection of laws. And chapter 27 to 34 we see Moses final speech before his death. So we see there are two speeches in this book. Two speeches. The man your speaker is on. Sorry about it. Thank you so much. There are 34 chapters in this book. And this book is divided into three sections. The first is from chapter 1 to chapter 11 which records Moses opening speech. And we see from chapter 12 to chapter 26 we see the collection of laws. From chapter 27 to chapter 34 we see Moses final speech before his death. So we see that there are two speeches recorded in this book of Deuteronomy. Then this book is also divided in two parts. From chapter 1 to chapter 11 we see looking to the past. What happened? What is the background? And from chapter 12 to 34 we see looking to the future. Moses is showing what they have ahead of them. Very important. And the very purpose of this book we went through. So the book of Deuteronomy begins with Moses standing in front of this new generation. People in explaining the Torah. We see in Deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 1 to 5 because of time very few scriptures we will read. But then I will just explain. I will give the summary of each chapter as we explain. So in Deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 1 to 5 we see that from here the design, the very purpose of this book unfolds. Deuteronomy is a series of speeches from Moses where he is calling the next generation of Israel to be faithful to the covenant with their God because it is very important. So he summarizes the story so far and he highlights how rebellious the previous generation that was their fathers was in contrast of God's constant grace and how God provided in the wilderness. It's not that they don't know. They have experienced it but still Moses is reminding them so that they will remember. They will not forget. So Moses had to again and again remind the children of Israel how God was faithful. How God was constant grace saved them, provided them in the wilderness and God did bring his justice on them. But he did not abandon them. But then he kept his covenant promise and rescuing them. Though their parents rebelled against God. Yes, that's the reason that they could not enter the promised land. But then God did not put an end to that generation. He said because you all said you may not enter but your children will enter the promised land. So he was God showed himself so gracious that you know I will bless your children because that was a very promise. I will bless their children's children. So God wants to bless the Israelites. And he keeps that promise and until the older generation pass out other than Joshua and Caleb. Everyone else have died in the wilderness. And after this comes a series of very passionate sermon we see in chapter 4 to chapter 11 where Moses calls the new generation to be more faithful than their parents to the covenant of God to the command of God. Where he reminds them the 10 commandments and then he enters the centerpiece of the section of the 10 commandments. He's saying that listen Israel can we turn to Deuteronomy 6 chapter 4 to 5. We already very important message. Can one of us please read Deuteronomy 6 verse 4 to 5. We read again we can read yes. Chapter 6 4 to 5. Here always pray the Lord our God the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Amen. Moses is asking them to read this section which is called Shema in Jewish language. Shema means listen Israel. The Lord our God the Lord alone and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind. And this became the daily prayer of Judaism the Jewish people. The word called listen here. Listen O Israel. Here O Israel is a word called Shema in Hebrew which means here. Listen listen intently. Includes also to what you hear very important for us to hear and obey listen and obey we need to obey. So this is what the Jewish people started praying this prayer every day every day. And also the word love here in Hebrew it's it means it just not means the emotion or the decision. It does not mean the emotion or the feeling but it means the decision that we need to make wholeheartedly to love our God with all our heart mind and strength. It is a decision that we need to make it's not only to the Jewish people but today even for us we need to make this decision. That Lord I love you with all my heart with all my soul and with all my strength it is very important. So your God is calling them Moses is telling them to obey obey God with all reverence and when we obey there's blessing. And the other key idea of this world Shema is that the Israel was called to obey and be devoted to the Lord alone. In Hebrew Shema is translated as the Lord is one. We need to obey him. In context of the point that the Lord is one God Israel is to worship and obey this one God. And now as Israel is prepared as Moses is preparing the Israelites to enter into the promised land of Ghana where people is instructing them not to worship any other God. No idols and represent there's only one God the Jehovah God that we need to obey him and worship our Lord our God with all our heart mind and soul. Because he is a redeemer and he reminds them of how God redeemed them from Egypt and how he is leading them again and again he is you know he is again and again retreating the blessings and obedience and the curses in disobedience. And with this we come to a larger portion of the law at the center to chapter 12. Chapter 12 to chapter 26 to chapter 12 to 16 chapter 12 to 16 it covers Israel's worship. So the opening the opening chapter in chapter 12 we see how Israel's worship of the God the way to have one central temple where one God would be worshiped and also God was to be worshiped and Israel's care for its poor. They need to be mindful of people. For an instance where all Israelites were set aside one tenth of the annual income to be given to their temple that's the title we call it. But another tenth they need to keep it aside for every three years and give that to the poor. And these are the kind of laws that was put to Israel and you know of justice and comparing of the ancient neighbors and it was all bound with their worship to God. So worshipping God is not only like with the reverence with all our mind heart and soul but they have to do something by the offering by one tenth of the first fruit of the offering to God. And also to keep certain portion that is one tenth in once in three years to give to the poor as well. You see God is mindful of even the poorest of the poor. So he's telling us we need to as the New Testament command says love your Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself. Who are the poor? They are among us. They are neighbors. We need to be mindful of them as well and see to it in their need. You know we are there to help them in their need. And the next section we see from chapter 16, the second half of chapter 16. It gives the Israel leaders so that there are elders, they are priests. It talks about the leaders. There are elders, there are priests, there are kings and these were all placed under the authority of the covenant law which God said that he would enforce by sending prophets to keep the leaders accountable. So in contrast to the Israel neighbors where kings were thought of as a divine and a law in Israel leaders were subordinate to the law and the prophets. We see in many instances as we study each book we see how they follow and they kept the law and how they were subject to the prophets as well. Following this a large portion is from chapter 19 to chapter 26. We see the civil laws and the social justice been enforced. Israel civil law was so to rule about the rules about marriage, family, the business and also about the social justice. You know Moses sets a law for all this and he writes a legal system of how it has to be protected, how we need to protect the widows, the orphans, the migrants. And then these are the concluded by the Moses laws about worship. Now with some tips for reading all these laws for us to remember in two ways. The first we need to remember them as the term of Sanai covenant given specifically to the ancient Israel living in the culture. That's very different from us. And the second we see it's helpful to compare these laws with the modern law from the very different culture. So we need to compare these laws with the Israel's neighbors like the people who were living around them like the Assyrians, the Babylonians. And when we do that we see this law seem to be very harsh but becomes much more clear to see that God is pruning Israel to a higher level of justice that was ever known before. But then we see finally God trying to discern where he's trying to discipline them. He's trying to correct them. He's trying to show them how holy God was. And in the New Testament Paul is quoting in 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 9. Can one of us please turn to chapter 9 verse 9? 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 9. What is written in the law of Moses, you shall not muzzle an ox while it dreds out the grain. Is it oxen God is concerned about? So Paul is quoting about not to muzzle the ox, muzzle the ox while it dreds out the grain when the same verse is also quoted in Deuteronomy 25 verse 4. Do not muzzle the ox. So while we discern what core principle of wisdom or justice in any particular law we will discover some real profounding things in this book where how to lead our self in the sight of God. With this we will move on to chapter 27 to 34. Moses final speech about his death after Moses goes through all of the laws. He issues a final challenge that Israel should listen and to love their God. And he issues a warning and the challenges that they would be facing if Israel listens and if Israel does not listen and disobey. What are the curses and the warnings? What are the challenges they would go through? He shares it and if they only obey and listen, what are the blessings? How God will bless them greatly and this divine blessing will always rest upon them. On the other hand, he says if you rebel you will come out, you have to face the famine, plague, devastation and ultimately the exile from the land. So he places both front of them, the blessing and the curse. We see in chapter 30, verse 15 to 20, Moses forces a decision. He says today I said before you the life and death, the blessing and curse, goodness and evil. So choose life. See what a leader is. So Moses is not only a leader, he's also been the prophet and he's able to foresee the people because he's been living with them for decades now. So he understands the people's nature, the attitude within emotion. Yes, he's able to understand right now people are saying yes is with the emotion, the gratefulness of possessing the promised land. So they agreeing that they say that they will obey the Lord. But once they acquire the blessing of God and you know how the people's heart would be. They may forget the God who delivered them, they may forget the God who has blessed them. So that's the reason again and again and again Moses as a leader, you know, as he has heart for the people. For then he discerned, he interceded with God to give life. So he's looking at his children, you know, each and every Israelite are like the children of Moses with the father in his heart. He's looking at them and he's telling them listen and obey. And he's also prophesying over them what will happen in future when they rebel. They may have to face the consequences and they may be in exile. But in all that he also gives them the promise saying that God will not leave you. One day, you know, you will cry out to the Lord and God is going to do this among you. If when you're a rebel and go into the exile and during that hardship, you will look up to God. God will transform your hearts back and you know, God will listen to your prayer and he will rescue you. He will lead you back to the true life where it has promised to be. And these are the promises which Moses is sharing with his people before he could die. And this is the promise that he's giving to each of us today. Our God is a God who will never leave us nor forsakers, but he loves us with everlasting love. He loved them so much, that's the reason he gave Jesus to die on the cross to redeem the people. Because our God is a God of love. With this we see in chapter 31 to 34, the passing off of thoughts, the passing over the leadership from Moses to Joshua. We see Moses ending the speech with a poem of warning and then a blessing. And then he walks up on the mountain and he dies. So chapter 31, he hands over the leadership to Joshua and also he gives the instruction to the Levites. And in chapter 31, verse 24 to 30, we see Moses instructs the Levites. And in chapter 33 we see the blessing of the tribe of Israel and in chapter 34 we see the death of Moses. So before he could die, he goes up to the mountain and God shows him the land that he would be giving to his children. And then Moses is 120 years old when he's dying and the Bible records saying that his eyes were not dim. We see that in chapter 34, verse 7, we see that Moses was 120 years old when he died and his eyes were not dim. Nor his natural vigor. He was all in good health when he died. And no one knows where God buried Moses, but no one knows where exactly he died. He went on the Mount of Morab. That is what has been recorded and there he dies and God buried him. And let's see the comparison of Moses' life quickly. The life of Moses with Jesus. We can compare Moses with Jesus. He spent 40 years in Egypt and then he spent 40 years in Median. And he spent 40 years leading the children of Israel. And he was a man of faith because in the book of Hebrews we see he's been recorded in the chapter 11. And he also appeared with Christ and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration. We see that in the Gospels, all three Gospels, Gospel Matthew, Mark and Luke. And he was Israel's greatest prophet. And he was like no one I've seen God's glory like Moses did. And now we see his comparison with Christ. Moses is an outstanding type of Christ. Moses was born and was sought to be put to death by Pharaoh. Jesus was born and sought to be put to death by King Herod. Moses appointed by God to deliver Israel out of bondage. And we see here Christ was sent to deliver all Israel and all who believe from the bondage of sin. Moses was sent to lead Israel towards Canna, the Promised Land. And we see Jesus came to lead us to heaven. Moses lead them to see the Promised Land and Jesus takes us into heaven. Moses gave us the law but Jesus fulfilled the law and gave the Gospel to us. We see Moses was the mediator of the first covenant. And in the New Testament we see Jesus as our mediator. Moses did many wonderful miracles. We see Jesus also did many wonderful miracles. Both of them did with the power of God to show God's power and glory. Moses instituted the Passover in the New Testament. Jesus was a Passover. Moses was a faithful servant. Jesus was faithful in all things even unto his death. Moses fasted 40 days and nights in the wilderness before delivering the law. And we also see in the New Testament that Jesus fasted 40 days and nights in the wilderness before he could share the Gospel. The last is, no one knows where Moses' grave is. It should be somewhere in the land of Moab. And in the book of Jude verse 9 we see how the devil and the archangel disputed or contended about his body. Can we quickly do a recap on what we learned from the book of Deuteronomy? Can we do a quick recap on what we learned? Did we learn the unconditional love of God? What he promised with Abraham, God is trying to fulfill, keep that promise despite the rebellion nature of Israel and how God was merciful. God is giving a new revelation that God is love is merciful. All these days the people of Israel never had that revelation of God. They always thought when they rebel they'll be punished. But now God is saying, I'm God of love, I'm God of mercy. You know, Moses is dictating that to people is telling people how merciful and how loving God is and how we need to love God. And we also learn that how we need to worship God. It's again and again the same commandment which Jesus gives us in the New Testament is there in the Old Testament before that itself. That love your Lord, your God with all your mind, with all your heart, with all your strength and love your neighbor as yourself. We see that in the Old Testament in the book of Deuteronomy where God is saying, be mindful of the poor who are around you, the neighbors. Be there to help them and offer the first fruit to God. And God is the requirement of Israel to be faithful to God and Him alone because God is a jealous God. We need to be faithful and with all reverence worship Him and Him alone. And we also see Moses repeating the Ten Commandments again to the people even before they could enter the Promised Land. Is there anything else that we learn? Any one point, each one. Life of Moses compared with life of Jesus. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Let's turn to Deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 19 to 20. I'll just take 5 minutes please. Not even 5 minutes. We'll close soon enough. And one of you all please take Ephesians chapter 5 verse 28 to 32. Can one of you all please read Deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 19 to 20. Deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 19 to 20. This day I call heaven and earth as witness against you that I have said before you life and death. Blessings and verses. Now choose life so that you and your children may live. And that you may love the Lord your God. Listen to His words and hold fast to Him for the Lord is your life. And He will give you many years in the land He swore to give you. Your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Sheikah. Thank you. If you all can you'll read Ephesians chapter 5 verse 28 to 32. In this same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all no one ever treated their own body for their, for the feed and care for their body. Just as Christ does the church for we are members of His body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and the two will become one place. This is a profound mystery but I am talking about Christ and the church. Amen. The first verse we see how we need to choose life in order that we may live and our descendants to live. And by loving the Lord our God, by obeying His voice and by holding fast to Him. For this is our life and the length of our days that we can live long. By obeying God a life will be prolonged on this earth. And in the second verse from the New Testament we see that how we need to obey God and hold fast on Him. And that is the life. Our relationship with God is to be marked as faithful, loyal, love and with devotion. Something and he also illustrates that with the relationship of a marriage. That's a picture of God wants us to cling to God be one with Him. So this is the intimate relationship that God is expecting from each of us today. So I will leave you all with a reflection question. How closely do we cling to God? How closely do you cling to God? Pray and recommit a heart to all that's important in relationship with Him. With this can I request one of you all to please lead us and pray. Dear Heavenly Father, we come to You in the name of Jesus. We thank You for this beautiful day and for the beautiful class that we had. Lord, everything that we learnt in this class, let us praise it in our heart and let us apply it in our life. Let us all love You with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our strength. This whole life let us cling to You and keep depending on You and keep praising and preaching to You. I place everyone who listen, I bless our man and I thank you for the beautiful teaching that she gave us. So let us apply this and enjoy our life in Jesus name after. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you all tomorrow with the next book. Thank you.