 Okay, you can hear me now, right? Perfect. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks. Um, so yes, we had a couple of people asking questions. Maybe we could address that first. Um, let's see. Why did you raise a hand? You're right here. Well, yeah. Daniel has asked, uh, what can be done because one hour is definitely not sufficient to cover each Old Testament book. And so he has asked, uh, whether there's any way that people can, you know, um, gain more knowledge on each of the Old Testament books. Uh, well, nothing that we can do over here in one hour. Uh, but then, you know, if you want to do a personal study, um, you can go through each of the Old Testament books at your own pace. You know, during your quiet time and, um, even as you just reflect on the different passages, you know, there would be, there would be learnings which you would gain. If you're looking for background information about the Israelites living at that time and, uh, exactly which place were they in at which point, then maybe you can get that kind of factual, uh, knowledge from commentaries. You know, any good, um, uh, devotional commentary would be able to help you with if you want to get information about each of the Old Testament books. But if you're thinking more in terms of, you know, uh, spiritual learnings where you are reflecting on the passages and God is speaking to you and you're gaining something from those. Uh, I think, um, you know, just meditating on each of those chapters during your own quiet time would be helpful. Uh, there's one devotional book that has been very helpful to me. Uh, and I use it even now sometimes now and then. Um, it's a book called Search the Scriptures by Alan Stibbs. It's basically meant for personal devotions. So for each book of the Bible and for almost every single passage in the Bible, there are a few reflection questions given. So, you know, if on that particular day I'm reading Numbers Chapter 12, I would just look at that book. I would open up to Numbers Chapter 12 and look at the reflection questions which have been posted for that particular passage. And they are questions which are best answered, you know, if you write down the answer because as you're writing down, you can think about, uh, about what that passage is saying and how exactly to answer that question accurately. And even as you're trying to write out an answer for it, God starts speaking to you. He brings other scriptures to your mind which are connected to what that particular passage is saying. And, um, I have felt that that book has been very helpful to me in thinking more meditatively on each chapter and gaining something solid from, you know, uh, each of the passages that I am covering during my devotions. So search the scriptures by Alan Stibbs. That book should be very helpful if you are thinking of gaining, you know, practical knowledge from each of the books. If you're just looking for background information about the books, about who wrote it and where exactly were the Israelites living at that point of time and kind of stuff that you can just get it from any devotional commentary. Um, yeah, but in class, it's not possible. All we can do is a survey, which is like just a brief overview of each book, you know, so details of course cannot be covered in the one hour. Um, we had Angela in asking us, um, if some more information could be provided regarding Balak and Balam. Um, that is something that you would have to, you know, actually read because it's, it covers many chapters, a lot of detail. Uh, but it's available. All you need to do is find those particular chapters in the book of numbers and we will get to know that, you know, Balak was a king who wanted to bring a curse upon the people. So he hires Balam for that task. So Balam, no, was not a follower of the living God. He was just a Midianite and probably worshipped the Midianite gods, but he had a gifting. He could deliver prophecies, uh, you know, uh, accurately if God choose, chooses to assist him. So I don't know, um, whether he was good all the time at giving words of prophecy, but in this particular instance, we see that the living God enables him to speak out the correct words. So he was able to speak accurately, even giving a prophecy about the Christ. Uh, but, uh, I'm not sure what his record was. Otherwise, you know, whether he was always able to give out good accurate words of prophecy that I have absolutely no idea. Uh, so he was not a prophet of the living God. Yeah, that much is clear. Um, all right. So we'll now get into Deuteronomy and that, uh, you know, those alphabets in the beginning, DEU, that is basically, uh, the second number, you know, the numeral two. So it's like a second law that is being given. So this particular book was called Deuteronomy because the law is being repeated for the second time. The first time it was given to the Israelites was at Mount Sinai, uh, when, uh, the Lord gives them those 600, uh, how many were there? 613 or 635, 613, 613 laws that he gave them that was at Mount Sinai. Now, many of those laws are being repeated for a second time. So that word Deuteronomy in Greek would literally mean second law or a second edition of the law or something of the sort. Okay, so it's basically the law being repeated once again. Why would they repeat the law once again a second time? It's because for 40 years, the previous generation has been roaming around in the wilderness and God has been waiting for them all to die because that's what they said. Oh, if we follow this God, we will all die. And so God says, fine, you know, that's if that is how you see me, you know, you will have that. So he says, yes, all of you will die. But this children about whom you are saying, oh, if we take our children to the land and all our children will be killed. The Lord says, I will protect them. They will in fact enter the land. So now God has waited 40 years for that entire older generation to die out. And now the younger generation has now grown up and now they are in a position to enter the land. But do they have the word of God inside them? That is so important. Physical what strength is not enough to fight any battle. We need the Lord's backing. So rather than physical strength, the amount of strength we have on the inside is what really matters. So now the second law, second time the law is given to them to remind them of how they can stay under the covering of God and live in victory. You know, we always quote from Psalm 91, right? And this very first two verses, it talks about, you know, people who have chosen to live in the shelter of the most high. And then the second line, it talks about how, you know, we are choosing to abide in the shadow of the Almighty. So if you're a person who wants to live in the shelter of the most high, if you want to abide in the shadow of the Almighty, there are certain instructions to follow. So of course, in the New Testament, we have various instructions which have been given and we choose to follow those instructions. Why? So that we can continue to live in the shelter of the most high. Because you see, the most high has got control over everything. Only what he permits can happen to us. We are so safe and secure in his arms. So in the same way, God wanted to give this new generation a chance, a reminder of who he is. And so the entire law is repeated to them once again. They are reminded of what they need to do so that they can be safe and secure in God and be able to live in victory and conquer all those territories which are waiting for them. And so the entire law is once again repeated to them for this new generation. And you have these words, do, keep, observe. These words are used 177 times in Deuteronomy. So again and again, this new generation is told, keep the laws of God. Observe what the Lord has asked you to observe. Do these things because if you do these things, you will have victory against even the most powerful armies because God will be on your side. He will fight the battle and you will gain victory even though you people are not a trained army. Egyptians had a trained army. They had chariots and they had people who were specially recruited and trained up to become soldiers. When do you think the Israelites did their military training? Did they go to any military training camp? They were busy roaming around with their parents in the desert because their parents were too disobedient. So no military training. Their training is going to happen on the inside. Have they prepared themselves on the inside? If they are ready on the inside, God will take care of the outside. And the same rule applies even to us today. There are some who are just naturally more capable, able to handle the challenges of life. God has given them that ability. God has given them the brains for it and all of that. There are others like us who may not really be that talented or that influential or strong. But if we have trained ourselves on the inside and we are in tune with the Lord, God will take care of the details. So these people, this new generation is being prepared for the victory which awaits them. And the book of Deuteronomy is... The book of Deuteronomy is ported by Jesus Christ in the New Testament. And more than any other Old Testament book. Most of his quotations he took from this particular book of Deuteronomy. Why was it his favorite? No, it's just that for the Jewish people, they regarded this particular book of Deuteronomy the most authoritative among the five books. Basically because the book of Deuteronomy is almost like a summary of all the four books, which came earlier. Because it kind of repeats all the important things which have been mentioned in the first four chapters. Those instructions and laws, they are all repeated over here. So the Jewish people, the Jewish leaders, the spiritual scholars, all of that, they all regarded this. So I think maybe when they would have their final exam, when they are training themselves to become spiritual leaders, I'm sure that most of the exam questions will come from the book of Deuteronomy. So for them it was very important. So Jesus chooses to use quotations from this book to talk about himself. He would say so and so worse and immediately they would know which verse he's talking about because they would almost know their Deuteronomy by heart. And he would say, you know what, that particular verse is talking about me. It's referring to me. So he used the book of Deuteronomy to explain many things to them. And not only that, Jesus also quoted from the book of Deuteronomy when he was tempted by Satan. Now I'm sure Jesus was tempted hundreds of times. He probably was tempted more than any other human being ever. But in the Bible, we only have one set of temptations mentioned. And for those three temptations, which are mentioned all the three times, Jesus takes the quotation from this particular book of Deuteronomy. So the Lord would have known this particular book probably by heart. He would have memorized it and he also knows how to apply it. It's one thing to memorize, but then we should also know how to take those verses and apply it to our situations. And so Jesus chooses to do that. So this book of Deuteronomy is important. There is value in it. Coming to the structure of the book, we could say chapters one to four is one section because in this first four chapters, Moses, you know, kind of reminds them. He talks about all the way, I mean, their ancestry about what God has done for them in the past, their entire past history. He talks about all of that in chapters one to four. And then in chapters five to 28, you have a lot of instructions being given how to worship God, how to, you know, maintain good relationships with other people, all of that. So chapters five to 28 is filled with instructions on godly living. So in the first four chapters, Moses is reminding them of the past. Your parents did not keep the word of God and look what happened to them. But now you're getting a second chance. You're going to enter the land. So how should you be living? And that's outlined in chapters five to 28. And then when we move into chapters 29 and 30, in these chapters, the people now, this new generation after having listened to all the instructions which are given in chapters five to 28. In chapters 29 and 30, they stand over there in front of God and they make, they renew their covenant with him. And they say, yes, Lord, we will follow you. Whatever you have told us in all these chapters, we will do it. And so we see the renewal of the covenant being done in chapters 29 and 30. And then you have the last section, chapters 31 to 34. In these chapters, basically, now Moses is turning over the leadership to Joshua. And we also see in the last chapter, God performing the funeral service for Moses. No human being did it for Moses. God himself personally buries him somewhere. We do not know the details of that. But somewhere on Mount Nebo after Moses dies, God himself attends to his body. So those details are mentioned in chapters 31 to 34. So coming to some of the things that maybe we can look into in this book of Deuteronomy, you have referred to page 21 of your PDF textbook. In future, I suppose I'll need to keep a physical copy with me and bring it. Because I only have the PDF which is in my laptop, which is here. And I cannot look into that right now. I'll come better equipped next time. But then because you're an online student, Google student, it's easy. I can always put the answer to that in the screen page. So I will do that, Oliver. So I will look up page 21 and I'll post the answer for that in the Google stream page. Okay, let's look at these chapters 27 to 29. That's basically where God gives them the list of the blessings and curses. Deuteronomy chapter 28, a very famous chapter. Even today we have New Testament believers, you know, referring to this chapter. So I guess we would have to start off the story in Deuteronomy 11 itself, because in Deuteronomy 11, God gives them certain instructions. Maybe we can have one person read out. Deuteronomy 11, 26 to 29. Here in these verses, the Lord says after you enter into the promised land, I want half the tribes to stand on Mount Ebal. And I want the other half of the tribes to stand on Mount Gerizim. And, you know, the spiritual leader, Joshua, will read out the list of the blessings and the curses. And you will agree and say, yes, now we know what the Lord has said. If we do these things, we will be blessed. If we do these other things, then we will be cursed. So God tells them regarding this in Deuteronomy 11. And then later on when they go into the land, you know, in the book of Joshua, we see that they actually stand over there and they actually proclaim what God has said. In Deuteronomy 27, it gives us details regarding that which tribes will be standing on which of the mountains when the blessings and the curses are declared. Another thing which the Lord says to them in Deuteronomy 27, he says, on Mount Ebal, you know, you will have to make a large, you will have to make an altar. And next to the altar, you would, you know, place a large stone. You would put whitewash or plaster on that stone. And then you will start carving out all the words of the commandments, you know, in that stone. But whenever people come to give their sacrifices at the altar, automatically they will look at this large stone, which contains all the commandments. It will be a reminder to you that God is expecting you to follow all of these instructions and live in a way which pleases him. So these are all the preliminary instructions that are being given to the people to prepare them on the inside. The inner training is so important. God doesn't have any problem with the externals. He can bring down the fortresses. He can defeat the armies. He can take care of those details. But the inner training, inner preparation of the people is important. And so, you know, in these chapters, God dwells on these facts. He even says, make a stone tablet on that, write out all the things because then the people will continue to remember that the inner training is important. Once you're strong on the inside, God will take care of the outside details. So that is basically talked about in chapters 27 to 29. And, you know, it's kind of good to be familiar with chapter 28, which gives you a list of the blessings and the curses. Going maybe into another detail, you know, from the book of Deutronomy. Deutronomy, the book of Deutronomy has a song. Now, Psalms, of course, has got lots of songs. But in Deutronomy, this particular song is significant. That would be a Deutronomy chapter 32. And even as we go through this song very, very briefly, it's basically an outline, you know, of their past history. You know, Moses is talking to them and he's saying, you know, this is what God did for you. But this is the way you behaved, you know, even though he was so kind to you and then God was angry and God punished you. But now, now God is ready to bless you once again. So prepare yourselves. And basically the entire song talks about that. But I like some of the verses. I really like some of the verses. Maybe we could just very briefly dwell on those. In chapter 32, which is entirely in the form of a song, which Moses has composed under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So maybe we can look at verses 10, 11 and 12. If someone could read out Deutronomy 32, 10, 11, 12. Okay. So here it talks about how God took care of them. And the imagery which is used over here is, you know, very, very nice. How does God take care of them? It says he shielded and cared for these Israelites in the way a person guards and looks after the apple of his eye. And you know, as we are familiar, the apple of the eye is this black portion that we have, you know, in the middle of our eye, the pupil. So that is basically the apple of the eye. How do you guard the apple of your eye? Even if I were to bring a finger somewhere near your eye, immediately the first thing that you do is you close your eyes. You're very, very careful about how you guard the apple of your eye. And it says over here that God wanted to shield them and take care of them in that manner. Yeah, you know, with that kind of a commitment, he wanted to protect them. And you have also very lovely imagery in the next verse, verse 11, where it compares God's care to that of an eagle. So what does the eagle do over here? It says that the eagle stirs up its nest and it says it hovers over its young and that it spreads its wings to catch them and carry them aloft. So what is it talking about over here? The eagle does not allow the little birds to continue sitting over there in the nest and grow fat and lazy. No, the eagle starts stirring up the nest. It starts pulling out all the, you know, the twigs and pieces of grass with which the nest is made. It starts stirring up the nest. It starts pulling out all the nest. It starts technically destroying the nest. Why on earth is the mother eagle doing that so that these birds can step out of the nest and start learning how to fly? And so when the nest starts getting destroyed the birds have no choice, little birds have no choice and they have to step out and start flying and they're unable to do it. Sometimes they fail and it says over here what is the mother eagle immediately do? It spreads its wings and it catches them. That little bird as it's trying to fly if it's unable to and it starts dropping down immediately the mother eagle comes below spreads out its wings and the little bird falls on the wings and it carries it back on top. That is the way God wanted to train his people. You know the songs and poems that we have in the Bible they contain lovely pictures. If you meditate on those word pictures which are there it brings out the beauty of the heart of God. So you know here Moses says that is what the Lord wanted to do for you people. But what was your response that we see in verse 15? Over there Israel is called Jeshurun. That word Jeshurun means the righteous one. So what is this righteous one whom God has so lovingly brought up? What does this Jeshurun do? It says Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. Filled with food they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them. They rejected the rock their saviour. After all the love that God had lavished upon them after he brought them through the Red Sea with a great miracle after he provided for them food in the wilderness after he took care of all of their needs. What was their response? Once they grew fat they began to comment and say oh this food is not good enough. Oh well you know what God is providing is not you know on time you know God's timetable is not it's very delayed timetable. They began to comment. They began to kick is what it says. They grew fat and they kicked against what God you know they're kicking against God instead of you know appreciating him and showing him gratitude. And so then it says in your verses 28 onwards that God was angry and he chooses to bring punishment upon them and so it says over there again it's using poetic language you know poetic language we never interpreted literally so when it says you know the trees have lifted up their hands you obviously know the trees don't have hands but it's using symbolic language to convey an idea. So over here you know it says God says in verse 30 he says one person will be able to chase a thousand of you and defeat you and two persons will be able to defeat ten thousand of you because I am going to leave you and I will not protect you so that's the punishment which comes upon them but then again in the last few verses you know God says even though I will be punishing you I will also again restore you and I will punish the enemies who fought against you I will punish them so God again speaks of hope He speaks of restoration and then we come to these verses at the end of the song and I think this is something that we need to dwell upon so we are looking at Deuteronomy chapter 32 if someone can read out 44 to 47 Deuteronomy 32 44 to 47 now I don't know that Moses had a good voice or a bad voice whether he sang out the song or he asked somebody else who has a good voice to sing out the song but basically that song is sung out to the people and they listen to the words of what God did for them how they behaved and responded and how the Lord is still choosing to show mercy even after punishing them all of that is that song is sung out and then these are the words which Moses speaks he says take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you draw this book of Deuteronomy so many instructions I have given to you take these words to heart why? he explains why he wants them to really take these words to heart and pay attention because he says in verse 47 they are not just idle words for you they are your life if you actually believe in these words and start practicing them and really being obedient and trusting me enough to follow what it is saying in these words these are not just idle words they will literally become your life you will prosper you will be blessed if you keep these words so we may not follow these Old Testament instructions today but the words of God which are written out for us in the New Testament we can apply this verse even to our New Testament and say those are not idle words which you have in the New Testament they are literally words which can become your life they can transform your life if you choose to follow them and keep them so we are supposed to take to heart these things and you know practice them coming to another small detail in the book of Deuteronomy if you look at the 10 commandments which are written in Exodus and the list is again repeated over here in Deuteronomy chapter 5 so in Exodus you have Exodus chapter 20 which contains the 10 commandments the same 10 commandments are once again repeated over here in Deuteronomy 5 if you compare and contrast these two lists you basically see one main difference between the two, you know the two writings in the book of Exodus God tells them to keep the Sabbath day and he explains to them why he wants them to keep the Sabbath day that is in Exodus chapter 20 verse 11 if we could have someone read out for us Exodus 20 verse 11 the reason that is given to the people why they should keep the Sabbath it's because God did his creation work for 6 days and everything got finished everything got completed nothing more is left lacking and so he rests from the work in the sense he stops because the work is finished there is nothing more to be done so the people are supposed to celebrate the seventh day and say yes everything that we require for life on this earth has been provided by our Lord he has rested because now there is nothing more left to complete it's all provided we are used to dedicate the seventh day to the Lord we will not do work on this day but rather we will spend this day just building our relationship with him so that we can grow in our faith and our trust so that's the reason which is given in the book of Exodus why they should observe the day of Sabbath but we have an additional reason given over here in the book of Deutronomy someone read out for us Deutronomy chapter 5 and verse 15 did you read out the entire thing? fine ok ok so here the Lord has given an additional reason why they should keep the Sabbath day it's because the Lord has brought them out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm so now they have two reasons why they do not need to do work on the Sabbath day God is a God who can be trusted he is a powerful God who has not only provided in the past at the time of creation but even when they were going through a very very difficult time when they were a helpless bunch of people standing in front of a sea which they could not cross God acted on their behalf with a mighty and outstretched arm he divides the waters he makes the pathway dry so that they can walk on dry ground to the other side God does all these great things for them so why do we observe the Sabbath day we observe the Sabbath day to acknowledge and say Lord I am not depending on my job for my salary I am depending on you because you are the one who provided everything and rested on the seventh day you took care of every detail and the reason I am observing a Sabbath day is because you have a mighty and outstretched arm if I look to you you will take care of all my needs so I do not have to be like a desperate person who has to work even on the Sabbath day on that day rather I choose to rest in you to celebrate you and say you are enough for my life and the Israelite people forget this concept as the years go by they are so desperate maybe we can earn a little bit of extra money how will we live in this earth how will we survive that is the kind of survivalist attitude but we believers are meant to flourish not just survive the people who are surviving who have to work on the Sabbath day so yes we do not have a fixed Sabbath day in our New Testament we do not have to follow Saturday as the Sabbath day or Sunday as the Sabbath day but it is a good blessed principle which God introduced right during creation time you know nothing to do with the law of Moses this is not an idea which God came up with during the law of Moses this is something which was much earlier so we believers should select at least maybe one day in the week if Sunday is not possible fine but some day in the week when you set time aside for God and say Lord I am spending this day in your presence because I don't want to be so desperate that I have to earn even on this day you will take care of my needs oh Lord you will provide because your arm is outstretched to help me and you are mighty and you will take care of my needs so we honour him by setting apart a day or at least half a day where we are just spending in his presence to celebrate him worship him just rest in him and say Lord you are going to take care I don't have to be desperate like the pagans who will have to struggle to earn so the same thought is repeated for us in Matthew chapter 6 verse 33 you know so maybe if someone could read out that Matthew 6 33 for us Matthew the first book in the New Testament exactly all these things will be added unto you you place the kingdom of God first you place the Lord first you focus on that you take care of that and all the rest of the things which you require will be added what is the previous verse says the previous verse says it's the pagans who desperately run after these things because you see they don't have God to help them but we who have the Lord on our side we don't have to desperately run after these other things if we can just have our priorities correct and place God first and his kingdom first and righteousness first if we take care of those details all these other things will anyway be added to you because your heavenly father knows that you need them he will provide okay so the Sabbath idea is that not that we have to set apart one day and observe the Old Testament Sabbath we observe the Sabbath in a different way we do it in the Matthew 6 33 way where we commit ourselves to God and say Lord your priorities will be my priorities so I will set apart time for you to spend time in your presence to grow in you so that I'm trained on the inside and once I'm trained on the inside outer battles you'll take care of the details are always taken care of by the Lord so that's one learning that comes out through the 10 commandments you know through the through the commandment regarding the Sabbath okay we do have a little more time if anyone wants to ask any questions here in the class or even online yeah we have a person here so we'll answer that in the meantime if someone wants to raise a hand or type in a question in the chat that also should be fine go ahead brother yeah you raised your hand right yeah go ahead ask your question you know you don't have to stand up just ask because for the second time the okay the question which was asked is why is Deuteronomy called the second law because for the second time it is being repeated once again for the new generation the older generation had received it directly at Mount Sinai but now that generation was dead and God wanted to remind the new generation and so it's called second law in the sense it's being repeated for the second time that's all um so when it called at Mount Sinai the question is what exactly does the second law mean okay that's basically the question which is being asked here in the class at Mount Sinai God did not just give the 10 commandments he wrote the 10 commandments with his hand on two tablets but totally he gave 613 laws to the people which are explained to us in books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers so 613 laws were given 10 commandments is like a summary of the 613 laws so now in the book of Deuteronomy for a second time all these 613 laws are being repeated I don't know whether all of them were again repeated but most of them would have been mentioned once again so it's not just 10 commandments which were given to the Israelites 613 laws were given 10 commandments are just one small portion of that so we would yeah so in that sense I hope that makes more sense now yes okay any other questions because I always have enough matter over here I can give you another long lecture if you have no other questions I would like to cover one more thing it's useful to have this little bit of information okay no one has posted here no one has raised a hand alright the book of Deuteronomy has been you know we just think that one day the writer of you know this biblical writers we just assume that they would have just sat down and started writing but no they used their mind their thinking and God inspired them to write out in a particular way so this particular book of Deuteronomy has been written in a very specific pattern the pattern which is used for the writing the book of Deuteronomy is the same pattern which the people in ancient times used for their treaties you know archaeologists have discovered many treaties belonging to a nation called the Hittites so these are ancient these are treaties which were written in 2nd millennium BC very very long ago so those treaties were made between the king and you know the wassal nation okay the nations which have been defeated by this powerful king now you know those other kings have to now pay him they have to pay him a tribute they have to pay him money every year and then he allowed them to live in peace on the other hand if they try to rebel against him he will take his army and go and wipe them out so this now this wassal that's the term that is used this wassal nations are now under the control of this superior king so he makes a treaty with these people so this Hittite overlords they would make a treaty with all the nations which they have defeated and the treaty will have certain main features you know it starts off with an introduction of course and then the terms of the treaty are written down you will do this this this if you do this this this then I the overlord will help you if any enemy comes to fight against you I will come and help you in this way so the terms of the treaty are written down and then you have a list of benefits which the people of that land will get from the overlord it also gives a list of consequences which they will face if they refuse to keep the terms of the treaty and then finally in the end you will have a witness section where those Hittite you know in the Hittite treaty the overlord will say if you break the terms of this treaty so and so god you know all the Hittite gods they will give a list of the names of the Hittite gods and say these gods are witnesses to this treaty so if you break this treaty then you will have to come under judgment of these gods or something like that that's the pattern in which the Hittite treaties were written now Moses writes in the same pattern the book of Deuteronomy you have an introduction for the first four chapters he gives a you know he talks about their past history this is what God did for you and then this is what happened he talks about that from there he moves into the terms of the treaty we looked at that in the structure chapters 5 to 28 gives you the terms of the treaty then in chapter 28 you have the list of the blessings the list of the consequences if you keep the treaty with the lord these are the blessings if you break the treaty these are the consequences so it would have made a lot of sense to the Israelites when they are looking at this document because they are familiar with such things they know that the secular treaties are written in that order and God is using that same pattern to help them understand he is making a formal contract with them and he will keep his side of it are they willing to keep their side because if they are willing to keep their side they can enter into the promised land confidently and they will have victory doesn't matter how powerful those enemies are they will be granted victory if they can keep the terms of this treaty so God wanted to convey that to them so these are just some of the things that we could look at from the book of Deutronomy and so as they don't seem to be any more questions any last minute questions no what a questionless class okay but it's fine it's all right okay so let's just close with the word of prayer Lord we just thank you so much for some of the spiritual learnings that we could gain from these two books which we covered a lot I pray a lot you would help us to practice and apply these truths in our life because we want to be really trained up on the inside we want to be very much in tune with you on the inside Lord because then you can take care of all our outer battles that you will take care of those details if as long as we are trained up on the inside because Lord you have said in your scriptures these words which are contained in the Bible they are not idle words they are literally the life if we choose to stand on them and obey them and practice them these words can be our very life which will cause us to live in prosperity with your blessings the way we were meant to live so help us a lot to keep your words to observe them to trust in them and follow them thank you Lord in Jesus name amen thank you for being so attentive and listening and we will meet again next time