Sunday School Lesson Deuteronomy 5:1-3; 10:12-13; 27:1-10 Justice and Obedience The word “Deuteronomy” literally means “second law.” It was not actually a second law but rather a repetition of the law God had already given to Moses on Mount Sinai. Because of their disobedience and rebellion, by God’s command, everyone 20 years old and older with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, would not survive the forty years of desert wandering and therefore would not enter the Promised Land. So, Moses repeated God’s commandments to this new generation of Israelites. Except for Moses, Caleb and Joshua, the first generation of Israelites who left Egypt were gone. Many of the people had been small children when they left Egypt with their parents. Others had been born during the forty years of desert wanderings. It’s true that every new generation needs to discover spiritual reality for itself. However, it is incumbent on each current generation to pass on its values to the upcoming generation so that its descendants can profit from them. Our lesson this week finds a new generation of Israelites getting ready to enter the land that God had promised them so many years before. But before they could enter God’s great blessing, Moses reminded them that obedience to God’s commands was necessary in order to enjoy the blessings of the Promised Land.
As the new generation of Israelites camped east of the Jordan in Moab, Moses, God’s servant prepared them for entrance into the Promised Land. That preparation revolved around the reestablishment of the Mosaic covenant and the fact that the commandments of God were to be kept in the Promised Land and commemorated by writing them on white washed stones. But writing God’s law on stones cannot compare to having His law written on our hearts. When God’s words are written on our hearts, as the Apostle Paul wrote to the Christians in Corinth “ye (we) are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart” (see II Corinthians 3:3).

Ronald Jasmin Assistant Pastor of Corona Baptist Church in Mt Juliet, TN and Cornelius Hill Pastor of Ephesian Primitive Baptist Church Nashville, TN Christian Business Connection
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