Deuteronomy 10:1-11

Hey, good morning, good morning, welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning, we're at Deuteronomy chapter 10, verses one through 11. We're going to talk about how God answers Moses's prayer even after the golden calf incident. Why don't we have some coffee? We'll pray. We'll get into God's word. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day. What a blessing it is, God, to get to read your word. Father, we pray that you would please help us to understand it. Please bury it in our hearts. Instruct us in your ways in Jesus' name.
Amen. All right, so we're at Deuteronomy chapter 10, the first 11 verses. I'm actually start with chapter 9, because this really is continuing on in this speech of Moses. Here we go. Yet they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought out of your mighty, by your mighty power and by your outstretched arm. So this is the ending of Moses's prayer to God after the golden calf incident. God don't wipe them out. Remember them. Don't forget them. Keep your mercy with them.
And then he says in verse and chapter 10. At that time, the Lord said to me, you for yourself, two stones of tablet or two tablets of stone like the first and come up to me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood. And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke and you shall put them in the ark. So I made an ark of acacia wood, cued two stone tablets like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand. And he wrote on the tablets according to the first writing. the ten commandments which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly, and the Lord gave them to me. And I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark which I had made, and there they are, just as Jehovah commanded me.
Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Ben-e-Jachon to Moserah, where Aaron died, and where he was buried. And Eliezer, his son, ministered as a priest in his stead. From there they journeyed to Gadgodah, and from Gadgodah to Jodhpothah, a land of rivers of water. At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear 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 nor inheritance with his brethren. The Lord is his inheritance, just as Jehovah your God promised him. As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. The Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you. Then the Lord said to me, Arise, begin your journey before the people that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Well, we need to ask ourselves our three questions.
A. What's this about?
B. What's the best verse to summarize this? And C. What are we called to do? So Moses has just been praying to God. He's recounting, right? This is this whole story of what's been going on. And he's recounting that there was a golden calf incident and God was going to wipe them all out. Moses prays for them. And God says, essentially, OK, I'm not going to do it. I'm still going to let them be my covenant people.
Come up to the mountain, the tablets of stone with the Ten Commandments I wrote with my own fingers and you broke in your anger. I'm going to have you do that again. All right. I'm going to go ahead. Let them be my covenant people like you've prayed for. I did redeem them.
They're mine. but there's still gonna be this wandering in the wilderness. And it seems like in this parentheses type section versus six through about 10, yeah, I think that's right, six through nine, is God essentially saying there's still this wandering as well as the death even of Aaron, of the high priest, and then Eliezer coming up in his stead. So there's even repercussions for these types of sin. But the Lord is still going to allow them to be his covenant people. He didn't destroy them as Moses had prayed, right? The Lord also heard me at that time and the Lord chose not to destroy you. All of this is pulling it way back to Moses's initial point, right? When you go into this land, when you cross over the Jordan, don't think that you are so good that that's why God's giving you that land.
No, you're stiff necked people. Remember, I had to pray for you. I had to do the stone tablet thing twice. The only reason why you got Levites is because God is gracious and he's the one who set them apart for their work. And so this is what God is doing, right? This is all one giant speech that we've broken up just for the sake of time. But Moses is saying, guys, you're not good enough on your own. It's God who's gracious. It's God who's the covenant king.
It's God who could have destroyed you for your disobedience and your stiff neck and your idolatry. But he didn't. He didn't. What's the best verse to summarize this? Well, in my Bible, I have verse one underlined, but I could see somebody convincing me to verse to underline verses 10 or 11. One of those would be fine, too. You know, let me know if you disagree and want to tell me in the comments. Well, I see calling.
What are we called to do? Well, do we remain humble? Do we recognize that we're not? We're not the righteous party in the covenant. No, we're not the ones who are so good that God, you know, ought to have chosen us because we're the ones that, you know, we do all the right things. We never make any mistakes. We're always following the Lord perfectly. No, that's just not what happens. No, it's God and His graciousness who even puts up with sinful people like us. We're no better than the Israelites. We have the same stiff neck, the same hard hearts, the same boneheaded moves.
And God is gracious. He has redeemed us by the blood of Jesus. He has made us his people because he gets all the glory for it. He loved us. And he has given us a covenant king, Jesus, who has paid for our sins. who's a better mediator than Moses, has better prayers than Moses. And we know that as long as our high priest is in heaven, as long as our one who's better than Moses has risen up, then we know that God will not forsake us because he's given us his son.
Hold on to that hope. It should give you comfort and peace. Let's pray. Father, we thank you that you are a merciful God, abounding in loving kindness and truth. Father, we pray that we would follow after you and love you. We pray that we would have hearts filled with thankfulness. for what you have done for us in Jesus. We pray these things in Jesus's name. Amen. Well, may you walk in the joy and peace that comes from knowing that Jesus Christ loves you and that he will persevere in his love for you. And thus you will persevere to the very end. I'll see you next time. Bye.