Deuteronomy 3:1-11

Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to coffee and devotions this morning. We're at Deuteronomy chapter 3 the first like 11 verses I think that sounds good. Why don't we have some coffee? We'll pray we'll get into God's Word It's warm you want some coffee not too hot They're going to be too hot for you. OK, it's too hot. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day. We thank you for the blessing. It is to get to read your word. Father, we pray that you would please help us as we read it, that your spirit would teach us, instruct us and guide us in the way we should go in Jesus name. Amen. All right. Deuteronomy chapter three, the first eleven verses. Well, down to there. Yep. So how about what we do is, Dandon, you're going to read this first part with me. Okay.

Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan. You going to read with me? And Og, king of Bashan came out. against us, he and all his to the battle at Edrin. And the Lord said, Me, do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Eshbon. You want to read, Deborah? Sure. So the Lord our God also delivered into our hands King of Bashan with all of his people, and we attacked him until he had no survivors remaining.

And we took all his cities at that time, and there was not a city which we did not take from them. Sixty cities owned the region of Aragob, Kingdom of Og and Bation. All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates and bars, and besides a great many ritual towns. Rural towns. Rural towns. And we utterly destroyed them as we did to Shaihan King of Heshpen. Utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. But all the lobster Livestock The lobsters and spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves What's that word mean booty?

Good good the prize of war And at that time we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, from the river Arnon to Mount Hermon. The Sidonians call Hermon Syrian, and the Ammonites call it Sinir. All the cities of the plain, all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salka and Edri, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. For only Og of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants.

Indeed, his bedstead was an iron bedstead. It is not in Rabah of the people of Ammon. Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit." Which is like from Well, would it be Uncle Stuart's arm? Depends on who the king is, right? That's the problem. It's always depending on the king. So it's a rough measurement. So let's go ahead and ask her three questions. A, what is this? About. About. B, what's the...

Why are you doing that? Why are you mumbling? C, what are we called to do? What are we called to do? It's good. So what do you think this is about? About. What do you think, Dan? What is this about? You guys go ahead. What do you think it's about? About God showing his power. How did God show his power? Okay, so two giant kings. Do you remember it? Was that what you would say, Deborah? How would you summarize it? I'd say.

Two of the Israelites. Two of the Israelites enemies, the Lord delivered into their hand. Okay, so two of the Israelite enemies, the Lord delivered into their hand. All right, so last time we talked about Sihon king, and now we're talking about Og, Og of Bashan. So they defeated both of these two kings, right?

So who's giving all this history? The Bible, yes. Uh, probably Moses. Yeah, it's Moses, right? Moses is still retelling the history of what happened. Or one of the scribes. Yeah, no. So it's Moses, right? So this is all Moses, right? So if we went all the way back All the way back, all the way back to Deuteronomy chapter 1. It says, and I spoke to you at that time saying, and then everything after this is quotations of what Moses has been saying. So we've been going through this slowly, but Moses is giving all this history at one time.

We came out of Egypt, we were at Mount Sinai, then we went to Kadesh Barnea, you guys rebelled, we wandered for 38 years, and then at the right time, God put the fear of us into the heart of our enemies, we defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, and now Og king of Bashan.

So what do you think is the best verse to summarize? I'd say number three. You think verse three, so the Lord our God also delivered into our hands Og king of Bashan with all his people and we attacked him until he had no survivors remaining? That's a pretty good one. I have, for some reason, verse 11 underlined, but I think it's because I already knew verse three was good. But I think verse 11 taught me something that I didn't think about before.

For only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of the giants. Right. So this is of the of the Rephaim. And so these are like the the massive people. So there's somehow that that was Like this is why it was such a big deal to defeat him because they were defeating giants. OK, so let's talk about see calling.

What are we called to do? What do you think? Strong and courageous. Oh, be strong and courageous. OK, good job going on. God to Joshua on us. Be strong and courageous. What do you think, Daniel? What do you think you're called to do from this? Trust in God.

Yeah. Do we have any reason to fear? No, right? Because if we're following in the Lord's ways, what happens with our enemies? They are defeated. Yeah, right. So you're never going to have any problems in this life. You're just going to defeat everyone all the time. No. I thought that's what you just said. If we follow in his ways, our enemies will be defeated. No, we're not ancient Israel anymore.

So how do we apply it to our lives then? All right, trusting God, but he's in heaven and our and we can worship in heaven is our victory here on Earth against rulers and principalities of this world. No, it's against sin, against sin and the rulers and principalities of the air, right, even against Satan and the forces of darkness, right? Do we need to fear that? No, not when God's with us. Yeah. No, not when God's with us. Right. OK. You guys ready to pray? OK, let's pray.

God, we thank you so much that you have given us Jesus Christ, our conquering king. Lord, we thank you that you indeed have given us the victory. And we thank you that you have promised us that we do not war against flesh and blood, but against the rulers and the principalities of the air. Lord, we thank you that we need not fear.

You are with us in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. Well, may the Lord bless you. May you love the Lord, your God, and may the peace of Jesus Christ that surpasses all understanding guard your heart and mind through Christ Jesus. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye.