Deuteronomy 1-4

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Gods Character Revealed

• Deuteronomy 1-4

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Context Who

• Is writing/speaking
• V.1- The Words which Moses spoke
• V.3- Moses spoke to the children of Israel,
  according to all the Lord had commanded him to
  give them
• Is the audience
• V.1- all Israel
• V.3- the children of Israel
• Vs.34-39
• Numbers 1428-29 "Say to them, 'As I live,' says
  the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing,
  so I will surely do to you 29 your corpses will
  fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered
  men, according to your complete number from
  twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled
  against Me.

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Context Where

• Is the message delivered
• V.1- Across the Jordan in the wilderness
• In the Arabah
• Arabah, a word for desert that usually refers to
  the section of the Great Rift Valley between the
  Dead Sea and the Gulf of Elath (or Aqabah)
• Numbers 3613 These are the commandments and the
  ordinances which the LORD commanded to the sons
  of Israel through Moses in the plains of Moab by
  the Jordan opposite Jericho

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Context When

• Did this happen?
• V.3- In the fortieth year (After the Exodus)
• On the first day of the 11th month
• Jan-Feb (Est. 1405 B.C.)

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Context Why

• Vs.32-40
• So that you might know that the Lord, He is God
  there is no other besides Him
• God is unique and unequaled

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Gods Character Revealed

• God is faithful to His promises
• 18, 19-21
• The People refuse to trust God
• V.26-32, 41-44
• God is faithful to provide
• 27 you have not lacked anything
• 225, 31-32, 36
• 31-5, 21-22

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Gods Character Revealed

• God is Righteous
• V.34

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