We’ve just begun our deep dive into the Song of Moses and only the good Lord knows how long it’s gonna take to get through this thing.
Before we start our text study, there are some important preliminary points you’ve got be to privy to.
The first point is understanding the real reason why the Lord gave this song to Moses who would in turn write it down and give it to the people.
The reason this song was created was so when the many prophecies God told Israel would happen actually happened, there wouldn’t be any doubt that it was the Lord who was behind everything and NOT some random misfortune brought about by men.
This is actually a positive thing.
Why?
Because if you know the Lord is behind all the disaster happening in your life, that knowledge coupled with knowing you can turn things around by repenting will serve to give you hope and peace instead bending over in suicidal grief and losing faith.
This folks is how the wrath of the Lord is used for positive discipline versus negative destruction.
But understand the end results of the Lord’s anger and judgement is up to each of us individually.
Each Israelite has to choose for him or herself how he or she is going to apply this Song of Moses to their lives.
You can choose to apply this song to your life and gain from it.
Or you can choose to dismiss this song as being an ancient poem that has no relevance to your life today and suffer nothing but heartache and loss.
If there was ever a time when your life was filled with overflowing joy and a hunger for the things of the Lord but somehow or another as the weeks, months and years went by your joy and faith dried up, then the Song of Moses is just for you.
Or if you’ve completely lost your spark and zest for living and have given up hope it’s even possible to turn your life around anymore, then again the Song of Moses is just what the doctored ordered!
Remember, when you separate yourself from HASHEM’s holy laws and commands, you separate yourself from God.
And when you separate yourself from God, you separate yourself from His blessings and Shalom.
It really is that simple folks.
If at some time in your life you entered into a covenant with HASHEM, then not only does what I just said apply to you, but you’re faced with the EXACT SAME CHOICE the ancient Hebrews faced in their day.
The pattern established in this Torah applies to you.
You must recognize and then acknowledge that your situation was caused by your sin and you separating yourself from God and His commands.
The next step is to recognize that your current calamity is nothing more nor less than the discipline of the Lord.
Don’t be like the majority of retards out there who chalk it up to outside coincidences, the natural passage of life, some run of temporary bad luck, or develop a persecution complex and think other people just have it out for them.
If you’re a believer who has indeed entered into a covenant with Hashem (not a fake believer who believes the Law has been done away with) and big-time disaster strikes in your life, you’ve got two choices.
You can choose the path of humble repentance and be restored and renewed OR…
…or you can choose the path of stiff-necked and stubborn resistance and lead yourself straight into a suicidal and hellish existence that will never end until you turn back (it ain’t no small matter to enter into a covenant with the Living God!).
In fact, in Scripture, we two have two prominent examples of two men who each walked one of these paths (one of renewal and restoration and the other of death and destruction).
Respectively, I’m talking about King David and King Saul.
Both of these men sinned grievously.
Yet one of them declined repentance and lost his sanity.
The other was so grieved over his terrible sins that he pleaded with God for repentance and as a result will go down in history for all eternity as one of the greatest kings in the history of Israel…and the line from which the Messiah will be born.
God didn’t have Moses compose the Song of Moses so that He could later point His finger at Israel and tell them…
“See, I told you so, didn’t I?”
No, like everything the Lord does, the Song of Moses was for Israel’s benefit and restoration.
And it is also for your benefit and restoration.
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