Deuteronomy 9 - A Reminder of Israel's Rebellion |Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church

In this video listen to Deuteronomy 9 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In Deuteronomy 9 Moses continues his speech and mentions the giants in the land who previously scared the Israelites. Later in the book of Joshua 14 and 15, Caleb personally defeats three of these giants, and displays the same boldness that he showed when he was one of the original 12 spies sent into the promised land 39 years earlier.

There are genuine obstacles in our lives that are insurmountable, but Caleb is an example to us that our attitude should be confidence in Christ’s work. In v4-5 Moses reminds them that it is not their righteousness that is the reason for inheriting the land. It can be very easy to think that when we have good things in life it is a sign of the Lord’s approval of us, but this passage demonstrates that they were to inherit the land because the sin of the previous occupants dispossessed them.

Our response to God is never presumption, or thinking we deserve anything, but always gratitude because of grace. In the rest of the chapter Moses proceeds to recount a number of the faults of the Israelites, demonstrating how weak, and human they are. He is attempting to put them in the middle of the humility they need to have reminding them of how dependent they are on God.

This whole passage and many others like it demonstrate that God has always been a god of Grace. There isn’t a dispensation of grace and a dispensation of law, rather there was an old covenant and a new covenant, but both contain grace and law.

You cannot have grace without the law, but you can have law without grace. This passage demonstrates the graciousness of God