Deuteronomy 9:1-29 Comments by Stephen Ricker
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It Is Not Because of Your Righteousness
Comments for Study 9

Deuteronomy 9:1-29
Memory Verse: 4

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I. Not Because of Israel's Righteousness (1-6)

>1. What are the people of Israel about to do? (1)

* Deuteronomy 9:1 "Hear, O Israel. You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky."

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>What kind of people will the people of Israel face in the land? (2)

* Deuteronomy 9:2 "The people are strong and tall--Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: 'Who can stand up against the Anakites?'"

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>2. What is the basis of Moses' assurance for them? (3)

* Deuteronomy 9:3 "But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the Lord has promised you."

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>After the conquest, what might be the misunderstanding of the people of Israel? (4a)

* Deuteronomy 9:4a "After the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, 'The Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.'"

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>In reality, what is the real reason for their success? (4b-5)

* Deuteronomy 9:4b-5 "No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is going to drive them out before you. It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the Lord your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

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>3. What truth must the people of Israel remember about themselves? (6)

* Deuteronomy 9:6 "Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people."

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>What is Moses' assessment of his people? (7)

* "you are a stiff-necked people"

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II. The Golden Calf (7-21)

>4. What happened at the Mount of Horeb? (8)

* Deuteronomy 9:7-8 "Remember this and never forget how you provoked the Lord your God to anger in the desert. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against the Lord. At Horeb you aroused the Lord's wrath so that he was angry enough to destroy you."

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>What did Moses do? (9)

* Deuteronomy 9:9 "When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water."

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>5. What did God do for his people? (10-11)

* Deuteronomy 9:10-11 "The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant."

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>What did God command Moses to do? (12)

* Deuteronomy 9:12 "Then the Lord told me, "Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made a cast idol for themselves."

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>What was God's initial decision in regard to the rebellion of his people? (13-14)

* Deuteronomy 9:13-14 "And the Lord said to me, 'I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.'"

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>6. What did Moses hold in his hands? (15)

* Deuteronomy 9:15 "So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands."

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>What did Moses see and what did he do in response to their sins? (16-17)

* Deuteronomy 9:16-17 "When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you. So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes."

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>7. What did Moses do for his people and Aaron before God? (18-20)

* Deuteronomy 9:18-20 "Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord's sight and so provoking him to anger. I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me. And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too."

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>How did Moses deal with the golden calf? (21)

* Deuteronomy 9:21 "Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain."

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III. Rebellion at Kadesh Barnea (22-29)

>8. Find the location of Taberah, at Massah and Kibroth Hattaavah. Explain what had happened in these locations. (Num. 11:1-3; Ex. 17:1-7; Nu. 11:31-35)

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>9. What happened at Kadesh Barnea? (23)

* Deuteronomy 9:23 "And when the Lord sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, he said, "Go up and take possession of the land I have given you." But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. You did not trust him or obey him."

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>What were Moses' experience with them? (24)

* Deuteronomy 9:24 "You have been rebellious against the Lord ever since I have known you."

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>10. What did Moses do to deal with the rebellion of his people? (25)

* Deuteronomy 9:25 "I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you."

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>What do you learn from Moses' prayer about his love for God and his love for the people? (26-29)

* Deuteronomy 9:26-29 "I prayed to the Lord and said, "O Sovereign Lord, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin. Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, 'Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the desert.' But they are your people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm."

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>11. What can you learn from the failures of the people of Israel? (1 Cor. 10:1-13)

* 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 "For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert. 6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry." 8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did--and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. 9 We should not test the Lord, as some of them did--and were killed by snakes. 10 And do not grumble, as some of them did--and were killed by the destroying angel. 11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. 12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 13 No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."

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