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Family, it's day 128, Deuteronomy 7 through 11. Hey, if you haven't done the reading, make sure that you read Deuteronomy chapter 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Got five chapters today, but needed to cut it that way because once we get to chapter 12, we're gonna make a hard right turn. So we're finishing up this opening movement of the book. Okay, this opening section of the book. And one of the things that's gonna become very, very apparent is that the. The people of Israel are about to move into the land and kill a whole bunch of Canaanites. There's no way around it. There's no way around the violence. And so I kind of wanted to wrap. Help, you know, you guys wrap your minds around. Okay, is Yahweh condoning, like, just the murder and bloodshed of all these Canaanites? What's going on and why? Now let's move into our context clues. Number one, Yahweh's gonna give tons of instructions on who the people of Israel were. Cannot fight before he's gonna tell them to go kill the Canaanites. He's like, hey, do not attack the Moabites. Hey, you better not attack the Ammonites. Look, the Edomites don't attack the Edomites. Like, Yahweh's pretty clear on, hey, these are the people that you cannot attack. Before I even give you license and a green light to go attack these people over here, I need you to know that you don't just have a pass on killing whoever you want. These people over here, I have raised you up Israel to be my weapon of judgment against people for their wickedness and their idolatry. And if you follow their lead, if you fall into the same trap of idolatry that they have fallen into, I will raise up Nebuchadnezzar to be my instrument of judgment against you. Okay, so it's not just like the people of Israel just get to be God's instrument of judgment. No other nations get to be God's instrument of judgment against Israel when they are going to fall into idolatry centuries from this moment. So kind of just like, gives context. They don't just have a license to kill anybody. So what's the issue? What's going on with these Canaanites? Okay, two things. Let's move into our nerdy nuggets. Two really, really, really, like, key details here. You're going to need Deuteronomy chapter 9, verse 2 says, the people are strong and Tall Anakites. Whoa. The word Anakites should make our ears perk up. You know about them and have heard it said. Who can stand up against the Anakites? Who the heck are the Anakites? They are the Anakim, okay? Anakim. Deuteronomy 1:28 also talks about the anakim. Deuteronomy 1, verse 28. Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say the people are stronger and taller than we are. The cities are large with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there. So it seems like there's giants, okay? Giants in the promised land. And the words used for these giants are Anakites. Now, we're kind of gonna need numbers to fill this out for, so let's go back to numbers, okay? I know. We just studied numbers. We're gonna go back to Numbers. Chapter 13. Numbers, chapter 13, verse 33 says this or verse 32. And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had explored. They said they. The land we explore devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there. The Nephilim, okay, are in the land of Canaan. And then in quotes or in. Yeah, what are these brackets? I don't know, parentheses. The descendants of Anak, okay, come from the Nephilim. So Anakites, okay, Anakim, descendants of Anak, come from the Nephilim. We seem like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we look the same to them. So the Bible is gonna let us know that there are Nephilim in the land. There are Anakites in the land. There are giants in the land. What are Nephilim? Okay, what are Nephilim? Nephilim are the product of an illicit union between the fallen angels of God and the daughters of men. So human women and angelic beings, divine beings, had illicit sexual relations and created a race of giants. This is all the way back to Genesis, chapter six. So the Nephilim are a product of an illicit union. What are the Canaanites? I'm so glad you asked who these Canaanites are. Who are the Canaanites? Well, if you remember, okay, The. The flood story starts with the creation of these Nephilim, okay? The illicit union of the sons of Elohim, the sons of God and the daughters of men, okay? The Nephilim are the product of an illicit union. The story of the flood ends with one of Noah's sons uncovering his nakedness. Now, we know that uncovering nakedness is a euphemism for sexual relations. And if you uncover the nakedness of a man, that is, that means you have sex with that man's wife. So if you go all the way back to Genesis, Genesis, chapter 9. When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, he said, curse be Canaan. Now, when you look at the genealogy, you realize that Canaan is the son of Ham, and Ham has just uncovered his father's nakedness. Noah uncovered Noah's nakedness. What did he do? Okay, there's only three options. He either castrated Noah, he sodomized Noah, or he had sex with Noah's wife. And Ham and his mother having a child together would be an illicit union. Which means that Canaan, like Canaanites, just like the Nephilim, are the products of illicit unions. Relationships that should not exist. Now this is going to be a huge theme in the book of Deuteronomy. Massive theme. Like, don't sow two different seeds in the field together. Don't wear two different fabrics together. The book of Deuteronomy cares a lot about there not being illicit unions. Why? Because the law is not just supposed to keep me bound into behavior modification. No, it's supposed to reveal something to me, but it's supposed to show me the brilliance and the strategy of God. That's what it's supposed to do. So when I go, ah, I'm not supposed to. I'm not supposed to sew two different garments together. Man, that's kind of like how I'm not supposed to marry my son off to a girl who's not a part of Israel. Because we don't do illicit unions. We don't believe in being unequally yoked with unbelievers. We don't do that. And there's all these things in our daily life that remind us that we are not to take part in anything that looks like an illicit union. That the Nephilim, that angels having sex with humans, okay, that's an illicit union. And it created chaos. Okay, this cross breeding, Ah, no, whoa, whoa. That's an illicit union. Ham having sex with his mother, ah, that's an illicit union. So now Canaanites. So the story of Noah and the flood starts with the Nephilim, ends with Canaanites. But the Nephilim and the Canaanites are really a mirror to. To each other. And then what do we have right here in Deuteronomy as the people of Israel are about to Go into the land of Canaan to kill the Canaanites. The author of Deuteronomy wants to make it really, really clear there's Nephilim in there. So the people of Israel have been ordained by God, commissioned by God to go into the land as a new flood to begin to wipe out all of the products of the illicit union between angels and humans and between Ham and his mom. The Canaanites and the Nephilim are the products of. Of relationships that should not exist. One is incest and then one is. I don't even know what you call. I don't. I mean, bestiality is having sex with animals. Ain't. Ain't angelity. I don't know. I don't know what having sex with angels is called, but I know that the Nephilim are product of an illicit union. All right? These are just like nerdy nuggets I want you to see. So let's go to Deuteronomy 7:1. Two is going to give us a key word. Deuteronomy 7:1. When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations. Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites. Seven nations large and stronger than you. And when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them. Now I'm using Logos Bible study software, which makes life so much easier. The word here, the Hebrew word for defeated them is. You know what? I bet I could get Logos to like, say it for me. Here we go. Let's see, let's see, let's see. I've never tried to do this in the middle of an episode. Let's see. Nikah, nika, okay? It means to strike, to smite. So what the people of Israel are supposed to do, okay, when they go into the land of Canaan is they are supposed to. The Canaanites, ok? They are supposed to nikah, strike, smite, strike dead. Okay? That is what they're supposed to do to the Nephilim and the Canaanites. Guess what word is used in Genesis, chapter 8, verse 21. In Genesis chapter 8, verse 21, God is saying about the flood that I will strike down all life, that the flood is sent to what? All life. So this word is actually a hundred percent linking what the people of Israel are supposed to now do with what the flood did. So God Yahweh saying, okay, I won't flood the earth. I won't flood the whole world. But I will mobilize you as my people to be a flood. To be a flood force of judgment over the land. In the same way that I wiped out, that I struck down all life in Genesis, I am going to strike down all life again. But I'm not going to do it through the power of the waters or rain. I'm going to do it through you that I am going to rain down vengeance. But it's not going to be in the form of nature. It's gonna be in the form of a sword in your hand. Last little nerdy nugget. As we kind of get through this portion, I want you to go to Deuteronomy 10:20. Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name. He is the one you praise. He is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes. Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were 70 in all. And now the Lord your God, who has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky. Okay, here's the word that I want you to pay attention to. Verse 20. Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him. Hold fast to him. Now, this word, hold fast. We are going to see this exact word somewhere else. And now that I can, like, I can. I realize I can make words. You can. You can hear when I. When I play words in Logos. This is amazing. Okay, so that word, hold fast. Here we go. I'm gonna play that word for you. I hope that mic is picking that up. Let's see. Here we go. Davak. Okay, Davak. That's. Hold fast. Now there's another place in Genesis. Okay, so Deuteronomy and Genesis are the bookends of the Torah. So there are all these hyperlinks. The Bible Project. I love the language that Tim Mackey and the Bible Project has equipped us with. This word hyperlink. Okay, These words are there. Hyperlinking. Genesis and Deuteronomy. Okay, so what we're going to see in Genesis, but for Adam, no suitable helper was found. Okay? God put him in a deep sleep, closed up the place of his flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken from the man, and he brought her to the man. There's now bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man. This. This is why a man leaves his father and mother and is. Here we go. And is yes to his wife. The Exact same word here for what a man is supposed to do with his wife is the same word that is going to be used in Deuteronomy 10:20 for what the people of Israel are supposed to do with the law. Hold fast to Yahweh. Hold fast to obeying the law. Okay, why? Because you are in a marriage covenant with Yahweh that the marriage between a man and a woman is supposed to mirror, it's supposed to reflect, it's supposed to display the marriage union that actually exists between the people of Israel and their God, Yahweh. Timeless truth. Okay, let's move into our timeless truth. Jesus loves Deuteronomy, Matthew 4:4. Jesus quotes Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 3. That's from this section. Matthew 4:7, Jesus quotes again Deuteronomy 6:16, which is yesterday's reading. And then Matthew 4:10, Jesus is going to quote Deuteronomy 6:13, which yesterday's reading, and Deuteronomy 10:20, which is in today's reading. If Jesus loved Deuteronomy, we should love Deuteronomy very last kind of timeless truth. Okay, so we got some context clues, we got a couple of nerdy nuggets, and today I'm gonna give you double timeless truth. So the first timeless truth is that Jesus loves Deuteronomy, so we should too. Deuteronomy is not antiquated, it's not old school. It's an amazing book of the Bible that has incredible lessons for us, wisdom on how to govern our lives. And Deuteronomy 9:4:8 says, 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. 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 the 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. 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. I think that it's a good reminder for all of us to go. God has not blessed me because of my righteousness. He has blessed me because of the righteousness of Jesus. And I have been grafted in. I'm part of the collective identity of the church of Jesus. And as the bride of Christ, I get access to the benefits that Christ gets access to because of the covenant that I am in with Him. We have become one in the same way that Adam and Eve have become one in the same way that Israel and Yahweh have become one. We have become one with Christ. We have become one with Christ. And because we have become one with Christ, all of his benefits are now our benefits. And the persecution and the suffering that was on Christ is also on us as his believers. That is the timeless truth for the day. It is not because of our righteousness. Sometimes life can trick you into believing that. It's because of your fill in the blank, your credit score, your discipline, budgeting or your whatever. And the reality is this, that God has blessed you with everything that you have, everything that you have. And if there's arrogance in your heart that wants to tell you that it's because you earned it, because you deserve it, then I want you to come back to these passages. Deuteronomy 9, 4:8 over and over and over again. Yahweh wants to remind his people before they go out and to invade the land. It is not because of your righteousness that I've raised you up as an instrument of my judgment. It is because of their great wickedness. And don't get this twisted, it is not because of your righteousness. You're actually stiff necked, but I've chosen to use you in spite of you. And when you live life from that place, it creates so much humility to go. It is not because of my giftedness that God opens doors for me to preach places. No, it's because of his goodness. It's because of his grace. I don't deserve to preach for anybody. I'm not entitled to any platform. Like I don't, I don't, I seriously, wherever God calls me to go, it's not my gift, it's his gift. It's a gift he's given me. And if I start to hoard the very thing that he's given me, then I run the risk of him taking it away from me. And so we always have to keep a posture of it's not my righteousness. I have a righteousness that's been imputed to me as a gift of grace from God. And every blessing I have in my life has been given, given to me because of the grace of God. That's our timeless truth for the day. Tomorrow is day 129 and we are going to finally cross over into the next section of Deuteronomy. So we did the first section of Deuteronomy in three days. We're going to spend the next couple of days in the middle section of the book looking at these laws. And I can't wait to do this with you tomorrow. All right. Hey, if you're not on a streak, what's stopping you? Nothing. You just need two days. Two days back to back, and you'll be on a streak. If you are on a streak, I'm so proud of you. If you have done 128 days, I am so, so, so proud of you. You got this. I'll see you right here tomorrow for day 129. I love you guys. Peace.