Beyond the power of physical death, my cross
has the physical death I bore, saith the
Lord, the physical pain, the atonement for the
spiritual death is Thine.
Thou mayest know death by the power that
Thou mightest know, for if Thou shouldst know
my death, if Thou shouldst know my cross,
if Thou shalt by power, not by word
only, or word Thy mind, then
Thou shalt self within
me, living, living just
while.
Before I went to India, for instance, I
was in a company somewhere.
Somebody thought they wanted to prophesy over me.
If they do, you do be careful who
you're letting prophesy over you.
And at
the end he said, you're going to have
a great lot of trouble, but the Lord
will deliver you out of it all.
And everybody said, Amen.
Well, it wasn't true either.
You know, it doesn't come true what he
possibly rejected.
A lot of them are around.
A lot of them, you know, they are
gifts like helps.
That prophet was a great big hindrance.
Not to me, of course, but when I
stand up and say it wasn't true, that
could hinder other people if they placed their
trust.
...may really put a new bearing further on
than some of these people who are spectacular
enemies.
Now may the Lord...
I wanted tonight to share with you...
Now you will know that the book of
Deuteronomy precedes the book of Joshua, and of
course you'll tell me it follows the book
of Numbers.
It's the last of the Mosaic writings, and
it has to do, as the name tells
us, with the law.
It simply means the second giving of the
law.
And Moses gathered these people together, and it
was the last thing he did before he
was taken home, and he told them again
the law of God, the basis of the
great covenant that God had made with his
people.
And he did this not only to remind
them of who they were by themselves, and
of God, and of the things he said,
but also to point them forward.
They were being prepared to enter into the
promised land.
What a marvelous thing this is.
Moses had led them these 40 years in
the wilderness, and he knew that he had
to resign his position.
He was going to be taken home, and
Joshua was going to come into his place.
And he was going to lead the people
into the promised land, the place of their
possessions.
And I wanted tonight, with you, to look
at just a few things in this book,
which Moses spoke in order to prepare these
people to go in and possess their possessions.
It may be as well for us to
understand this, because there are lots of people
shouting loud and long about the promised land
in these days, and all this and that
and the other.
But in case we're going to do that
in some of the evenings that remain, not
tomorrow night, I believe we're having the site
of India tomorrow night, but in the evenings
that remain afterwards, perhaps we might do this
kind of thing.
I don't know, I never come with a
fixed program whenever, anywhere I go to preach,
I just have to sort of go as
the wind blows.
I hope I'm not just like a fern,
go as the Lord leads on the spot.
But tonight we're going to have a look
at these things that tell us what this
great man of God, the mediator of his
covenants, said to those old people.
Because perhaps we shall learn what the mediator
of our covenants says to us.
Because he was a type of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
And so we shall learn from God.
I would like to read, first of all,
in the eleventh chapter.
We'll read quite a little bit of this
chapter.
It's such a wonderful chapter.
I'm a bit slow turning over it, because
when I left India, because so many people
wanted them, I gave away my Bible and
Testament, so I came home naked, and I
had to sort of launch onto a new
book, the pages still.
And in Deuteronomy chapter eleven, we're told this.
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God.
Now the word therefore presupposes something he's been
saying before.
Let's look at it.
It was just the last verse of the
preceding chapter.
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with three
score and ten persons.
And now the Lord thy God has made
thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God
and keep his charge and his statutes.
I suppose his reason for stating this taken
right on the surface is just sheer gratitude.
Just sheer gratitude.
Because of what God has done.
You ought to love him.
And keep his judgments and his commandments always.
And know ye this day, for I speak
not of your children which have not known
and which have not seen the chastisement of
the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty
hand, and his stretched out arm, and his
miracles, and his acts, which he did in
the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king
of Egypt and unto all his land.
And what he did unto the army of
Egypt, unto their horses and to their chariots,
how he made the water of the Red
Sea to overflow them as they pursued after
you, and how the Lord hath destroyed them
unto this day.
And what he did unto you in the
wilderness until ye came into this place.
And what he did unto Dathan, and to
Byron, the sons of Eliab, the son of
Reuben, how the earth opened her mouth and
swallowed them up, and their houses, and their
tents, and all the substance that was in
their possession in the midst of all Israel.
But your eyes have seen all the great
acts, therefore shall ye keep all the commandments
which I command you this day, that ye
may be strong and go in and possess
the land, whither ye go to possess it,
and that ye may prolong your days in
the land, which the Lord swear unto your
fathers to give unto them and to their
seed, a land that floweth with milk and
honey.
For the land whither thou goest in to
possess it is not as the land of
Egypt from whence ye came out, where thou
sowest thy seed and wateredst it with thy
foot as a garden of herbs.
But the land whither ye go to possess
it is a land of hills and valleys,
and drinketh water of the rain of heaven,
a land which the Lord thy God cares
for.
The eyes of the Lord thy God are
always upon it from the beginning of the
year even unto the end of the year.
And it shall come to pass if ye
shall hearken diligently unto my command to love
the Lord your God and to serve him
with all your heart and with all your
soul that I will give you the reign
of your land in his due.
I'd like to make a little comment here
and you must always learn this the art
of it all it's
just to see this that Moses changes slightly
he says I will give you his due
season the identification of the man in his
message with the Lord he didn't say the
Lord says he will give it that's your
true problem he assumes nothing he moves into
the spirit of the thing he's saying and
lo he's identified with the
first reign and the latter reign that thou
mayest gather in thy corn and thy wine
and thine oil and I will send grass
in the fields that thou mayest eat and
be full take heed yourselves that your heart
be and ye turn aside and serve other
gods and worship them and you know of
course that one of the worst gods you
can ever turn aside and worship is your
own belly in Philippians chapter 3 whose god
is their belly see they were going to
have plenty to eat corn and wine and
oil self worship is far more subtle than
outward idol worship we don't know that in
England not the outward idol worship whose god
is their belly isn't it significant when god's
blessings isn't it significant lets go
on shall we and then the lord wrought
be kindred against you and he shut up
the heavens and there be no rain and
that the land yield not her fruit and
lest ye perish quickly from off the good
land which the lord giveth you therefore shall
ye lay up these my words in your
heart and in your soul and find them
for a sign upon your hand that they
may be as frontlets between your eyes and
you know that the pharisees took their right
out of its truth and they wore phylactery
that is little sort of pouches on their
foreheads with texts of scripture and on their
hands they may draw their phylacteries and they
put in written words of god trying to
literally fulfill this those very
foreheads were brass those very hands crucified and
ye should teach them your children speaking of
them when thou sittest in thine house and
when thou walkest by a way when thou
liest down and when thou risest up and
thou shalt write them upon the doorpost that
your days may be multiplied and the days
of your children the
days of heaven am i describing today for
you now this was god's intention
for his people that they should live in
heaven that's really what it's about that's what
i want it is not god's will that
we should live a life that's hell on
earth it is not god's will that we
should live as just an earthly flesh but
that we should live like heaven amen each
day it's been like is that right?
it's been like heaven this is how the
lord intended that it was not just to
be what do you know about heaven
weren't you?
that's why i said let's cut out the
last verse i'm wrestled on towards heaven well
i haven't struggled all her life but i
mustn't the best thing is not to experience
i seem to have had a wonderful i'm
not going to tell you for how many
years but i've got this is that we
had days praise god yeah now that's why
when we started to read this chapter i
pointed you to the last now the lord
god has made me as the stars of
heaven for multitude as the stars of heaven
for multitude glory be to god aren't you
glad he didn't say the fishes of the
sea aren't you glad he didn't say like
ants in an ant hill or miners down
a mine aren't you glad he said it's
the stars of heaven hallelujah doesn't the lord
choose delightful symbols doesn't he use wonderful pictures
to our minds you see we can go
back in our scriptures about this let's just
go back a little to chapter 1 for
instance and in chapter 1 this is the
thing that is in the heart of this
great man of god moses verse 10 verse
10 chapter 1 the lord your god has
multiplied you and behold you are this day
as the stars of heaven for multitude hallelujah
this is the thought it's always the thought
in god's heart that his people should be
a heavenly people not an earthly people but
a heavenly people praise god we are on
the earth but when the lord jesus said
amen do you know this glory be that
we do that the spiritual heredity
is cut off and we're
born from heaven born again that's your greek
hallelujah later on he said to some people
i'm from above you see it's the lord
you are now a spirit from heaven on
this earth you didn't know that did you
oh you did you may not have heard
it put like that but that's true you
are a spirit from heaven god in the
hebrews letter is called the father of spirits
and that's what you will do if you
ever have an you see but god is
the father of spirits amen the cross is
his secret power amen glory be to god
that dead thing the only new hell on
earth religion this precious spirit born from heaven
this is a total change everything is different
hallelujah glory be to god you're not trying
to hang on by the born when i
was born from above beloved oh to talk
about it sends me back i want reality
to glow
and to learn and to live the life
of heaven on this mind you he's very
keen about this you can place this back
those of you who are bible students those
of you who are bible students you can
take this thought and trace it right back
to him but the glory the
glory of of moses as he stands here
upon this great occasion he says you have
become you went down into egypt just 70
people that's what he says he's talking to
the whole race he's talking to the whole
of god's people here you went down 70
people now you've become as the stars of
heaven for glory be to the name of
the lord and you know the righteous should
shine like stars in their heavenly fathers kingdom
and there was the promised land and this
for them was going to be their kingdom
and they were going there as heavenly people
heavenly bodies if i may say this though
their bodies were flesh and blood and you
know what their you know what the purpose
of them going in there was don't you
to turn that place to a place of
heaven that's why they were going in they
were going to do it everywhere they went
possess it and turn that place into a
little footprint this was god's great ordination
this is what it's all about i don't
know whether you've realized this this is what
it's for let's go on shall we turn
with me to chapter 4 precious realization when
this thing really comes into our hearts we'll
turn to verse 36 shall we it's around
here that i want our thoughts to go
33 did ever people hear the voice of
god speaking out of the midst of the
fire as thou hast heard and lived or
hath god say to go and take him
a nation by temptations by sun by war
and by a mighty hand and by a
stretched out arm by great terrors according to
all that the lord your god did for
you in egypt before your eyes unto thee
it was shown that thou mightest know that
the lord he is god there is none
else beside him out of heaven he made
thee to hear his voice amen out of
heaven he made thee to hear his voice
you have heard the heavenly voice have you
glory be to god you've heard the heavenly
voice praise god you know this message we've
received oh paul make this very clear when
you write this revelation neither was
i taught it amen by revelation hallelujah it's
a heavenly message beloved it's still
revelation it's all revelation from god we're moving
in a new realm hallelujah there's only one
prophet and he has come to teach us
the truth they they gathered there at mount
simon they gathered round the mountain and the
voice from heaven and the glory be to
god and they heard oh that god changed
their origins and changed their destiny and changed
their purpose for living on the earth amen
you've realised this have you very deeply in
your hearts and you should know that you
are a heavenly people let's go on shall
we and in verse 39 know therefore this
day and consider it in thy hearts that
the lord he is god in heaven above
and upon the earth beneath praise god let's
get this straight shall we there's none else
don't you think the devil is god on
this earth he isn't amen do you think
the devil is god on this earth he
isn't it's true that the whole world died
in the wicked one it's true that the
god of this world is not our god
but you mustn't confuse the world with the
earth you mustn't confuse the world with the
earth the world just simply means the whole
system of things which is satanic in its
origin everything satanic you know whatever you do
on this earth except you're right in the
ministry of god is of satanic origin it
is satanically managed it has satanic manifestations and
it's going to come to a satanic end
everything no matter you understand it religions and
medical systems educational systems international
systems they're all of the devil you must
understand this very very clearly god never originated
any of them none of them but god's
god on the earth now when they pass
over Jordan ultimately to go into the promised
land you can find this I want you
to go and check yourself and find it
best way to do it and when they
were going through this is what Joshua said
the ark of the lord of all the
earth goeth before you into Jordan you see
and this is the whole glorious truth he
was the lord god of heaven there is
none else hallelujah do you believe that now
you see why you can begin to live
the life of heaven that's the whole point
it's marvelous how god develops truth now let's
go to that 10th chapter again shall we
we've already looked in it once and in
the 10th chapter verse 14 behold the heaven
and the heaven of heavens is the lord
thy god and the earth also with all
that therein is yes glory to god amen
only the lord had a delight in thy
fathers and he chose their seed after them
even you above all people as it is
this day and the lord goes on to
show this glorious thing at the end of
the chapter again my fathers went down into
Egypt with three score and ten persons and
now the lord thy god now obviously stars
of heaven ought to live a heavenly life
they go in heavenly courses they are not
moved around like things that happen on the
earth in fact if i understand right the
earth is moved by the heavens isn't it
doesn't the earth revolve around heaven doesn't it?
somebody correct me if i am wrong doesn't
the earth revolve around the sun?
amen and the sun of course is the
morning star the sun is only a star
you understand any astronomers here the sun is
a star that's the great morning star the
sun of the righteous it's got for rising
your heart the blessed sun the morning star
amen glory be to god it rules the
day you see the earth is ruled from
the heavens in it's basic things nobody can
alter that what a tremendous thing it is
for us to realise this is what god
is telling us we are to be knocked
over and blown about by things that happen
what men do on the earth hallelujah we
are here god wants now then we
are going into this eleventh chapter oh no
i think before we go into the eleventh
chapter we deal mostly with we'll look into
chapter thirty and i'm not taking every reference
through the study in the thirtieth chapter and
verse twelve or verse eleven this commandment he
says which i command thee this day it
is not hidden from thee now listen the
thing i'm telling you tonight is not hidden
from thee neither is it far off it
is not in heaven that thou shouldst say
who shall go up for us to heaven
and bring it unto us that we may
hear it and do it neither is it
beyond the sea that thou shouldst say who
shall go over the sea for us and
bring it unto us that we may hear
it and do it that the word is
very nigh unto thee and in thy heart
that thou it's in thy mouth and in
thy heart that thou mayest do it there
it is now the word is not in
heaven hallelujah it's right down here it's in
your mouth it's in your heart you believe
that it's in your mouth and in your
heart it's not beyond the sea silly people
i met men back in india running around
to find gurus out in india trying to
get some word of a guru stupid western
people it's not beyond the sea it's not
up in heaven it's in your mouth but
you've never believed it it's in your mouth
and it's in your heart God makes it
so simple could it be simpler than that
now you tell me do you know what
people won't do they won't be humble enough
and they won't they will not humble themselves
they will not wash from their place a
stiff neck rebellion that's
the trouble why people can't it's in your
mouth man it's in your heart woman and
when you hear a man preach and he's
preaching it's in your heart while you're listening
to him that's all he's doing he's only
telling you what's there you say what what
i don't understand this this is a mystery
it's alright it's a mystery you know that
the new testament is our book I know
that the old testament is ours too but
our book is really the new testament isn't
it in Romans chapter 2 this is what
we read look at the parenthesis in chapter
2 of Romans 13 Romans 2 not the
hearers of the law are just before God
but the doers of the law shall be
justified for when the Gentiles now listen you
and I are Gentiles which have not the
law they never had the mosaic law at
all do by nature the things contained in
the law there you are the Gentiles can
do it naturally so the legal covenant of
Moses was natural law transcribed in the word
do by nature the things contained in the
law these having not the law are a
law unto themselves that's right every man has
it there you see which show the work
of the law did you
know that it's already in your heart what
Sinai was to tell them the things that
were already there amen amen when a man
preaches the gospel he only stirs up to
you what's already there in your mouth you
can say it it's wrong I can't preach
like you why not he's
not a preacher who hasn't sold everything out
no preacher he's only giving out sermons he
never reaches these things he never does it
he says
it's not in heaven hallelujah you are a
heavenly people it's in your heart it's in
your mouth hey open your mouth and speak
see is that the secret of course it's
the secret that's why I know so many
secrets I've always got my mouth open preach
never go back
to Deuteronomy chapter 11 it is easy the
bible is just ABC all you have to
do is to read it keep on reading
it and more than that it's
your life it's your life satiated with saturated
with your life not just me as a
bag of wind filled up or a vessel
filled up with wine or something my life
when I'm saturated with the Holy Ghost now
listen I shall become wine it's true