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Youth Worship 20th September 2025 : You saw how the LORD your God carried you

Text: Deuteronomy 1
20 September 2025

YOUTH WORSHIP 20 September 2025
Text: Deuteronomy 1
Title: “You saw how the LORD your God carried you” Deuteronomy 1:31

INTRODUCTION

1. The children of Israel had spent 40 years in the Wilderness

2. Only two people survived, Joshua and Caleb, of the first generation that came out of Egypt

3. The children of Israel were now poised to enter into the Promised Land

4. Deuteronomy was a collection of Messages from Moses to the children of Israel

A SELECTIVE RECALL OF HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES

1. The main bulk of writing had already been done
(Exodus and Leviticus)

2. The Commandments of the LORD

1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

2 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

3 Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them,

4 after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei.

Deuteronomy 1:1-4

a) Location
“This side of the Jordan”
b) Distance
11 Days from Horeb
c) 40th year
d) After the killing of King Sihon and King Og

AN EXPLANATION OF THE LAW

5 On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying,

6 “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.

7 Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighbouring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.

8 See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’

Deuteronomy 1:5:-8

1. Beginning of explaining of the law

2. The land of Canaan was set before the children of Israel

3. Exhortation to go in and possess the land which God swore to give to the Patriarchs

REMEMBERING MAJOR EVENTS

1. Selection and Appointment of Leaders

Moses’ proposal was heartily endorsed by the children of Israel
Deuteronomy 1:9-18

2. Sending of the 12 Spies from the children of Israel

a) The failure of the people to respond with faith in God
Deuteronomy 1:19-28
b) The punishment of wandering in the Wilderness for 40 years
Deuteronomy 1:29-46

3. Moses was forbidden to enter the Promised Land
Deuteronomy 1:37

4. Joshua was to be appointed the leader to conquer Canaan
Deuteronomy 1:38

5. Only the children shall go into the Promised Land
Deuteronomy 1:39

6. The Presumption to enter into the Land of Canaan
After God had said “No!”
Deuteronomy 1:41-46

REMEMBERING SPECIAL LESSONS ABOUT GOD

29 “Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, or afraid of them.

30 The LORD your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

31 and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

32 Yet, for all that, you did not believe the LORD your God,

33 who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.

Deuteronomy 1:29-33

1. The LORD your God who fights for you

a) He goes before you
b) He will fight for you as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes

2. The LORD your God who carries you

a) As a Father who would carry his son
b) God as a committed and faithful Father

3. The LORD as a Guide in the Land of Promise

a) He searches for a good place for the children of Israel to settle in
b) God’s constant presence
A cloud by day and a fire by night Deuteronomy 1:33

OUR CHALLENGE

1. To reflect and learn from the past

2. To review and to remember all the lessons learned

3. To remind ourselves and to never take sin lightly