A Famine Not of Bread

"Christ's Triumphal Entry in Jerusalem" by Felix Louis Leullier Click here to listen to this sermon. "See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god beside Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of My hand” (Deuteronomy 32:39). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! The Lord contrasts the worthlessness of the false gods and idols that many of the people of Israel had been worshiping with the greatness of Himself. “See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god beside me” (v 39). The repetition of “I” by the Lord here is emphatic! That is, “I and only I am God. There is no other God.” This is the name by which God revealed Himself to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” in Exodus 3:14. The Lord is the living God, the only true God, which He reveals in His Word and in His actions, and which the people of Israel had experienced, seen, and heard. The Lord reminds them, “I kill and I make ali...

Click here for an audio version of this sermon.   The text for today is our Old Testament lesson, Deuteronomy 32:36-39, which has already been read. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Moses is speaking to the Israelites.   They are about to enter the Promised Land, while it is time for him to climb Mount Nebo and die.   These are his last words to the people that he has led as a called servant of the Lord for these many years.   It has been a long, hard journey.   No sooner were the Israelites safe from Egypt than they built a golden calf and elected to call it their god.   The Lord mercifully spared them that day, but other apostasy would follow.   For their disobedience, they were rewarded with forty extra years in the desert.   Now they are finally to enter the Promised Land, and Moses preaches the Word of the Lord one last time and sings his final song.   He prophesies, in part, a terrible fut...