I AM: The God Who Kills and Makes Alive
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...