Deuteronomy is about the law and God’s covenant with Israel. They had to obey his law, and if they didn’t God would judge them. Christians are not under law, but we walk according to the Spirit. Yet this is a book we need to know, for very practical reasons.  If Satan were to tempt us tomorrow in his devilishly penetrating way, would we know enough about Deuteronomy to be able to use it to oppose and silence his temptation? ‘But life isn’t all temptation,’ someone says. ‘Why don’t you talk to us about the love of God and cheer up our hearts and minds?’ Would you like to hear about the love of God? Well, I’ll tell you a good book to read. Yes, you’ve guessed it—Deuteronomy! Moses wrote five books, but if you want to read about the term, the love of God, then the first book in the Pentateuch to talk of it is Deuteronomy.

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