Deuteronomy // Pastor Gene Pensiero

When Moses delivered the series of sermons we call the Book of Deuteronomy he wanted the people to remember the things that were really important. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Sayings or slogans can be helpful in keeping you on track. If we wanted to assign a slogan to the next chapters of Deuteronomy, it might be, Keep the main thing, the main thing! (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

A ‘walkabout’ was originally a nomadic excursion into the Australian bush made by an Aborigine. It now describes any walking tour of the countryside. The Christian life is the ultimate walkabout! (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The peril of prosperity is that we tend to forget the Lord. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

We build our services upon a simple model: Worship of God and the Word of God. Everything is subordinate to these two objectives. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Christians are great at looking at the customs of the world, then redeeming them to reveal what we really believe. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Sometimes I say that we’re the fun Church, or I use the word ‘fun’ to describe what we’re doing. I mean Christian joy that is just flat fun! (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The Jews were headed into city life, out of the wilderness. As in all cities, there would be criminals and crime; so they needed laws to govern them. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Lots of odd things happen when people live together in a society. Laws are made, to promote the public welfare. The next three chapters of Deuteronomy cover various laws, in no particular order. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

I can see the children of Israel wanting to ask, “are we there yet?” but Moses just kept talking! They were almost to the Promised Land – but the restating of God’s Law continued. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Moses might be at the point in Deuteronomy where the audience could shout out, “So what?!” Moses was done reciting the Law of God; so what should the response be? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

If you wanted to find out what happened in Deuteronomy, you’d read Chapter Thirty. It’s the last chapter Moses wrote. Chapters Thirty-one through Thirty-four are the appendices – added after Moses died. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)