The Christian life is not a thoughtless life—it requires intentional dedication to the Lord. Today, W. Robert Godfrey demonstrates how the warnings in the book of Deuteronomy are relevant and insightful for God’s people today. Get W. Robert Godfrey’s teaching series Discovering Deuteronomy on DVD, plus lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide, for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3605/discovering-deuteronomy Meet Today’s Teacher: W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California. He is the featured teacher for many Ligonier teaching series, including the six-part series A Survey of Church History. He is author of many books, including God’s Pattern for Creation, Reformation Sketches, and An Unexpected Journey. Meet the Host: Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children. Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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Reformed theology quite right says that any individual who has true faith, any individual who has been regenerated by the Spirit of God, will be preserved by God to everlasting life. But while that's true of individual Christians, that same promise has not been made to congregations.
What we see in the book of Revelation, both in the letters and in the vision of Christ walking in the heavenly temple amongst the land stand, is serious warnings to churches that as congregations they may prove faithless.
Yesterday, we began looking at the warnings Moses gave to the Israelites in the final chapters of Deuteronomy. And as we continue our study of these warnings, detailed and lengthy warnings, it raises the question of how they are relevant, if at all, for you and me living in the 21st century.
That's one of the questions W. Robert Godfrey will address on this Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind as you get just a little taste of his extensive series, Discovering Deuteronomy.
Tomorrow is the final day that we'll be in this series, so don't forget that if you'd like to own Discovering Deuteronomy, you can request it online at renewingyourmind.org or by using the link in the podcast show notes when you give a donation of any amount in support of Renewing Your Mind. Thank you.
Well, here's Dr. Godfrey in chapter 28 of Deuteronomy, continuing his study of these warnings for God's people.
Well, we're looking at the section in Deuteronomy that we're calling Warnings, a section parallel to the warnings at the beginning of the book, a reminder about the seriousness with which God takes His covenant with His people. and the call to faithfulness that God issues there.
And these closing sections of the book, we might say, the warning section and the history section, these closing sections in a way are clearer in their meaning You know, as we were looking through some of the laws, we scratched our head a little bit and wondered exactly what the laws meant. Why are we not allowed to weave with linen and wool together to make clothes?
And we tried to find the meaning there. In this section, it's not so much that the meaning is in doubt. The question more is theologically, what is the significance of this? And particularly theologically, what is the significance for us today? it's fairly easy to see the significance for them. But how does this continue to apply for us?
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