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Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 18 and 19.

And this is God speaking these words to Moses.

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers.

And I will put my words in his mouth.

And he shall speak to them all that I command him and whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in

my name I myself will require it of him so this this section in

Deuteronomy chapter 18 is extremely important, not just to this part

of Deuteronomy, but to the entire Bible, because it's a prophecy of a coming prophet like

Moses.

And the more we read, particularly these verses right around here, Deuteronomy 18, 15 through 19, including the last two verses of that passage that I just read, the more we start to realize this is not just any prophet that God is speaking about. This is a prophecy specifically of Jesus, a prophet to come. We see many titles given to

Jesus in the Bible. He is Lord and Savior and King. He's our great high priest. But he's not just Savior.

He's not just Lord. He's not just Lord. He's not just king, and he's not just a priest. The beauty of Jesus is he brings together all of these pictures in himself,

and he is also a prophet. Now, we have to be careful whenever we use that title for Jesus because Islam, for

example, says Jesus was a prophet along with many other prophets. But Jesus is not just any other

prophet because Jesus perfectly reveals the Word of God. Even here in verse 18, the way we see Deuteronomy saying,

He shall speak to them all that I command him perfectly. Jesus is the Word of God. That's the

picture we have specifically in John. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

Jesus is the revelation of God.

And so when we read Deuteronomy Chapter 18, we see a picture,

one of the importance of God speaking his word to his people

and the importance of prophets like Moses and many others

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