Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we started a new book and the last book of the law or the Torah as it's known in the

Jewish world.

Deuteronomy is the third most frequently quoted book in the New Testament and it's the second most quoted by Jesus,

so you may recognize a lot of what we read. The word Deuteronomy means second law.

We're going to revisit some old laws as well as see some practical application of them.

In many ways, Deuteronomy serves to recap everything we've read so far.

Moses never goes very deep into any of the stories, but he does skim the surface of a lot of things that will be familiar to you.

And that's all perfectly timed for us.

Because after we wrap up Deuteronomy, we're about to move into a more narrative story with lots of new characters,

so it'll be great to have a quick refresher on everything we just learned.

Plus, they say you have to hear something eight times before you retain it, so this is all

serving to embed it into our hearts and

minds and anytime we do come across something familiar I have two challenges for us.

First, resist the potential frustration that might come from this.

Be grateful you're recalling the things we've already read.

That means you really learned it. That's worth celebrating.

Second, even in the familiar stories, try to learn something new about God

than you learn the first time we covered these things.

Ask him to give you wisdom to see something new that you've never seen before.

Most of these 34 chapters are kind of a motivational sermon by Moses just before he dies.

They're his final words to these people that he spent the past 40 years serving.

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