This is Your Life

"But stand thou still a while, that I may show thee the Word of God," I Samuel 9:27. "Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord," I Samuel 12:7 

Today, I would like to share with you the last message of the greatest man of the Old Testament. He was the meekest man on earth, yet he was the greatest leader, the greatest deliverer. He was born to die and yet he lived. He was hidden, haunted, hated, hunted and hungry. He literally lifted millions of Israelites out of four hundred and thirty year bondage. 

 In Deuteronomy, chapter 32, we have the last message or sermon that this unusual man delivered. He waited forty years in Midian, wandered forty years in the wilderness, and at the age of a hundred and twenty, he walked up a mountain to his own funeral. With God as his Undertaker and Up taker, he died according to the Word of the Lord and his strength was not abated, neither was his eye dim. 

Listen to Moses as he gains the attention and arouses the interest of those that have traveled with him under the pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. "Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth." He wasn't ashamed for heaven to hear his final message and he knew the people of earth ought to listen to it. "My doctrine shall drop as the rain; my speech shall distil as the dew. . ." He's going to preach a moist message and a purifying sermon. 

Before we give the sermon, let me give the six characteristics of Moses that made him such a great man. 

First, he refused to be called the Son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 

Second, he chose the afflictions with the people of God rather than the pleasures of sin for a season. 

Third, he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. 

Fourth, he endured. 

Fifth, he saw Him who was invisible. 

Sixth, he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. In this great chapter, he gives a hundred and twenty years of accumulated wisdom and his first statement is, "I will publish the Name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all his ways are judgments: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He." Amen! 

Think of it, my friend. After all of the experiences of opposition, misunderstanding and criticism, he stood at the end of life's runway to brag on the Rock and had reached the conclusion that He is "just right"! 

Then he bears the testimony of God's goodness and reminds all of us that we were found in a desert land, in a waste howling wilderness and like an eagle stirring up her nest, fluttering over her young, spreading abroad her wings, we've been taken and have been borne upon the wings of the Savior. We've been made to ride in the high places, eat the increase of the fields, suck honey out of the rock, and been in the heavenly oil business. We've eaten homemade butter and drunk the finest milk and pure grape juice. 

But sad to say, Moses had to remind the people that they had waxed fat and kicked, grown thick, had forsaken the God which made them, and lightly esteemed the Rock. They had become unmindful and even forgotten God who formed them and had lost faith in the Lord. Impossible, you say? After the tremendous experiences of crossing the Red Sea dry-shod, seeing Pharaoh’s chariots go down, the miraculous provisions of the wilderness for forty years? By Lester Roloff