August 8, 2021

Deuteronomy 1:29-33

By Rev. Daniel Bang

Title: “God is holding me”

Sharon’s brothers and sisters, did you have a good week?

Today, we will listen to God’s word through Moses as the people of Israel came out of Egypt and were living in a rough and dry wilderness.

We have no experience of living in the wilderness.

It’s all about reading the Bible and imagining it.

Life in the wilderness is a place where you have to pass quickly and pass quickly.

The wilderness is a place where no one can survive.

It is a very difficult place to stay up all night because there is no tree, not a single grass, difficult to get a sip of water, and difficult to find wood to make a fire in the wilderness.

I heard there are deserts in India.

There are no deserts like this in Korea.

You can think of the wilderness as the middle of the desert.

Moses saw this journey in the wilderness as a path of grace that comes from being embraced by God.

The Israelites looked down, but Moses looked up and lived.

In verse 31, Moses said, “As he embraced his own son, so the LORD your God took you by the way you walked and brought you to this place.

That’s right.

God carried the Israelites in the wilderness for 40 years.

Without God’s provision, not one person could survive in the wilderness.

Dear Sharon’s brothers and sisters?

The world is in a very dangerous situation right now.

We must believe that God will help us to survive.

Going one step further, God needs us now.

I am not a trivial person.

God is holding me now.

I need to know that you are protecting me and providing me with everything in this wild and wild world.

Verse 30 says, “The Lord your God, who goes before you, will fight for you in Egypt.” Amen.

This battle is a battle that God fights together for me, so we will surely win.

God does not fail.

God makes no mistakes.

How could Almighty God fail Satan?

We are fighting a war that has already been won.

It is also fighting in the arms of God.

The hyenas nearby don’t dare attack a young lion cub in the middle of a pack of lions called the king of African animals on TV.

This is because a hyena could lose her life from her mother lion by one mistake.

However, when the saints in God’s arms are anxious and leave God’s arms and run into the wilderness where there are groups of devils, great things happen.

I hope that Sharon’s brothers and sisters will go into God’s arms more and more.

I die while advancing to my blood with my thoughts of what I can do.

This is a terrible sin.

This is an act of blasphemy against the God who embraces me.

Faith is very simple.

Even now, I believe that God is still holding me, and I believe that God will naturally protect me and take me to a comfortable place.

Without faith, we become impatient, fearful, worried,anxious.

Have you ever seen a baby sleeping comfortably in the arms of mom or dad, smiling comfortably?

This baby believes in mom or dad.

That she loves herself feeds her, keeps her safe and provides everything she needs…

The LORD, the God of Israel, always went ahead of them and directed them by fire by night and cloud by day to indicate where they were going.

He found a place to camp and provided both food and water.

However, Israel did not believe in God’s grace while enjoying all these things every day.

We, Sharon’s brothers and sisters, must never do that.

Even now, I must confess that I am the God who embraces me and guides the path of my life.

We will meet again in a little while.

I miss all of Sharon’s brothers and sisters.

I hope that we will meet and be deeply immersed in God’s word and receive great grace.

Never be afraid or anxious.

Please believe that the God who made all things in this universe is carrying me right now.

I hope you will  win the week with faith in Jesus name. Amen