Fulfilling the Lord

12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Matthew 7:12

We'll call that right there the judging principle we should live by so as and then or just on what basis the case will be heard. Remember before we have just finished seeing the change of voice when it came to Moses the person when accounted before as unto the Lord. Certainly nothing comes as a surprise to him that we should just now be seeing. Though suffice to say, it's excellent for practicing on when it comes to the rest of the basis of judgement. You know, in terms of the law of the Lord and what we're judging the whole rest of the system, there's a whole thing already recorded that the Lord would have us to know. We'll find that body recorded in Deuteronomy particularly where it does not touch onto sacrificing and the whole duty of men. You and I both well know, or you might've just now been hearing, that the Lord came not to destroy the law and the prophets but only fulfill. Fulfillment can mean many things to a few different people. What is the first thing that you'd think of upon hearing that word?

13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Matthew 7:13-14

There, that's it for the hearing of today that is mentioned. We'll be looking at a few different things.

At the strait gate

Wide is the gate

Broad is the way

Leads to destruction

Many there be which go in thereat.

And on the other side you've got the equal but opposite thing that will happen.

Strait is the gate

Narrow is the way

Which leads unto life

Few there be that find it.

With two ways to chose between that herein are visible, how are you going to tell when it's which one of the two. Certainly I wouldn't be telling you for that's more than half of the mystery that's here in the text. It's not the only mystery for sure, but at the moment it's the one we're currently working.

26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.

Deuteronomy 3:22-29

That's the last time Moses had been recorded of just before the big change that you'd noticed before. Then, let's see a few other parts of the puzzle.

10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:

13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

Deuteronomy 29:10-15

This is what was said when Moses had finished speaking the last words of the law before all the people. Certainly it's not a Mount Sinai experience now is it, but merely a recapping of all that had happened or is it now? Without going into detail, I'll let you draw your own sort of conclusions and also form up a case of what might have happened. I'd like you first just to consider it's God's presence that's here in the midst and so refrain from any railing accusations if you could about what's merely his place. Consider what Moses is saying and then draw it up in some sort of fashion. Is he correct in this type of thinking? When do you think Moses might have taken his departure then from the people? Was it upon hearing the word of the Lord or just at the end at the last before these had passed over Jordan into the land promsied by God once again. There's a broad gate and a strait gate remember as we'd seen just before. Is there another sort of end that we really ought to consider? Well, I don't know about you but there's strait gates and strait ways and also the narrow places that lead just to the Lord. Where these will end up only he can recall once again. Then back again we go to what the Lord has been saying in Matthew. Remember, it's only a mystery about what has happened not something to be solved as some have been thinking. Once all the clues have been gathered, I'll let you do your own self to consider.