This series is taken from Burning Heart who are an organisation who are passionate about equipping churches with high quality, professionally produced and theologically rich teaching films and series.  The Director is David Ingall who was the Rector of Holy Sepulchre London, an HTB Network church plant in the City of London.  For more information visit their website https://www.burningheart.org

In this final session we’ll explore how Deuteronomy closes with a focus on both judgement and blessing, and how that point us to Jesus and our need for God’s grace. Start the session by opening in prayer and/or worship.

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As our journey through Deuteronomy comes to a close, David explores a grand drama and a song commissioned by God, and shows how both point to our need for God’s grace.

From the Bible

¹⁹ “Now write down this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them. ²⁰ When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their ancestors, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant. ²¹ And when many disasters and calamities come on them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath.” ²² So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 31: 19-22

Discussion Points

• Read Deuteronomy 31v19-22.
  • What is the point that these verses are making?
  • Does this change your understanding of the blessings and curses prophesied in this part of Deuteronomy?
  • How does it impact your understanding of the Old Testament Law more
  • generally?
• In the film, David talked about Deuteronomy pointing forwards to Jesus? What do you think about that?
• As this is the final session in the series, take some time to share with one another what (if anything!) you have learned over the course of the whole series.
  • In what ways has it changed your understanding of Deuteronomy?
  • In what ways has it drawn you closer to God and deepened your relationship with him?

Prayer Points

• Pray together as a group about the things you shared in the final part of the discussion about what you have learnt through this series.
• Pray into the ways in which this series has drawn you closer to God and deepened your relationship with him.
• Take some time to pray as a group to thank him for those things
• Take some time to ask that he would root those things deeply in your hearts, praying ‘Come Holy Spirit’ and waiting on God.
• Pray for each other as you would normally at the end of a session.