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the Great Lawgiver’s Parting Instructions
Deu 31:1-13
This chapter is a link between sunset and sunrise. God buries His workers, but carries on His work. None are indispensable. Moses is succeeded by Joshua; Stephen by Paul. “The grass withereth… but the word of our God shall stand forever.”
The old Lawgiver passes on the assurances on which he had rested. After all, men are but the figureheads of movements which are greater than themselves. God goes before; God destroys; God accompanies and delivers. Let timid souls take courage. When the Good Shepherd puts them forth He precedes them, Joh 10:4; the iron gates stand open at His summons, and the big stones are rolled from the door of the sepulchers, Act 12:10; Mar 16:3. “He will not fail thee,” etc., reappears in Heb 13:5, as the right of all believers. It is for me and thee!