God regularly commanded Moses to write down the things that God was saying and doing (Exodus 17:14; 34:27; Deuteronomy 31:19). We should be grateful for this because it means that we can still read this today in the section of the Bible known as the ‘Pentateuch’ (the first five books of the Bible). Once you read the Word of God everything changes for you. Even if you yourself do not respond, you nevertheless become accountable for the knowledge you have received. The more you know the more accountable you are. What we need the most is not more knowledge but more responsiveness to what we already know. We twenty-first century believers have easy access to great Bible and teaching resources, and we should indeed make use of these things. Go to the conferences, listen to the podcasts and read the books. You should indeed saturate yourself in the truth as Moses urges to do in this sermon (6:4-9). But if all this information is not changing you then it is probably desensitising you and even hardening you. At some point you must make that decision, you must step out by faith, you must leave your comfort zone, you must take that counter-intuitive action, you must give up those selfish ambitions, and you must cease that habit, whatever it is. At some point you must do something. For if you do not respond to the Word of God then all that you have learned simply becomes a witness against you.
Ask God what he is calling you to respond to.
Read Deuteronomy 31
