Deuteronomy begins: "These are the words which Moses hath spoken unto all Israel".

No-one has an excuse for not hearing unless they do not have the opportunity to hear.

"How then shall they call upon Him in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe on Him of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?" Romans 10:14

"So then faith is by a report and the report through a saying of God" Romans 10:17

We are to communicate God's truth by speaking it. But we live in an age when writing is our usual means of communication and we choose to write more than to speak.

By this omission to speak, many are kept from hearing the truth and from responding to the truth. It is encumbent upon us then that we should speak and also write. For the spoken word is fleeting but the written word is lasting. But the spoken word enters the heart while the written word confirms and consolidates the truth in our heart.

The word written by Moses not only records the words of God which Moses spoke to the people of Israel but is filled out with detail which gives such evidence of accuracy and record keeping and precision and reason to believe it is authentic and true: it is a sound report, fixed and believable and rooted in real time and place.

Here the details of the names of places in the wilderness beyond the Jordan establishes God's word as being real, in real geographical space, on the earth, with specific people many of whom are also named. This is the substance of reality.

"Faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction" Hebrews 11:1