Three temptations from Deuteronomy 7-10 find their final answer from our Lord Jesus. Each time Satan tempts Jesus in the wilderness, Jesus responds by quoting from Deuteronomy 7-10! Jesus plainly thought that Deuteronomy 7-10 contain the answers to the temptations of Satan. Jesus was being tempted with the same temptations that Israel faced. The difference is that Jesus succeeded where Israel failed! Tonight we will look at the worship of strength or power. You see this starting in verses 6-7 – The LORD chose you not because you were so mighty – "you were the fewest" – but "because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers" And what will keep Israel from their enemies is not their military might – but the presence and protection of Yahweh himself (v13-16) If Israel is going to be faithful to the LORD, they cannot rely on military might. This is part of the reason why the Law of Moses is not particularly addressed to modern nations. Deuteronomy does not give a charter for how modern nations should operate! Israel, after all, is a holy nation – language that the apostle Peter will apply directly to the church in 1 Peter 2:9 – "you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of a darkness into his marvelous light." What Peter is saying is that the church is the new Israel. What God said to Israel in Deuteronomy is what God is saying to the church in the NT. Are you trusting in your own strength? Conversely, are you afraid that you are too weak? Both attitudes betray a failure to put your trust in the LORD...