“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers. And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’
The writing of Deuteronomy was the second giving of the Law. The about answers why God gave it to them again:
1). So that as we live them in front of the world they world will be curious and want to know our God.
2). That we might have success. We have more success when you keep the laws of God than if you do not..
3). That would obtain righteousness. It is this last component that showed the need for Christ to die for us to give us His righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21). Just as the nation failed dat keeping the Law, so too every man. God needed to step in and rescue us and give us righteousness.
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