First Commandment IV: Don’t Trust Your Own Righteousness (Deut. 9:1 - 10:11)

Before we dig into our text tonight, I want to show you how the temptations of Jesus in Matthew 4 map pretty closely to what Moses describes here in Dt 7-10. We've been using three "m's" – militarism, materialism, and moralism. In chapter 7 we heard about the temptation of militarism – "Do not say in your heart..." 7:17 that the nations are mightier and more numerous than you. Only Yahweh can…