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Moses My Servant is Dead

brother in Christ, wrote to me after reading the previous chapter on the life of
AMoses as a type and shadow of the Law. His comments are pertinent to the
subject of this chapter. The title is a quotation taken from the following verse:

Joshua 1:1-2
Now it came about after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that
Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' servant, saying, "Moses My
servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this
people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.”

The brother who wrote to me shared some further insights into Moses as a type and
shadow of the Law. I found his comments to be excellent and wanted to share them
with you.

Dear Brother Joseph,

I have been extremely blessed by your teaching series 'Laying Down the Law.'
My eyes have been opened to many things and I have been challenged to seek a life
in the Spirit more and more. It is so much easier to return to the law and have an
appearance of righteousness than it is to pick up our cross and follow the lamb
wherever He goes. However, true freedom is only found in Christ and life in the
Spirit. Otherwise, we find ourselves remaining a slave to sin as Paul declares:

Romans 7:21-25
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with
me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at
work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a
prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am!
Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to
God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

In reading the recent post about Moses' life being a parable, or type of the Law,
one additional thought came to my mind that really drives home God's decision to
put an end to the law. I may be wrong, but I think that Moses is the only person in
the Bible that was personally buried by the Lord.
See the following verse references regarding the body of Moses (i.e., the body
of the LAW).

Deuteronomy 34:5-6
And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had
said. He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but