BE PASSIONATE

1/29/2012

1.     COVENANT STIPULATIONS (DUETERONY 4:44-5:33)

CHAPTER 5:

• This chapter repeats the Ten Commandments.
• Here are the four important steps we are to take in relation to the Word of God.
• The first is to hear it.
• The second is to learn it, to be acquainted with what God is saying.
• The third is to keep it
• The fourth is to do it.
• Not only should the Word of God be in our hearts, it should also get down to where our hands and feet are.

2.     COVENTANT OBEDIENCE (DUETERONY 6:1-8:20)

• The Book of Deuteronomy emphasizes love and obedience.
• God's love is actually expressed in law. 
• The great principle of law is love.
• You and I express our love for God in our obedience. 

John 14:15

15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

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·         Salvation is a love affair.

2A. LOVE THAT SHOW PRIORITY (DEUTERONOMY 6:4-9)

4 "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! 5 "And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart;

Ps 119:11

11 Thy word I have treasured in my heart,

That I may not sin against Thee.

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o       This does not mean to train him the way you want him to go. 

o       It means that God has a way for him to go, and you are to cooperate with God.

7 and you shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.

o       God's Word reminds us that the family is the most important training ground for life. 

o       The primary basis for family instruction is the revelation of God.

Proverbs 22:6

6 Train up a child in the way he should go,

Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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 8 And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. 9 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates

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o       ACKNOWLEDGE GOD

o       COMMITMENT TO GOD

o       ACKNOWLEDGE GOD TO THE WORLD

2B. DEVOTION THAT NEVER FORGETS (DEUTERONOMY 6:10-14)

10 "Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you shall eat and be satisfied, 12 then watch yourself, lest you forget the LORD who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

o       In the remaining verses of this chapter, God admonishes His people again to diligently do His commandments that they might keep the land He is giving them, and to explain this to their children also.

13 You shall fear only the LORD your God; and you shall worship Him, and swear by His name. 14 You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

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2C. GRACE THAT’S UNDESERVED (DEUTERONOMY 7:6-9)

6 "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

o       You remember that God said in Exodus that He had heard their cry, that distress cry. 

o       He responded because He loved them, He delivered them from bondage for that reason.

o       He keeps repeating this.

9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

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o       God will bless any people who respond to His love by obedience.

((The following are notes taken from a sermon by Miles Seaborn))

CHAPTER 8:

Deuteronomy 8:2

2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

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• ONE OF THE PURPOSES OF TEACHING AND PERSONAL STUDY IS TO KEEP IN MIND ALL THE BLESSINGS THAT GOD HAS BESTOWED ON US.
• MOSES CHALLENGED THEM TO A THOUGHTFUL... THANKFUL... TRUSTFUL...AND THOROUGH REMEMBRANCE.   
• ALL THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO US DOES SO THROUGH THE PERMISSIVE WILL OF GOD.  SOME OF THESE THINS MAY BE PAINFUL, BUT IT IS SPIRITUALLY PROFITABLE TO RECALL EVEN THE PAIN.
• SOME MAY SAY "I DID THIS GOD'S WAY AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!  BUT REMEMBER, IF YOU REALLY DID IT GOD'S WAY, IT WAS NOT A MISTAKE!

3.     COVENTANT WARNING (DUETERONY 9:1-10:11)

CHAPTER 9:

• In this chapter, God is reviewing for this new generation the past of the nation Israel. 
• Their past was not good. 
• This emphasizes that God did not save them because they were good.
• God gives a report on the land which is worse than the report the spied had brought back.  God knew the land and God knew who was in the land, yet God had told them to go in.
• God is saying that He is driving the other nations out because they are wicked nations -- not because Israel is righteous.

CHAPTER 10:

• We have here instructions dealing with religious and national regulations; this began in chapter 8 and continues through chapter 21.
• As Moses said in his prayer in chapter 9, Israel belongs to God; they are His inheritance. 
• He will not destroy them because of their sin but graciously re-gave them the Ten Commandments, written by Himself.

4.     COVENANT PROMISES (DUETERONY 10:12-11:32)

CHAPTER 11:

• In this chapter God talks to them about the land they are about to enter. 
• The Promised Land will not be at all like Egypt. 
• And God will give them the principles required for occupancy of the land.
• The land these people were going to enter would depend upon the rain from heaven.
• He put them on a land that had to depend upon Him for rainfall, for this would draw the people closer to God.
• You will notice that the land is a gift from God. 
• He gave them a land much greater than what they actually occupied. 
• He gave them approximately 300,000 square miles, but they only occupied about 30,000 square miles of it, even at the zenith under David and Solomon. 
• They failed to conquer it, claim it, and enjoy it.
• Why is there such a difference in believers today? 
• Some are spiritually poverty stricken -- others are fabulously rich spiritually. 
• God makes it clear that He has blessed all believers with spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 
• The answer is that some believers claim those blessings; some do not. 
• Some believers enjoy their spiritual possessions; some do not.
• Obedience was the very nub of the matter.