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“It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.” DEUTERONOMY 6:13
Moses tells us how we can align our lives around one consuming passion for the Lord.
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“You shall be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.” DEUTERONOMY 5:32
You must choose how you will live. To love the Lord your...
“And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in [to the Promised Land]. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess...
“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” DEUTERONOMY 6:5
In the first of the Ten Commandments, God says, “You shall have no other gods before me” (5:...
We love because he first loved us. 1 JOHN 4:19
When you see more of God’s love for you, then you will love Him more. Bishop Ryle told a story about an Englishman traveling in America. During his travels, he met...
Jesus said, “Simon… do you love me?” JOHN 21:16
Can you picture the risen Lord Jesus Christ looking deep into your soul and asking you this question? “Do you really, really love me?”
“I chose you. I redeem...
“You shall love the LORD your God… with all your might.” DEUTERONOMY 6:5
The word might or strength in Hebrew literally means “much-ness.” Love God with all your much-ness. It means your substance, your possess...
“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul…” DEUTERONOMY 6:5
What does it mean to love God with all your heart and soul?
Love God with all your heart. Love ...
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.” DEUTERONOMY 6:4
Whenever you see the word “LORD” in capital letters in the Old Testament, it is because the divine name is being used.
When God appeared ...
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.” DEUTERONOMY 6:4
Moses is speaking to Israel, and he describes the LORD as our God. They are God’s people because:
God chose them. “The L...
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.” DEUTERONOMY 5:6-7
The Ten Commandments lay out what loving God and loving ...
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” DEUTERONOMY 6:4-5
One of the best-known passages in the O...
“I stood between the LORD and you at that time.” DEUTERONOMY 5:5
Here is an easily overlooked reason to cultivate the fear of the Lord.
Fearing the Lord will lead you to seek a mediator.
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Here are three more things that will motivate you to cultivate a proper fear of the Lord.
Fearing the Lord will elevate your worship. “Therefore, let us be grateful…and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reveren...
How can we cultivate the right kind of fear? Here are three things that will motivate you:
Fearing the Lord will give you wisdom. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Psa. 111:10). When God carries weight in your...
With you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. PSALM 130:4
We usually think of fear and love as alternatives. Where there is fear, there is no love; where there is love, there is no fear. But love and th...
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. 1 JOHN 4:18
We know that perfect love casts out fear, but what is the kind of fear that love casts out?
The fear that keeps you hiding from ...
“Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!” DEUTERONOMY 5:29The fear of the Lord is better describ...
“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life.” DEUTERONOMY 4:9Repentance and faith are not only...
“Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.” DEUTERONOMY 5:3As a new generation stood on the verge of crossing the river Jordan, which way would they go? ...
“The LORD our God made a covenant with us...” DEUTERONOMY 5:2What hope did the people have of getting into the Promised Land? And what hope is there for us? Where can we find the power for a fresh start?In D...
Then you answered me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the h...
You would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. DEUTERONOMY 1:26Our sinful impulses affect not only how we relate to God but how we relate to circumstances, God’s truth, and our human co...
Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give your fathers. DEUTERONOMY 1:35What was in the nature of the parents was also in the children. And what was in these people i...
“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.” DEUTERONOMY 1:26Every adult who came out of Egypt in the exodus eventually died in the desert. None of them entered the Promised Lan...
“The LORD our God said to us in Horeb, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey, and go…’” DEUTERONOMY 1:6-7To move from being a person with a faith to a person with a mission, you ...
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them. DEUTERONOMY 1:3The generation that died in the ...
“Now rise up and go over the brook Zered.” So we went over the brook Zered. And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men...
“Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.” DEUTERONOMY 1:8God had given the Promised Land to ...
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness...DEUTERONOMY 1:1Deuteronomy is especially for three groups of people.Deuteronomy is for those trusted with lead...
