Love The Lord Your God
Comments for Study 6
Deuteronomy 6:1-25
Memory Verse: 5
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I. The Lord Your God is One (1-9)
>1. What is the meaning of Deuteronomy and it main teaching?
* Deuteronomy is Greek meaning "a copy of the law". Moses is repeating the law of the covenant given at Mt. Sinai almost forty years before this event.
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>Who gave this teaching? (1:1)
* Deuteronomy 1:1 "These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the desert east of the Jordan--that is, in the Arabah--opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab."
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>When? (2:14-15)
* Deuteronomy 2:14-15 "Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. The Lord's hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp."
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>Why? (4:1)
* Deuteronomy 4:1 "Hear now, O Israel, the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you."
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>2. What do "the commands, decrees and laws" refer to? (1; 4:44-5:32)
* Deuteronomy 6:1 "These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,"
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>3. What are the practical benefits of obeying the Law of God? (2-3)
* Deuteronomy 6:2-3 "so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you."
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>4. Who is God? (4)
* Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one."
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>What is the greatest Commandment? (5; Mt. 22:34-40)
* Deuteronomy 6:5 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."
* Matthew 22:34-40 "Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 'Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?' Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.'"
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>How does this command operate? (6)
* Deuteronomy 6:6 "These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts."
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>Practically, what needs to be done? (7-9)
* Deuteronomy 6:7-9 "Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."
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II. Fear the Lord Your God, Serve Him Only (10-19)
>5. Into what land would the people of Israel enter? (10)
* Deuteronomy 6:10 "When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you--a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build,"
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>What would they receive in that land? (11)
* Deuteronomy 6:11 "houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant--then when you eat and are satisfied,"
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>What should they avoid first of all? (12)
* Deuteronomy 6:12 "be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery."
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>6. What should they do instead? (13-14)
* Deuteronomy 6:13-14 "Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;"
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>What would be the result of forsaking God? (15)
* Deuteronomy 6:15 "for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land."
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>What does it mean to test God? (16; Ex. 17:1-7)
* Deuteronomy 6:16 "Do not test the Lord your God as you did at Massah."
* Exodus 17:1-7 "The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?" But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?" Then Moses cried out to the Lord, "What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me." The Lord answered Moses, "Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?"
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>Instead, what should they do? (17-19)
* Deuteronomy 6:17-19 "Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. Do what is right and good in the Lord's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers, thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the Lord said."
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III. When Your Son Asks (20-25)
>7. What are they to teach children in the future? (20-23)
* Deuteronomy 6:20-23 "In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the Lord our God has commanded you?" tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Before our eyes the Lord sent miraculous signs and wonders--great and terrible--upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers."
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>In loving God, why is training children in the Lord so important? (Ps. 127:3-4; Mt. 28:18-20)
* Psalms 127:3-4 "Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth."
* Matthew 28:18-20 "Then Jesus came to them and said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.'"
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>8. Why was the law given?
* Deuteronomy 6:24 "The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today."
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>What did the law have potential to do? (25)
* Deuteronomy 6:25 "And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness."
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>Why didn't it? (Rom. 7:7-20)
* Romans 7:7-20 "What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.
9 Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing.
20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."
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>What did God change in this age? (Heb. 10:15-17)
* Hebrews 10:15-17 "The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: 'This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.' Then he adds: 'Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.'"
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