THE ROAD TO EMMAUS Deuteronomy

Complete the verses from Deuteronomy QUIZ Complete the verses from Deuteronomy For the answers, look up the verses in the English Standard Version.

THEME The covenant LORD loves and is faithful to His covenant people. They should love and be faithful to Him as well.

COVENANT TREATY ELEMENT OF TREATY PASSAGE Preamble 1:1-5 Historical Prologue 1:6-4:43 Stipulations 4:44-Ch. 26 Document Clauses Ch. 27 Blessings & Curses Ch. 28 Oaths & Ratification Chs. 29-30 Witnesses Ch. 31-32:47

YAHWEH’S FAITHFULNESS Deut 1:10-11 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven. May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!

YAHWEH’S FAITHFULNESS Deut 1:21 See, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.

YAHWEH’S FAITHFULNESS Deut 4:35-38 To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him. Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day…

YAHWEH’S FAITHFULNESS Deut 4:39-40 Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.

THE SHEMA Deut 7:8 But it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

THE SHEMA Deut 6:4-5 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.

THE SHEMA Deut 6:4-5 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.

THE SHEMA Deut 6:6-9 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, 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. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

ISRAEL’S LAWS LAW PRESCRIPTIVE DESCRIPTIVE Basis God’s character Cultural context Nature Unchanging principle Varied application Example Shema (Deut 6) Mixed fabrics

ST. AUGUSTINE “The truly equitable law of Almighty God is the law by which each age and place forms rules of conduct best suited to itself, although the law itself is always and everywhere the same and does not differ from place to place or from age to age.” “Surely it is never wrong at any time or in any place for a man to love God with his whole heart and his whole soul and his whole mind and to love his neighbor as himself.”

THE ESSENCE OF THE LAW Deut 10:12-13 And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good? Deut 10:14-16 Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

THE ESSENCE OF THE LAW Deut 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. Deut 10:18-19 He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

COVENANT BLESSINGS AND CURSES

COVENANT BLESSINGS AND CURSES Deut 30:1-3 And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you, and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you…

THE GREAT HIGH PROPHET Deut 18:15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers--it is to him you shall listen. Acts 3:22 Moses said, 'The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.

SCHEDULE HOMEWORK: Identify some descriptive laws and how they can be practiced today. Read Joshua and Judges NEXT WEEK: JOSHUA & JUDGES