Handouts: Study Packet, Pages 1-3 (white)
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2018
- Devotion 2 Presentations: Be ready for your presentation day!
- Devotion 3 Outline: Due March 13th. Re-read the instructions (this lists your Devotion 3 Book Choices). Learn from your previous ones & start this early & make it good!
Journal 7-3: Study Packet, Page 17
Read Deuteronomy 6:4-9, then answer…
- 1) What titles/names are used for God?
- - The Lord, our God
- 2) How is God described?
- - Being one God
- - Being our God
- 3) Summarize how are we supposed to love God?
- - With all of who we are!
- 4) Give examples of how you can love God with your…
- - Heart (Your mind, will, ‘inner person’)
- - Soul (Your passions, desires, emotions)
- - Strength (Your might, force, power)
- 5) What specific, different things is Israel supposed to do with these commands?
- 6) What ways do we use now days to remind ourselves of God’s commands?
- - They were told to talk about them regularly with their children, tie them as symbols to their hands, bind them to their foreheads, & write them on the door frames of their houses/gates
- - Today we can remind ourselves of God's Word by...
Deuteronomy 1-4 - Learning from History: Study Packet, Page 3
- Theology:
- - God desires a faithful and blessed relationship with His people- - God faithfully loves His people, even through their sin
- - - He will not forget His promises or covenants
- - God reminds His people of what they need to know
- Anthropology:
- - We each need to personally respond to God
- - - Our parents cannot do it for us
- - We should help each other remember God's truth
- - If we seek for God with our all, we will find Him
Deut. 5-28) Covenant Reminders: Study Packet, Page 2
- A Loving God:
- - In multiple places Moses reminds Israel of God's great love for them (5:10, 7:8-9, 7:13, 10:15, 23:5, 33:3)
- The Shema: 6:4-9) Hearing and Obeying God
- - It is a major verse in Deuteronomy frequently used by Jewish worshipers today!
- - Jesus quotes this in Mark 12:29-30 & Matthew 22:37 & Luke 10:27!
- - - It is also known as The Greatest Commandment
- - Some translation Notes:
- - - Shema: This is the first word, "Hear"
- - - - Meaning both ‘Hear & Obey’
- - - Elohim: "The LORD our God/Elohim" Literally this word means 'gods', a plural word!
- - - - This could be for two reasons; sometimes a plural word would be used to recognize the majesty & greatness of the one being referred to.
- - - - Some also think it could be a hint or foreshadowing of the Trinity (God the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit--three persons of our one God)!
- - - The LORD is One: This truth is vital for Old Testament & New Testament! Especially after referring to God as 'Elohim,' it is emphasized that there is only one God.
- - - Heart, Soul, & Might: This means we are to love God with all of who we are!
- -- Recognize the LORD is their God & He is one
- -- Love God w/their all,
- -- Teach God's Word to their children,
- -- Apply God's word to the hearts (thoughts) & actions, &
- -- Put reminders of God's Word all around
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