Deuteronomy 6_4_9 The Great Command

Intro: There is a lot going on here in the good old U.S.A and times seems to be pretty good. I read the headlines of a newspaper Thursday and learned the President has been acquitted so he will run for reelection with his campaign slogan being “Keep America Great.” The stock market is at record highs and I talked to a friend who told me his 401K grew 31% last year. There is a new car about to come on the scene in six zip codes of Houston the R2 from Nuro, it is a self-driving car it will begin delivering pizza from Dominos and perhaps groceries from Walmart.

We are more prosperous than any country the World has ever seen, in fact our poorest seem like pocket millionaires in countries like Peru and Malawi Africa. Yet they have something we don’t have….. Christianity is spreading like wildfire… People are being saved in South America and on the African Continent left and right. Revival has broken loose yet we say and pray here in the good ole U.S.A. We need revival can I tell you this morning that God is still working here but it is cold hard fact that we have left out 1st love, you see when times are good you are more likely to see no need for God, you are more likely to say “see what I have done, see what I have amassed.” But the truth is that all you have comes from the very hand of God, and it is for this reason this text is given to the Israelites.

Orientate: Kadesh-Barnea drawing close to the Jordan across from Jericho, they are about to enter into a land that God has given them, A land with crops and fields already planted, homes already built, a land flowing with Milk and Honey. A fertile prosperous land that there hands did not have to Labor for. The Ten Commandments are re-given (2nd Law), for the remind the people to remember the Lord thy God when they enter into the good life lest they forget where it came from and who delivered them from the hands of slavery in Egypt.

CPS: We are to Love thy Lord our God with the totality of our being and teach our children lest we forget the Lord thy God and our great deliverance.

The greatest Command is to Love God with the totality of our being. Vs. 4-6

Luke 10:27 Matt. 22:37 Mark 12:29-30 1 Cor. 8:4 (allusion) Josh 22:5

Hear = Listen “Shema” which means to hear. It was the confession of faith for the Jews (people of God)

The Lord thy God – very personal. He is your God the One true God to be loved, praised, worshipped.

Lord = Yehôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw´; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:

God =ʾĕlôhîym, el-o-heem´; gods in the ordinary sense; but spec used of the supreme God;

One = Alone. Some translations “unique”

Love for Jesus – John 8:42

Love = ʾâhab, aw-hab´; to have affection for

All = Whole or entire

Heart

Soul

Might

Undivided allegiance and unswerving obedience

Our love towards everything else we hold dear should look like hate compared to our Love for the Lord.

Transitional Sentence: When this Love is first in your heart then you are to depart it to your Children so it may dwell in their heart

The greatest Command is to be taught to our Children so they will love the Lord with the Totality of their being. Vs. 7-9

Teach-Talk (same word)

Bind

Write

Spiritual not legalistic. The word of God should guide our Actions {hand} and our desires {eyes}

Matt. 23:5/Ex. 13:16 (phylacteries) Ex. 13:9 (sign) Dt. 11:18 (sign and frontals)

Eph. 6:4 (instruct your children in the Lord)

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Conclusion: What was the purpose of this command? It was so the Jews would not forget the Lord who saved them with a mighty hand out of slavery. He pleaded passionately for them to keep God at the center of their national life once they settled in the land. He gave them the Ten commandments as a way to teach them the right relations with God and man and that redeemed people demonstrate their love and faith by their obedience. But we are not Israel and we were not saved from slavery in Egypt yet I say this was a great foreshadowing of the salvation offered to Jew and Gentile through the Passover Blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. So, this pertains to us, current day believers let us not forget the great salvation. To bring this to a close, Jehovah Elohim is our personal God and we must give Him undivided allegiance and unswerving obedience, and by teaching this to our children we ensure the following generations do the same.

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