Through The Bible | Week 26

Lynch Pin Theme:

a. The Basic Fact

Deuteronomy 6:4–5 NKJV

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

shama: heard, hear, listen

Original Word: שָׁמַע Part of Speech: verb feminine; verb masculine Transliteration: shama` Pronunciation: shah-MAH Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-mah') KJV: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness  NASB: heard, hear, listen, listened, hears, obey, obeyed Word Origin: [a primitive root] 1. to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc 2. causatively, to tell, etc.)

Shema - implies more than listening. It implies compliance and obedience. It is a call to act on what one has heard. The indicates also the distinctness and closeness with God and his people.

Deuteronomy 4:7–8 NKJV

7 “For what great nation is there that has God so near to it, as the Lord our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him? 8 And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?

Mono-Theism

(One - God)

When you go into your promise, make sure you only have one God!

Love Yaweh

Meditate on all his commands

Teach his commandments generationally

Live by God’s Guidelines.

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The Heart - The Center of every spiritual Activity. The “inner man”

Soul- Nephesh the life of man. Obey in your very life

Matthew 22:37–39 NKJV

37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Life vs Information application in Teaching our children?

What are some ways we can incorporate the daily living events into teachable moments in our families?

b. The Basic Truth

Deuteronomy 6:23 NKJV

23 Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers.

Romans 8:1 NKJV

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Romans 8:2 NKJV

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

Galatians 2:20 NKJV

20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Ephesians 1:3–4 NKJV

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

Ephesians 2:19 NKJV

19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

1 Thessalonians 5:23–24 NKJV

23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.