Decide to Commit
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4 “Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.
5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6 These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.
7 Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.
9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
This is one of the most important passages to the Jewish People.
Even today, they repeat verses 4-5 twice a day as a part of their prayers.
The 10 commandments hang on this.
There are some wonderful applications about our dedication and commitment to the Lord that comes out in these verses
They answer 3 key questions
Who is God?
Who is God?
4 “Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One.
The Jews use this passage as a theological argument against the Trinity. But the concept of the trinity does not violate the oneness of God.
This is so foundational because it declares who God is , and what He is like.
Faith comes by hearing. We are told to hear.
Who He is- LORD - Yahweh- He’s the God who revealed himself to Moses in the burning bush. He’s the God who delivered the Jewish people from Egypt, and through the Red sea, and for 40 years of wandering.
I am that I am . Not I was what I was. We don’t live off a dead God. No, He is a right now God.
What He’s like. He is one! There is no other God. No idol. Nothing made by hand. You are not god. nothing you have is god. nothing you desire is god. nothing you could ever get would be god. He alone is God.
Will you love Him?
Will you love Him?
5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Love- to desire, to breath after-
God wants us to desire Him… not what he can provide for us or do for us, but HIM. He is the God of the universe, and is worthy of our love and devotion and commitment.
And he wants it all.. heart soul and might. Everything.
This leaves no room for double minded, halfhearted, on again off again devotion to the Lord.
It leaves no room for multiple devotions.
This is a reminder that God is to be our first love.
Do you love Him above everything else in your life?
How will you show it?
How will you show it?
6 These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.
7 Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.
9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
From your heart
From your heart
6 These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.
We are again reminded that it is not outward following of rules that shows we love God. We do it from our heart.
Because I love God, I want to understand His Word, Not for information, but transformation.
We sometimes get it in our mind that if we can jump through enough hoops, and do enough right stuff for long enough God will love us and accept us. I think this comes sometimes from a misunderstanding of the law. or some earthly relationship where we think if we can just do enough… thats outwardly.. God wants our hearts, because if he has our hearts, he has US.
With your family
With your family
7 Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
This is technically indoctrination. Today, indoctrination has a very negative connotation. It is usually used to describe brainwashing someone. Drilling something into someone’s head without thinking it through.
When the Bible teaches us to be able to give a defense of the hope that is in us, it doesn’t mean to simply regurgitate what what we blindly have come to accept. We are to grasp, and understand, and our faith.
How does that happen? By regular, ongoing, repetitive teaching.
Over the last several years I have noticed how parents do this with other things.
they will hire tutors to help kids drill on taking the ACT
They will throw a ball for hours with their kids and send them to all kids of camps.
But when it comes to the Word of God and spiritual things, we are often too haphazard. We just leave it to the “professionals”.
Here Moses insists that faithful moms and dads teach their children.. in the home… on a regular diet.
Moses knew what we need to know. The godless people of the land would seek to steal the souls of their children, and they would have to drill down deep with their kids
In the Public
In the Public
8 Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.
9 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Finally Moses instructs them to be public about their faith.
First, with their bodies.
Even today we see ultra orthodox Jews with little boxes on their heads and leather straps on their forearms, and tassels on their prayer shawls.
Think about how we could apply this to today. When wear a shirt with Scripture on it, we are doing the same thing. When we dress modestly we do the same thing.
And then in and on the home. Today many homes still have the Mezuzah hanging on their doorpost. Its a small canister that holds this passage of Scripture.
How can we do this as modern day followers of Jesus?
Our homes should be noticeably “Christian”. The decorations. Scripture on walls. Our homes should be a part of our witness to the way Jesus has changed our lives through the Word.!