Believers Are to Avoid Idols and Worship God AloneThe Chosen Place of Worship12 “Be careful to follow these statutes and ordinances in the land that Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days you live on the earth. 2 Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green ...  Read More

LOVEApply The TextBelievers demonstrate their love for God by obeying His commands.We are to be intentional about putting God at the center of our lives, making everything else revolve around Him.Remembering God’s past faithfulness helps us follow God’s commands today.How ready are you to explain your faith to your children and/or grandchildren? What would you tell them if they asked? Share with y...  Read More

 1. Do you truly read God’s Word with the intent to obey? (Deuteronomy 5:1) This week, set aside time each day to thoughtfully read Scripture, asking God to reveal one truth you can apply.  Be open to hearing AND obeying.2. Is there anything you’ve unknowingly placed above God? (Deuteronomy 5:7) Take time to honestly reflect.  Is there anything you value more than your relationship with God? If so...  Read More

Deuteronomy 6:10-19 (HCSB)Remembering God through Obedience10 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would give you—a land with large and beautiful cities that you did not build, 11 houses full of every good thing that you did not fill them with, wells dug that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plan...  Read More

Deuteronomy 6:1-9 (HCSB)The Greatest Command6 “This is the command—the statutes and ordinances—the Lord your God has instructed me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess. 2 Do this so that you may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life by keeping all His statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you m...  Read More

Deuteronomy 5:22-33  (HCSB)The People’s Response22 “The Lord spoke these commands in a loud voice to your entire assembly from the fire, cloud, and thick darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me. 23 All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing...  Read More

Our Relationship With God is Defined by LoveDeuteronomy 5:1-21  (HCSB)The Ten Commandments5 Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully. 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3 He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here to...  Read More

REMEMBERApply The TextWe are to obey God’s commands.We are to value and seek the wisdom that comes from the Lord.We can rejoice that God has called us to be His people.What makes worship, worship? What makes worship meaningful to you? What hinders your worship? What can you do to help eliminate those hindrances? Be ready to discuss your thoughts with your Bible study group.If God’s Word gives us w...  Read More

What does it look like to live a lifestyle of obedience to God? Who is our sense of authority? Who are we choosing to submit to?Where are you placing your trust?What is your true passion? How are you spending your personal time?...  Read More

Deuteronomy 4:32-40  (HCSB)32 “Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created man on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of? 33 Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived? 34 Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his ...  Read More

Deuteronomy 4:25-31  (HCSB)25 “When you have children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, and if you act corruptly, make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, provoking Him to anger, 26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess....  Read More

Deuteronomy 4:15-24  (HCSB)Worshiping the True God15 “For your own good, be extremely careful—because you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb— 16 not to act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure: a male or female form, 17 or the form of any beast on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky, 18 any creature that c...  Read More