Deprivation The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (3) When we ignore or disobey God’s Law, He can withdraw His blessings. “The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your ...
Oppression The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (3) If we won’t help one another, God may employ outsiders. “The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them.” Deuteronomy 28:25 When God’s people fail to hold ...
Judgments The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (3) God’s people are responsible to exercise judgment with one another. “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.” Deuteronomy ...
Temptation The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (3) Temptations will come. Will we be ready for them? “So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.” Deuteronomy 8:6 As would have been evident through Israel’s experience in the wilderness, temptations ...
Trials and Tests The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (3) The discipline of the Lord is typically not pleasant. “And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was ...
The Discipline of the Lord The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (3) God brings discipline to His people in a variety of ways. “Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.” Deuteronomy 8:5 Besides the active spiritual disciplines which are revealed ...
Singing to the Lord Singing is a vitally important spiritual discipline. “Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.” Deuteronomy 31.19 Moses was about to die and ...
Self-Watch The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (2) Each believer is responsible to keep watch over his own soul. “…if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took…” Leviticus 6:4 Sin is a powerful force in our lives today, just as it was in the days ...
Remember the Lord The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (2) We must devote ourselves to keeping the Lord in the forefront of our minds. “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.… You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they ...
Mutual Instruction The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (2) God’s people were expected to remind one another of His Word. “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when ...