Assemble to the Lord The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (2) Assembling as one people to the Lord is of the utmost importance. “Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths…” Exodus 31:13 Central to the maintenance of a vital covenant relationship with God was the spiritual discipline of assembling as one ...
Seek the Lord The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (2) The Word of God teaches us to seek Him. The LORD called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings ...
Seek the Lord The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (2) The Word of God teaches us to seek Him. The LORD called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings ...
Hear the Word of the Lord The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (2) Active engagement with spiritual disciplines begins with the Word of God. “Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD ...
Passive Disciplines The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (1) God is actively involved in disciplining His people. “For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” Deuteronomy 13:3 God knows that active disciplines alone ...
Active Disciplines The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (1) The work of spiritual discipline has two aspects. “See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them…” Deuteronomy 4:5 We have seen that God is the source to Whom we look for ...
Love the Lord The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline(1) When we fear God as we ought, we will love Him as He desires. “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to ...
Fear the Lord The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (1) Spiritual discipline begins in the soul’s attitude toward God. “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to ...
The Source of Spiritual Disciplines The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (1) Even the discipline we need is an act of God’s grace. “Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your ...
Why Spiritual Disciplines? The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (1) Our sinful nature makes spiritual disciplines most necessary. When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go ...