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 ...
God Is Self-Revealing The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Vision (1) We could not know God unless He deigned to make Himself known to us. The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping ...
God Is Gracious The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Vision (1) The Sovereign God of the Covenant is gracious. “The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the earth. It was not because you were more in ...
God Is Sovereign The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Vision (1) Nothing can stand against the purposes and power of God. “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?’ you shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the ...
God Is Holy The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Vision (1) The eternal Three-in-One God is holy. And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.” Leviticus ...
God Is Eternal The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Vision (1) The Three-in-One God of the Law is eternal. And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘The LORD, the God ...