Judgments 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 16:18 The work of judges was only a more formal ...
Temptation 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 to forget the Lord and to turn from ...
Trials and Tests 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 in your heart, whether you would keep his ...
The Discipline of the Lord 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 in God’s Law—seeking Him, assembling to Him, hearing Him, ...
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 the people ...
Self-Watch 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 of ancient Israel. We can be so blinded ...
Remember the Lord 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 shall be as frontlets between your eyes.” Deuteronomy 6:6, 8 God is ...
Mutual Instruction 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 you sit in your house, and when you walk by the ...
Assemble to the Lord 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 before the Lord. Of only one of the Ten ...
Seek the Lord 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 an offering to the LORD….” Leviticus 1:1 The Covenant between God ...