DeuteronomySecond Law – Summing

Up the Law Given at Sinai

Moses’ Farewell Speeches – Preparation

for Promised Land

The SettingPlains of Moab

Wilderness Wanderings Over

Entry into the Promised Land lies just

before them!

ContentRemember the Past (Ch.1-4)No Other God (Ch. 5-28)Covenant Renewal (Ch. 29-30)Epilogue (Ch. 31-34)

RememberGod’s Deliverance from EgyptGod’s Care in the WildernessGod’s Invitation to Relationship and shared life - Covenant

ShemaDeuteronomy 6:4-5Israel’s Great Confession The Church’s First and Greatest Commandment

The ShemaHear, O Israel, the

LORD is our God, the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD

your God with all your heart, and with all your soul (being), and with

all your might.

How do we live this out?

Deuteronomy 10:12-22Fear God

Walk in God’s WaysLove God

Serve God whole-heartedly

Keep God’s Commandments

Pilgrim Festivals

Passover/Unleavened Bread Deliverance From Egypt

Feast of Weeks /Pentecost Giving of the Law on Sinai

Feast of Booths/ Tabernacles Provision in the Wilderness

Covenant Renewal

To promote loyalty, allegiance, and devotion to God

God’s promise to his people – the

circumcision of the heart

Blessings (for obedience) and Curses

(for disobedience)

Covenant Renewal

Deuteronomy 30:15-20I have set before you today

life… and death…If you obey… you shall live…If you turn away… you shall

not…

CHOOSE LIFE… that you may live!

Deuteronomy’s Theological

Themes1. FAITHFULNESS

All the promises God made to Abraham (land, people, and blessing) are now about to come true as the people enter into the Promised Land

Deuteronomy’s Theological

Themes2. REMEMBER Everything God has done

– deliverance from Egypt, covenant at Sinai, provision in the wilderness is to be remembered annually in our festivals of worship – lest we forget

Deuteronomy’s Theological

Themes3. COVENANT Our life with God is one

of covenant relationship – I will be your God, you will be my people. God is tenaciously loyal to this relationship and asks us to be loyal as well.

Deuteronomy’s Theological

Themes4. SHEMA Our faith response to

God is to love God with all our heart, to fear and serve God with all that is within us, and to pattern all of our life after the character of this God of love.

Deuteronomy’s Theological

Themes5. LIFE God’s gift to us is LIFE –

It is God who created life, redeemed life from bondage, cared for life in crisis, and invites us into shared life forever. CHOOSE LIFE!