As we continue in Deuteronomy, we will look at the choice of life and the opportunity given us to choose life, to...
Join Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and Sabbath School Bible Study Guide editor Clifford Goldstein, as they...
It’s a principle of existence: whatever conceives of and creates something must be greater than and transcend what it...
If the promise was given us “before time began,” it certainly couldn’t be from our works because we didn’t even exist...
Moses repeats the basic commandment to rest on the seventh-day Sabbath, but he gives it an added emphasis. That is,...
Out of love for His people, God gave them His law, and obedience to His law would be “for your good.”
Deuteronomy could be seen as one big object lesson in grace and law. By grace God redeems us, doing for us what we...
God is a God of love, and love is the overarching principle of His character and the foundation of His government.
Even if expressed in different ways and in various scenarios, the theme of law and grace certainly is found all...
How are we responding to what we have been given? How well are we projecting our “wisdom and understanding” before...
They were to live out the truths that the Lord had given them, and they could do that only by obeying them. All the...
The purpose of making them great was that they could be a “blessing” (Gen. 12:2) to “all the families of the earth”...
They, the people, were to cleave (cling) to their God. That is, they were to give themselves to Him and to draw power...
Israel was to be a witness to the pagan nations around them of the true God—the only God. They were to be an example...
When you think about the history of ancient Israel, you see that in many ways they got in trouble because not only...
By the time we get to chapter 4, the history lesson shifts more into a sermonic mode. The recounting of events wasn’t...
We can worship on the right day and understand the truth about death, hell, the mark of the beast, and so forth. But...
If Israel were to be a witness, a holy people walking in truth amid a world steeped in error, idolatry, evil, and...
As believers, we have been called to reflect the character of God. When Moses talked about the power and majesty of...
When it came to “human rights,” the stranger, the widow, the orphan needed to be treated with the same fairness and...
Yahweh is the God of gods and Lord of lords, the sovereign Ruler and Sustainer of the creation (Col. 1:16, 17), but...
Circumcision was a sign of the covenant, but it’s only an outward sign. God wanted their hearts; that is, their...
Jesus linked love for God and love for one’s neighbor into one commandment, and that commandment was the greatest of...
The One who “upheld the unnumbered worlds through the vast realms of space” was the One who went to the cross for us.
In many ways, the Old Testament forms the background, the context, the basis for the New. Both testaments reveal the...
Just as God doesn’t merely say He loves us but has revealed that love for us by what He has done and still does,...
God’s love for us predated our existence, in that the plan of salvation was in place way before “the foundation of...
