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...
Join Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and Sabbath School Bible Study Guide editor Clifford Goldstein, as they...
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...
The fear of God—in the sense of awe and respect for who He is, His authority and power and justice and righteousness,...
In the midst of the law, in the midst of all the warnings, rules, and provisions, the people are called to love God....
In the Jewish religion, one of the most important prayers is taken from Deuteronomy 6. It is known as “the Shema.”
Even before the foundation of the world, the Father and Son had “united in a covenant” to redeem us if the race fell.
The idea of a covenant, a legal agreement between two parties, with rules and stipulations and regulations, can seem...
By having entered into the covenant with God, they were to be a special people, a witness to the world of the God who...
Though the idea of covenant, to describe God’s relationship with His people, is found all through the Bible, this...
It was because of the promise made to the fathers that God’s grace was given to their future generations. In Moses’...
Though the idea of covenant existed before the nation of Israel, and though the covenant promise was made before the...
The essence of the gospel is covenant, and the essence of the covenant is the gospel.
What are some of the ways that God led you in the past that can help you learn to trust Him for the future?
In Deuteronomy 2 and 3, Moses continues to recount Israelite history and how, with God’s blessing, they routed their...
Ultimately, everything that God had wanted to do with Israel wasn’t just for the sake of Israel; it also was for...
Even when the Lord was so powerfully present among them, there was the need for organization, for structure, for a...
God’s prophetic Word is as trustworthy as God Himself, and what we see here in the opening verses of Deuteronomy is...
All through the Bible, the presence of Moses is felt. And though he’s not mentioned until Exodus 2:2, he had written...
Deuteronomy reveals how the Lord continued to create, sustain, and redeem His people at this crucial time in...
With obedience so central to the whole Bible, what then is legalism? What factors can turn an attempt to be faithful...
Though they were the chosen people, though they had entered freely into the covenant with the Lord, they didn’t keep...
God called them out, the seed, the descendants of the fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And with these descendants...
