Deuteronomy 10:11-13 –
“Go,” the Lord said
to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess
the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.” And now, Israel, what does
the Lord your God ask of
you but to fear the Lord your
God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today
for your own good?
Micah
6:8 – He has shown
you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and
to walk humbly with your God.
Exodus
20:20 – Moses said to the people,
“Do not be afraid. God has come to test you,
so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you
from sinning.”
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Kings 2:2-4 – “I am
about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, act like a man, and observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in obedience to
him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in
the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and
wherever you go and that the Lord may keep his promise to me: ‘If your
descendants watch how they live, and if they walk faithfully before me with all their
heart and soul, you will never fail to have a successor on the throne of
Israel.’
Deuteronomy
6:5,13 – Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your strength…Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and
take your oaths in his name.
Genesis
20:11 – Abraham replied, “I said to
myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in
this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’
Deuteronomy
4:29,37-38 – But if from there you
seek the Lord your
God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and
with all your soul…Because he loved your ancestors and
chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence
and his great strength, to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you
and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.
- · “Act justly…love mercy” is the kind of obedience God expects from His covenant people.
- · Do not think that God’s display of His majesty is intended simply to fill you with abject fear. He has come to enter into covenant with you as your heavenly King.
- · Walk in obedience to him was a characteristic expression of Deuteronomy for obedience to covenant obligations.
- · In ancient Israel’s world, when appealed to the gods to affirm and uphold their oaths, they singled out the divine power or powers they most revered. For this reason, to take an oath in the Lord’s name was a key sign of loyalty to and trust in Him and of the rejection of all other gods, even an implicit denial that they amounted to anything or even existed.
- · Primarily in view here is the love shown by a subject to a king. To love King Yahweh is to be His loyal and obedient servant. Love for God and neighbor is built on the love that the Lord has for His people and on His identification with them. Such love is to be total, involving one’s whole being.
- · “Fear” has the sense of reverential trust in God and commitment to His revealed will.
- · “With all your heart and…soul” indicates total involvement and commitment. The phrase is applied not only to how the Lord’s people should seek Him but also to how they should fear Him, live in obedience to Him, love and serve Him, and, after forsaking Him, renew their allegiance and commitment to Him.
- · God’s people should love Him.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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