Love and Obey Deuteronomy 6

 

Deuteronomy 6 – Love and Obey

 God’s Love is expressed in Law, the great principle of law is love. You and I express our love for God in our obedience. Salvation is a love affair. “We love Him, because He first loved us.”  I John 4:19. The heart attitude of people is evidenced in their obedience or disobedience. The most wonderful thing in heaven will be to see the Lord Jesus and realize fully that He loves me and that He gave Himself for me. God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  He is one Jehovah.  “And thou shall love the Lord thy God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, and will all your strength….thou shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Mark 12:28-31.  To learn to love Him, we must sit at His feet and come to know Him.  There is no such thing as loving God and hating His people.  We must be careful about saying we love Him and then showing our hatred to other believers.

 

God warns the Israelites that they should not forget Him after they get in the land and experience His blessings.  It is a strange thing that when people are blessed, they tend to forget the One who blesses them.

God had brought His people out of the land of Egypt.  His purpose is to bring them into the Promised land.  God has saved us out of death and sin and judgment.  He brings us into the body of Christ, into the place of blessing, into fellowship with Himself, and finally, into Heaven itself.  I have been saved.  We have eternal life.  I am being saved.  “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do His good pleasure.”  Phil. 2:12-13.  I shall be saved.  “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.” I John 3:2

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and New King James Bible.