Deut_05.ppt ten commandments blessings and cursing

commandments toward god and men

1. © John Stevenson, 2010
Deuteronomy 5-11Deuteronomy 5-11

2. 1:11:1 PreamblePreamble
1:61:6 Historical PrologueHistorical Prologue
5:15:1
StipulationsStipulations
12:112:1
Ten Ten
CommandmentsCommandments
Related Related
CommandmentsCommandments
27:127:1 Blessings & CursingsBlessings & Cursings
31:131:1 SuccessionSuccession

3. Deuteronomy 5:1 Deuteronomy 5:1
Then Moses summoned all
Israel and said to them: “Hear, O
Israel, the statutes and the
ordinances which I am speaking
today in your hearing, that you may
learn them and observe them
carefully.”

4. Deuteronomy 5:1 Deuteronomy 5:1
Then Moses summoned all
Israel and said to them: “Hear, O
Israel, the statutes and the
ordinances which I am speaking
today in your hearing, that you may
learn them and observe them
carefully.”
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5. Deuteronomy 5:4-5 Deuteronomy 5:4-5
The LORD spoke to you face to
face at the mountain from the midst
of the fire, 5 while I was standing
between the LORD and you at that
time, to declare to you the word of
the LORD; for you were afraid
because of the fire and did not go up
the mountain. He said…

6. Toward God
•No other Gods
•No idols
•God’s name is
to be holy
•The Sabbath
•Respect for parents
•No murder
•No adultery
•No stealing
•No false witness
•No coveting
Toward Men

7. All of these Laws…All of these Laws…
•Are Perfect
•Are Spiritual
–While some of them resemble laws of
society, they far surpass those laws in
their intent (see what Jesus had to
say about the Law in His Sermon on
the Mount).

8. All of these Laws…All of these Laws…
•Are Perfect
•Are Spiritual
•Have a corresponding corollary
–When a duty is commanded, there is
a contrary sin which is forbidden;
when a sin is forbidden, there is a
contrary duty which is being
commanded.

9. All of these Laws…All of these Laws…
•Are Perfect
•Are Spiritual
•Have a corresponding corollary
•Are not merely a moral code; they
are also covenantal stipulations
–They contain cursing and blessing
formulas interspersed throughout the
commands.

10. Deuteronomy 5:7 Deuteronomy 5:7
You shall have no other gods
before Me.
Does this command Does this command
acknowledge the acknowledge the
existence of other gods?existence of other gods?

11. This command forbids…This command forbids…
•Atheism
•Idolatry
•Materialism
•Spiritual carelessness
Deuteronomy 5:7 Deuteronomy 5:7
You shall have no other gods
before Me.
•Selfishness
•Pride
•Unbelief

12. •Is a form of spiritual adultery Is a form of spiritual adultery
(Jeremiah 3:8-10)(Jeremiah 3:8-10)
•Is the natural outgrowth of Is the natural outgrowth of
rebellion against God rebellion against God
(Romans 1:212-23)(Romans 1:212-23)
Deuteronomy 5:8 Deuteronomy 5:8
You shall not make for yourself
an idol, or any likeness of what is in
heaven above or on the earth
beneath or in the water under the
earth.

13. Deuteronomy 5:9-10 Deuteronomy 5:9-10
You shall not worship them or
serve them; for I, the LORD your
God, am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers on the children,
and on the third and the fourth
generations of those who hate Me, 10
but showing lovingkindness to
thousands, to those who love Me and
keep My commandments.

14. Deuteronomy 5:11 Deuteronomy 5:11
You shall not take the name of
the LORD your God in vain, for the
LORD will not leave him unpunished
who takes His name in vain.

15. •The using of the Lord’s name
in a vulgar or common way.
•The taking of God’s name in
a light or jesting way.
•Insincere prayer.
•The violation of our oaths
and vows.

16. Deuteronomy 5:12-14 Deuteronomy 5:12-14
Observe the sabbath day to
keep it holy, as the LORD your God
commanded you. 13 Six days you
shall labor and do all your work, 14 but
the seventh day is a sabbath of the
LORD your God; in it you shall not do
any work…

17. Exodus 20:11
For in six days the
LORD made the
heavens and the earth,
the sea and all that is
in them, and rested on
the seventh day;
therefore the LORD
blessed the sabbath
day and made it holy.
Deuteronomy 5:15
You shall remember
that you were a slave in
the land of Egypt, and
the LORD your God
brought you out of there
by a mighty hand and
by an outstretched arm;
therefore the LORD
your God commanded
you to observe the
sabbath day.

19. Deuteronomy 5:16 Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your
mother, as the LORD your God has
commanded you, that your days may
be prolonged and that it may go well
with you on the land which the LORD
your God gives you.

20. The last five of the commandments
are joined together with the waw
conjunctive (“and”).
•No murder!
•And no adultery!
•And no stealing!
•And no bearing of false witness!
•And no coveting…

21. •No murder!
•And no adultery!
•And no stealing!
•And no bearing of false witness!
•And no coveting…

22. Deuteronomy 5:21Deuteronomy 5:21
You shall not covet your
neighbor’s wife, and you shall not
desire your neighbor’s house, his
field or his male servant or his female
servant, his ox or his donkey or
anything that belongs to your
neighbor.

23. Deuteronomy 5:22 Deuteronomy 5:22
These words the LORD spoke
to all your assembly at the mountain
from the midst of the fire, of the cloud
and of the thick gloom, with a great
voice, and He added no more. He
wrote them on two tablets of stone
and gave them to me.

24. Deuteronomy 5Deuteronomy 5 Deuteronomy 6Deuteronomy 6

25. Deuteronomy 6:1Deuteronomy 6:1
Now this is the commandment,
the statutes and the judgments which
the LORD your God has commanded
me to teach you, that you might do
them in the land where you are going
over to possess it…

26. Deuteronomy 6:2Deuteronomy 6:2
…so that you and your son and your
grandson might fear the LORD your
God, to keep all His statutes and His
commandments which I command
you, all the days of your life, and that
your days may be prolonged.

27. Deuteronomy 6:4Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our
God, the LORD is one!
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28. Deuteronomy 6:4Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our
God, the LORD is one!
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29. Deuteronomy 6:4Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our
God, the LORD is one!

30. Deuteronomy 6:4Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our
God, the LORD is one!
And I will bring the third part through the
fire, refine them as silver is refined, and
test them as gold is tested. They will call
on My name, and I will answer them; I
will say, “They are My people,” And they
will say, “The LORD is my God.”
(Zechariah 13:9).

31. Deuteronomy 6:5Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your might.
““This is the great and foremost This is the great and foremost
commandment” (Matthew 22:38).commandment” (Matthew 22:38).

32. Deuteronomy 6:5Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your might.

33. Deuteronomy 6:5Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your might.
But whoever has the world’s goods, But whoever has the world’s goods,
and beholds his brother in need and and beholds his brother in need and
closes his heart against him, how closes his heart against him, how
does the love of God abide in him? does the love of God abide in him?
(1 John 3:17).(1 John 3:17).

34. Deuteronomy 6:6-7Deuteronomy 6:6-7
These words, which I am
commanding you today, shall be on
your heart. 7 You shall teach them
diligently to your sons and shall talk
of them when you sit in your house
and when you walk by the way and
when you lie down and when you rise
up.

35. Deuteronomy 6:8Deuteronomy 6:8
You shall bind
them as a sign on
your hand and they
shall be as frontals
on your forehead.

36. Deuteronomy 6:9Deuteronomy 6:9
You shall write them
on the doorposts of your
house and on your gates.

37. Deuteronomy 6:10-11Deuteronomy 6:10-11
Then it shall come about when
the LORD your God brings you into
the land which He swore to your
fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
to give you, great and splendid cities
which you did not build, 11 and
houses full of all good things which
you did not fill, and hewn cisterns
which you did not dig, vineyards and
olive trees which you did not plant,
and you eat and are satisfied…

38. Deuteronomy 6:12Deuteronomy 6:12
…then watch yourself, that you do
not forget the LORD who brought you
from the land of Egypt, out of the
house of slavery.

39. Deuteronomy 6:13Deuteronomy 6:13
You shall fear only the LORD
your God; and you shall worship Him
and swear by His name.

40. Deuteronomy 6:14-15Deuteronomy 6:14-15
You shall not follow other gods,
any of the gods of the peoples who
surround you, 15 for the LORD your
God in the midst of you is a jealous
God; otherwise the anger of the
LORD your God will be kindled
against you, and He will wipe you off
the face of the earth.

41. Deuteronomy 5Deuteronomy 5Deuteronomy 6Deuteronomy 6 Deuteronomy 7Deuteronomy 7

42. Deuteronomy 7:1Deuteronomy 7:1
When the LORD your God
brings you into the land where you
are entering to possess it, and clears
away many nations before you, the
Hittites and the Girgashites and the
Amorites and the Canaanites and the
Perizzites and the Hivites and the
Jebusites, seven nations greater and
stronger than you…

43. Deuteronomy 7:2Deuteronomy 7:2
…and when the LORD your God
delivers them before you and you
defeat them, then you shall utterly
destroy them. You shall make no
covenant with them and show no
favor to them.
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44. Deuteronomy 7:3-4Deuteronomy 7:3-4
Furthermore, you shall not
intermarry with them; you shall not
give your daughters to their sons, nor
shall you take their daughters for
your sons. 4 For they will turn your
sons away from following Me to
serve other gods; then the anger of
the LORD will be kindled against you
and He will quickly destroy you.

45. Deuteronomy 7:5Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus you
shall do to them: you
shall tear down their
altars, and smash
their sacred pillars,
and hew down their
Asherim, and burn
their graven images
with fire.

46. Deuteronomy 7:6Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to the
LORD your God; the LORD your God
has chosen you to be a people for
His own possession out of all the
peoples who are on the face of the
earth.

47. Deuteronomy 7:7-8Deuteronomy 7:7-8
The LORD did not set His love
on you nor choose you because you
were more in number than any of the
peoples, for you were the fewest of
all peoples, 8 but because the LORD
loved you and kept the oath which
He swore to your forefathers, the
LORD brought you out by a mighty
hand and redeemed you from the
house of slavery, from the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt.

48. Deuteronomy 7:9-10Deuteronomy 7:9-10
Know therefore that the LORD
your God, He is God, the faithful
God, who keeps His covenant and
His lovingkindness to a thousandth
generation with those who love Him
and keep His commandments; 10 but
repays those who hate Him to their
faces, to destroy them; He will not
delay with him who hates Him, He
will repay him to his face.

49. Deuteronomy 7:11Deuteronomy 7:11
Therefore, you shall keep the
commandment and the statutes and
the judgments which I am
commanding you today, to do them.

50. Land was sworn to forefathers; obey Land was sworn to forefathers; obey
the Lord today (8:1).the Lord today (8:1).
Lessons in the wilderness (8:2-6).Lessons in the wilderness (8:2-6).
You shall remember all the way which the You shall remember all the way which the
LORD your God has led you in the LORD your God has led you in the
wilderness these forty years, that He might wilderness these forty years, that He might
humble you, testing you, to know what was humble you, testing you, to know what was
in your heart, whether you would keep His in your heart, whether you would keep His
commandments or not. (Deuteronomy 8:2).commandments or not. (Deuteronomy 8:2).

51. Land was sworn to forefathers; obey Land was sworn to forefathers; obey
the Lord today (8:1).the Lord today (8:1).
Lessons in the wilderness (8:2-6).Lessons in the wilderness (8:2-6).
The land before you is good (8:7-9).The land before you is good (8:7-9).
You will eat and be satisfied (8:10).You will eat and be satisfied (8:10).
Do not forget the Lord (8:11).Do not forget the Lord (8:11).
You will eat and be satisfied (8:12).You will eat and be satisfied (8:12).
The land before you is good (8:12-14).The land before you is good (8:12-14).
Lessons in the wilderness (8:15-17).Lessons in the wilderness (8:15-17).
God swore to your fathers; remember God swore to your fathers; remember
the Lord today (8:18).the Lord today (8:18).

52. Deuteronomy 8:3Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you and let you be
hungry, and fed you with manna
which you did not know, nor did your
fathers know, that He might make
you understand that man does not
live by bread alone, but man lives by
everything that proceeds out of the
mouth of the LORD.

53. IsraelIsrael
Led into the
wilderness
JesusJesus
Led into the
wilderness
40 years 40 days
God let them be
hungry, but then fed
them with manna
God let Him be
hungry, but then the
angels came and
ministered to Him
Worshiped idolsRefused Satan’s
temptation

54. Jesus is the Jesus is the
better Israel better Israel
who obeyed who obeyed
God and who God and who
died so that we died so that we
can enter the can enter the
promised land.promised land.

55. No other gods No other gods
before Mebefore Me
Chapter 6
Exclusive worship Exclusive worship
of the Lordof the Lord
No idolsNo idols Chapter 7
Warning against Warning against
the idols of the the idols of the
CanaanitesCanaanites
Do not take the Do not take the
Lord’s name in Lord’s name in
vainvain
Chapter 8
Beware lest you Beware lest you
forget the Lordforget the Lord
Remember the Remember the
SabbathSabbath
Chapter 9
Remember what Remember what
God did for you in God did for you in
the wildernessthe wilderness

56. Deuteronomy 9:1-2Deuteronomy 9:1-2
Hear, O Israel! You are crossing
over the Jordan today to go in to
dispossess nations greater and
mightier than you, great cities fortified
to heaven, 2 a people great and tall,
the sons of the Anakim, whom you
know and of whom you have heard it
said, “Who can stand before the sons
of Anak?”

57. Deuteronomy 9:3Deuteronomy 9:3
Know therefore today that it is
the LORD your God who is crossing
over before you as a consuming fire.
He will destroy them and He will
subdue them before you, so that you
may drive them out and destroy them
quickly, just as the LORD has
spoken to you.

58. Deuteronomy 9:4Deuteronomy 9:4
Do not say in your heart when
the LORD your God has driven them
out before you, “Because of my
righteousness the LORD has brought
me in to possess this land,” but it is
because of the wickedness of these
nations that the LORD is dis-
possessing them before you.

59. And because of the And because of the
oath God sworeoath God swore
Not because of Not because of
Israel’s Israel’s
righteousnessrighteousness
But because of But because of
the Canaanites’ the Canaanites’
sinfulnesssinfulness

60. Israel’s past history of rebellionIsrael’s past history of rebellion
•The Lord gave the tablets of the covenantThe Lord gave the tablets of the covenant
•The Israelites made a golden calfThe Israelites made a golden calf
•Moses interceded for Israel and for AaronMoses interceded for Israel and for Aaron
•The Israelites rebelled on other occasionsThe Israelites rebelled on other occasions
•Moses interceded for the peopleMoses interceded for the people
•God gave two replacement tabletsGod gave two replacement tablets

61. Deuteronomy 10:12-13Deuteronomy 10:12-13
Now, Israel, what does the
LORD your God require from you,
but to fear the LORD your God, to
walk in all His ways and love Him,
and to serve the LORD your God
with all your heart and with all your
soul, 13 and to keep the LORD’S
commandments and His statutes
which I am commanding you today
for your good?

62. Deuteronomy 10:14-15Deuteronomy 10:14-15
Behold, to the LORD your God
belong heaven and the highest
heavens, the earth and all that is in it.
15 Yet on your fathers did the LORD
set His affection to love them, and He
chose their descendants after them,
even you above all peoples, as it is
this day.
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63. Deuteronomy 10:14-15Deuteronomy 10:14-15
Behold, to the LORD your God
belong heaven and the highest
heavens, the earth and all that is in it.
15 Yet on your fathers did the LORD
set His affection to love them, and He
chose their descendants after them,
even you above all peoples, as it is
this day.
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64. Deuteronomy 10:16Deuteronomy 10:16
So circumcise your heart, and
stiffen your neck no longer.

65. Deuteronomy 10:16Deuteronomy 10:16
So circumcise your heart, and
stiffen your neck no longer.
Moreover the LORD your God will Moreover the LORD your God will
circumcise your heart and the heart circumcise your heart and the heart
of your descendants, to love the of your descendants, to love the
LORD your God with all your heart LORD your God with all your heart
and with all your soul, so that you and with all your soul, so that you
may live (Deuteronomy 30:6).may live (Deuteronomy 30:6).

66. Deuteronomy 10:17Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is the
God of gods and the Lord of lords,
the great, the mighty, and the
awesome God who does not show
partiality nor take a bribe.

67. Deuteronomy 10:18-19Deuteronomy 10:18-19
He executes justice for the
orphan and the widow, and shows
His love for the alien by giving him
food and clothing. 19 So show your
love for the alien, for you were aliens
in the land of Egypt.

68. Deuteronomy 11:8Deuteronomy 11:8
You shall therefore
keep every commandment
which I am commanding
you today, so that you
may be strong and go in
and possess the land into
which you are about to
cross to possess it…

69. Deuteronomy 11:9Deuteronomy 11:9
…so that you may prolong
your days on the land
which the LORD swore to
your fathers to give to
them and to their
descendants, a land
flowing with milk and
honey.

70. Deuteronomy 11:10Deuteronomy 11:10
For the land, into which you are
entering to possess it, is not like the
land of Egypt from which you came,
where you used to sow your seed
and water it with your foot like a
vegetable garden.

71. Deuteronomy 11:11-12Deuteronomy 11:11-12
But the land into which you are
about to cross to possess it, a land of
hills and valleys, drinks water from
the rain of heaven, 12 a land for which
the LORD your God cares; the eyes
of the LORD your God are always on
it, from the beginning even to the end
of the year.

72. Deuteronomy 11:13-14Deuteronomy 11:13-14
It shall come about, if you listen
obediently to my commandments
which I am commanding you today,
to love the LORD your God and to
serve Him with all your heart and all
your soul, 14 that He will give the rain
for your land in its season, the early
and late rain, that you may gather in
your grain and your new wine and
your oil.

73. Deuteronomy 11:16-17Deuteronomy 11:16-17
Beware that your hearts are not
deceived, and that you do not turn
away and serve other gods and
worship them. 17 Or the anger of the
LORD will be kindled against you,
and He will shut up the heavens so
that there will be no rain and the
ground will not yield its fruit; and you
will perish quickly from the good land
which the LORD is giving you.

74. Deuteronomy 11:22-23Deuteronomy 11:22-23
For if you are careful to keep all
this commandment which I am
commanding you to do, to love the
LORD your God, to walk in all His
ways and hold fast to Him, 23 then the
LORD will drive out all these nations
from before you, and you will
dispossess nations greater and
mightier than you.

75. Deuteronomy 11:24Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place on
which the sole of your
foot treads shall be
yours; your border will
be from the wilderness
to Lebanon, and from
the river, the river
Euphrates, as far as
the western sea.

76. Deuteronomy 11:26-28Deuteronomy 11:26-28
See, I am setting before you
today a blessing and a curse: 27 the
blessing, if you listen to the
commandments of the LORD your
God, which I am commanding you
today; 28 and the curse, if you do not
listen to the commandments of the
LORD your God, but turn aside from
the way which I am commanding you
today, by following other gods which
you have not known.

77. Deuteronomy 11:29Deuteronomy 11:29
It shall come about, when the
LORD your God brings you into the
land where you are entering to
possess it, that you shall place the
blessing on Mount Gerizim and the
curse on Mount Ebal.

78. Deuteronomy 11:31-32Deuteronomy 11:31-32
For you are about to cross the
Jordan to go in to possess the land
which the LORD your God is giving
you, and you shall possess it and live
in it, 32 and you shall be careful to do
all the statutes and the judgments
which I am setting before you today.

79. What was the What was the
purpose of purpose of
the Law?the Law?
Romans 3:19-20Romans 3:19-20
Romans 7:1-13Romans 7:1-13
Galatians 3:6-25Galatians 3:6-25
1 Timothy 1:8-101 Timothy 1:8-10

80. In what ways can we apply the In what ways can we apply the
land promises of Deuteronomy land promises of Deuteronomy
to the church today?to the church today?