DEUTERONOMY 10:12-22; 16:18-20 JUNE 24, 2012 TRUE OR FALSE 1. God s requirements for Israel are summarized in terms of four things the people must do. 2. Israel was told to fear the Lord. 3. To walk in God s ways refers to one s manner of life. 4. The Israelites were not to serve the Lord with all of their hearts and soul. 5. The Israelites cannot claim to fear the Lord, walk in His ways, love Him, or serve Him if they refuse to keep His commandments. 6. The unifying principle in all these passages is obedience to God s commands. 7. Moses made the declaration that God was the sole owner of the universe. 8. God in His grace picked the Israelites, out of all earth s inhabitants, to be His chosen people. 9. Moses directed a new generation of Israelites to circumcise their hearts. 10. The Lord directed the Israelites to cease being stiff-necked. 11. The term stiff-necked refers to being hard, difficult to manage, and uncooperative. 12. Israel was reminded that their God was the God of gods and Lord of lords. 13. God in all His wisdom shows partiality among His people. 14. God defended those who were the least of the earth, the fatherless, widows, and the aliens. 15. Israel was not to be sensitive to aliens because they were never aliens. 16. The Lord, and the Lord only, is to be at the center of Israel s world. 17. When the descendants of Abraham went to Egypt there were only about seventy people, but over time God grew them into a mighty nation. 18. To live according to God s justice is to really live. 1
DEUT. 10:12-22; 16:18-20 MULTIPLE CHOICE JUNE 24, 2012 1. Moses begins this passage by asking the question that God s prophets asked the Israelites (a) who is the greatest? (b) what doth the LORD God require of thee? (c) what river represents God? 2. The first thing that Moses tells the Israelites that God requires is to (a) fear Him (b) run from Him (c) sacrifice their children 3. The second thing Moses said God asked His people to do, was to walk in all his ways which means to (a) distance themselves from God (b) give God their farms (c) model themselves after God 4. To keep the Ten Commandments the heart of God s laws meant (a) to obey them (b) observe them (c) all of the above 5. God said the intent behind all His instructions was (a) for their good (b) for bragging rites (c) for their money 6. Moses said that God had a delight in thy fathers to (a) make them slaves (b) love them (c) take them to Egypt 7. Moses used the word to describe Israel unwillingness to love and obey God. (a) delight (b) stiffnecked (c) circumcise 8. Moses declared that that many kings exerted lordly power people and nations, but the Israelites God was (a) Lord supreme of all other lords (b) second to other gods (c) none of the above 2
DEFINE OR IDENTIFY WORDS AND BIBLE CHARACTERS 1. fear: 2. hallelujah : 3. heart: 4. Israelites: 5. soul : 6. statutes : 7. stiffnecked ; 8. terrible : 9. wrest : 10. YHWH (YAHWEH): 11. List four attributes of love. (In Focus story). Love is: (a) (b) (c) (d) 12. Why is there no greater love than what God did for humanity? (See the In Focus Story.) 13. On what time frame does the book of Deuteronomy concentrate (Background). 14. List three things that Moses let the Children of Israel know that God required of them. (Deuteronomy 10:12-22). (a) (b) (c) 15. What does it mean to walk in God s ways (Deuteronomy 10:12)? 3
16. What does the word love (chashaq) mean? (Deuteronomy 10:14-15)? 17. Fill in the following verse: By this shall men know that ye are my if ye have one to. (John 13:35) (Deuteronomy 10:19). 18. Why were judges warned not to accept gifts for their services (Deuteronomy 16:19)? 19. Memorize and write Deuteronomy 10:12-13 verbatim. 20. What does God expect of you and why? 1. God that we love Him. ( ) suggests ( ) requires MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE 2. God requires that we love Him ( ) if we want to ( ) with all our hearts 3. God chose the people of Israel ( ) to set His love on them ( ) because they were the best people on earth 4. God is ( ) God of gods ( ) one of many equal gods 5. God blessed the people of Israel by ( ) multiplying them ( ) keeping them from having children 4
6. The people were to choose leaders who ( ) did the best they could ( ) followed God s laws 7. The only one who kept God s law perfectly is ( ) me ( ) Jesus 8. It pleases God when I ( ) try to do what He says ( ) ignore His rules and make up my own 9. It pleases God when I ( ) try to get to heaven by coming to church and being good ( ) trust Jesus His Son to get me to heaven 10. Do you know that you have received Jesus as your Saviour? ( ) yes ( ) no Read Deuteronomy 10:12-22; 16:18-20. God s laws were lovingly given to us for our good. Write the correct letter in each blank. Some answers are used more than once: The Lord wants us to: 1. fear 2. walk (A) in all His ways 3. love (B) Him 4. serve (C) the Lord God 5. keep (D) the commandments of the Lord and His statutes The words below are not in our Scripture lesson. Find words in the text that rhyme with the words given. 1. desire 2. balk 3. wood 4. girth 5. froze 6. weed 5
7. cart 8. manger 9. sleeve 10. phrase 11. cars 12. states 13. steeple 14. thrift TRUE OR FALSE 1. The Lord requires us to fear Him, to walk in all His ways, and to love and serve Him. 2. God is great, mighty, and terrible 3. God s rules do not apply to very poor or very rich people. 4. Only seventy Israelites went into the land of Egypt. Today s Scripture gives us some guidelines for how to love God. To discover more about loving God, complete the following assignment that was given to your team: TEAM 1 Define the four key words of Deuteronomy 10:12, 13: fear, walk, love, and serve. What do these words teach us about loving God? TEAM 2 Read Deuteronomy 10:13-16. What is the unifying principle in verse 13, and why was this for the good of the Israelites? 6
Why was the reminder to the Israelites in verses 14, 15 important in this teaching about loving God? What is the significance of the symbolism of circumcision and stiff necks in verse 16? TEAM 3 What are the ways we can demonstrate love for God according to Deuteronomy 10:17-22? Be sure to include the reason God reaffirmed His superiority in verse 17. TEAM 4 Why did God ask for the appointment of judges and officers in Deuteronomy 16:18-20? What were God s expectations, and why were these expectations important? 7