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Deuteronomy—Loving Obedience to a Loving God is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Deuteronomy is a call to obedience—the proper response to God’s faithfulness and love. Consisting primarily of speeches that Moses gave to the Israelites shortly before they entered the Promised Land, Moses’ words proclaimed God’s covenant faithfulness in hopes of motivating the Israelites to obey God despite the coming temptation to conform to the Canaanite culture. The challenges...

In verse 5 we have what Jesus called “the great and first commandment” (Matthew 22:36–38; see also Mark 12:28–30). It is a command to love God completely: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” It is precarious to try to develop a theology of the parts or faculties of a human being based on the call to love God with heart, soul, and might. Earl Kalland helpfully comments that this verse “is not a
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