Key Thought: Many of the prophets referred back to the book of Deuteronomy. We will look at what parts they used and what points they made that have relevance to us today..
December 11, 2021

1. Have a volunteer read Deuteronomy 10:12-15.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What does Moses mean when he speaks of the heaven of heavens?
3. Personal Application: What things might be in our homes or even churches that we may need to get rid of in order to serve God with all our might? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “Is it possible for anyone to serve God with all their heart and soul? How would that be done? Don’t we do things, say things, and go places God doesn’t want us to?” How would you respond to your friend?

2. Have a volunteer read Micah 6:1-8.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Why does God use the legal language here about “pleading their case” when referring to the controversy He has with them?
3. Personal Application: How is fearing and obeying God tied in to do justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly before God? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “How can we do justice and mercy at the same time? Justice calls for people to be held responsible for their words and actions. Mercy seems to indicate forgiveness and an excuse not to hold people responsible. How do we reconcile the two in our lives and interactions with others?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Daniel 9:14-19

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
2. How dod Daniel’s knowledge of Deuteronomy help him in faith as he lived in exile in a foreign nation as a slave with Jerusalem destroyed and the temple burned?
3. Personal Application: How well do you thin we have been in our responsibilities in presenting the truths we have to those around us that need to hear them.? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states: “Do you think that many of our problems in America, raised up as a Protestant Christian nation, is because we have not been obedient to God’s laws and have perverted truth and justice and have not been merciful or humble before God?” How would you respond to your relative?

4. Have a volunteer read 2 Kings 22:8-13.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Does God still hold people accountable today for their actions in groups and nations, or only as individuals?
3. Personal Application: How often do we neglect to read our Bibles that may gather dust on the shelf? Are we held accountable for our actions against that book because we neglect to read it or obey it? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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Years ago, a young man, an agnostic, was a passionate seeker for truth — whatever that truth was and wherever it led him. Eventually he came, not only to believe in God the Father and in Jesus, but he also accepted the Seventh-day Adventist message. His favorite verse in the Bible was Jeremiah 29:13, which reads: “And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” Years later, however, studying his Bible, he found that verse again, but way back in the book of Deuteronomy. That is, Jeremiah got it from Moses.

Read Deuteronomy 4:23-29. What is the context of this promise to Israel, and how could it relate to us today?

As we have already seen, the book of Deuteronomy had been re-discovered during the reign of King Josiah, and it was under Josiah’s rule that Jeremiah began his ministry. No wonder, then, that the influence of Deuteronomy can be seen in the writing of Jeremiah.

Read Jeremiah 7:1-7. What is Jeremiah telling the people to do, and how does it relate to what had been written in the book of Deuteronomy?

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Over and over in Deuteronomy, Moses stressed how their existence in the land of Canaan was conditional, and that if they disobeyed, they would not remain in the place that God had chosen for them. Look at the particular warning in Jeremiah 7:4, the implication being that, yes, this was God’s temple and, yes, they were the chosen people, but none of that mattered if they weren’t obedient.

And that obedience included how they treated strangers, orphans, widows — an idea that goes directly back to Deuteronomy and some of the covenant stipulations incumbent upon them to follow: “You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge” (Deuteronomy 24:17; see also Deuteronomy 24:21;  Deuteronomy 10.18-19; Deuteronomy 27:19).

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