Everything?….
Over my lifetime, I have met many different people…those I trust and those I don’t….
Ones, when asked to do something, they do it…others, when asked to do something, they say, “ of course”, then never carry through…
I can imagine Moses looking out over the multitudes, giving them God’s law, maybe thinking the same thing…as they responded , “everything….”.
Then, reading later books of the Old Testament, we find that they went back and forth, obeying and disobeying…. Blessing and cursing…
In the New Testament times, the same was true…to our current times, we haven’t changed much…obeying and disobeying…laws…man’s or God’s…we still think we know better…God won’t or doesn’t care…or a myriad of excuses…
Jesus lovingly tells us…
Paul admonishes us simply in Romans…
Thank YOU….
When Moses went and told the people all the Lord’s words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the Lord has said we will do.”
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”
Exod.24.3,Exod.24.7
So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil.
I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied. Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him— then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you.
No one will be able to stand against you.
The Lord your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.
See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse— the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.
Deut.11.13-15, Deut.11.18-23, Deut.11.25-28,Deut.11.32
Then they despised the pleasant land;they did not believe his promise. They grumbled in their tentsand did not obey the Lord.
Ps.106.24-25
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
John.3.16-21
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.
John.14.23-2
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Rom.13.8-10
For God so loved…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bst1cglOZwo