Reminder: We are ambassadors for Christ/
representative of our Lord. This means people are watching us. We hold life and
death in our hands. If by our acts/omission we represent Him badly we may drive
people away from Him and this means death. Think about your privilege. Think
about your duty.
To memorize 1 Corinthians 10:31
“Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatever ye
do do all to the glory of God”
Our Pledge
1. Let this (see below) be our pledge of allegiance
to be repeated and internalized daily when rising and before bed.
2. Jesus recognized this declaration to be central
to true disciples of the one true God (Mark 12:28-31). Then one of the scribes
came and having heard them reasoning together perceiving that He had answered
them well ask Him “which is the first commandment of all?” Jesus answered him
“The first of all the commandment is “Hear O Israel , the Lord our God, the
Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all
your soul and with all your strength. This is the first commandment”.
3.
The Declaration
What does it do?
(a) Declares collective responsibility to obey
as a community
(b) Enjoying us to love and obey Him
(c) Acknowledges God’s sovereignty is not
limited to mere exercise mental but it is real today and forever.
A. 1st
Declare Deuteronomy 6:4-9: -
“Hear Israel Adonai
(the Lord) our God Adonai (the Lord) is one and you are to love Adonai your God
with all your heart all your being and all your resources. These words which I
am ordering you today are to be on your heart and you are to teach them
carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home,
when you are travelling on the road when you are down and when you get up. Tie
them on your hand as a sign put them at the front to your headband around your
forehead and write them on the door frames of your house and on your gates”
(a) Declares collective responsibility to obey
as a community
(b) Enjoying us to love and obey Him
(c) Acknowledges God’s sovereignty is not
limited to mere exercise mental but it is real today and forever.
2nd
Declare Deuteronomy 11:13-21
“So
if you listen carefully to my mitzvoth (mitzvah – commandment/ principle for
living) which I am giving you today to love Adonai your God and serve Him with
all your heart and all your being then (says Adonai). I will give your land its
rain at the right seasons including the early fall rains and the late spring
rains so that you can gather in your wheat new wine and olive oil and I will
give you fields grass for you live stock with the result that you will eat and
be satisfied. But be careful not to let yourself be seduced so that you turn
aside, serving other gods and worshipping them. If you do the anger of Adonai
will blaze up against you. He will shut up the sky so that there will be no
rain. The ground will not yield its produce and you will quickly pass away from
the good land Adonai is giving you. Therefore you are to store up these words
of mine in your heart and in all you being tie them on your hand as a sign put
them at the front of a headband around your forehead teach them carefully to
your children, taking about them when you sit at home when you are traveling on
the road when you lie down and when you get up and write them on door frames of
your house and on your gates. So that you and your children will live long on
the land Adonai swore to your ancestors that he would give them for as long as
there is sky above the earth”
C. What
does it do?
(a) We are to be responsible to remember His
Words
3rd Declare Numbers
15:47-41
“Adonai
said to Moshe (Moses) (We are to be responsible to remember His Words). “Speak
to the people of Israel instructing them to make, through all their generations
tziziyot (tassels/ specially made fringes /worn on 4 corners of a man’s tallit
(cloak/robe) on the corners of their garments and to put with the tzitzit
(singular)on each corner of a blue thread. It is to be a tzitzit for you to
look at and thereby remember all of Adonai’s mitzvoth (commandment) and obey
them so that you won’t go around wherever your own heart and eyes lead you to
prostitute yourselves but it will help you remember and obey all my mitzvoth
and be holy for your God. I am Adonai your God who brought you out of the land
of Egypt in order to be your God. I am Adonai your God”
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