Blessed Above All Peoples
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
How should Christians think about the warnings contained in the Mosaic law? Today, W. Robert Godfrey examines the book of Deuteronomy, showing that the warnings God gives to His people are a part of His blessing to them.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | Since we've been saved by grace alone, through faith alone, how should we view God's law? |
| 0:06.0 | When we love the Lord, we'll love His Word. |
| 0:09.0 | When we love the Lord, we'll love His law. |
| 0:12.0 | And when we keep His law, we display the righteousness that He has given to us. |
| 0:23.0 | Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and welcome to the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:28.8 | As I said yesterday, we're a few months into the year, and by now, perhaps in your |
| 0:33.5 | Bible reading plan, you're spending time in Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. |
| 0:38.3 | If you're finding it hard to persevere, stay with us, as this week we're taking a closer look at Deuteronomy. |
| 0:45.3 | The book of Deuteronomy is filled with God's law, but since Christ has fulfilled the law, |
| 0:51.3 | how should we approach Deuteronomy and other Old Testament books today? |
| 0:55.8 | Here's Dr. Godfrey. |
| 0:59.5 | We come back now to Deuteronomy and to our look at the section we're calling the warnings in |
| 1:05.8 | Deuteronomy 5 through chapter 10 verse 11. And we saw how that section of warnings began with the reiteration |
| 1:15.1 | of the 10 commandments that Moses gave to Israel. |
| 1:19.4 | And now he's going to apply those commandments to Israel in various aspects of its life. |
| 1:26.4 | And we're going to see that the focus in chapter six is particularly on the family |
| 1:31.8 | and on communicating those commandments faithfully to the children. |
| 1:37.6 | But here in chapter six we should note at verse four is this very famous statement, |
| 1:45.3 | Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. |
| 1:51.1 | That is the central declaration of the Jewish synagogue to this day. |
| 1:57.1 | It's called the Shama, because Shmaa is the Hebrew word for here. |
| 2:02.7 | Listen, O Israel. |
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