Hey, it's Shelby and Paul here. We're taking you through the book of Deuterotomy,

and today we are in chapters four through six. Paul, what's happening in these chapters?

Yeah. So yesterday in chapters one through three, we had kind of this retelling of the narrative of numbers.

And now Moses is going to have a retelling of some of these commandments that God had given them about how to live as the Israelites.

Okay. Great. So when you're reading through these chapters, what did you notice?

Yeah. So there's two verses in these chapters that are super important, and I think their importance almost can't be overstated.

It comes in Deuteronomy 6, 4 through 5, and these verses read, listen Israel.

The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

And you know, you get a sense of the importance of these commands in the following verses

where Moses kind of tells them, hey, you know, you're supposed to have these, speak about these

commands constantly. You know, when you sit down at home, when you lie down at home,

to put them on your

doorposts in your house, right? But I think something that tells us, as Christians, the

importance of these verses, is that Jesus actually says that these are the greatest command

that God gives us. And so, you know, in Matthew 22, which is where Jesus mentions that Pharisees,

some of the Pharisees are kind of trying to challenge Jesus as they do. And they ask him, you know, what's the greatest command of the law trying to kind of trip him up? And, you know, Jesus actually just basically quotes this straight at them. He says, the love of the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. And he says, this is the greatest and most important command. And so loving God,

you know, even though that involves lots of very specific commands, it's the focus of everything

that we do as Christians and for the Israelites as well. And so again, these are super key.

Okay. I love that. And I thank you for pointing those out because when you're reading so many chapters in one day, you can rush past something that's a super pivotal moment in scripture without noticing it. So I'm glad you were able to point that out for us. What do these chapters mean for us today?

Yeah. So it kind of makes me, when you ask that, it kind of makes me think of those verses immediately

following, which is verses 6 through 9 there in chapter 6.

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