Answering a child’s question, “What do the testimonies and the statutes and the rules mean?”, this message from Deuteronomy 6 unpacks several foundational principles for life set out in God’s law. It shows that God owns all things, the earth and everything in it are the Lord’s, that all authority belongs to God alone, and that persistent immorality defiles a land so seriously that it “vomits out its inhabitants.”
Drawing on Joshua’s charge to be strong and courageous by keeping God’s law and meditating on it day and night, the sermon closes with the assurance of victory: the law is a God-given instruction concerning life which, when kept, gives direction and guides believers to prosperity and good success in this life.