Do Not Forget the Lord
Comments for Study 8
Deuteronomy 8:1-20
Memory Verse: 10
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I. God Led you All the Way in the Desert (1-9)
>1. What should be the people of Israel's response toward the Law? (1a)
* Deuteronomy 8:1a "Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today"
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>Why? (1b)
* Deuteronomy 8:1b "so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers."
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>2. What did God do during the wilderness journey for 40 years? (2-3a, 4)
* Deuteronomy 8:2-3a "Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known"
* Deuteronomy 8:4 "Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years."
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>What is the purpose of God's training in the wilderness? (3b, 5; Ex. 19:5-6)
* Deuteronomy 8:2-3a "to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord."
* Deuteronomy 8:5 "Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you."
* Exodus 19:5-6 "Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites."
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>3. What does it mean to obey God? (6)
* Deuteronomy 8:6 "Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and revering him."
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>Into what kind of land are the people of Israel entering? (7-9)
* Deuteronomy 8:7-9 "For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills."
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II. Do Not Forget the Lord your God (10-20)
>4. In the land of God's blessings what should God's people do? (10-11)
* Deuteronomy 8:10-11 "When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day."
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>What would be the spiritual danger for the people in the time of prosperity? (12-14a)
* Deuteronomy 8:12-14a "Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God"
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>5. What was God's work for the people of Israel? (14b-16a)
* Deuteronomy 8:14b-16a "who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. He led you through the vast and dreadful desert, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known"
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>What does it mean by "in the end it might go well with you"? (16b; Heb. 12:11)
* Deuteronomy 8:16b "to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you."
* Hebrews 12:11 "No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it."
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III. He Gives You the Ability (17-20)
>6. What is the worst kind of temptation in the time of success and prosperity? (17; Dan. 4:28-32)
* Deuteronomy 8:17 "You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me."
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>7. Who is behind all we do and who prospers us? (18a)
* Deuteronomy 8:18 "But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth"
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>What is a wise way concerning possessions? (Prov. 30:7-9; Matt. 6:11; Luke 16:9)
* Proverbs 30:7-9 "Two things I ask of you, O Lord; do not refuse me before I die: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the Lord?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God."
* Matthew 6:11 "Give us today our daily bread."
* Luke 16:9 "I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings."
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>8. What does it mean "confirms the covenant? (18b)
* Deuteronomy 8:18b "and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today."
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>What would be the result of forgetting God? (19-20; Heb. 6:4-6)
* Deuteronomy 8:19-20 "If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God."
* Hebrews 6:4-6 "It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace."
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