Terms of the Covenant

Relationship of Statutes, Judgments, Testimonies and Commandments

1. Identify the issues in Leviticus 26:15 that are involved in breaking the covenant.

Lev.26: 15 And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:

Deut.5:31 But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

2.According to the following verse, what did the Lord command Moses to teach Israel that they might fear the Lord their God?

Deut.6: 1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land whither you go to possess it: 2 That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of you life; and that your days may be prolonged.

Deut.7: 11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command you this day, to do them.

3.What is a symptom of having forgotten the Lord?

Deut.8: 11 Beware that you forget not the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

Deut.11: 1 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.

4. What protocol will the Lord’s peculiar people follow?

Deut.26:17 You have avouched the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken <08085 shama‘ > to his voice: 18 And the LORD has avouched you this day to be His peculiar people, as He has promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;

Ex. 19:5,6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for the earth is mine: And ye shall be a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words, which thou shall speak unto the children of Israel.

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1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye shall show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

4 b. Who else is included in God’s peculiar people?

Read Deuteronomy 30:16-19 and using this passage, answer the following questions

Deut.30:16 In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land whither you go to possess it.17 But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither you pass over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live:

5. What two witnesses does the LORD our God use to attest to the choice that He gives His people?

6. What is the evidence of our love to the LORD our God?

7. Name 3 results of walking in His ways, and keeping His commandments, statutes and judgments.

7 b. What are 4 consequences of not loving the Lord your God, of tuning away from Him?

8. With what two options are we faced and what tender plea does our Heavenly Father make to us?

9. List the behaviors that indicate whether Solomon is “strong” and has “kept the charge” of the Lord his God. (7-2)

Davidic Covenant

1Kings 2:1-3 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, 2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show yourself a man; And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and whithersoever you turn yourself:

10. What did the Lord promise to do with the house/temple Solomon was building – and on what conditions?

1Kings 6:12,13 Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spoke to David your father: And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

Eph.2:19-22 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

10b. What other temple is God building today? How does the promise – and the conditions – to Solomon apply to us, as well?

Solomon’s Prayer

1 Kings 8:58 That he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. 59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at (7-2)

all times, as the matter shall require: 60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else. 61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

2 Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD testified <05749> against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified <05749> against them; and they

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followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. 2 Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD testified <05749> against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 2 Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD testified <05749> against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

5. What two witnesses does the LORD our God use to attest to the choice that He gives His people?

9. List the behaviors that indicate whether Solomon is “strong” and has “kept the charge” of the Lord his God. Davidic Covenant

And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and whithersoever you turn yourself:

10. What did the Lord promise to do with the house/temple Solomon was building – and on what conditions?

10b. What other temple is God building today? How does the promise – and the conditions – to Solomon apply to us, as well?

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Solomon’s Prayer

11. From Nehemiah’s confession, list the ways in which he and his father’s house have sinned against the LORD God of heaven..

Nehemiah’s Prayer

Neh.1:3. . .The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. 4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, 5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keep covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: 6 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that thou may hear the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you now, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you: both I and my father’s house have sinned. 7 We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which you commanded your servant Moses.

Neh.9:13 You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 14 And made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses your servant:

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