This Week’s Scriptures
Deuteronomy 6, Matthew 4 & 5
Tip: The text boxes on the right are there for you to take your own notes as we go.
1. Listen to the Message
5 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. —Deuteronomy 6:5-6
The command “with all your heart” excludes all half-heartedness.
1. Love
But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him: 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 Upon these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.” —Matthew 22:34-40
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“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets. —Matthew 7:12
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14 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” —Mark 1:14-15
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21 Then Peter came up and said to Him, “Lord, how many times shall my brother sin against me and I still forgive him? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus *said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy-seven times. —Matthew 18:21-22
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19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” —Matthew 28:19-20
2. Discuss in a Life Group
READ
5 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 7 And you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. 8 You shall also tie them as a sign to your hand, and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead. 9 You shall also write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. —Deuteronomy 6:5-9
24 “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts on them, will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and its collapse was great.”
28 When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching; 29 for He was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes. —Matthew 7:24-29
DISCUSS
1. Who were some of your favorite teachers in your life and why were they “favorites.?”
2. As a parent what are some of the most important things we can do for our kids?
3. Discuss the example Jesus gave regarding the house built on solid ground vs. sand and how it relates to us as followers of Jesus.
4. Discuss the 5 important teachings of Jesus and which ones spoke to you most and why?
3. Pray Together
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