May 11, 2025 | Deuteronomy Effectively - Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Deuteronomy 6:1-9
Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, 2 that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. 3 Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’

4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

A Mom Who Effectively Transfers Truth to Her Children Teaches…

1. Credibly

Deuteronomy 6:6
And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.

Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

John 14:6
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Psalm 119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You

Psalm 119:103
How sweet are Your words to my taste,
Sweeter than honey to my mouth!

2. Consistently

Deuteronomy 6:6-7
And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children,

Isaiah 28:10
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little.”

Isaiah 55:11
So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

The cumulative effect of ‘line upon line’ teaching over time works like spiritual compound interest—it starts slowly, but eventually it begins to snowball. —O.S. HAWKINS

3. Casually

Deuteronomy 6:6-7
And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Deuteronomy 6:20
When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the Lord our God has commanded you?’

4. Conspicuously

Deuteronomy 6:6-9
And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Matthew 23:5
But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.