V2-42 Benefits of Obeying God
Walking Talking Bible Project
What did Moses say the LORD God asks of His people? How are obeying and serving God tied to loving God? How is obeying God for our own good? What are some of the benefits of obeying God? If everyone in the world obeyed God, would the world be a happier or less happy place? Why? These are just some of the questions to consider in this week’s edition of the Walking Talking Bible Project.
Bible Passages
The following Scripture quotations from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB) are provided for your convenience. Please feel free to use the Bible and translation of your choice.
Memory Passage: Ecclesiastes 1:14
Ecclesiastes 1:14
14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
Connection Passage #1: Mark 13:1–2
Mark 13:1–2
1 As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, look at the magnificent stones and buildings!”
2 “Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
Connection Passage #2 Ecclesiastes 12:11–12
Ecclesiastes 12:11–12
11 The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.
12 And by these, my son, be further warned: There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body.
Connection Passage #3: Deuteronomy 10:12–13
Deuteronomy 10:12–13
12 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?
Connection Passage #4: Deuteronomy 5:6–21
Deuteronomy 5:6–21
6 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
7 You shall have no other gods before Me.
8 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
9 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
10 but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
11 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
12 Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
17 You shall not murder.
18 You shall not commit adultery.
19 You shall not steal.
20 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB).