Deuteronomy 5:22-6:25
What Do I Do Now?

I. After You’ve Achieved Your Goal
1. Have you ever worked for some achievement and then it comes and you think, ‘What do I do now?’
2. Maybe it’s graduation or marriage or the birth of a child or a dream career or the end of the lockdown.
3. Things change once you reach some mountain top. You’ll have a new normal. ‘What do I do now?’
4. In Deuteronomy they are poised on the verge of the Promised Land.
5. Then, once they have peace in the Promised Land, they’ll ask themselves, ‘now what?’
II. Honor (5:23-6:3)
1. Moses recounted the Ten Commandments. They were amazed Moses could hear directly from God.
2. They trembled that if God drew near to them like He had to Moses, that surely they would die.
3. The Lord, “Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments.”
4. Today Christians commonly think that now that they are saved, they have nothing to fear.
5. The Christian has been saved by grace but still he honors the Lord, he trembles at His Word.
6. When a Christian is earnest so he doesn’t want to do anything that might displease the Father, he’s safe.
7. Lack of fear of the Lord, of honoring Him, might be a deal breaker for your salvation.
8. Practically, you honor the Lord by keeping His commandments. Faith leads to obedience.
9. Don’t just be entertained by preaching or educated by doctrine. Be a doer of the Word.

III. Love (6:4-5)
1. The Lord Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment and this verse was His response.
2. The Jews know this passage as the “Shema,” the “hear.” Are you listening?
3. The Lord is our God. Not the money they tell you makes the world go around; not the dollars.
4. He is one God, one essence, one nature. So He’s to be the number one you love.
5. You love your wife or husband or children as a way of loving the Lord. You love the Lord first.
6. Will you shut your shop for the virus but not for the Lord (to go to church)? What do you love?
7. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength; with resolve and passion.
8. Feelings are to be judged as good or bad whether they are leading you to truth, to love the Lord.
IV. Teach (6:6-9)
1. Teach about Him to others, especially children, to raise up the next generation of the people of God.
2. “You shall teach them diligently,” to your children, to God’s children, the covenant children.
3. He means soak your mind with it. Think, memorize, meditate, listen to sermons, sing the Word of God.
V. Remember (6:10-15)
1. Most of the people were too young to have walked through the Red Sea and seen Mount Sinai.
2. We’re especially prone to forget when we’re blessed, when we’ve reached our goals, comfortable.
3. Affluence leads to indifference. We have enough money, then it’s easy to forget.
4. The Puritans declined because their godliness begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother.
5. When the Lord brings you to what He promised, then take care lest you forget.
6. Remember that “the Lord your God is in your midst” even during a pandemic.
7. God doesn’t tolerate us loving other gods, like money or things, besides Him.
VI. Keep (6:16-19)
1. Some foolish people think they can quote a verse to keep them from the corona virus, testing the Lord.
2. Keep His commands. Don’t put the Lord to the test with your failure to keep His Word.
3. The Lord Jesus wouldn’t test the Lord but said keep God’s commands, like don’t test Him.
4. Persevere in keeping God’s Word because it’s perseverance that is “the grand mark” of a true believer.
VII. Say (6:20-25)
1. Say what He’s done, say the gospel, tell people who ask, speak the truth, especially your children.
2. When you’re saved, you’re free from the slavery to sin, the wrath of God has passed over you.
3. When your child asks you what it means, say, “We were slaves to the world, the flesh and the devil.”
4. Now we must honor Him, love the Lord, teach about Him, remember Him, and keep His Word.
5. Say to your children how the Lord will keep us safe;how we’ll be right with Him through Christ.
VIII. Invitation: What are we to do now? The work of saving is over; it is being applied. Salvation has been done and is being implemented. It doesn’t depend on us. So, what are we to do? If we’ve been saved then the work of Him who worked is working in us. If you’ve been saved, the work is done and now you will get to work honoring and loving and teaching and remembering and saying “Amazing love, how can it be that you My God should die for me!” And if you’re not saved yet hear.