Bible Verse of the Day: Scripture quotes to inspire your faith in God today.

Bible Verse of the Day | Deuteronomy 6:21b | A verse about going deeper in how we relate to everything

Welcome to Bible verse of the day. I am Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on May 22 and we are wrapping up the big 10 from Deuteronomy chapter 6 and so we turn to verse 21 part B neither shall you desire your neighbors house or field or slave, or ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor so we find the verse about not stealing this takes it a step further deeper we shouldn’t even desire to have what belongs to someone else just even desiring it takes us down the wrong path. It starts to break down the respect the honor, and the relationship we have with other people it starts to break down the right relationship we have with stuff. It starts to break down our ability to be grateful for what it is we have because we start to worry about what we don’t or we start to worry about with someone else as we think that maybe we should have it more than them. You can see how this begins to deteriorate things immediately and so let us get to the room out of the matter. Let’s keep our eyes fixed on where they should be.

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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⁠Bible Verse of the Day⁠ | Deuteronomy 6:21a | A verse about other people's relationships

Welcome to Bible verse of the day. I am Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on May 19 and we are continuing getting close to the end of the big 10 and Deuteronomy so we turned chapter 6 verse 21 part a neither shall you covet your neighbors wife something interesting happens in Deuteronomy here we’re just doing part part a of what we call verse 21. In the Exodus version. This covering verse starts with neighbors property and then lists the elements of property. The wife being included Deuteronomy seems to have taken a step forward it’s written later, but it’s telling the 10 Commandments in a new way suddenly the wife and covering a neighbor’s wife or spouse ends up as its own commandment and so we see a step forward and what a wonderful thing we need to acknowledge. In our scripture there are steps forward we can track them you can even see how Jesus carries it even further Paul even further and today we’re still on that same trajectory. So let’s honor the relationships that are already in place between our neighbors. Let’s honor them for all they are.

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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⁠Bible Verse of the Day⁠ | Deuteronomy 6:20 | A verse about honesty

Welcome to Bible verse of the day. I am Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on May 17 to continue the commandments from Deuteronomy return to chapter 6 and we read verse 20 and it says neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor so from peoples bodies to our own body to our stuff and now it’s about reputation. This comes from a scene in a quart room, right bearing false witness that’s got its history there but let’s just talked about what it is. Wine has been dishonest. It’s about representing something that you shouldn’t represent it’s misrepresenting the truth. It’s telling a story that isn’t right it isn’t accurate. Maybe we don’t even know maybe we’re not even sure what the truth is, I think that’s more of our problem. Today is we’re so ready to pass along information and to tell stories into judge without fully knowing, and we presented it as if it is truth, so what does honor our neighbors and their reputation and their story let us not assume that we know better, and if we do know, let’s make sure we tell the truth

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

Music by The Muse Maker

⁠Bible Verse of the Day⁠ | Deuteronomy 6:19 | A verse about stuff

Welcome to Bible verse of the day. I am Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on this 15th day of May as we continue working through the Big Ten as Deuteronomy tells them in chapter 6 today we read verse 19 neither shall you steal. All right, so we’ve covered Commandments about God about parents about bodies, other peoples and being intimate with them and now we get beyond bodies to stuff because we are people of stuff no matter where we are and I’ll say it our culture my country were more obsessed with stuff than probably anywhere else on the planet and it’s not a good thing. We forget that everything we have was given to us we haven’t earned anything we often say that I’ve earned everything that I have no you haven’t you were blessed to be given a body to be given a home to be given the things you were given maybe an education maybe the desire may be the opportunity to be able to do what you do to get stuff other people don’t have it that way. Let’s remember that all of our stuff isn’t really ours and let’s remember to regard to the things that people are stewards of as not ours either

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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⁠Bible Verse of the Day⁠ | Deuteronomy 6:18 | A verse about our own bodies and intimacy

Welcome to Bible verse of the day I’m Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on May 12. We’re continuing with the Big Ten the 10 Commandments told and Deuteronomy and we’re continuing in chapter 6 verse 18. Neither shall you commit adultery. We began this list with four commands about how we relate to God and then one about our parents and then we moved to our neighbors just a couple of days ago and now we continue on Committing adultery. That is the most sacred relationship for those of us who are individuals if we’re married that means it’s our significant other if we are single then that means we are thinking about the way we relate to those around us and what is appropriate, and when you relate intimately with someone sexually, it is a different kind of relationship. It implies an involves a vulnerability. You open yourself up to a person you let your guard down and away you don’t do with anybody else we should reserve this kind of commitment for those whom we are married to. This is a sacred relationship in that relationship begins even before we’re married.

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

Music by The Muse Maker

⁠⁠Bible Verse of the Day⁠⁠ | Deuteronomy 6:17 | A verse about other people's lives and bodies

Welcome to Bible verse of the day I’m Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on the 10th day of the month of May and we’re going to continue with our commandments and Deuteronomy from chapter 6 today we read verse 17 you shall not murder pretty simple commandment, pretty easy to know that there’s there’s no fuzziness around this one is there or maybe there is what is murder some of our translation say you shall not kill us, killing different for murdering what we find is that this specific command reminds us that we are all created in the image of God, and if we treat any person differently than that, then we are ignoring who they are who they were created to be now they may not be the kind of people we think they should be they may be doing terrible things But do they still possess the image of God and that is that for us to say, are we the judge are we determined from that understanding completely to the point where we feel it’s OK to end a life I think it’s pretty clear as the first commandment about how we relate to our neighbors, the answer is no

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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⁠⁠Bible Verse of the Day⁠⁠ | Deuteronomy 6:16 | A verse about honor

Welcome to Bible verse of the day I’m Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on May 8. We are working through the commandments and Deuteronomy chapter 6 and today we continue with verse 16. Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God 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 the family structure in the family place in Deuteronomy was so important all that you did in this honor Shane culture all that you did either brought honor or shame to the name of your parents, your father specifically, and their culture so everything you did reflected upon them, and we are to remember that everything we do reflects upon God because this whole restructuring, and what we experience through Jesus is that we are now in the house of God we belong to the house of God Christ is our brother. This is why we call God father not because gods of man, but because God is the head of the household in this first century structure, and we find this all the way back, and Deuteronomy, so that all that we do bring honor and glory to God

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

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Welcome to Bible verse of the day. I am Reverend Joseph Sanford. It is May 5 and we’re continuing on with the retelling of the 10 Commandments Deuteronomy chapter 6 today verses 12 and verse 15 observe the sabbath day and keep it holy as the Lord your God, commanded, you remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm. Therefore, the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day. This is the one commandment we are terrible at following. When’s the last time you took a full day every single week and did no work we’re always connected to our work or at home catching up on errands doing anything that we need to do because we have a task list Keeping the sabbath has changed with Jesus and Moses day they have been slaves. Their worth was determined by how many bricks they made they didn’t know how to understand their worth when they weren’t producing so this was a way for them to understand their identities not about what they do what they make what they produce their identity their value their worth is in being human beings God’s children let us remember this truth

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

Music by The Muse Maker

Welcome to Bible verse of the day I’m Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on the third day of May continuing with Deuteronomy chapter 6 the retelling of the 10 Commandments. We’re going to continue with verse 11 you shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord, your God, for the Lord, will not acquit anyone who miss uses the name. We all grew up with an idea of what this commandment was referring to, and frankly what we grew up with, was not correct, was good, not to curse using the name of God, what this means is, we don’t use the name for ourselves or in any other way other than to honor God and so if we think that we’re right about something or what we’re doing as a good and holy thing, we better make sure we know it if we’re going to say that it is God ordained or that God approves it or what we’re doing is in the name or for the love of God People like to use the name of God to further their own well because the name of God brings power it brings authority and if we’re going to assume that we have the right to just decide where God’s authority should be applied we need to be really careful, let us be careful and honorable, with the name of our Lord

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

Music by The Muse Maker

⁠⁠Bible Verse of the Day⁠⁠ | A Scripture verse about idols

Welcome to Bible verse of the day I’m Reverend Joseph Sanford coming to you on this first day of the month of May. Can you believe Megan is already here we’re going to continue with this retelling of the 10 Commandments in Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse eight you shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven, above, or that is on the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth We’re just gonna sidestep the strain structure, and how they thought the world was constructed with a sky on earth and water underneath, and we’re gonna get right to this idea of idols, similar to not having any other gods, what are the idols that we find ourselves, distracted by worshiping, bowing down to many times its ourselves we become the point to focus to the point where we even create images of ourselves for different groups of people don’t worry you’re one version of yourself in front of people at church. You’re a different version of yourself in front of your friends. You’re another version of yourself in front of your significant other or your parents and I wonder why are we crafting any images? Another lots of other images we can spend time on, but let’s start with ourselves.

Message brought to you by Rev. Joseph Sanford of Sanford Curriculum (Student ministry resources available on The Sunday School Store written by he and Lauren Sanford).

Music by The Muse Maker