Relevant Verses: Deuteronomy 7; 9:1–6; 10:1–15

Theme: Law and Grace

Leading Question: What makes you feel better about yourself: following rules or accepting a gift?

Question: How important is it for you to show that you obey God’s commandments? Would you break the rules because of something/someone you care about?

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks writes about Deuteronomy as a book that calls us to obey the commandments of God.

Yet there is no verb in biblical Hebrew that means to obey. This is an astonishing fact. So glaring is the lacuna that when Hebrew was revived in modern times a verb had to be found ...