April 3, 2022 - Creating Space for God: Study and Remembering
Scripture Passages: Deuteronomy 6: 4-12, 11:1-7; 2 Timothy 3:14-17
Slide 1
(some of) The Spiritual Disciplines
1. Silence and Solitude 2. Fasting and Slowing
3. Service and Humility 4. Hospitality and Wholeness
Slide 2
Study and Remembering
What we are not doing
Creating space for God
Slide 3
Can't Have One Without The Other
"These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts...Talk about them...be careful not to forget"
"Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, decrees, laws, and commands...Remember today..."
Slide 4
The Two Sides of Study
"Continue in what you have learned and become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures..."
Slide 5
Why is Study Important?
"The Holy Scriptures...are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness...equipping"
Slide 6
Why is Remembering Important?
11:2 “Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced"
7" It was your own eyes that saw all these great things the Lord has done”
Slide 7
Creating Space For God
The Bigger Story
(Creation, Fall, Redemption, New Creation)
Seeing God in the spaces
Slide 8
What Does This Look Like?
6:7 "Talk about them when you sit/walk/lie down/get up."
8 "Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates"
Slide 9
So How Does This Work?
Repetition
Concentration
Comprehension
Reflection
Slide 10
So How Does This Work?
Study/Read/Learn
Talk/Listen
Slide 11
Be Careful!
John 5:39 "You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life."
Slide 12
What to Expect
Shifting focus (x2)
Better eyes
Knowing your place
Ongoing conversation
Slide 13
God Remembers Too
Isa. 49 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will never forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands."