Choose Life (Deuteronomy 5-6; 29-30)

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Choose Life

Deuteronomy 5-6; 29-30

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Deuteronomy 5-6; 29-30

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This song belongs to the Deuteronomy collection. 8 recordings are available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

Bible book: Deuteronomy
Collection: Deuteronomy
Musical styles: Acoustic, World Music, Cinematic Soundtrack, Alternative Pop, Rock, Worship & Gospel, Hymns

[Opening Declaration] Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one. Love Him with the heart entire, With strength beneath the sun. Bind the word upon the hand, Teach children night and day; Write it on the gates of home, Speak it along the way. [Chorus] Choose life, choose life, That you and your children may live. Hold fast, hear His voice, Love the Lord with all you can give. Blessing and cursing lie open today; Choose life, choose life, And walk in His way. [Verse 1] Remember you were servants, Remember you were freed. Do not forget in houses You did not build or seed. When vineyards yield abundance And wells you never hewed, Fear the Lord who brought you out; Let gratitude renew. [Bridge - Recited Pulse] The word is not in heaven, Too distant to be heard. It is near within the mouth, Within the heart, the word. No ocean hides obedience, No mountain bars the choice; The covenant stands before you: Turn and hear His voice. [Final Chorus] Choose life, choose life, Not idols, pride, or gold. Choose love when years are passing, Choose truth when hearts grow cold. Heaven and earth bear witness To what is set today: Choose life, choose life, And teach the coming way.

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Deuteronomy 5: Freedom receives its covenant shape

Moses brings Horeb into the present tense. The covenant spoken there is not treated as an antique agreement belonging only to people who have died; the living assembly must hear, learn, keep, and do it. The commandments begin with rescue from Egypt, then order worship, speech, Sabbath rest, family honor, life, marriage, property, testimony, and desire. Deuteronomy gives the Sabbath a social edge by insisting that servants rest as surely as masters do. After hearing God from the fire, Israel asks Moses to mediate further instruction. God approves the request, but his response exposes the deeper issue: saying the right thing in an overwhelming moment is not the same as having a heart that will keep obeying after everyone returns to ordinary life.

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Deuteronomy 6: The words must live in the house

Chapter 6 moves the covenant from the mountain into the house. Love for the one LORD must involve heart, soul, and might, and the words are to be taught until they inhabit sitting, walking, lying down, rising, doorposts, and gates. Moses knows prosperity will create a new kind of test. Israel will enter cities it did not build, houses it did not fill, wells it did not dig, and vineyards it did not plant. Fullness can make the rescue from Egypt disappear from memory. Massah warns against demanding that God prove himself on Israel's terms, while a child's future question gives the household a better pattern: explain the commands by beginning with bondage, deliverance, and the purpose for which Israel was brought out and brought in.

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