Jon Collins

What I'm commanding you today, there's the word, same word from Garden of Eden, tzava in Hebrew.

What I'm commanding you today is to love Yahweh, your God, by going in His ways and keeping His commandments, His statutes, His regulations.

and then you will have life.

It's a pretty simple math equation.

Love Yahweh, which means keep what he commands, you will have life.

You'll become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land that you're going.

Sounds like the Garden of Eden.

Later on in paragraph, verse 19, he says, I bring forward as a witness against y'all today the skies and the land.

I have set before you life and death and

Blessing and curse choose life so that you can have life, you and your offspring, by loving Yahweh and listening to your voice, clinging to Him, this is rad, because He is your life.

He is your length of days.

Such a great way to summarize that.

God is your life.

God is life, which rings true to the seven-day creation narrative and the Eden story.

God is the source of life.

And so what God's commands will always, even if they don't feel like it or seem like it in the moment, point God's people towards embracing even more life than you're currently experiencing and avoiding the diminishment of your life.

That is death.

There you go.

It's a great summary.

Now jumping right into the 10 commands.