25 October 2025
Youth Worship 25th October 2025 : This is your wisdom and your understanding
Youth Worship 25th October 2025 : This is your wisdom and your understanding
Text: Deuteronomy 4, 5
- Speaker:
- Pastor Mark Tan
- Series:
- Focus on Faith – Deuteronomy
Message Notes
YOUTH WORSHIP 25 October 2025
Text : Deuteronomy 4, 5
Title : “This is your wisdom and your understanding” Deuteronomy 4:6
INTRODUCTION
1. Review
a) Deuteronomy 1-3
b) Historical
c) Many lessons learned
2. From Deuteronomy 4 onwards
a) Moses taught concerning the Law and the 10 Commandments
b) Understanding the way to see the 10 commandments
c) More than just a matter of obedience
3. The title of today’s message is
“This is your wisdom and your understanding”
Deuteronomy 4:6
a) How should we understand this phrase?
b) Why did Moses make this statement?
THE CORRECT PERSPECTIVE OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
“Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
Deuteronomy 4:6
1. Not just a matter of obedience
a) Burdensome
b) Difficult
c) Tend to fail
2. “This is your wisdom and your understanding”
a) A correct perspective is to see the 10 commandments as Israel’s wisdom and their understanding
b) The 10 commandments were meant to give Israel
i) Wisdom
ii) Understanding
3. Enable Israel to become a wise and understanding people
a) All would recognise Israel as a wise and understanding nation
b) They would be known for their wonderful laws
COMPELLING REASONS TO SEE THE OBSERVING OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS AS ISRAEL’S WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING
1. The foolishness of Israel
a) When Israel had no commandments or did not obey them
i) There was no wisdom
ii) There was no understanding
iii) They did not know how to regard God and man
b) Instead, there was foolishness
i) They sinned against the Lord
ii) They made mistakes again and again
iii) They sought to do their own things
iv) They ended up doing many foolish things and faced severe judgements
c) The 10 commandments were meant to give Israel the wisdom not to be foolish
2. The wisdom of having a good foundation
a) The 10 commandments were meant to be the fundamental laws of Israel
i) Regard for God
ii) Regard for mankind
b) Their regard for God will affect the way they regard man
c) These were basics that Israel would be wise to cultivate
3. Wisdom to stand out as a great nation
a) God is near to Israel
“For what great nation is there that has God so near it, as the LORD our God
is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him?”Deuteronomy 4:7
i) Review of God drawing near to Israel Exodus 19,20;
Deuteronomy 4:11-14
ii) The new generation
iii) The Lord is also near to them
iv) This is what makes a nation great and wise…when God is near
b) Statutes and righteous judgement
“And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgements
as are in all this law which I set before you this day?”Deuteronomy 4:8
i) Statutes are like provisions, additional laws outside the commandments
iii) Judgements made by God concerning certain situations
CHALLENGE TO FOLLOW THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
9 “Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren, 10 especially concerning the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’
Deuteronomy 4:9-10