Good Advice From God
God's 10 optional, situational, and morally relative suggestions - NOT
Deuteronomy 5:7-21 (NLT)
You must not have any other god but me.
You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind.
You must not misuse the name of the Lord your God.
Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
Honor your father and mother
You must not murder.
You must not commit adultery.
You must not steal.
You must not testify falsely.
You must not covet your neighbor’s wife, house, land, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor.
Deuteronomy 5:29 (NKJV)
Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
What does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the LORD's commands...for your own good?
Psalm 15 (NLT)
Who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord?
Who may enter your presence on your holy hill?
Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right,
speaking the truth from sincere hearts.
Those who refuse to gossip
or harm their neighbors
or speak evil of their friends.
Those who despise flagrant sinners,
and honor the faithful followers of the Lord,
and keep their promises even when it hurts.
Those who lend money without charging interest,
and who cannot be bribed to lie about the innocent.
Such people will stand firm forever.
Ecclesiastes 12:13b
Fear (hold in reverence) God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Jeremiah 9:24
"Let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight," declares the Lord.
Isaiah 1:17
Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
Micah 6:8
What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
C.H. Spurgeon
It was a spiritual worship that the Lord required (Isaiah 1:12-17); not externals, not outward gifts, but the heart. If thou wilt bring an offering, bring thyself; there is no other gift that the Lord so much desires. The prophet mentions three things that the Lord required of his people:
“To do justly:” here are the equities of life. “To love mercy here are the kindnesses of life, which are to be rendered cheerfully.
The prophet does not say, “to do mercy,” but to “love” it, to take a delight in it, to find great pleasure in the forgiveness of injuries, in the helping of the poor, in the cheering of the sick, in the teaching of the ignorant, in the winning back of sinners to the ways of God. “And to walk humbly with thy God.” These are the things which please him; and when we are in Christ, and be becomes our righteousness, these are the sacrifices with which God is well pleased; they make an offering of a sweet smell, a holy incense which we may present before him.
Talk no more of your outward ordinances, your will-worship, with abundance of music, or human eloquence and learning, and what not. These things delight not the Lord; no offering is acceptable unless the outward conduct shows that the heart is right with him.
"Walking Humbly With God"
http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols25-27/chs1557.pdf
"Micah's Message For Today"
Hosea 2:23, 6:6
I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God...
Amos 5:24
Let justice roll on like a river...
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek the LORD...seek righteousness...seek humility...
Zechariah 7:9-10 (ESV)
Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.