Teaching Notes

Everything is God. Our ability to enjoy the summer and have fun, is because God created summer.

Deuteronomy 10:14-18 (The Message)

10:14-18 "Look around you: Everything you see is God's—the heavens above and beyond, the Earth, and everything on it. But it was your ancestors who God fell in love with; he picked their children—that's you!—out of all the other peoples. That's where we are right now. So cut away the thick calluses from your heart and stop being so willfully hardheaded. God, your God, is the God of all gods, he's the Master of all masters, a God immense and powerful and awesome. He doesn't play favorites, takes no bribes, makes sure orphans and widows are treated fairly, takes loving care of foreigners by seeing that they get food and clothing."





Notes: The writer ask the people to look around them and examine that everything around them belongs to God. The land, the earth, everything belongs to God. Yet, this rich God chose above all the people of Israel to be his people the ones he would give his name to.





This wonderful God did not stop there, he also opened up his family to all people that were willing to come experience his love. He opens to everyone his love by offering salvation through Jesus.





Question: What does it mean, cut away the calluses from your heart and stop being so willfully hardheaded?





Answer: Callus is a hard skin. If the heart is callused it means that there is a hard covering over the heart that is keeping the people from listening and obeying God. So the call is to stop being hardheaded. Stop disobeying God when you realize that he is the great God over everything, yet he reaches down to man and makes him important to him.





Prayer: God help us by removing any callus from our hearts. Help us to soften our hearts and listen to you. Help us not to be hardheaded disobedient children that want their own way, but children that will listen and obey.