Renewing Your Mind Called to Believe and Obey
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Mar 25, 2026 
W. Robert Godfrey, teaching fellow and church history professor emeritus known for expository Reformed teaching, explores Deuteronomy's call to live by every word of God. He traces Israel's wilderness trials, Jesus as the new Israel, and the three temptations of food, power, and worship. He ties law, leadership, grace, and the link between belief and obedience into a compact biblical tour.
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Living By Every Word Not Bread Alone
- Jesus resists the tempter by quoting Deuteronomy 8:3 to show humans must live by every word from God's mouth, not by bread alone.
- W. Robert Godfrey connects the manna story to Jesus as new Israel/Moses, showing obedience to God's commands directs life.
Three Wilderness Temptations Repeated
- The three wilderness temptations—food, power, worship—mirror Israel's failures and Jesus' perfect obedience.
- Godfrey highlights Jesus passes them by depending on God's commands, fulfilling what Israel could not.
Great Commission Echoes Deuteronomy
- Jesus' Great Commission echoes Deuteronomy's call to obey all commands: 'teach them to observe all things that I have commanded you.'
- Godfrey argues this establishes Jesus as Lord whose commands define holy living for his people.