Cover to Cover - Part 1 [Notes]

You are invited to Cover to Cover, a five-week series designed to equip and inspire you to start 2026 in God’s Word. Each week, we’ll study a key biblical figure who knew, loved, and lived by God’s Word. From Moses, David, Mary, Paul, and Jesus, we’ll learn from their examples and discover how essential the Bible is to our lives – cover to cover.

Takeaway: Listening to God’s Word leads to life

Cover to Cover
Week 1: Moses
Week 2: David
Week 3: Mary
Week 4: Paul
Week 5: Jesus

This is the command—the statutes and ordinances—the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.
Do this so that you may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life by keeping all his statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.
Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.
“Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.
Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.
Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.
– Deuteronomy 6:1–9 (CSB)

Listen
Hebrew: šāma (shema)
Meaning: hear, listen to, obey

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, ‘Because,’ she said, ‘I drew him out of the water.’
– Exodus 2:10 (CSB)

When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
– Exodus 3:4 (CSB) 

Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival for me in the wilderness.” Pharaoh responded: “Who is the Lord that I should obey him by letting Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”
– Exodus 5:1-2 (CSB)

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not left him.
– Deuteronomy 34:7 (CSB) 

“This is the command—the statutes and ordinances—the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you may follow them in the land you are about to enter and possess.
Do this so that you may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life by keeping all his statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.
Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.
– Deuteronomy 6:1–3 (CSB)

“The Law was given so that the people could express their reverence for and obedience to the LORD in a concrete manner. By fearing and obeying Him they would find prosperity and a long life in their new land which flowed with milk and honey.”
– Dr. Jack Deere, The Bible Knowledge Commentary

“Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
– Deuteronomy 6:4–5 (CSB)

 To love the Lord means to choose Him for an intimate relationship and to obey His commands. This command, to love Him, is given often in Deuteronomy (v. 5; 7:9; 10:12; 11:1, 13, 22; 13:3; 19:9; 30:6, 16, 20). Loving Him was to be wholehearted and was to pervade every aspect of an Israelite’s being and life.
– Dr. Jack Deere, The Bible Knowledge Commentary

 Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.
– Exodus 20:7 (CSB)

 If you love me, you will keep my commands.
– John 14:15 (CSB)

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commands.
– 1 John 2:3 (CSB)

For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden.
– 1 John 5:3 (CSB)

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. In him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
– Colossians 1:13–14 (CSB)

These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.
Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be a symbol on your forehead.
Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates.
– Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (CSB)

God’s people were responsible to meditate on these commandments, to keep them in their hearts. This enabled them to understand the Law and to apply it correctly. Then the parents were in a position to impress them on their children’s hearts also. The moral and biblical education of the children was accomplished best not in a formal teaching period each day but when the parents made God and His Word the natural topic of a conversation which might occur anywhere and anytime during the day.
– Dr. Jack Deere, The Bible Knowledge Commentary

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