Throughout the Bible there are more instances of a call to remember than I can chronicle in one sermon, but I want to consider a few: I want to preach today with the Lord’s help and exhort you to “REMEMBER.” He sends trials, pain, heartbreak, and difficulty in our lives many times for the sole purpose of pressing us to pause, remember, and consider. He sends people into our lives to get us to pause, remember, and consider. God sends preachers to get us to remember. The word “selah” is used in Psalms and Habakkuk some 74 times, and the purpose of it is to get one to pause and consider what was just said… Much of the work of the Scripture is to get us to remember and consider. Furthermore, these words are in some tense in your King James Bible some 320 times therefore, not only is Deuteronomy a book about remembrance, but the whole Bible is a book about remembrance.

16 times in Deuteronomy the word remember or remembrance appears. This verse commands Israel to do exactly what the entire book does… REMEMBER. In my estimation this verse is the key verse to the book. Deuteronomy does not offer to Israel or unto us “new law,” but it gives to us a reminder of the established law of God that was given in the previous four books. The entire book is a reminder of the truths of God. Some have called it the “second law” or more appropriately, the second rendering of the law.

The Jews sometimes called it “five-fifths of the Law.” The name Deuteronomy means “spoken twice”. Intro: The book of Deuteronomy is the last of the books of the law… what is called the Pentateuch.

Scripture book of remembrance