DCLM Higher Everyday 4 June 2025 — I Will Keep God’s Precepts

Topic: I Will Keep God’s Precepts

Text:  Psalms 119:65-72

65TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.

66Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

67Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

68Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

69The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

70Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

71It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

72The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

Memory Verse: “The proud have forged a lie against me; but I will keep thy percepts with my whole heart” (Psalm 119:69).

Message

Ezra Taft Benson says, “One of Satan’s most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.” But God requires us to keep His precepts not only as a mark of our love for Him but also because He blesses those who obey Him. Moreover, it prevents violence and builds peace among neighbours. To keep such precepts, you must receive Jesus to have the power to become God’s child. Only then can you hate what God hates, such as: fornication, adultery, murder, stealing, false witness, and covetousness. No wonder Joseph asked Potiphar’s wife when she was tempting him to sin, “…how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” Keeping God’s precepts simply means loving God and then your neighbour as yourself.

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Friend, learn to keep God’s precepts with your whole heart to avoid His retribution. Remember, the consequences of sin and iniquity are grave. God wants a life full of blessings for you here on earth and in eternity. Let your schoolmates know God’s precepts through you.

QUOTE: Learn to keep God’s precepts.

PRAYER: Oh God, let your precepts be my delight, in Jesus’ name.

CHALLENGE: Sin has grievous consequences.

GOSPEL REALM: STEPS TO SALVATION
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)