"Preparing Our Souls to Fight Presumption"

Central Passage: Deuteronomy 17:8-13

Preacher: Heath Rickmond

Outline:

• Proposition:
  1. Only by submitting to God's authority can we understand that God loves us.
  2. God's authority doesn't harshly dictate but reveals how God created us to flourish by being in right relationship with Him and our fellow man.
  3. This passage will encourage us in our fight against deliberate defiance of God.

1. Defer Difficult Decisions (vv 8-9)
2. Dutifully Defer to Directions (vv 10-11)
3. Develop a Discontentment for Defiance (vv 12-13)

• Conclusion:
  1. God's grace frees us to humbly defer to Him.
  2. Ask God to pour contempt on all our pride.