Leviticus 26:3-4,13-16
– “‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my
commands, I will send you
rain in its season, and
the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit…I am the Lord your God, who brought you
out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I
broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high. “‘But
if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you
reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands
and so violate my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring on
you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight
and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies
will eat it.
Leviticus
11:44 – I am the Lord your
God; consecrate yourselves and
be holy, because I am holy. Do
not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.
Exodus 6:6 – “Therefore, say to the
Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of
the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I
will redeem you with an outstretched arm and
with mighty acts of judgment.
Deuteronomy 28:58-59 – If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God—the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh
and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.
Application:
- · Israel was to be totally consecrated to God. Because of who God is and what He has done, His people must dedicate themselves fully to Him.
- · The Lord’s acts include redemption and judgment.
- · The list of curses for covenant disobedience is usually much longer than that of blessings for obedience.
- · One of the oddities of history and revelation is the loss of the proper pronunciation of the Hebrew word YHWH, the most intimate and personal name of God in the Old Testament. The name eventually ceased to be pronounced because later Jews thought it too holy to be uttered.
- · Obedience is the key to blessing.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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