Carrying Them Out

Deuteronomy 27:25-26 – “Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!” “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Leviticus 26:14-16 – “‘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.

Psalm 119:21 – You rebuke the arrogant, who are accursed, those who stray from your commands.

Jeremiah 11:3-4 – Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant—the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God.

Galatians 3:10 – For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

James 2:10 – For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

Application:

• ·         Humankind is under a curse because no one follows the law of God fully.
• ·         The list of curses for covenant disobedience is usually much longer than that of blessings for obedience.
• ·         The arrogant are those who are a law to themselves.
• ·         Blessings resulted from obedience to the covenant; curses resulted from disobedience.
• ·         The reference, “rely on the works of the law”, is to legalists—those who refuse God’s offer of grace and insist on pursuing righteousness through works. God’s blessing has never been earned but has always been freely given.
• ·         The law is the expression of the character and will of God; therefore to violate one part of the law is to violate God’s will and thus His whole law.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV