ESTABLISHED AS GOD'S HOLY PEOPLE

Passage: Deuteronomy 28:1-35

Key verse: 9

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1. Blessings for obedience (1-14)

If God's people pay attention to God's word and follow it, they will always be on top--never at the bottom (1,13). Every ordinary activity of life will be blessed; enemies will be destroyed. God's people will indeed be a holy people (9) and a kingdom of priests (1

). But they must not turn aside from the commands of God or follow any other gods.

2. Curses for disobedience (15-35)

If God's people, who have covenanted with God to love and serve him, do not obey his laws--which they promised to obey, they will be cursed. Everything they do will fail; they will suffer from disease, mental illness, and defeat at the hands of enemies. The best blessings of life--marriage, building one's own home, having one's own business--will all turn into nightmares.

Prayer: Lord, help me to keep your word in my heart so that I may live a blessed life instead of a cursed life.

One Word: Keep God's law and be blessed