Preparation for Possession Part (B) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 Preparation for Possession Part (B) Deuteronomy Chapters 28 - 34

Preparation for Possession Part (B) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 Preparation for Possession Part (B) Deuteronomy Chapters 28 - 34

Preparation for Possession Part (B) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 Preparation for Possession Part (B) Deuteronomy Chapters 28 - 34

I. Provision: Blessing or Cursing (Ch 28) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 I. Provision: Blessing or Cursing (Ch 28) A. Conditional on the People’s Response

Voice of the Lord = Word of the Lord Diligently obey – perseverance and application Observe Carefully – Watch the detail and do as stated All His commandments – this will require study and teaching Not a cafeteria, don’t be selective

James 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one, he is guilty of all.

I. Provision: Blessing or Cursing (Ch 28) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 I. Provision: Blessing or Cursing (Ch 28) A. Conditional on the People’s Response B. Fruit of Blessing

Fruit of Blessing Godly children (v 4) Provisional Sufficiency, not necessarily wealth (v 4) Protection from enemies (v 7) Intimacy with the Lord (v 9) Testimony to other people (v 10) Healthy land – A good return for effort (vv 11-12) Leading Nation in the World (v 13)

I. Provision: Blessing or Cursing (Ch 28) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 I. Provision: Blessing or Cursing (Ch 28) A. Conditional on the People’s Response B. Fruit of Blessing C. Fruit of Cursing

Fruit of Cursing Cursed Children (v 18) Provisional Insufficiency (v 18) No Protection from enemies (vv 25, 48) Unhealthy land – A bad return for effort (vv 20-42) Most despised Nation in the World (vv 37, 65)

II. Provision: Past & Future (Chs 29, 30) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 II. Provision: Past & Future (Chs 29, 30) A. Which Covenant? (29:1) Mosaic Abrahamic

II. Provision: Past & Future (Chs 29, 30) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 II. Provision: Past & Future (Chs 29, 30) A. Which Covenant? (29:1) B. The Lord’s Past Faithfulness (29:2-12)

Miraculous Provisions (29:2-8) Historical record and rehearsal (vv 2-4) Preservation of clothing (v 5) Provision of food and water (v 6) Protection from enemies (v 7) Provision of land prior to entry to Canaan (v 8)

Marvellous Provision (29:9-12) Condition (v 9) Available to all the current generation (vv10-12)

II. Provision: Past & Future (Chs 29, 30) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 II. Provision: Past & Future (Chs 29, 30) A. Which Covenant? (29:1) B. The Lord’s Past Faithfulness (29:2-12) C. The Lord’s Future Faithfulness (29:13; Ch 30)

The Lord’s Future Faithfulness Entrance into the blessings of the Abrahamic Covenant (29:13) Warning (30:1) Return (30:2) Reception (30:3-6) Conditional (30:10) Choose (30:19-20) –

19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.

III. Provision: Leader & Lord (Chs 31-34) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 III. Provision: Leader & Lord (Chs 31-34) A. The Earthly Leader – Joshua (31:1-7, 23) B. The Heavenly Leader – The Lord (31:7-8) C. Stiff-necked Rebellion (31:14-29)

Moses’ pain Deuteronomy 31:16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My Covenant which I have made with them.

Moses’ pain Deuteronomy 31:17 “Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’

Moses’ pain Deuteronomy 31:18 “And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.”

Moses’ pain Deuteronomy 31:28 Moses commands Israel: “Gather to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Moses’ pain Deuteronomy 31:29 “For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.”

III. Provision: Leader & Lord (Chs 31-34) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 III. Provision: Leader & Lord (Chs 31-34) A. The Earthly Leader – Joshua (31:1-7, 23) B. The Heavenly Leader – The Lord (31:7-8) C. Stiff-necked Rebellion (31:14-29) D. Passing the Baton (Ch 34)

Faith goes where commonsense refuses to go Oswald Chambers writes: “Common sense is a gift which God gave to human nature; but common sense is not the Gift of His Son. Supernatural sense is the Gift of His Son; never enthrone common sense.”

Preparation for Possession Part (B) Covenant Nation Covenant Series # 24 Preparation for Possession Part (B) Deuteronomy Chapters 28 - 34