Deuteronomy 28:15-29 Click here for Bible Verses
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Today’s passage is Deuteronomy 28:15-29. Let’s go!
Deuteronomy 28:15-29 (NIV)
15 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.
21 The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.
22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.
23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.
24 The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.
26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
28 The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.
29 At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.
On verses 15-29: Whenever you read the Old Testament, it’s important to read it with New Testament eyes. That’s because the Old Testament is not complete without the New Testament. So whenever you see something in the Old Testament, don’t stop there. Instead ask yourself: how does this play out in the New Testament? How does Jesus affect what I’m reading in the Old Testament? When you read the Old Testament with New Testament eyes, God’s Word comes to life like never before.
Yesterday we learned that all the blessings listed in Deuteronomy 28:1-14 were won for us by Jesus Christ, who obeyed God fully. We could never earn those blessings ourselves because we could never obey God perfectly. But when we place our faith in Jesus who obeyed God perfectly, we are found in Christ and get to partake in all the blessings Christ won.
Today in Deuteronomy 28:15-29 we see a list of curses that Moses says will come upon God’s people if they do not obey God’s commands fully. These curses read like the opposite of the blessings we read in verses 1-14. That’s a scary thought: if we don’t obey God perfectly and “do not carefully follow all His commands” (v15), we will be cursed in every way. Since none of us has fully obeyed God, according to the law of Moses our lives ought to be cursed.
But the great news is this: Christ’s died on the cross to save us from all the curses of Deuteronomy 28:15-29. A curse only applies to a person while that person is alive. When Christ died on the cross, the curses could not touch Him. And if we are found in Christ, those curses cannot touch us either because in Christ our old life has died and we have a new life in Him. So just as all the curses of Deuteronomy 28:15-29 do not apply to Jesus, so they also do not apply to us who have believed in Christ.
Praise God! No matter what religion, astrology, occult or other worldly philosophies say, Jesus has set you free from every curse!
So the big lessons of Deuteronomy 28 so far are:
– Christ’s obedience won us all the blessings of Deuteronomy 28:1-14
– Christ’s death saved us from all the curses of Deuteronomy 28:15-29.
Thank You Lord Jesus for not just winning every blessing for me by Your obedience, but for taking away every curse from me too by Your death on the cross and Your resurrection from the grave. In Jesus’ name, AMEN!
