{"id":22692,"date":"2022-08-01T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/deuteronomy28_1-14-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:52:01","slug":"deuteronomy28_15-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/deuteronomy28_15-29\/","title":{"rendered":"No Curse Can Touch You Because of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Deuteronomy 28:15-29 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Deuteronomy+28%3A15-29&amp;version=NIV\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22694 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/22-0802b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/22-0802b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/22-0802b-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s passage is Deuteronomy 28:15-29.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deuteronomy 28:15-29 (NIV)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><sup>15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0However, if you do not obey the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your 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:<br \/>\n<sup>16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.<br \/>\n<sup>17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.<br \/>\n<sup>18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The 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.<br \/>\n<sup>19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.<br \/>\n<sup>20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0will 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.<br \/>\n<sup>21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.<br \/>\n<sup>22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0will 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.<br \/>\n<sup>23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.<br \/>\n<sup>24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.<br \/>\n<sup>25\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0will 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.<br \/>\n<sup>26\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Your 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.<br \/>\n<sup>27\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.<br \/>\n<sup>28\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.<br \/>\n<sup>29\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0At 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On verses 15-29:\u00a0\u00a0Whenever you read the Old Testament, it&#8217;s important to read it with New Testament eyes. That&#8217;s because the Old Testament is not complete without the New Testament. So whenever you see something in the Old Testament, don&#8217;t stop there. Instead ask yourself: how does this play out in the New Testament? How does Jesus affect what I&#8217;m reading in the Old Testament? When you read the Old Testament with New Testament eyes, God&#8217;s Word comes to life like never before.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we learned that all the blessings listed in\u00a0Deuteronomy\u00a028:1-14 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.<\/p>\n<p>Today in\u00a0Deuteronomy\u00a028:15-29 we see a list of curses that Moses says will come upon God&#8217;s people if they do not obey God&#8217;s commands fully. These curses read like the opposite of the blessings we read in verses 1-14. That&#8217;s a scary thought: if we don&#8217;t obey God perfectly and &#8220;do not carefully follow all His commands&#8221; (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.<\/p>\n<p>But the great news is this: Christ&#8217;s died on the cross to save us from all the curses of\u00a0Deuteronomy\u00a028:15-29. 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\u00a0Deuteronomy\u00a028:15-29 do not apply to Jesus, so they also do not apply to us who have believed in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Praise God! No matter what religion, astrology, occult or other worldly philosophies say, Jesus has set you free from every curse!<\/p>\n<p>So the big lessons of\u00a0Deuteronomy\u00a028\u00a0so far are:<br \/>\n&#8211; Christ&#8217;s obedience won us all the blessings of\u00a0Deuteronomy\u00a028:1-14<br \/>\n&#8211; Christ&#8217;s death saved us from all the curses of\u00a0Deuteronomy\u00a028:15-29.<\/p>\n<p><em>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&#8217; name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s passage is Deuteronomy 28:15-29.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n<p>Deuteronomy 28:15-29 (NIV)<br \/>\n15\u00a0\u00a0However, if you do not obey the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your 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:<br \/>\n16\u00a0\u00a0You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.<br \/>\n17\u00a0\u00a0Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.<br \/>\n18\u00a0\u00a0The 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.<br \/>\n19\u00a0\u00a0You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.<br \/>\n20\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0will 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.<\/p>\n<p>On verses 15-29:\u00a0\u00a0Whenever you read the Old Testament, it&#8217;s important to read it with New Testament eyes. That&#8217;s because the Old Testament is not complete without the New Testament. So whenever you see something in the Old Testament, don&#8217;t stop there. Instead ask yourself: how does this play out in the New Testament? How does Jesus affect what I&#8217;m reading in the Old Testament? When you read the Old Testament with New Testament eyes, God&#8217;s Word comes to life like never before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22695,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692\/revisions\/22695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}