Deuteronomy 28-30 - THE WORD IS NEAR YOU

Blessings for Keeping the Commandments

Deu 28:2 LSB - [2] "And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God:

Curses for Not Keeping the Commandments

Deu 28:15 LSB - [15] "But it will be, if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep [and] to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Deu 28:20 LSB - [20] "Yahweh will send upon you the curse, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you send forth your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.

Deu 28:47-48 LSB - [47] "Because you did not serve Yahweh your God with gladness and a merry heart--because of the abundance of all things, [48] therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deu 28:66-67 LSB - [66] "So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day and shall not have [any] faith in your life. [67] "In the morning you shall say, 'Would that it were evening!' And at evening you shall say, 'Would that it were morning!' because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.

The Covenant in Moab

Deu 29:2-4 LSB - [2] And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and all his land; [3] the great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders. [4] "Yet to this day Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

Isa 6:10 LSB - [10] "Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."

Mat 13:13-14 LSB - [13] "Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. [14] "And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, 'YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND; YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE; 

Deu 29:29 LSB - [29] "The secret things belong to Yahweh our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Yahweh Will Take You Back

Deu 30:1-3 LSB - [1] "So it will be, when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you cause [these things] to return to your heart in all the nations where Yahweh your God has banished you, [2] and you return to Yahweh your God and listen to His voice with all your heart and soul according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your sons, [3] then Yahweh your God will return you from captivity and return [His] compassion on you, and He will gather you again from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.

Deu 30:11-14 LSB - [11] "For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far [from you]. [12] "It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will go up to heaven for us and get it for us and make us hear it, that we may do it?' [13] "Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will cross the sea for us and get it for us and make us hear it, that we may do it?' [14] "But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

Rom 10:6-10 LSB - [6] But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way: "DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, 'WHO WILL GO UP INTO HEAVEN?' (that is, to bring Christ down), [7] or 'WHO WILL GO DOWN INTO THE ABYSS?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)." [8] But what does it say? "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART"--that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, [9] that if you confess with your mouth Jesus [as] Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; [10] for with the heart a person believes, leading to righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, leading to salvation.

 

Choose Life

Deu 30:15-16 LSB - [15] "See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and calamity; [16] in that I am commanding you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.