Theme & Message
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Blessing
& Curses the choice is yours. When we have 20/20 hind sight we see that all the
things the Lord spoke to His chosen people has come and more to still come to
pass because we refuse to follow His ways.
D’varim/
Deuteronomy 27
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Moshe having very largely and fully set before the people their
duty, both to God and one another, in general and in particular instances, -
having shown them plainly what is good, and what the law requires of them, - and
having in the close of the foregoing chapter laid them under the obligation both
of the command and the covenant, he comes in this chapter to prescribe outward
means,
I.
For the helping of their memories, that they might
not forget the law as a strange thing. They must write all the words of this law
upon stones (Deu_27:1-10).
II.
For the moving of their affections, that they might
not be indifferent to the law as a light thing. Whey they came into Canaan, the
blessings and curses which were the sanctions of the law, were to be solemnly
pronounced in the hearing of all Israel, who were to say Amen to them (v.
11-26). And if such a solemnity as this would not make a deep impression upon
them, and affect them with the great things of God's law, nothing would.
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