Deuteronomy 11:1-28

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Summary

• They know how God judges wickedness.

• They must decide one of these: obedience (results: blessings) or wickedness (results: judgment).

Details and/or Comments

• They know how God deals with wickedness - what God did to others (such as Egypt), as well as to them (such as in the wilderness).

• They have to decide which they want - God's blessings or judgment. These blessings (or lack thereof) will even have an affect on the environment!

• They must follow God themselves, as well as teach their children to do so. (Compare to the commands in Deuteronomy 6.)

• Even their ability to take the land is connected with their willingness to obey God.

Scripture

Deuteronomy 11:1-28

Blessing or curse – your choice.

It will even affect the weather!

Scripture Passage	Comments and Links
Deu 11:1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always. Deu 11:2 Know this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm, Deu 11:3 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land; Deu 11:4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day; Deu 11:5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place; Deu 11:6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel: Deu 11:7 but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did.	Love and obey God. Love for God The Need for Obedience You yourselves have seen his great works of power (related to punishment of sin). God's Glory in Judgment
Deu 11:8 Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it; Deu 11:9 and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.	Obey God's commands, so things will continue to go well with you in a land of plenty. Blessings with Obedience / Curses with Disobedience
Deu 11:10 For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; Deu 11:11 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water of the rain of the sky, Deu 11:12 a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.	This is a land that God takes care of. Land of Canaan
Deu 11:13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, Deu 11:14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. Deu 11:15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.	If you pay attention to the commandments, God will send you rain, harvests and blessings. Ecological Blessings
Deu 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; Deu 11:17 and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.	If you go after false gods, he will shut up the sky and you will perish. First Commandment Ecological Judgments Drought
Deu 11:18 Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes. Deu 11:19 You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. Deu 11:20 You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates; Deu 11:21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.	Put these words (the Law) in your heart and teach them to your children. The results: you will live long in the land. The Training of Children
Deu 11:22 For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him; Deu 11:23 then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. Deu 11:24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border. Deu 11:25 No man shall be able to stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.	If you do obey... You will overpower nations stronger than you. Everywhere you go in the land will be yours. Land Given by God War and Peace, Victory and Defeat
Deu 11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: Deu 11:27 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day; Deu 11:28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.	Your choice – blessing or curse. Blessings with Obedience / Curses with Disobedience

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