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Blessings on Obedience

1 “Now it shall come to pass, aif you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God bwill set you high above all nations of the earth.  
2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and aovertake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:  
3 a“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be bin the country.  
4 “Blessed shall be athe fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.  
5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
6 a“Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.  
7 “The Lord awill cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.  
8 “The Lord will acommand the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you bset your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.  
9 a“The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.  
10 Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are acalled by the name of the Lord, and they shall be bafraid of you.  
11 And athe Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord1 swore to your fathers to give you.  
12 The Lord will open to you His good1 treasure, the heavens, ato give the rain to your land in its season, and bto bless all the work of your hand. cYou shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.  
Commentaries:


No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Deuteronomy 28:2.

Deuteronomy 28:1-13

Is that not very clear? God holds out the expectation of reward. That is a part, a very clear part of one of the elements of His childrearing practices. He is rearing us.

I think that we would have to admit that as He reared Jesus Christ, He did an awfully good job. He trained up His Son in the way that He should go. And when He was older, He never departed from it. God knows that holding out the carrots, giving a child the expectation, the hope, of reward, is not wrong. It is a right principle.

Excerpted from The Chemistry of Government

 
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