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The Choice is Yours
God is clearly laying out the choices the people have to make concerning God and His participation in their lives .... he gives them a choice
Blessings
Look at 28:13 and 28:14
Curses
look at vs 16-68
It so simple
So the people have been left with a choice ....
Blessing or a curse
What do we do?
Illustration - the choice
I Remembering Deut 30:1-5
vs 1 It the midst of the trials look at vs 1 - call them to mind - wow I remember now
Illustration here - you told me this would happen
Moses had passionately urged the nation to obey the Lord and His commands, and had set the blessings and curses … before them in order to motivate them.
vs 2 - For Israel would come to her senses; she would take God’s word to heart.
God will now acts and return the nations back to the promised land ...
Key - they remembered/repented and God moved ....
God Himself will intervene, and with tender compassion … gather the nation and bring her back to her land.
He will restore Israel’s fortunes,
Lost son
too late - the Rich Man
II Inward Change Deut 30:6-10
Its a supernatural will ..... its a change of heart
Their choice would bring a new will
The promise that the Lord your God will circumcise your hearts (cf.
10:16) means that God will graciously grant the nation a new will to obey Him in place of their former spiritual insensitivity and stubbornness.
After returning to the Promised Land with a new heart they will remain committed to the Lord and therefore will experience abundant blessing (live).
Loving Him wholeheartedly (cf.
30:16, 20; see comments on 6:5), they would not fall back into apostasy as they had done before.
A new heart is an essential feature of the New Covenant (cf.
Ezek.
36:24–32), which will not be fulfilled for Israel as a nation until the return of Jesus Christ (cf.
Jer.
31:31–34).
30:7–10.
All the prosperity mentioned here (cf.
28:4) would come on Israel because under the New Covenant the nation will finally be enabled to obey the Lord wholeheartedly (cf.
all your heart and all your soul in 30:6; 6:5).[1]
The choice is your a new heart that comes from God.....
Illustration
The Old You - could car less about What does God think
The new heart and new you - what does God think … Netflix TVM really
God will bless you .... absolutely
or keep it up and sink futher down in the miry clay ....
More here
III Blessings Deut 30:11-6
The Law was not incomprehensible (too difficult) or inaccessible (beyond your reach).
Though the Law had a heavenly origin God clearly revealed it to Israel so there was no need for anyone to ascend into heaven to get it nor did anyone need to travel across an ocean to get it.
Nor did Israel need a special interpreter of the Law before they could obey it.[1]
Read - this is not hard
vs 11-14
It not far off
Its easy too understand
It close unto thee
vs 15 Your choice
life and good
death and evil
Moses reminded the people that the covenant was not too hard for them to understand (mysterious), nor was it far off (inaccessible).
They were not required to do the impossible to find it.
The Lord had brought it to them, and their responsibility was to obey it.
These verses are used by Paul in Romans 10:5–8 and are applied to Christ and the gospel
Illustration of bad choices
You were warned
the consequences laid out
It wasn't that it was hard ...
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IV Decision Time Deut. 30:15-16
Moses never taught the Israelites that they were justified by obeying the Law.
Early in his first book he stated that Abraham was justified by faith in the Lord (Gen.
15:6).
However, in Deuteronomy 30:15–20, Moses was speaking to a believing people about fellowship, not justification.
His point was simply that the full enjoyment of life would depend on their obeying God’s Word.
If a believing Israelite sincerely wanted to please the Lord—and it was normal for such a person to love Him and walk in His ways—then he would live under God’s blessing.
So though no one could be justified by the Law, a believer could be blessed under the Law.[1]
Replacing the Old You requires a decision
Mush more here
The people were called on to choose between life and good on the one hand, and death and evil on the other—life for obedience, but death for disobedience.
Moses strongly pleaded with them to choose life and … blessing.
The desired response brought good results, including length of … days and abundant spiritual life, implied by the words “that you may cling to Him.”
The only alternative was one of cursing
You have heard the blessings
You know the curse
What are you going to do?
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