Blessings and Curses-Deuteronomy 28-29

by Chuck Adair on January 17, 2025

Blessings and Curses-Deuteronomy 28-29

Read Deuteronomy 29:29

Today’s Truth

In Moses’s third speech, he details the blessings and curses that Israel will experience depending on their faithfulness to the Lord. It was common in ancient covenant treaties for the curses to be longer than the blessings. Yet, this may also hint at Israel’s future failure to be faithful to the covenant.

Discussion Questions

Faithfulness matters. How has God been faithful to you?
God has always had a people. How does it feel knowing that you are part of God’s people?
God punishes disobedience with the hope that we will turn back to him. How has God chastised you where you were willing to turn to him?

Application

Moses concludes his third speech with a final exhortation to Israel to accept this covenant from the Lord. Moses reminds Israel of the Lord’s past faithfulness to them as a plea for them to trust Him again as they enter the Promised Land. So must we be faithful to the Lord as we remember his faithfulness toward us.

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About the Author

Chuck Adair

If you ask Chuck his favorite thing in life to do, he would tell you it is the teaching and preaching of the scriptures and to call all people to engage in the great adventure of abiding with Christ. He desires to connect people with the richness, adventure, and fullness of life that comes through Christ alone and to reach the unchurched, de-churched, dead-churched, and unmoved. Chuck is married to his best friend Kristin and has two adult children, Taylor and Linley. Kris and Chuck believe the quality of their marriage rises and falls, not on circumstances or feelings, but based on their daily abiding with Jesus (Jn 15.5).

Blessings and Curses-Deuteronomy 28-29