“If You Do Not Obey Me…”
“If You Do Not Obey Me…”
Blessings folk!
Here is the basic, foundational truth about fruit.
God brings fruit forth.
Here is an example of the Lord restricting fruit due to obedience.
Lev 26:14-20
‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,
if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away;
also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.
‘I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies;
and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.
‘If also after these things you do not obey Me,
then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
‘I will also break down your pride of power;
I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
‘Your strength will be spent uselessly,
for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
Whew!
A tough Word.
If they did not…
- Obey God
- Carry out all His commandments
If they…
- Rejected His statutes
- Abhored His ordinances in their souls
- Did not carry out all His commandments
- Broke His covenant
Then, God would…
- Appoint a sudden terror over them
- Appoint consumption
- Appoint fever
- Cause the seed sown to be useless
- Cause the enemy to eat their resources
- Set His face against them
- Allow those who hate them to rule over them
- Cause them to flee when no one is pursuing…fear!
Then, if after all these things they refuse to obey…God will punish them seven times more for their sins…
He will break down their pride of power.
He will make their sky like iron.
He will make their earth like bronze.
Drought/famine.
Their strength would be spent uselessly.
The land would not yield produce.
Trees will not bear fruit.
All because of stubborn disobedience.
Are we as Believers required to adhere to this Law?
Yes, but in a different way.
Jesus came to fulfill the Law, not to do away with it.
Remember this.
We fulfill the Law in/through the Lord Jesus.
Believing in Him.
Faith in Him.
Abiding in Him.
Trusting in Him.
Producing fruit in/through Him.
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