1. Blessings and Curses Sunday, September 15, 2013

2. The Legal Access Exodus 20 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

3. The Legal Access Exodus 20 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

4. The Leviticus Perspective “You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. 2 You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.”

5. The Promised Blessings Blessing 1 – Prosperity Blessing 2 – Security, personal and national Blessing 3 – Fruitfulness Blessing 4 – the manifest presence of the Lord

6. Corresponding Curses But if you will not listen to me: Curse 1 – sickness, disease, barrenness Curse 2 – Adversarial relationship with God that leads to defeat Curse 3 – Sevenfold discipline for your sins, Repeated until repentance

7. Going from Cursed to Blessing “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.