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Choice between life

Deuteronomy 30:15 (NLT)
“Now listen! Today I am giving you a choice between life and death, between prosperity and disaster.

If, Then Statement - Obedience to God brings blessing

Deuteronomy 30:9 (NLT)
“The LORD your God will then make you successful in everything you do. He will give you many children and numerous livestock, and he will cause your fields to produce abundant harvests, for the LORD will again delight in being good to you as he was to your ancestors.

My strength comes from God

Philippians 4:13 (NLT)
For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.

God's Special Blessing for the Israelite's

Numbers 6:23 (NLT)
“Tell Aaron and his sons to bless the people of Israel with this special blessing:

Consequences of following self

Proverbs 1:31 (NLT)
Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on their own schemes.

Clean Heart and Right Spirit

Psalm 51:10 (NLT)
Create in me a clean heart, OGod. Renew a loyal spirit within me.

God's Omnipotence

Matthew 19:26 (NLT)
Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”

IF, THEN, Warning to the Priests

Malachi 2:5 (NLT)
“The purpose of my covenant with the Levites was to bring life and peace, and that is what I gave them. This required reverence from them, and they greatly revered me and stood in awe of my name.

Obedience vs Disobedience

Deuteronomy 28:2 (NLT)
You will experience all these blessings if you obey the LORD your God:

Isaiah 50:4

Isaiah 50:4 (KJV)
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

God's Requirement

Micah 6:8 (KJV)
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Jeremiah 29:7

Jeremiah 29:7 (KJV)
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

1 Timothy 4:12

1 Timothy 4:12 (KJV)
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.