Leviticus 26:1-20
If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.
I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.
But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.
I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
The reward if obedience is pictured as an idyll of peace and plenty. Best of all, God will walk amongst his people, as he walked in the garden with the first man and woman, This is Eden restored.
Disobedience, on the other hand, will bring calamity on the nation: fatal disease, famine, wild beasts ravaging the land and war leading to exile.
Why?
Blessing and received the achievement is the blessing of the Lord. People put effort or struggle to do something if there is not blessing of the Lord it is in vain.
This is the selection and decision by a man, blessing and punishment is clear and everyone knows it. next is the man chose himself or listen to the word of the Lord. So the consequence is the result of the people.
Obey God's decrees and careful to obey God's commands, careful means we have to follow with our heart, for the Lord know what our heart is.
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蒙福的道路：我們是君尊的祭司，聖潔的國度，有屬天的盼望
v1-2: 除了耶和華以外不可有別的神。做法： 守安息日，即使失去賺錢的機會，不去做別的事。我們知道親近神是更重要的。這是最具體的做法。
v3-13 如果我們遵守神的律法，我們當然會蒙福，豐收。在世界上也有地位，活的有尊嚴。
v14-39 如果我們不遵行就有.... 敗在自己以為可靠的事物上。
v40-46 如果承認自己的罪，神紀念與雅各所立的約。連續三次紀念與我們立的約。神是守約施慈愛的神。如果不聽，再不聽，還是不聽。神降災是要人悔改、歸回。神降災是有好的意念，好像動手術，雖然痛苦，卻是將瘤除掉。
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How?
Careful obey the word of the Lord is blessing, otherwise there is disaster in front.
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