Why obey God's Laws

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  • We are called to be Holy People. 
    • For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 7:6 
    • But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 1 Peter 2:9
  • Long Life
    • Now these are the commandments, the statues, and the judgements, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it. That thou mightiest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. Deuteronomy 6:1-2
  • Blessings for Obedience
    • Mercy and love (Deuteronomy  7:12-13)
    • God will bless thee and multiply thee (Deuteronomy 7:13)
    • God will bless the fruit of thy womb (Deuteronomy 7:13)
    • God will bless the fruit of thy land (Deuteronomy 7:13)
    • Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you or among your cattle (Deuteronomy 7:14)
    • The Lord will take away from thee all sickness (Deuteronomy 7:15)
    • God will protect you from the people of the land (Deuteronomy 7:15-26)
    • You will possess a good land (Deuteronomy 8:1)
    • You will eat and be full (Deuteronomy 8:10)
    • God shall make thee the head and not the tail. (Deuteronomy 28:13)
  • Curses for disobedience
    • You will be cursed everywhere you go (Deuteronomy 28: 16 &19)
    • Your business will be cursed (Deuteronomy 28:17)
    • The Lord will send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me (Deuteronomy 28:20)
    • Consumption
    • Fever
    • Inflammation
    • With extreme burning
    • With the sword
    • With blasting (plant disease)
    • With mildew
    • The botch of Egypt (boils)
    • Astonishment of heart (panic)
    • Blindness
    • With madness
    • With the scab and with the itch (shingles)
    • With the emerods (hemorrhoids)
    • Sicknesses caused by inflammation
    • Alzheimer’s                     
    • Arthritis                          
      Arthritis, Rheumatoid       
      Asthma, Allergies            
      Atherosclerosis                
      Autoimmune                   
      Cardiovascular                
      Colitis                             
      Crohn’s                           
    • Dermatitis                    
      Diabetes Insipidus          
      Eczema                         
      Fibromyalgia (FM)           
      Inflammatory Bowel        
      Interstitial Cystitis         
      Irritable Bowel Syn.         
      Joint pain                        
      Lupus Erythematous        
      Multiple Sclerosis
        • Myalgias
        • Nephritis
        • Osteoarthritis
        • Parkinson’s
        • Psoriasis
        • Sarcoidosis
        • Sjögren’s Syndrome
        • Ulcerative Colitis
  • Words of Jesus
  • He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. John 14:21
  • If you keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love John 15:10

     Also consider 1 Corinthians 11:27-32

    Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

    This doesn't mean we are under the law. It simply means that there are consequences to every action. In the past God allowed dieses and sickness to come upon people when they disobeyed. Also, remember that not every sickness is a punishment. However, many times in the Bible that was the case. Let's be proactive by trying to obey God in every area of our lives and being quick to repent when we fail. 

  • 2 Corinthians 12:7

    And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Sometimes we go through things so we can be at the right place at the right time to help someone else. 

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