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YOUTH WORSHIP

23 November 2024

Title: “If you do not obey Me” Leviticus 26:14
Text: Leviticus 26:14-26

14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,

15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

16 I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart.
And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

17 I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies.
Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.

18 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

19 I will break the pride of your power;
I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

20 And your strength shall be spent in vain;
for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21 ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.

22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;
and your highways shall be desolate.

23 ‘And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

24 then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

25 And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26 When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:14-26

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. The Sinaitic Covenant is a concept that needs to be understood

2. This holds true:

a) Agreement

b) Contract

c) Treaty

d) Covenant Exodus 24

THE DANGER OF BREAKING THE COVENANT

1. Disobedience

“If you do not obey Me” Leviticus 26:14, 18, 21, 27

2. Disdain

“If you despise My statutes” Leviticus 26:15a

3. Abhorrence

“If your soul abhors My judgment” Leviticus 26:15b

4. Pride
“The pride of your power” Leviticus 26:19a

RESULTS

1. So that you do not perform all My commandments Leviticus 26:15c

2. But break My covenant Leviticus 26:15d

GRAVE CONSEQUENCES OUTLINED

1. General Warning

a) “I also will do this to you” Leviticus 26:16a

i) In response

ii) In reciprocation

b) “I will set My face against you” Leviticus 26:17

2. List of actions

a) Terror

b) Wasting disease

c) Fever

d) Sorrow of heart

e) Seed sown in vain

3. Severe Warning

“And after all this, if you do not obey Me,
Then I will punish you seven times more for your sins”

Leviticus 26:18

a) Heaven would be like iron Leviticus 26:19a

b) Earth would be like bronze Leviticus 26:19b

c) Strength spent in vain Leviticus 26:20a

d) No yield from the land Leviticus 26:20b

4. More Severe Warning

“If you walk contrary to Me,
And not willing to obey Me”

Leviticus 26:21a

a) I will bring on you seven times more plagues Leviticus 26:21b

b) According to your sins Leviticus 26:21c

i) Wild beasts

ii) Destruction

iii) Desolation Leviticus 26:21-22

5. Most severe warning

“And if by these things you are not reformed by Me,
But walk contrary to Me”

Leviticus 26:23

a) “Then I will walk contrary to you” Leviticus 26:24a

b) “I will punish you yet seven times more for your sins” Leviticus 26:24b

i) Sword

ii) Execution of the vengeance of the covenant

iii) Pestilence

iv) Delivered into the hand of the enemy

v) Hunger Leviticus 26:23-26

VITAL LESSONS

1. Never trivialise sin

2. Fear the Lord

3. Determine to walk with the Lord faithfully