March 27

The choice is always yours
Deuteronomy 29-30 /Romans 4-6

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OT

30:1-5 Suppose all these things happen to you–the blessings and the curses I have listed–and you meditate on them as you are living among the nations to which the LORD your God has exiled you. If at that time you return to the LORD your God, and you and your children begin wholeheartedly to obey all the commands I have given you today, then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and gather you back from all the nations where he has scattered you. Though you are at the ends of the earth, the LORD your God will go and find you and bring you back again. He will return you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will possess that land again. He will make you even more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors!

NT

5:1-5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.


OT Flash Points

Exposing the deceitfulness of the human heart
Offer – choice of life or death

NT Flash Points

fill the blanks – Not only do we rejoice in ___ but we also rejoice in ___
REALLY?
Wages of slavery to sin – death
Wages of slavery to Jesus – Life
That changes everything!


Perspective

Go up higher
If it is God’s call and work, then you enter on a wider place
He calls to the insight of your character

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