True, and we need to recognize that Deuteronomy 28flows on from Chapter 27. The things that would bar the way to prosperity for the people included worshipping idols, cheating your neighbor, deliberately misleading blind people, having sex with your stepmother, copulating with animals, committing incest, murder, and receiving bribes. To commit such sins would be a clear indication that someone had deliberately chosen to cut himself from the covenant.It would be a sad perversion of the Gospel indeed if we were to say, Hey, it's OK to worship idols, steal your neighbor's land, exploit the disabled, have sex with your step-mother sister and dog, kill your neighbor and take bribes. You can keep doing all these things and God will still bless you and prosper you because you're a Christian and you're covered by the blood.We see a clear application of the true Gospel of Grace in 1 Corinthians where Paul addresses one of the very issues raised in Deuteronomy Chapters 27 & 28. A member of the Church at Corinth was sleeping with his step-mother. Paul did not say, Hey, don't worry about that cursed and fruitless stuff - it's all covered by the cross anyway. He was clear that the individual, by his actions, had separated himself from God's covenant people. The solution was to cast him out of the church until his actions demonstrated repentance Senior Pastor, Solid Rock Church, DroghedaNational Overseer, Church of God, IrelandExecutive Director, Evangelical Alliance Irelandhttp://eaiseanchai.wordpress.com/
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