In Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 we find the Lord explaining His sowing and reaping Law BEGINNING WITH THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF THAT LAW.  As this series will show, His beginning with the positive is an indication of His attitude toward and will for mankind.  The entire Bible–Genesis to Revelation–constitutes God’s moral Law upon which the New Covenant Church is built (Eph. 2:20).  The Ten Commandments constitute the summary of that Law.  There is no sin that those commandments does not address.  “Thou shalt not …” is an up-front warning to pay attention to what is coming so that you will not make a mistake.  We warn those we love about danger because we love them.  God’s Law is in fact His love letter to us in which He tells us about the blessings He has in store for us and how to receive them.  And like any good father, He warns us about the consequences of failing. The focal chapters of this series constitute the summary of His Law of Sowing and Reaping.

God’s plainly-stated Law determines how one’s life will play out depending on one’s belief in and reaction to that Law. Let us look at the first dozen or so verses of each focal chapter that tell us in plain terms what God wants for all people. Question: why would God tell us about the blessings He would bestow on us if it was not His will for us to receive those blessings? A loving father would not tell his child what he wants to give his child if he did not want the child to have it. God is love (1 Jn. 4:16). He has nothing but good things ready to give to His most cherished creation–mankind.

However, mankind does not see God that way. Because man has lived in a state of recurring curses for some 1900 years, he views God as having a less-than-kind point of view. Man, especially churchman, has known about God’s promised blessings but has failed to receive them. Having been deceived by Satan’s prophets, she does not know what it takes to receive them. Having been convinced that church doctrine replaces God’s Word, she is deceived concerning the character and will of God (Rev. 12:9). God is not the angry, cruel Being some people characterize Him to be. He is also not the doting sugar daddy other people say He is. God is love. God also rules His own. And like any loving father, He rules in love. Those who obey His rules are rewarded for doing so. Those who rebel against His rules are punished for doing so. The deceived Institutional Church does not know how to obey Him. And when shown the difference between church doctrine and His Word, she rejects Him.

God wrote the Holy Bible so that there would be no doubt as to what He commands of us. In it He tells us what He will do FOR us if we obey His rules and what He will do TO us if we do not. The problem is that church people do not know what He commands of us because they do not know His Word.  Not one in a million within professing Christendom knows God’s stated definition of sin: “To transgress the Law is sin; for sin is the transgression of the Law” (1 Jn. 3:4). God defines sin as the breaking of the Law, the same Law He supposedly nailed to the cross.  By congregating on Sunday, the church proclaims to the world that sin is one of its foundational doctrines.

Salvation seekers have been led astray by Satan’s false prophets who come to them as “ministers of righteousness” supposedly sent by the Lord to show them a “new and improved” way to eternal life. Satan’s manipulation of Adam and Eve is the perfect example. I know all about false prophets for I was one of them. For years I preached for the very things I now preach against. But God was gracious. He turned my zeal for Him away from error and to His Truths, then told me to teach both the positive and negative aspects of that Truth. See God’s Very Elect: Future Caretakers of the Universe and The Kingdom of God for more about what He has in store for those who love and obey Him.

As is always the case with the Lord, one must understand the caveats (rules) associated with both His positive and negative promises. Positivity (obedience) on man’s part produces positivity on God’s part.  Conversely, negativity (disobedience) on man’s part produces negativity on His part.  God’s rules stand fast.  It is man who determines which way God moves.  Man’s life is in his own hands. MAN REAPS WHAT HE SOWS.

But man does not know what he is supposed to sow and to not sow. For example, he is commanded to sow obedience to God’s Law. Instead he breaks the 4th (Sabbath) commandment and, being ignorant of God’s Word, expects to be rewarded for it. And when God curses him for doing so, man doesn’t understand why. Man does not know that God said to break one of the commandments is to break all ten of them (Jam. 2:10).  When we reject the Saturday Sabbath we reject (“despise”) the entire Bible. Jesus said that to reject His Word shows that we despise both Himself and His Father (Lk. 10:16).  The Introduction to this website lists a number of ways man shows his rejection of God, Christ and Their Word. L.J.