Leviticus 26:40–45
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About this episode
We come now to the end of this great chapter of blessings and curses. Modern man, and particularly the modern Christian, is often uncomfortable with such chapters. We are quite happy to hear about rain in its season and peace in the land. But the curses make us shift in our seats. The talk of pestilence, famine, and exile seems harsh, severe, almost un-Christian to our sentimental ears. We want a God who is all blessing and no cursing, all grace and no law, all New Testament and no Leviticus. The God who is revealed in Scripture is the God of the covenant. And a covenant, by its very nature, has two sides. It has stipulations, it has promises of blessing for faithfulness, and it has sanctions, or curses, for unfaithfulness. To remove the curses is to gut the covenant of its seriousness.