"The Key to Your Life"

 

“The Key to Your Life”

 

“Now listen! Today I am giving you a choice between life and death, between prosperity and disaster.  For I command you this day to love the LORD your God and to keep His commands, decrees, and regulations by walking in His Ways.  If you do this, you will live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you.    Deuteronomy 30:15-16

 

Deuteronomy was penned by Moses, and this section was dealing with how the Israelite Believers should live.  He gave them the CHOICE of LIFE or DEATH.  He never taught them that they were JUSTIFIED by OBEYING the Law.  His point was how to LIVE an ABUNDANT LIFE, by being OBEDIENT to GOD’S WORD.   If they TRULY wanted to PLEASE the LORD, then they SHOULD LOVE HIM enough to WALK in His Ways.   This is a TRUTH that is APPLICABLE for ALL MANKIND to follow.  That is, for ALL who are TRUE BELIEVERS.  And have ACCEPTED God’s Gift of SALVATION, which is made POSSIBLE through the LORD JESUS CHRIST, God’s ONLY Son, the One who PAID the PRICE with the SHEDDING of His OWN BLOOD for the REDEMPTION or SALVATION of the SOULS of MANKIND.  By following Moses’ instructions, he says that “If you do this, you will LIVE and MULTIPLY, and the LORD your GOD will bless you.

 

This is what we call; Living the ABUNDANT LIFE, they could be PROSPEROUS and have a JOYOUS FELLOWSHIP with the LORD GOD, ALMIGHTY.  But if they were to TURN AWAY from LIVING in OBEDIENCE to GOD’S WORD and WAYS. Then they could FALL into the TEMPTATION of DISOBEDIENCE against GOD, and experience a DISASTEROUS, CATASTROPHIC JUDGMENT.  So, you see why MOSES was EXPLICIT about his INSTRUCTIONS on LIVING a VICTORIOUS and PROSPEROUS LIFESTYLE, through their OBEDIENCE to God’s WORD and WAYS.  It was NOT by their WORKS that they were ABLE to have a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with God, but it was by their FAITH, or BELIEVING that GOD was REAL, and if they wanted to PLEASE Him they would be OBEDIENT to Him.

 

This is TRUTH that applies to ALL TRUE BELIEVERS, they have the CHOICE to make between LIFE or DEATH, PROSPERITY or DISASTER.  YOU can make this choice by LOVING the LORD your God, OBEYING HIM, and COMMITTING yourself FIRMLY to HIM. When you do this, you can possess the KEY to YOUR LIFE, and a RIGHT RELATIONSHIIP with the ALMIGHTY GOD.

 

But if you have NOT given your HEART and LIFE to God, and you are CONTINUALLY REJECTING His SON, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, as your SAVIOR and LORD, then you are facing a SPIRITUAL, DISASTEROUS and CATASTROPHIC JUDGMENT.  In order to ESCAPE such a JUDGMENT, you MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your sinful life-style, and TURN TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART. And CONFESS your sins to Him, and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  BELIEVING, with ALL your HEART, that JESUS died for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  You MUST ACCEPT His Gift of SALVATION, and LIVE an OBEDIENT LIFE, FOLLOWING GOD’S WORD and WAYS.  And receive HEAVEN, with ALL its BLESSINGS as your ETERNAL HOME, and ESCAPE an ETERNITY in HELL, with ALL its HORRORS, and NO WAY to ESCAPE, after you are there.  So, do this NOW, while you still can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!