Read through the Bible in 2 Years: Deuteronomy 27-28

In Deuteronomy 27:14, the Levites (the priests) were told to declare a series of curses to all the men of Israel in a loud voice. After voicing these curses for disobeying God’s commands, then they were to share the blessings for obedience, followed once again by more pronouncements of God’s judgment on their disobedience.

No one likes to tell others about the hard things going on in life. It’s so much more fun to just talk about the happy stuff – the joys of marriage, the highlights of homeschooling, the achievements of our children. Likewise, our churches are full of messages about HEAVEN and BLESSINGS and GOOD NEWS!

But, the thing is that only telling half the truth is really deceptive, and the GOOD NEWS is really so much sweeter when you know the bad news.

• The bad news is that you are a sinner through and through.
• The bad news is that on your own you can’t do anything good.
• The bad news is that you deserve God’s wrath.
• The bad news is that (apart from the saving grace of God) you are destined for eternity in hell.

The bad news
is just as true
as the good news.

• The good news is that Jesus became a curse for me.
• The good news is that Jesus delivered me from my path straight to hell.
• The good news is that Jesus paid the price for my sin by His death on the cross.
• The good news is that Jesus is my Savior and my Friend.

We have to tell the good news and the bad, the curses and the blessings. They’re both true and they both need to be proclaimed.

“This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Acts 4:11-12 ESV