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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Anil Kanda

Three Mountains

Father, we just thank you so much again for the Holy Spirit.

We pray and ask that you would bless us, that you would enlighten us, and Lord, most of all, that we would be drawn to Jesus.

For this we pray, your precious name, amen.

I don't know how you're feeling this morning, but Sabbath mornings can be a variety of motions.

You know, sometimes you don't get good sleep Friday night, sometimes there's burdens on your heart.

Sometimes you come in crash landing Friday sundown.

And you wake up Sabbath morning and you don't feel oftentimes like worshiping God.

But the Bible tells us these beautiful words, it says, enter into his gates with what?

I heard an old preacher say many, many years ago, he said, look, when you enter into the presence of God with praise, he enters into your circumstances with power.

When you enter into the presence of God with praise, He enters into your circumstances with power.

And the Bible tells us sometimes we have to offer the sacrifices of praise.

So wherever you are at and however you are, I want you to know you're in a good place and God wants to bless you, amen?

So I wanna tell you guys a story, a story you might be familiar with.

1 of the world's famous rock climbers, mountaineers, his name is Rehon Messner.

He's someone that has climbed multiple mountains.

1 of the things he's familiar with was in 1986, he went on expedition to climb Mount Everest and he decided to do it without an oxygen tank.

He went up to that top of the mountain and there were other people on the expedition who actually died in the attempt to get to the top of Mount Everest.

But he actually made it to the top and he came back down.

And when people were interviewing him, they were talking to him, they asked him this question.

They said, look man, Did you not know that you were gonna die on top of that mountain?

Didn't you know that there was death waiting for you up there?

I didn't go up there to die, I went up there to live.

Today we're gonna be talking about mountains of death and mountains of life.

Mountains of death and mountains of life.

You know when I was coming down from, I live in the city of Chowchilla, Anybody heard of Chowchilla?

Yeah, I live there and I still haven't heard of that city.

So I was coming down from Chowchilla, passing Fresno, making my way through Tulare, going through Bakersfield, and when you're about to get to the grapevine, all of a sudden you see these 2 looming mountains that look like gigantic hills and you're about to make your way through.

Well the Bible tells us that when the children of Israel were at the borders of the promised land in the land of Moab They came across 2 mountains and God gave very explicit commands He said I want you to take half the tribe and I want you to take tell them to go up Mount Gerizim I want you to take the other half of the tribe and I want you to go to Mount Ebel and those on top of the mountain of Mount Girsum will share the blessings of obedience and those that go up Mount Ebel they will share the cursings that will fall upon disobedience.

Today we're gonna be taking a good look at those mountains.

Now you may be thinking, wait a minute, I didn't sign up for this Sabbath morning breakfast.

But I want you to know you're going to be blessed by this.

So take your Bible, let's go to the book of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter 28.

I think I just damaged someone's iPad here If I did I just want to apologize let you know Arden's gonna pay for this So whoever you are just see Arden after this.

So We're in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 28 book of Deuteronomy chapter 28 Deuteronomy chapter 28 Moses is reviewing the law.

The Bible says these very interesting words in chapter 28 Actually, let's start with chapter 27 and I want you to go all the way to verse 11 Chapter 27 starting with verse 11.

Very interesting words and Moses commanded the people on the same day.

These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you have crossed over the Jordan, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Ishakar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.

And these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

And the children of Israel were at the base and they could see representatives from both tribes.

Some on the mountain of blessing and others on the mountain of curses.

Now watch what the particular group of tribes say on Mount Gerizim.

Notice what it says in chapter 28 starting with verse 1.

The Bible says these words, and it shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God to observe carefully all his commandments which I command you today that the Lord your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth and all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you have obeyed the voice of your God.

Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

Blessed shall be the fruit of the ground.

Verse 5, blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Verse 6, blessed shall be you when you come in and blessed shall be you when you go out.

Verse 7, the Lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before your face.

Verse 9, the Lord will establish you as his holy people to himself just as he sworn to you if keyword if if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways so you can imagine that the children Israel right there they're hearing the words that come from Mount Georgetown blessings after blessings after blessings they were even told the blessings will overtake you they will tackle you They will overcome you to the point where you're going to be like, Lord, you've blessed me so much.

There was a church member 1 day who asked me to do an anointing at her house and she said she prepared everything she even had the oil there and she had the scripture verse she wanted me to read she wanted me to read the first part of this passage which I just read to you But I didn't look carefully at the rest of the passage and I started to go into the cursings.

And I remember I was just reading all the curses and I was like, I stopped and I was looking at my friend who was with me and I'm like something's not right here.

Anyways, it's important for us to hear the curses.

And if they make you cringe, that's the purpose.

Notice what the Bible says right here in verse 15.

But It shall come to pass that if you shall not obey the voice of the Lord your God to observe carefully all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

Curse shall be you in the city, and curse shall be you in the country.

Curse can you imagine if someone's driving by right now?

Can you imagine that right now, just hearing something like this?

Curse shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Curse shall be the fruit of the body and produce of your land and the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

Curse shall be you when you come in and curse shall you be when you go out.

The Lord will send cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do until you are destroyed, until you perish quickly because of the wickedness of the doings which you have forsaken me." Now when I read that I thought to myself, oh man that's intense!

Here they are, they're hearing the blessings of being obedient to the law of God.

And then as they're just about to just say, oh yeah, this is good, let's praise God.

All of a sudden, the tribes that are on Mount Ebel begin to share the cursings of disobedience.

You can imagine they're cringing and maybe their stomach is starting to churn as they're hearing about the curses.

You know the curses are more than just cause and effect here.

There is a divine response in the blessings and there is a divine response in the curses and as they're hearing all these things you can imagine the emotional response and Moses says this will come upon you if you are obedient to the law of God and if you are disobedient to the law of God.

You know what's really interesting about the law of God?

Is that the law of God is part of the dynamics that make up all of existence.

When the law of God is kept, when the law of God is followed obediently, there is the blessings of life and love.

The universe was created upon these propositional truths that fundamentally make up this universe.

That when you're obedient and you follow through with the law and when the law is kept, there is blessings, there is life.

And you can even see out in the world today, people who aren't Christians, people who don't read the Bible, that when there is a violation of these laws, there are certain consequences.

And though it may seem sometimes that people can get away with violations of these laws, inevitably there is a consequence.

By the way, I don't know about you, if you ever read the plagues before, you're like, yeah that's it's my part of my morning devotional, right?

Do you know what the last plague is that falls upon this world?

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