Hi, it's David Platt. Have you signed up for Secret Church 25 yet? It's happening online, April 11th,

and I would love for you to join us. We're going to spend six hours together studying the book of

Matthew, discovering how to make our lives count for what matters most, and praying for our

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Radical.net. Levitticus chapter 26 versus three and four. If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you

your reins in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield

their fruit. If I kept reading this chapter at this point, you would hear all kinds of promises from God to bless his people as they obey him.

If you walk in my statutes, observe my commandments, and do them, I'm going to bless you in all these ways.

And then when you get to verse 14 in Leviticus chapter 26, the whole

picture shifts as God says, but if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,

if you spurn my statutes, then you will miss out on all of my blessings and you will experience

judgment. And as we read verses like this,

specifically that are promising material reward and blessing for obedience. Like verse four,

I will give you the rains in their seasons, the land shall yield its increase, the trees of

the field shall bear

their fruit. This is promise of material blessing as God is establishing a nation, a people in a physical

land, the promised land, will be flowing with milk and honey. That's what God was doing here in the Old

Testament in a way that's different from what God was doing here in the Old Testament.

In a way that's different from what God is doing in the New Testament, in the new covenant with us, nowhere in the New Testament.

Do you see a promise of material blessing for obedience?

In fact, that's what's so shocking about Jesus going to a rich young man and saying,

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