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Walking In Abundance- Part 20

November 4, 2026 – 3:22 am

When we don’t listen and obey, there are consequences to our disobedience!

Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice and they follow Me.” And again the implication is clear, if they don’t hear His Voice they can’t follow Him. So these are the two great basic conditions for inheriting the covenant blessings of God; listening carefully to His Voice and then doing what He says.

Yesterday, I went through the list of blessings in some detail.  It could be summed up in the following words:

EXALTATION

HEALTH

FRUITFULNESS

PROSPERITY

VICTORY

GOD’S FAVOR.

Now let’s look at the opposite side of the coin—the curses for disobedience. You see, it’s unrealistic to dwell on the blessings and act as if there weren’t such things as curses, because they are very real. One thing the Bible makes clear that most people don’t fully grasp is that a curse is a very real thing. And a curse comes for a reason.

This is clearly stated as Wisdom recorded in Proverbs chapter 26:

2 “Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, So a curse without cause does not alight.” (NASB)

Just as a bird alights on its appointed place because it has a right to be there, so a curse alights upon us for a cause. A curse without cause does not alight. If curses come there’s a reason for them. And the reason for the curses here in Deuteronomy 28 is very clearly stated. Deuteronomy 28:15:

“But it shall come about, if you will not obey the Lord Your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I charge you today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.” (NASB)

Once again, the phrase translated, “obey the Lord” is really “listen to the Voice of the Lord.” So the reason why the curses come is twofold: if you will not listen to the Voice of the Lord and you will not do what He says. So very simply the reason for curses is not listening to the Voice of the Lord, not doing what He says.

In other words, the curses come for exactly the opposite reason for which the blessings come. The blessings come through listening and doing, the curses come through not listening and not doing!

That’s very logical, very practical… that’s the reality.

The full list of curses follows in Deuteronomy 28:16–68, which is 53 verses. And they are all given over to the curses. You need to read that for yourself.

You’ll find if you go through the list of curses, you’ll discover that you’re enduring curses when you should be enjoying blessing. And that perhaps can change your whole life and your lifestyle.

To point out some of the main areas covered by the curses, the main area perhaps is mental and emotional and there’s a number of statements made in verse 20: “The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to…” (NIV).  In these two curses, there are confusion and frustration—everything you try to do turns out wrong.

Verse 28: “The Lord will afflict you with madness and confusion of the mind… (NIV). The curses there are madness and confusion of the mind. One thing emerges very clearly: confusion is a curse.

Verse 34: “The sights you see will drive you mad…” (NIV). To be driven mad is a curse; madness is a curse.

Verse 65: “The Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, a despairing heart” (NIV). Within these curses there are anxiety, weariness and despair. How many people you can see in almost any major city, walking around bowed down under those curses, and not really knowing why the curses have come.

It is imperative that we grasp the cost of disobedience in our lives and understand how it affects others.