Over the past 12 months, AT&T has invested an entire ad campaign on the mantra, “Bigger is Better.” While many commercials are hard to understand what a company is trying to sell, this concept makes sense in the context of cell phones. Thus, AT&T continues to drive this point home today, like Geico, over and over again.
God was the first to introduce this sales pitch in Exodus 20:5-6 as an incentive for being obedient. As long as individuals remember to stay true to the One who brought Israel out of Egypt, God promises 1,000 generations of blessings and love. However, if you forget and begin to wander into sin, the Lord will punish your children with a generational curse lasting up to 4 generations.
The skeptic will cry foul; questioning, “how can a loving God be so cruel?” Denominations will even go as far as deemphasizing this passage along with similar warnings from Moses in Leviticus 26:14-46 and Deuteronomy 28. Meanwhile, many theologians claim these principles don’t apply anymore in a New Testament culture. Thus, parishioners will disregard passages that don’t fit into their biblical thinking. Bigger is better in mathematics, but from a spiritual perspective without obedience, no one will be accompanied by the blessings of God, Deuteronomy 28:2.
by Jay Mankus
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