Redeemed from the Curse
The Abrahamic Covenant
Genesis 17:4 – “As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many
nations.”
This was God’s method of establishing a legal contract with men.
The power of this contract caused God to talk with Abraham before He did anything to the cities.
Genesis 18:16-33
The Blessings of the Covenant
Deuteronomy 28:1-14 – “And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou
shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God” (v.2).
Four major categories of blessings:
Spiritual
Physical
Financial
Social
All a man had to do to enjoy these blessings was to obey the Word of God.
The Curse of the Law
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
When the people disobeyed the Word, they fell under the curses.
As long as they obeyed God’s Word, they lived under an umbrella of protection.
“The Lord shall allow you to be smitten” (v.22, Hebrew text, permissive verb).
“Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law…” (v.61)
Every sickness and every disease is under the curse. D. Jesus Came to Fulfill the Words of the
Covenant
Jesus operates as a prophet ministering the Word of His Father.
Matthew 5:17-18 – “…I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil…one jot or one tittle shall in no
wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
Isaiah 61:1-2 – “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to
preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To
proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all
that mourn.”
Jesus fulfills this prophecy.
Matthew 11:5 – “The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and
the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.”
Luke 13:11-17 – “And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen
years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself ” (v.11). “And ought not this
woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be
loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” (v.16)
Christ Has Redeemed Us from the Curse
While hanging on the cross, Jesus cried, “It is finished.” Jesus was the last sacrifice of
the Abrahamic Covenant. He was offered up on the altar of the cross.
Jesus went into the pit of hell itself and paid the price for man’s fall.
Galatians 3:13-14, 29 – “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse
for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree” (v.13). “And if ye be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (v.29).
What We Have Been Redeemed Into
Colossians 1:13 – “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us
into the kingdom of his dear Son.”
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 – “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new” (v.17). “For he hath made him to be sin for us,
who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (v.21).
Romans 5:17 – “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which
receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.”
Ephesians 2:5-6 – “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus” (v.6).
Matthew 6:24-34 – “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you” (v.33).
Heirs According to the Promise
Galatians 3:29 – “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the
promise.”
We are joint heirs with Jesus in His Covenant with God. Whatever Jesus gets, we get. What is
His is ours. Jesus was born again, resurrected and seated at the throne of God.
1 John 4:17 – “…because as he is, so are we in this world.”
Abraham’s blessings belong to us.
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How God Perfects the Re-created Human
Spirit
God Does Not Perfect Us Through Trials
The Word is God’s method of bringing perfection.
Ephesians 4:11-16 – “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists;
and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for
the edifying of the body of Christ” (vv. 11-12).
1 Corinthians 3:1-3 – “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto
carnal, even as unto babes in Christ” (v.1).
2 Timothy 4:2 – “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort
with all longsuffering and doctrine.”
Faith is not developed by trials.
Faith comes by hearing the Word.
The trying of our faith works patience.
James 1:1-8 – “Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience” (v.3).
What you do with your faith and the Word brings perfection.
Patience: to be constant or consistent regardless of the circumstances
God Is Not the Tempter
To know who the tempter is, you must be able to rightly divide the word of truth.
Let no man say he is tempted of God.
James 1:12-17 – “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be
tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man” (v.13).
What about Job?
Satan tried to get God to put His hand against Job. God said, “Behold, he is in your power.” Job
had let the hedge down by operating in fear. He began to make the same sacrifices continually,
proving he had no faith. Satan sent some religious men to tell him that God had done this, but
God later said to those men, “…ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right” (Job 42:8).
Job prayed for those men in faith and
deliverance came immediately.
The Word chastens and purifies the spirit in such a way that man comes out strong, not weak and
condemned.
Chastisement in the Old Testament
Chastisement: punishment by inflicting pain
Isaiah 53:5 – “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
Jesus bore our chastisement (punishment) so we don’t have to bear it.
The Chastisement of the Lord
Old Testament: punishment by inflicting pain. New Testament: to instruct or to train.
Hebrews 12:6-9 – “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he
receiveth” (v.6).
John 3:6 – “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
God is a Spirit and uses spiritual weapons, not carnal.
John 6:63 – “…the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
A loving God would never send sickness or disease to teach.
Jesus never refused to heal anyone in order that He might teach them.
Jesus was the expression of God’s will.
John 14:9 – “…he that hath seen me hath seen the Father…”
Scourge: to beat on
Hebrews 12:6 – “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he
receiveth.
God doesn’t scourge the flesh, but the inner man with His Word.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (AMP) – “Every Scripture is God- breathed (given by His inspiration) and
profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline
in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God’s will in
thought, purpose and action)” (v.16).
Hebrews 4:12 – “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two- edged
sword…”
One side of the sword is for Satan; the other side is for you.
Ephesians 5:26-27 – “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the
word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church…”
The Church will become spotless by the washing of the water by the Word.
Put yourself in subjection to the Word. It trims away the lusts of the flesh and sanctifies it.
2 Corinthians 7:8-9 – “For though I made you sorry with a letter… I perceive that the same
epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that ye were
made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance…”
God reprimanded the people with His Word. It got into their spirits and made them sorry.
Proverbs 17:10 (AMP) – “A reproof enters deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred
lashes into a [self-confident] fool.”
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