The curse is not greater than the blessing part 5

When you were born again you were made new, in God’s eyes, you became a new creature. You are a new species, you are something that never existed before you were born again. In fact, 1 Peter 2:9 says that we are “a chosen generation, a royal priest¬hood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;” why? “That ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.”

When we were living in the world away from God, we were living for the devil and we were in the kingdom of darkness. But now that we are Born Again, we are in the kingdom of light. There is a difference in what these kingdoms are, and how these kingdoms operate.

You need to know the struggle of the ages, which you are in right now, is a battle of light versus darkness. But in this struggle, you have won because of Christ. That’s right, you are different you are changed. You are more than a conqueror, Romans 8:37. Let’s look at that verse for a moment “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”

The third reason that so are affected by curses is they don’t understand their their Covenant Rights. Look at 2 Timothy 2:15 with me, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

This scripture says that we need to do more than just read the Word, we need to “rightly divide the Word.” That happens only as we study God’s Word. It is amazing how many of God's children don’t know the differences between the Old and the New Testa¬ments. Even fewer can tell you what the promises of God are, or where they are found, or if they were bought and paid for by the blood of Christ. They end up with a little of the Old mixed with the New, and they end up confused about their own covenant.

One minute they believe they are under the Law and the next time you talk to them, they say they are under Grace. They have become so double-minded that they have no clue about who they are, or where they are in Christ. They go from bondage to bondage, and when they find a moment of freedom, it doesn’t last long. Then they go from freedom to bond¬age. They need to find out what their Covenant is, and what rights and privileges it gives them, and then learn to get involved in it.

Jesus came to pay the price for our complete redemption. But they have no idea what that means. Jesus redeemed them from and the curse of the Law, and they insist on being back under that curse as a result of ignorance. Do you know what the result is, (?) a complete disobedience to God and to His Word. I can just hear someone asking, “Where is the Curse of the Law found, and how do you find yourself stuck under it?”

The answers to these questions are both found in Deuteronomy 28:14-68, they tell us that if you will not listen to the Lord then these curses will be yours. There is burden removing and yoke destroying power in the blessing, but the yoke will be placed on your neck under the curse. This passage contains every sickness and disease and somehow because of religion or tradition, people think that this is their lot in life. They don’t real¬ize that Jesus purchased their freedom so that they could live and not die.

Focus for a moment with me on verse 61, it reads “Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.” God is telling us that every new disease which medicine can’t figure out, every new kind of bug infestation which is immune to pesticide, everything that is not a blessing but a hindrance… these are covered in this litany of curses which comes on a person who will not live by God’s rules.

Turn again, to Exodus 20:5. We discussed it a moment ago, this verse is speaking about rebelling against God, and about serving idols. It is also talking about iniquity being passed from one generation to another. It says, “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them,” (speaking about idols): “for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”

Even though that verse does not use the word curse, this is where many people get the idea for Generational Curses. They assume that the word iniquity holds the same meaning as curses. Furthermore, some ministers have twisted this scripture and its original intention, to fit their own demonic ideas and preconceived notions. The word used in the verse is iniquity, as I discussed earlier, means evil, mischief, and perversity. The word is translated from the Hebrew word Awvone, according to even the best Hebrew Scholars, this word does not even carry the implication of a curse. In its entirety, the word means that which is morally evil, mischievous, and perverse. Although curses do come upon people for staying in this condition, this verse is not referring to the curse itself; it is referring to the condition which can bring curses.

The iniquity, God says is unto the third and fourth gen¬eration of them that hate Him. The iniquity is passed down to those that hate the Lord; the potential to have that iniquity in their lives is what is passed down to the children. As we discovered, the iniquity does not have to come into a person’s life simply because of someone’s mother or father.

God Loves us so much that He wants to bless us more than we want to be blessed, in fact, He made every provision for our blessing. As God’s children, we have nothing to fear from the curse as Second Timothy One Seven says. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

Galatians 3:13-14 says “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: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”