WHAT CHRIST HAS REDEEMED US FROM
REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW
Gal.3:13,14,29 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law.
Question: What does REDEEMED mean? To buy back, recover by expenditure.
Question:
Why did Christ have to REDEEM us? Because the whole human race
is in bondage to sin. They
cannot keep "the Law" and find favour with God.
Question: With what did Christ REDEEM us? Eph.1:7 "With His blood".
He paid the "SUPREME PRICE" to buy you back. His life and shed His blood.
Question: What is the curse of the Law? Go back to Law (1st 5 books) and see.
3 Fold curse - Poverty, sickness and the Second Death.
1. P O V E R T Y
Deut.28:15-17,
38-40. (26:1-2,5,8,11,12) (30:19-20) The curse of poverty
was to come upon them for disobeying God's Law. Rom.3:23 says
we've all sinned. Jesus became our "substitute" - He bore the
curse - We can be FREE.
11 Cor.8:9 Jesus became poor so we
could be rich. He did not become poor spiritually - He raised the
dead, water - wine, 5OOO, miracles.
Materially
he left heaven's splendour - Born into a poor family, He owned no
property, at death he was naked, buried in a borrowed grave.
Luke 9:58 "Foxes have holes, birds of the air have nests, but the Son ..."
"Poverty is a curse", its no blessing - Jesus Redeemed us from it.
Phil.4:19 There is a full supply for the children of God..
Mat.6:33 "Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness .... added to you.
The
devil has lied to Christians - he said poverty is a sign of HUMILITY
and GODLINESS. Poverty is a sign of "Ignorance" of God's
word. Jesus - Added.
Luke 6:39 "Give and it will be given to you ... shall "MEN" give. Jesus told the truth.
THE KEY TO GOD'S PROSPERITY is to "GIVE". The world HOARDES.
You say "I can't afford to give" - God says "You can't afford not to give."
Mal.3:10
"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse ..." You have
not started to give until you have "paid" your tithes.
QUESTION:
Is tithing just for the Old Testament under the Law? No. Abraham
paid tithes 430 yrs. before the Law and Heb.7:8 show tithing in the New
Testament.
PEOPLE SAY "PROSPERITY WORKS FOR THE JEWS BUT NOT FOR THE GENTILES"
Gal.3:14
"in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to
the Gentiles .." Abraham was very rich (Gen.13:2) in
livestock, silver, gold. The land was not big enough for
Abraham's and Lot's possessions.
God wants us to have an abundant full supply.
Someone said: "Don't talk about money - it's the root of all evil.
1 Tim.6:10 "For the love of money ..." Some people don't have a cent and suffer with this disease.
Ps.5O:12 God says the WORLD is his and all it contains. HE MADE IT FOR US, HIS CHILDREN, NOT THE DEVIL'S CHILDREN.
Illustration: A Father using his pay to feed another women and her children.
Prov.19:17
"He who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will repay
him for his good deed". Don't be stingy - God said He'll repay.
S I C K N E S S
Deut.28:15-22, 27-29, 35, 58-61.
We see from these scriptures that sickness and disease is a Curse of the Law.
From most "English Translations" it looks as though God is the author of sickness - the Lord will smite Thee.
Dr.
Robert Young - "Hints to Bible interpretation". - Original
Hebrew, the verb permissive sense, instead of the causative sense.
It
should read - "The Lord will permit you to be ...." Because
the English language had no corresponding permissive sense, these verbs
were translated in the causative sense.
God is not the "author
of sickness" - the people walked out of the "umbrella" of God's
protection - disobedience - God permitted the devil to afflict.
Sickness is a part of the curse of the broken Law, but Praise God,
"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of ..."
Sickness and
dis-ease are not a blessing from God but it is a thief and a
robber. It steals health, happiness, finance, etc.
If the
children of Israel had HEALTH and HEALING under the O.T. and we have a
better covenant with better promises - then ... Heb.8:6.
Luke 13:10-16 Sickness is Satanic oppression - it binds.
Acts 10:38 Jesus went about healing all who were oppressed of the devil.
Jn.10:10 "The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy.
Heb.13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever".
If sickness was the will of God ? HEAVEN WILL BE FILLED WITH IT.
JESUS IS THE WILL OF GOD IN ACTION - Heb.1:1-2. God has spoken to us these last days by HIS SON.
To see GOD'S ATTITUDE on sickness, look at Christ's Ministry.
Healing was in God's great plan of redemption.
Is.53:4
& 5 Surely our sickness He Himself bore, And our pains He
carried ... The chastening for our well being fell upon Him, And by His
stripes we are healed."
Matt.8:17 "He Himself took our infirmities, and carried ..."
1 Pet.2:24 "He Himself bore our sins ... for by His stripes you ..."
SATAN IS THE OPPRESSOR, BUT JESUS IS THE DELIVERER.
People
who say sickness is the will of God, contradict themselves by "taking
medicine" - interfering with His will. They should rather pray
for a "double Portion" - to really be in His will.
D E A T H
Gen.2:17 "From the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for the day you eat from it .... die".
Adam plunged the human race into spiritual death and separation from God through sin and disobedience.
MAN:
is a Spirit, he has a soul that is attached to his spirit and he lives
inside of a physical body. Luke 16:19-24 Rich man in hell.
Physical death is the result of spiritual death and the final death is the casting of the spirit in hell.
Spiritual
death also means that God is not your father but as Jesus the Pharisees
"they were of their father the DEVIL". They also had the NATURE
of the devil - Liars, Murderers.
Christ came to redeem us from "spiritual death". The second Adam was not born
in
death but was God manifest in the flesh. He tasted death for
every man (Heb.2:9) as their substitute, that any man who believes in
Him may pass out of death into eternal life (Jn.5:24) - Be Born again -
receive a new nature.
Eph.2:8 & 9 "By grace you have
been saved thru' faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of
God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast."
e root of all evil.
1 Tim.6:10 "For the love of money ..."