Thank you, Lord, for this evening.
Thank you for wisdom and insight and understanding.
Lord, help us to move beyond our head to our heart
to gain understanding of what you have for us
and what you're trying to show us.
Lead us, take us into the things you want us to see
and to know and to understand in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Amen.
Good evening, everybody, who's here
and everybody who's watching by livestream.
We had a little taste of some snow,
but the most is supposed to still be coming.
And I think that some people are...
our home anticipating what's coming
because we have a little bit smaller group here tonight,
but that's okay.
We're going to do what we're going to do.
Oh, I see we've got a number of people watching by livestream.
So welcome. Thank you for joining us.
We're done with the booklet
and everything we're going to cover from here
is going to go into the third booklet,
but I'm going to put it together as we go through it.
So you'll get it at the end.
You'll have everything on screen and so forth in the meantime.
So now we're taking a shift.
We've been dealing with deliverance things,
specifically self-deliverance,
holding our temple, holding our land spiritually
and filling it and so forth.
Tonight we're going to deal with three subjects
that are connected.
We'll see, well, between tonight and next week.
It might go into next week, depending upon how we approach it.
But they're connected, but they're not the same.
And sometimes they get confused in people's minds.
So I want to lay them out individually,
starting with, oh, you could say the biggest thing first.
So as we go through these,
we're trying to build something.
So let's lay them out.
We're going to, this is the heart of the matter right here.
Blessings of the Father or generational righteousness and blessings.
Scripture says God said that he would,
for those who are obedient, he would bless
into the thousands of generations.
Some translations say 8,000.
Either way, we're covered all the way back to Adam.
Because if you go 40 years for a generation,
for a thousand years at 40,000,
humans haven't been on the earth 40,000 years yet.
So the blessings of the Fathers go,
our blessings get traced all the way back to Adam.
And the beginning.
Then you also have the sins of the Fathers,
the generational sin and the curses that follow that,
which that's limited to three or four generations.
There is the heart of the matter that we're going to look at.
Either we're blessed or we're cursed.
There's not a real in between.
So we're going to take that apart and take some time to do it.
The messengers or the ministers of blessing and cursing
are the angelic side or the demonic side.
I made a brief there later in one of the PowerPoints.
It's going to talk about angels versus the fallen angels,
the demonic realm, etc.
The demonic realm would include the familiar spirits.
But the angels watch over the blessing side.
Familiar spirits watch over the cursed side.
So there is the heart of what we're looking at.
These all work together for the two kingdoms.
And I want that plain right from the beginning
of we're not dealing with just the sins of the Fathers and curses.
We're dealing with both sides.
Because they both are sitting side by side in Scripture.
And as believers, we have access to the top one.
We're not stuck with just the bottom one, sins of the Fathers.
The generational stuff that's bad there.
So the angels, the demonic realm, obedience, faith,
all this stuff works together to deal with blessings and curses.
Here is my concern.
When you start delving into the demonic world
or the spirit world deeper,
sometimes people tend to get weird.
A focus shift takes place is the best way to say it.
And rather than chasing after God,
people are chasing after demons.
That we don't want to where it's always looking for a demon,
always looking for a curse.
I'm not looking for curses. I'm looking for blessings.
And if something's in the way, well, we'll deal with that.
But my faith, my confession and everything is set on God's kingdom.
And the focus needs to stay on God's kingdom.
Once we get too focused on the wrong kingdom,
literally we start fading things into being that shouldn't be there.
Once we're looking too hard for a demon,
they'll be sure to pop up and keep you coming.
So I don't want us getting weird.
Rather than the focus being on God,
the focus goes to looking for and finding demons.
Don't want that.
Rather than fearlessly taking this life by faith
and living in the blessings of God,
we end up fearfully beginning running from everything
because curses are active in our lives
and we can't get free and we're just run by fear and so forth.
And my experience is when you start talking about the demonic realm,
I'm not going to say too much, but in more detail than we, you know,
we haven't talked about it in that much detail yet.
We've talked about deliverance things,
being delivered, self-deliverance and so forth.
Now we're going to go into a bunch of the questions that come up
and take subjects.
Like, for instance, can a Christian be cursed?
Well, now we're going to start looking in depth at some of this stuff.
And if the focus of us switches, we get weird.
Fear sets in.
We're always looking for what could be going wrong
and trying to guess what the spirit behind that
and what is the curse and that.
In the New Testament, you don't see any of that evidenced.
We don't need to live like that.
So that's the kind of thing we're going to go into and talk about it.
But the first question we need to hit is,
do blessings and curses apply to today?
That's, you know, you have to start there.
Is it an Old Testament issue?
Many people feel it's only the Old Testament
or under the Old Testament law.
And we'll look at the Scripture and Galatians
where Jesus set us free from the curse of the law
and we'll talk about all that.
But they even throw the Gospels in with it,
which the Gospels were under the Old Testament.
So, do blessings and curses still happen today?
Well, let's, before we go into the Jesus part
and what Jesus did,
let's just take a solid look at that
from two groups of people.
If you're unsaved,
what would have gotten you out of the curse?
There's only one way out.
Jesus.
So for everybody who's unsaved,
curses are absolutely active in their life.
There's no reason they wouldn't be.
Because the freedom comes through Jesus.
Now, everything that comes through Jesus
is, I'm going to use the word potential.
In Bible college, they taught us,
like for instance with sanctification,
you have the description of sanctification.
We are sanctified by faith.
It's the position in faith and in righteousness
of being clean before God positionally.
We're all sanctified and righteous.
But progressively the Holy Spirit's still working on us
to take us up to what the Father is calling us
and seeing us.
Okay, so you got two works going on.
By faith, we are the righteousness of God and Christ.
But in our everyday life,
the Holy Spirit is still cleaning us up.
This is called by faith.
This is the progressive work.
Okay, so when you're dealing with curses,
well, when you're dealing with anything,
take healing.
Positionally, by his stripes, we were healed.
It's a done deal.
Progressively, sometimes you have to walk that out
by faith to make that what's bought and paid for
actually manifest in our bodies.
Positionally, we're fear free.
We have the love of God in us.
Fear, love casts out all fear.
Fear is not of God.
Positionally, we've been set free of fear.
Progressively, there's a lot of fearful Christians
who need to work on it and grow.
So there's two things going on at the same time.
In my opinion, in every promise,
everything Jesus did for us, you have those two.
Positionally, it's done.
When Jesus said it's finished and then he rose from the dead
to kind of just cap that off,
positionally, it's done.
Eternal life is purchased for us.
It's done.
But yet Paul says over and over and over,
watch how you live.
Walk worthy.
Pay attention.
If you do these things, if you overcome,
you will have eternal life.
Well, positionally, it's ours.
Progressively, we're still living it and growing in it.
It's the same thing with curses and blessings, both sides.
Getting, of course, as believers,
we've been given the ability to get free of curses
and the ability to live in blessings.
Unbelievers don't have much right to blessings,
even though God will shower just like he says,
he sends rain on the just and the unjust.
He will give a realm of blessings to the unbeliever,
but they don't have an inheritance right to them.
We do.
So we look at what God's promised us
and we go after it in blessing
and we look at the fact that God has dealt with the curse
and we try to break all that stuff in our life.
So once you understand this basis of blessings and curses,
then the first two, familiar spirits and generational stuff,
it's much easier to understand.
So let's talk about this.
We're going to look at...
Let me back up and leave it here.
We're going to look at Galatians 3
and since we are without a person on the screen tonight,
I'm going to have to screen mirror and switch back and forth
and some of this stuff.
So bear with me.
We have nobody on the computer,
but I want you to be able to follow along with me
and read this.
So let me get my Bible app
cooking here
and I will turn sideways
and we will go to Galatians 3.
Let's see.
That's not going to expand.
So that's as big as I can make it.
So he's talking about the two Galatians here
and the first few verses about they started by faith,
what makes them think that they can progress in God
in the flesh or doing works.
And remember it's the Judaizers and the Christian philosophy
that is always at battle here.
Verse number six at the top,
just as Abraham believed God,
it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Therefore know that only those who are of faith
are of the sons of Abraham.
That's important.
Know that only those who are of faith
are the sons of Abraham.
That's going to apply here in a bit.
Verse number nine.
So then those who are of faith are blessed
with believing Abraham or Abraham believe God
and it was credited to him for righteousness.
He was blessed because he believes.
Okay, verse 10.
For as many as are the works of the law
under the curse for it is written,
cursed is everyone who does not continue
in all things which are written
in the book of the law to do them.
Here is the problem with keeping
the commandments to be righteous.
If you mess up once,
you're guilty of all of them.
Thou shalt not lie.
If you lie once,
now you're guilty of the other nine.
Everything is lost with one error.
That's why he...
the only reason for the law,
and that scripture shows up here in a bit
in Romans 3,
the only reason for the law
was to show us we were sinners.
Not to save us.
The law was never meant to save us.
It was the point out,
you can't do it.
You can't do what?
See now, here,
get the concept in your mind
because we're going to talk about
the beginning of two realms of curses.
You've got the...
you've got Abraham,
I mean, Adam and Eve,
and then it moves forward through Abraham to Moses.
The law, which is blessings and curses,
is tied to it,
and fulfilling the law to be righteous
and all these things is here.
Abraham is here.
He believed God.
He made it by faith, not by law.
And then you got Adam and Eve.
You have the curses of the fall
of Adam and Eve,
and you have the curses of the law.
This is ahead a little bit,
but just think about this.
Which one let the demons in?
Which one gave the devil access
to the human race?
Just think about it.
We'll get to it.
We'll talk about it.
But the concept is
all this time from the law,
which is approximately 1500 B.C.,
all this time back,
they weren't sinners.
They weren't lost.
Adam and Eve sinned.
From there forward everybody sinned.
The problem was,
they didn't know they were sinners and lost.
So the law came to say,
if you want to be righteous,
you have to do this,
and this, and this,
and this, and this, and this,
and you can never slip up.
Well, then nobody can be righteous.
Exactly that's the point
he's trying to make.
Everybody's guilty.
From there all the way back
to Adam and Eve.
Everybody's guilty.
Okay, keep that in mind.
It's going to be important.
So cursed is everyone who does
not continue in all the things
written in the book of the law.
That's Moses over here at 1500 B.C.
But no one is justified by the law
in the sight of God is evident.
The just shall live by faith.
And that's probably so small
you can't read it,
but they can probably read it on the screen.
Yet the law is not of faith,
but the man who does them
shall live by them.
Christ, verse 13,
13 and 14, important verses.
Christ has redeemed us
from the curse of the law,
having, excuse me,
become a curse for us
for it is written,
cursed is everyone
who hangs on a tree.
So Jesus became the curse
so he could buy us back
from the curse.
He's redeemed us from the curse
of the law by becoming the curse.
Why?
Verse 14,
that the blessing of Abraham
might come upon the Gentiles.
The Gentiles.
Not the Jews.
See, God in Abraham
was looking beyond his chosen people.
He was looking to save the world.
The blessing of Abraham
might come upon the Gentiles.
That's everybody who is not
of the lineage of Abraham.
Of course, we know that
the lineage of Abraham
comes in under this by faith too,
but here it's being shown
and expands out.
Might come upon the Gentiles
in Christ Jesus
that we might receive
the promise of the Spirit
through faith.
So, back to the timeline.
Adam, Noah, about 3,000 BC,
they claim.
And I heard something today
that I haven't researched it,
but remember we talked
a little bit about
from the time of Adam to Noah,
which is in those first few
chapters of Genesis.
They feel that's half the timeline
that man has been on earth
from Adam to Noah.
Now, today,
it might even been Brother
Caseman, Mary brought it up to me
and she was listening to him,
so it might even been him.
They feel that the time of the flood,
there were billions of people on earth.
This wasn't just a few hundred thousand.
There were billions
because mankind had lived
a long time up to the flood.
Even though in the scripture
it just shows up in Genesis 6, 7, 8, 9,
right at the beginning,
half the timeline was done already.
3,000 to 2,000,
here you got Abraham.
Now God has access back into the
human race because a son was
exchanged for a son.
We have covenant made with Abraham
so that the blessing
that he promised Eve, her seed,
would crush the serpent's head.
He had to get into the earth.
To do that, he had to become
a human being. To get in here,
he had to have the right to do it.
Why wouldn't he have the right to do it?
Why wouldn't God just have the right to...
I'm just going to send my son
in the form of a man
and we're going to save him
and that's the end of it.
Why did he have to have the right,
given to him by Abraham
to get involved, start a nation,
nation of Israel who would eventually
would birth Jesus the seed?
He promised Eve.
Why did he have to have the right?
Bingo.
Back here with Adam and Eve,
they were given the authority
over the whole world.
Who did they give it to?
The devil.
Now the devil is solely in charge here.
Devil first, man underneath.
Man gave the authority away.
Jesus came, bought it back.
But man gave it away.
So God now legally
does not have the right to interfere
with the human race.
Adam gave that away.
He needs an exchange.
Someone needs to give me their son
so I can give you mine.
That's Abraham.
So now we have a way back in
and with that way back in,
that's where the announcement of blessings
was made.
Because everything from there back,
the human race was a mess.
I mean, you talk about
violence and death
and lawlessness and the
the Nephilim thing.
The whole human race was a mess.
But now there's a promise of blessing.
That's different than the curse.
We move forward to Moses,
who was 1500 years before Jesus shows up.
Moses, God gave him the law
to show all of you are guilty.
Here's how you get out of it.
A savior is coming.
That's shown in all the sacrificial types
and so forth.
A savior is coming.
His name is Jesus,
who's going to save you from your sins.
But in the meantime,
all of you are guilty.
All of you are sinners.
All of you are cursed.
Because none of you can keep the law.
And if you break the law,
your law breaker, which means you're cursed.
Even though the law was not written,
these people all the way back,
they didn't know they were sinning,
but they were all sinning.
When Nimrod was building the tower of Babel
and the 12 signs of Zodiac,
you traced them all the way back
to the tower of Babel.
That was all rebellion.
Well, what is rebellion?
It's sin.
So these people all the way back,
they were all sinners,
but a lot of them didn't know it.
Now, once Abraham showed up,
a little bit of knowledge came.
Once Moses showed up,
God said,
Here's what's righteousness.
Here's what's sin.
Blessing follows righteousness.
Cursed follows sin.
So what were they?
They were all cursed.
God couldn't really be active in their life,
except he got a foothold in through Abraham.
Once Jesus came,
now he can take the whole world.
But in the meantime,
you've got the nation of Israel.
He's got a foothold here.
He's working on.
The thing Jesus did was,
okay, the whole human race is cursed
up to Moses.
Guess what?
From Moses to Jesus.
They're still living under a curse.
Because no one can do the whole law.
And that's how you can get righteous
and get out from underneath the curse and be blessed.
No one can do it.
So all the way to Jesus,
mankind is basically living under a curse.
Jesus came to deal with that righteousness issue,
the curse,
so that man could come out from underneath the curse
and be blessed.
And when Jesus died and went to hell,
he offered that to all of those people.
Peter makes that plane,
which is an interesting story in and of itself.
So Jesus came to release us from the curse of the law,
which means you don't measure up.
You're not good enough.
There's going to be a curse following you the whole time.
So that the blessing given to Abraham,
and he names it there,
the promise of the spirit,
that's the heart of the blessing given to Abraham.
Because once we get over here to Jesus,
he dies, he rises from the dead.
We get to the beginning of the New Testament church,
Acts chapter 2, the spirit comes.
Now we have God in us.
And everything that's available from the kingdom
is available to each one of us.
So now we can live in blessing.
So now let's go back.
I have to get out of this,
so bear with me.
So now let's go back to what we were talking about.
Do blessings and curses apply today?
To anybody who saved, curses absolutely apply.
I mean, anybody's not saved.
Thank you for the correction.
Anybody who's not saved, curses absolutely apply.
Somebody's paying attention.
Anybody who is saved, blessings apply.
Because of what Jesus did.
Is it just an Old Testament issue?
It is just an Old Testament law issue.
How do we look at this?
Well, Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law.
So what does that mean?
Well, I've got some articles here,
and I won't go back and screen mirror them.
I'll just briefly read to you.
I've got three of them.
I just Googled it.
Christians, the curse of the law.
And the first three that came up.
What does it mean that we are redeemed
from the curse of the law?
The Greek word for redeemed in the Bible is
e-x-a-g-o-r-a-z-o.
I'll pronounce it wrong.
It was a financial term
that referred to the process
of purchasing a slave's freedom.
So the word redeemed in the original
is a financial term where I'm paying you
to release a slave to me.
I'm buying your slave.
When the slave was redeemed,
he was no longer bound to the rules
and the expectations of the slave's life.
One more.
Redemption is a biblical word
that means to purchase or to ransom.
Historically, redemption was used
in reference to purchase a slave's freedom.
You're going to find the same thing
no matter where you look.
It comes up the same way.
So we need mankind
who has been sold to sin by Adam and Eve
and then their own sins that followed that.
They have become a slave to sin
all the way up to Jesus.
They came to the realization
there's no way out about 1500 BC
and then you had the Old Testament law
and the sacrifices and everything
preparing for Jesus.
We need mankind in the past
and mankind in the future
free from slavery to sin.
So what we do is we give
what's called the Old Testament law
that makes it undeniable your sinner.
It points it out. It just points it out.
It's all it did.
It's not like sin started with the law.
Sin was there the whole time.
The law pointed it out.
Number one.
And the law pointed out
you can't do anything to be good enough.
You can't be righteous.
You're lost. You're a slave to sin.
And then it gave the answer.
But the Messiah will come
who will take your place
and die in your place
and become the curse for you
so that his life can be yours
and his blessing can be yours.
And then from that point forward
now we have a choice.
We're no longer subject to just curse.
Now we have blessing and curse
walking simultaneously side by side.
That's what Romans 3 19 and 20 says.
The purpose of the law
was to make every man guilty
and to silence us
or to shut our mouths.
Some translations say to shut our mouths.
Romans 3 verse 19 and 20.
The whole purpose of the law
is to say you're guilty, be quiet.
There's nothing you can do about it.
So we're looking for redemption.
Redemption is for everyone.
Does everyone experience and live in redemption?
No.
Well, I thought Jesus bought it
for the whole human race.
He did.
It's not automatic though.
You have to do something
to get into redemption
for it to operate.
Jesus said it this way.
You have to believe in Him.
For God so loved the world
whoever gave his only God
said,
whosoever believeth in Him.
So redemption comes by belief,
by faith.
Well, everything in redemption
comes the same way.
By belief and faith.
We've been redeemed from the second death,
which is when death hell
and the grave and Hades and everything
gets thrown in the lake of fire.
The whole human race
has been redeemed from that.
But a lot of people are going to go there.
What is that?
Is that a blessing or a curse?
That's a curse.
The curse is still active
outside of Jesus.
Because if we can't
live righteously in and of ourselves,
we're cursed.
The only way out is through faith in Jesus.
For everybody on the human race
who does not take that way out,
they're cursed.
We've been redeemed from sickness and disease.
So now here's more of a Christian
and a non-Christian question.
We've been redeemed as Christians
from sickness and disease.
Why aren't Christians automatically healthy
as soon as they receive Jesus?
And they stay healthy.
No disease, no sickness ever touches
on the rest of their life.
He bought it. He paid for it.
It's ours.
We have to apply it.
We have to appropriate it by faith.
Faith, yeah.
Faith, obedience.
We've been redeemed from fear,
worry, pain, suffering, confusion,
depression, discouragement, hate, lust, bitterness,
relationship, failures, hopelessness, sin.
Well, whatever you want to label it is
we've been redeemed from all of it.
Do humans still struggle
with fear, worry, pain? Do Christians
still struggle with suffering, confusion,
depression, discouragement, hate, bitterness,
relationship, failures, hopelessness?
Absolutely.
Are those things blessings or curses?
Oh.
So curses can be
active in a Christian's life, too.
Oh.
So if we go back
to the picture and the picture of how this is
explained is Old Testament.
But it didn't say
any place that these two
stop automatically for any reason.
They continue on and we can
get out of the curse by faith through the
redemption of Jesus.
But we get out by faith.
We have to apply our faith
to every situation
to get out.
Depending upon who you read and what
you read and I tend to agree with them.
Either what's happening in our life as believers
is the result of the blessing of God
working or it's the result
of a curse that's still attached
and working.
There is no gray.
If I get to heaven and he says
eh, you're a little bit off on that one.
Well, okay, but for now that's kind of
where I lean too real strongly.
Like for instance, in 2012
when I broke my arm
this is a good Christian
ese thing. Good cliche.
And it's...
It's wrong.
Someone said
well, you know, stuff happens.
Bad things happen to good people.
Actually, that's not true.
Well, it wasn't a blessing that you broke your arm
exactly. So it had to be a result
of some form of
curse.
It had to be.
How it got in, I don't know.
Still don't know.
But it got in.
Some avenue was still
open.
You can't say
that
falling off a ladder and breaking your back
and being paralyzed the rest of your life
is a blessing of God.
Well, I'm a Christian. All I have
is a blessing. Well, that ain't one.
That's not a blessing.
And if it's not a blessing, what is it?
Well, it's just sometimes
things happen. No, that's not
scriptural.
That is the lazy Christians
way out in my opinion.
Well, you know, bad things happen
and there's nothing we're living on earth.
We're just all blessed by God.
No, see, the blessing
pushes back, prohibits
bad things from happening.
Bad things, once we
get to it, and I probably won't get there tonight,
but bad things come from the curse.
Good things
come from the blessing.
There is no middle ground.
It's like, well, either you're not
sinning or you're sinning.
Well, I'm kind in the middle. I'm not
really right, but I'm not really wrong either.
It really is there. Is there a middle ground?
There's no middle ground.
Either you're righteous or you're living in sin.
There's no middle ground.
Either you're living for God or you're
living for the kingdom of darkness. Well, I
don't live for either one. I do my own thing.
There is no such thing.
I live my life.
Well, according to Paul,
when we're living our life, it's automatically
puts us into the kingdom of darkness category.
We're a slave to sin.
There is a
line here, and you cross
over it or back.
You can't. There's
no space in the middle where here's where the
Christians are. Here's where the sinners
are. And here's all the good people.
Not Christians, but they're just good people.
There is no such thing.
And it's the same thing with blessings and curses.
When something is following
our life that is destroying us,
there's a curse that needs
to be broken.
You say, well, we're Christians. I know.
But there's a curse that needs to be broken.
And these can come numerous
different ways.
Let me give you an example. You've heard this one before.
If you listen to my messages,
I haven't said it in this series.
I don't believe, but when you listen to my
messages, I explain this one.
When I got married
to marry
without knowing it, I married into a curse.
Didn't know it was happening.
Took a while to figure it out.
Took way too long to figure it out.
I should have figured it out.
Way too long to figure it out.
But
my lineage,
my parents, my grandparents, and as far
as I know, on my dad's
side, my great-grandparents,
my mom's side,
my grandparents were the first ones out.
So it went far as grandparents
and my mom's side. On my dad's side,
it went at least to our great-grandparents
maybe further. I don't know.
But that was a godly
lineage where they honored God
and they gave and they tithed
and they followed and tried to be
obedient to God.
On Mary's side,
her grandmother
they believe
got saved by an Oral Robert's
book on her deathbed.
Other than that, there was nobody
saved from their back as far as they know.
The children,
or Mary's uncles and aunts,
parents, were the
first ones out with the children.
They all kind of got saved
same realm of time.
So you don't
have the lineage of blessing
flowing. You've got
curse flowing.
Okay. So now
just like
the stories you hear and things you read,
some of these people had had
really bad experiences
with the quote-unquote church.
Specifically, the Catholic
church was it.
So they had,
on her side, they had no use
for the church.
From
her mom's lineage, it was better.
There was people saved there
and it went back at least to the
grandparents. We don't know if it went further than that.
But they seem to have gotten
saved and then the children, a couple of the
children and it worked its way down.
So it wasn't as bad, but on dad's side
it was curse coming down.
And the lineage
there had no use for church
and they absolutely
despised and mocked
giving money
to a church.
Absolutely despised and mocked it.
That is absolutely the dumbest
thing you could ever do.
It was useless. It was worthless.
It was worth nothing.
So there was never any tithing that happened
there. There was never anything that
would bring the blessing of finances.
Okay?
I have the blessing of finances.
It's going pretty well for me.
I marry her
and all of a sudden it's like someone
threw the brakes on a train
or on a bus. You know, you pull the lever
and everything comes
sliding to a stop.
It was like,
okay, what's this? Well, we knew it was
demonic attack, but it never crossed my mind.
It was a curse.
And it
it's like we would have
spurts of prosperity
and then
this thing would come on.
And then there'd be spurts of prosperity
and then this thing would come on.
And sometimes this thing would last
a while and then sometimes the prosperity
would last for a while. It's like,
come on.
Let's just get going.
What is this thing
that always shows up?
And it took a number of years. We were living here already
by the time the Lord
pointed it out to me.
And he never pointed it out
as a curse all the way up to
that time, but when we were here he pointed it out
and he pointed it out to me in a dream.
He showed me what was happening
and it came after
I had broken
the curse without knowing I was
breaking the curse. See
in the New Testament, what does it say?
How do we get the things, the promises
of God, the
Romans chapter 10, the things of the
spirit realm? How do we get them
over into our side?
Romans 10, for the word
of faith is
nigh thee even in thy mouth.
And if you read the Scriptures
previous to that, who's going to go
across the sea and gather the things
to bring them? Who's going to go to heaven
and bring the things down?
He said it's in your mouth.
It's the word of faith.
Okay?
So I
can still remember the night
I was walking on the
as you come into our property
there's a gravel road that goes back to the modular
and there's a corner where you turn to go
towards the shed.
I was coming around that corner
and I was having it out with God.
This isn't right.
According to your word
this financial situation isn't right.
According to
the seed that has been planted
for generations
this isn't right.
And
it just
it rose up in me
and it was night time
nobody was around, neighbors probably heard me, but whatever.
I just started screaming.
I refuse this.
I
am blessed
and I started quoting the scriptures
and I said I am done with this.
This is over.
No more.
By faith this
has to end
now.
I never verbally broke a curse
because it never dawned on me it was a curse.
I mean it's like
I don't know why it just never dawned on me.
A few nights later
he gave me a dream
and the dream
explained what happened
because the curse had just gotten broken.
So in the dream
I'm on a gravel road
I won't get too detailed here
I know what road it was
and everything else. I'm on a gravel road
I'm riding a motorcycle
that is built
really low to the ground almost like a scooter
I'm like a foot off the ground
and my legs are out in front of me
and I'm sitting on that
and it's just a little putter
and I'm driving west
which means
something is coming to an end.
I come up behind
a white
pickup
and a big green combine
the white pickup
pulls around
the combine and goes ahead of it
I wanted to pull around
and the combine came up on the road
and I couldn't get around
so I'm stuck behind this combine
I can't
so the picture here is
I wasn't able to get
in front of the harvest
I was always catching the
gleaning coming out the back
of the combine
that's the picture
so I'm sitting on really
low on this little putt-putt scooter thing
and I'm behind this combine a little frustrated
Like, I want to get around this thing. I don't want... It was parked in the road and it wasn't going anywhere. And it's like, okay.
And when a dog came from behind me, just a mangy junkyard dog came from behind me, came up to my left side, left as always the side of disproval, and starts attacking me.
It's like, what in the world? And all of a sudden my little scooter rose up a little bit.
And I'm on more of a motorcycle now. And this dog is after me and I'm kicking it, trying to get it away.
And I thought, well, I can't sit here behind this combine. So I'm going to turn around and head east and get away from this thing.
Well, east is the direction of new beginnings. Okay. So I'm turning around, I'm headed east. I've got this little mini bike kind of thing.
I'm not on the ground anymore. I'm up a little bit. I've got it all wound out and it goes about the same speed as the dog.
I just can't get away from it. It's just right there. Kicking out and it's trying to bite me and it's trying to grab me.
And I've got it all wound out and it's like, that thing's going to get me if I sit here too long. This isn't good.
And I looked up and I saw a big green dumpster, like the two yard, three yard dumpsters sitting on the side of the road.
And this thing was just looking at me and trying to bite me and just running all it could to keep up with me but right there.
And the thought crossed my mind. Just pull over close and shoot right past that dumpster and the dog will run right into it.
So I did that. I just slowly edged over and he's just looking at me and I just shoot right past the dumpster and he smacks right into it.
And he became garbage.
And the Lord woke me up and he said, that's what I did with your curse.
I'm gone. Ow!
Now I see it. I didn't verbally take authority over a curse. I should have years earlier and addressed the thing but it never crossed my mind.
But in my act of faith and demanding the rights that are mine must come to be, the curse was broken.
And he showed me the picture of that playing out and the thing that was continually attacking, which was this main g...
Main g, hair all matted, ugly things. That's what it was. It's not a sign of prosperity. It's bad.
And he killed the curse. He took care of the curse. And since that point forward this whole seesaw thing has quit.
And what the scripture says and the blessings and so forth are happening.
So now that was, I still didn't know what the curse was. I knew the dog represented a curse.
And I was on this little bike thing and I couldn't get away. It's like I'm in this thing. Sometimes you prosper, sometimes you don't.
You're vulnerable. Sometimes you're almost going broke. Other times it's like, hey, we're doing pretty good.
And all of a sudden it's just back and forth. But you never get in front of the harvest.
It's like you're always just got the gleaning coming out the back and it's all you get.
What was that curse? I just couldn't figure out what that curse was until fairly recently when Mary's mom has been living with us.
She shared the story of how Mary's ancestors felt towards God specifically giving God money.
And as she was sharing that story, the Holy Spirit said, there was the curse. You married into it.
When the two of you became one, the blessing and the curse began the war.
And until the curse was broken, there was a continual struggle.
Thank God he has redeemed us from the curse.
Or what came down my parents' line wouldn't have been blessing.
That had only been curse. And out of married more curse.
And life would have been really, really ugly.
But we have been redeemed from the curse, which means we can get free of this stuff.
So going back to the thought.
Well, when you're struggling financially and you're hardly getting by, is that blessing?
Then what is it?
There's only one other option.
And see, Christians tend to leave room for in the middle.
Well, it's not God, but I don't think it's the devil either. I just don't know what it is.
And that is the lazy Christians way out of dealing with this.
Well, I don't know. We'll just go on and see if things change.
No, actually, there's a spiritual fight that needs to be done.
We need to take our authority and take our stand and fight the fight of faith and beat it.
Because if we're not blessed, we're cursed. If we're cursed, we're not blessed.
And it doesn't have to be in our whole life.
It just can show up in certain places, certain pieces.
So when it comes to...
Is it just Old Testament and so forth?
Here's the reasons I gave to you before.
I don't believe so because, number one, you got to me too late to tell me it's just Old Testament and I just gave you an example.
Why? Number two, everything that has been bought and paid for on the cross comes by the manifestation in our lives by faith.
It's freedom from sickness, disease, financial prosperity, addiction, whatever it is.
You apply your faith, he redeemed us, so now we have the option of being free.
Number three, once we get to the New Testament church and acts, the issue with demons almost totally disappears.
We talked about that. That shows that once we're saved, demons can't influence Christians.
I agree with the part that in the epistles, there's very few demons that we're dealt with.
But I disagree with the conclusion that demons can't influence Christians.
I believe it has to do more with James 4-7 than anything else.
And what I mean by that is in the early church, if you chose Christ, you chose to be a Jesus follower,
you were putting your physical life and family at risk.
Remember, most of the world at that time was under Roman rule.
Who fed Christians to the lions for sport? The Romans.
So this was a horrid time.
There was a government that had no use for Christians whatsoever, and they wanted to just kind of squelch the whole faith.
So when you said, I became a Christian, you put your neck on the line, you could be dead at any time.
You could be tortured, you could be... they hung Christians, if you read some of this stuff, it's unbelievable.
They hung Christians on crosses and lined roads on both sides for miles, just for being a Christian.
And they'd let you hang on the cross till you died.
Besides the fact, the Judaizers, the Jews, didn't like Christians. Sol's good example of that, he went around killing them.
Because they were a menace, they were a plague.
So in the early church, if you chose to be a Christian, this was a serious life changing, no game involved, this is life or death kind of issue.
So the whole concept of James 4-7 of, you really have to submit yourself to God and resist the devil to be free.
You think they maybe did that when their life was on the line? They lived that way every day.
It's the current world where we bargain with how much we need to give to God.
We don't sell out. We don't give them everything. We're not 100% his.
We've got our secret rooms in our house, our property, we've got our secret sins.
We've got all this stuff we're holding out on God. Well, that's where the demons live. They live and sin.
Because nowadays, you don't have to be a sold out Christian to be a Christian.
I won't say any more than that.
But in my mind, that's why in the New Testament, you find very little talk of people needing deliverance.
These people were 100% submitted to God. And anything that came up that we need to get rid of, they got rid of it.
Because this was such a huge decision to make the choice to follow Jesus.
This wasn't a happenstance thing like it is now.
And interesting, bro, the caseman just hit that again. He said, because the culture in America, he said,
there's a lot of people who think they're Christians. They're not Christians.
Because we go to the altar and we add Jesus to our life like the Buddhists add another God.
And he doesn't become our Lord and our master.
And we submit everything. And we are now His to do with as He pleases.
No, come and accept Jesus.
Just the phrase is wrong.
Come and accept Jesus. Oh, yeah, I accepted Jesus, brought Him into my life.
Has anything changed? I lived pretty much the way I did, but I accepted Jesus.
I'm not sure you're saved.
This isn't a thing of accepting Jesus. This is a thing of submitting and giving your whole life to Him.
See, we have a different mentality now, not only in America. This is worldwide.
Unless you're in a country where you still die for becoming a Christian.
I'll bet you they don't have many demon problems with Christians.
I've never been there, but if I was going to put money on it, I bet the whole farm.
That in the countries where if you get caught serving God,
they'll drag you out in the street and hang you, kill you, take your head off, whatever.
I'll bet you there's not many Christians who have demons cast out there.
Because they are so submitted and committed.
There's no room to play with this fringe stuff and leave room for the demonic.
So in the New Testament, if you if you live it right, this stuff just falls off.
In America, we have all kinds of Christians with demons.
Why? Well, because we got all kinds of Christians playing with sin.
I mean, it's just that simple.
And number four reason is Galatians three specifically.
He's redeemed us from the curse of the law.
You've got Genesis three, 14 through 19 is the curse of the fall.
Both of these, by the way, are still active on the earth.
And I'll show you that here in a bit.
I showed you the curse of the law a little bit, but let's look at the curse of the fall.
And we live in freedom from both by obedience and faith.
So back to the question.
Of those two curse of the law or curse of the fall.
And the Genesis three, 14 through 19 should be down beside curse of the fall.
And the Galatians three is the curse of the law.
Which Jesus redeemed us of.
Those two curse of the law curse of the fall.
Which one of those two opened the human race up to the devil being our master
and demons having a right to us.
Stop and think about that.
Fall or law?
Where did the devil get the right to take over?
The fall.
Genesis three.
The law merely pointed out he took over.
You're doing everything wrong.
He took over.
Okay.
So what was the curse of the law?
Well, let's answer a couple of quick questions here.
What are blessings and curses?
Before sin entered the picture, there was only one spiritual or supernatural flow.
There was only one way to live before Lucifer sinned.
It was the flow of blessing, the flow from the father, the flow from God.
The way the spirit world is designed and created is there's a flow from the
the originator of that flow of who and what the originator is.
Now we have two flows back before sin.
There was only one.
God designed everything he created.
There's a flow that comes from God that automatically flows down to everything
that was created and that flow is what gives it life.
I'll show you that.
That's the way he designed it.
There's a flow.
Before sin, there was only one realm of influence and power that flowed down.
It was what God established.
Who and what God is automatically was established in everything he created.
God is the source. He's the originator. He is the flow of that.
Once sin entered the picture, now there was another influence or power that flowed.
Now there was a choice and that's where the fallen angels got caught.
Because see, up until the time where Lucifer rebelled and said,
I'm going to be like God, there was only one choice.
There was no two choices on anything.
God was God. We were not. We served him. He took care of us and a story.
There was no other choice.
Once Lucifer sinned, well now God is God and maybe he's like God too.
And God wants it this way and he wants it this way.
And God says we have to live like this and he says we don't have to.
We can live a different...
All of a sudden there's two choices, which means now there's two flows.
One is coming down.
Follow my line of thinking?
Because of God's love and his character, his mercy,
he set boundaries on how the two influences, the powers, the flows, how they would flow.
Because remember, the spirit world is designed and created.
There has to be a spiritual supernatural flow from the originator of that flow.
That flows down to us.
Why is it set up that way?
Because none of us is self-existent.
Only God is self-existent.
That's what the name Yahweh means.
The self-existent eternal one.
Only God can exist in and of himself.
He needs nothing else.
Without God, the rest of creation ceases to exist.
All of creation, including the demonic realm and the devil, is held together by God.
He is the only self-existent and eternal one.
Everything else is sustained by God.
Let me give you a couple of scriptures on it.
Acts 17-25.
He is worshiped nor is speaking of God, nor is he worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, since he gives to all life, breath, and all things.
Verse 28, for in him we live, move, and have our being.
Colossians chapter 1 verse 16 and 17, for it was in him that all things were created in heaven and on earth.
So now we got spirit realm included.
Things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, authorities, all things.
All things were created and exist through him and in and for him.
And he himself existed before all things, because he's Yahweh, he's self-existent.
And because he exists in and of himself, he is able to in him all things consist or cohere and are held together.
They exist in him and for him.
And they exist and they hold together and they adhere.
So without God, nothing would exist.
The life comes from God and he holds it all together.
Okay, so I'm drawing a picture here, follow me.
Lucifer or Satan on the other hand is the originator of sin and death entering the picture.
Now he can't exist without God, but he became kind of a separate flow under God.
It says, you were perfect in all your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you.
Well, what flows from that line?
Steel, kill, destroy.
That's what flows from that line.
Jesus' line is life, but that line is steel, kill, destroy.
Hebrews chapter two, and as much as the children are partaking of flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same.
That through death, he might destroy him who had, not has, had the power of death.
That is the devil.
And release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to damage, to bondage.
There is the, so you've got God's flow, which he's actually the one who keeps the devil alive.
And out of the devil comes death and fear and bondage and slavery to sin and all this other flow.
So you have two flows going.
Follow me.
You have blessing and curse.
There was no curse before the fall of Lucifer.
There was only blessing.
But once that second thing developed, which was sin, which was death.
Now you've got blessing flowing from God, and we can get in that vein.
And you've got curse flowing from the other vein.
And I'm getting ahead a little bit here, but let me just say it.
God watches over both of them to make sure they happen.
Do you know why? Because it's a spiritual law.
Everything has to flow down.
He is the vine, we're the branches.
Without him we can do nothing.
It's a spiritual law.
Without God we can't live, breathe, we can't exist.
It all flows down to us.
So when this second flow of rebellion and sin started,
it had to follow the same spiritual law.
So God watches over both of them.
That's why in the Old Testament, and we won't get to that tonight.
I don't believe, but why in the Old Testament, he talks about,
you've got the curse, you've got sin, you've got that whole thing flowing.
And it sounds like God's making it happen.
Well, he's not.
But he is watching over it to make sure it happens,
because it's a spiritual law. It has to happen.
Now, thankfully God was gracious enough to say,
my flow, the original flow, the righteous flow, the life-giving flow,
that will pass on for thousands of generations.
This other thing, the sins of the fathers, the iniquity, the curse,
three to four, we're limiting it.
Oh, thank God.
There's a limit, and it's a really small limit compared to his side.
Blessings can go on for thousands of generations.
I'm walking in the blessings of Abraham.
I'm walking in the blessings of Noah, and so are you.
We're not beyond that yet.
The curse side, the longest it can stay established,
God said, is three to four generations.
It has to be re-established to go longer.
It's the longest he'll let it go.
Well, thank God for his mercy on that.
So blessings and curses, there it explains what I just said.
Blessings and curses are the spiritual supernatural flow of their originator.
God, blessings, devil, curses.
God doesn't curse people.
And we won't get to that tonight where I can show it to you,
but I want to plant the thought, God doesn't curse people.
But he says, cursed is everyone who does these things.
Well, these things fall under that second flow, all of them.
And if you get into that flow, you're going to be cursed.
So we're going to have to kind of split this in half
and give you the scriptures on that.
But the flow follows whatever originator we're following.
If we're following God, we can walk in blessings.
If we're not following God and we're just doing our own thing
or following the demonic realm or the kingdom of darkness,
we're going to be walking in curses.
Blessings, what are blessings?
They're God in action.
His character, his, what he wants to give us, his endowment,
his empowerment, his desires, his effects on the human race,
everything that's been created, it's God in them.
Those are blessings and they produce life.
They produce goodness, they produce prosperity,
they produce all kinds of things.
Curses, what are curses?
Curses are Satan's character and endowment, empowerment,
desires, effects on the human race and the earth.
And his influence becomes death.
His influence becomes life.
His influence becomes death.
So now let me ask a couple of questions here yet
and then we'll quit here for the night
and go to question and answer time
and come back next week, pick it up.
Because see, we have to, we, to truly understand a curse
and a blessing, we have to go back to where the curse
and the blessing originate.
Blessings originate with God.
Curses originate with the devil.
They originate because of disobedience.
They originate because of sin.
They originate because of life and power in our life
because of sin.
The vehicle that carries the blessings
and keeps compounding them in family lines
is the righteousness of the generations
and of the fathers.
The vehicle that carries the curses
and allows it to gain momentum in family lines
is the sins of the fathers
and the generational curses.
They're the vehicles, like the vehicle that carries,
like the truck that carries these things.
And the ministers to work with both sides
angels, fallen angels, demons,
Holy Spirit, unholy spirit, unclean spirits.
So it just breaks out like that.
Once you see that and then we go into
so what is a curse scripturally?
Read Deuteronomy 28, 29, 30.
You say, well, why should we were not under it?
By faith, we're not.
But what if some of these things are active in us?
Like for instance, one of the blessings is
a woman would not cast or lose her child
before it's born.
How many Christian women can't have children?
Now if you read the curse side,
that's a curse.
That's an act of curse.
Now we will explain it away as well.
There's a lot of chemicals in the environment
and things that hurt the woman.
If you've been on birth control,
it thickens the sides of the woman.
That may all play into it.
But don't make a middle ground
that is neither the devil nor God.
Don't do that.
We have to remember
in the spirit
we're either blessed
or we're cursed
and something is active here.
There is no middle ground.
I don't know why we as Christians
like to make middle ground
if it soothes us or whatever.
But we know when you apply it to everything else
there's no middle ground.
I'm not a sinner but I'm not a Christian either.
I'm just kind of a good person in the middle
just trying to live a nice life.
There is no such thing.
You either saved or you're a sinner.
You either saved or you're lost.
So when we go back to
the flow
well curses aren't active anymore.
Well let's go back to the original one
and here is what I want to
ask you.
Are the curses of the original fall
of mankind Adam and Eve still active
in Christians?
You got to think about this.
It's found in Genesis 3
and I won't bring it up.
I'll just give it to you for tonight.
Maybe next week we'll bring it up on the screen.
You can see it.
There were certain effects that took place
in Adam and Eve when they sinned.
Chapter 3 verse 7 and 10
they found out they were naked
without clothes on
so they made clothes out of leaves.
Without clothes on they were naked.
Are Christians still naked without clothes?
I'm hoping you're going to answer that
the right way.
Verse 10
Adam, where are you?
Well, I was afraid so I hid.
Fear was
an after effect of the fact they sinned.
Do Christians still struggle with fear?
Absolutely.
Well, who told you you were naked?
Because I was afraid
because I was naked.
And God said, who told you you were naked?
Now here comes the third characteristic
that takes place in people's lives
when they sin.
Blame shifting.
Adam blamed the wife.
Wife blamed the serpent.
That's a characteristic of sin.
We're not going to own our stuff.
It's her fault.
And she said, no, it's its fault.
So now God presents.
Okay, here's what just happened, guys.
There has been two flows going.
The God side
and the fallen devil Satan side.
Adam and Eve had no knowledge of this side.
Nothing.
All they knew was God and blessing.
All they knew.
So when the serpent came
and the devil in the serpent and said,
you will be like God
and you will know good
from evil.
That was true.
But the first part when he said,
well, you're not surely going to die.
You're just going to be like God
to know good from evil.
The good from what the devil always does
is he takes a piece of truth
and he wraps it in a lie
and tries to feed it to you like candy.
Well, there's some truth in there.
Yeah, but is there lie attached?
Got to watch for that.
So it was already in existence.
Was evil there? Absolutely.
But Adam and Eve were blind to it.
They couldn't see it.
And the devil said,
well, if you eat this fruit,
you're going to be like God
and you'll see good and evil.
And he was absolutely right.
But now once that happened,
God said, oh, no,
you don't know what you just opened up
into your life.
Now, some people look at what God said to them
as God was angry and now he's punishing them.
Absolutely not.
God just said,
here is what you opened yourself up to.
You didn't know it before you ate the fruit.
You just knew blessing.
You didn't know death.
You didn't know any of that stuff.
And it wasn't going to touch you.
But now that you've ate the fruit,
you have opened yourself up to
the fruit of the originator of that flow,
which is the devil.
It's death.
It's sickness.
It's disease.
It's poverty.
You just opened the human race up to that.
Now listen how he words it.
The curse of the fall, verse 14, he cursed the snake.
He said, you're going to crawl on your belly.
Does the snake still crawl on his belly?
Interestingly enough, all snakes have two sockets,
about three quarters of the way back on their spine,
where they used to have legs.
The sockets are still there.
But they crawl.
So that's still active.
Verse 15,
the woman would carry the brunt of the enmity of the devil.
The devil would hate the woman
because through the woman would come Jesus.
The seed.
Does the woman still carry the brunt of the enmity of the devil?
Now you got to get beyond the
blessed America to see this.
You go to any culture in the world,
what is a woman?
She's nothing.
She's property.
To be used, abused, bought and sold.
Where do you think that came from?
That's that curse.
Now, I'll tell you this much.
It shouldn't be alive in Christians,
but there's Christians that is still alive in.
The woman is treated like property.
She's not equal.
She doesn't help make financial decisions.
She doesn't help decide where we're going.
It's all the man,
and she follows like a minion behind abused.
So that could still be alive in Christians
if they're not living in God's way.
Verse 16.
The woman would have pain and childbirth.
Christians have pain and childbirth?
Christian women?
I know of those who fayed beyond it
and didn't have it.
They literally had babies pain-free.
But that doesn't happen automatically.
So that still stands.
Christian women will struggle with men
treating them like property after marriage
and wanting to rule over them.
That still happens.
I tell everybody I counsel,
about six months into this,
I'll say,
honey, you just listen now.
I'm talking to him.
About six months into this,
instead of you craving and longing for her
and wanting her because you are lonely
without that companionship,
something is going to try to change in you
and you will want to rule her
and dominate her and tell her what to do
and how life is going to be.
It's part of the original curse
and it's still alive
and you will have to beat it as a guy
or you're going to have a very unhappy wife
and a very unhappy marriage.
And there's a lot of guys,
especially some denominations,
promote that.
Women are to be quiet
and do what their husbands say
and nothing more.
I can name a few denominations that promote that.
Where did that come from?
The curse.
Jesus died to set us free from those curses
so what did Paul say Jesus did?
He made women equal with men.
Again.
Now in marriage there's a full authority
but she's equal with men.
But Christian women still struggle with that.
Okay, verse 17.
He told Adam.
He says the ground is going to be under a curse.
Christians own land.
It's as much under the curse as the non-Christians land.
Now, could it be beaten by faith?
I presume so.
There's people who chip away at certain things
and beat certain things.
But overall,
you say well how do you know?
Verse 18 says
it's going to produce thorns and thistles.
That's the sign of the curse.
The thorn and the thistle will kill the good crop.
Well does that happen in Christian men's land?
So that curse is still alive, isn't it?
Now I don't know of anybody who's gotten to the point.
I'm sure there is, just because I don't know about it
doesn't mean they haven't.
But by faith, they should be able to beat that
and have that crop grow weed free without spray.
But that's not normal.
That's going to be a faith fight to make that happen.
And rather than living verse 18,
rather than living off the fruit of the garden,
they're going to have to raise their own food.
They're going to eat the herb of the field.
See in the garden they didn't have to.
It was all just hanging on the trees.
It was just all provided. It was there.
Just eat.
After that now you're going to raise your own food.
Do Christians still have to raise their own food?
So guess what? The curse is still active.
And he said this is how you're going to work for a living.
You're going to sweat.
You're going to perspire.
Do Christians still perspire?
Still sweat for jobs?
And then the last one is he said,
Dust you came from, dust you return.
Of course we know what Paul said.
That's the last one that's going to be dealt with.
So that's still active.
This body still dies.
Everything in the fall of man,
Adam and Eve's curse that was released
is all active.
All of it.
That's where the demons got in.
Because when the devil was tempting Jesus
he took him to a high mountaintop
and he said, look at all the kingdoms of the world
and all their splendor and glory.
I'll give all this to you if you'll just bow down and worship me.
Jesus did not look at him and say
you don't have it to give to me.
It's not yours.
Jesus did not contradict that statement.
You know why?
Because Adam had given it away.
Jesus bought it back.
So Jesus didn't deal with who owns this.
Jesus dealt with worship.
And he quoted the scripture on worship back.
He showed only worship God and him alone.
But he didn't deal with who owns it
because he knew good and well who owned it.
He was given to Adam and Eve and Adam and Eve
gave it away to a new master.
So when God made all those announcements
all he was doing is saying
he said you'd know good from evil.
All this evil stuff was here.
Death was here.
You just had no part of it
because you were only living in my flow.
You were only living in blessing.
But when you ate of the fruit
now let me explain to you what you just did.
Can you imagine?
That's hard on a good day right there.
You imagine how they felt
knowing this is what was just unleashed
in the human race.
It was never supposed to be here.
This curse, death, poverty,
struggle for a living, women die and childbirth.
He just kind of summed it up
and then you get over to Moses.
Well then he takes it apart line by line
and says here's what the curse looks like.
Here's what the blessing looks like
which we'll look at next week.
All of this is still active
and God's saying well that's what you did know.
You wanted to know good from evil?
Here's good, here's evil
and guess what?
You just sold yourself under the evil.
But, thank God,
we can be redeemed from the kingdom of darkness
into the kingdom as their son.
We can be bought back out of that.
All the curse of the law
which the curses of the law were just
a detailed accounting of the curses of Adam and Eve.
It's all it was.
It wasn't a new batch of curses.
This was already here living on earth.
People were dying of sickness and disease
and everything before Moses ever showed up.
But in the law God detailed,
you know the curses I said to Adam and Eve?
Let me give you the details of how that looks.
I only gave them a big picture.
Let me give you the details.
The awesome part is, as bad as that is,
which we'll see if you want to read it,
Deuteronomy 28, 29, 30,
as bad as that is, Jesus redeemed us from that
so we can get back into the blessing of Abraham.
And the way you get in there is by the spirit
and him leading and guiding and getting us free.
So, there's good news.
But in my mind, the whole concept of
well, we don't have to worry about curses.
I mean, that was done away with at the cross.
Potentially, yes, it was.
But now we have to, by faith,
seize our rights and our inheritance
and say, I am not living under this junk.
I'm living under blessing.
And the more we go after it, the better it gets.
The more we win, the further ahead we get.
So we'll stop there.
I've gone a long time.