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Thank you, Lord, for this evening.

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Thank you for wisdom and insight and understanding.

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Lord, help us to move beyond our head to our heart

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to gain understanding of what you have for us

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and what you're trying to show us.

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Lead us, take us into the things you want us to see

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and to know and to understand in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Good evening, everybody, who's here

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and everybody who's watching by livestream.

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We had a little taste of some snow,

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but the most is supposed to still be coming.

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And I think that some people are...

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our home anticipating what's coming

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because we have a little bit smaller group here tonight,

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but that's okay.

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We're going to do what we're going to do.

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Oh, I see we've got a number of people watching by livestream.

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So welcome. Thank you for joining us.

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We're done with the booklet

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and everything we're going to cover from here

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is going to go into the third booklet,

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but I'm going to put it together as we go through it.

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So you'll get it at the end.

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You'll have everything on screen and so forth in the meantime.

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So now we're taking a shift.

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We've been dealing with deliverance things,

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specifically self-deliverance,

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holding our temple, holding our land spiritually

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and filling it and so forth.

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Tonight we're going to deal with three subjects

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that are connected.

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We'll see, well, between tonight and next week.

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It might go into next week, depending upon how we approach it.

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But they're connected, but they're not the same.

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And sometimes they get confused in people's minds.

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So I want to lay them out individually,

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starting with, oh, you could say the biggest thing first.

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So as we go through these,

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we're trying to build something.

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So let's lay them out.

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We're going to, this is the heart of the matter right here.

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Blessings of the Father or generational righteousness and blessings.

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Scripture says God said that he would,

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for those who are obedient, he would bless

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into the thousands of generations.

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Some translations say 8,000.

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Either way, we're covered all the way back to Adam.

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Because if you go 40 years for a generation,

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for a thousand years at 40,000,

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humans haven't been on the earth 40,000 years yet.

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So the blessings of the Fathers go,

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our blessings get traced all the way back to Adam.

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And the beginning.

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Then you also have the sins of the Fathers,

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the generational sin and the curses that follow that,

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which that's limited to three or four generations.

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There is the heart of the matter that we're going to look at.

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Either we're blessed or we're cursed.

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There's not a real in between.

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So we're going to take that apart and take some time to do it.

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The messengers or the ministers of blessing and cursing

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are the angelic side or the demonic side.

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I made a brief there later in one of the PowerPoints.

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It's going to talk about angels versus the fallen angels,

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the demonic realm, etc.

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The demonic realm would include the familiar spirits.

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But the angels watch over the blessing side.

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Familiar spirits watch over the cursed side.

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So there is the heart of what we're looking at.

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These all work together for the two kingdoms.

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And I want that plain right from the beginning

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of we're not dealing with just the sins of the Fathers and curses.

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We're dealing with both sides.

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Because they both are sitting side by side in Scripture.

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And as believers, we have access to the top one.

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We're not stuck with just the bottom one, sins of the Fathers.

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The generational stuff that's bad there.

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So the angels, the demonic realm, obedience, faith,

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all this stuff works together to deal with blessings and curses.

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Here is my concern.

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When you start delving into the demonic world

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or the spirit world deeper,

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sometimes people tend to get weird.

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A focus shift takes place is the best way to say it.

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And rather than chasing after God,

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people are chasing after demons.

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That we don't want to where it's always looking for a demon,

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always looking for a curse.

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I'm not looking for curses. I'm looking for blessings.

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And if something's in the way, well, we'll deal with that.

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But my faith, my confession and everything is set on God's kingdom.

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And the focus needs to stay on God's kingdom.

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Once we get too focused on the wrong kingdom,

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literally we start fading things into being that shouldn't be there.

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Once we're looking too hard for a demon,

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they'll be sure to pop up and keep you coming.

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So I don't want us getting weird.

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Rather than the focus being on God,

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the focus goes to looking for and finding demons.

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Don't want that.

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Rather than fearlessly taking this life by faith

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and living in the blessings of God,

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we end up fearfully beginning running from everything

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because curses are active in our lives

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and we can't get free and we're just run by fear and so forth.

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And my experience is when you start talking about the demonic realm,

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I'm not going to say too much, but in more detail than we, you know,

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we haven't talked about it in that much detail yet.

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We've talked about deliverance things,

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being delivered, self-deliverance and so forth.

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Now we're going to go into a bunch of the questions that come up

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and take subjects.

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Like, for instance, can a Christian be cursed?

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Well, now we're going to start looking in depth at some of this stuff.

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And if the focus of us switches, we get weird.

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Fear sets in.

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We're always looking for what could be going wrong

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and trying to guess what the spirit behind that

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and what is the curse and that.

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In the New Testament, you don't see any of that evidenced.

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We don't need to live like that.

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So that's the kind of thing we're going to go into and talk about it.

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But the first question we need to hit is,

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do blessings and curses apply to today?

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That's, you know, you have to start there.

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Is it an Old Testament issue?

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Many people feel it's only the Old Testament

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or under the Old Testament law.

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And we'll look at the Scripture and Galatians

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where Jesus set us free from the curse of the law

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and we'll talk about all that.

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But they even throw the Gospels in with it,

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which the Gospels were under the Old Testament.

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So, do blessings and curses still happen today?

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Well, let's, before we go into the Jesus part

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and what Jesus did,

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let's just take a solid look at that

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from two groups of people.

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If you're unsaved,

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what would have gotten you out of the curse?

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There's only one way out.

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Jesus.

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So for everybody who's unsaved,

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curses are absolutely active in their life.

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There's no reason they wouldn't be.

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Because the freedom comes through Jesus.

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Now, everything that comes through Jesus

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is, I'm going to use the word potential.

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In Bible college, they taught us,

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like for instance with sanctification,

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you have the description of sanctification.

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We are sanctified by faith.

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It's the position in faith and in righteousness

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of being clean before God positionally.

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We're all sanctified and righteous.

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But progressively the Holy Spirit's still working on us

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to take us up to what the Father is calling us

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and seeing us.

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Okay, so you got two works going on.

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By faith, we are the righteousness of God and Christ.

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But in our everyday life,

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the Holy Spirit is still cleaning us up.

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This is called by faith.

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This is the progressive work.

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Okay, so when you're dealing with curses,

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well, when you're dealing with anything,

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take healing.

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Positionally, by his stripes, we were healed.

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It's a done deal.

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Progressively, sometimes you have to walk that out

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by faith to make that what's bought and paid for

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actually manifest in our bodies.

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Positionally, we're fear free.

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We have the love of God in us.

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Fear, love casts out all fear.

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Fear is not of God.

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Positionally, we've been set free of fear.

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Progressively, there's a lot of fearful Christians

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who need to work on it and grow.

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So there's two things going on at the same time.

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In my opinion, in every promise,

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everything Jesus did for us, you have those two.

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Positionally, it's done.

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When Jesus said it's finished and then he rose from the dead

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to kind of just cap that off,

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positionally, it's done.

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Eternal life is purchased for us.

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It's done.

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But yet Paul says over and over and over,

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watch how you live.

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Walk worthy.

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Pay attention.

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If you do these things, if you overcome,

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you will have eternal life.

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Well, positionally, it's ours.

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Progressively, we're still living it and growing in it.

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It's the same thing with curses and blessings, both sides.

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Getting, of course, as believers,

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we've been given the ability to get free of curses

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and the ability to live in blessings.

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Unbelievers don't have much right to blessings,

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even though God will shower just like he says,

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he sends rain on the just and the unjust.

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He will give a realm of blessings to the unbeliever,

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but they don't have an inheritance right to them.

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We do.

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So we look at what God's promised us

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and we go after it in blessing

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and we look at the fact that God has dealt with the curse

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and we try to break all that stuff in our life.

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So once you understand this basis of blessings and curses,

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then the first two, familiar spirits and generational stuff,

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it's much easier to understand.

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So let's talk about this.

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We're going to look at...

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Let me back up and leave it here.

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We're going to look at Galatians 3

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and since we are without a person on the screen tonight,

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I'm going to have to screen mirror and switch back and forth

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and some of this stuff.

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So bear with me.

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We have nobody on the computer,

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but I want you to be able to follow along with me

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and read this.

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So let me get my Bible app

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cooking here

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and I will turn sideways

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and we will go to Galatians 3.

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Let's see.

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That's not going to expand.

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So that's as big as I can make it.

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So he's talking about the two Galatians here

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and the first few verses about they started by faith,

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what makes them think that they can progress in God

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in the flesh or doing works.

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And remember it's the Judaizers and the Christian philosophy

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that is always at battle here.

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Verse number six at the top,

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just as Abraham believed God,

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it was accounted to him for righteousness.

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Therefore know that only those who are of faith

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are of the sons of Abraham.

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That's important.

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Know that only those who are of faith

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are the sons of Abraham.

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That's going to apply here in a bit.

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Verse number nine.

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So then those who are of faith are blessed

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with believing Abraham or Abraham believe God

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and it was credited to him for righteousness.

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He was blessed because he believes.

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Okay, verse 10.

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For as many as are the works of the law

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under the curse for it is written,

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cursed is everyone who does not continue

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in all things which are written

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in the book of the law to do them.

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Here is the problem with keeping

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the commandments to be righteous.

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If you mess up once,

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you're guilty of all of them.

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Thou shalt not lie.

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If you lie once,

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now you're guilty of the other nine.

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Everything is lost with one error.

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That's why he...

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the only reason for the law,

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and that scripture shows up here in a bit

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in Romans 3,

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the only reason for the law

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was to show us we were sinners.

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Not to save us.

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The law was never meant to save us.

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It was the point out,

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you can't do it.

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You can't do what?

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See now, here,

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get the concept in your mind

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because we're going to talk about

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the beginning of two realms of curses.

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You've got the...

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you've got Abraham,

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I mean, Adam and Eve,

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and then it moves forward through Abraham to Moses.

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The law, which is blessings and curses,

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is tied to it,

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and fulfilling the law to be righteous

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and all these things is here.

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Abraham is here.

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He believed God.

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He made it by faith, not by law.

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And then you got Adam and Eve.

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You have the curses of the fall

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of Adam and Eve,

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and you have the curses of the law.

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This is ahead a little bit,

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but just think about this.

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Which one let the demons in?

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Which one gave the devil access

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to the human race?

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Just think about it.

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We'll get to it.

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We'll talk about it.

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But the concept is

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all this time from the law,

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which is approximately 1500 B.C.,

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all this time back,

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they weren't sinners.

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They weren't lost.

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Adam and Eve sinned.

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From there forward everybody sinned.

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The problem was,

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they didn't know they were sinners and lost.

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So the law came to say,

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if you want to be righteous,

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you have to do this,

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and this, and this,

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and this, and this, and this,

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and you can never slip up.

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Well, then nobody can be righteous.

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Exactly that's the point

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he's trying to make.

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Everybody's guilty.

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From there all the way back

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to Adam and Eve.

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Everybody's guilty.

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Okay, keep that in mind.

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It's going to be important.

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So cursed is everyone who does

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not continue in all the things

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written in the book of the law.

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That's Moses over here at 1500 B.C.

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But no one is justified by the law

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in the sight of God is evident.

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The just shall live by faith.

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And that's probably so small

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you can't read it,

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but they can probably read it on the screen.

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Yet the law is not of faith,

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but the man who does them

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shall live by them.

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Christ, verse 13,

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13 and 14, important verses.

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Christ has redeemed us

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from the curse of the law,

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having, excuse me,

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become a curse for us

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for it is written,

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cursed is everyone

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who hangs on a tree.

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So Jesus became the curse

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so he could buy us back

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from the curse.

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He's redeemed us from the curse

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of the law by becoming the curse.

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Why?

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Verse 14,

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that the blessing of Abraham

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might come upon the Gentiles.

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The Gentiles.

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Not the Jews.

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See, God in Abraham

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was looking beyond his chosen people.

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He was looking to save the world.

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The blessing of Abraham

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might come upon the Gentiles.

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That's everybody who is not

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of the lineage of Abraham.

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Of course, we know that

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the lineage of Abraham

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comes in under this by faith too,

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but here it's being shown

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and expands out.

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Might come upon the Gentiles

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in Christ Jesus

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that we might receive

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the promise of the Spirit

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through faith.

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So, back to the timeline.

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Adam, Noah, about 3,000 BC,

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they claim.

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And I heard something today

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that I haven't researched it,

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but remember we talked

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a little bit about

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from the time of Adam to Noah,

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which is in those first few

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chapters of Genesis.

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They feel that's half the timeline

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that man has been on earth

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from Adam to Noah.

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Now, today,

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it might even been Brother

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Caseman, Mary brought it up to me

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and she was listening to him,

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so it might even been him.

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They feel that the time of the flood,

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there were billions of people on earth.

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This wasn't just a few hundred thousand.

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There were billions

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because mankind had lived

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a long time up to the flood.

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Even though in the scripture

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it just shows up in Genesis 6, 7, 8, 9,

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right at the beginning,

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half the timeline was done already.

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3,000 to 2,000,

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here you got Abraham.

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Now God has access back into the

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human race because a son was

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exchanged for a son.

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We have covenant made with Abraham

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so that the blessing

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that he promised Eve, her seed,

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would crush the serpent's head.

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He had to get into the earth.

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To do that, he had to become

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a human being. To get in here,

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he had to have the right to do it.

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Why wouldn't he have the right to do it?

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Why wouldn't God just have the right to...

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I'm just going to send my son

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in the form of a man

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and we're going to save him

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and that's the end of it.

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Why did he have to have the right,

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given to him by Abraham

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to get involved, start a nation,

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nation of Israel who would eventually

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would birth Jesus the seed?

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He promised Eve.

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Why did he have to have the right?

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Bingo.

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Back here with Adam and Eve,

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they were given the authority

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over the whole world.

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Who did they give it to?

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The devil.

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Now the devil is solely in charge here.

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Devil first, man underneath.

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Man gave the authority away.

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Jesus came, bought it back.

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But man gave it away.

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So God now legally

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does not have the right to interfere

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with the human race.

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Adam gave that away.

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He needs an exchange.

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Someone needs to give me their son

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so I can give you mine.

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That's Abraham.

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So now we have a way back in

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and with that way back in,

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that's where the announcement of blessings

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was made.

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Because everything from there back,

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the human race was a mess.

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I mean, you talk about

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violence and death

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and lawlessness and the

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the Nephilim thing.

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The whole human race was a mess.

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But now there's a promise of blessing.

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That's different than the curse.

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We move forward to Moses,

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who was 1500 years before Jesus shows up.

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Moses, God gave him the law

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to show all of you are guilty.

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Here's how you get out of it.

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A savior is coming.

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That's shown in all the sacrificial types

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and so forth.

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A savior is coming.

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His name is Jesus,

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who's going to save you from your sins.

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But in the meantime,

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all of you are guilty.

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All of you are sinners.

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All of you are cursed.

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Because none of you can keep the law.

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And if you break the law,

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your law breaker, which means you're cursed.

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Even though the law was not written,

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these people all the way back,

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they didn't know they were sinning,

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but they were all sinning.

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When Nimrod was building the tower of Babel

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and the 12 signs of Zodiac,

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you traced them all the way back

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to the tower of Babel.

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That was all rebellion.

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Well, what is rebellion?

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It's sin.

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So these people all the way back,

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they were all sinners,

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but a lot of them didn't know it.

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Now, once Abraham showed up,

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a little bit of knowledge came.

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Once Moses showed up,

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God said,

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Here's what's righteousness.

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Here's what's sin.

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Blessing follows righteousness.

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Cursed follows sin.

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So what were they?

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They were all cursed.

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God couldn't really be active in their life,

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except he got a foothold in through Abraham.

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Once Jesus came,

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now he can take the whole world.

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But in the meantime,

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you've got the nation of Israel.

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He's got a foothold here.

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He's working on.

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The thing Jesus did was,

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okay, the whole human race is cursed

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up to Moses.

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Guess what?

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From Moses to Jesus.

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They're still living under a curse.

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Because no one can do the whole law.

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And that's how you can get righteous

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and get out from underneath the curse and be blessed.

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No one can do it.

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So all the way to Jesus,

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mankind is basically living under a curse.

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Jesus came to deal with that righteousness issue,

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the curse,

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so that man could come out from underneath the curse

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and be blessed.

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And when Jesus died and went to hell,

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he offered that to all of those people.

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Peter makes that plane,

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which is an interesting story in and of itself.

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So Jesus came to release us from the curse of the law,

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which means you don't measure up.

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You're not good enough.

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There's going to be a curse following you the whole time.

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So that the blessing given to Abraham,

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and he names it there,

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the promise of the spirit,

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that's the heart of the blessing given to Abraham.

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Because once we get over here to Jesus,

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he dies, he rises from the dead.

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We get to the beginning of the New Testament church,

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Acts chapter 2, the spirit comes.

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Now we have God in us.

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And everything that's available from the kingdom

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is available to each one of us.

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So now we can live in blessing.

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So now let's go back.

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I have to get out of this,

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so bear with me.

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So now let's go back to what we were talking about.

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Do blessings and curses apply today?

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To anybody who saved, curses absolutely apply.

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I mean, anybody's not saved.

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Thank you for the correction.

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Anybody who's not saved, curses absolutely apply.

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Somebody's paying attention.

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Anybody who is saved, blessings apply.

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Because of what Jesus did.

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Is it just an Old Testament issue?

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It is just an Old Testament law issue.

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How do we look at this?

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Well, Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law.

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So what does that mean?

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Well, I've got some articles here,

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and I won't go back and screen mirror them.

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I'll just briefly read to you.

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I've got three of them.

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I just Googled it.

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Christians, the curse of the law.

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And the first three that came up.

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What does it mean that we are redeemed

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from the curse of the law?

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The Greek word for redeemed in the Bible is

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e-x-a-g-o-r-a-z-o.

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I'll pronounce it wrong.

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It was a financial term

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that referred to the process

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of purchasing a slave's freedom.

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So the word redeemed in the original

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is a financial term where I'm paying you

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to release a slave to me.

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I'm buying your slave.

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When the slave was redeemed,

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he was no longer bound to the rules

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and the expectations of the slave's life.

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One more.

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Redemption is a biblical word

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that means to purchase or to ransom.

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Historically, redemption was used

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in reference to purchase a slave's freedom.

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You're going to find the same thing

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no matter where you look.

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It comes up the same way.

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So we need mankind

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who has been sold to sin by Adam and Eve

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and then their own sins that followed that.

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They have become a slave to sin

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all the way up to Jesus.

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They came to the realization

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there's no way out about 1500 BC

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and then you had the Old Testament law

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and the sacrifices and everything

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preparing for Jesus.

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We need mankind in the past

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and mankind in the future

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free from slavery to sin.

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So what we do is we give

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what's called the Old Testament law

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that makes it undeniable your sinner.

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It points it out. It just points it out.

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It's all it did.

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It's not like sin started with the law.

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Sin was there the whole time.

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The law pointed it out.

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Number one.

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And the law pointed out

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you can't do anything to be good enough.

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You can't be righteous.

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You're lost. You're a slave to sin.

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And then it gave the answer.

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But the Messiah will come

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who will take your place

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and die in your place

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and become the curse for you

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so that his life can be yours

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and his blessing can be yours.

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And then from that point forward

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now we have a choice.

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We're no longer subject to just curse.

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Now we have blessing and curse

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walking simultaneously side by side.

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That's what Romans 3 19 and 20 says.

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The purpose of the law

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was to make every man guilty

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and to silence us

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or to shut our mouths.

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Some translations say to shut our mouths.

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Romans 3 verse 19 and 20.

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The whole purpose of the law

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is to say you're guilty, be quiet.

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There's nothing you can do about it.

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So we're looking for redemption.

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Redemption is for everyone.

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Does everyone experience and live in redemption?

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No.

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Well, I thought Jesus bought it

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for the whole human race.

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He did.

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It's not automatic though.

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You have to do something

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to get into redemption

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for it to operate.

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Jesus said it this way.

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You have to believe in Him.

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For God so loved the world

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whoever gave his only God

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said,

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whosoever believeth in Him.

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So redemption comes by belief,

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by faith.

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Well, everything in redemption

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comes the same way.

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By belief and faith.

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We've been redeemed from the second death,

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which is when death hell

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and the grave and Hades and everything

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gets thrown in the lake of fire.

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The whole human race

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has been redeemed from that.

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But a lot of people are going to go there.

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What is that?

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Is that a blessing or a curse?

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That's a curse.

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The curse is still active

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outside of Jesus.

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Because if we can't

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live righteously in and of ourselves,

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we're cursed.

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The only way out is through faith in Jesus.

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For everybody on the human race

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who does not take that way out,

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they're cursed.

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We've been redeemed from sickness and disease.

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So now here's more of a Christian

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and a non-Christian question.

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We've been redeemed as Christians

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from sickness and disease.

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Why aren't Christians automatically healthy

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as soon as they receive Jesus?

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And they stay healthy.

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No disease, no sickness ever touches

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on the rest of their life.

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He bought it. He paid for it.

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It's ours.

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We have to apply it.

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We have to appropriate it by faith.

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Faith, yeah.

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Faith, obedience.

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We've been redeemed from fear,

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worry, pain, suffering, confusion,

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depression, discouragement, hate, lust, bitterness,

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relationship, failures, hopelessness, sin.

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Well, whatever you want to label it is

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we've been redeemed from all of it.

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Do humans still struggle

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with fear, worry, pain? Do Christians

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still struggle with suffering, confusion,

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depression, discouragement, hate, bitterness,

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relationship, failures, hopelessness?

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Absolutely.

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Are those things blessings or curses?

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Oh.

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So curses can be

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active in a Christian's life, too.

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Oh.

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So if we go back

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to the picture and the picture of how this is

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explained is Old Testament.

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But it didn't say

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any place that these two

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stop automatically for any reason.

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They continue on and we can

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get out of the curse by faith through the

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redemption of Jesus.

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But we get out by faith.

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We have to apply our faith

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to every situation

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to get out.

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Depending upon who you read and what

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you read and I tend to agree with them.

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Either what's happening in our life as believers

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is the result of the blessing of God

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working or it's the result

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of a curse that's still attached

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and working.

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There is no gray.

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If I get to heaven and he says

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eh, you're a little bit off on that one.

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Well, okay, but for now that's kind of

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where I lean too real strongly.

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Like for instance, in 2012

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when I broke my arm

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this is a good Christianese

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thing. Good cliche. And

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it's...

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It's wrong.

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Someone said

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well, you know, stuff happens.

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Bad things happen to good people.

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Actually, that's not true.

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Well, it wasn't a blessing that you broke your arm

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exactly. So it had to be a result

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of some form of

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curse.

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It had to be.

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How it got in, I don't know.

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Still don't know.

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But it got in.

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Some avenue was still

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open.

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You can't say

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that

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falling off a ladder and breaking your back

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and being paralyzed the rest of your life

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is a blessing of God.

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Well, I'm a Christian. All I have

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is a blessing. Well, that ain't one.

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That's not a blessing.

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And if it's not a blessing, what is it?

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Well, it's just sometimes

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things happen. No, that's not

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scriptural.

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That is the lazy Christians

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way out in my opinion.

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Well, you know, bad things happen

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and there's nothing we're living on earth.

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We're just all blessed by God.

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No, see, the blessing

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pushes back, prohibits

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bad things from happening.

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Bad things, once we

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get to it, and I probably won't get there tonight,

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but bad things come from the curse.

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Good things

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come from the blessing.

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There is no middle ground.

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It's like, well, either you're not

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sinning or you're sinning.

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Well, I'm kind in the middle. I'm not

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really right, but I'm not really wrong either.

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It really is there. Is there a middle ground?

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There's no middle ground.

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Either you're righteous or you're living in sin.

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There's no middle ground.

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Either you're living for God or you're

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living for the kingdom of darkness. Well, I

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don't live for either one. I do my own thing.

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There is no such thing.

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I live my life.

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Well, according to Paul,

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when we're living our life, it's automatically

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puts us into the kingdom of darkness category.

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We're a slave to sin.

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There is a

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line here, and you cross

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over it or back.

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You can't. There's

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no space in the middle where here's where the

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Christians are. Here's where the sinners

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are. And here's all the good people.

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Not Christians, but they're just good people.

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There is no such thing.

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And it's the same thing with blessings and curses.

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When something is following

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our life that is destroying us,

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there's a curse that needs

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to be broken.

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You say, well, we're Christians. I know.

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But there's a curse that needs to be broken.

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And these can come numerous

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different ways.

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Let me give you an example. You've heard this one before.

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If you listen to my messages,

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I haven't said it in this series.

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I don't believe, but when you listen to my

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messages, I explain this one.

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When I got married

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to marry

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without knowing it, I married into a curse.

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Didn't know it was happening.

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Took a while to figure it out.

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Took way too long to figure it out.

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I should have figured it out.

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Way too long to figure it out.

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But

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my lineage,

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my parents, my grandparents, and as far

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as I know, on my dad's

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side, my great-grandparents,

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my mom's side,

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my grandparents were the first ones out.

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So it went far as grandparents

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and my mom's side. On my dad's side,

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it went at least to our great-grandparents

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maybe further. I don't know.

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But that was a godly

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lineage where they honored God

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and they gave and they tithed

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and they followed and tried to be

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obedient to God.

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On Mary's side,

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her grandmother

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they believe

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got saved by an Oral Robert's

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book on her deathbed.

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Other than that, there was nobody

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saved from their back as far as they know.

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The children,

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or Mary's uncles and aunts,

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parents, were the

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first ones out with the children.

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They all kind of got saved

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same realm of time.

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So you don't

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have the lineage of blessing

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flowing. You've got

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curse flowing.

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Okay. So now

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just like

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the stories you hear and things you read,

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some of these people had had

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really bad experiences

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with the quote-unquote church.

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Specifically, the Catholic

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church was it.

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So they had,

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on her side, they had no use

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for the church.

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From

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her mom's lineage, it was better.

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There was people saved there

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and it went back at least to the

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grandparents. We don't know if it went further than that.

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But they seem to have gotten

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saved and then the children, a couple of the

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children and it worked its way down.

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So it wasn't as bad, but on dad's side

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it was curse coming down.

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And the lineage

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there had no use for church

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and they absolutely

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despised and mocked

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giving money

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to a church.

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Absolutely despised and mocked it.

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That is absolutely the dumbest

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thing you could ever do.

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It was useless. It was worthless.

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It was worth nothing.

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So there was never any tithing that happened

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there. There was never anything that

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would bring the blessing of finances.

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Okay?

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I have the blessing of finances.

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It's going pretty well for me.

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I marry her

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and all of a sudden it's like someone

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threw the brakes on a train

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or on a bus. You know, you pull the lever

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and everything comes

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sliding to a stop.

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It was like,

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okay, what's this? Well, we knew it was

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demonic attack, but it never crossed my mind.

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It was a curse.

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And it

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it's like we would have

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spurts of prosperity

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and then

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this thing would come on.

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And then there'd be spurts of prosperity

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and then this thing would come on.

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And sometimes this thing would last

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a while and then sometimes the prosperity

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would last for a while. It's like,

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come on.

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Let's just get going.

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What is this thing

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that always shows up?

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And it took a number of years. We were living here already

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by the time the Lord

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pointed it out to me.

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And he never pointed it out

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as a curse all the way up to

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that time, but when we were here he pointed it out

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and he pointed it out to me in a dream.

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He showed me what was happening

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and it came after

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I had broken

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the curse without knowing I was

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breaking the curse. See

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in the New Testament, what does it say?

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How do we get the things, the promises

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of God, the

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Romans chapter 10, the things of the

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spirit realm? How do we get them

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over into our side?

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Romans 10, for the word

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of faith is

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nigh thee even in thy mouth.

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And if you read the Scriptures

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previous to that, who's going to go

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across the sea and gather the things

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to bring them? Who's going to go to heaven

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and bring the things down?

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He said it's in your mouth.

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It's the word of faith.

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Okay?

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So I

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can still remember the night

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I was walking on the

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as you come into our property

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there's a gravel road that goes back to the modular

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and there's a corner where you turn to go

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towards the shed.

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I was coming around that corner

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and I was having it out with God.

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This isn't right.

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According to your word

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this financial situation isn't right.

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According to

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the seed that has been planted

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for generations

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this isn't right.

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And

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it just

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it rose up in me

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and it was night time

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nobody was around, neighbors probably heard me, but whatever.

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I just started screaming.

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I refuse this.

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I

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am blessed

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and I started quoting the scriptures

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and I said I am done with this.

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This is over.

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No more.

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By faith this

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has to end

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now.

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I never verbally broke a curse

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because it never dawned on me it was a curse.

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I mean it's like

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I don't know why it just never dawned on me.

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A few nights later

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he gave me a dream

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and the dream

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explained what happened

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because the curse had just gotten broken.

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So in the dream

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I'm on a gravel road

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I won't get too detailed here

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I know what road it was

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and everything else. I'm on a gravel road

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I'm riding a motorcycle

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that is built

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really low to the ground almost like a scooter

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I'm like a foot off the ground

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and my legs are out in front of me

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and I'm sitting on that

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and it's just a little putter

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and I'm driving west

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which means

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something is coming to an end.

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I come up behind

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a white

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pickup

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and a big green combine

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the white pickup

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pulls around

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the combine and goes ahead of it

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I wanted to pull around

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and the combine came up on the road

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and I couldn't get around

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so I'm stuck behind this combine

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I can't

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so the picture here is

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I wasn't able to get

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in front of the harvest

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I was always catching the

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gleaning coming out the back

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of the combine

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that's the picture

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so I'm sitting on really

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low on this little putt-putt scooter thing

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and I'm behind this combine a little frustrated

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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.

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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.

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It's like, what in the world? And all of a sudden my little scooter rose up a little bit.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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And the thought crossed my mind. Just pull over close and shoot right past that dumpster and the dog will run right into it.

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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.

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And he became garbage.

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And the Lord woke me up and he said, that's what I did with your curse.

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I'm gone. Ow!

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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.

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But in my act of faith and demanding the rights that are mine must come to be, the curse was broken.

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And he showed me the picture of that playing out and the thing that was continually attacking, which was this main g...

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Main g, hair all matted, ugly things. That's what it was. It's not a sign of prosperity. It's bad.

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And he killed the curse. He took care of the curse. And since that point forward this whole seesaw thing has quit.

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And what the scripture says and the blessings and so forth are happening.

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So now that was, I still didn't know what the curse was. I knew the dog represented a curse.

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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.

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You're vulnerable. Sometimes you're almost going broke. Other times it's like, hey, we're doing pretty good.

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And all of a sudden it's just back and forth. But you never get in front of the harvest.

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It's like you're always just got the gleaning coming out the back and it's all you get.

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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.

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She shared the story of how Mary's ancestors felt towards God specifically giving God money.

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And as she was sharing that story, the Holy Spirit said, there was the curse. You married into it.

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When the two of you became one, the blessing and the curse began the war.

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And until the curse was broken, there was a continual struggle.

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Thank God he has redeemed us from the curse.

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Or what came down my parents' line wouldn't have been blessing.

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That had only been curse. And out of married more curse.

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And life would have been really, really ugly.

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But we have been redeemed from the curse, which means we can get free of this stuff.

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So going back to the thought.

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Well, when you're struggling financially and you're hardly getting by, is that blessing?

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Then what is it?

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There's only one other option.

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And see, Christians tend to leave room for in the middle.

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Well, it's not God, but I don't think it's the devil either. I just don't know what it is.

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And that is the lazy Christians way out of dealing with this.

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Well, I don't know. We'll just go on and see if things change.

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No, actually, there's a spiritual fight that needs to be done.

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We need to take our authority and take our stand and fight the fight of faith and beat it.

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Because if we're not blessed, we're cursed. If we're cursed, we're not blessed.

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And it doesn't have to be in our whole life.

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It just can show up in certain places, certain pieces.

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So when it comes to...

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Is it just Old Testament and so forth?

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Here's the reasons I gave to you before.

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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.

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Why? Number two, everything that has been bought and paid for on the cross comes by the manifestation in our lives by faith.

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It's freedom from sickness, disease, financial prosperity, addiction, whatever it is.

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You apply your faith, he redeemed us, so now we have the option of being free.

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Number three, once we get to the New Testament church and acts, the issue with demons almost totally disappears.

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We talked about that. That shows that once we're saved, demons can't influence Christians.

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I agree with the part that in the epistles, there's very few demons that we're dealt with.

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But I disagree with the conclusion that demons can't influence Christians.

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I believe it has to do more with James 4-7 than anything else.

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And what I mean by that is in the early church, if you chose Christ, you chose to be a Jesus follower,

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you were putting your physical life and family at risk.

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Remember, most of the world at that time was under Roman rule.

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Who fed Christians to the lions for sport? The Romans.

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So this was a horrid time.

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There was a government that had no use for Christians whatsoever, and they wanted to just kind of squelch the whole faith.

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So when you said, I became a Christian, you put your neck on the line, you could be dead at any time.

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You could be tortured, you could be... they hung Christians, if you read some of this stuff, it's unbelievable.

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They hung Christians on crosses and lined roads on both sides for miles, just for being a Christian.

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And they'd let you hang on the cross till you died.

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Besides the fact, the Judaizers, the Jews, didn't like Christians. Sol's good example of that, he went around killing them.

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Because they were a menace, they were a plague.

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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.

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So the whole concept of James 4-7 of, you really have to submit yourself to God and resist the devil to be free.

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You think they maybe did that when their life was on the line? They lived that way every day.

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It's the current world where we bargain with how much we need to give to God.

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We don't sell out. We don't give them everything. We're not 100% his.

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We've got our secret rooms in our house, our property, we've got our secret sins.

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We've got all this stuff we're holding out on God. Well, that's where the demons live. They live and sin.

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Because nowadays, you don't have to be a sold out Christian to be a Christian.

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I won't say any more than that.

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But in my mind, that's why in the New Testament, you find very little talk of people needing deliverance.

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These people were 100% submitted to God. And anything that came up that we need to get rid of, they got rid of it.

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Because this was such a huge decision to make the choice to follow Jesus.

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This wasn't a happenstance thing like it is now.

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And interesting, bro, the caseman just hit that again. He said, because the culture in America, he said,

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there's a lot of people who think they're Christians. They're not Christians.

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Because we go to the altar and we add Jesus to our life like the Buddhists add another God.

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And he doesn't become our Lord and our master.

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And we submit everything. And we are now His to do with as He pleases.

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No, come and accept Jesus.

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Just the phrase is wrong.

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Come and accept Jesus. Oh, yeah, I accepted Jesus, brought Him into my life.

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Has anything changed? I lived pretty much the way I did, but I accepted Jesus.

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I'm not sure you're saved.

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This isn't a thing of accepting Jesus. This is a thing of submitting and giving your whole life to Him.

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See, we have a different mentality now, not only in America. This is worldwide.

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Unless you're in a country where you still die for becoming a Christian.

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I'll bet you they don't have many demon problems with Christians.

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I've never been there, but if I was going to put money on it, I bet the whole farm.

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That in the countries where if you get caught serving God,

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they'll drag you out in the street and hang you, kill you, take your head off, whatever.

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I'll bet you there's not many Christians who have demons cast out there.

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Because they are so submitted and committed.

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There's no room to play with this fringe stuff and leave room for the demonic.

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So in the New Testament, if you if you live it right, this stuff just falls off.

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In America, we have all kinds of Christians with demons.

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Why? Well, because we got all kinds of Christians playing with sin.

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I mean, it's just that simple.

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And number four reason is Galatians three specifically.

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He's redeemed us from the curse of the law.

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You've got Genesis three, 14 through 19 is the curse of the fall.

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Both of these, by the way, are still active on the earth.

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And I'll show you that here in a bit.

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I showed you the curse of the law a little bit, but let's look at the curse of the fall.

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And we live in freedom from both by obedience and faith.

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So back to the question.

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Of those two curse of the law or curse of the fall.

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And the Genesis three, 14 through 19 should be down beside curse of the fall.

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And the Galatians three is the curse of the law.

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Which Jesus redeemed us of.

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Those two curse of the law curse of the fall.

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Which one of those two opened the human race up to the devil being our master

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and demons having a right to us.

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Stop and think about that.

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Fall or law?

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Where did the devil get the right to take over?

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The fall.

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Genesis three.

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The law merely pointed out he took over.

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You're doing everything wrong.

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He took over.

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Okay.

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So what was the curse of the law?

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Well, let's answer a couple of quick questions here.

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What are blessings and curses?

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Before sin entered the picture, there was only one spiritual or supernatural flow.

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There was only one way to live before Lucifer sinned.

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It was the flow of blessing, the flow from the father, the flow from God.

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The way the spirit world is designed and created is there's a flow from the

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the originator of that flow of who and what the originator is.

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Now we have two flows back before sin.

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There was only one.

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God designed everything he created.

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There's a flow that comes from God that automatically flows down to everything

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that was created and that flow is what gives it life.

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I'll show you that.

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That's the way he designed it.

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There's a flow.

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Before sin, there was only one realm of influence and power that flowed down.

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It was what God established.

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Who and what God is automatically was established in everything he created.

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God is the source. He's the originator. He is the flow of that.

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Once sin entered the picture, now there was another influence or power that flowed.

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Now there was a choice and that's where the fallen angels got caught.

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Because see, up until the time where Lucifer rebelled and said,

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I'm going to be like God, there was only one choice.

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There was no two choices on anything.

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God was God. We were not. We served him. He took care of us and a story.

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There was no other choice.

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Once Lucifer sinned, well now God is God and maybe he's like God too.

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And God wants it this way and he wants it this way.

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And God says we have to live like this and he says we don't have to.

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We can live a different...

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All of a sudden there's two choices, which means now there's two flows.

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One is coming down.

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Follow my line of thinking?

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Because of God's love and his character, his mercy,

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he set boundaries on how the two influences, the powers, the flows, how they would flow.

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Because remember, the spirit world is designed and created.

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There has to be a spiritual supernatural flow from the originator of that flow.

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That flows down to us.

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Why is it set up that way?

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Because none of us is self-existent.

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Only God is self-existent.

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That's what the name Yahweh means.

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The self-existent eternal one.

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Only God can exist in and of himself.

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He needs nothing else.

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Without God, the rest of creation ceases to exist.

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All of creation, including the demonic realm and the devil, is held together by God.

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He is the only self-existent and eternal one.

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Everything else is sustained by God.

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Let me give you a couple of scriptures on it.

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Acts 17-25.

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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.

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Verse 28, for in him we live, move, and have our being.

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Colossians chapter 1 verse 16 and 17, for it was in him that all things were created in heaven and on earth.

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So now we got spirit realm included.

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Things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, authorities, all things.

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All things were created and exist through him and in and for him.

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And he himself existed before all things, because he's Yahweh, he's self-existent.

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And because he exists in and of himself, he is able to in him all things consist or cohere and are held together.

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They exist in him and for him.

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And they exist and they hold together and they adhere.

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So without God, nothing would exist.

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The life comes from God and he holds it all together.

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Okay, so I'm drawing a picture here, follow me.

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Lucifer or Satan on the other hand is the originator of sin and death entering the picture.

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Now he can't exist without God, but he became kind of a separate flow under God.

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It says, you were perfect in all your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you.

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Well, what flows from that line?

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Steel, kill, destroy.

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That's what flows from that line.

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Jesus' line is life, but that line is steel, kill, destroy.

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Hebrews chapter two, and as much as the children are partaking of flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same.

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That through death, he might destroy him who had, not has, had the power of death.

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That is the devil.

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And release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to damage, to bondage.

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There is the, so you've got God's flow, which he's actually the one who keeps the devil alive.

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And out of the devil comes death and fear and bondage and slavery to sin and all this other flow.

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So you have two flows going.

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Follow me.

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You have blessing and curse.

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There was no curse before the fall of Lucifer.

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There was only blessing.

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But once that second thing developed, which was sin, which was death.

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Now you've got blessing flowing from God, and we can get in that vein.

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And you've got curse flowing from the other vein.

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And I'm getting ahead a little bit here, but let me just say it.

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God watches over both of them to make sure they happen.

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Do you know why? Because it's a spiritual law.

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Everything has to flow down.

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He is the vine, we're the branches.

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Without him we can do nothing.

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It's a spiritual law.

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Without God we can't live, breathe, we can't exist.

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It all flows down to us.

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So when this second flow of rebellion and sin started,

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it had to follow the same spiritual law.

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So God watches over both of them.

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That's why in the Old Testament, and we won't get to that tonight.

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I don't believe, but why in the Old Testament, he talks about,

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you've got the curse, you've got sin, you've got that whole thing flowing.

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And it sounds like God's making it happen.

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Well, he's not.

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But he is watching over it to make sure it happens,

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because it's a spiritual law. It has to happen.

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Now, thankfully God was gracious enough to say,

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my flow, the original flow, the righteous flow, the life-giving flow,

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that will pass on for thousands of generations.

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This other thing, the sins of the fathers, the iniquity, the curse,

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three to four, we're limiting it.

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Oh, thank God.

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There's a limit, and it's a really small limit compared to his side.

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Blessings can go on for thousands of generations.

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I'm walking in the blessings of Abraham.

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I'm walking in the blessings of Noah, and so are you.

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We're not beyond that yet.

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The curse side, the longest it can stay established,

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God said, is three to four generations.

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It has to be re-established to go longer.

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It's the longest he'll let it go.

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Well, thank God for his mercy on that.

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So blessings and curses, there it explains what I just said.

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Blessings and curses are the spiritual supernatural flow of their originator.

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God, blessings, devil, curses.

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God doesn't curse people.

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And we won't get to that tonight where I can show it to you,

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but I want to plant the thought, God doesn't curse people.

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But he says, cursed is everyone who does these things.

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Well, these things fall under that second flow, all of them.

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And if you get into that flow, you're going to be cursed.

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So we're going to have to kind of split this in half

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and give you the scriptures on that.

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But the flow follows whatever originator we're following.

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If we're following God, we can walk in blessings.

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If we're not following God and we're just doing our own thing

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or following the demonic realm or the kingdom of darkness,

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we're going to be walking in curses.

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Blessings, what are blessings?

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They're God in action.

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His character, his, what he wants to give us, his endowment,

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his empowerment, his desires, his effects on the human race,

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everything that's been created, it's God in them.

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Those are blessings and they produce life.

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They produce goodness, they produce prosperity,

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they produce all kinds of things.

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Curses, what are curses?

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Curses are Satan's character and endowment, empowerment,

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desires, effects on the human race and the earth.

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And his influence becomes death.

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His influence becomes life.

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His influence becomes death.

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So now let me ask a couple of questions here yet

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and then we'll quit here for the night

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and go to question and answer time

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and come back next week, pick it up.

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Because see, we have to, we, to truly understand a curse

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and a blessing, we have to go back to where the curse

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and the blessing originate.

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Blessings originate with God.

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Curses originate with the devil.

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They originate because of disobedience.

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They originate because of sin.

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They originate because of life and power in our life

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because of sin.

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The vehicle that carries the blessings

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and keeps compounding them in family lines

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is the righteousness of the generations

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and of the fathers.

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The vehicle that carries the curses

01:07:09.500 --> 01:07:12.200
and allows it to gain momentum in family lines

01:07:12.200 --> 01:07:14.500
is the sins of the fathers

01:07:14.500 --> 01:07:16.720
and the generational curses.

01:07:16.720 --> 01:07:19.080
They're the vehicles, like the vehicle that carries,

01:07:19.180 --> 01:07:20.560
like the truck that carries these things.

01:07:21.100 --> 01:07:24.500
And the ministers to work with both sides

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angels, fallen angels, demons,

01:07:28.820 --> 01:07:31.820
Holy Spirit, unholy spirit, unclean spirits.

01:07:33.620 --> 01:07:35.880
So it just breaks out like that.

01:07:36.460 --> 01:07:40.300
Once you see that and then we go into

01:07:40.300 --> 01:07:42.840
so what is a curse scripturally?

01:07:43.160 --> 01:07:44.940
Read Deuteronomy 28, 29, 30.

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You say, well, why should we were not under it?

01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:49.540
By faith, we're not.

01:07:51.040 --> 01:07:53.140
But what if some of these things are active in us?

01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:57.260
Like for instance, one of the blessings is

01:07:58.280 --> 01:08:01.560
a woman would not cast or lose her child

01:08:01.560 --> 01:08:02.580
before it's born.

01:08:03.940 --> 01:08:06.520
How many Christian women can't have children?

01:08:09.300 --> 01:08:10.740
Now if you read the curse side,

01:08:11.500 --> 01:08:12.180
that's a curse.

01:08:12.600 --> 01:08:13.580
That's an act of curse.

01:08:13.580 --> 01:08:15.700
Now we will explain it away as well.

01:08:15.720 --> 01:08:17.480
There's a lot of chemicals in the environment

01:08:17.480 --> 01:08:18.640
and things that hurt the woman.

01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:19.720
If you've been on birth control,

01:08:19.860 --> 01:08:21.000
it thickens the sides of the woman.

01:08:21.160 --> 01:08:24.120
That may all play into it.

01:08:24.500 --> 01:08:26.700
But don't make a middle ground

01:08:26.700 --> 01:08:29.380
that is neither the devil nor God.

01:08:30.080 --> 01:08:31.100
Don't do that.

01:08:32.860 --> 01:08:34.500
We have to remember

01:08:34.500 --> 01:08:36.220
in the spirit

01:08:36.220 --> 01:08:37.780
we're either blessed

01:08:38.280 --> 01:08:39.600
or we're cursed

01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:42.040
and something is active here.

01:08:43.960 --> 01:08:45.440
There is no middle ground.

01:08:45.780 --> 01:08:47.000
I don't know why we as Christians

01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:48.100
like to make middle ground

01:08:48.100 --> 01:08:49.260
if it soothes us or whatever.

01:08:49.720 --> 01:08:52.360
But we know when you apply it to everything else

01:08:52.360 --> 01:08:53.300
there's no middle ground.

01:08:53.400 --> 01:08:55.200
I'm not a sinner but I'm not a Christian either.

01:08:55.800 --> 01:08:57.840
I'm just kind of a good person in the middle

01:08:57.840 --> 01:08:59.140
just trying to live a nice life.

01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:01.180
There is no such thing.

01:09:02.220 --> 01:09:03.820
You either saved or you're a sinner.

01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:06.020
You either saved or you're lost.

01:09:10.250 --> 01:09:12.170
So when we go back to

01:09:13.210 --> 01:09:13.930
the flow

01:09:15.650 --> 01:09:17.530
well curses aren't active anymore.

01:09:18.490 --> 01:09:20.070
Well let's go back to the original one

01:09:20.070 --> 01:09:21.050
and here is what I want to

01:09:22.290 --> 01:09:22.950
ask you.

01:09:25.310 --> 01:09:27.850
Are the curses of the original fall

01:09:27.850 --> 01:09:30.250
of mankind Adam and Eve still active

01:09:30.250 --> 01:09:31.030
in Christians?

01:09:33.590 --> 01:09:34.650
You got to think about this.

01:09:34.750 --> 01:09:35.830
It's found in Genesis 3

01:09:36.610 --> 01:09:37.730
and I won't bring it up.

01:09:37.790 --> 01:09:38.950
I'll just give it to you for tonight.

01:09:38.950 --> 01:09:40.750
Maybe next week we'll bring it up on the screen.

01:09:40.870 --> 01:09:41.310
You can see it.

01:09:42.170 --> 01:09:44.550
There were certain effects that took place

01:09:44.550 --> 01:09:47.290
in Adam and Eve when they sinned.

01:09:47.990 --> 01:09:49.790
Chapter 3 verse 7 and 10

01:09:49.790 --> 01:09:51.030
they found out they were naked

01:09:52.310 --> 01:09:53.430
without clothes on

01:09:53.430 --> 01:09:54.610
so they made clothes out of leaves.

01:09:55.330 --> 01:09:56.710
Without clothes on they were naked.

01:09:57.490 --> 01:09:59.490
Are Christians still naked without clothes?

01:10:03.870 --> 01:10:05.610
I'm hoping you're going to answer that

01:10:05.610 --> 01:10:06.210
the right way.

01:10:08.190 --> 01:10:09.150
Verse 10

01:10:11.510 --> 01:10:12.530
Adam, where are you?

01:10:13.290 --> 01:10:14.830
Well, I was afraid so I hid.

01:10:18.410 --> 01:10:19.330
Fear was

01:10:20.370 --> 01:10:23.010
an after effect of the fact they sinned.

01:10:23.010 --> 01:10:24.670
Do Christians still struggle with fear?

01:10:25.610 --> 01:10:26.030
Absolutely.

01:10:28.250 --> 01:10:29.970
Well, who told you you were naked?

01:10:30.510 --> 01:10:31.390
Because I was afraid

01:10:32.470 --> 01:10:33.530
because I was naked.

01:10:34.130 --> 01:10:35.370
And God said, who told you you were naked?

01:10:36.410 --> 01:10:37.760
Now here comes the third characteristic

01:10:38.370 --> 01:10:40.030
that takes place in people's lives

01:10:40.030 --> 01:10:40.610
when they sin.

01:10:41.530 --> 01:10:42.170
Blame shifting.

01:10:44.410 --> 01:10:45.470
Adam blamed the wife.

01:10:45.670 --> 01:10:46.510
Wife blamed the serpent.

01:10:47.990 --> 01:10:49.350
That's a characteristic of sin.

01:10:49.570 --> 01:10:50.550
We're not going to own our stuff.

01:10:51.330 --> 01:10:52.190
It's her fault.

01:10:52.590 --> 01:10:53.890
And she said, no, it's its fault.

01:10:55.230 --> 01:10:57.090
So now God presents.

01:10:57.450 --> 01:10:59.210
Okay, here's what just happened, guys.

01:11:00.690 --> 01:11:02.970
There has been two flows going.

01:11:03.950 --> 01:11:05.330
The God side

01:11:05.970 --> 01:11:08.970
and the fallen devil Satan side.

01:11:08.970 --> 01:11:12.570
Adam and Eve had no knowledge of this side.

01:11:13.730 --> 01:11:14.290
Nothing.

01:11:15.070 --> 01:11:17.630
All they knew was God and blessing.

01:11:18.110 --> 01:11:18.710
All they knew.

01:11:19.690 --> 01:11:21.570
So when the serpent came

01:11:21.570 --> 01:11:23.430
and the devil in the serpent and said,

01:11:24.930 --> 01:11:26.590
you will be like God

01:11:26.590 --> 01:11:29.110
and you will know good

01:11:29.730 --> 01:11:30.830
from evil.

01:11:31.310 --> 01:11:32.350
That was true.

01:11:33.450 --> 01:11:35.150
But the first part when he said,

01:11:35.230 --> 01:11:36.390
well, you're not surely going to die.

01:11:36.910 --> 01:11:38.050
You're just going to be like God

01:11:38.050 --> 01:11:38.910
to know good from evil.

01:11:39.370 --> 01:11:41.430
The good from what the devil always does

01:11:41.430 --> 01:11:42.750
is he takes a piece of truth

01:11:42.750 --> 01:11:44.050
and he wraps it in a lie

01:11:45.550 --> 01:11:47.350
and tries to feed it to you like candy.

01:11:47.910 --> 01:11:49.150
Well, there's some truth in there.

01:11:49.330 --> 01:11:50.430
Yeah, but is there lie attached?

01:11:51.230 --> 01:11:52.250
Got to watch for that.

01:11:53.450 --> 01:11:55.370
So it was already in existence.

01:11:55.910 --> 01:11:57.190
Was evil there? Absolutely.

01:11:57.490 --> 01:11:58.930
But Adam and Eve were blind to it.

01:11:59.510 --> 01:12:00.310
They couldn't see it.

01:12:01.270 --> 01:12:02.250
And the devil said,

01:12:02.310 --> 01:12:03.370
well, if you eat this fruit,

01:12:03.450 --> 01:12:04.250
you're going to be like God

01:12:04.250 --> 01:12:05.350
and you'll see good and evil.

01:12:05.490 --> 01:12:07.030
And he was absolutely right.

01:12:08.330 --> 01:12:11.030
But now once that happened,

01:12:11.130 --> 01:12:13.350
God said, oh, no,

01:12:14.210 --> 01:12:16.150
you don't know what you just opened up

01:12:16.150 --> 01:12:16.910
into your life.

01:12:18.710 --> 01:12:22.310
Now, some people look at what God said to them

01:12:23.040 --> 01:12:25.630
as God was angry and now he's punishing them.

01:12:25.910 --> 01:12:27.090
Absolutely not.

01:12:28.050 --> 01:12:29.360
God just said,

01:12:30.370 --> 01:12:33.610
here is what you opened yourself up to.

01:12:34.510 --> 01:12:37.810
You didn't know it before you ate the fruit.

01:12:38.050 --> 01:12:39.490
You just knew blessing.

01:12:39.730 --> 01:12:40.410
You didn't know death.

01:12:40.570 --> 01:12:41.450
You didn't know any of that stuff.

01:12:41.590 --> 01:12:42.870
And it wasn't going to touch you.

01:12:43.230 --> 01:12:45.650
But now that you've ate the fruit,

01:12:46.350 --> 01:12:49.170
you have opened yourself up to

01:12:49.170 --> 01:12:52.450
the fruit of the originator of that flow,

01:12:52.550 --> 01:12:53.530
which is the devil.

01:12:54.270 --> 01:12:54.850
It's death.

01:12:55.270 --> 01:12:55.890
It's sickness.

01:12:56.330 --> 01:12:56.990
It's disease.

01:12:57.470 --> 01:12:58.070
It's poverty.

01:12:58.670 --> 01:13:01.530
You just opened the human race up to that.

01:13:03.770 --> 01:13:05.630
Now listen how he words it.

01:13:08.380 --> 01:13:11.400
The curse of the fall, verse 14, he cursed the snake.

01:13:11.900 --> 01:13:13.460
He said, you're going to crawl on your belly.

01:13:14.060 --> 01:13:16.020
Does the snake still crawl on his belly?

01:13:17.300 --> 01:13:19.480
Interestingly enough, all snakes have two sockets,

01:13:19.900 --> 01:13:22.080
about three quarters of the way back on their spine,

01:13:22.220 --> 01:13:23.400
where they used to have legs.

01:13:24.080 --> 01:13:25.180
The sockets are still there.

01:13:26.260 --> 01:13:27.060
But they crawl.

01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:28.400
So that's still active.

01:13:28.620 --> 01:13:29.160
Verse 15,

01:13:30.180 --> 01:13:34.700
the woman would carry the brunt of the enmity of the devil.

01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:36.460
The devil would hate the woman

01:13:36.460 --> 01:13:38.180
because through the woman would come Jesus.

01:13:39.360 --> 01:13:39.720
The seed.

01:13:41.080 --> 01:13:45.540
Does the woman still carry the brunt of the enmity of the devil?

01:13:45.660 --> 01:13:47.800
Now you got to get beyond the

01:13:48.900 --> 01:13:50.860
blessed America to see this.

01:13:51.020 --> 01:13:53.200
You go to any culture in the world,

01:13:53.500 --> 01:13:54.440
what is a woman?

01:13:55.360 --> 01:13:56.160
She's nothing.

01:13:56.440 --> 01:13:57.300
She's property.

01:13:58.060 --> 01:14:00.880
To be used, abused, bought and sold.

01:14:03.100 --> 01:14:04.400
Where do you think that came from?

01:14:05.760 --> 01:14:06.760
That's that curse.

01:14:07.840 --> 01:14:09.540
Now, I'll tell you this much.

01:14:10.720 --> 01:14:12.980
It shouldn't be alive in Christians,

01:14:13.260 --> 01:14:15.580
but there's Christians that is still alive in.

01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:19.020
The woman is treated like property.

01:14:19.560 --> 01:14:20.620
She's not equal.

01:14:21.280 --> 01:14:23.360
She doesn't help make financial decisions.

01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:25.840
She doesn't help decide where we're going.

01:14:25.980 --> 01:14:27.240
It's all the man,

01:14:27.300 --> 01:14:30.400
and she follows like a minion behind abused.

01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:33.660
So that could still be alive in Christians

01:14:33.660 --> 01:14:35.240
if they're not living in God's way.

01:14:35.360 --> 01:14:35.920
Verse 16.

01:14:37.980 --> 01:14:39.780
The woman would have pain and childbirth.

01:14:40.260 --> 01:14:41.880
Christians have pain and childbirth?

01:14:41.980 --> 01:14:42.440
Christian women?

01:14:43.380 --> 01:14:45.560
I know of those who fayed beyond it

01:14:45.560 --> 01:14:46.920
and didn't have it.

01:14:47.380 --> 01:14:48.960
They literally had babies pain-free.

01:14:50.160 --> 01:14:52.320
But that doesn't happen automatically.

01:14:54.620 --> 01:14:56.140
So that still stands.

01:14:57.120 --> 01:14:58.940
Christian women will struggle with men

01:14:58.940 --> 01:15:00.940
treating them like property after marriage

01:15:00.940 --> 01:15:02.520
and wanting to rule over them.

01:15:03.100 --> 01:15:04.200
That still happens.

01:15:05.200 --> 01:15:06.940
I tell everybody I counsel,

01:15:07.140 --> 01:15:08.380
about six months into this,

01:15:08.460 --> 01:15:08.820
I'll say,

01:15:09.380 --> 01:15:10.620
honey, you just listen now.

01:15:10.620 --> 01:15:11.300
I'm talking to him.

01:15:11.600 --> 01:15:13.100
About six months into this,

01:15:13.120 --> 01:15:15.340
instead of you craving and longing for her

01:15:15.340 --> 01:15:18.420
and wanting her because you are lonely

01:15:18.420 --> 01:15:19.520
without that companionship,

01:15:20.240 --> 01:15:22.380
something is going to try to change in you

01:15:22.380 --> 01:15:24.680
and you will want to rule her

01:15:24.680 --> 01:15:26.620
and dominate her and tell her what to do

01:15:26.620 --> 01:15:27.760
and how life is going to be.

01:15:28.180 --> 01:15:30.300
It's part of the original curse

01:15:30.300 --> 01:15:31.900
and it's still alive

01:15:31.900 --> 01:15:34.100
and you will have to beat it as a guy

01:15:34.100 --> 01:15:35.580
or you're going to have a very unhappy wife

01:15:35.580 --> 01:15:36.620
and a very unhappy marriage.

01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:39.200
And there's a lot of guys,

01:15:39.460 --> 01:15:41.000
especially some denominations,

01:15:41.040 --> 01:15:41.960
promote that.

01:15:43.860 --> 01:15:46.980
Women are to be quiet

01:15:46.980 --> 01:15:49.080
and do what their husbands say

01:15:49.080 --> 01:15:50.000
and nothing more.

01:15:51.960 --> 01:15:54.440
I can name a few denominations that promote that.

01:15:54.820 --> 01:15:55.920
Where did that come from?

01:15:56.540 --> 01:15:56.880
The curse.

01:15:58.320 --> 01:16:01.060
Jesus died to set us free from those curses

01:16:01.060 --> 01:16:03.420
so what did Paul say Jesus did?

01:16:03.880 --> 01:16:05.820
He made women equal with men.

01:16:06.860 --> 01:16:07.300
Again.

01:16:08.380 --> 01:16:09.980
Now in marriage there's a full authority

01:16:09.980 --> 01:16:12.180
but she's equal with men.

01:16:13.180 --> 01:16:15.240
But Christian women still struggle with that.

01:16:15.500 --> 01:16:16.280
Okay, verse 17.

01:16:16.600 --> 01:16:17.300
He told Adam.

01:16:18.060 --> 01:16:20.040
He says the ground is going to be under a curse.

01:16:21.580 --> 01:16:22.840
Christians own land.

01:16:24.760 --> 01:16:27.260
It's as much under the curse as the non-Christians land.

01:16:28.960 --> 01:16:31.120
Now, could it be beaten by faith?

01:16:31.320 --> 01:16:32.020
I presume so.

01:16:32.380 --> 01:16:34.560
There's people who chip away at certain things

01:16:34.560 --> 01:16:35.740
and beat certain things.

01:16:36.540 --> 01:16:37.460
But overall,

01:16:38.480 --> 01:16:39.620
you say well how do you know?

01:16:39.940 --> 01:16:41.000
Verse 18 says

01:16:41.620 --> 01:16:43.560
it's going to produce thorns and thistles.

01:16:44.540 --> 01:16:45.740
That's the sign of the curse.

01:16:46.580 --> 01:16:48.600
The thorn and the thistle will kill the good crop.

01:16:49.780 --> 01:16:52.000
Well does that happen in Christian men's land?

01:16:53.320 --> 01:16:55.200
So that curse is still alive, isn't it?

01:16:56.020 --> 01:16:58.300
Now I don't know of anybody who's gotten to the point.

01:16:58.400 --> 01:17:00.240
I'm sure there is, just because I don't know about it

01:17:00.240 --> 01:17:01.400
doesn't mean they haven't.

01:17:01.400 --> 01:17:04.120
But by faith, they should be able to beat that

01:17:04.120 --> 01:17:07.960
and have that crop grow weed free without spray.

01:17:10.960 --> 01:17:12.280
But that's not normal.

01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:15.080
That's going to be a faith fight to make that happen.

01:17:16.580 --> 01:17:18.460
And rather than living verse 18,

01:17:18.560 --> 01:17:20.300
rather than living off the fruit of the garden,

01:17:20.700 --> 01:17:22.760
they're going to have to raise their own food.

01:17:22.880 --> 01:17:24.180
They're going to eat the herb of the field.

01:17:24.180 --> 01:17:25.440
See in the garden they didn't have to.

01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:26.680
It was all just hanging on the trees.

01:17:26.800 --> 01:17:28.220
It was just all provided. It was there.

01:17:28.860 --> 01:17:29.320
Just eat.

01:17:30.760 --> 01:17:32.500
After that now you're going to raise your own food.

01:17:33.820 --> 01:17:35.940
Do Christians still have to raise their own food?

01:17:38.180 --> 01:17:40.040
So guess what? The curse is still active.

01:17:42.200 --> 01:17:44.620
And he said this is how you're going to work for a living.

01:17:45.800 --> 01:17:46.640
You're going to sweat.

01:17:47.400 --> 01:17:48.240
You're going to perspire.

01:17:50.120 --> 01:17:52.740
Do Christians still perspire?

01:17:52.940 --> 01:17:54.940
Still sweat for jobs?

01:17:57.500 --> 01:17:59.540
And then the last one is he said,

01:17:59.900 --> 01:18:01.580
Dust you came from, dust you return.

01:18:03.580 --> 01:18:05.660
Of course we know what Paul said.

01:18:05.880 --> 01:18:07.640
That's the last one that's going to be dealt with.

01:18:08.740 --> 01:18:10.260
So that's still active.

01:18:10.580 --> 01:18:11.940
This body still dies.

01:18:13.460 --> 01:18:17.000
Everything in the fall of man,

01:18:17.000 --> 01:18:19.200
Adam and Eve's curse that was released

01:18:20.460 --> 01:18:22.080
is all active.

01:18:22.980 --> 01:18:23.640
All of it.

01:18:26.990 --> 01:18:28.410
That's where the demons got in.

01:18:30.470 --> 01:18:32.710
Because when the devil was tempting Jesus

01:18:32.710 --> 01:18:34.390
he took him to a high mountaintop

01:18:34.390 --> 01:18:36.470
and he said, look at all the kingdoms of the world

01:18:36.470 --> 01:18:37.630
and all their splendor and glory.

01:18:37.830 --> 01:18:40.770
I'll give all this to you if you'll just bow down and worship me.

01:18:41.410 --> 01:18:43.250
Jesus did not look at him and say

01:18:43.250 --> 01:18:44.990
you don't have it to give to me.

01:18:45.070 --> 01:18:45.570
It's not yours.

01:18:47.290 --> 01:18:49.770
Jesus did not contradict that statement.

01:18:50.170 --> 01:18:50.730
You know why?

01:18:51.310 --> 01:18:53.790
Because Adam had given it away.

01:18:56.840 --> 01:18:58.040
Jesus bought it back.

01:18:58.720 --> 01:19:01.020
So Jesus didn't deal with who owns this.

01:19:01.300 --> 01:19:02.460
Jesus dealt with worship.

01:19:03.480 --> 01:19:05.200
And he quoted the scripture on worship back.

01:19:05.800 --> 01:19:07.860
He showed only worship God and him alone.

01:19:08.680 --> 01:19:10.180
But he didn't deal with who owns it

01:19:10.180 --> 01:19:11.880
because he knew good and well who owned it.

01:19:12.260 --> 01:19:14.140
He was given to Adam and Eve and Adam and Eve

01:19:14.140 --> 01:19:15.400
gave it away to a new master.

01:19:18.820 --> 01:19:22.580
So when God made all those announcements

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all he was doing is saying

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he said you'd know good from evil.

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All this evil stuff was here.

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Death was here.

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You just had no part of it

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because you were only living in my flow.

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You were only living in blessing.

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But when you ate of the fruit

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now let me explain to you what you just did.

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Can you imagine?

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That's hard on a good day right there.

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You imagine how they felt

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knowing this is what was just unleashed

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in the human race.

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It was never supposed to be here.

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This curse, death, poverty,

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struggle for a living, women die and childbirth.

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He just kind of summed it up

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and then you get over to Moses.

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Well then he takes it apart line by line

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and says here's what the curse looks like.

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Here's what the blessing looks like

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which we'll look at next week.

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All of this is still active

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and God's saying well that's what you did know.

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You wanted to know good from evil?

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Here's good, here's evil

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and guess what?

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You just sold yourself under the evil.

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But, thank God,

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we can be redeemed from the kingdom of darkness

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into the kingdom as their son.

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We can be bought back out of that.

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All the curse of the law

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which the curses of the law were just

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a detailed accounting of the curses of Adam and Eve.

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It's all it was.

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It wasn't a new batch of curses.

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This was already here living on earth.

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People were dying of sickness and disease

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and everything before Moses ever showed up.

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But in the law God detailed,

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you know the curses I said to Adam and Eve?

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Let me give you the details of how that looks.

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I only gave them a big picture.

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Let me give you the details.

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The awesome part is, as bad as that is,

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which we'll see if you want to read it,

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Deuteronomy 28, 29, 30,

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as bad as that is, Jesus redeemed us from that

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so we can get back into the blessing of Abraham.

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And the way you get in there is by the spirit

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and him leading and guiding and getting us free.

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So, there's good news.

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But in my mind, the whole concept of

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well, we don't have to worry about curses.

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I mean, that was done away with at the cross.

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Potentially, yes, it was.

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But now we have to, by faith,

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seize our rights and our inheritance

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and say, I am not living under this junk.

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I'm living under blessing.

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And the more we go after it, the better it gets.

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The more we win, the further ahead we get.

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So we'll stop there.

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I've gone a long time.