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We have spent many, many hours in Gods Word for this study. It is an eye-opening view from Gods Word why so many Christians and their children are afflicted.
The powerful lessons here will not only bring healing to our body in many, many cases, it will also empower YOU to minister Gods Word of healing and repentance to others as you learn of the connection between sin and suffering. It will give great understanding for why we had (have) child problems, sickness, accidents, depression, debt, and more.
present the essence of this study as follows:
When we sin, either willfully or ignorantly, we become subject to "the curse" and God will begin to correct us through various means including chastisement.
When we discover or remember our transgression, we may repent, confess our sin, cast out the demon(s) that is applying the curse, and be healed. Usually, but not always, demons are involved. We have personally experienced this and all I can say is look at the scriptures and try it for yourself.
Repentance and faith in the promises of God's Word brings healing.
Why do some children of Christians suffer and even die?
Why do Christians get sick? Why do many Christians die young?
Why do Christians have some of the troubles they have?
These are questions we have all asked and wondered. What follows is a series that gives many answers to those questions.
I. What is "the curse" of the Lord?
We know of a certainty "the curse causless alighteth not" -Prov 26:2.
The New Living Translation renders it:
"Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow,
an undeserved curse will not land on its intended victim"
We know that the curse is given in much detail in Deuteronomy chapter 28, verses 15-68.
There are 53 verses describing the curse in this chapter alone, and "the curse" is spoken of all through the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation.
In Deut. 28:59 for instance, it says:
"then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance."
2Chron 6:28 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague or whatsoever sickness there be...
"plagues" means : a wound; figuratively carnage, also pestilence: - beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, sore, stripe, stroke.
"sickness" means: malady, anxiety, calamity: - disease, grief, (is) sick (-ness)
The blessings and the curses written are of great interest in helping us to understand how God deals with His children and that there is a purpose in everything God does in our life.
It also brings to our understanding God really means what He said in scripture.
EVERYBODY wants the "blessings" but it seems few have bothered to examine the flip side of the coin. If we studied the effects of the curse we would find that it is quite observable all around us and that the churches are filled with Gods people who are living with the very things God said the curse would manifest:
In Genesis the curse goes over the earth, humanity, animals, and the fallen angels. Pain of childbirth. The man to earn his living by labor and work.
The disciples of Jesus knew and understood what was written in regard to the curse when they asked Jesus about a particular man:
And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind? Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
So we see they understood that there was a reason for the curse, even though that man had another purpose in a blind birth.
In studying the scriptures, the curse is revealed as troubles: broken relationships, sickness, death, loss of property, health issues, enemies and people problems, injury, chronic debt, depression, borrowing money and debt,
loss of children, poverty and lack, mental torment, lack of peace, problems unceasing, and more.
It is the opposite of "blessings".
II.
Let us first ask for the reason why God sends the curse.
If the curse causless alighteth not, this means there must be a reason for the curse to come to someone.
The curse serves the Lord and is sent by Him in that there is always a reason that the curse comes to us. We find God said it is for our correction, chastisement, learning, and spiritual growth.
There are no "accidents", God is in control. The devil cannot touch us except God permits him to when we violate Gods Word.
We also know God is "for us", loves us, and desires us to know and love Him. He promised blessings and deliverance from the curse if we serve Him and He promised the curse would come upon those that refuse Him, ignore Him, and do things contrary to His Words.
He gave this word very plainly in the Old Testament, under the law.
Now, we have a "new" and "BETTER Covenant", yet our covenant still requires faith, repentance, obedience.
There are still blessings and the curse at work in our lives and both work in serving God to bring about His purpose and kingdom in our lives. God does not bless us for sinning, He rather promised to "chasten" us.
He promised to bless us when we live according to what pleases Him and He gave us a New Covenant to instruct us in how to please Him. The New Testament blessings are far greater than the Old, as they are revealed as "the true riches of the kingdom".
Notice how God takes credit for both good and evil:
(both blessings and the curse)
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live
A short synopsis of blessings and curses:
Blessings:
Dt. 7:12 And it shall come to pass, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that The Lord thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the lovingkindness which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 And The LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, will he put upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.\
In the New Testament,the blessing includes salvation for the soul, healing, deliverance from enemies and oppression, peace, joy, righteousness, provision, health, freedom from debt, freedom from bondage, love, gifts of the Spirit, wisdom, and more...
The Curse:
Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
Deuteronomy 28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore inflammation that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
Deuteronomy 28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee
Deuteronomy 28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Psalms 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. (transgressors are those who do not keep their covenant. If we hate others, murmer, despise our brother, don't forgive, we then become transgressors)
The curse includes bondage, debt, sickness, "accident", affliction, infirmity, demonic oppression, problems with children, marriage and family trouble, employment problems, enemies rising up against us, lack, spiritual emptiness, mental problems, heart problems, and more.
Quote If Christians (God's New Testament people) are never under the curse anymore, then why are the very things mentioned in the curse happening in the lives of Christians?
to be continued...
Edited by tntman : February 7, 2010, 12:48 pm
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