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Week 155.1 - Faith For Provision: Reason #18: Redeemed From The Curse - III (Mon)
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I've got the victory living inside of me I got the greater one I can overcome this ain't no time to turn back no bless the grow slack I gotta keep pressing on Till every battle is wonderful Good morning, class. Good morning, Brother Keith. Hi, I'm Keith Moore, and we welcome you to Faith School. Faith School is the place where my spirit is fed, where my faith grows stronger, and where I learn how to be an overcomer. That's always God's will. Victory, winning, overcoming, triumphing. Scripture said he always causes us to triumph. And the difference is faith versus hopelessness versus perseverance versus quitting and giving up, giving in. You don't just live out here. You don't just live in a geographic place. North America, New York, California, Africa, Europe, Asia. You live in here, your awareness. And so you could be in the most beautiful place on earth, and yet inside be so darkened and so depressed you're contemplating suicide. Well, by the like token, you could be in a not so nice place on earth. But if you focused on God and on the right things, you could have some light and life and joy, even in the middle of some uncomfortable physical surroundings. So you don't just live out here. You live in here. In your heart, in your mind, in your soul. And the scripture talks about that the light of the body is the eyes, that the light gets in through the eye gate. And so what you look at is what you're connecting with to get in you. And that can be good or it can be bad. Right? And that's why Romans says to be carnally minded is death. That means you're focused on the wrong thing. But to be spiritually minded is. And so nobody can force you to focus your mind on something you don't want to. Not the devil, not anybody. And we're foolish if we let influences do that to us. We should know better. The Bible talks about you have to cast down imaginations, right? And you have to take captive every thought. And so what does that mean? I must be aware of what I'm focusing on. Because whatever I'm focusing on, that can get in me and that can influence me. And that can either darken me and depress me, or it can quicken me and lift me. Hallelujah. How many think we ought to focus on? We ought to focus on what he said, on the work of His Holy Spirit, his plan for our life, which is a good plan. He said, I know the thoughts I think about you. I know the plan I have for you, good thoughts. A good plan to give you an expected end. So let's all do it. Let's focus on Him, Father, we do. We set our hearts and our minds towards you, and we focus on youn. And we believe that yout are the source of our life. You are our quickening, you are our joy, our peace, our strength. And so we ask for what yout know, we need the most today and what would bring us out of any hindrance or limitation and what would bring us up and into the greater and better that yout always have for us. We ask for it in Jesus name. Thank youk for it. Amen. Thank youk, Lord. I'm coming up. I'm coming up. We've been on a series for a number of weeks now that we're calling Faith for Provision. And we're asking and answering the question, is it God's will for us to always have abundant provision that means everything you need, Being able to pay all your bills, not getting behind, not losing things, not being limited and restricted, but having everything that you need to do, everything that you need to do, and even having just some nice things that you enjoy. Is God that kind of God? Is he this good? And we have become completely convinced that he is. Now, you know, people have mocked folks like us and said, oh, y' all are just prosperity this or prosperity that. Well, you know, if you're not going to be a prosperity or a healing or a victory or what kind of person are you going to be? Broke person, sick person, defeated person. Now listen, I can't help you when I am so sick. I can't leave the house when I am so broke. I can't help myself, much less anybody else. Can you see what I'm talking about? How does it help you or anybody else for me to be sick and broken? Why wouldn't God get more glory out of lifting me out of lack and need and making me and you a vessel, Hallelujah, that He can flow through to help other people, that I have the strength and health to just go and go and go and preach to everybody like a house of fire and everywhere. Why wouldn't that be better than me being sick? People say, well, maybe you're glorifying God in that sickness. No, no, can't happen. Because what we're learning is if it's in the curse, and it is sickness is in the curse. It can't be the will of God for anybody. And we saw the same thing with lack. So we've been going one by one through the scriptures, giving you 3:30 reasons from the Word why we are sure abundant provision is always God's will for us all. I can glorify God more when my needs are met and my bills are paid and I have extra. And I can help somebody else. I can help preach the gospel. I can help the church. I can help the missionary, right? Why wouldn't that be the will of God? It is the will of God who wants the church broke so that it can't do anything. Who would you guess? Not God. Right? He gave us a great commission. Go into all the world and preach the gospel to everybody that's going to take some money, right? To go everywhere and preach to everybody. And so if God gave us a directive, then you don't have to beg him to support it. It was his idea. Right. And so you can count on him. If you listen to him and follow him, you will have everything you need. You will be well provided for. Everybody say it out. I will be well provided for. So we've been given one after another these 30 reasons. And we started off with, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. We spent a lot of time on that. We talked about the goodness of God, the fatherhood of God. We talked about the creation of God. You know, if God likes bleak and minimalist, that's how he would have made the planet. Do you know how many extra fish there are in the ocean? Do you know how many bananas fall off the trees in the jungles that the monkeys can never eat? God is a God of abundance. He's a God of overflowing. I mean, just look around and see. Look up in the night sky. Are all those stars really necessary? Well, that's God. He is the God of more than enough. We talked about his will in heaven. We talked about the God of Abraham. We talked about how we are the seed of Abraham. We talked about the blessing of tithing. The Bible did not say put God first and tithe and be broke. No. He said, proof me now and see if I won't open the windows of heaven and pour you out blessing until you don't have room to receive it. And I'm going to rebuke the devourer for your sake. I can't read any broke anywhere in there. And we talked about honor and riches. He said, you honor me, I'll honor you. We talked about wisdom and wealth. I mean the entire wisdom writings like Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and some of these places they keep talking about if you're wise, you'll be rich. If you're foolish, you'll be broke and you'll suffer lack. Well, if we seek God and endeavor to walk in wisdom and then find out, uh, oh, it's his will for you to be broke. I'm confused, right? Because he told me, right, if I would get his wisdom and walk in wisdom, I wouldn't be broke. We talked about being imitators of God. We talked about him being the great I am and then all the wonderful, some of the wonderful names of God. He said, I am the Lord that heals you. I am the Lord your peace. I am the Lord your righteousness. We saw that he is Jehovah Jireh, the Lord who sees ahead and provides the supply. He's El Shaddai. And like we said, in all of our searching, we could find no El cheapo, no nothing indicate that God has any part in lack and poverty. He's the God of restoration. He provided for them in the wilderness where there was nothing proving he can take care of you anywhere under any circumstances. And we've gotten down to our 17th and 18th reasons in our study, and it has to do with covenant. Now, if you haven't been with us and you've missed the previous 16, 17 of these, we've covered a lot of ground. It would help you to get that. Go online faithschool.org and all of these lessons are there and they won't cost you anything, not a penny. And there's no requirement, no commitment required from you. Take the time and let this word get in you, because the Word has a displacing effect. If you will just keep feeding on the Word, what happens is it will begin to push doubt out and you get full of the Word and full of the knowledge of his will. Then you get full of faith until there's no room for doubt and fear and unbelief. Let the Word push the doubt out. And so go online faithschool.org and take advantage of that. But we're down now to reasons 17 and 18 in our study that have to do with covenant. And we have seen that God is the God of covenant. He's made covenant with men from ancient times past. He made covenant with Noah, he made covenant with Abraham, and that covenant still exists today. He made covenant by the hand of Moses and by the angel of his presence that was there with the entire Nation, all the 12 tribes and all their descendants, which had become millions of people by this time, the nation of Israel. And he confirmed that covenant on the mount where the fire came down and he gave the ten Commandments and then when they got to the border of the land to go in, they reaffirmed the covenant. And he gave them instructions on Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, right there at the border, to enter into the land, to stand up six tribes on one side, six tribes on the other side, and read all the blessings and all the curses of the covenant. And what you see is that if you would keep the covenant, you would be blessed. And I mean blessed in every way possible. But if you're going to be a hardhead and you're going to reject God and forsake God and replace God with other gods, then you will not enjoy the blessing. You will be cursed. And in all the ways that you would have been blessed, in all those same ways, you would be cursed. And the way to understand it is the blessing is power working for good for you, and the curse is power working for bad. If the curse is working against you, then your efforts will be frustrated. It will seem like people say, sometimes I took a step forward and I got knocked back too. Just no progress. So these things are still in the earth today, the blessing. And if you are not in Christ and following the Lord, then you are under the curse, because the whole earth is under the curse. All you have to do is look around. God did not create the earth cursed when he created it. Before Adam and Eve sinned and fell, there was no curse, there was no death. There weren't even any thorns. Nothing stung, nothing bit. The animals didn't kill each other. Does that sound amazing? I mean, people think talk about nature and how God created this. No. So much of the way things are now, God did not create them that way. It's the result of the curse that's in the earth. In fact, Romans tells us the whole earth is groaning and travailing in pain. Why? Because of the curse. When you hear of earthquakes and volcanoes going off and typhoons and hurricanes and all of the extreme heat, extreme cold, God did not make this place. That's a place out of balance, out of sync. And we're told that ultimately this earth is not going to survive as it is. It's going to be destroyed. It's not going to make it. It's going to actually melt with fervent heat, the scripture says. And so everything that we're in here is temporary, and the conditions are temporary. And so we need to keep reminding ourselves God is not a God of pain and corruption and fatiguing, toil and disruption and loss and stealing and sorrow and all of that. That's not our God. That was never his plan. That's the result of sin and the devil and the curse. Oh, but good news. That's what the gospel is. What good news? Christ has redeemed us from the. Oh, come on, look at it with me. Galatians, the third chapter. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. Say it out. Christ has redeemed us. He's redeemed me from the curse of the law. As we're going to see, that's everything being against you, all manner of bad things being against you. He said the way he did it was that Jesus was made a curse for us. For it's written, cursed. Cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree. This was prophesied many centuries before Jesus went to the cross, and he fulfilled that prophecy. And the death of the cross was the death for the worst of the worst criminals. And it was something that was completely contrary to Jesus and His sinlessness and his holiness. I mean, it was such a, like Hebrews says, contradiction of sinners against Himself. I mean, rightfully, Jesus should have never been there. That should have never happened. He deserved none of that. But all of humanity did. All. All of us going all the way back to Adam and Eve and every human being today and those that will be born later, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, which is, we can't throw any stones at Adam and Eve. People say, well, thanks a lot, Adam and Eve. You really messed us up. Well, what if you would've been there instead of them? Oh, I would've done. First of all, you wouldn't have known about Adam and Eve. Right? They didn't know about Adam and Eve. But then also, you've already proven what you would do. You've sinned and I have. And so we cannot throw any rocks. All of us needed a Savior. And thank God we have a Savior. We have the Savior, the wages of sin. And not just physical death, spiritual death, which is separation from God, who is life and light. And so all humanity had sinned and deserved to be separated from God. And you remember Jesus cried out at one point on the cross, my God, why have youe. Well, see, he's experiencing separation, and we don't know what that would be like for the Son of God, who was God from the beginning and never experienced any separation. But he did it for you, and he did it for me. And while he was hanging there, judgment came on for all our sin spiritually and converged on his sinless, spotless being and the Curse and the death, the penalty for all that came on him. And he didn't just sympathize or empathize with our condition on the cross. He became our sin, became it, judged for it. The result being that now we are redeemed. Hallelujah. If he paid for it, then it's paid for. Then I don't owe it. You don't owe it. We don't have to pay for it. And if our sin debt is paid and no sin is imputed to us, then we can be treated as righteous, as completely sinless and innocent, like the Lord himself is. He traded places with us. He took our sin and curse and judgment and gave us his righteousness. Oh, hallelujah. His holiness and his blessing. Best trade you ever made, right? Oh, nothing even comes close. And that's why it's called the Good News. The Good News. He said, verse 14, that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. We've been looking back at Deuteronomy 28, and you can go there again, Deuteronomy 28, because it's one of the most detailed places where you find both the blessing and the curse. Does this affect us today? Well, why is Galatians talking about it in the New Testament? Like we said before, many churchgoing people, if you ask them, are you redeemed? Well, they've heard about that. They've sung about that, right? And they might say, oh, yeah, yeah, okay, from what? What are you redeemed from? Many could not answer. They might say, hell. Well, from hell. That's not what it said. Thank God, I'm not going to hell. But that's not what he said. We're redeemed from the curse of the law, and we received the blessing from. Now that's enough to shout about. Rest of the day, rest of the week, rest of the month, whether your head fully understands it or not. Let me encourage you, just start saying this, right? I'm redeemed from the curse of the law. I'm blessed with the blessing of Abraham. Hallelujah. Just say it. Just say it several times a day, and sometimes your head will go, what's the big deal? You say, hush. Just say it again. Say it again. And your spirit is going, yay. Yay. Yeah. Your spirit knows more than your head knows, and you'll grow in the light of it. In Deuteronomy 28:1, it will come to pass if you will hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe and do all his commandments, which I command you this day, that the Lord your God will set you on high, above all nations. And he's talking about the entire nation of Israel, the millions of people that were there. And he's saying, if you'll listen to me, if you read just a few verses later, he said, I will make you the head and not the tail. I will make you above only and not beneath. And he talks about financially. He said, you'll be able to lend to many and. And you won't need to borrow. Does this affect your finances? It does. And so that used to be the will of God, elevating his people right above, above, materially, financially. Strength, power, ability, place above the ungodly. Come on. Did y' all hear this? It's designed, was and is designed to be a witness and a light. Because if we think right, we understand right. When people say, how did you get to be in such a strong position? We're not going to say, I worked hard, I burnt the midnight. If we have any sense, we're going to say the blessing. The blessing of the Lord. It makes rich and he adds no sorrow to it. And so that has always been God's will. Blessing has always been God's will. So when it comes to the will of God, anything you see that the blessing does, that's the will of God. What's the will of God? God will always be the will of God. Now we get down to verse 15. He says, if you won't listen to me, if you forsake me, if you go after other gods, then all these curses are going to come on you. Verse after verse after verse after verse. If it's in the curse, it is definitely not the will of God. It has never been the will of God. Will never be the will of God. Now, I know this sounds simple, but most of the Church is confused about what I just said. Are y' all awake? If it's in the blessing, what do you know? That's the will of God. It's the will of God for me, for you, for everybody. If it's in the curse, what do I know? It could never be the will of God. Never. Because it's not God's will that you ignore him and forsake him and replace him with other gods. So it's not his will that you be cursed. It's his will that you listen and follow and believe and obey and do his will and be blessed when you go out, when you come in, you basket. You store everything you set your hand to above, never beneath the head, not the tail going over big. God, can you say amen? And our time's up. We'll come back tomorrow because there's a lot more to see about this. See you soon here in Faith School. 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