As Christians, we ought to respond that same way if someone even dares to imply that God might be mad at us about something. Without even having to think about it we ought to say, “No way! God will never be mad at me. The LORD Jesus, Commander in Chief and LORD Advocate General of the Body of Christ, has given me His WORD on it. He swore to me, as He swore that the waters of Noah would no more go over the earth, that He would never be angry with me!”
What God Doesn’t Want to Remember
Sadly, however, a lot of believers don’t have that kind of certainty. They think God is irritated with them and likely to punish them. They’re afraid that if they do something wrong, rather than wanting them to receive His mercy, God is more inclined to smite them with the curse.
“But Brother Copeland, isn’t there actually some scripture for those ideas? Isn’t the last part of Deuteronomy 28 all about God smiting people with the curse?”
No, that’s not what Deuteronomy 28 is about! It’s about God telling His Old Covenant people how to walk in THE BLESSING. It’s God saying, “If you’ll listen to Me and do what I say, all these BLESSINGS will come upon you and overtake you.”
It does have some serious warnings in the last part of the chapter. Starting in verse 15, God did tell them that if they refused to listen to Him and stubbornly insisted on living in disobedience, the curse would overtake them. But He didn’t have to smite them with it. Because of the devil and Man’s Fall, the curse is already out there. All the Israelites had to do was get out from under God’s protection, and—wham!—there it would be.
The curse wasn’t what He desired for them, though, and it’s certainly not His desire for us! He sent Jesus to redeem us from the curse, so THE BLESSING could come on us. He reinstated the Eden plan by washing away our sin with the blood of Jesus, so that He could say to us: “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified [Or in other words: Repent of your sins and receive the forgiveness I’ve provided for you.]” (Isaiah 43:25-26).
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