Talk about good news! That message is as good as it gets. If the lost world really understood it, there wouldn’t be room enough in our churches to fit all the people wanting to get saved.
Most people, however, have never heard that message. Instead they’ve heard that God is the one who cursed mankind. That He’s the one who set the curse in motion and He’s the one who continues to enforce it. Even believers have been taught those kinds of things. They’ve been told in church that we’ll be free from the curse after we get to heaven, but here on earth it’s part of God’s will.
“Brother Copeland, isn’t that true?”
No, it’s not.
The curse was never God’s will, and it’s not His doing. All human heartache, every disaster, every storm, all poverty, sickness and destruction began after Adam’s Fall, and it’s the work of the devil who comes “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10).
God never made anyone sick. He never made anyone poor. He’s not the creator of problems. He’s the Deliverer from problems. He’s not the author of the curse. He’s the author of THE BLESSING.
Just read Genesis 1! The very first chapter of The Book clearly reveals that from the beginning God created everything so that man could be BLESSED. He spoke His Words of faith into the darkness and said, “Light be!” and light was. He said, “Land be…plants be…animals be…” and so on; they came into existence; and Genesis 1:25 says, God saw it all “that it was good.”
Did you catch that?
God didn’t create anything bad. Everything He created was good because He’s good, and He never changes! He’s “the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8). There is “no variableness, neither shadow of turning” in Him (James 1:17).
One version of the Bible that was translated into English by Jewish scholars says this about Creation: “In the beginning the Blessed One created….” In other words, from verse 1 on, what we see in Genesis is THE BLESSING creating. It’s God being who He is and who He will always be.
The Perfect Will of God Forever
Some years ago, as I was studying about THE BLESSING and reading the account of Creation, I had a vision. God opened the eyes of my spirit and I saw God making man; forming him of the dust of the ground and breathing into his nostrils the breath of life (Genesis 2:7).
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