Redemption is a big word! It doesn’t just refer to forgiveness of sins. It speaks of total release from the dominion of the devil and the curse he brought into this earth when Adam fell. It also refers to what Jesus did to restore us to the plan God originally had for us. As Galatians 3:13-14 puts it: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”
Notice according to those verses we’re not just redeemed from something; we’re redeemed into something. We’re redeemed from the curse (which includes spiritual death, sickness and poverty) and we’re redeemed into THE BLESSING of Abraham.
What exactly is THE BLESSING of Abraham?
It’s the original BLESSING God gave to Adam. The one that was released right after he was created when “God blessed [mankind], and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:28).
That wasn’t just a blessing. That was THE BLESSING. The one through which God bestowed on mankind all the divine power and authority we would ever need to live in total victory, health and prosperity forever. Once released into the earth, no matter how hard the devil tried to get rid of that BLESSING, he couldn’t. People might not walk in it (Adam and Eve obviously didn’t; they decided they’d rather disobey God) but it is still here.
We see evidence of this in Genesis 9 when, after the Flood, “God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon…all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered” (verses 1-2).
The wording of THE BLESSING is a little different there from what’s recorded in Genesis 1, but the meaning isn’t. In both places it’s exactly the same BLESSING of The LORD.
Same BLESSING, Same Kind of Faith
After Noah, God made covenant with Abram (later known as Abraham) and gave him that BLESSING. He said: “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:1-3).
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