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If they did that, He said, "All these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee" (Deuteronomy 28:2). You'll be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. Your children will be blessed. Your livestock, crops and everything you own will be blessed. You'll be blessed when you come in and when you go out. When enemies rise up against you, they'll be defeated before you. They'll fl ee from you in every direction. The Lord will command the blessing on your bank accounts and savings accounts, and everything you set your hand to. "The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow" (verse 12). God's Will for All Mankind for All Time Doesn't that sound like a wonderful peace-fi lled way to live? Certainly it does! Sadly though, God's Old Covenant people never managed to live that way very long. Since the new birth wasn't available back then, they still had a fallen spiritual nature. So, instead of hearkening to God's Word and being blessed, they kept disobeying Him and falling prey to the curse. Every broken condition man can possibly su er is the result of the curse. You can see that from reading its description in verses 15-68. Listed there you'll fi nd such miseries as sickness and disease, poverty and lack, defeat, sorrow, depression, failure, fear, anxiety, and more. Those things have never been God's will for His people. He made that clear when He put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Before they sinned and messed things up, everything there was perfect. Nothing was missing. Nothing was broken. There was plenty of food to eat, and it didn't have to be cooked. It grew on trees! The temperature was just right. Adam had a perfect wife. Eve had a perfect husband. And God was there to walk and talk with them. Created in His image, they were clothed in His glory and had nothing to fear because He'd given them dominion over the whole earth. That's a picture of God's perfect will not only for Adam and Eve but for all mankind—and His will hasn't changed. It's still the same today! "But Gloria, even if that's true, we're in a di erent situation than Adam and Eve were. We're not living in the Garden of Eden. We're living in a fallen world where 'all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.' Isn't that what Romans 3:23 says?" Yes, but read the next verse! It tells us that's not the end of the story. It says that, as born-again believers, we're no longer just sinners doomed to continually fall short. Under the new covenant we are "justifi ed and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace…through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus" (verse 24, Amplifi ed Bible, Classic Edition). Unlike the Israelites in the Old Testament, our spirits have been re-created in God's image. We have His nature on the inside of us and His laws written in our hearts. We have what it takes to continually hearken to His Word and obey Him because now, as Titus 2:11 says, "The grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people" (New Living Translation). The New Testament word salvation means the same thing shalom does in the Old Testament. Translated from the Greek word soteria, it can be defi ned as "preservation, material and temporal deliverance from danger and apprehension; pardon; liberty, healing, restoration, soundness, and wholeness." Most Christians today have yet to realize this, but Jesus secured all those things for us. When He went to the Cross, He paid the price there for our full salvation. As believers, we are a saved people. We are a healed people. We are a blessed and prosperous people. We've been redeemed from the whole curse of the law because Jesus took upon Himself that curse in its entirety. He left nothing out. He bore it all so that THE BLESSING of Abraham can come on us, and we can be whole and live in peace! As Isaiah wrote, looking forward in time and seeing Jesus' crucifi xion: "Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment]…. He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole" (Isaiah 53:4-5, AMPC). The Apostle Peter, looking backward in time at that event after it happened, also wrote about the healing Jesus secured for us. Only he wrote of it in the past tense and said, "Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed" (1 Peter 2:24, New King James Version). 3 0 : B V O V NOV BVOV BROADCAST CALENDAR Oct. 31-Nov. 4 Faith for Prosperity Kenneth Copeland Sun., Nov. 6 Faith Connects You to God's Covenant Promises Kenneth Copeland Nov. 7-11 The Prescription for Healing Kenneth Copeland Sun., Nov. 13 How To Receive God's Promises by Faith Kenneth Copeland Nov. 14-18 Faith In God's Covenant Kenneth Copeland and Professor Greg Stephens Sun., Nov. 20 Jehovah Rapha— The God Who Heals You Kenneth Copeland Nov. 21-25 Living As a Covenant Christian Kenneth Copeland and Professor Greg Stephens Sun., Nov. 27 Follow God's Instructions To Receive Your Healing Kenneth Copeland Nov. 28-Dec. 2 Following God's Plan for Your Life Kenneth Copeland Watch the Spanish broadcast Enlace or es.kcm.org WATCH ON Broadcasts subject to change without notice Daily broadcast: Mon. - Fri. 3 a.m. | 7 a.m. 11 a.m. | 7:30 p.m. | 10:30 p.m. Weekly broadcast: Sun. 6 a.m. | 8 p.m. also Mon. 4:30 p.m. | Sat. 7:30 a.m. | 8:30 p.m. ET C H A N N E L WATCH ON WATCH ON Daily broadcast: Mon. - Fri. 3 a.m. | 7 a.m. C H A N N E L Kenneth Copeland Greg Stephens

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