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First, to do so would violate His loving nature; and second, it would be unjust. The punishment for our sin has already been meted out. Jesus bore it on our behalf. When He went to the Cross He paid the price for us to be completely set free from the threefold curse of spiritual death, sickness and poverty. He “redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us…that the blessing of Abraham might come on” us (Galatians 3:13-14). For God to put any part of the curse on us now would be a miscarriage of divine justice. It would be like convicting and sentencing a person to prison twice for the same crime: “Surely [Jesus] 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"). This is the good news! Because of what Jesus did, God isn’t mad at us anymore and He never will be again, so we can always run confidently to Him. No matter how badly we might have fouled up, we can always repent and come boldly to His throne of grace, knowing that Isaiah 54 declares: “With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee” (verses 8-9). The scriptural promise about the “waters of Noah” is the most famous in the whole Bible. Every believer knows it. You can stop in any church and ask anyone if God is ever going to send another worldwide flood, and they’ll say, “No. God said there wouldn’t be and confirmed it with the rainbow. It’s a done deal.” For you as a born-again child of God the same is true when it comes to the curse. Your deliverance from it is a done deal. You don’t ever have to bear it again. Through Jesus you’ve been freed from it and you’ve inherited THE BLESSING in all its creative, replenishing power. Once you get hold of that reality, and the revelation of it begins to bathe and renew your mind, your days of sickness will be over. You won’t have to wait anymore for someone else to say, “God bless you.” Sneeze or no sneeze, your constant, victorious confession will be—“I am healed by THE BLESSING OF THE LORD!” V * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Points to Get You There: 1. THE BLESSING God gave Adam in the beginning included all the power necessary to turn the whole earth into a Garden of Eden. Genesis 1:28 2. In Christ you’re already BLESSED, so as you believe and obey His voice THE BLESSING will manifest in every aspect of your life, even in the midst of a cursed world. Deuteronomy 28:2 3. All sickness is a result of the curse and the devil’s oppression. Acts 10:38 4. Because you, as a believer, have been redeemed from the curse, sickness has no right to remain on you. Isaiah 53:5 5. Even if you’ve sinned you can always repent, run to God with confidence and receive healing. Isaiah 54:8-9 BVOV : 11

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