Kenneth Copeland - Jesus Has Redeemed You from the Curse of Fear
Turn over to the book of Galatians, 3rd chapter, 13th verse. Now I'm going to give you a Bible lesson here, show you how to exercise something. You ought to do this all the time. This ought to be part of your daily life, particularly in times of trouble, the storms of life, attack your household or whatever. Just sitting watching television, you do this. They're talking to people, you do this. I mean, it's something ought to be a consistent, constant part of your daily conversation, the daily words, your lifestyle, the whole, this ought to, I mean, you ought to carry this like you carry a loaded gun all the time. I mean, with a hair trigger, this thing ought to go off every time that you touch it.
Galatians 3:13, "Christ, the Anointed one, has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus, the Anointed of God, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith," that we might receive the promise the Spirit made to Abraham, which included the Spirit himself. But now don't read that like that we might receive the Holy Ghost that was promised to Abraham. No, that we might receive what the Holy Ghost promised Abraham, which like I said, included himself. Are you following me now?
The blessing of Abraham. The blessing, now really, really work with me here. Really listen and stay with me. The blessing is singular. Blessings, plural, are the result of the blessing. I've been blessed with lots of things. Oh, glory to God. I'm such a blessed man. We're such a blessed family and a blessed ministry. Oh, Gloria just goes around all the time saying, "God is so good to me". Jesse Duplantis has got a gold plaque in his airplane that said, "God love Jesse". Another one said, "God is good to Jesse". Hallelujah. Amen.
Those are the blessings, but the blessings come because of "the" blessing, the blessing of Abraham. God blessed him. That blessing was on him spiritually, it was on him financially, and it was on him in war. He was blessed of God. The blessing was on him. And everybody in that part of the world knew then and know now that if you had that blessing, you had it made. I mean, if you had that blessing, you had an authority in the earth and a force. It was literally a force field around you. A real example of it was Joseph. Put the man in prison and the prison got blessed.
The prison improved. He wound up running the whole prison. I mean, you buy the man as a slave and all of a sudden your whole farm gets better. The whole ranch gets better. And the guy said, "I know the blessing of God is on me because you're here in my house". The blessing brings blessings. Now listen again. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law that the blessing, not the blessings, the blessing of Abraham might come on us through Christ, through the anointing that's on Jesus. You follow me? That's what the word Christ there means. And there it's referring specifically to his anointing. Jesus walked in his earthly ministry in the blessing of Abraham. Amen.
But now his blessing, Jesus' blessing as head of the church. I mean, you don't have the head with one blessing and the foot with another. We're walking in his blessing. Amen. His blessing. King of kings, Lord of lords. Who do you think the kings that he's king over are? We are priests and kings under our God, the Scripture says. Amen. Oh, glory. You must be believing God for me because... I'm holding on pretty good. Glory to God. I'm seeing some... I'm seeing some things in the Spirit. Glory to God. I don't have any words for him yet. Hallelujah.
Now look, oh glory. Christ, the Anointed one has redeemed us from the curse. So say it out loud, I am redeemed from the curse in Jesus' name. I have the blessing of Abraham. I'm redeemed from the curse. I have the blessing. All right, let's go to the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy. In the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy, the blessing and the curse is written out. Now, I told you we would come here and I'd give you a short Bible lesson here. When the Hebrew text was translated out of Hebrew, it was not translated into English. It was translated into Latin. It was translated then into Greek and so forth. And then down the line, it came over into English.
Now at that time, particularly at the time that it was translated into English, Hebrew was not a living language. The Jews were under bondage to other nations of the world. The state of Israel did not exist. And most of the people spoke it as a second language, not the first language. Other scholars like English scholars, German scholars, French scholars and so forth that studied it knew Hebrew as a religious language. They did not speak it. You could go to a dictionary and look the words up and translate them over into other words. And a lot of them knew the language from that.
But if they were in Israel today, I doubt seriously if they could hold a conversation with anybody because they were dealing with a language that was not being spoken and it was dead other than in the lives of those that were serving God continually. And a lot of Jews didn't speak it at all. They spoke it around the Passover table and didn't even know what they were saying. They just knew the Word. Now you follow me here? That's what was going on when it was translated into English.
Now this phrase in the first few verses of the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy was translated correctly, but then they changed the tense of it and began to translate it incorrectly. Now I'll show you the difference between the two. "It shall come to pass if you'll hearken diligently into the voice of the Lord thy God to observe and to do all his commandments, which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee high upon all above all nations of the earth and all these blessings", see that's because of the blessing, "all these blessings shall come on you and overtake you if you hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God".
Now you notice it didn't say, and God will bless you over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. No, it didn't say that. It said he's already blessed. The blessing is there. Where was it? In that covenant with Abraham. And if you would stay in it, if you stay in the commandments and do what he said, do and don't do what he said, don't do, then the blessings are there. The blessings come on you and overtake you. Now that's correct. It's still that way today. In the book of Ephesians, it said, "Thanks be unto God who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus". They're already ours.
Now let's go over to the 15th verse, one through 14 is the blessing. Bless you in the house, bless you in the field, bless you coming in, bless you going out, bless you to be in your store, your basket, bless you, you know, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless, bless. Now you come down here to the 15th verse and this is translated correctly. "It shall come to pass if thou will not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe, to do all his commandments and statutes, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come on you and overtake you". It didn't say God would curse you. It didn't say God would strike you. The curse is already there folks. It's already out there. All you had to do was get out from under the protection of that covenant and you ran slap into the curse. Amen.
Now this is important because religion has twisted it and said... I heard a song on a so-called Gospel radio station one time and this ignorant song said, "God's going to get you for that". If God was going to get you, we'd all done been got. Particularly that poor fellow that wrote that song. If I was God, I'd have got him myself. Blame that kind of stuff off on God. When we're the fools walking around out there, ain't it? My granddad used to have a favorite saying, boy, you play in the mud, you're going to get some on you. That's brilliant, isn't it? Deep.
My grandfather's a great thinker. But there are people thinking play in the dope and not get any on you. There are people thinking play in the curse and not get any on you. There are people that think they can eat Twinkies and bong bongs all their life and become an Olympic star. Hey, no way. Why? You can't sow one thing and reap another. The great man of God Creflo Dollar said, "That's an insane thought to think that you can sow one thing and reap another". And that is exactly right. That is an insane thought. But yet people do it all the time. Why? Am I not renewed to God? But now let's, I'll show you where it went wrong here then. They begin to translate.
Look at the 21st verse for instance, or the 21st. The Lord shall send upon you cursing, vexation, rebuke. Now the Hebrew text doesn't say that at all. And now that Hebrew is a spoken language and a living language. Oh, we found out it had a permissive verb as well as a causative verb. It said, "If you get out there and go to play in the mud, God's going to have to let you get muddy" because you made the choice. You play in it and he get on you. It's that simple. Now then, are you ready now? You read down through this.
"Anytime something comes up, anytime you read all of these curses, all of them, go down and read them. And every time you read one of them, you'll become an astonishment, a proverb, a byword among all nations where the Lord will lead you. And you carry much seed out into the field and gather in but little. And the locust shall consume it. And you plant vineyards and dress them, but neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes and the worms will eat them. And the olive trees throughout all thy coast, but the olive shall not anoint thyself with oil, but that oil and the anthrax is going to get you in them too".
No, you read down through there and say, "I'm redeemed from that". Yeah, glory to God. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shall not enjoy them. I'm redeemed from that. Glory to God. And I say, it'll not be that way. And every time they come on television and say, oh, he's going to do this, he's going to do that. I say it out loud. No, not for my household. It will not be that way. I am redeemed from the curse. I stand on my redemption. Blood was shed for me. I am not going to have that in my house. No, I'm walking in the blessing. I'm blessed going in and I'm blessed coming out and I'm blessed in my house and I'm blessed in my door. I'm blessed with health. Glory be to God.
I've danced around the room hurting so bad. I mean hurting to tell you, it felt like somebody hit me in the back with an ax and just dance around the room and say, glory be to God. I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed. I am the redeemed, glory. And get right in the devil's face with him and tell him he's off limits. You don't have any business here in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and leave. I am the redeemed. The Word said, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so". It didn't say let the redeemed of the Lord say they're not redeemed.
I got up one morning. I said, God, I was wanting to scream. I'm hurting. I said, God, I heard the Spirit of God say, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so". I said, "So"! I couldn't, I couldn't think of nothing else. He said, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so". I just shouted "so" as loud as I could. I said, "so" all day long. So, so, so, so, so, so, so I say, so I say, so I say, so I say, so I say, so I knew what I said. God knew what I said. The devil knew what I said. My back knew what I said. My head knew what I said. Amen. Hallelujah. Now see, you ought to be, you ought to be on a hair trigger all the time.
Somebody walks up to you and says, "Oh, I'm telling you, I'm so scared over this anthrax, I'm just so scared of it". You say, oh no, no, no, no, no, no. Wait a minute. I'm going to tell you something. I'm redeemed from that curse. You understand? What did you say? I said, I'm redeemed from that curse. Some of them get mad at you. Well, you might get it. Do you think Jesus might've gone to the cross? He might have shed his blood. That's not faith, that's fear, isn't it? Fear to confess what God said. Fear to stand on the Word. Well, it might not come to pass. You know how you always spot unbelief? Yeah, but. The word "but" in the English language means the cancellation of all that was said before it.
Well, yes, I know, Brother Copeland, the Bible says that, but... You just wiped out everything the Bible said. I'll give you an example. You go up to your wife and say, "Oh, I love you, darling, but..." And she might not have said anything when you said, I love you, darling, but when you said, but, I mean, she raised up to see what's coming now. Amen. Yeah. Amen. And you're going to be on hamburger helper for the next three or four days too, boy. Amen. I mean to tell you. You understand what I'm talking about here? Let me show you the 61st verse. Glory to God. Look at the 60th verse. "Moreover, he will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of".
Now read that correctly. Moreover, if you don't hearken to the voice of the Word of God and keep his statutes and commandments, all of those Egyptian diseases that you were afraid of are going to come on you. Why? Fear connected them to them. It's simple, isn't it? But we've been redeemed from all those diseases we were afraid of.
Look at the 65th verse. "And among these nations shall you find no ease. Neither shall the sole of your foot have rest, but the Lord shall give thee their trembling heart. A trembling heart will come on you and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind, and your life shall hang in doubt before you and you'll fear day and night. You'll fear day and night and shall have no assurance of your life. In the morning thou would say, Oh God, it was evening. And in the evening, we say it was morning for the fear of your heart, wherewith you shall fear and for the sight of your eyes, for with you shall see".
Look at this verse. "And it shall come on you to go back into Egypt with ships. By the way, whereof I have spoken to thee..." You know what that is? Going back to bondage. You've not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. You have received the spirit of adoption. You've been removed from the authority of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's dear son. You've been given the authority to wear the full armor. You've been given the name and all of its wondrous, glorious power. You've been given the Holy Ghost.
And he said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you even to the end of the world. He said, "Come out and be separate from among them and I'll be your God and you'll be my children and I will dwell in you and I will walk in you". How dare you be afraid anymore? How dare you piddle around with fear anymore? And every time you, every time you sense fear trying to get in or fear rising up over this or over that or over the other, whatever it is, you stop right where you are and you say, I don't belong to you and you don't belong to me. You are trespassing on Holy property.
This happens to be the temple of the Holy Ghost and I refuse to allow fear to dwell in it or on it or around it. I am redeemed from the curse of my life hanging without assurance. I am redeemed from the curse. I am redeemed from fear. I am redeemed from crying in the nighttime and not able to sleep. I am redeemed. You ought to say it every day, all day. The God of love is on the inside of me and he loves me. I have favorite child status. I am the favor of the Lord. Glory to God. There's blood between me and Jesus. I have a covenant. I'm a covenant man. That blood makes all the difference.