Kenneth Copeland — The Curse Of The LawPosted by admin on March 17th, 2010
When a man under the Abrahamic
Covenant refused to obey the law
that would bring the blessing, there
was only one alternative—the curse.
When a man steps out from under
the covenant with God, he automatically
steps back over into the hands
of Satan. The curse was already in the
earth from the time that Adam bowed
his knee to Satan in the Garden. It
was only God’s covenant that protected
the people from being completely
destroyed by Satan. Abraham had
plenty of problems before God approached
him. What he did not have
was a way out of the problems. There
is no area where a man can stand in
the middle between the blessings of
God and the problems of the world. If
he doesn’t have the blessings of God,
he has the problems of the world.
There’s no in-between.
When God made His covenant with
Abraham, He didn’t do away with the
curse. He just offered Abraham a way
to live free from its effect by providing
an umbrella of protection. He said,
“If you will walk perfect and upright
before Me, I’ll protect you.” Thus
Abraham and his descendants would
be protected from the curse already
in the world. However, when they
stepped from beneath the protection of
God’s Word, Satan was waiting to come
against them.
Let’s look at the curse beginning in
Deuteronomy 28:15-19:
But it shall come to pass, if thou
wilt not hearken unto the voice
of the Lord thy God, to observe
to do all his commandments and
his statutes which I command
thee this day; that all these curses
shall come upon thee, and overtake
thee: Cursed shalt thou be in
the city, and cursed shalt thou be
in the field. Cursed shall be thy
basket and thy store. Cursed shall
be the fruit of thy body, and the
fruit of thy land, the increase of
thy kine, and of the flocks of thy
sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when
thou comest in, and cursed shalt
thou be when thou goest out.
The next several verses refer to
many different plagues and diseases
that are part of this curse. Verse 29
mentions poverty, “And thou shalt not
prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be
only oppressed and spoiled evermore,
and no man shall save thee.” It goes
on to list marital difficulties, cattle
destruction, sickness in the legs and
knees, sores that cannot be healed,
crop destruction.
Verse 44 refers to being in debt, “He
(the stranger) shall lend to thee, and
thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be
the head, and thou shalt be the tail.”
Verse 61 says, “Also every sickness,
and every plague, which is not written
in the book of this law, them will
the Lord bring upon thee, until thou
be destroyed.” So, all sickness and all
disease—even those not mentioned
here—come under the curse.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries