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Kenneth Copeland — Our Redemption Part 2Posted by admin on March 31st, 2010

Jesus fulfilled the terms of the old
covenant and brought a new covenant
into being—a better covenant based on
better promises. He died and paid the
price to finish that old Abrahamic Covenant.
He satisfied it completely and
was resurrected from the dead a new
man—a new covenant man untouchable
by sin, untouchable by death.
Now He is seated at the right hand of
God to carry out this new covenant.

The new covenant is between
Almighty God and Jesus Christ,
an immortal man incapable of failure.
God will not fail, Jesus will not
fail. Therefore, the covenant between
them will not fail! Jesus was capable of
failure when He walked the shores of
Galilee. He had to stand the test Adam
failed, and He stood it without failure.

As the Son of God, Jesus accepted
the penalty of death for sin. He was
taken illegally by Satan into the bowels
of the earth. But God proclaimed, “It is
enough!” and Jesus came forth out of
hell triumphant in the power of God!
The courts of eternal justice were satisfied.
Sin was completely remitted—
wiped away. God took man’s place and
suffered the penalty for breaking the
covenant. Man once again has legal
right to enter the Father’s presence in
the holy of holies (Hebrews 4:14-16).

The cut of the old covenant was
the shedding of man’s blood through
circumcision. The cut of the new
covenant was the shedding of God’s
blood on the cross by Jesus, the Lamb
of God—the sacrificial lamb that took
away the sins of the world (John 1:29).
There is no curse under the new covenant
because Jesus became the curse
for us! Praise God!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Kenneth Copeland — Our Redemption Part 1Posted by admin on March 24th, 2010

“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” (Galations 3:13-14).

Jesus of Nazareth was a product
of the Abrahamic Covenant. He was
an Israelite circumcised the eighth
day. As we have read from Genesis
17:1, God commanded that Abraham
walk perfect and upright before
Him; but it was not until Jesus that
this command was fulfilled. Jesus
walked perfect before God under the
articles of the covenant, and God
backed His ministry 100 percent.
He used the covenant to control the
laws of nature. He spoke the words
that broke the bonds of death and
brought Lazarus forth from the grave.
God was bound by His own words to
do what Jesus said. The Bible tells us
in Hebrews 4:15 that Jesus was “in
all points tempted like as we are, yet
without sin.” He faced as much temptation
to sin as any man on earth, yet
He withstood it all and continued to
walk perfect before God.

According to Levitical law, the high
priest was to take an unblemished
lamb and offer it as a sacrifice for sin.
Jesus of Nazareth, the unblemished
Lamb of God, served as the final
sacrifice for sin under the Abrahamic
Covenant. The High Priest offered up
the spotless Son of God on the altar
of the cross for the sins of mankind.
The blood of Jesus was poured out in
behalf of the covenant He upheld. He
was our substitute—bearing our sins,
diseases, poverty and spiritual death.

Remember what was listed under
the curse in Deuteronomy 28? Poverty
of every kind, political failure, drought,
war—every calamity known to mankind.
Jesus has redeemed us from all of
it. As we saw in Deuteronomy 28:61,
all sickness and all disease, even those
not mentioned there, come under the
curse. Therefore, we are redeemed
from all sickness and all disease. You
need to fight the temptation to be sick
just as you would fight the temptation
to lie or steal. Satan will tempt
you with sickness, but you don’t have
to give in. You can resist him with the
Word of God like Jesus did!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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

Kenneth Copeland — The Blessing of Abraham Part 2Posted by admin on March 10th, 2010

The Lord shall command the blessing
upon thee in thy storehouses, and
in all that thou settest thine hand
unto; and he shall bless thee in the
land which the Lord thy God giveth
thee. The Lord shall establish thee
an holy people unto himself, as he
hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt
keep the commandments of the Lord
thy God, and walk in his ways. And
all the people of the earth shall see
that thou art called by the name of
the Lord; and they shall be afraid
of thee. And the Lord shall make
thee plenteous in goods, in the
fruit of thy body, and in the fruit
of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy
ground, in the land which the Lord
sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
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. And the Lord shall make
thee the head, and not the tail; and
thou shalt be above only, and thou
shalt not be beneath; if that thou
hearken unto the commandments
of the Lord thy God, which I
command thee this day, to observe
and to do them: And thou shalt
not go aside from any of the words
which I command thee this day, to
the right hand, or to the left, to go
after other gods to serve them.

Praise the Lord! This is the blessing
of Abraham. I want you to notice that
it covers every area of life—spiritual,
physical, mental, financial, social
and political.

Mighty armies have come against the
people of Israel and failed miserably.
As long as the Israelites were walking
under the covenant of God, as long as
they were doing what God said to do in
His Word, they were not harmed. His
agreement with them said, “If an enemy
comes out at you one way, I will cause
him to flee seven ways.”

Some people have said, “Yes,
Brother Copeland, but that’s what God
promised to do for the Jews.” No, this
promise was given to Abraham and
to all his descendants. That means it
belongs to you through faith in Jesus
Christ, as much as it does to the Israelites.
Galatians 3:29 says, “And if ye
be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed,
and heirs according to the promise.”

As a born-again child of God you
are now Abraham’s seed. These blessings
belong to you, too.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Kenneth Copeland — The Blessing of Abraham Part 1Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2010

God promised to care for Abraham
and his descendants in every way—
spiritually, physically, financially,
socially. In Genesis 17:7 God said to
Abraham, “And I will establish my
covenant between me and thee…to be
a God unto thee, and to thy seed after
thee.” The Hebrew name for Almighty
God is El Shaddai. El means “supreme;”
Shaddai means “the breasty one.” In
other words, God was promising to be
their father, their mother, their nurse—
the supreme provider of everything
they would need in life. He spoke the
words of the covenant and swore by
Himself to keep it. This was an ironclad
agreement.

The people of Israel badly trampled
the covenant at Mount Sinai, but
through Moses’ intervention, God forgave
them. At this point, God handed
down the Law and instituted the Levitical
priesthood to help repair the damage
that had been done. God was sworn
to their destruction for breaking the
covenant, but instead He allowed sacrificial
offerings to cover their sins. The
Levitical priesthood was brought into
existence for one purpose: to bridge the
gap between God and mankind.

Hebrews 9:22 states that “without
shedding of blood is no remission
(of sin).” There had to be a mediator
between God and Israel because of the
existence of the blood covenant. The
first mediator was the Levitical priesthood.
The last mediator was Jesus—
our High Priest who ever liveth to
make intercession for us (1 Timothy
2:5; Hebrews 7:25).

In Deuteronomy 28:1-14, Moses
recorded God’s law and the articles of
the covenant, listing the blessings of
God promised to those who will put
His Word first place in their lives.

And it shall come to pass, if thou
shalt hearken diligently unto 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
on high above all the nations of the
earth: And all these blessings shall
come on thee, and overtake thee, if
thou shalt hearken unto the voice
of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt
thou be in the city, and blessed shalt
thou be in the field. Blessed shall be
the fruit of thy body, and the fruit
of thy ground, and the fruit of thy
cattle, the increase of thy kine, and
the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall
be thy basket and thy store. Blessed
shalt thou be when thou comest in,
and blessed shalt thou be when thou
goest out. The Lord shall cause thine
enemies that rise up against thee
to be smitten before thy face: they
shall come out against thee one way,
and flee before thee seven ways.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries