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Kenneth Copeland — The Promise Is In ForcePosted by admin on April 21st, 2010

Everything Jesus used in His earthly
ministry is available to the believer
today. The only thing Jesus did that
no other person on earth could ever
do was to die on the cross as the Son
of God and pay the price for sin. God
did not answer Jesus’ prayers simply
because He was His Son. He answered
Jesus’ prayers because of the covenant
(the promise), that Jesus was operating
under—the covenant that God had
allowed Abraham to handle so many
years before.

In the light of this truth, let’s read
again from Galatians 3:16-19:

Now to Abraham and his seed
were the promises made. He saith
not, And to seeds, as of many; but
as of one, And to thy seed, which
is Christ. And this I say, that the
covenant, that was confirmed before
of God in Christ, the law, which was
four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul, that it should make
the promise of none effect. For if
the inheritance be of the law, it is
no more of promise: but God gave it
to Abraham by promise. Wherefore
then serveth the law? It was added
because of transgressions, till the
seed should come to whom the
promise was made.

You see, the law was brought in to
protect the promise. Then when Jesus
came forth, the promise was in force.

Once God’s Word has been loosed
in the earth, there is nothing Satan
can do about it. Isaiah 55:11 says, “So
shall my word be that goeth forth out
of my mouth: it shall not return unto
me void, but it shall accomplish that
which I please, and it shall prosper in
the thing whereto I sent it.” God’s Word
will come to pass. There is no way
Satan can stop it! When you received
salvation, when you made the decision
and acted on it, no devil in hell was
powerful enough to stop the new birth
from taking place in your life.

Satan is helpless before the Name of
Jesus because the power of the curse
has been broken. He will walk all over
you if you allow him to, but his actual
power has been removed. The power
of sin has been broken. Satan cannot
dominate you once you recognize the
power of the Word of God and allow
that power to operate in your life.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Kenneth Copeland — The Seed Of AbrahamPosted by admin on April 7th, 2010

We have read from Galatians 3:13-14
that Jesus Christ has redeemed us from
the curse of the law so that we might
receive the blessing of Abraham and
the promise of the Spirit. Let’s take
this a little bit further and discuss it in
more depth.

In Galatians 3:16 we read, “Now to
Abraham and his seed were the promises
made. He saith not, And to seeds,
as of many; but as of one, And to thy
seed, which is Christ.” God’s promise
was made through Abraham, but it
was actually meant for one person,
Jesus Christ. We have seen from the
book of Genesis that God approached
Abram with His proposition for a
covenant between them. God’s purpose
was to provide an avenue back into the
earth—to open the way for Jesus to
come forth.

In his lifetime, Abraham operated
only basic parts of God’s covenant. In
the following years, God revealed more
of His Word to the prophets. These
Old Testament prophets handled the
Word and operated under the covenant,
but the promise was made to
Abraham’s seed—Jesus Christ. They
used the covenant as best they could,
but it was too difficult for them to
follow completely. They were just not
strong enough spiritually to handle it,
but Jesus was! The promise was made to
one seed, which is Christ.

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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