The promise God gave to Jesus has
now been given to the believer. We
are to receive the blessing of Abraham
written in Deuteronomy 28. As the
seed of Abraham, I intend to receive
everything that is mine by Christ Jesus
as a glory to God. God’s Word tells us
that we have a right to pray and expect
God to answer, not because of what we
have done but because of what Jesus
has done for us! God said, “If ye be
willing and obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the land” (Isaiah 1:19). Obedient
to what? The Word of God, the new
covenant of God. The old covenant
was fulfilled by Jesus on the cross. He
walked perfect and upright before God,
then took the penalty for breaking the
covenant. He went to hell and paid the
price for our sin. But because He was
sinless, because He had not broken the
covenant, hell could not hold Him! He
whipped Satan and took the keys of
death and hell! (Revelation 1:18).

You can expect God to move because
of His Word, because of His
promise to Abraham’s seed. Find out
what the covenant says. Put the Word
first place in your life. Matthew 8:17
says, “Himself took our infirmities,
and bare our sicknesses.” That is God
speaking directly to you, the believer.
Christ has redeemed you from the
curse of the law so that the blessing
of Abraham will come on you through
Jesus Christ, that you might receive
the promise of the Spirit through faith.
The blessings of God belong to every
born-again believer. All you have to
do is stand on God’s Word and allow
these blessings to manifest themselves
in your life.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

In the old covenant, we can see
that the power of sin was very much
in force. Satan took the authority that
Adam had given him and perverted
it, using fear and death against men
instead of the life and faith they had
in God. The power of sin was operating
throughout the Old Testament.
A man could make the decision to
live in line with God’s Word, but sin
would still plague him night and day.
For instance, Noah performed the
greatest act of faith known to man
and then got roaring drunk! This is
why the decisions of the Old Testament
saints spoken of in Hebrews 11
were such outstanding feats of faith.
The power of sin was still inside them
and spiritual death was lodged in their
hearts. Then Jesus came to earth. He
bore the penalty of spiritual death,
broke its power, and was raised from
the dead, triumphant over Satan and
his kingdom. When you made Jesus
your Lord, the power of eternal life
enveloped your spirit and a new man
was born inside you: “Therefore if any
man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new. And all things
are of God” (2 Corinthians 5:17-18).
This is the new covenant!

Wherefore then serveth the law? It
was added because of transgressions,
till the seed should come to whom
the promise was made; and it was
ordained by angels in the hand of
a mediator. Now a mediator is not
a mediator of one, but God is one.
Is the law then against the promises
of God? God forbid: for if there
had been a law given which could
have given life, verily righteousness
should have been by the law. But
the scripture hath concluded all
under sin, that the promise by faith
of Jesus Christ might be given to
them that believe. But before faith
came, we were kept under the law,
shut up unto the faith which should
afterwards be revealed. Wherefore
the law was our schoolmaster to
bring us unto Christ, that we might
be justified by faith. But after that
faith is come, we are no longer
under a schoolmaster. For ye are
all the children of God by faith in
Christ Jesus. For as many of you as
have been baptized into Christ have
put on Christ. There is neither Jew
nor Greek, there is neither bond
nor free, there is neither male nor
female: for ye are all one in Christ
Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye
Abraham’s seed, and heirs according
to the promise (Galatians 3:19-29).

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

After the Fall of Adam, God was
in a peculiar position. He had given
Adam unquestionable authority over
the earth. But when Adam committed
high treason against God and bowed
his knee to Satan, spiritual death—the
nature of Satan—was lodged in his
heart. Actually, Adam was the first
person ever to be born again. He was
born from spiritual life to spiritual
death. God had said, “But of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die” (Genesis 2:17).

God said that Adam would die the
very day he ate the forbidden fruit, yet
he lived several hundred years longer.
God was not referring to physical
death. He meant that Adam would die
spiritually—that he would take on the
nature of Satan, which is spiritual death.

This process is reversed when you
make Jesus the Lord of your life. You
are born from death into life. The law
of spiritual lordship is our way back
into the hands of God. You take on
a new Lord and receive the nature of
your new Lord which is eternal life
(John 3:16). This is why Jesus went to
the cross. First John 3:8 says, “For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that he might destroy the works
of the devil.” Jesus turned to the most
religious men of His day and said,
“Ye are of your father the devil” (John
8:44). By going to the cross as the sinless
Son of God, Jesus took away the
dominion Satan had over mankind.
First Corinthians 2:8 states that had
the princes of this world known, they
would never have crucified the Lord of
glory. This was a trap that the Father
and Jesus had set for Satan. He walked
into it, and it cost him his lordship
over the earth.

After Adam’s Fall in the Garden,
God needed an avenue back into the
earth. He needed some way to break
the union between Satan and mankind.
Since man was the key figure in
the Fall, man had to be the key figure
in the redemption, so God approached
a man named Abram. He re-enacted
with Abram what Satan had done
with Adam, except that God did not
sneak in and use deception, as Satan
had. God offered Abram a proposition
and Abram bought it.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Psalm 36:7-10
KJV—How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O
God! therefore the children of men put their
trust under the shadow of thy wings. They
shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness
of thy house; and thou shalt make them
drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with
thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we
see light. O continue thy lovingkindness unto
them that know thee; and thy righteousness
to the upright in heart.

Amp—How precious is Your steadfast love,
O God! The children of men take refuge
and put their trust under the shadow of
Your wings. They relish and feast on the
abundance of Your house, and You cause
them to drink of the stream of Your pleasures.
For with You is the fountain of life; in
Your light do we see light. O continue Your
loving-kindness to those who know You,
Your righteousness [salvation] to the upright
in heart.

Moffatt—How precious is thy love, O God!
To thee men come for shelter in the
shadow of thy wings; they have their fill of
choice food in thy house, the stream of thy
delights to drink; for life’s own fountain is
within thy presence, and in thy smile we
have the light of life. Continue thy love to
those who care for thee, thy justice to
right-minded men.

NIV—How priceless is your unfailing love!
Both high and low among men find refuge
in the shadow of your wings. They feast on
the abundance of your house; you give
them drink from your river of delights. For
with you is the fountain of life; in your light
we see light. Continue your love to those
who know you, your righteousness to the
upright in heart.

Psalm 68:19-20
KJV—Blessed be the Lord, who daily
loadeth us with benefits, even the God of
our salvation. Selah. He that is our God is
the God of salvation; and unto God the
Lord belong the issues from death.

Amp—Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our
burdens and carries us day by day, even the
God Who is our salvation! Selah [pause, and
calmly think of that]! God is to us a God of deliverances
and salvation, and to God, the Lord,
belongs escape from death [setting us free].

Moffatt—Blessed be the Lord, our saving
God, who daily bears the burden of our life;
God is for us a God of victories, thanks to
the Eternal we escape from death.

NIV—Praise be to the Lord, to God our
Savior, who daily bears our burdens. Selah.
Our God is a God who saves; from the
Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries