When a person lives out from under
the curse and is walking uprightly
before God, he has the power of God
in his corner. He has the power of the
Spirit Himself backing him. The Word
of God states very clearly in Hebrews
7:22 that Jesus is the surety, or the
guarantee, of this new covenant. Jesus
Christ of Nazareth will have to fail before
the covenant can fail, and in Him
there is no failure. Why? Because Jesus
is love and love never fails.

Go to the Word. That is what it is
for. That is why it was written. It is
a copy of your contract—your covenant—
with God. It sets out the things
God promised Jesus that He would do.
Hebrews 1 speaks of Jesus’ inauguration
as Lord of the universe. It says
that He is upholding all things by the
Word of His power. If you want to be
upheld, get on the Word.

Once you make Jesus Lord over
your life, you become a covenant man
under the new covenant. Remember
God said, “As for Me, these things
are so.” He said, “As for Me, you are
healed. As for Me, you are redeemed
from the curse of the law. As for Me,
the blessing of Abraham is upon you.”
The only reason these blessings are not
operating in your life is because you
have not stood up and said, “Well, as
for me, it is so, too!”

Make this confession from your
heart before God.

“Father, in the Name of Jesus, I
believe in my heart that Jesus has been
raised from the dead. I make Him Lord
of my life now with the confession of
my mouth. I am His and He is mine!
Jesus has redeemed me from the curse
of the law. Sickness will have to depart.
Disease will have to depart. Poverty
will no longer be in my house, for I am
redeemed from the curse of poverty.
I am a believer and not a doubter. I
have the Name of Jesus and the power
of the Holy Spirit. Thank God, darkness
is over. The storms of life will no
longer be victorious over me. Jesus
is my intercessor. The Spirit of God
strengthens me. You, God, are my very
own Father. I praise Your Name!”

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

“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

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