Redemption
In Galatians 3:13, 14 and 29 we read that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs 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. And if we be Christ’s, then we are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
In different translations of verse 13 we read that Christ purchased our freedom, that He ransomed us, that He bought our freedom, that He released us from the curse of the law. In one translation I read, it said that He absorbed the curse for us. I have such a vivid picture of that. Can you picture it yourself? Jesus Christ, the Anointed One with His anointing, the pure and spotless Lamb of God, took into His very being the absolute opposite of His entire nature. He absorbed sin for us that we could absorb His righteousness, His pure, sinless nature. He gave us of Himself, His very own nature, and we became new creations, a new creation of God, with a new nature. Our spirits were born again.
I want you to picture this in your mind. Jesus voluntarily took upon Himself all the ugliness of this world, knowing that He would be playing right into satan’s hands. He knowingly took on everything for us so that we might go free. He bore the consequences of all our sin forever in His body on the tree. And why did He do that? He did it so that the blessing of Abraham might come on us. He did it so that we might have the choice to receive the blessing that Jesus was opening up for us. What a Savior! What a God!
When we talk about the blessing of Abraham, we must go back to the original word that God spoke over mankind in Genesis 1:28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. That is the blessing that God spoke over Adam, over mankind. Adam rejected the blessing by his choice he made in the Garden of Eden to disobey God. That decision cost him the blessing of the Lord.
But God couldn’t stand for the man that He had created to go without His blessing. So He found a man, Abram who later became Abraham, who accepted by choice what God was offering to him by covenant. And the blessing was once again available to Abraham and all of his descendants.
Then Jesus came and by his living and dying and rising again, He made available for all mankind the blessing that was originally given to Adam. Fruitfulness, multiplication, replenishing, dominion, subduing is once again ours in this earth. We are given dominion over all the earth but not over one another. We are given God’s ability to multiply in everything we do. Everything our hand touches is blessed and multiplies and flourishes.
You might be saying to me right now: You know, Kialeen, that is all well and good, but I don’t see it in my life and it certainly is not operating for me as a Christian. Yes, the blessing doesn’t seem to be operating in many people’s lives. And why is that? For lack of knowledge my people perish. When we don’t have the knowledge of what is available to us and are willing to fight for it, we will not walk in it.
The blessing of God is ours the minute we are born again and become His children. Accessing it personally for our lives on a daily basis is something we must be willing to stand and fight for. Our enemy satan is determined that we will not walk in the blessing of God. He does everything he can to keep us from our heritage. It is our job to stand up in his face and say: No, you don’t steal my blessing. It belongs to me. It was purchased for me by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and I refuse to let go of it. It does not belong to you satan. It is mine and I take it by force. I keep it by force. I stand on my covenant rights. Health and healing, abundance and prosperity, success and victory are mine. Jesus purchased them for me and paid for them. They are already paid for. They are mine. The blessing is mine. I take it and I keep it every day of my life.
In different translations of verse 13 we read that Christ purchased our freedom, that He ransomed us, that He bought our freedom, that He released us from the curse of the law. In one translation I read, it said that He absorbed the curse for us. I have such a vivid picture of that. Can you picture it yourself? Jesus Christ, the Anointed One with His anointing, the pure and spotless Lamb of God, took into His very being the absolute opposite of His entire nature. He absorbed sin for us that we could absorb His righteousness, His pure, sinless nature. He gave us of Himself, His very own nature, and we became new creations, a new creation of God, with a new nature. Our spirits were born again.
I want you to picture this in your mind. Jesus voluntarily took upon Himself all the ugliness of this world, knowing that He would be playing right into satan’s hands. He knowingly took on everything for us so that we might go free. He bore the consequences of all our sin forever in His body on the tree. And why did He do that? He did it so that the blessing of Abraham might come on us. He did it so that we might have the choice to receive the blessing that Jesus was opening up for us. What a Savior! What a God!
When we talk about the blessing of Abraham, we must go back to the original word that God spoke over mankind in Genesis 1:28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. That is the blessing that God spoke over Adam, over mankind. Adam rejected the blessing by his choice he made in the Garden of Eden to disobey God. That decision cost him the blessing of the Lord.
But God couldn’t stand for the man that He had created to go without His blessing. So He found a man, Abram who later became Abraham, who accepted by choice what God was offering to him by covenant. And the blessing was once again available to Abraham and all of his descendants.
Then Jesus came and by his living and dying and rising again, He made available for all mankind the blessing that was originally given to Adam. Fruitfulness, multiplication, replenishing, dominion, subduing is once again ours in this earth. We are given dominion over all the earth but not over one another. We are given God’s ability to multiply in everything we do. Everything our hand touches is blessed and multiplies and flourishes.
You might be saying to me right now: You know, Kialeen, that is all well and good, but I don’t see it in my life and it certainly is not operating for me as a Christian. Yes, the blessing doesn’t seem to be operating in many people’s lives. And why is that? For lack of knowledge my people perish. When we don’t have the knowledge of what is available to us and are willing to fight for it, we will not walk in it.
The blessing of God is ours the minute we are born again and become His children. Accessing it personally for our lives on a daily basis is something we must be willing to stand and fight for. Our enemy satan is determined that we will not walk in the blessing of God. He does everything he can to keep us from our heritage. It is our job to stand up in his face and say: No, you don’t steal my blessing. It belongs to me. It was purchased for me by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and I refuse to let go of it. It does not belong to you satan. It is mine and I take it by force. I keep it by force. I stand on my covenant rights. Health and healing, abundance and prosperity, success and victory are mine. Jesus purchased them for me and paid for them. They are already paid for. They are mine. The blessing is mine. I take it and I keep it every day of my life.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 7:47 AM
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