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were winding up cursed. So He set up a way whereby you didn’t have to obey and cross all the
“t’s” and dot all the “i’s” to get the blessing.
He
became a curse for us. He took the curse and
paid it all and rose from the dead, free from it. Now all you have to do to be free from it is
believe it and accept it, and let the redeemed of the Lord say it: I’m redeemed. I’m redeemed
from the curse of the Law. The curse has no right in my life. Glory to God!
Deuteronomy 28 describes the blessings for keeping God’s commandments and the curses for
disobeying them. This is precisely what Galatians 3 is talking about when it refers to the curse of
the Law. You’ll find bits and pieces of it in other places, but it’s really concentrated in this one
chapter. One of the first major times it is mentioned is in Leviticus 26, but then it is repeated and
amplified in Deuteronomy 28.
Beginning in verse one, the Lord said, “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the L
ORD
thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I
command thee this day, that the L
ORD
thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the
earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee...” It says that you’ll be
blessed in the city and blessed in the field, blessed in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your
ground, in the fruit of your cattle, in the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep.
“Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.” Actually, other translations, in verse four, say
“wealth.” Verse five says, “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.” Blessing! Verse eight says, “The
L
ORD
shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses…” Do you get that picture now?
What is your storehouse? It would be like a savings account or an investment, some kind of
storehouse. Can you picture the Lord saying, “I command that to be blessed”? Why? Because
you’re believing Him and obeying Him. You’re doing what He told you to do. God is speaking.
The same God Who said, “Light be,” speaks over your storehouses and says, “Blessed!” When
God commands blessings on your stuff, you’re not going to stay broke. You’re not going to stay
down.
Do you believe it pays to obey God and follow Him, to do His will, and to do things His way? It
pays. It paid then, and it pays now. Verse 11 says, “And the L
ORD
shall make thee plenteous in
goods.” It doesn’t call them “bads,” it calls them “goods.” “The L
ORD
shall open unto thee his
good treasure, the heaven, to give the rain...” He’s going to bless all the work of your hand.
You’re going to be so blessed, and you’re not going to need to borrow. You’re going to be able
to lend. You’re going to be the head, not the tail. You’ll only be on top, never on the bottom, if
you obey God.
Verse 15 asks the question: What if you decide you don’t want to obey God? What if you decide
you know better than He does about your life, and you’re going to do what you want to do,
because you don’t care what He said? Well, there are other verses for you. “…If thou wilt not
hearken unto the voice of the L
ORD
thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his
statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come on thee, and overtake
thee.” He begins talking about things that are called curses.