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NASB | 1 John 4:4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 4:4 Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind]. |
Bible Question: If Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us can a christian still be affected by any curse? |
Bible Answer: A Christian can still be affected by the curse, but they do not have to be. Even in the Old Testament when the blessing and the curse was laid out to Israel, we read the condition was If you hearken to the voice of the Lord and do those things that he commands, then these blessing will come upon you and overtake you. (Deu 28:2) However, if they did not listen and do as God commanded, then the curse would come upon them. (Deu 28:15 ) Now, Jesus has redemmed us from the curse part of that old law. We are to live soley in the blessings, however, if we disobey what God's Word says, then yes, the curse can still come upon us. Jesus just made it easy to fulfill the law by saying Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul mind and strength, and your neighbor as yourself. Upon these two hang ALL the law and prophets. ( Matt 22:37 - 40 ) So if we don't fullfill this most important commandments, then we are not doing the will of God, and thus we are not under the protection of the Father. Meaning the curse will overtake you, in some or even all of its forms which include as Deu 28 points out, poverty and every form of sickness. So in short, yes, we can fall under a curse if we do not keep the Word of the Lord, but if we walk by Faith, and live the Word of God in our lives, then we walk free of all curses, we walk in a place of prosperity and divine health, and that Wicked one touches us not! ( 1 John 5:18 ) So as I said, jesus redemed us from the curse, we do not have to put up with anything that the curse involves, just like he has redeemed us of our sins, and we don't have to live a sinful life, however, if we don't obey his word, then we are in sin, and sin is the cause of the curse. HOpe this helped! Mitch |