LIVING STREAMS DEVOTIONAL
By Pst. Ezekiel Atang
MARCH 2025
WHY WERE YOU BORN?
(John 18:37 KJV)
Sunday 9th March
YOU CANT BE CURSED
(Deuteronomy 21:22-23 KJV)
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
We have always read and known that Jesus hung on a tree (the cross) for us, and we have appreciated it. But we have hardly known the spiritual implication of hanging on a tree in the Jewish culture and what it accomplishes. Our text reveals the origin of punishment of hanging on a tree.
There are all kinds of sins in every nation and community, and there are sins worthy of death and some not worthy of death as well. In the Old Testament it took a serious abomination to warrant a person to hang on a tree as punishment. And that meant that God had cursed that person, it meant that the person is not worthy to live, a curse from God is upon that person. The person was to hang and die there and then buried. In the law, any man who hangs on a tree is cursed of God. But you had to be guilty of sin to hang on a tree, but Jesus hung on a tree not being guilty.
So, when Jesus hung on the tree He became accursed. The only difference this time was that Jesus was not guilty of any sin whatsoever. The high priest tried Him and found Him inocent, Pilate declared that he found no fault in Him, and Herod found no fault in Him as well. So, He hung on that tree, and became a curse so we would not be cursed.
This informed the declaration of Paul in Galatians 3:13-14 about what it meant for Jesus to hang on a tree and be accursed for us; “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”.
-It all means that when I got born again I escaped every kind of curse both in my life, family and from any witch or devil anywhere.
By reason of what transpired on the cross that day I became uncursable, and so did you. Walk in that consciousness and live a life free of fear.
Action Points
i. Do some further study of today’s text and lesson by reading and making personal references so the revelations of the cross would sink deeper.
ii. Say it over and over your life that Christ had redeemed you from all forms of curses as He hung on that cross of Calvary.
Prayer
-Lord I declare that I am uncurable in Jesus Name.
-I stand on the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross over my life in Jesus Name.
Nugget
When I got born again I escaped every kind of curse both in my life, family and from any witch or devil anywhere.
For Further Reading and Meditation
MORNING
Micah 2; Revelations 2
EVENING
Psalms 117
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