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Curses
When you think of the word curse what do you think of?
Many people think of a curse word.
A forbidden word.
A bad word.
I don’t want to know which curse word you are thinking about right now.
But many people associate a curse with just a single word.
Some of us think about stories.
They think of fairy tales.
A wicked witch who puts a curse on a handsome prince.
My favorite curse comes from Shakespeares’s Macbeth.
There are 3 witches who tell of a curse upon Macbeth.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
second witch
Fillet of a fenny snake
In the cauldron boil and bake.
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blindworm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
The words crack me up.
Since Macbeth is a tragedy, this curse doesn’t work out well for him.
Today we read of another curse.
But this isn’t a curse that is brought about by some witch.
It’s not something that is brought only upon a couple people, or a handsome prince.
This is a curse that affects all people.
This is the deadliest of curses.
It’s the curse of the those created in the image of God having that image shattered.
Let’s read about the deadliest of curses.
Please open your Bibles to
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Curses aren’t really mentioned in the New Testament very much.
But they are found in the Old Testament.
We often think of a curse as something that turns a prince into a frog, or a a princess into an ogre.
But a curse is much worse than a physical deformity, a handicap, or changing the way you look.
A curse is the opposite of a blessing.
It’s the opposite of a blessing.
The word itself is almost the exact opposite of the word Gospel or good news.
It’s bad news.
In the book of Numbers, Balaam is hired by the Moabites to curse the Israelites.
To speak bad news upon them.
When Goliath stood before David in the field of battle, Goliath cursed David.
“Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”
That’s bad news.
We don’t like bad news.
We like good news.
We like blessings.
We love blessings from God.
I love hearing of the good things that He does.
But God can also pronounce curses, or bad news.
Think for example of the first time a curse is mentioned.
, Eve hands Adam the forbidden fruit, and Adam eats it.
There’s a curse.
What’s the curse?
Snakes are cursed.
Satan is cursed and told that one day an offspring would crush his head.
The curse is a change in man’s status before God.
He is still in God’s image, but the mirror has been shattered.
It’s as if you went to the Mona Lisa, and took a knife and cut right through the canvas.
That painting is still the Mona Lisa, it’s just ripped.
Adam’s is still the image of God, only now it’s tarnished.
It’s as if a knife went through that image.
Adam now is a sinner.
God is angry with the wicked.
That sin deserves God’s justice.
Adam’s work is cursed.
There will be thorns and thistles.
He will have pain.
Childbirth is cursed.
Childbirth will be painful.
And even worse, death is coming for Adam.
But it’s not just Adam who is facing this curse.
All of us are facing this curse.
How do we know of this curse?
It begins with a Cursed Law.
You see it in verse 10, “For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.’”
Paul is arguing against a group called the Judaizers.
These Judaizers said you must obey the Law in order to get to heaven.
They thought that their obedience to the Law is what made them worthy to enter God’s heavenly throne.
And Paul is saying it’s actually not that at all.
He’s saying, the Law isn’t here to save.
The Law isn’t here to make you worthy.
Actually, the Law does something completely different, it shows how we are not worthy, or not good.
It exposes our sin.
Instead of the law bringing righteousness, which is what the Judaizers said, it actually brings a curse..
says, “But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.”
If you fail to perfectly obey the law you are cursed.
Every part of your life is cursed.
You cities, your produce, what you make, what you eat, your children, your flocks, your efforts and your rest.
It’s all cursed.
What’s the theme there?
Disobedience to the law brings with it a curse.
There are some who think they need this law.
They are the adventurist, the thrill seeker, the person who doesn’t like boundaries.
They like being told, “You can’t do that.”
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