In a recent movie released on Netflix called, 'The news of the world', which is set in the period after the civil war. The main character played by Tom Hanks is a Capt. Jefferson who fought in the civil war, when he returns home,, he meets up with an old friend, and they speak of Jefferson's wife who died while he was away at the war. His friend says to him, 'it was just one of those things', but Jefferson disagreed and said it was a curse from God , for the things he had done during the war. Was he under a curse ? ,it is true that in God's word we have God cursing, the earth, nations, even his own people, our Saviour did curse a fig tree, which had a symbolic meaning in relation to Israel. But as to the hear and now, there is no clear teaching on this ,of course God does deal with evil hear and now, that is different than saying what Jefferson said. He may have felt he was under a curse, but he wasn't. So we can all relax, or can we?, in Deuteronomy 27 v 26, we read ,'Cursed is anyone who does not affirm the words of this law, by doing them'. In Galatians 3 v 10,we read,' Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God's book of the law'. No one be it Jew or Gentiles can keep the law perfectly ,we have all broken Gods law, that makes us sinners. Roman 3 v 23.So we are all under a curse, and unless that curse is removed no one will be saved, we will all go to a lost eternity. So that's very bad ,but the gospel is good news, let me just say the law was not given to save us, it is to teach us that we need to be saved, but how?. In Galatians 3 v 10 - 12, Christ died to rescue us from that curse, by becoming a curse ,when he hung on the cross, it means simple, that when we trust Christ as our Saviour ,the curse upon us is removed.
Therefore , there is now no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8 v1 .
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