"Abiding In Him – No More Curse" by Nancy Dufresne

Galatians 3:13 & 14 reads, “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.”

     We are redeemed from the curse of the law – which is spiritual death, sickness, and poverty. “Redeem” means to buy back and to bring back to its former place. Jesus has redeemed us from the curse of the law – ALL of it! We are redeemed back to the place before Adam sinned. Jesus came to buy man back to the “image of God” and to the place where man once again walks and talks with God – like the time before Adam committed sin.

     Jesus purchased that for us, but it is up to US to experience and walk out that redeemed place. It is God’s plan and His provision for us that we have none of the effects of the curse clinging to our lives. All that is not of life, health, strength, soundness, comfort, purity, and holiness is of the curse.

     Proverbs 26:2 tells us, “…the curse CAUSELESS shall not come.” If any effect of the curse clings to us, then there’s a cause. Many times, the cause is due to an unrenewed mind. People who haven’t renewed their mind to what the Word says is theirs continue to think wrong, and the devil is able to hold effects of the old man on them – lack, sickness, fear, etc.

     Ephesians 4:22-24 instructs us, “That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” 

     The Amplified translation reads, “Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness.”

     Renewing the mind is spoken of as a factor as to which man you’re going to draw on in your everyday life – the old man or the new man. It’s the new man that has the life and nature of God in it. Before we were born again, the old man directed our thinking and our habits, but now we have to set aside what the old man taught us and put on what belongs to the new man.

     We are the ones who are instructed to put off the old and put on the new. Notice, the new man has to be put on – it’s not something that flows automatically. If we let the old man dominate us, then we will experience things as if we were still under the curse, although we’re not – things like lack, sickness, weakness, fear, etc.

     How do we put on the new man? We renew our minds with the Word, and we yield to our spirits instead of our flesh. 

     Colossians 2:6 instructs us, “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so WALK ye in him.” Paul wouldn’t instruct us to do this if there was no danger of not doing it. We are to ABIDE in Him. First John 2:6 tells us, “He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.” This is the place where we experience the fulness of redemption – to abide in Him – which means to walk as He walked and to live as He lived. We are to overcome as Jesus overcame. He is our example to follow.

     How seldom we find someone whom the effects of the curse aren't clinging to. How do we come to the place where there is no hint of the curse upon us? Abiding in Him. Doing as Psalm 91:1 says, “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall ABIDE under the shadow of the Almighty.” Nothing touches us there.

     How do we bear the most fruit possible? By abiding in His Presence. Don’t focus on bearing more fruit, but focus on abiding in His Presence – walk as Jesus walked, which is “walking in the Spirit.” 

     As we abide in Him, through walking as He walked, nothing of the curse can cling to us.