Receiving Healing through the Atonement (8): REDEEMED from the CURSE (1)

There is only one remedy for the curse – the Cross of Christ, where He redeemed us from the curse, having become a curse for us, so that we might receive the blessing of healing through faith (Galatians 3:13-14). The curse is the consequence of sin, and is described in Deuteronomy 28:15-61, and it includes every kind of sickness (v61). So every sickness is part of the curse, and Christ has redeemed us on the Cross from the curse. Therefore He has redeemed us from every sickness. So Divine Healing must be in the Atonement. The removal of the Curse of Sickness through the Cross is revealed through 2 Types of Christ: (1) the Serpent on the Pole (Numbers 21) and (2) the man who bears the curse by being hung on a tree (Deuteronomy 21:21-23). In Galatians 3:13, Paul quotes from this passage, to explain how Christ took the curse for us on the Cross: "for it is written: “CURSED is everyone who hangs on a TREE.” A guilty man who committed a crime worthy of death was (1) executed, then (2) hung on a tree, and then (3) buried before sunset. In this way, the curse (defilement) of his sin was removed from the land. Derek shows how Jesus fulfilled the requirements of Deuteronomy 21 for the curse to be removed from us, by taking our place, bearing our sin, becoming a curse for us, and dying the death that we deserved, and being buried on the same day before sunset. Christ (1) died for us, (2) He was hung on a tree for us, and (3) He was buried on the same day, fulfilling the requirements of Deuteronomy 21 for the curse to be removed from us. So for sin and its curse to be removed from us it requires a sin-bearer to bear the curse by being nailed to a tree and becoming the curse, and suffering the penalty of death, and then he must be buried before sunset. This is exactly what Jesus did for us in His death and burial. So God put in the Law in Deuteronomy 21 a picture of God’s remedy for the curse of sin, which Jesus fulfilled in His death and burial. Having removed the curse of sickness from us, He then poured out His blessing of healing upon us through His resurrection life.