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Redeemed From the Curse of Poverty

You are redeemed from the curse of poverty. Some folks think that it is the will of God for a person to go through life and not ever have anything. We have heard that taught a lot in days gone by.
Sometimes it is easier to believe tradition than to believe the Bible. Many times, instead of actually believing the Bible, we believe what we’ve been taught that the Bible says—not what the Bible actually says.
you hear people say all the time, “The Bible teaches that money is the root of all evil.” The Bible doesn’t say that at all! It says the love of money is the root of all evil (1 Tim. 6:10), and you can be guilty of that sin and not have even one dime! Amen

Blessings
Bud

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Redeemed From the Curse of the Law

GALATIANS 3:13 13 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.
We are redeemed from the curse of the Law. What is the curse of the Law?
The Law invariably refers to the first five books of the Bible, also called the Pentateuch.
As you study those five books of the Law, you will find that the curse or the punishment for breaking God’s Law is threefold: It is poverty, sickness, and the second death. Jesus has redeemed us from the curse of poverty
(Deut. 28:15-68).
He has also redeemed us from the curse of sickness
(Deut. 28:15-68). Christ has redeemed us from the curse of death—that is, spiritual death or eternal separation from God now, and physical death when Jesus comes again. We need have no fear of the second death. Hell is the home of the spiritually dead and I’m not spiritually dead and neither are you if you are born again! Amen

שבת שלום  
Shabbat Shalom
ברכות לא קללות 
Blessings not Curses
Pastor Bud

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Confessing Who We Are in Christ

There are methods to studying the Bible. Believers should read through the New Testament, primarily the epistles which are written to the Church, and underline with a red pencil or write down the scriptures that have the expression “in Him,” “in Christ,” or “in whom,” referring to Jesus. The moment you find these scriptures, begin to confess that this is who you are and what you have. If you’ll do that, life will be different for you. Here are some scriptures to get you headed in that direction. Then you will have to find the rest on your own. When you find these scriptures, begin to confess that they are a reality in your life. We should confess of who we are in Christ. We should confess these scriptures not only before God, but before the world.

New Creatures in Christ
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17
We are new creatures in Christ Jesus. We are not just forgiven sinners. We are not poor, weak, staggering, sinning, “barely-getting-along” church members.

We are created by God in Christ Jesus
Eph. 2:10
We are new creatures created in Christ Jesus with the life of God, the nature of God, and the ability of God in us.

In Whom We Have Redemption
EPHESIANS 1:7,8
Satan’s dominion over our lives has been broken! Satan lost his dominion over your life the moment you became a new creature. In the new birth, you received a new lord, Jesus Christ.
These are but a few scriptures go and find more and stand on the Word. Amen

Blessings
Bud & Lena Nunley
jlnministries

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What Are We To Confess?

Our confession needs to center around these principal truths:

1. What God has done for us through Christ in His plan of salvation.
2. What God has done in us by the Word and the Holy Ghost in the new birth and the infilling of the Holy Ghost.
3. Who we are to God the Father in Christ Jesus.
4. What Jesus is presently doing for us at the right hand of the Father where He ever lives to make intercession for us.
5. What God can accomplish through us, or what His Word will accomplish through us as we proclaim it. Amen

Blessings
Bud & Lena Nunley
jlnministries

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The Positive Side of Confession

Very few Christians have actually realized and recognized the place that confession holds in the scheme of things. And it is to be regretted that whenever we use the word “confession,” folks invariably think of confessing sins, weaknesses, and failures. That is the negative side of confession, but there is a positive side. And the Bible has more to say about the positive side of confession than it does about the negative side. “to confess” means to acknowledge or to own up to or to acknowledge faith in. It also means to make confession of one’s faults. But remember, one definition is to make confession of one’s faith or to acknowledge faith in God’s Word. If we just live on one side of this confession subject—the negative side—and constantly confess our faults and failures, and that’s all we ever confess, then we are going to grow to be lopsided in our Christian life. This will build weakness and sin and failure-consciousness into our spirits. Christianity is called “The Great Confession.” Confessing is actually three things:
1. Confession is stating something we believe.
2. Confession is declaring something we know to be true.
3. Confession is proclaiming a truth we’ve accepted wholeheartedly. Confession is a proclamation of what you know to be true. Your confession states what you believe. Your confession declares something you know. And your confession proclaims a truth you have accepted wholeheartedly.

Blessings
Bud & Lena Nunley
jlnministries

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Right Thinking, Believing, and Confessing

Romans 10:10 says, “. . . with the MOUTH confession is made unto. . . .”
Right thinking and right believing and right confessing. What you think and what you believe will affect your confession—what you say.
If your thinking is right, your believing will be right because what you meditate on will eventually get down into your heart. And you will begin to believe what you have been meditating upon. If your believing is right then your confessing will be right. But if any one of the three is wrong—your thinking, your believing, or your confessing—then all three of them will be wrong.
God has given us His Word to get our thinking straightened out. And when we think in line with God’s Word, our believing will be right. When we are believing right, then what we say with our mouths will be right. Amen

Blessings
jlnministries

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Believing Plus Confessing Equals Activated Faith

Notice the latter part of Romans 10:10: “. . . with the mouth confession is made UNTO. . . .”
The text says that with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. But that’s not only true concerning salvation, it is true concerning anything else you receive from God. Everything you receive from God comes the same way—through faith.
It is with the heart that man believes when it comes to receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and it is with the mouth that confession is made unto this Pentecostal experience. Whatever it is that you receive from God, it is done the same way—through faith. Faith is activated by believing with your heart and confessing with your mouth. Amen

Blessings
Bud

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Faith Matters

It makes all the difference in the world whether we look at things the way the Word of God says, or the way we think things should be. Oh, when we can see things God’s way, what a big difference it makes!
“. . . If he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him” (James 5:15). When you understand the Bible, you can understand why God does things the way He does. You can understand why and how things work many times.
HEBREWS 10:1-4
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

This passage of Scripture tells of the failure of the blood of bulls and goats under the Old Covenant to take away sins. The blood of bulls and goats could only cover sins. Those animal sacrifices still left the sin in the heart of man. And with the sin was sin consciousness. But God, in our redemption in Christ, has redeemed us from sin consciousness. Once we have asked forgiveness for our sins, we don’t ever have to remember them again.
HEBREWS 9:14
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, PURGE YOUR CONSCIENCE from dead works to serve the living God?
1 JOHN 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to CLEANSE US from all unrighteousness.

If you sin, and you repent and confess your sin to God, you should have no more remembrance of it. God doesn’t, so why should you? Then you can see with what confidence we can come before God in prayer and know with a certainty that He hears us. Amen

Blessings
Bud