In Christ, we have been redeemed from generational and every other curse (3/4)

The curse from breaking the Law isn't limited to Jews alone. Without God's saving Grace and His gift of Righteousness to us in Christ, even non-Jews or atheists who neither have nor believe the Mosaic law still get to endure the curse and perish for their sins. Like the law of gravity which does not require one to believe that it exists before the one who leaps from a high-rise building splats on the concrete below, the law of sin and death which governs all who depend on themselves (and not Christ) to be called “good” (be like God,) it does not require belief in God the RIGHTEOUS JUDGE to CONDEMN those who are under it to death.

See Romans 2 (The Passion Translation) for what “law” entails—

12 “When people who have never been exposed to the laws of Moses commit sin, they will still perish for what they do. And those who are under the law of Moses and fail to obey it are condemned by the law. 13 For it’s not merely knowing the law that makes you right with God, but doing all that the law says that will cause God to pronounce you innocent.

14 For example, whenever people who don’t possess the law as their birthright commit sin, it still confirms that a “law” is present in their conscience. For when they instinctively do what the law requires, that becomes a “law” to govern them, even though they don’t have Mosaic law.”

See the NKJV- “12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law 13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; 14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)”

To digress a bit, many churchgoers misinterpret verse 13 in bold above and say that Paul meant that believers have to be doers of the Law in order to be justified before God. Not so. When this verse is read alongside the verses before and after it, we see its context: some Jewish believers felt that they were in a special boat of righteousness because it was to the Jews that the law was given. The Jews were hearers of the law and did their best to be doers. But even the severely-religious Pharisees failed at obeying the law. None of them could cast the first stone. The Gentile Christians were not hearers of the Law much less doers. But the Jews who believed that being a hearer gave them some advantage over Gentile believers forgot one thing that is clearly stated in Deut. 28:1, 15: you have to be a doer of all the over 600 laws in order to be justified by the Law as well as escape the curse, hence what Paul wrote in the very next chapter-Romans 3:20-

“20 For no person will be justified [freed of guilt and declared righteous] in His sight by [trying to do] the works of the Law. For through the Law we become conscious of sin [and the recognition of sin directs us toward repentance, but provides no remedy for sin].”

In essence, most, if not all of us alive today would not have been born to receive God's abundance of Grace, His salvation in Christ and freedom from the curse of the Law if the Lord had visited the full wages of our parents' parents’ iniquities and those before them on them. If they all had to bear the full load of the punishment for their iniquity, they would have died without descendants as did Judah's son Onan in Genesis 38:8-10; as would have the Israelites who sinned against God in the wilderness and whom God was going to wipe out but for Moses’ bringing up the generational curse (God's word) to plead on behalf of the Israelites. No “us” to enjoy God's saving Grace: Christ Himself Who hung on the cross to free us from every single curse of the law, generational or otherwise.

The generational curse is God's word. Not a single jot of it will pass away without being fulfilled. Break the Law and face the curse. Believer, thank God for His Grace through our Lord Jesus Christ. In Christ, we are not under Law but under Grace where no generational or other curse can hold sway in our lives! For we who are in Christ, we have been redeemed from the curse of the Law, including the generational curse. See Galatians 3:13-

"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."

See the New Living Translation - 13 "But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When He was hung on the cross, He took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

Jesus did not have to hang to die. In fact, stoning to death was the means of putting people to death for breaking the Mosaic Law. In fact, when the Scriptures (Old Testament) — “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree”— was written, death by crucifixion was not a thing. It came with the advent of the Romans. Christ hung on the cross specifically to redeem us from generational and every other curse, beloved.

Because God so loved us and does not want any to perish or languish under the curse, He gave His own Son to hang on the cross to redeem us from the curse of the Law. Yet there are many churchgoers who still experience symptoms of the curse! Galatians 3:10 tells us why:

10 “Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse. For the scripture says, “Whoever does not always obey everything that is written in the book of the Law is under God's curse!”11 Now, it is clear that no one is put right with God by means of the Law, because the scripture says, “Only the person who is put right with God through faith shall live.” 12 But the Law has nothing to do with faith. Instead, as the scripture says, “Whoever does everything the Law requires will live.”

13 But by becoming a curse for us Christ has redeemed us from the curse that the Law brings; for the scripture says, “Anyone who is hanged on a tree is under God's curse.” 14 Christ did this in order that the blessing which God promised to Abraham might be given to the Gentiles by means of Christ Jesus, so that through faith we might receive the Spirit promised by God.”

See verse 10 in a different version— 

“Anyone who tries to please God by obeying the Law is under a curse. The Scriptures say, “Everyone who doesn't obey everything in the Law is under a curse.””

‭‭Galatians‬ ‭3:10‬ ‭CEV‬‬

Many of us read verse 10 above and think it means "people who break the Law are cursed." But read again. It is people who are trying to obey the Law in order to get right with God that are cursed. No one can keep the whole Law and keeping everything is a prerequisite for freedom from the curse.

To “have Faith” is simply believing that what God’s word says is true. The Law is not of faith so no blessing of Abraham for anyone who tries to keep the Law or is doing it’s works like depending on 70 days fasts in order to be godly or to get God to bless. There is no blessing for the one who is expressing his unbelief in Christ and His finished work by fasting for 70 days in order to redeem himself from generational or other curses which Christ hung on the cross to redeem us from. Only the curse remains for such