Reverse The Curse | Pastor KJay Johnson | Radiant Church TXK

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If you're taking notes, the title of my sermon is "Reverse the Curse." Reverse the curse. This is going to be good today, y'all. Reverse the curse. And I just want to talk to you a little bit about the cross. And I want you to know something about the cross: that the cross wasn't just an accident. It wasn't a surprise for Jesus. It wasn't something that he just stumbled upon. The cross was planned. The cross was planned. It wasn't just a tragedy. It was a transaction. It wasn't just Jesus paying for your sins, but it was Jesus becoming the substitution for your sins. That he would literally go and take your place. That the cross was a plan. The Bible says he was the lamb slain before the foundations of the earth, which means that he had already decided to go for you. If you was, if you was to ever sin, if mankind was to ever sin, that Jesus had a conversation with the Father and he said, "Father, if they were to ever sin, I would go. I will be the lamb slain before the foundations of the earth." And it's a beautiful story that Jesus came, he took your place, he switched places with you, and every price you were supposed to pay, he paid. Everything you were supposed to go through, he went through. Everything that was supposed to happen to you, it happened to Jesus on the cross.

And you may wonder, why did he have to die such a gruesome death on the cross? It is because God is holy. God is just, and God is righteous. And Jesus had to die a death that was worthy of all the sins that every person had ever committed. He had to die for Saddam Hussein's sins. He had to die for Hitler's sins. He had to die for the worst sins of the world. And it was God punishing sin through the person of Jesus. And that punishment had to match the price of sin. And this is why Jesus had to die. And he died for you. He died for me. He died for the worst people that would ever live. And Christianity is the only story where the hero dies for the villain.

See, I want you to know something. Yeah, you can clap. Come on. Come on. Yeah, we holler back, church. Clap. I want you to know, church, that we were the villains. That we were the people that sinned against God, but Jesus died for us. No movie you watch, you see the hero die for the villain. Batman doesn't die for Joker. Joker dies. Batman gets to live. Thor doesn't die for the little weird people on the planet. Thor lives, they die. Never the hero dies for the villain. But in Christianity, the hero dies for the villain. That Jesus died for the people that was killing him. That's our God. Come on, somebody. And if you were the only person in the world, he would die for you. And I want you to know, you have been justified by Christ Jesus. Justified means justified, never sinned. When the Father sees you, he sees you as if you never sinned. He sees you as if you never made a mistake. Why? Because he doesn't see what you did. He sees what Jesus did for you on the cross. And I just want you to know that nails did not hold Jesus to the cross. His love for you did. And he wasn't killed. He was crucified. But he was not killed because he said this: He said, "No man take my life. I lay it down." And the reason why he laid down his life because after three days, he was going to pick it back up. Come on, somebody.

We're going to preach today. This is going to be good. You guys ready? Yes, sir.

All right. We've got some scripture reading, and then after that, we're going to preach. Okay. All right. We're going to go to Genesis 3. We've got quite a bit of scripture reading. Y'all lean in. It's going to be good. Genesis 3:1. It says, "Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, 'Has God indeed said, you shall not eat of every tree?'" And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the tree of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, God said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch, lest you die.'" Then the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not surely die. Here he is twisting the word. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasing to the eye, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise. And she took of its fruit and ate. That's important. So she also gave her husband. He ate with her. So, uh, her husband with her, and he ate, which you can't blame him too much, 'cause my wife offered me some fruit. I'm like, "Hey." So, just saying. Verse seven. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew, uh, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden."

Now, this is really sad because they're hiding themselves from what they was made for. They're hiding themselves from the presence of God. And I get it because my daughter does this. She does something wrong, she hides under the bed. It's her thing. Um, the other day she poked me in the eye, and I was like, "Ow." Then she hid under the blanket looking sad. I'm like, "You heard me, ma'am. Like, what's going on here?" Verse 9. "Then the Lord God called to Adam and said, 'Where are you?'" God said, "Where you at? Where you at?" You know what I'm saying? So, he said, "I heard the, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked and hid myself." And God said, "Who told you that you were naked?" See, you wouldn't even know you was naked if you didn't eat the fruit. But now your eyes are open, and you can see. "Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?" This is what God said. And then the man said, "The woman you gave to be with me? She gave me of the tree and I ate." And the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" Then she said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." Translation: "The devil made me do it."

We jump down to verse 17. Then it says, Adam said, "Because God said this to Adam. God said to Adam, 'Because you have heeded the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree which I commanded you, saying, you shall not eat, cursed is the ground for your sake. And in toil, you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorn and thistle it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face, you shall eat bread till, till you return to the ground. For out of it you were taken, for, uh, for dust you are, and dust you shall return.'" And we jump down to verse 24. And I'm almost done reading. I know it's a lot. And verse 24 says, "So he drove out the man, and he placed, uh, cherubims at the east of the garden, and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the way of the tree of life." A flaming sword by the cherubim had a flaming sword that turned each way to guard the tree of life. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Okay, let's unpack this. So God created everything. Everything is amazing. Everything is beautiful. Everything is the way it's supposed to be. In the midst of the garden, which meant the middle of the garden, the center of the garden. Ain't it like God to put his tree in the center of the garden? He said, "Don't eat of the tree in the midst of the garden." It meant in the middle of the garden. Why did he put the tree in the middle? Because God wants to be in the center of your life. He doesn't want to be on the side. He doesn't want to be on the back. He doesn't want to be on the outskirts. He wants to be in the center of your life because he wants to be prioritized. And I want you to know this is bigger than fruit. God used fruit to symbolize something so much deeper. He used fruit to symbolize honor and priority. Honor and priority. So he put it in the middle of the garden because every day they woke up, every day they ate, every day they moved, he wanted them to see that tree to remind them: God is the center of your life, and He's your priority. He's the center of your life, and He's your priority. He's the center of your life, and He's your priority. And it was in the middle, and they could freely eat of everything as long as they knew that the thing in the center didn't belong to them. It belonged to God. The fruit in the center didn't belong to them. It belonged to God, and it was forbidden fruit because it was God's fruit. And God had this principle, you see, throughout the Bible of first fruits. And it's, and it's you setting aside what's first or what would mean most to you. You setting that aside for God. And Adam and Eve, they ate of it. They were deceived by the serpent, and they ate. And after they ate it, God came. And God was like, "Where y'all at?" And they, they were like, "We're hiding, and we're naked, and we're ashamed. We're ashamed of our sin. We're ashamed of what we did." And then God asked Adam, he said, "Adam, what have you done?" And Adam said, like a classic man, "Lord, it was that woman you gave me." Men, we have to take accountability. But Adam, this fool had nerve. He didn't say it was the woman. He said it was the woman you gave me.

Translation: "God, it ain't just her fault. It's your fault, too."

You got nerve to blame your wife, but then you turn around and blame God. Those are two people you don't want to play with. That's two people. My wife told me all the time, "The Lord's going to get you, and if He doesn't, I will." I'm like, "I don't want to see neither one of y'all. What I need to do?" So, he blamed his wife. And then when his wife heard that, she was like, "Well, the devil made me do it." And she blamed the devil. Now, women, we, you know what? Never mind. I'm going to skip that. Ain't going to say nothing about that. What was you saying about us in your sermon? Uh, absolutely nothing. We're going to skip over that. So, anyways, the devil was blamed, and we're going to leave it there. So, we were shifting blame. But the truth is, nobody can be blamed but themselves because they chose to prioritize eating that over leaving it for God. And that was God's forbidding tree, which was a symbol of first fruits. Come on, somebody.

It was, and it wasn't about some of y'all like, "Man, God's hungry." God ain't hungry. It wasn't about the fruit. It was about what the fruit represented. It represented honor, and it represented priority. And it represented God being first. God don't want to be last in your life. He wants to be first. He don't want to be on the outskirts. He wants to be in the middle.

So when they ate it, they were naked. They were shameful. And then God, God killed an animal. He, he covered them because God always covers us in our shame. He always covers us in our shame. But then God done something. And it was so sad. God drove them out of the garden. And the Garden of Eden meant spot or God's presence, which means they were driven out of God's presence. And a cherubim guarded it with a flaming sword. Translation: God said, "Don't try to walk back in here. Don't play with me." It wasn't a security guard. It was a cherubim with a flaming sword. I don't even know what that looked like, but I know I wouldn't want to find out.

So, it was guarding the entrance where the tree of life was and where the garden was. They were moved out. They were moved out of God's presence. This is the saddest day in the Bible because they were moved out of what they were created for. You were created for the presence of God. When we worshiped here a second ago, you were made for it. You were created for it. Why? Because when you're in the presence of God, you're like a fish in water. When you're in the presence of God, you're like a cheetah on a safari. When you're in the presence of God, you're like an eagle in the sky. When you're in the presence of God, you're in your natural habitat. Some of you guys probably didn't know what was happening, but you felt emotional. You felt a pull because you were created for His presence. You were created for His glory. You were created to be near God. And they were removed out of what they were created for. They were removed out of His presence. And then God said, "You guys have activated the curse." And because they activated the curse, He said, "Thorn and thistles will be on the ground." He said, "You will eat from the sweat of your brow now. Everything is going to be hard and difficult." Which means that life wasn't designed to be difficult. It was designed to be easy. But because we sin, we made life difficult. Which means before the curse was activated, we could live life downhill where everything comes easy. But now we live life uphill where everything comes hard. You want to be cute, don't eat. I bet before they activated this curse, you ate donuts and got buff. You ate carrots and got fat. And this is why you can't have a donut. And this is why you can't have a sneaker. And this is why you can't eat no fried chicken and no potatoes. 'Cause what they did? Life is hard now. I didn't get in this outfit. What they didn't did would have been eating donuts, was just losing weight like, "Praise God, this is awesome. I lost three pounds with a cookie in your hand." It don't work like that no more. Because the curse was activated. So, they activated this curse because they didn't give to God what was His first. God said, "I don't want any tree. I don't want any fruit. I want first fruits. I want what's first."

So God establishes this principle, and then we go down a generation to Cain and Abel. And Cain gave God an offering. It was just any kind of offering. He just gave God leftovers, and God rejected his offering. Abel brought God a great offering. He gave Him the first of his livestock, and God accepted Abel's offering. He accepted Abel's, but He rejected Cain's. Why? Because Abel had a chance to make it right where his parents made it wrong. He had a chance to reverse the curse. He had a chance to do it different because God's not going to just judge you over somebody else eating His first fruits. He's going to see if you eat His first fruits.

And though even the parents dropped the ball, and they ate the first fruits, he gave God the first of his livestock, but his brother did just like the parents. And God rejected his brother's offering, and God accepted his offering. And I got a question for you, Radiant Church: What do you do with your first fruits? Maybe your first fruits is your time. And are you going to give it to Jesus and prioritize Him, or are you going to just be an Easter Christian? 'Cause God don't just want your Easter leftovers. He wants to be first every week. He wants to be first every Sunday. He wants to be first every day. He don't just want you to pray when things get hard. He wants you to pray while things are easy until they get hard. He don't just want you to read the Word when you need a word. He wants you to read the Word because you need His presence, and you need His glory, and you need His Spirit.

God's not just looking for some sometimes Christians because the problem we have in America is we want to be part-time Christians and call on a full-time God. And God said, "I need some full-time believers and full-time children." So, I just want you to know, if you're like, "Why could Adam and Eve eat that fruit? What was they thinking?" I just want you to know you do it every week. You do it every day that God gives you something in the midst of your garden, in the middle of your life, which is your time, your treasure, your service. And what do you do? Do you give God back what's His first, or do you keep it for yourself? My God.

And what happened here was Jesus was a foreshadowing of Abel because Abel gave his first fruit. His brother, his brother got jealous and killed him. Jesus was the first fruits, and his brothers got jealous, and they nailed Him on the cross and killed Him. He was the foretype of Abel. But then the Bible says when Cain killed Abel, when Abel's blood spilled on the ground, the Bible declares that Abel's blood was crying out to God. God said He can hear Abel's blood crying out. And His blood was crying out for justice. "This wasn't right. This wasn't fair. Bring justice." Abel's blood cried out.

And Jesus was a type of Abel because He was first fruits. He was giving back what had been taken. And I'm going to show you something in your Bible real quick. Hebrews 12:24. It says to Jesus, 12:24, it says to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. He's establishing a new thing, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. So it says, "Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel." In other words, Jesus is a type of Abel. But here's the difference: When Abel was murdered by his brother, his blood cried for justice. But when Jesus was murdered by His brothers, His blood cries for forgiveness.

His blood cries for redemption. His blood preaches a better word. His blood says, "Even though you crucify me, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Even though you rejected me, I'm accepting you. Even though you're being separate from me, I'm coming close to you. Even though you're running from me, I'm running after you because my blood preaches a better message. My blood ain't preaching for justice like Abel's blood. My blood is preaching for forgiveness." The blood of Jesus wants to forgive you, cleanse you, save you, and restore you. Can we give Him a shout of praise in this place?

His blood is preaching a better sermon, a sermon of forgiveness, a sermon of restoration. Because Jesus was coming to do something that no one could. Jesus was coming to reverse the curse. Everyone say, "Reverse." Reverse. "The." The. "Curse." Curse. One more time. "Reverse." Reverse. "The." The. "Curse." Curse.

The curse. The curse was activated in Genesis. When we see thorn and thistle, it comes on the ground. Thorn and thistle. It's a symbol of the curse. It was activated. And here's the problem with the curse: Many of you guys see the sins that were done against God and you say, "Why can't God just let it go? Why can't God just forgive it? Just let it go. Uh, why does it have to be so gruesome? Why did, why can't Jesus just come and die of lethal injection? Like, why does it got to be that serious?" I'll tell you why it has to be that serious is because the same way the curse was written is the same exact way the curse has to be unwritten. Wow. The same way the curse was written is the same exact penstroke it has to be erased with. Wow. Which means God says, "Everything that you did to activate the curse, you have to do the opposite to annihilate the curse." Come on now. So, everything that brought the curse, Jesus would have to do the reversal to, to, to break the curse, to reverse the curse. So, in order for Him to reverse the curse, He would have to, He would have to rewind the curse. Everything that they played out, He would have to rewind to reverse the curse, to put it back how it was before the curse was ever activated. Come on, somebody. But Jesus would have to legally qualify to be a carrier of your curse, my curse, Adam's curse, Eve's curse, all people's curse. How did Jesus qualify? I'm going to show you because God set up Mosaic law for Jesus to qualify to take on your curse. Deuteronomy 21:22 reads, "If a man has committed a sin deserving of death," you want to know what sin that is? All of them. That little white lie, that's deserving of death in the eyes of a holy God. "And he is put to death and you hang him on a tree. His body shall not remain overnight on a tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the Lord your God has given you as an inheritance. For he who is hanged on a cross or on a tree is accursed of God."

Which means that when someone hangs, hanging on a tree means you're cursed of God. This is why Jesus had to die on a cross because a cross is made out of a tree, and He had to hang on a tree because it was a symbol of being cursed by God. And He was a curse because He wore your curse. And if you think I'm reaching, let me just read what the Apostle Paul said in Galatians 3. It says, "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.'" It ain't just me. This is Paul talking now. So now, through the Mosaic law, the curse is now put on Jesus. And the curse is sin. The curse is all the things we have done, and all the things that's deserving of death. You want to know who deserves to be dead? Us. You want to know who deserved to be executed? Us. Why? Because our sins demand justice, and justice demands payment. And you may be like, "This ain't a big deal." Yeah, it is. Because if someone stole or murdered from you, and if our judic, if, if our, if our judicial system said they can just go free, you would be angry. You would be crying out on social media, you would be frustrated. Why? Because you would say that this deserves payment. Yeah. And if you would expect that out of earthly judicial, how much more should you expect out of heavenly judicial? If you would expect an earthly judge to uphold the law, how much more should the righteous, the perfect, the holy God uphold His law? And your sins demand a payment, but you can never pay it. So now you're supposed to be hung on a tree because of your sins. And Jesus said, "You don't have to be hung on a tree because He'll hang on a tree for you and me." And He would be a curse for you. And He would have to perfectly, intrinsically, and thoroughly undo the curse. He would have to break it. He would have to erase it. He would have to eradicate it. And He would have to do that by reversing and undoing everything that the curse activated. I'm going to show you the activated curse, and I'm going to show you how Jesus annihilated the activated curse. You guys ready?

Yes, sir.

Genesis 3:17. Let's go back so we can see the curse being activated. It says to Adam, He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife and you have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, you shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for your sake. And in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorn and thistle it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herbs of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground. For out of it you were taken, for dust you are, and dust you shall return." I was preaching a different sermon up until 2 AM last night. Couldn't sleep. The Holy Spirit woke me up. He started telling me this, and He took me straight to the scripture because He wanted you to hear this, so don't miss it. I've never heard some of the things I'm about to say preached. Holy Spirit gave it to me. I'm not saying it ain't never been preached. I never heard it. But He gave it to me. He woke me up last night. I'm tired 'cause I got woke up. So y'all hear me good. I was like, "Lord Jesus, I'm going to sleep." He said, "Get up. I got a word." Yeah. I was like, "Lord, you had all week to give me that word. As much time I spent with you this week, you had all week." He said, "I'm giving it to you now." I said, "Amen. I ain't going to complain." Even though I'm kind of complaining. Um, so the curse was activated. So, the curse had to be reversed. So, what do we see when a curse is activated? The Bible says thorn and thistle would be on the ground. What did Jesus do? Jesus had a crown of what? On His head? Thorns. Because He was taking the curse on His head so He could take the curse off your head. He was taking a curse on His head so He could take the curse off of your head. Because of the curse, the Bible says your heart, your life will be hard and it will be difficult. And Jesus said, "I'm taking a curse on my head so your life don't have to be as hard and it don't have to be as difficult." He said, "I'm taking a curse off of your head and putting it on my head." Which means right now in this room, the curse is broken off of your head. If you have anxiety going in your mind, it's broken right now. If you have depression going on in your mind, it's broken right now. If you have fear and shame going on in your mind, it's broken right now in the name of Jesus. He's breaking a curse off your head. He's breaking a curse off of your life. He's breaking a curse off of your kids. He's breaking a curse off of your family in the name of Jesus. The curse is broken. Jesus put the curse on His head so He can take the curse off of your head. He broke the curse.

Then the Bible says you will eat from the sweat of your brow. When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, what did He start doing? He started sweating blood. And He was sweating blood because He was sweating blood so you don't have to anymore. He was sweating blood because He took your toil, your anxiety, your pressure, your pain on His own head and blood came out of His ooze and ooze out of His pores like sweat would have to ooze out of yours. Which means you won't have to work for this no more. You won't have to fight for this because it's not by works, lest any man should boast. It's the gift of God, and Jesus had to work for it so you won't have to. He took thorns on His head for the curse. The sweat that was supposed to be on your brow came out of His forehead and blood because He was wearing and taking your curse.

Adam and Eve when they sinned, they said were naked. They ran. They saw fig leaves and then they hid from God because that's full of shame. Jesus, the God of this universe, sat on a cross and got His clothes stripped. And they cast lots for His clothes. They gambled His clothes off, and He's sitting on a cross dying naked in shame so you won't have to wear it no more. So when you have that regret of maybe someone you lay with and you were naked and full of shame, He said, "I was naked so now you can be covered. I was stripped in shame so now you don't have to sit in shame. I was in guilt so you don't have to get in guilt. I wore your curse so you don't have to." He was stripped naked so you can be clothed now. Clothed in righteousness. He covers you with His righteous robe. Oh, come on somebody.

Then when He was on the cross, He said, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" Which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Translation: God, why are you separating yourself from me? Because in the garden, when Adam and Eve sinned, they were driven out of the garden. Yeah. To be separated from the presence of God. So now on the cross, God is taking His presence away from Jesus, and He's forsaken Jesus so He can turn His face towards you. He's separating from Jesus so He can reconnect with you. And then when Moses got ready, when, when they got ready to make the veil that would create the Holy of Holies and the holy place where the Ark of the Covenant would be, where we can go in as, go in as people is the presence of God, the Ark of the Covenant behind the veil, we couldn't go in because we would drop dead because we couldn't be in the presence of God. Moses was instructed on that veil, "I need you to put cherubims on it." What is a cherubim? The same angel that was guarding the presence of God in Eden with the flaming sword. And now a cherubim is on the veil to remind the people, "You can't go in. You don't have access." Well, when Jesus died on the cross, the earthquake, and then the Bible says the earth went dark. Why would the earth go dark? Is because Jesus is the light of the world. And the Bible says in Genesis, on the first day, there was light. The sun wasn't created until the fourth day. Which means the Son of God illuminated the earth for three days before the sun was ever created. Which means the light got its light from the sun. The sun got its light from the sun. Which means when the sun, S-O-N, lost His light, the sun, S-U-N, lost its light. And it was darkness on the face of the earth. Because when the Son lost His light, the other son said, "I don't want to shine no more." And then the Bible says that the veil, which was so thick, if you tied two horses to it in opposite directions and ran them, they couldn't tear it. The Bible says God tore the veil from top to bottom. Translation: God was saying, "Cherubim, get out the way. They can come in now. They can enter the presence now. They got access to me again. They can come back into my presence. They can come to the Holy of Holies now. And they don't have to just come to the Garden of Eden. I put the Garden of Eden on the inside of them. The Holy Spirit takes residence inside of them. I'm reversing the curse."

I'm reversing the curse. So everything that happened, He reversed. Of this part right here, the Bible says two things more in the activation of the curse. It says, "You shall be cursed till death." Which means this is why Jesus had to die because He said the curse will only be broken by death. But why didn't Jesus die and get right back up? But then the Bible also said, "But the ground for your sake is cursed." So when Jesus died, He broke the curse, but the ground was still cursed. So Jesus had to go to the grave to break the curse from the ground. And He had to take the keys of death, hell, and the what? Grave to break the curse off of the grave. And I just want you to know Jesus got up with all power and authority in His hands with the keys to death, hell, and the grave. Which means Satan don't have the keys to his house. Why do you give him the keys to your house? He ain't even got keys to his own house. He ain't got no keys no more because Jesus took the keys. And what is a key? It's an access point, which means he don't have a right or access to come into your life. He can only come in through an open door. He can only come into your life or into your marriage or into your kids if you invite them in. But you keep that door closed. Oh, you keep it closed. When my mama would leave, she would say, "I'm about to leave." And boy, I need you to lock that door. And she would say, "And when I tell you to lock that door, don't let nobody in." And mama meant, "Don't let nobody in." And I'm like, "Okay, Mama. I won't let nobody in." Next thing you know, sister comes to the door. Mama said, "Don't let nobody in." And she meant nobody. Boy, let me in here. Mama said, "Nobody." Brother comes to the door. Let me in. Mama said, "Don't let nobody in." She meant nobody. I, they stuck outside. Daddy, come. Boy, open this door. Mama said, "Don't let nobody in." She meant nobody. I mean, nobody. Why? Because Mama said, "Don't open that door unless I'm at that door." I want to tell you, don't open your door for no devil, no witch, or no warlock. The only person you open your door for is Jesus. Don't open the door for no demonic forces. Don't open it for anxiety. Don't open it for depression. You only open that door for Jesus.

He's the only one that has access to your life and the people He has authorized. Other than that, we're going to lock the door and we're not going to let the devil in. Let's give God a shout of praise.

And then my last point as I get ready to close, which is 1 Corinthians 15, verse 20 through 22. It says, "But now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the what? First fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For by man death, by, by for since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead." In other words, Adam brought the curse of death, but Jesus broke the curse and brought resurrection from the dead. For all in Adam all died. See, it's taking us back to the garden. For as in Adam all died. Why? The curse is activated. Even so, in Christ all shall be made alive. The curse is broken off of your life. So the question is, we see why Jesus had to die on a tree. We see why He had to be hung. We see why He had to be gruesome. We see why He had to die. We see why He had to go to the grave and get the keys to, to the grave to reverse the curse. Now the question is, why did He have to be dead three days? He had to be dead three days. Is because three is a symbol of resurrection. Come on. Because the first resurrection on planet Earth came after three days. What are you talking about, preacher? You go to your Bible in Genesis. This is Genesis tying back to the cross. And God's weeded it here all along. People miss it. When God created the earth, there was, there was, there was these six days of creation. And the closest picture we have of resurrection on the earth is fruit. Here's why: Fruit is a picture of resurrection. You open your fruit, you take the seed of your fruit, you put it in the ground and you plant it. It looks dead, and then after a amount of time, it pops back up as a tree and it produces fruit. It's a picture of resurrection. This is why God is calling Jesus the first fruits because He will be the first resurrection back from the dead. Amen. Which means that if all of this is connecting to reverse the curse in Genesis, what day in Genesis did the first fruits pop out of the earth? Third day. The third day. So if the first fruits on planet Earth came up on the third day, that means God's first fruits, which is Jesus, must come out of the earth, what? On the third day. Come on, somebody. He's reversing the curse. He's reversing the curse.

So everything had to be reversed. And if you look at the sequence of Jesus's death, they, that the curse activated thorns. He had to wear a crown of thorns on His head. Why was He nailed inside of His hands? Is because Adam and Eve's hands took off the tree. So now His hands were nailed on the tree because their hands took off the tree. Why was His feet nailed to the tree? Because Genesis 3:15 said the seed of the serpent will crush the heel of the seed of the woman. In other words, it prophesied that Jesus would crush His heel, and the heel was symbolic of life. He had to pin His feet to the cross to show that He would die.

Next, when Jesus was on the cross and He was there, and He had died, what is death symbolized as? Going to sleep. There was a soldier that pierced Him on His side, and blood and water came out, which is, which is atonement and baptism. It came out of His side while He was sleeping. Why? Because when Adam was asleep, His bride came out of His side. And the bride of Christ came out of the side of Jesus while He was on the cross. I'm preaching good right now. I'm preaching good. I can feel the Holy Spirit. I'm preaching good. He had to reverse it all. Why was Jesus pinned to the cross? Because the Father was saying, because Jesus is the first fruits, and they ate of the first fruits. When He pinned Jesus to the cross, He was saying, "Put my fruit back on the tree. Put it back."

And all of this was done for you and me. And because Jesus has reversed the curse, now your curse can be broken. Now the lies off of your life can be broken. Now the abuse on your life can be broken. Now the anguish and fear on your life can be broken. Jesus has reversed the curse and He has set you free. Can we give Him a shout of praise in this place?

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