Amen. It's great singing.
Let's turn in our Bibles. Now to Revelation chapter 22,
Revelation chapter 22. We're going to read together.
The first date versus Reading, of course, from the authorized
version. Revelation 22.
Verses 1 to eat. Let's hear the word of the Lord.
And he showed me a pure River of Water of Life.
Clear, as Crystal proceeding out of the Throne of God and of the
Lamb. And the midst of the street of
it. And on, either side of the
river, was there the Tree of Life, which bare twelve manner
of fruits and yielded her fruit every month.
And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nation.
And there was no more curse, but the Throne of God and of the
Lamb shall be in it. And his servants Shall Serve
them and they shall see his face.
And his name shall be in their foreheads.
And there shall be no night there, and they need no candle,
neither light of the Sun for the Lord, God giveth them light.
And they shall reign forever and ever, and he said unto me, these
sayings are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the Holy
prophets sent his Angel to Shew unto his servants, the things
which must shortly be done, behold I come quickly blessed.
Is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book?
And I John saw these things and heard them and when I had heard
and seen I fell down to worship before the angel which showed me
these things a mammal. And the reading their adversity
it and we pray, the Lord will stomp with his own approval and
blessing, misreading of his own precious and infallible word to
my text tonight is taken from Revelation chapter 22 on the
verse 3. And it rage on there shall be no
more curse. And what we want to think about
tonight is this topic? No more curse.
Now, this is the sixth message in a miniseries on the subject,
the no mores of heaven. And here's something else that's
not in the new Heaven, and the new Earth.
Not only is there, no mercy, and no more death, and no more
sorrow, No More Tears and no more peeing.
But according to Revelation chapter 22, verse Three.
We are. Informed on.
There shall be no more curse. So here's the sixth thing that's
not find in heaven. No more curse night.
That is very interesting. That is instructive and I
believe we're being given an insight into what heaven is
really like you've got to think of the things that you will see
in heaven. And you've got to think of the
things that you'll not see whenever you get there.
And here's another of the things that's missing, there's no more
curse. Now, remember this is the sick
thing in the no mores of heaven. And Just remember in the Bible
is the number of man we got to think about the Antichrist 666
and the reference to the curse. Takes us back to the Garden of
Eden, takes us back to the fall of Adam and Eve and to in the
spirit of sin and misery and do you know that there's 169
references in the Bible to the word curse?
And the first reference, of course, is in the Book of
Genesis. And in Genesis Chapter 3 and in
the verse 14, that me read it to you, Genesis 3, and verse 14 and
the Lord, God said unto the serpent because thou Hast
dumbness that were cursed above all cattle, and above every
beast of the field upon thy belly, shalt, thou go and dust
shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
They that's the first reference. God told the serpent as a
punishment for his gal and crafts.
And subtlety, and deceiving Eve, Thou Art cursed above all
cattle. Now you, I believe the serpent
was a shining creature one. Who stood upright.
And yet not shining one was taken possession of by Satan
himself. Sitting used a serpent, The
Shining ones, spoke through him to began.
Eve and The Shining one became the slithering one because all
the days of his life, he was to go upon his ballet.
And that is why, of course, snakes Slither along the grind,
there's an ambulance of the curse of God and the last
reference of that 169 references to the word curse is revelation,
22 and verse 3, and there shall be no more curse.
That's what I want to preach on tonight.
You can follow the series if you're just visiting us.
It's on the Church website, already preached and five of
these. And a couple of weeks time were
preached on the seventh one and then that will finish this
series, they're also on YouTube and you can listen to them at
your leisure. Think, with me of three things,
one, the raisin for the curse is a Polish forever.
Whenever John was told and there shall be no more curse.
You've got to ask this question. What was the reason for the
curse and the first place and the simple answers.
This the curse came about as a result of sin.
Now, I want you to think of the curse of the serpent, Genesis 3
14. The very first reference curse
should aren't die above all cattle.
As I've said this, shining one became the slithering one
because he was the instrument, the devil used to Begay, leave
and deceive her. And through her, then her
husband disobeyed God's prohibition of Genesis 2 and 17.
But if you turn to Genesis chapter 3 and verse 17, God says
this to Adam and unto Adam. He said, because thou Hast
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and Hast eaten of the tree
of which I commanded thee saying Thou shalt not eat of it.
Cursed said is the ground for thy sake, in sorrow, shalt thou
eat of it all the days of thy life Thorns also and thistles So
shall it bring forth to thee and thou shalt eat the herb of the
failed. There's the curse of the soy.
Why is their thorns and thistles and weeds coming up to the
springtime? You see them growing in
abundance and your garden your driveway and no matter how much
you try and deal with them, that they still re-emerge.
Why is their thorns and thistles and Weeds on the earth?
Well, here's the answer, Genesis 3, 18 and 19, the curse of the
soil. But I want you to think of
something else, that's think of the curse of the center.
You see, the reason for the curse, the curse came about
because of the fall of mine and to a state of sin and misery and
the Garden of Eden. Our first parents, Adam and Eve
is he Adam and Eve young people have said this morning, I tried
to emphasize is a real historical people.
Jealous is one two, and three is literal.
It´s a starak. MM, it's real.
And Adam and Eve. Remember, Adam disobey God
because what had God said, Genesis chapter 2 and in the
verse 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, Thou
shalt not eat of it for the day that thou eatest thereof.
Thou shalt surely die and we read in Genesis chapter 3 and in
the verse 6 these words and the woman saw that the tree was good
for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree
to be desired to make one wise. Wise, she took of the fruit
thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her
and he did eight. Notice the words give also unto
her husband with her and he did Nate, and the moment Adam
disobeyed God. Adam and Eve and all and him
fell into an estate of guilt and condemnation.
See remember Adam and Eve were created Perfect by God, they're
made in the image of God. They walked with God in the
garden. They talked with him they
enjoyed Union and communion there.
They had fellowship with God, he was a perfect environment and we
hear the call from social workers today and people just in
a perfect environment, then this world would be a better place.
A differently is the be new drink.
And Drugs and way feeding and all the rest of it, it's wrong
because Adam and Eve were in a perfect environment.
They were in a state of positive Holiness.
They were inclined to go. Oh they love going to be obeyed.
Go they serve gone. Adam was created with a mutable
will and by the exercise of that.
Well, he fell into the sin of Disobedience.
He disobeyed the law of God Genesis 2:17 and sin when it
Karen shattered, everything the sin of disobedience Brought a
curse, not only upon the Devil. Curse of the serpent only upon
the grind, the curse of the soy but also upon the Hannah, the
curse of the center, she go on and say it in the day that thou
eatest thereof. Thou shalt surely die.
The word. Sure he's an adverb that means
in dying. Thou shalt die and Adam died.
Spiritually at the moment he is Senators.
When you've cut off from God. And it began to die, physically,
the seeds of Decay, and death began to work in his perfect
body. And then he'd Aid or is in
danger of dying eternally and being eternally, separated from
God and let me make it clear, not only Adam.
But all of mankind in the loins of Autumn, remember we descended
from Adam by natural generation, we send and him, we fail in him.
The Bible says, in First Corinthians 15:22 has in the
Harem all die. Why do all die?
Wherefore as by one man. Sin entered into the world and
death by sin and death passed upon all men for that.
All have sinned men, did we send we send an atom.
And the curse of that sin has passed to all.
There's not one righteous before God for all spiritually dead,
we're all spiritually blamed, we're all spiritually death to
the voice of God, we're all under that curse of sin and
death and he'll and everlasting punishment.
But I want you to think of something else.
We're under the curse of the statute turned over there to
Galatians chapter 3 and verse 10.
The Bible says, Galatians 3 and 10 for as many as are of the
works of the law are under the curse for it is written cursed
is every one that continueth, not in all things, heard written
in the book of the law to do them.
They want you to understand this.
Here's the curse of the statute curse it as every one.
That continueth not in all things order written in the book
of the law to do them and over there and Deuteronomy 27:26, we
read khurshid behave at confirm of not all the words of this law
to do them all the people shall Say.
Amen. And over there and Jeremiah and
in Jeremiah 11 and verse 3, we read and thou shalt say unto
them, thus, saith the Lord. God of Israel curse would be the
mom. That would be, if not the words
of this Covenant, you see the book of the law is a synonym for
the word of God. The whole of the Bible, the book
of the law is our reference to God's law and God's laws.
Holy perfect, just good and true.
Romans 7, verse 12 and the law of God has summarized for us in
the Ten Commandments and the Ten Commandments, teach us what
senders and that teachers. What God forbids and it teaches
us what. Judy God requires of us.
It teaches us that we are dependable and accountable to
this. God.
And I want you to notice, it's called who said, It's the
standards of right and wrong and every sinner, every human being
boy-girl man or woman or young person is brought face to face
with this inflexible. Perfect.
Holy law of God and it's not just one or two laws and I'm
thinking about, it's not even something that's just optional.
Remember, in the book of GM's in GM's chapter 1 under James
chapter 2 and in the Stan, we read these words for whosoever,
shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is guilty
of all and Gold's low as not Mounds invention.
The law wasn't handed 9 by older man or good man the laws not the
product of the church, the law of God is an expression of God's
holy character. You see the law reflects who God
has The law reflects and expresses his holiness.
You see the law says to me, God is Holy.
The law says to me, god is perfect.
The law says to me, God is good. God is always, God is just it
says to me, God is love. It says, to me gold hits in and
he has given us these ten laws, and the Ten Commandments, and
these Ten Commandments shutters up the gold and shut him up to
us. Tell laws for the first four did
with our relationship to God. The second table of the law deal
with our relationship to our fellow man.
Emma. And it's not just me right word.
Conformity to the law that God requires.
He requires heart Conformity. And every one of us are
measured, judged sentenced on the pieces of that, statute on
the basis of this. Holy perfect.
And flexible standard, God doesn't lower his holy standard.
God doesn't dilute it. God doesn't accept the rejection
of the so least. And Nerd.
But God demands absolute perfection to his ten laws.
God demands absolute sinless. Perfection to his tennis notice
and Galatians 3 and verse 10. It's it's everyone.
It says cursed is every one that continueth not in.
All things had written the book of the law, to do them all,
Sinners the educated, the uneducated, the rich, the Peru,
The High Society one's the Law Society, the religious ones, The
Reckless ones, the SEC, the whale, every last one of us and
as I've emphasized, is not just some things or one or two
things, it's all things, every precept, all that God commands
and demands every prohibition. All that Todd for bitch.
Remember the Lord. Jesus summarize them.
Matthew chapter 22 37 to 40. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart with all thy soul with all thy mind of the
life strength. Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as
thyself. You see, it's God, who sets the
standard. And today, it's not a question
of ignorance. Because this law, the law of
God, the Ten Commandments is actually written on our hearts.
And that's why we have a conscience at troubles and
bothers us who me when we transgressed Outlaw and the
standards set forth, God's view your knowledge should descend is
he it's God. Who defines what sin is what a
sense and is only one of Conformity onto your
transgression of the law of God. We live.
In a day when them want to excuse them, they want to enjoy
sense. And they want to experience in a
way but God With Us. Holy perfect and flexible law
exposes sin and he uses his. Holy perfect.
Inflexible law to show us how sinful we are and assures, what
he requires and what he forbids, you see, God says, Thou shalt
not. You would prayed man.
Says, I will God says Thou shalt do this proud man, says, I will
not. The psalmist said in Psalm 51
verse 4 against thee. Thee only have, I sinned and
done this evil in thy sight that they made us be justified when
those speakers. And here's Muhammad has proud
stopper. Another kid with no fear in a
regard for God, to the things of God.
And, you know, when God gave the law, actually this 19 verses 12
to 16, they set up bones and Mount Sinai, Moses was told to
sanctify. The people, the people were
instructed to wash their clothes to the people were told Don't go
up into the mountain, don't touch the mountain, and there
was thunder and lightning, and the voice of a trumpet, and the
whole Camp of Israel trembled. And the Lord descended, and not
mind as in a fire and met with Moses.
There's a smoke went up as a furnace and Paul used s in
Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 29. Our God is a consuming fire.
You see God's a God to be feared.
And is there not an absence of the fear of God today?
Day. And Northern Ireland in
loyalist, so-called Protestant communities.
Is there not an absence of the fear of God even and Roman
Catholic communities? whenever Jonathan Edwards,
preached that sermon sinners in the hands of an Angry God, the
people wept, the people held on to the pillars, they feared and
trembled But you see today, there's a glibness.
There's a lightness, there's refusal to accept and
acknowledge what sin as and there's are forgetting.
That the serpent has been cursed.
The soil has been cursed. The sinner has been cursed, and
there's the curse of the statute that comes against us, curse it
as every one, that continueth not in all things, which are
written in the book of the law to do them.
And we were all born under that curse and yet in heaven, in the
world to come. The raisin for the curses of
bali's forever and the reason for the curse is sin and the
fall into sin than the state of measuring very quickly, I want
you to think of something else. When the Bible says in
Revelation, twenty two and three, and there shall be no
more curse. It's not only that the reason of
the curses abolish forever, but the remedy of the curse is
accepted forever. What is the remedy John 3 and 16
comes to Maine for God. So loved the world that he gave
his only begotten son. That whosoever believeth in him
should not perish but have everlasting life.
You see. God's remedy is bound up and
find in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
Here's the gloriousness of God's good news.
God has promised a savior Genesis 3 and 15.
God has pervaded a savior I'm glory to God, that savior has
come and procured all that's necessary, so that we can enjoy
a relationship and to Fellowship again.
With God, I remember going to adore and I'll Burdine many,
many years ago when I was with the fifth Mission knocked in the
store in the sweet woman answered it.
And I started to talk to her and I said because she had said to
me, what did God ever do for me? And I said to her, you know, he
sent the Savior who was born for you.
Do you know that the savior loves you?
The Savior lived, a sinless life for you.
The Savior died and atoning death for you and share this
Precious Blood. The seizure arose from the dead
for you. Do you know the savior's praying
for you? Now, I do repent and believe the
gospel and if you know him and trust him, he he'll come for you
and take you on himself, whether through the portal of death, or
at a second Advent obvious, you should never heard.
Before were she just went in and close the door.
But you know what, if you think of what I just said?
He was born for you. That takes in the doctrine of
the Incarnation of the Virgin birth.
He lived for you not takes in the doctrine of a sinless life.
He loves she, there's the doctrine of God's love and grace
and mercy. Here's the doctrine of a
substitutionary atonement. He died and atoning death for
you and shed his Precious Blood. Here's the doctrine of the
Resurrection. He rose again for you.
He intercedes for you. There's a doctrine of his
intercessory Ministry. He's coming for you.
There's the doctrine of the second coming is The heart of
the ram. Latte is bind up in Jesus
Christ. We were singing in that lovely
hem, death, and the curse we are in our Cup.
Oh, Christ was too full for thee, but thou history in the
last dark, drop to something. Now, for me, that better cup.
Love drank it up. Now, blessings draft for me.
And if you turn to Galatians chapter 3, for a moment and
verse 13, it says as this Galatians 3 and 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. You see, when you think of
Christ, you've got to think of the tremendous cost of the Lord.
Jesus Paid at Calvary. It says Christ has redeemed us
from the curse of the law. Hi.
Look at the words, Galatians 3:13 90 being made a curse for
us. You see there's no such thing as
cheap Greece. There's no such thing as cheap
salvation, but because when Christ died, he died a
substitute he was taking your place and mine whenever crazed
Aid. He was a surety, paying the debt
that we had made to the Brooklyn law because he kept its
precepts. He was fulfilling its penalty,
which was deaf. Christ.
And the tree was a sin, Bearer wounded for our transgressions
bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him and with his stripes, we are healed, the Lord
Jesus from the tree. Was the send us one.
Remember, he said I Delight to do thy will, oh my God.
He said, I do always those things that please him.
He asked, which of you convinced of me of sin, he didn't know,
sending your nose and in him is no sin.
Is he? The A's have to be in Christ.
The Substitute, The Surety the sun bear, the sacrificial lamb.
The sinless, one, all to be our savior.
Can you see the symbol of the curse in his head that Crown of
Thorns? Could you see the scourge of the
curse and his back when they wept them and left it running
red with blood. Can you see the sign of the
curse and his hands and his feet when they drove those Rusty
specs? And and hung them up to bleed
and die on calvary's tree? Or you see think they should not
be in the church? He shouldn't be in religious
orders. The A's are not even in Creeds
and councils the A's have to be in Christ.
Deuteronomy 21 and 33 says, cursed is every one that hangeth
on a tree. Christ died.
A substitutionary, adorning death.
Hi by being made a curse for us. In that tree, the wrath of God
fell on him. And the guilt and Punishment of
arson was put to his a kind and his perfect righteousness was
put to all who trust in him. And I can say tonight that
Christ is my hope and I asked you as Christ your hope and
remember the Bible says, neither is there salvation in any other?
For there is no other name under Heaven, given among men whereby
we must be saved and I want to emphasize this tonight.
I've got a burden for Northern Ireland at this minute and his
people, many churches have lost their way, you know, many
churches tonight. Sadly have no message.
Many churches tonight are so weak and so woke.
There's no mention of sin. What is sin?
They do not answer. There's no mention of the blood
sacrifice of Christ. There's certainly no mention of
Heaven. Certainly no, mention of hell
no. Mention of the bodily,
Resurrection. They talked about God and they
talked about Christ. But they use God for their own
personal fulfillment. It's all our health and wealth
mentality, it's really another gospel, but but it's not another
in fact it's not the gospel at all.
And remember what Paul said to this church in Goleta?
He said this Galatians chapter 1 and verse 6.
I Marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ. Unto another gospel, something
different Which is not another but there be some that would
trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
But though we or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel
unto you than that, which we have preached unto you let him
be accursed as we said before. So, say I, now again, if any man
preach any other gospel unto you than that, ye have received, let
him be accursed. And if I sum up the gospel I sum
it up in one word. It's Christ and only Christ and
Christ alone and you see false teachers, Kim to Galera and they
were having a bit of Law and Grace together.
And and they were saying to people, you have to do this and
do that in order to be sieved. Paul says to this church and
Galatians chapter 3 and verse 10 foolish Galatians, who has
Bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth before whose
eyes Jesus Christ, a bit evidently set forth crucified
among who's Put A Spell On You. These false teachers with their
false teaching and you see confusion about pains deception
of my face. What do you need for heaven and
home? Only Christ.
Jesus said, I am the way the truth, the life, no man comes
unto the father, but by me, and if you want to know that as
blood sacrifice was accepted, by God is coming up to Easter
Sunday, here's the proof. They emptied him.
Who do you seek? Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.
He is not here. He has risen.
Has he said come see the police for the lordly, Matthew 28, and
sex. And I want to tell you, the
remedy of the curse has been accepted Forever on the unti
terms of the proof that Christ is the one and only savior.
One final thought. The removal of the curse.
As a nice forever, you see. Let's not think of just what, as
in our, what's not in heaven, but let's think of what is in
heaven. And do you know, one thing that
is in heaven, the speaking blood of Christ, and the blood of
Christ speaks better things than that of Abel, Hebrews chapter
12, under the basis of the shed blood of Christ.
Thus curse has been reversed. It's been removed Saved because
John says under is no more curse, the curse and its effects
have been removed and abolish forever.
We could say tonight and trust that as Christ's blood that paid
the ransom, sometimes we sing, it's his wounds, but have to
tell you, it's not and we should change whatever that hem is and
sing. It's not as wounds, it's as
blood. That paid the ransom she without
the shedding of blood, there's no remission and the deliverance
from sins curse, and it's a fax as bound up in the shed, blood
of Christ and that blood is in heaven on a.
So wetness that the curse has been removed.
I want to ask tonight as we finish.
Are you in Christ? Do you know that the penalty of
sin has been removed from you, which is death, has the power of
sin been broken in your life? So you're no longer under its
control and Dominion. Because you're in Christ, you
are a new creature, old things are passed away, and all things
have become new, and the pleasure of sin is taking the
love of sending out of our hearts.
And one day, he'll save us from sins, presence forever and when
we get to heaven, we discover there's no curse here, there's
no more curse. Why it's been removed and that
removal is rooted in the shed. Blood of Calvary slam There's
many tonight. Still with her Christ.
I wonder, will you come to Christ tonight?
If Christ is the one who sets us free, if the one who sets us,
free Deliver Us from sins, palantir and power and pleasure.
And one day from his presence. Then why are you still out of
Christ tonight? Would you come and true
repentance? Will you come and feed?
What we want you to do is simply that's just recognize your sin.
Recognize that you're lost. Recondite sale yourself to this
truth. I need to be saved.
And then the second step is repent of that Samba, sorry
enough to turn from it. The Christ.
And the third step is the receiving of the Savior
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
You know, tonight, you can become an overcomer.
How could you be an overcomer? You can be overcome by the power
of the blood, the blood of Christ the same blood that is in
heaven, the same blood that testifies and wetness to the
fact that the curse has been removed as an IT wonderful to
know that they overcame him by the word of their testimony and
by the power of the blood. So here's the reason why the
Bible says and there was no more curse The reason of the curse
sin has been abolished forever. The remedy of the curse, it's
been accepted by God in heaven. And the removal of the cursors
announced because of the wetness and the presence of the precious
blood, the blood of Christ, the god mom is in heaven.
On the curse, has been removed and reversed.
You can no deliverance from this curse tonight.
Through the blood of Christ come and trust him as Lord and
savior.