REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE OF FEAR !

REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE OF FEAR ! Jesus was tormented so that we wouldn't have to be tormented by fears of any kind of spirit. Usually, when we think of the torment Jesus suffered, we think of it as taking place only on the cross. But the devil started pressuring and tormenting Jesus before then. He put Jesus under such stress In the Garden of Gethsemane that blood came out of His pores. In those final hours, Satan was trying to push Him into disobeying God like he does ever one that acknowledges Jesus as Lord and Savior. He was pressuring Jesus to sin. But Jesus resisted and said to the Father, "If it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou will" (Matthew 26:39). When Jesus was on the cross, it began to look like that Lucifer had actually succeeded because there, Jesus finally yielded to the weight of sin and the curse the devil has been trying to put on Him by His on actions of disobedience. But Jesus didn't fall prey to that curse because He carried our sins. He opened Himself up to it in obedience to God. He did it by faith. Until then, Jesus had never allowed fear to have any place in Him. He'd never, one time, entertained it. That's why He was able to say that night before He Went to the Cross not my will but Yours, "The Prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me." Because Jesus has no fear in Him, the devil couldn't get any of the rest of the curse into Him, neither. He was never able to touch Him with sickness and disease. He couldn't touch Him with death. Jesus lived in such freedom from fear, that when the people at Nazareth tried to throw Him off a cliff, they couldn't do it. He just stayed in the light of God and that light blinded them completely, they couldn't see Him. He just walked away from them in love and faith. This is how we are supposed to respond to any type of evil; When He went to the cross, however, for the first time in His life, Jesus received the fear into Himself along with all the sin, sickness, torment and death that goes with it; which is the curse. No wonder He said, "My God, isn't there some other way than this ?" It was a horrible thing. Yet, He did it for us. He received fear so that we don't have to, by faith, we can receive complete, and eternal deliverance from it. He allowed it to do its dreadful work and connect Him to the darkness of the devil himself so that you and I would never have two fear anything again. He did it so that we could believe and boldly declare with the New Testament writers said: "We have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but... The Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father" (Romans 8:15). "For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7). "The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear..." (Hebrews 13:6).