reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

WHAT IS A CURSE? A CURSE IS A PRAYER OR INVOCATION FOR GREAT HARM OR INJURY TO COME UPON SOME ONE. HERE ARE SYNONYMS FOR THE WORD "CURSED", CONDEMNED, ANATHEMA, ABOMINABLE, REPROBATE. NO MAN CAN CURSE PEOPLE THAT GOD HAS BLESSED. NM:22:12 AND GOD SAID UNTO BALAAM, THOU SHALT NOT GO WITH THEM; THOU SHALT NOT CURSE THE PEOPLE FOR THEY ARE BLESSED. LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF A CURSE. HERE IS THE CURSE PLACED UPON JUDAS ISCARIOT BEFORE HE WAS BORN INTO THE WORLD. PS:109:6 SET THOU A WICKED MAN OVER HIM: AND LET SATAN STAND AT HIS RIGHT HAND. 7. WHEN HE SHALL BE JUDGED, LET HIM BE CONDEMNED: AND LET HIS PRAYER BECOME SIN. 8. LET HIS DAYS BE FEW; AND LET ANOTHER TAKE HIS OFFICE. 9. LET HIS CHILDREN BE FATHERLESS, AND HIS WIFE A WIDOW. 10. LET HIS CHILDREN BE CONTINUALLY VAGABONDS, AND BEG: LET THEM SEEK THEIR BREAD ALSO OUT OF THEIR DESOLATE PLACES. 11. LET THE EXTORTIONER CATCH ALL THAT HE HATH; AND LET THE STRANGERS SPOIL HIS LABOUR. 12. LET THERE BE NONE TO EXTEND MERCY UNTO HIM: NEITHER LET THERE BE ANY TO FAVOUR HIS FATHERLESS CHILDREN. 13. LET HIS POSTERITY BE CUT OFF; AND IN THE GENERATION FOLLOWING LET THEIR NAME BE BLOTTED OUT. 14. LET THE INIQUITY OF HIS FATHERS BE REMEMBERED WITH THE LORD; AND LET NOT THE SIN OF HIS MOTHER BE BLOTTED OUT. 15. LET THEM BE BEFORE THE LORD CONTINUALLY, THAT HE MAY CUT OFF THE MEMORY OF THEM FROM THE EARTH. 16. BECAUSE THAT HE REMEMBERED NOT TO SHEW MERCY, BUT PERSECUTED THE POOR AND NEEDY MAN, THAT HE MIGHT EVEN SLAY THE BROKEN IN HEART. 17. AS HE LOVED CURSING, SO LET IT COME UNTO HIM: AS HE DELIGHTED NOT IN BLESSING, SO LET IT BE FAR FROM HIM. 18. AS HE CLOTHED HIMSELF WITH CURSING LIKE AS WITH HIS GARMENT, SO LET IT COME INTO HIS BOWELS LIKE WATER, AND LIKE OIL INTO HIS BONES. JUDAS ISCARIOT, THE MAN THAT BETRAYED JESUS CHRIST, IS A DEVIL. JN:6:70 JESUS ANSWERED THEM, HAVE NOT I CHOSEN YOU TWELVE, AND ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL. 71. HE SPAKE OF JUDAS ISCARIOT THE SON OF SIMON: FOR HE IT WAS THAT SHOULD BETRAY HIM, BEING ONE OF THE TWELVE. BELOVED OF GOD, WE ARE TO BLESS, AND CURSE NOT ANY ONE FOR ANY REASON. ROM:12:14 BLESS THEM WHICH PERSECUTE YOU: BLESS, AND CURSE NOT. WHEN ADAM COMMITTED THE ORIGINAL SIN THERE WAS A CURSE PLACED UPON ADAM. THE LORD GOD SAID THESE WORDS TO ADAM. GN:3:17 AND UNTO ADAM HE SAID, BECAUSE THOU HAST HEARKENED UNTO THE VOICE OF THE WIFE, AND HAST EATEN OF THE TREE, OF WHICH I COMMANDED THEE, SAYING, THOU SHALT NOT EAT OF IT: CURSED IS THE GROUND FOR THY SAKE; IN SORROW SHALT THOU EAT OF IT ALL THE DAYS OF THY LIFE; 18. THORNS ALSO AND THISTLES SHALL IT BRING FORTH TO THEE; AND THOU SHALT EAT THE HERB OF THE FIELD; 19. IN THE SWEAT OF THY FACE SHALT THOU EAT BREAD, TILL THOU RETURN UNTO THE GROUND; FOR OUT OF IT WAST THOU TAKEN: FOR DUST THOU ART, AND UNTO DUST SHALT THOU RETURN. DEATH REIGNED, BOTH THE PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL DEATH UPON ADAM AND ALL MANKIND. FOR ALL HUMANITY WAS IN ADAM AT THE TIME HE TRANSGRESSED GOD'S COMMANDMENT. GN:3:22 AND THE LORD GOD SAID, BEHOLD, THE MAN IS BECOME AS ONE OF US, TO KNOW GOOD AND EVIL: AND NOW, LEST HE PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TAKE ALSO OF THE TREE OF LIFE, AND EAT, AND LIVE FOR EVER: 23. THEREFORE THE LORD GOD SENT HIM FORTH FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN, TO TILL THE GROUND FROM WHENCE HE WAS TAKEN. 24. SO HE DROVE OUT THE MAN; AND HE PLACED AT THE EAST OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN CHERUBIMS, AND A FLAMING SWORD WHICH TURNED EVERY WAY, TO KEEP THE WAY OF THE TREE OF LIFE. THIS IS THE CURSE THAT WAS PUT ON WOMAN. GN:3:16 UNTO THE WOMAN HE SAID, I WILL GREATLY MULTIPLY THY SORROW AND THY CONCEPTION; IN SORROW THOU SHALT BRING FORTH CHILDREN; AND THY DESIRE SHALL BE TO THY HUSBAND, AND HE SHALL RULE OVER THEE. THIS IS THE CURSE THAT WAS PUT UPON THE SERPENT. GN:3:14 AND THE LORD GOD SAID UNTO THE SERPENT, BECAUSE THOU HAST DONE THIS, THOU ART 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; 15. AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN THEE AND THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN THY SEED AND HER SEED; IT SHALL BRUISE THY HEAD, AND THOU SHALT BRUISE HIS HEEL. HERE IS A CURSE THAT NOAH PLACED UPON ONE OF HIS GRAND SONS, CANAAN THE SON OF HAM, BECAUSE HE LOOKED UPON HIS NAKEDNESS. GN:9:25 AND HE SAID, CURSED BE CANAAN; A SERVANT OF SERVANTS SHALL HE BE UNTO HIS BRETHREN. 26. AND HE SAID, BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF SHEM; AND CANAAN SHALL BE HIS SERVANT. 27. GOD SHALL ENLARGE JAPHETH, AND HE SHALL DWELL IN THE TENTS OF SHEM; AND CANAAN SHALL BE HIS SERVANT. EVERYONE THAT BLESSES ABRAHAM, OR ISAAC, OR JACOB SHALL BE BLESSED; EVERYONE THAT CURSES ABRAHAM, OR ISAAC, OR JACOB, SHALL BE CURSED. GN:12:3 AND I WILL BLESS THEM THAT BLESS THEE, AND CURSE HIM THAT CURSETH THEE: AND IN THEE SHALL ALL FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED. THIS IS THE CURSE THAT GOD PLACES UPON THE THIEF, AND UPON THE PEOPLE THAT SWEARS FALSELY BY HIS NAME. ZEC:5:1 THEN I TURNED, AND LIFTED UP MINE EYES, AND LOOKED, AND BEHOLD A FLYING ROLL. 2. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, WHAT SEEST THOU? AND I ANSWERED, I SEE A FLYING ROLL; THE LENGTH THEREOF IS TWENTY CUBITS, AND THE BREADTH THEREOF TEN CUBITS. 3. THEN SAID HE UNTO ME, THIS IS THE CURSE THAT GOETH FORTH OVER THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH: FOR EVERY ONE THAT STEALETH SHALL BE CUT OFF AS ON THIS SIDE ACCORDING TO IT. 4. I WILL BRING IT FORTH, SAITH THE LORD OF HOST, AND IT SHALL ENTER INTO THE HOUSE OF THE THIEF, AND INTO THE HOUSE OF HIM THAT SWEARETH FALSELY BY MY NAME: AND IT SHALL REMAIN IN THE MIDST OF HIS HOUSE, AND SHALL CONSUME IT WITH THE TIMBER THEREOF AND THE STONES THEREOF. BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ADAM, GOD HAD ENMITY, A JUSTIFIED ANGER, TOWARD HUMANITY. WHEN ADAM TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, THE SPIRIT OF GOD DEPARTED FROM ADAM. ADAM, AND ALL MANKIND DIED THE SPIRITUAL DEATH; THE INWARD MAN THE SOULS OF MEN DIED. IT IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THE HOLY GHOST, THAT GIVES MEN THE POWER TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 1JN:3:9 WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM: AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD. THE CARNAL MIND, THE MIND OF SENSE AND REASON WITH OUT THE HOLY GHOST IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF GOD, NEITHER IN DEED CAN BE. ROM:8:6 FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE. 7. BECAUSE THE CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD: FOR IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW OF GOD, NEITHER INDEED CAN BE. FROM THE TIME THAT ADAM EAT OF THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT UNTIL MOSES THE SPIRITUAL DEATH REIGNED UPON ALL MEN. ROM:5:12 WHEREFORE, AS BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN; AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR THAT ALL HAVE SINNED. UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES MEN WERE COMMANDED TO KEEP THE LAW TO THE LETTER. AND IF THEY TRANSGRESS ONE LAW THEY WERE GUILTY OF THE WHOLE LAW, AND WENT UNDER THE CURSE. JMS:2:10 FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND YET OFFEND IN ONE POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL. UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES' FIRST CAME TEMPTATION, IF A PERSON YIELD TO TEMPTATION THEN CAME THE CURSE, THEN CAME DESTRUCTION. THERE WERE ONLY A FEW MEN SAVED UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES'. IS:24:5 THE EARTH ALSO IS DEFILED UNDER THE INHABITANTS THEREOF: BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE LAWS, CHANGED THE ORDINANCE, BROKEN THE EVERLASTING COVENANT. 6. THEREFORE HATH THE CURSE DEVOURED THE EARTH, AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN ARE DESOLATE; THEREFORE THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH ARE BURNED, AND FEW MEN LEFT. HERE ARE THE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE THAT CAUSED THE GREAT DESTRUCTION OF MANKIND. DT27:14 AND THE LEVITES SHALL SPEAK, AND SAY UNTO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL WITH A LOUD VOICE, 15. CURSED BE THE MAN THAT MAKETH ANY GRAVEN OR MOLTEN IMAGE, AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD, THE WORK OF THE HANDS OF THE CRAFTSMAN, AND PUTTETH IT IN A SECRET PLACE AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL ANSWER AND SAY, AMEN. 16, CURSED BE HE THAT SETTETH LIGHT BY HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN. 17. CURSED BE HE THAT REMOVETH HIS NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN. 18. CURSED BE HE THAT MAKETH THE BLIND TO WANDER OUT OF THE WAY, AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN. 19. CURSED BE HE THAT PERVERTETH THE JUDGMENT OF THE STRANGER, FATHERLESS, AND WIDOW. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN. 20. CURSED BE HE THAT LIETH WITH HIS FATHER'S WIFE; BECAUSE HE UNCOVERETH HIS FATHER'S SKIRT. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN. 21. CURSED BE HE THAT LIETH WITH ANY MANNER OF BEAST. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN. 22, CURSED BE HE THAT LIETH WITH HIS SISTER, THE DAUGHTER OF HIS FATHER, OR THE DAUGHTER OF HIS MOTHER. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN. 23, CURSED BE HE THAT LIETH WITH HIS MOTHER IN LAW. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN. 24. CURSED BE HE THAT SMITTETH HIS NEIGHBOUR SECRETLY. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN. 25. CURSED BE HE THAT TAKETH REWARD TO SLAY AN INNOCENT PERSON. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY AMEN. 26. CURSED BE HE THAT CONFIRMETH NOT ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW TO DO THEM. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN. THERE ARE MEN THAT ARE PREACHING TITHING, UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES' THE TITHING LAWS WERE VERY STRICT, IF A MAN WAS ONE EAR OF CORN, OR ONE OF ANY LIVESTOCK, OR ONE PENNY SHORT THEY WENT UNDER THE CURSE. ALL ISRAEL WENT UNDER THE CURSE BECAUSE OF THE TITHING LAW. MAL:3:8 WILL A MAN ROB GOD? YET YE HAVE ROBBED ME. BUT YE SAY, WHEREIN HAVE WE ROBBED THEE? IN TITHES AND OFFERINGS. 9. YE ARE CURSED WITH A CURSE: FOR YE HAVE ROBBED ME, EVEN THIS WHOLE NATION. THERE ARE MEN THAT PREACH MEN SHOULD NOT WORK ON THE SABBATH DAY, AND THAT MEN SHOULD NOT EAT CERTAIN MEATS, BECAUSE THEY ARE UNCLEAN. IF A MAN BUILDS AGAIN THE LAW AS IT WAS UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES HE WILL MAKE HIMSELF A TRANSGRESSOR. GAL:2:18 FOR IF I BUILD AGAIN THE THINGS WHICH I DESTROYED, I MAKE MYSELF A TRANSGRESSOR. 19. FOR I THROUGH THE LAW AM DEAD TO THE LAW, THAT I MIGHT LIVE UNTO GOD. 20. I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST: NEVERTHELESS I LIVE; YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME: AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME, AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME. 21. I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD: FOR IF RIGHTEOUSNESS COME BY THE LAW , THEN CHRIST IS DEAD IN VAIN. A MAN CANNOT PREACH ONE WAY, AND LIVE ANOTHER. A PERSON MUST PRACTICE WHAT HE PREACHES. ROM:2:21 THOU THEREFORE WHICH TEACHEST ANOTHER, TEACHEST THOU NOT THYSELF? THOU THAT PREACHEST A MAN SHOULD NOT STEAL, DOST THOU STEAL? 22. THOU THAT SAYEST A MAN SHOULD NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DOST THOU COMMIT ADULTERY? THOU THAT ABHORREST IDOLS, DOST THOU COMMIT SACRILEGE? 23. THOU THAT MAKEST THY BOAST OF THE LAW, THROUGH BREAKING THE LAW DISHONOUREST THOU GOD? THE LAW OF MOSES' AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS; SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND MEN ARE PRESSED INTO IT. LK:16:16 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN: SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND EVERY MAN PRESSETH INTO IT. UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS, JESUS COMMANDED A MAN TO CARRY HIS BED WHICH WAS A TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW OF MOSES AND WAS NOT GUILTY OF TRANSGRESSION, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES BUT UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIVE. JN:5:8 JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM RISE, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK. 9. AND IMMEDIATELY THE MAN WAS MADE WHOLE, AND TOOK UP HIS BED, AND WALKED AND ON THE SAME DAY WAS THE SABBATH. 10. THE JEWS THEREFORE SAID UNTO HIM THAT WAS CURED, IT IS THE SABBATH DAY: IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR THEE TO CARRY THY BED. 11. HE ANSWERED THEM, HE THAT MADE ME WHOLE, THE SAME SAID UNTO ME, TAKE UP THY BED, AND WALK. THE LORD GOD COMMANDED PETER TO KILL AND EAT THINGS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY UNCLEAN. ACTS:10:11 AND SAW HEAVEN OPENED, AND A CERTAIN VESSEL DESCENDING UNTO HIM, AS IT HAD BEEN A GREAT SHEET KNIT AT THE FOUR CORNERS, AND LET DOWN TO THE EARTH: `12. WHEREIN WERE ALL MANNER OF FOURFOOTED BEASTS OF THE EARTH, AND WILD BEASTS, AND CREEPING THINGS, AND FOWLS OF THE AIR. 13. AND THERE CAME A VOICE TO HIM, RISE, PETER, KILL, AND EAT. 14. BUT PETER SAID, NOT SO, LORD; FOR I HAVE NEVER EATEN ANY THING THAT IS COMMON OR UNCLEAN. 15. AND THE VOICE SPAKE UNTO HIM AGAIN THE SECOND TIME, WHAT GOD HATH CLEANSED, THAT CALL NOT THOU COMMON. WHEN CHRIST HANG ON CALVARIES CROSS HE TORN DOWN THE PARTITION BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GENTILE AND MADE OF THE TWO ONE NEW MAN IN CHRIST. EPH:2:13 BUT NOW IN CHRIST JESUS YE WHO SOMETINES WERE FAR OFF ARE MADE NIGH BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. 14. FOR HE IS OUR PEACE, WHO HATH NAME BOTH ONE, AND HATH BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION BETWEEN US. JESUS CHRIST REMOVED THE CURSE FROM THE ELECT OF GOD WHEN HE HANG ON CALVERY'S CROSS. GAL:3:13 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: 14. THAT THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM MIGHT COME ON THE GENTILES THROUGH JESUS CHRIST; THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH FAITH. THIS IS THE CURSE THAT WAS PLACED UPON THE CITY OF BABYLON, THAT WAS DESTROYED. RV:18:21 AND A MIGHTY ANGEL TOOK UP A STONE LIKE A GREAT MILLSTONE, AND CAST IT INTO THE SEA, SAYING, THUS WITH VIOLENCE SHALL THAT GREAT CITY BABYLON BE THROWN DOWN, AND SHALL BE FOUND NO MORE AT ALL.