Sunday, June 8, 2025

“Cursed is the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life” (Genesis 3:17).

“Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them” (Deuteronomy 27:26).

“He that is hanged is accursed of God” (Deuteronomy 21:23).

There is one more judgment of God on sinful man that our Lord Jesus Christ suffered from, and that is a curse. God pronounced a curse on the ground because of man’s sin, and later pronounced two other curses under the law of Moses. A Jew was under a curse if he did not keep the law, and was also under a curse if he were hanged on a tree.

Although the Lord Jesus kept the law perfectly, He suffered under the curse of a broken law. He also was under a curse when He hung on the cross, for He was hanging on a tree. He was “made a curse for us [the Jew],” and now has “redeemed us from the curse of the law” (Galatians 3:13).

Although He was perfect, the Lord Jesus suffered under all that man suffered from, apart from sin. He took His place in this world as a man, and then suffered all that man had suffered because of his sin. Then He suffered at the hands of God to put away our sins. What a Savior we have!