Chapter 2 - Is Disease A Blessimg or Curse?

Question 1

God offers choices

Answer 1

Deuteronomy 30:19

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”

Question 2

Deuteronomy 28 provides details of these blessings and curses

Answer 2

• If they will only listen and obey
• By their disobedience, they will open themselves up to curses
• Many is these curses are diseases

Question 3

Hebrew word for curse

Answer 3

Vilification
•Villain
•Thief comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10)

Curse is the abatement of the blessing
•lessening or reduction of a blessing

Summary
•The villain, Satan, comes to reduce or take away the strength of our blessing from God
•The curse is the work of the villain
•Vilification is when the villain vilifies our blessings

Question 4

Curses can come because

Answer 4

We give the villain permission to wreak havoc in our lives

Question 5

How do we give Satan permission to touch us?

Answer 5

By disobeying God and His word and obeying the law of sin instead

Question 6

Paul’s war with sin

Answer 6

Romans 7

Paul confesses that there was a war within himself, with two laws battling for his soul: the law of God and the law of sin.

Question 7

Law of God

Answer 7

God’s nature

• love
• justice
• forgiveness
• faithfulness

“Thy law is within my heart.”
Psalm 40:8

Question 8

Law of Sin

Answer 8

• rebellion
• lawlessness
• falsehoods
• hatred
• murder
• evil

Question 9

When you practice the law of sin after you know the law is God

Answer 9

You’re calling God’s ‘evil’ and Satan’s word ‘good’

Question 10

What you don’t have to obey

Answer 10

• Fear
• Anger
• Lust
• Unforgiveness

You don’t have to obey anything that is not God’s nature.

Question 11

Romans 6:6, 7

Answer 11

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin- because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Question 12

Romans 6:12

Answer 12

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

(You don’t have to obey: Unforgiveness, anger, fear, lust… anything that is not God’s nature and tries to get you to act in sin)

Question 13

Ephesians 6:13

Let the enemy know your resolve

Answer 13

Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.