The blood covenant redeems believers from the curse of the law, and this message focuses on one part of that curse: sickness and disease. The pastor traces covenant from Adam and Abraham to the cross, shows from Galatians 3 that Christ became a curse for us so we could receive the promise of the Spirit, and teaches that God’s healing becomes real in our lives only when the Holy Spirit reveals it and we apply His Word. It continues from The Blood Covenant #17: Redeemed From the Curse of Sickness.
Below you will find the full video, a structured summary of the sermon, the Scripture behind each point (linked to the New King James Version on Bible Gateway), a timestamped outline, and practical steps you can take this week.
Sermon at a Glance
This message was posted by NTC Ministries in May 2021 as part of a long teaching series on covenant. The speaker, the church’s pastor, says he planned to move on to redemption from poverty this week, but the Lord would not let him leave the subject of healing yet. So he spends one more message on being redeemed from sickness and disease, and closes with communion.
His concern is that believers own this truth, not just know it. Only the Holy Spirit can make redemption real in your heart, and then it takes effort, like pushing a wheelbarrow up a hill, to incline your ear to God’s Word.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Speaker | The pastor of NTC Ministries (not named in the recording) |
| Series | The Blood Covenant, #18 |
| Main text | Galatians 3:13–14 and Deuteronomy 28:58–61 |
| Key theme | Christ redeemed us from the curse of sickness and disease |
| Length | About 63 minutes, ending in communion |
A God of Covenant: From Adam to Abraham
The pastor begins with God’s heart. In the beginning Adam could embrace all of God’s love, until Satan beguiled him by suggesting that God was withholding something. But God does not withhold. If He did not spare His own Son, how will He not freely give us all things (Romans 8:32)?
After the fall, blood had to be shed, because without the shedding of blood there is no remission (Hebrews 9:22). God killed an animal and covered Adam and Eve with skins so He could keep fellowship with them.
Because God had given authority over the earth to man, He needed a man who would give Him permission to come in. He found Abram, showed him the stars and the sand, and cut a covenant with him while Abram slept. The pastor explains that God can do anything, but He cannot do everything, because He has bound Himself by the laws He set in place.
Every covenant is two-sided: everything I have is at your disposal, and everything you have is at mine. God tested that when He asked Abraham to offer Isaac on Mount Moriah (Genesis 22:7–13). When Isaac asked where the lamb was, Abraham answered that God would provide. An angel stayed his hand and a ram was caught in a thicket. Because Abraham would give up his son, God had the legal right to give His own.
So the Word was conceived in Mary, a daughter of Abraham, when she said, in effect, let it be to me according to your word (Luke 1:38). Jesus was fully God and fully man, and He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:7–8). John the Baptist announced Him as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29).
Redeemed From the Curse, Filled With the Spirit
Under the old covenant, the pastor says, it was a bloody mess. Atonement only covered sin; nothing took it away. Jesus came with a new covenant, shed His blood and took sin away.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death. What the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh (Romans 8:2–3). Then Galatians 3:13–14: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles and we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. If you are Christ’s, you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise (Galatians 3:29).
The pastor draws two points from this: we are redeemed from the curse, and we have received the promise of the Spirit. The second is what makes the first real. Without the Holy Spirit, he says, we can at best intellectualize redemption, but we cannot own it. When Peter confessed Jesus as the Christ, Jesus said flesh and blood had not revealed it to him, but His Father (Matthew 16:15–17). Eye has not seen and ear has not heard what God has prepared, but He reveals it by His Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:9–10).
He warns that people who live off the strength of their own intellect keep changing their story. Let God be true and every man a liar (Romans 3:4).
Instead, believers grow up in Christ. The pastor says the word translated leave in Hebrews 6:1 means to grow up from, like an oak from an acorn. Stay rooted in the foundational doctrines of Christ and the Holy Spirit will bring revelation upon revelation. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). We have received a Spirit by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15), and we are to keep being filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18).
The Blood Covenant and the Promise of Long Life
The blood covenant redeems us from the curse of the law, which the pastor summarizes as spiritual death, poverty, and sickness and disease. The curse is spelled out in Deuteronomy 28. The first fourteen verses are blessings, and from verse 15 onward come the curses for failing to keep the law, including sickness in verses 15–22, 27–28 and 35.
He has the church read Deuteronomy 28:58–61 aloud: if you do not carefully observe all the words of this law, the Lord will bring upon you extraordinary plagues, serious and prolonged sicknesses, all the diseases of Egypt, and every sickness not written in the book, until you are destroyed. Sickness, he concludes, is plainly a curse, the curse of not living a perfect life, and Christ has redeemed us from it.
That truth has to be applied. “Any old dead fish can float downstream; it takes a live one to swim upstream,” he says. It takes work to be spiritual. He points the church to God’s name revealed in Exodus 15:26: the Lord who heals you.
In Psalm 91:15–16 God says, “He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation.” For God to satisfy His people with long life, the pastor reasons, He must have planned to do away with sickness. David declared, “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord” (Psalm 118:15–17).
The old covenant was weak through us, not through God. Jesus came to represent us as Adam once did. He who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). He is the mediator of a better covenant established on better promises (Hebrews 8:6), more sure because it is between the Father and the Son.
When we confess Jesus, God takes out the heart of stone and gives a heart of flesh and His Spirit (Ezekiel 36:26), and we become new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17). By His blood He delivered us from the power of darkness into the kingdom of the Son of His love (Colossians 1:13). Let the Spirit bring this into the heart, because out of it spring the issues of life (Proverbs 4:20–23), not out of the intellect.
How God Anointed Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus said His words are spirit and life (John 6:63) and that He came so we may have life more abundantly (John 10:10). The pastor says Christianity is not just waiting to get to heaven: “Christianity is about his kingdom here now, not in the sweet by and by.” Faith begins where the will of God is known and believed. Even the demons believe and tremble (James 2:19); life comes when we stand on the Word above everything else.
He calls Acts 10:38 a beautiful picture of the Father’s heart for healing: “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.” It names Jesus of Nazareth, the man, showing His humanity.
Jesus humbled Himself and lived as we do, by the power of the Holy Spirit. He said He could only do what He saw the Father do (John 5:19), and He healed all. The same Holy Spirit has anointed every child of God.
Many believers, the pastor says, fill with doubt about praying for the sick because they think they must perform the miracle. You do not. God does the miracle; you do what He says. Under the law of the Spirit of life, you are free from performance.
Gifts of Healings: Many Ways to Be Healed
The pastor is clear that he is not telling anyone to avoid doctors, and that not everyone’s faith is at the same level, including his own. That is why God has given many ways for healing to come. In the list of spiritual gifts, he says, healing is the only one given in the plural: gifts of healings (1 Corinthians 12:9).
| Way of healing he names | What he teaches about it |
|---|---|
| Laying on of hands | Believers lay hands on the sick and they recover, even laying hands on themselves (Mark 16:18) |
| Calling the elders | The sick person calls; the elders anoint with oil and pray the prayer of faith (James 5:13–15) |
| Meeting people’s faith | Jesus used saliva where people believed in its healing properties (Mark 8:23) |
| Doctors and medicine | Go to the doctor, and take Scripture along with whatever you are prescribed |
| Obeying a specific word | Whatever the Lord tells you to do, obey it; any way you get healed is the best way |
On calling the elders, he adds a gentle correction. The verse tells the sick person to call. Some people, he says, play “chase me,” like his family’s puppy with a ball, waiting to be pursued. The Bible’s instruction is simply to call.
He shares his own experience from Bible college. A sore throat went away when he prayed, came back worse a month later, and then he could not talk at all. He went to the hospital, where doctors found a growth on a tonsil and removed it. God simply wants you healed, he says, so do what you need to do and believe while you do it.
“Don’t take a pill, take a gospel with it,” he jokes, pointing the church to healing confessions in the entryway. While you take your medicine, confess that the Lord is your healer and that by the stripes of Jesus you are healed. “This isn’t Christian Science, this is Christian sense,” he says. Believers do not deny that sickness or the devil is real; they know they are redeemed from it and apply the blood of redemption to their lives, and that takes some elbow grease.
His Word, His Name and Greater Works
In Matthew 8:14–17, Jesus touched the hand of Peter’s mother-in-law, the fever left, and she arose and served them. The pastor stresses that she was healed to serve, not just to go back to her own life. That evening Jesus cast out spirits with a word and healed all who were sick, fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah 53:4–5, which Matthew quotes as “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.” Healing came with the word He spoke.
He then compares translations of Psalm 138:2. The King James wording sounds as if God has magnified His word above His name, which would mean above His own character. He says the Hebrew text reads that God has made His word great over all His name, so His name and character are established in our lives by His Word.
That name is above every name, at which every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord (Philippians 2:9–11). The pastor recalls Oral Roberts saying that many who were healed in the revivals of the 1940s and 1950s did not keep their healing, because they did not exercise their own faith. Get healed any way you can, he says, but build yourself up in the Word.
Jesus is our covenant head. Head, he explains, is a covenant term for the one who guarantees that the goodness of the covenant comes into the relationship: to provide, protect, sustain and support, as a husband for his wife and Christ for the church. David said he would have lost heart unless he had believed he would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living (Psalm 27:13), not only in heaven.
God wants believers out laying hands on people, he says, because a miracle is the greatest testimony. In a Seattle airport, he quietly prayed in the Spirit near a woman practicing meditation. She stopped and asked what he was doing and said she needed healing. He laid a hand on her shoulder, she declared she was healed, and she then asked Christ into her life.
The Father shows the Son all things and will show Him greater works (John 5:20–21), and Jesus said, “He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father” (John 14:12–14). It is not us doing the work, the pastor says, but us obeying so He can.
Living It Out: Applying the Covenant
The message closes with communion. In covenant, the pastor says, we bring Him what we have and He gives us what He has: if I give Him my sickness, He gives me His health. There is no disease God cannot heal, no heart He cannot mend and no bondage He cannot break, but we must do our part. Faith is now, not tomorrow. Here are the practical steps drawn from this blood covenant message:
- Incline your ear daily. Put effort into hearing God’s sayings, as Proverbs 4:20–23 says, because they are health to all your flesh.
- Ask the Spirit for revelation. Do not settle for understanding healing intellectually; ask the Holy Spirit to make it real in your heart.
- Confess the Word with your treatment. Whatever care you receive, speak Exodus 15:26 and Isaiah 53 over yourself as you take it.
- Call when you are sick. Do not wait to be chased; contact the elders and ask for prayer.
- Lay hands on someone. Pray for a sick neighbor this week, trusting that God does the miracle, not your performance.
- Serve with your healing. Like Peter’s mother-in-law, use renewed strength to serve the Lord.
Timestamped Outline
- 0:00 God withholds nothing
- 1:07 Blood shed to cover Adam; Noah’s covenant
- 3:17 God cuts covenant with Abram
- 6:32 Abraham offers Isaac on Mount Moriah
- 8:41 Old covenant covering, new covenant removal
- 9:39 Galatians 3: redeemed from the curse
- 11:49 Revelation, not intellect
- 15:06 Grow up like an oak from an acorn
- 18:34 Deuteronomy 28: the curse of sickness
- 23:07 Psalm 91: satisfied with long life
- 25:29 A better covenant and a new heart
- 30:27 Acts 10:38: how God anointed Jesus
- 32:54 Free from performance; doctors
- 35:17 James 5 and the game of chase me
- 37:32 Gifts of healings
- 38:46 The tonsil story
- 40:49 Take a gospel with it
- 42:01 Matthew 8: healed to serve
- 44:12 Psalm 138:2: His word and His name
- 47:35 Jesus our covenant head
- 51:08 Healing in a Seattle airport
- 54:21 John 14: greater works
- 57:46 Communion: our sickness for His health
Blood Covenant Series
This message is part of a long teaching series at NTC Ministries. Start from the beginning or continue where this one leaves off:
- First message: The Blood Covenant
- Previous: The Blood Covenant #17: Redeemed From the Curse of Sickness
- You are here: The Blood Covenant #18 — Redeemed From the Curse of Sickness and Disease
- Next: The Blood Covenant #19
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it a lack of faith to see a doctor?
No. The pastor says plainly that he is not telling anyone to avoid doctors. Most doctors want to do good, and God gave them the understanding to help people. Going to a doctor can also tell you exactly what you are praying about. His counsel is to get healed any way you can, while confessing the Word.
What if I don’t feel spiritual enough to pray for the sick?
The pastor says many believers hesitate because they think they must perform the miracle or have lived a perfect life first. Neither is true. God does the healing; we simply obey and lay hands on people. He also refuses the idea of praying only for people who look innocent, because all have sinned, there are no degrees of sin, and Christ took every sin on Himself.
Can someone take communion if they are not a member of this church?
Yes. The pastor invites anyone who is born again to take communion, explaining that every believer is part of the general assembly, the body of Christ. He describes communion as a covenant meal where we bring Jesus whatever we are facing, whether sickness, stress or a need, and receive what He has in exchange, remembering His body broken and His blood shed.
Scripture References
All passages open in the New King James Version on Bible Gateway:
- Galatians 3:13–14 — redeemed from the curse of the law
- Deuteronomy 28:58–61 — sickness under the curse
- Psalm 91:15–16 — satisfied with long life
- Acts 10:38 — healing all who were oppressed
- Matthew 8:14–17 and Isaiah 53:4–5 — He bore our sicknesses
- James 5:13–15 — call for the elders
- Psalm 138:2 — His word and His name
- John 14:12–14 — greater works
- Romans 8:2–3 — the law of the Spirit of life
How this summary was made: written with AI assistance from the sermon’s own transcript and checked against the Scriptures listed above.
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