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History shows that no one living on this earth is free from some sort of sufferings, difficulties and challenges in life.  Even those who follow the Lord Jesus Christ are not exempt.  Why?

Genesis 3:17-18 says why.  “Then to Adam He said, 'Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:  Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.  Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field'” (Genesis 3:17,18).

Adam's sin of rebellion against God was manifested in the fact that he and Eve no longer trusted only the Word of God but turned to their own "flesh," or in other words, their own intellect disconnected from God.  This brought on the curse.

Thorns represent the curse.  We are all born under Adam's curse, and most of us have other curses that are passed down through our generations.  When Moses asked God to reveal His real personage to him, part of God's response is found in these verses.  He spoke about the curse.

 

 

Junk to Jewels: A concise guide for people who are in afflictions.

The publishing of this book has enabled thousands to turn their afflictions into blessings, including the author.

 

 

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1- Cleansing.

Chapter 2- Junk to Jewels

Chapter 3 - Paul’s Junk

Chapter 4 - Blessed Are The Poor

Chapter 5 - Overcoming Is Our Assignment From The Lord

Chapter 6 - How Do We Overcome?

Chapter 7 - The blood of the Lamb

Chapter 8 - Blessings and Curses

Chapter 9  - The Word Of Your Testimony

Chapter 10 - Not Loving Your Life To The Death

Chapter 11 - Inside The Holy of Holies

Chapter 12 - Conquerors and Hupernikao

Appendix A - Relationship Skills

 

© Copyright 2002 by Larry Chkoreff

 

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Version 1.2 - First printing May, 2002

 

Version 1.7  August 2009

 

Scripture quotations in this publication except where otherwise noted, are from the New King James Version, Holy Bible, Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Publishers.  Used by permission.

 

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Preface

 

History shows that no one living on this earth is free from some sort of sufferings, difficulties and challenges in life.  Even those who follow the Lord Jesus Christ are not exempt.  Why?

Genesis 3:17-18 says why.  “Then to Adam He said, 'Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:  Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.  Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field'” (Genesis 3:17,18).

Adam's sin of rebellion against God was manifested in the fact that he and Eve no longer trusted only the Word of God but turned to their own "flesh," or in other words, their own intellect disconnected from God.  This brought on the curse.

Thorns represent the curse.  We are all born under Adam's curse, and most of us have other curses that are passed down through our generations.  When Moses asked God to reveal His real personage to him, part of God's response is found in these verses.  He spoke about the curse.

“Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.  And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, 'The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.'  So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped” (Exodus 34:5-8).

Jesus warned all of us in the Parable of the Sower that even His Word would have no power if we did not cooperate with Him to overcome the curse.  He spoke of thorns again, the curse.  “Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful” (Mark 4:18,19).

The Apostle Paul perhaps explained this better than most.  In 2 Corinthians chapter 12 he spoke of the thorn in his flesh, the messenger of Satan.  I submit that Paul was experiencing the curse from his family line.  Paul was a Pharisee of Pharisees.  He was a legalist, a persecutor and even a murdered of Christians.  He was touching the "Apple of God's eye," he was coming against Jesus Himself, thus he had some serious reaping of some bad seeds he had sown.  Many were coming against him, including the Jewish legalists, and others who had beat him to a pulp many times.

However Paul had learned a precious secret, that being that his curse, or his thorn in the flesh, was actually his best weapon for his ministry and for displacing Satan's rule and bringing in God's Kingdom.  Paul said that after learning this secret that his infirmities were something that he actually embraced as profitable.  Paul learned this grace lesson, that when he was weak the grace of God took over.  To put it another way, when he was helpless that is when Christ in him was free to do the work of overcoming the curse and displacing Satan.

Job learned this.  His suffering not only brought him face to face with God, but also brought defeat to Satan in Job's realm of influence.  God turned Job's junk, or his thorns, into jewels.

Notice in the Exodus Scripture quoted above, that God said, "…forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation."  This sounds like a paradox, but Jesus cleared it up.  The Lord does visit the curse upon the generations, but Jesus forgives it, or takes it away by becoming a curse for us.  “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith'” (Galatians 3:13,14).

How did Jesus overcome he curse?  He went to the Cross.  I believe that we overcome in much the same manner.  We go through the "storms of life" that are brought on by the curse.  When we live the overcoming lifestyle and go through the storms, we find that they actually had no power over us, but instead we used them to turn our Junk, our thorns, into Jewels for the Kingdom of God.

The Book of Revelation is our script for overcoming as you will read later in this book.  Revelation 21:19 says,  “The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald.”

“And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him” (Revelation 22:3).

 

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