Friday The 13th - Don't Believe The Hype

John Piper:

Today is Friday the 13th! Bad luck day.

In case this or any other superstition frightens you or, worse, controls you, take the sword of the Spirit and kill it.

Here's a few sword thrusts that I use.

There is no enchantment against Jacob,
no divination against Israel;
now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel,
"What has God wrought!" (Numbers 23:23)

Does this apply to us Christians? Yes. Because "It is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham" (Galatians 3:7). That's us. We are Jacob. We are Israel.

And because we are, "all the promises of God find their Yes in him" (2 Corinthians 1:20).

So in Christ we cannot be cursed. There is no jinx or hex that can stick against those who are in Christ Jesus.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. (Galatians 3:13)

Christ took on himself every curse that is against me. God is for me and no one can successfully be against me.

He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. (1John 4:4)