Objection: The Curse of the Law Was Given to Israel, Not to Us.  We Cannot Be Redeemed from It Because We Were Never Under It.

It is true that the Gentiles were never under the Law of Moses, so they never had the curse directly addressed to them.

However, we (Jews and Gentiles alike) are redeemed from everything in that curse.  The book of Galatians was clearly addressed to the churches of Galatia, who would have been Gentile believers.  Paul said that Christ has redeemed us – not just the Jews – from the curse of the Law, not that He has redeemed “them,” or just the Jews.  Therefore, although the curse never applied to us directly, the redemption from the curse and all it contains does apply to us.  Galatians 3:14 continues the thought: “That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ....”  We were not under Abraham’s blessing until we were in Christ.  Now the promise made to Abraham’s seed applies to us.  The blessing of Abraham that wasn’t ours became ours in Christ.  The redemption from the curse’s contents was not ours until we were joined to Christ.  Even though we were never Jews under the Old Covenant, the blessings and deliverance promised to the Jews have become ours because we are in Christ.

The Old Covenant blessings on the righteous are not NEGATED in Christ; they are YES and AMEN in Christ (2 Corinthians 1:20).

The point Paul was making was to “foolish” people in Galatia who were trying to live under the Law of Moses even after becoming Christians.  Paul’s point was that if you live under the Law, the curse of the Law applies to you if you don’t keep the whole Law.  Who would want that?  Paul was warning that if you want to go back under the Law, you’re also going back under the curse.  However, there is no need to go back under the Law and its curse because Christ redeemed us from that curse when He was cursed for our sins.  So it is better to live under grace, being redeemed from that curse, than to try to live under the Old Covenant, under which you would have been subject to that curse.  No New Testament believer is subject to that curse, which includes every kind of sickness there is as well as poverty, defeat and many other unpleasant things.