 It's time to go deep in the word that you might be free in the spirit. I'm going to be addressing a big topic here. I'm talking about generational curses and what I tell you, I believe, is going to be liberating. I believe that if you receive the truths that are being mentioned here, not because I'm mentioning them, but because they're found in Scripture, if you receive these truths, you will go permanently free and generational curses will no longer be a worry, not even a thought in your mind, because the life of the believer is supposed to be one of victory. So as I said, this is a big topic and we're going to go deep into the word. We're going to dissect this. This is going to be a teaching. I'm going to give you Scriptures. And as we move through the Scripture, I pray that the veil be removed from your eyes. I pray that you begin to see clearly in the Scripture. I pray that there be a transformation that takes place in the mind, which is what's required, I believe, to combat successfully in spiritual warfare. So we're going to talk about what a curse is. We're going to look at biblical examples of curses. I'm going to talk about the power of words. Then I'm going to talk about the generational aspect of curses, why curses work. Again, this is going to be a deep dive and we're going deep in the Scripture that you might go free in the Spirit. So this will be different. I must tell you at the beginning here. This will be different, likely, than much of what you've heard. And it's not because I'm changing Scripture. It's actually because I'm sticking only to Scripture on this topic. That's my commitment to you, that we will cover these deep Biblical spiritual realities, while also remaining grounded in truth. So as we go through this, you may hear one or two things that are slightly different than what you've been told, but I'm going to back it with Scripture. And because it's backed with Scripture, I'm asking you to accept what the Scripture says. So remember this, and this is going to be a very key point that I want you to remember as we move through this important subject. A curse only holds as much power as the one who speaks it. A curse only holds as much power as the one who speaks it. So what is a curse? A curse is the speaking against in the Scripture. When you see that word curse in the Old Testament in many instances, you'll actually see that the word curse means to insult or to speak ill against or to wish harm upon. So to curse is to speak ill of, to speak harm against. It's also in some cases to slander or to gossip. That's a form of cursing. When you wish evil upon someone, that's a form of cursing. It's also biblically speaking to reject or disown, as I'll show you much later in this teaching. Now, there's another aspect to curses that is not necessarily biblical, but is still something that's practiced by people outside of Christianity. Many of those who practice witchcraft will place curses on who they consider to be their enemies. And what they're doing is they're speaking evil, they're speaking against, they're speaking harm, or so they think, against people that they dislike. And so, or people that they maybe were paid to put a curse on. So they speak words against them. But remember, the curse only holds as much power as the one who is speaking it. So in general, a curse is verbalizing ill will. It's verbalizing the harm that you wish to come upon someone. It's verbalizing the calamity that you wish to bring into someone's life. It also means in some instances to reject. It also means in some instances to insult. Now, remember this, God has called you blessed. I want you to write that in the comment section right now. Whether you're watching live or on the replay, write the simple phrase, God calls me blessed. Four words. It's a declaration of faith. And I want you to be grounded in that reality. God calls me blessed. That's what the Lord speaks of you concerning you, his child. So, let's look now at some biblical examples of curses that take place. Now, surprisingly, the first curse that we see mentioned in Scripture actually comes from God himself. In fact, many instances in the Old Testament reveal that God would curse people or even curse a nation. Watch this, Genesis 314. This is a curse that was pronounced immediately following the fall of man. The Bible says then the Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live. Of course, also the Lord placed a curse on man, Adam and Eve. In this same instance, but this was the particular portion of the Scripture that I chose to pool from. So, there we see the very first curse being pronounced. God speaks it against man, Adam, Eve and the serpent and various different things were pronounced. Now, because the Lord has creative power in his words, when he spoke that curse, it came to be. It actually transpired and it's what we see as a result even today. The other curse that we see mentioned here in the book of Genesis is the curse that God pronounced against Cain. We know that Cain murdered his brother Abel and so God as a punishment pronounces a curse over him. Now, notice a pattern beginning to form here and it'll actually be more evident here in the very next chapter that we look to. But you'll see that the Lord here curses the serpent Adam and Eve. That's Genesis chapter 3. Then we see here Genesis chapter 4 verses 10 through 12 that the Lord curses Cain. Watch this now. But the Lord said, What have you done? Listen, your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are cursed and banished. There we see the curse coinciding with the banishment or the rejection. Now you are cursed and banished from the ground which has swallowed your brother's blood. No longer will the ground yield crops for you. No matter how hard you work from now on, you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth. And again, because it's the Lord pronouncing it because he has creative power in his words, it transpires in that way. But notice this pattern beginning to form. Each one of these curses that we're reading about weren't pronounced by a warlock. They weren't pronounced by a witch. They didn't come about as a result of demonic power. These curses came about from God himself speaking. So again, a curse by definition is simply speaking ill-will or harm against or in many cases in the Old Testament to insult someone and in very rare cases to reject. Watch this now. We see that the Lord places a curse on Abraham's enemy. So here again is another curse from the Lord, Genesis 12.3. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on the earth will be blessed through you. So here again, we see the Lord pronouncing a curse against someone. Now we see an example in Exodus chapter 21. Go there now, Exodus 21. So far we looked at Genesis 3. Well, particularly verse 14. Genesis 4, 10 through 12. And then we just looked at Genesis 12.3. I'm encouraging you to take notes because we're going to be going over several scriptures here. Now we see here in the book of Exodus chapter 21. This is different now. This isn't God pronouncing a curse. This is God pronouncing punishment for children who curse their parents. So this is slightly different. Watch this now. Exodus chapter 21, verse 17. And he that cursed his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. So that was a standard in the law that if a child were to curse their parents that they would be put to death. Now in Genesis chapter 21, verse 17, this portion of scripture I just read to you. The definition of this word curse means to be slight, literally to insult or to trifle with. In other words, Exodus chapter 21, verse 17 uses the word curse, but the original meaning of the word actually is insult. So remember that to curse isn't just the hex. Isn't just this magical pronouncement of harm on someone, but curse in many instances in scripture actually simply means to just insult someone. Now it's important to note also that many times when you see the word curse, its definition is insult and also to blaspheme. So as you look through the Old Testament especially, you'll see that word curse come up again and again and again. But if you look into the original language, you can do this on an interlinear study Bible. If you look at the Hebrew there in the Old Testament references to curses, many times you will see that that word actually means to insult or to blaspheme. It's not this magical pronouncement of harm that many people affiliate the word curse with. Though that is something we're going to address in just a moment. For now I'm just giving you some biblical examples. Now think also someone on staff here asked me about this just a couple weeks ago. They wanted to know in particular about the patriarchs who would curse their offspring. So you know it goes that the firstborn son would receive the right hand of blessing. So if a man had a son and he was the firstborn son, that son received what was called a birthright. And the birthright was basically the inheritance of status, of power, of wealth, of property. Anything that was given to make that man a patriarch was passed down to his son, that that son who was the firstborn might also become the patriarch in the family. So you're pronounced basically like the leader of the family. That's an oversimplification, but I'm comfortable with wording it that way for now. Now you'll see an example of this in Genesis chapter 27 verse 37. Isaac said to Esau, I have made Jacob your master and have declared that all his brothers will be his servants. I have guaranteed him an abundance of grain and wine what is left for me to give you my son. So this is the birthright now that was given to Esau's brother. And it was supposed to go to Esau, that's a whole story unto itself. But here we see that the curse that many people talk about being passed down from the patriarchs wasn't a curse as in a hex, like I pronounce harm against you and judgment and so forth. They would speak those words, yes, but if you look at the scripture many times it was saying that they would insult them or trifle with them or blaspheme God or they would speak ill against them. But notice here that when it was concerning the patriarchs, the patriarchs would pronounce blessing on the firstborn son or in this case it was Jacob. And here we see that the blessing was passed down to the son who was to receive the birthright by God's sovereign design. But what's actually happening here is that the patriarch is passing down what was in their authority to pass down. They had the ability to give or to withhold what had been given to them. So it's not as though they're blessing one son and saying I give you wonderful things and to the rest of them and they're saying I give you demons, I give you demonic oppression, I give you demonic slavery, I give you spiritual defeat. No that's not at all what's happening here. Rather what's happening is one son is being blessed in that he's receiving the right of the firstborn and the other sons are being cursed and I use that in quotes in that they're being rejected in that they're not the ones to receive that birthright. But again that patriarch would pass down only what was in his right to give. His property was his property so he passed that to the son. His status was his status so he passed that to the son. His wealth was his wealth so he passed that to the son. His leadership position was his leadership position so he passed that to the son. So notice that the curses that had creative power were the only ones that were spoken by God or I should say it this way, excuse me. The only curses that had creative power behind them were the curses spoken by God. Go look in the Old Testament and any time you see a pronouncement of a curse by God it has creative power behind it and it brings forth the result of what God has spoken immediately. Now there's that one exception with the patriarchs but they're not speaking necessarily by supernatural means. They're speaking with God's divine backing but they are speaking in practical ways in regards to what had been given to them and that is more so a legal inheritance than it is a supernatural hex. So then we look to the Old Testament and we see instances of curses and in most of these instances that have nothing to do with blaspheming we see that it's simply men pronouncing either rejection or insult and only when God spoke, this is key, only when God spoke the curse himself did the curse actually transpire in an immediate supernatural creative way. Now this brings me to my next point which is to talk about the power of the words. Actually, I'll talk about the power of the words right now that's important, you get that? Let me just recap this just for a moment and you may have to watch this back a few times because I'm trying to give you a lot of information in an ample amount of time so that you can receive as much as possible. So again, Genesis 3, 14 God pronounces a curse, it immediately transpires. Genesis chapter 4 verses 10 through 12 God pronounces a curse, it immediately transpires. In Genesis chapter 12 verse 3 God pronounces a curse against Abraham's enemies and it has actual supernatural power behind it because God spoke it. We see here that children would curse their parents in Exodus 21 17 but this we saw with a little bit of study was actually just insults it wasn't necessarily a supernatural hex and then we saw that the patriarchs would bless one son and reject the other. That's all that's transpiring here it's not as though the patriarchs were putting hexes on their other sons or imparting demons on their other sons or putting their other sons in spiritual bondage that's not at all what's transpiring it's never the case not an even one instance in scripture do we see that and so this is why it's important to understand that word curse sometimes it means to blaspheme so that would be talking about an individual who speaks against God they're cursing God. Now if an individual curses God what's that going to do to him? Well that has no power of him whatsoever but they did pronounce a curse in that that blasphemed him then we as individuals can curse each other in that we can insult one another and we can speak ill will and we can speak ill intentions against one another but that doesn't mean that those things will result because we don't have the same exact creative power which I'm going to talk about in a moment that is God has in his words and then we see God pronouncing curses and that of course has an immediate effect because of his power behind his words remember a curse only holds as much power as the one who speaks it so God has creative power now I'm talking about the power of words your words do have power and we're going to explore that power right now God's words have what we call creative power he speaks to the deep the darkness and suddenly everything comes into existence God pronounces certain things all throughout scripture and the moment it leaves his mouth that command it transpires instantaneously so why because God has creative power behind his words now you and I have been taught incorrectly that we have creative power in our words your words do have power but we have cultivating power not creative power you say David what's the difference I'm glad you asked God's creative power can cause something to come from nothing God's creative power can create it causes things to come into existence you and I have cultivating power in that the words we speak affect creation and one another in a less potent way than as when God would speak now God spoke in the book of Genesis and all things were created God pronounces many curses all throughout the Old Testament those curses bore instant results and you and I must speak in alignment with God's will and word if we want to have that same creative power you've heard it said don't speak that you're going to cause it to come into existence like the other day someone on my staff told me you know I think I'm feeling a little bit sick I think I'm coming down with someone and immediately my old programming wanted to say oh don't say that don't speak that you're going to cause it to happen I'll never forget one time when I was ministering healing to the sick I was moving down the prayer line I get to this one lady in particular I lay hands on her and I ask her ma'am what do you want God to do for you she looks right at me and she says I want God to heal my eyes I said okay what's wrong with your eye and she says nothing is wrong with my eye well I was really confused by her response so I wanted to make sure I understood her correctly I asked again ma'am what do you want God to do for you she says I want God to heal my eye I said okay what's wrong with your eye I repeated the question she said nothing is wrong with my eye and so by this time I'm just confused and this went on for quite a while I think like 15 minutes or so it could have been upwards of that and finally it ends with me I was a little impatient back then and I said lady listen if you want healing in your eye there has to be something wrong with your eye and finally she says okay yes this is what I have and she told me what the sickness was she told me what was affecting her eye and then she admits to me that she didn't want to say that because she didn't want to quote speak it into existence end quote and I thought this right here is what you call Christian superstition this right here is what I call powerless religion listen to me faith does not deny reality faith believes God's word to change that reality so we as Christians have got to stop running around as though somebody's saying you know I feel a little sick as if that's going to cause them to become sick now whatever your experience whatever your story whatever you say you might believe we have to line it up with what the scripture says and it's precisely these Christian superstitions that cause so much confusion in these areas it's precisely these superstitions that keep believers bound when they should be walking in the power of the Holy Ghost look the life of the believers won a victory you should be laying hands on the sick and seeing them recover you should be casting out devils you should be prophesying as the Holy Spirit leads you you should be evangelizing with boldness instead most Christians are worried and fretting and just practicing their superstition now you may say David David David and I already know what some are thinking they're going life and death are in the power of the tongue let's take a look at the verse now Proverbs 18 21 the tongue can bring death or life those who love to talk will reap the consequences so here the scripture is talking about not the supernatural power of the tongue but the practical power of the tongue and that's plenty power enough because with the tongue this is your power that you have you can either encourage or discourage you can speak deception or truth think about just those two alone just those two realities and I have a whole list here of what the power of the tongue actually contains but just those two alone think about what you're able to do with just that think about the fact that when I encourage someone I can uplift them change their countenance change their day they can be set free from discouragement just by an encouraging word that's a great power think about the fact that you can minister truth to someone when you minister that truth to them well that's one of the most liberating things anyone can ever experience for Christ himself said you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free now watch this when someone believes a lie those of you who watch this stream enough you already know this when someone believes a lie they fall under deception when they fall under deception that deception transforms the way they think and the way they act and in that thinking in that acting they form habits those habits become cycles those cycles are what we refer to as spiritual bondage so all spiritual bondage is rooted in spiritual deception so by you ministering the truth to an individual that sets them free you cut the root of that bondage and when you speak truth that bondage is broken that's the power of the tongue now watch this John 14 13-14 says you can ask me for anything in my name and that's a key phrase and I will do it so that the Son can bring glory to the Father yes ask me anything in my name and I will do it here Jesus is committing to answering any prayer that you could possibly pray but you have to ask in His name and if you ask in His name He will do it the Scripture says what does that mean to ask in His name well to ask in His name is to ask in alignment with His authority to ask in His name is to ask according to His will to ask in His name is to ask according to what He has said in Scripture so you and I have the power to encourage or discourage we have the power to deceive or tell the truth we have the power to give accurate or inaccurate information we have the power to speak that which is wise or unwise we have the power to speak comfort or affliction all of these things are very powerful that's what the Scripture is talking about when it talks about the power of the tongue not some superstitious idea where you say you know I feel a little nauseous and then someone goes don't say that you're going to speak it into existence no the only time you and I have creative power is when we speak in alignment with the Word of God that's what Jesus means when He says pray in my name you can't just ask for anything you can't just ask for anything according to your desires you must ask for anything in His name and to ask in His name is to ask according to His will now then when you begin to pray according to His will when you begin to speak according to His Word then and only then does it have that creative backing that creative power think about when you pray for the sick when I lay hands on someone who is sick and a creative miracle results whose power do you think that is because I certainly don't have the power to do that well it's God's power and it's because I spoke in alignment with His Word and then the creative power manifested but there was no creative power in my words I'm crazy if I think that any words that I spoke on my own outside of the will of God outside of the truth of Scripture had anything to do with that miracle no it's only when you speak according to His will according to His Word that suddenly there's power on what you speak and that's what the power of the words are that we speak it's the Word of God backing it so you and I have power in our words yes but we have that cultivating power we can we can influence we can affect but we cannot create realities by the words we speak only when we speak in alignment with the Word of God does then the words we speak all of a sudden have creative power do then the words we speak have creative power now watch this here's an example of what happens when God speaks a curse Deuteronomy 2820 the Lord Himself will send on you curses confusion and frustration and everything you do until at last you are completely destroyed and doing for doing evil and abandoning me well there we see something transpiring something actually resulting think about the fact that if God curses someone no one can undo it because it's God speaking it so there God speaks and it happens here's another example of what happens when God speaks a curse Matthew 11 chapter 12 verses 4 Matthew chapter 11 verses 12 to 14 and then I'll read chapter 20 verse 21 watch this the next morning as they were leaving Bethany Jesus was hungry he noticed a fig tree he noticed in full excuse me I'm used to reading the King James version of this one he noticed a fig tree in full leaf a little way off so he went over to see if he could find any figs but there were only leaves because it was too early in the season for fruit then Jesus said to the tree may no one ever eat your fruit again and the disciples heard him say it the next morning as they passed by the fig tree he had cursed the disciples noticed it had withered from the roots up Peter remembered what Jesus had said to the tree on the previous day and exclaimed look Rabbi the fig tree you cursed has withered and died so here we see an example of when God speaks a curse it having immediate results now watch this watch this remember I told you that only when someone speaks in alignment with God's will do their words have creative power I'm going to show that to you in scripture look at what happens when someone tries to curse God's people without first clearing it with God this is Bible this is not speculation this is not teaching being pulled from the new age this is not teaching being pulled from witchcraft or from the occult this is teaching being pulled from scripture watch what happens here and and let me caution you before we read this you have to be very careful especially those of you who've converted from the occult who've converted from the new age who've been saved from witchcraft and now follow Jesus you have to be very careful about clinging to old teachings from those old systems which were founded upon the lies of demons and then pulling them into your Christianity and trying to force them on scripture we love when people get saved from these things we love when people share testimonies of having been ex-psychics ex-warlocks ex-witches ex-practices of witchcraft and now they're born again I love that we need more of that those testimonies are powerful we rejoice in those testimonies but we absolutely positively must stop pooling from those teachings and then trying to make them fit on scripture you are not just receiving a new spirit you're not just adding a power to your collection of powers no you're coming into an entirely different kingdom with an entirely new identity those teachings are founded by demonic liars why on earth would we take anything that we believe from that former way of believing and then try to force it on the scripture so let's take a look at the scripture and see what happens exactly what happens when someone tries to curse God's children and they don't have God's backing Numbers 22, 41 and then we'll jump into Numbers 23 watch this the next morning Baeluk took Baelum up to Bammoth Bael or Bael from there he could see some of the people of Israel spread out below him then Baelum said to King Baeluk build me seven altars here and prepare seven young bulls and seven rams for me to sacrifice Baeluk followed his instructions and the two of them sacrificed a young bull and a ram on each altar then Baelum said to Baeluk stand here buy your burnt offerings and I will go to see if the Lord will respond to me so Baeluk is trying to get Baelum to curse the children of Israel then I will tell you whatever he reveals to me so Baelum went alone to the top of a bare hill and God met him there Baelum said to him I have prepared seven altars and have sacrificed a young bull and a ram on each altar the Lord gave Baelum a message for King Baeluk then he said go back to Baeluk and give him my message watch this now you gotta imagine here's Baeluk paying Baelum to curse God's people watch this here so Baelum returned and found the king standing beside his burnt offerings with all the officials of Moab so they're waiting to see okay is God going to go through with this verse 7 this was the message Baelum delivered Baeluk summoned me to come from around the king of Moab brought me from the eastern hills come he said curse Jacob for me come and announce Israel's doom but how can I curse those whom God has not cursed how can I condemn those whom the Lord has not condemned I see them from the cliff tops I watch them from the hills I see a people who live by themselves set apart from other nations who can count Jacob's descendants as numerous as dust who can count even a fourth of Israel's people let me die like the righteous let my life end like theirs then King Baeluk demanded of Baelum what have you done I brought you here to curse my enemies instead you have blessed them but Baelum replied I will speak only the message that the Lord puts in my mouth now notice here this is very important please hear this notice here that the scripture is clear that God's approval is needed before one human can curse another I'm going to show that to you right here Deuteronomy 23 4 and 5 these nations did not welcome you with food and water when you came out of Egypt instead they hired Baelum son of Bior to curse you verse 5 but the Lord your God refused to listen to Baelum he turned the intended curse into a blessing because the Lord your God loves you so remember this let's recap here for a moment a curse is to insult to speak against to wish evil upon or to blaspheme when God speaks a curse that curse carries creative power but when we speak curses the effects can only go so far I'm going to tell you in just a little bit how those curses actually affect people but first I want to talk to you about the generational aspect of curses let me know in the comment section live or replay if you're receiving this watch this now let's look at the generational aspect of these so far we've looked at the simplicity of what the word curse means we've looked at curses that God pronounces and the difference between a curse that God pronounces and a curse that a human being pronounces one has creative backing one only has cultivative power now watch this can we be cursed today what about this idea of legal right and this comes up probably every single time I talk about believers not being cursed the most common example I receive or the most common response I should say that I receive is people telling me David, yes we are blessed but if you give the enemy legal right and I thought this was an interesting phrase legal right and I wonder where it might have come from because I look at the scripture here let me show you something Romans chapter 3 verse 22 we are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ and this is true for everyone who believes no matter who we are Romans chapter 4 verse 3 for the scriptures tell us Abraham believed God and God counted him as righteous because of his faith Romans 3 24 very clear here yet God in his grace freely makes us right in his sight he did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty of our sins now please don't hear what I'm not saying I am not saying I am not saying that sin has no consequences let me be very clear we as believers ought to live holy we should make no room for any sin in any measure for any amount of time in our lives whatsoever we must be rid of all sin all compromise we must live totally righteous lives and if we don't live righteously we can lose heavenly reward we also face severe consequences here on this side of eternity like if you decide to become a drunkard and you end up getting a DUI that's a consequence you're going to face because of your wrongdoing it has nothing to do with a devil or a demon you brought that on yourself and so we have to recognize that yes there are consequences for sin but the scripture makes it absolutely positively 10 000% clear that the believer's legal standing is not based on our performance it's based on Christ's sacrifice so when we believe we receive the righteousness of God if generational curses can come into the life of the believer by way of simple disobedience then every single one of us would constantly be needing to break generational curses and not even on a weekly basis this would probably be on a daily basis now I do believe that the enemy attacks people generationally but let's get this part right your legal standing is always going to be righteous why? because of what Christ did and sin yes will have consequences there will be chaos that comes through when you make a decision that is sinful that's biblical you're not going to be able to escape those consequences the wages of sin is death sin produces destruction in your life that's a fact you're not getting around it so I'm not saying that there are no consequences for sin what I am saying is that even when you sin in God's sight your legal standing is always justification that's what it means to be saved now watch this here Galatians 3 13 but Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law when he was hung on the cross he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing for it is written in the scriptures cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree now this is very important that we break this particular verse down correctly because I've heard it argued that well if we can't have generational curses then we shouldn't be able to be sick but notice here that the scripture is talking about the curse of the law and the curse of the law is the rejection of God it's not a demon it's not sickness the curse of the law is rejection from God watch this now Romans 9 3 says for my people my Jewish brothers and sisters I would be willing to be forever cursed and he defines it here I would be willing to be forever cursed cut off from Christ if that would save them so here we see quite clearly that the biblical definition of the curse of the law is to be cut off from Christ to be separated from God that's what it means to be cursed ultimately so we are not subject to God's curse as believers by the way if God speaks a curse against you who can undo that curse really think about this now because those who say we can come under God's curse as believers are the very same who will tell you we have to do this special ritual you have to pray this special prayer you have to get on ancestry.com go back to all your relatives find everybody's sins make sure you don't forget any list them all name them all repent them all renounce them all and then maybe the curse will be broken we imagine that defeating demonic power is like in the movies but defeating demonic power is not like solving a riddle or uncovering a mystery defeating demonic power is as simple as walking in the spirit and here we see that the curse that was pronounced by the law does not apply to the born again believer why because we are righteous before him somebody needs to say amen you need to rejoice in that now some might say brother david no no no no no you need to tell them the truth and all too often we equate harshness with the truth sometimes the truth is harsh but just because something is harsh doesn't mean that it's true in fact sometimes those liberating realities are also true in fact that's mostly the case so I'm not saying that you ought to sin I'm not saying that you're free to do what you want you will face consequences for sin but what I am saying is that even in your mistakes even in your failings you are called blessed because you stand in the righteousness of Christ watch this now let's look one more example here in the New Testament Galatians chapter 1 I'll read verses 8 and 9 let God's curse fall on anyone including us or even an angel from heaven who preaches a different kind of good news than the one we preach to you interesting here I'll skip verse 9 but interesting here that the Bible talks about God's curse so so far we've seen a lot of curses that come from God but then we've also seen that the believer can't be under God's curse because we stand in the righteousness of Christ and he absorbed those curses as we see in Galatians chapter 3 verse 13 now this doesn't mean you can go on sinning I'm going to say that as many times because I think it takes to make it clear this doesn't mean you go on sinning this doesn't mean you do what you want without consequence this just means that you can't be cursed not as a born-again believer now think about the fact that the curses pronounced here came not from demons not from people not from warlocks not from witches these curses came from God so let me ask you something if God pronounces a curse on you who can break it? no one so thank God that he has not cursed his children we cannot be cursed by God and if we could be cursed by God we would have no help trust me there are no books on breaking the curses God puts on you there are no special prayers that you can pray to break any curse that God has placed on someone if God pronounces a curse that's pretty much final and thanks be to God that we are redeemed from that curse that rejection from God remember sometimes that's what curse means we are redeemed from that rejection from God because we are in Christ Jesus so why does it seem now that believers are under curses sometimes and maybe you fill this heaviness maybe you have all these things going wrong in your life I've even received messages from people who tell me you know I can't find a spouse because someone put a curse on me let's address this head on we're going to address this directly but first a recap so far we've seen examples in the scripture of curses we've seen that when God pronounces a curse it's immediate because he speaks with creative power and we've seen that when humans curse that this can be equivalent to an insult to blasphemy or to speaking ill will against now when humans speak a curse outside of permission from God those curses carry no power because we do not have creative power you need to invoke the power of a supernatural being to do this and some might say well then don't people use demonic power against believers well you can't if that believer is called blessed can anyone call curse to whom God has called blessed that's what the scripture asks so let's take a look at this generational idea what does this mean this idea of generational curses well we find this this idea being taken from this portion of scripture Deuteronomy chapter 5 go there now Deuteronomy 5 I'll read verses 9 and 10 a very popular portion of scripture and you'll often hear this reference when it comes to generational curses you must not bow down to them or worship them for I the Lord your God am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods I lay the sins of the parents upon their children the entire family is affected even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me but I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands now this particular portion of scripture is often used as proof that christians can be cursed generationally but there are a couple of problems with that that you need to consider number one this isn't a curse coming from a warlock or a witch neither is this a curse coming from demonic power rather this is a curse that's coming from God himself so that's the first problem with that idea the second problem is that this isn't speaking of born again believers necessarily this is speaking of God's children so there are certain biblical principles I should say spiritual principles that could be gleaned from this portion of scripture but taken into context we see when we take into context we see that this is actually God speaking over the nation of Israel and when God speaks punishment over the nation of Israel he's doing so because they've fallen into idolatry and as a punishment for them falling into idolatry he uses the surrounding nations to bring them under oppression so they lose their land they lose their culture they almost lose their language they lose everything that comes with being established as your own nation so this is why it affects the generations that would follow it because if one generation is born into slavery and then the next generation is born into slavery well all those generations have been affected by the decisions of the parents who decided to commit the sin of idolatry so this is God speaking about the reality that that slavery is going to impact that nation for generations this is nothing to do with demonic power this is nothing to do with a hex or a curse in that sense this is nothing to do with witchcraft or the occult this is just God speaking judgment over a nation and that nation experiencing the consequences of their decisions on a generational basis on the contrary we actually see that the bible very clearly tells us that God does not take the specific sins of one individual and place them on another individual that's born after them what we were looking at in Deuteronomy chapter 5 was simply a punishment that affected one generation after the other because they were born into slavery but here we see the scripture says the person who sins is the one who will die the child will not be punished for the parent sins and the parent will not be punished for the child sins righteous people will be rewarded for their own righteous behavior and wicked people will be punished for their own wickedness so very clearly we see in the scripture that it's not as though there's this demonic hex that goes down from generation to generation now I know what many of you might be thinking you're thinking wait a minute I experienced this in my own life and now here I'm going to be very vulnerable with you I'm going to open up about something that I've not shared a lot I've shared it before but I've not shared it often because I don't wish to bring glory to demonic power many of you don't know this but my great great grandfather was a very popular and powerful warlock who practiced in Zacatecas, Mexico this was obviously generations ago he was known for his power to heal the sick this was of course demonic power that he was using he was actually paid to put curses on people and there were some reports from the people in the surrounding area that he was actually able to call out fireballs from the sky now I'm not saying that's actually the case I'm sure much of his power was greatly exaggerated but these are the legends that surrounded my great great grandfather now because my great great grandfather had succumbed to the lore of the power of witchcraft there was a generational assignment now let me be very clear demons do generationally strategize against people demons generationally strategize against families so what worked on the parents will likely work on the children why well because of genetics because of upbringing because of tendencies because of various other factors there are many reasons as to why a demonic attack on one generation will work on the next generation so demons strategize they understand human nature they understand that if they strategize against the child in the same way they strategize against the parents that that's likely to work because they have similar traits they were raised the same way they come from the same bloodline so if a family is born into an individual is born into a family of alcoholics well what do you think the enemy is going to tempt them with alcohol if a person is born into a family of drug addicts what do you think the enemy is going to tempt them with obviously drug abuse now why does this work well cycles are repeated because of the way that that individual was treated so someone who was born with parents who were addicted to drugs they're obviously going to undergo abuse they're going to undergo a lot of tragedy and heartache and neglect and because of that they're going to feel broken inside and because they feel broken inside they're going to reach for something that makes them feel good what are they going to reach for they're going to reach for what made their parents feel good because they saw what it did for them and they will likely repeat the mistakes now this of course is an over simplification of how this works but just for teaching's sake I want to make sure I'm just giving you the gist of it now my family was attacked every single generation with demonic oppression witchcraft very very very dark demonic attacks some people are attacked with alcohol or drugs that's also a very dark demonic attack but mine was more supernatural in nature the attacks came through demonic visitations through hearing voices through having demons attack me in my nightmares and so there was a very supernatural element to the way I was attacked and that had to do with the fact that my great great grandfather was a very powerful warlock so demons took note and they said how can we attack these people these individuals generationally so that's what happens demons strategize against families generationally that happens but why does this work why does this seem to work well we have to understand three things and in giving you these three things I think you're going to be set free from many different bodages but first I'm going to take a little bit of water break you might hear my voice may need it Steve how's the chat doing hey chat's doing amazing all of you guys right here right now have been commenting throughout the stream I want to continue and remind you continue to comment through this stream and let us know how you're doing if you have questions notes thoughts let us know you guys are doing amazing okay now generational demonic attack is real please don't hear what I'm not saying I know many of you are going brother David I experienced this I experienced that please hear me very clearly generational attack is real but when we use the word generational curse we make it seem as though we're helpless we make it seem as though we need special prayers special rituals special incantations to break that curse my friend that's not how it works demons attack us generationally and only when we walk in disobedience do those attacks work now I am not saying that if you walk in disobedience you'll be cursed what I'm saying is that if you walk in disobedience that attack of torment will work more on you that attack of deception will work more on you that attack of temptation will work more on you these attacks that the enemy brings against us not in us they don't attach to us they don't dwell in us they don't inhabit our bodies or take over us they attack against us and so if you walk in disobedience those attacks become more powerful they become more effective but this does not mean that you have some hex over you that you need to do special rituals to break you just got to start walking in obedience again and the moment you start walking in obedience then you'll begin to see that the power of the enemy's deception becomes broken now watch this here I'm going to give you three things that you should note in regards to how the enemy attacks us so that you never again fall under the power of superstition number one you have to understand the difference between a consequence and a curse now a curse implies that you are powerless a curse implies that the demons are doing the sinning for you a curse implies that there's nothing you can do it's just what was handed down to you hear me now and hear me clearly you are not a victim you're a believer if you are in Christ there's no possible way that you're a victim because all believers are victorious even when things come against us I'm not saying things don't go wrong I'm saying even as a believer you're victorious you are not a victim of your parents decisions you need to break that mindset I know this is harsh truth I know people don't want to hear this I know this might offend some but I love you too much to lie to you if I if I didn't love you I would just teach things that would get me more views like oh yeah there's a curse on you and I'm going to give you special keys that only I know special prayers that only I can teach you so that you can break those curses and I understand that that is more interesting in some regards but I'm giving you the truth you're not a victim you are not a victim of your parents decisions you are a victim of only one thing your own decisions now I am not saying that your parents decisions didn't affect you we just read in the scripture in Deuteronomy chapter 5 verses 9 through 10 that the children of Israel when they made the decision to commit to idolatry instead of to God that their decisions caused their children to be born into a family of slaves but it was only when the children repeated the mistakes of their parents that God allowed that slavery to continue for whenever a generation would arise that would say let's return to the Lord then they would come out of captivity so demons attack generationally and I really really really highly recommend you take a look at my message on demonic attacks it's right here on the channel make sure you look at that it's important because I want you to understand demonic attacks because even when I say that if you live in disobedience when I say that you can if you live in disobedience that the enemy can attack you more effectively many people their minds go right to oh yeah I can be cursed oh yeah the demon can inhabit me we need to stop with all of that no all that can do is make you more susceptible to deception temptation and torment that's it that's how the enemy attacks Christians so so we have to understand yes demons do attack generationally they strategize generationally but you will only face the consequences your parents face please hear this now you will only face the consequences your parents face if you make the choices your parents made even if you're born into something like poverty yeah if your parents made bad decisions with their finances you will be born into poverty but by you choosing to change your decision making process and walk according to God's word you can actually turn that around and begin to prosper so we have to understand this number one the difference between generational curses and generational consequences generational curse that implies there's nothing I can do my parents did this to me oh nothing's ever gonna change in my life until we break that and then I ask people how many times do you have to break it I mean really if living right and walking in the spirit isn't enough how many times do you have to break it oh I've been praying God break generational curses break do you really think that's something you have to continue to pray for if it's demonic no way if something's demonic there's only one way to get rid of it instantly and permanently that's it when something is demonic in nature it has to go like that when something is of the flesh well then well that's where the struggle begins so you have to understand the difference between consequence and curse and in doing so in understanding this we actually begin to walk in true victory look I've studied legal right I've studied generational curses I used to teach all these things we need to pray that God would take us to higher levels of understanding because once you begin to truly study once you begin to go deeper once you begin to see what the scripture says and you follow the leading of the Holy Spirit then you leave behind that old religious mindset and you begin to see the truth this is the truth not that and so consequence versus curse you understand that think about this if you live righteously you live clean you walk in the spirit how can the enemy attack you you really think God's going to punish you because of something your parents did no way so that's number one understand the difference between consequence and curse the blood of Jesus is more powerful than your family bloodline write that in the comment section the blood of Jesus is more powerful than your family bloodline next we see we have to understand the difference between correlation and causation correlation and causation now you have to understand this because human beings are pattern-seeking creatures we look for patterns in everything and so you have to begin to see the difference between correlation and causation and many superstitions arise because people don't understand the difference between correlation and causation I'll give you an example let's say on Thursdays when you go to work there's always traffic or let's say on Thursdays when you go to work you lose your wallet that's a better example you know whenever I go to work on Thursdays I lose my wallet I've only lost my wallet on Thursdays well now a superstition is born it's Thursday you're going to forget your wallet or people who say oh when it rains that means something bad happens in my life well that's another superstition because now every time it rains they're going to think something bad happens now how do these superstitions form superstitions form when we don't understand the difference between correlation and causation so for example let's say I'm driving and I get a flat tire and I'm driving on my way to preach somewhere you know what most Christians are going to say oh David that was a demonic attack he gave you a flat tire and that's the devil and I'm thinking maybe or maybe I just so happened to get a flat tire on my way to preach because there are a thousand other times that I was driving to preach and there was no flat tire but see we start to correlate what we think is the cause now I know I'm getting real technical here but I'm trying to give you a new way of thinking and and when we start to start to equate correlation and causation and we start to see okay well because something correlated alongside that same time it must be the cause of it that's not always the case I mean another example is and we do this to people this is sad when someone walks into our life and we say you know every time they're around I'm sick every time they come near to me I get nauseous now it could just be that you just so happened to have been nauseous the past two or three times that you met with them but superstition will say no it's that person they have a bad spirit meanwhile that person's perfectly innocent they're kind they love Jesus and you've just you've just labeled them as as someone who you need to stay away from all because of what superstition so we have to understand the difference between correlation and causation I'll give you another example this is a good story there was a pastor friend of mine who had on good terms I'll say it this way there was a pastor friend of mine who was released from his former covering you know spiritual covering like an apostle released from his apostle to go and start a new church and so at first everything was going great the apostle blessed him he received the blessing he went to go start the church but then something began to happen that new church plant became successful in fact it became more successful than the apostles church suddenly jealousy now the apostles angry you're having more people come to your church it's thriving more you're getting more favor and then the apostle began to say to everyone that pastor left without my blessing well never mind the fact that that apostle had blessed this pastor on camera in front of everyone but now the apostles trying to say that man left without my blessing that couple left in a rebellious manner and he began to speak things against him now that pastor started to be heavily affected by this like it was like a cloud hanging over his head everything he did was affected by that that apostle began to speak cursive nothing you do will prosper everything you do will fail and now he's speaking curses and then that pastor suddenly now begins to allow that thought oh my goodness he's cursing me and it caused fear and he took that mindset and began to see everything through that mindset whenever anything bad happened to him oh it's the curse whenever anything good happened to him oh this isn't going to last long because I'm cursed when people gave okay well that was a good Sunday but maybe it won't last when the offering dipped a little bit oh there's the curse again when his car wouldn't start there's the curse when something maybe inconvenient happened there's the curse it even began to seep into his preaching when he would preach sermons his fear would come out even some bitterness would come out and he began to change the way he preached and because it changed the way he preached it changed the atmosphere of the church now what was happening was that apostle really pronouncing a hex and god was saying I'll give the thumbs up to that I'll allow that hex on my servant or was the curse working because the pastor had it in his mind that he was cursed and now he sees everything negative as proof of the curse and everything positive as temporary correlation versus causation the other thing we need to see the difference between is the chaos versus the curse so first consequence versus curse sometimes things are a result of your own decisions take responsibility stop blaming your parents stop blaming your former generations God's not going to put their sins on you God's not going to allow a demon to attach itself to you because of what someone did in your former generations it's not going to happen correlation versus causation just because bad things are happening doesn't mean it's proof that the curse is working bad things happen good things happen you're just now seeing those good and bad things through the lens of that curse one more example for correlation and causation when I was a kid I used to sit at red lights and I would try to predict when the light would turn green and I would say the light's going to turn green now the light's going to turn green now the light's going to turn green now and then it would turn green right when I said I say oh there it is I got it I knew it that's how curses work pretty much something bad's going to happen to you something bad's going to happen to you something bad's going to happen to you and really if you really pay attention to your life you'll notice that inconveniences happen all the time some days you have bad days some days you have good days but if you believe you're cursed every bad thing that happens to you every negative thing in your life you're going to see it through the lens of oh I must be cursed that's correlation versus causation finally we have to understand the difference between chaos and a curse now the chaos versus the curse where we say all these bad things happen to me must be proof that I'm cursed don't you realize that bad things happen to all believers everywhere let me ask you something what kind of narcissistic self-centered egomaniacs are we when we say things like my flat tire is a curse what does that mean for the martyrs what kind of narcissistic thinking is it to say well you know the internet wasn't working for my live stream it must be a curse or I can't find my spouse yet it must be a curse what about the people in the countries where they've been killed for their faith are they are they cursed what about that mother and father what about that mother and father who lost their child but they still put their faith in God are they cursed John 1633 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows but take heart because I have overcome the world Psalm 3419 says many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all so we do experience affliction sure God sets us free but many are the afflictions of the righteous Romans chapter 8 verses 35 to 37 says can anything ever separate us from Christ's love does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity or are persecuted or hungry or destitute or in danger or threatened with death as the scriptures say for your sake we are killed every day we are being slaughtered like sheep no despite all these things overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us let me ask you this was Paul cursed second Corinthians 11 23 through 30 are they servants of Christ I know I sound like a madman but I have served him from far more I've served him far more I have worked harder been put in prison more often been whipped times without number and faced death again and again let's just stop there just at verse 23 he was put in prison been whipped more times than he can count and he faced death again and again most Christians let's just let's just say faced death again and again most believers who faced death again and again would say that's it I'm cursed God's abandoned me something's wrong I need I need special prayers I need some help and it's okay if you're struggling it's okay if you're wondering about the problems in your life it's okay if you feel saddened by the tragedy that you're facing and I don't want to be insensitive to those things but how dare we call ourselves cursed when God has blessed us was Paul cursed most of us would have thrown up our hands right there five different times Jewish leaders gave me 39 lashes three times I was beaten with rods once I was stoned three times I was shipwrecked he got in three shipwrecks I know far too many believers if they got in two car wrecks they would have said this is an attack this is an attack this is an attack Paul writes I was shipwrecked three times once I spent a whole night in a day adrift at sea I've traveled on many long journeys I faced danger from rivers and from robbers I faced danger from my own people the Jews as well as the Gentiles I faced danger in the cities in the deserts on the seas then I have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but are not he goes on I've been hungry and thirsty and I've gone without food I've shivered in the cold without enough clothing to keep me warm then besides this all I have the daily burden of my concern for the churches it's Paul cursed guys guys listen listen listen most of us today if we if someone came to us and told us this most of us would say oh that's a curse we have to recognize that Jesus never promised perfect lives and you mustn't panic when you face trials do you know I'm just gonna be real here I'm gonna be real and Steve knows this do you know how many tragedies how many car accidents how many sicknesses how many problems I've faced in my life that I've not put on Instagram or Facebook or YouTube you may say you may say well everything seems to be going well for you we never hear of anything wrong happening you don't realize how often guys I've been in some major car accidents that could have killed me and my family and and we're not talking you know years and years ago we're talking relatively recently you know when we were at those apartments there you remember that Steve that's relatively recent I didn't get online and say this is an attack of the enemy everyone I knew I'm in the will of God I'm blessed whatever happens I'm in his hands there's no need to get on and try to create drama you know how many times my daughter's been sick my daughter underwent surgery most people don't even know this recently for a sickness she was dealing with we don't put that out there you know why because even in this I'm blessed even in this I'm blessed you know aria is actually a miracle baby aria was prayed for and she's a miracle we my wife and I should not be able to have children medically speaking and we're believing for another child do I throw up my hands and say oh we're cursed because we cannot have children no why because in all these things we're blessed in all these things we're loved shall anything be able to separate me from the love of God no not a single thing you know how many times I've had car trouble recently issues with my home recently issues here at the studio all you wouldn't believe I had one worker say this project is cursed I said I rebuked that it's just it happens guys yes there's warfare yes sometimes I'm sure the enemy can pool some things but I'm not cursed you can't curse who God has blessed this isn't a message of defeat but a victory so we have to realize yes let's recap now just so you don't hear what I'm not saying God places curses on those who preach another gospel that curse is rejection the only curses that have power that is creative are the curses that come from God the curses that come from humans are insults and slander and blasphemy against God those gain power when we allow the fear of the curse to come over us now the enemy does attack people generationally but those attacks only bear consequences if you make the choices that worked on your former generations so even in all these things we must remember the difference between a consequence and a curse if you're making foolish decisions you're not cursed you're in sin correlation versus causation when you see yourself as cursed every every mishap in your life is viewed as a curse every blessing is seen as temporary know the difference between correlation and causation then chaos versus curse sometimes in life chaos happens that that's life in this world you'll have many tribulations it's gonna happen okay that doesn't mean you're cursed you're still victorious you still belong to God so if you do feel it's demonic in nature the attack rebuke it live right walk in the Holy Spirit but we must be free of this notion that there's some mystery behind these attacks there is no mystery when you know the truth it's quite simple walk in the Holy Spirit live right and when you do that you won't face the consequences of former generations now I want to pray that God would touch your lives and I want to pray that he would break you from the fear of a curse I'm going to tell one more story and Tim I want to pray now I want to tell one more story and then I want to pray for you a couple came to me and they were afraid that someone had placed a curse on them because they were having trouble conceiving they were terrified they came to me and I could just see the looks on their face they looked dejected like heaviness and so they come to me and they ask me they say David how do we break this how do we get set free from this they were so filled with fear they were filled with anxiety I said well talk to me about it what do you think's happening they said we don't know we live clean we obey God we're right in the center of as well we're doing what he asked of us we pray we read we don't practice witchcraft and I know these people they live cleanest can be and they said why why is this happening and I said who told you you were cursed and they told me some person told them they were cursed and I said where's that in the Bible couldn't show me that and I said I'll tell you this right now the real issue here is the fear and heaviness that's on you right now and that fear and heaviness is there because you think you've been cursed when God calls you blessed well the moment I said that it was like this burden lift I saw their faces change from from like anxiety and intention to peace perfect peace yeah the enemy attacks us but God is for us and you have to realize that by you stressing and fretting I mean I get message especially those of you in the continent of Africa I get messages all the time from that part of the world saying I'm under a curse I can't find a spouse I'm under a curse I can't get breakthrough my business I'm under a curse I can't find property like everything's a curse you have to realize that sometimes life just is difficult and you have to realize that even in those difficult circumstances you are blessed not cursed so we have to change the way we think and the moment you get set free from that belief suddenly freedom now if you want to fight for that belief you can but many believers I say they argue against their own deliverance like they cling to it like I saw people even in the chat saying no you don't know you have you know study it study it that's what I'm telling I I did study this I did teach that before and it was actually my deeper study that broke the power of that belief it's going deeper with the Lord that broke that you have to come to higher places that's what happens when you when you go to higher places and you get set free from superstition and what you're doing and I'm not speaking to anyone in particular there were several oh I shouldn't say several it was a small percentage but still there were there were enough to where I noticed it and I want to say this you're you're you're clinging to an old mindset and as long as you cling to that mindset you will not be free from this that's the power of that belief and so when you get set free from this suddenly peace fills your heart and you realize sometimes tragedy is just tragedy sometimes chaos is just chaos sometimes trials are just trials but even in those I'm blessed and as long as I walk in God's will and I walk in obedience I'm not going to face the consequences of former generations and it really is that simple you are victorious you are God's child let's pray father in the name of Jesus I lift that one to you now who needs this deception broken over their life and I pray Lord that your perfect peace would fill them as they come to believe the truth and remind them of who they are in you remind them of the victory that 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