 You know we're dealing with the issue of generational curses I want to talk to you today on this podcast about removing generational curses in the courts of heaven Because once you shift your thinking on it, you will never again deal with the generational curse Stop listening to people who don't know the Bible tell you about the Bible if you ever seen the movie 12 Years of Slave It's about a free black man who was conned and sold into slavery He was free and put into slavery put into bondage. Well, think about this How would you feel about someone who not did that to a human being physically but did the exact same thing to you? And I mean spiritually put you in bondage Caused you to believe made you feel and think and act as though you were in bondage even though you're actually free This is exactly what's happening people are telling you peddling this myth about generational curses There is no such thing as generational curses and to prove the point notice that when they talk about it Notice the lack of scriptures they use and when they do use scriptures Notice which part of the book these curses are in and who they're spoken to and notice what they never speak about That is the ending of a particular curse. There are two types of generational curses one comes from the Lord Okay, the Bible lets us know if we continually rebel against God. God will turn his face away from us Now there's another curse that comes from demons if your ancestors or yourself were into witchcraft human sacrifices sacrifice Any type of sacrifice ancestral worship? He says there are two types of generational curses He's wrong on both accounts, especially how he interprets this one from the Lord and then two from demons We're gonna look at the one from the Lord that he speaks about from the Lord But then this issue of generational curses coming from demons where in the Bible does it ever say that demons? Curse anyone the answer nowhere. There's no passage that says anything like that Generational curses. What are they and how can they be broken and now a lot of people have their opinions on generational curses But I don't have an opinion. I have a fact. I've seen it I've seen demons of generational curses manifest in believers. Okay, so it is a demonic yoke It is a demonic bondage on people again stop letting people especially those who are ignorant who are devoid of biblical understanding Tell you this. She says she's seen it. She says I'm gonna give you a fact, but she can't point to a pastor She does have a point to Canaan being cursed But is that a generational curse did Noah pronounce a curse upon Canaan because that's the case If it's a generational curse got a question How did we get Caleb who's from Canaan? How did we get Rahab who's from Canaan? There are a lot of people there are people from Canaan who become followers of God So how that happened if there's a generational curse? Well, you need to understand what an actual curse is and we're gonna look at that in a second Exodus chapter 20 the bible says that those who disobey the lord those who go against God's commandments God's word The bible says that the curse will fall upon them But not only upon them, but their children's children See, that's a curse that comes from a generation before you it could be alcoholism It could be a dojo. It could be suicide But the problem is and this is why this this should bother you it bothers me Is that there are people who speak from a place of ignorance just open the scripture If you're going to say that there are generational curses if you can even talk about curses in general At least to find them at least point out in the scriptures What curses are how they come about are their generational curses are there where they generate Were there generational curses then are there generational curses now if they actually open the bible Then they wouldn't say this but more to the point even more But putting them aside if you who believe in generational curses would actually open the bible and see you would find that There's nothing there. You have been sold a bill of goods Not only is the enemy after regions he's after houses when I say the enemy's after houses I don't mean that he's just after your address He's after everything born out of your loins when the enemy sends a curse He either sends it to a city or he sends it to a house the house of david the house of icica The house of the johnson's the house of the jakesis the house of the lawns the house of the wilson's That's why you see certain spirits that run through certain houses Now when people want to tell you that you are under a curse as a generational curse It's almost as though our own rationale goes out the door out the window We forget what a curse is if there is a curse well that implies that there's nothing you can do about it Especially if the curse is from god that means you're going to need something to Break the curse if there was something that you could do then there'd be no need to so-called break the curse Well, by the way again, the bible doesn't speak about anything Anyone breaking a particular curse the only curse that we know of Is a curse that was put on the nation of israel the question is though Is that curse around but as far as someone coming and attacking you let's say some sort of demonic force Wants to see your in well that makes sense to your believer Every demon is against you but let's say a person an individual is against you them coming against you It's not a curse. It's just an attack is what you go through every day There's always something or someone that does not like you that is against you that's not a generational curse That's just the world. That's just life. And so don't forget the very definition of a curse Necessarily means that it cannot be broken or thwarted by your own means So if god has you under curse, there's nothing that you can do about it If god has closed doors, you can't open him if he's opening no one can close him And so if he's pronounced a curse, there's nothing that you can do And so as it relates to these people that we're going to see in terms of isra as it relates to them There's nothing that anyone including isra can do The only one that can stop that fix that thwart that turn around is god himself And we're going to see that it is god himself who actually nullifies and ends this curse God said some of you are breaking generational curses And you don't even know it and that's why it's been so hard And that's why it's been so strong And that's why it's been so dark Because you're so strong And you're so positioned and you're so important to his purpose You have been led astray to believe that you are Bound that you are a curse or there might be some sort of curses you might interpret Consequences for sin and bad behavior as a curse So let's go and look and see what it means to be cursed what a curse is the first time we see this is in genesis 3 17 Uh, he's speaking to adam and eve And he's speaking mainly because of the fall He says because you have listened to the voice of your wife and it eaten from the tree Which I commanded you saying you should not eat cursed is the ground because of you Well, this word curse this word arura all it really means is to be cursed So it doesn't really give us a full understanding of what it means To be cursed what a curse is however the the ground is in this case because of that Cursed and so whatever it means it has that now that has extended But we wouldn't call that a generational curse just to get an idea of what the word curse means And so let's go to genesis 8 21 The lord smell this is after the flood And then there's offering the lord smell the smooth the soothing aroma and the lord said to himself I will never again curse the ground There's a word the ground on account of man for the attendant man's heart is evil from his youth And I will never again destroy every living every living thing as I have done Well, there's worth issues here for the word curse is the word call out That means to be esteemed like to be thought of like to be thought of negatively To view in a in a diminished fashion to look down upon That's what it means and also because your view that way Is steamed that way then you'll be treated that way So just think about being esteemed lightly or negatively to be looked down upon remember that because we're going to come to that to deal with this issue of Curses and so if we can talk about what a generational curse is Well, let's look and see what the bible says about Generational curses if there's a such thing Truth be told there is no such word in the bible as Generational curses So the term itself is man made but is the concept there? Well, you can find the concept there Then you won't find the concept going forward and I'll tell you when that concept is eradicated But going to do to run me five nine He says you should not worship them or serve them for I the lord your god and my jealous god Visiting the iniquity of the fathers on on the children And on the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me Well, is this a curse? Is this god saying that I'm going to esteem and treat lightly in a negative fashion? The children of israel based on their sins Well, this is going to happen for a generation to the next generation to the next generation And if you want to call that a generational curse I have no problem with that that he's cursing this generation Based on what happened to the previous generation no problem However, remember what god is intending to do what he's already stated Even though he makes this point in deuteronomy 5 He comes back in deuteronomy 30 and tells him that he's eventually going to bring them back into the land He's going to circumcise their heart and cause them to live for him So keep that also in mind when you talk about these generational curses These generational repercussions based on what some forefather did Being visible in the second third and fourth generation and so on what all of these people have failed to do And every single person who ever touts generational curses do they fail to look at the scriptures Why they want to give you three or four steps or five steps to identify a generational curse They want to tell you how you can overcome a generational curse You can buy this book you can come to this conference You can do this you can do that you can sow a seed All these different things The fact of the matter is you my friend are not under a generational curse. Now, let's get some things straight A generational curse is different than the consequences that might be lingering For generations for example If I and my wife were uneducated did not go to school We did kind of menial tasks and so forth. Well, there are going to be consequences for them more than likely And if we teach that and pass that on to our kids, we don't teach them the value of education Well, then the same thing if in the household mom and daddy were a household where there was a lot of Cussing there was a lot of violence There was a lot of drug use and the children saw that and that became what they were used to and thought it was okay Well, then there's a likelihood There's a good chance that they could turn around to the exact same thing If they don't see anything wrong with that and then their children might also be the same way And so we're talking about consequences not a curse because all it takes is for one person Say, you know what this isn't right if you have a family where there was drug use And does that mean that the next family member the the children are going to be bound by drug use? No It's a consequence of that person's lifestyle that can affect the children while they're there But I don't do drugs My wife doesn't kids don't so that's not a curse. It was a consequence And oh, by the way, even in my household previous That consequence or that that behavior was stopped people that are poor. They're not poor because of generational curses They are poor because of consequences of someone else's actions and now in now today even more so because of their own actions So we need to stop putting people in some sort of bondage telling them that they're under some sort of generational curse And then not the question is what is occur? Who can curse you? That's the most important thing because I can curse you I can say X Y and Z is going to happen to you that doesn't mean anything I don't have the power to to make that binding nor does a demon or any of the demonic spirit The bible never gives that power to satan or the demons because could you imagine if the devil could do that? Could you imagine if a demon could put you under a curse? We all would be cursed We all because misery loves company, especially every christian would be bound by that There is no such passage in the bible that says that and if anyone ever comes back and tells you That demons are causing generational curses Please do yourself a favor and that person as well Never listen to them again Why has that person been done a favor because they need to see that they don't know the scriptures go back and study Because maybe what they're doing is unintentional They are unintentionally binding someone but if someone were to accidentally sell you into slavery Don't know how that could happen But if they were to accidentally sell you into slavery It doesn't really matter to you because now you have you are bound and you've bought into this lie So do not listen to people who say these things because what you're going to notice they're not giving you scriptures Let them go and find out where the word curse is used And where you're going to see especially where they have some teeth is it depends on who does the Cursing jazzy bell can pronounce the curse against someone But that's jazzy bell doesn't matter. What kind of teeth does it have? As a matter of fact go and look at what was the result of her After these curses ask the dogs how she tasted because even with her curse She has no power Her result the result of her life was that she was killed and the dogs ended up eating her But if god gives a curse can god give a curse sure has god given a curse Sure, does god still give curses? Ah, that's a question. So if god esteems you lightly If god regards you Lightly or negatively well, then that's a problem. And then why would he do so and for how long? So let's go to this that's brought up the bible brings about this proverb in Ezekiel 18 Started this on verse 1 then the word of the lord came to me saying What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of israel saying the fathers eat sour grapes But the children's teeth are set on edge So here's the proverb that states that whatever's happened to the children the children's teeth are riding The children's teeth are set on edge the children's teeth have problems dental issues Because the fathers ate sour grapes. How was that? Well, he's speaking about What the father has done being revisited on to the children and to their children and to their children And he says there is this proverb That is there notice what he says though verse 3 as I live declares the lord You are surely not going to use this proverb in israel anymore So notice what he says this proverb is going to go away. This is god making the statement So when some Johnny come lately someone with a camera and some time who have not said the scriptures because apparently they don't have that much Use for the scriptures will tell you that there are these generational curses Will they ask them to reconcile what's happening here in Ezekiel 18? He says as I live declares the lord You are surely not going to use this proverb in israel anymore. Behold All souls are mine and the soul of the father as well as a soul Of the son is mine the soul Who sins will die Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to the text now someone might want to say yeah, but that's talking about israel Well, all of the time that you bring up occurs in the bible Where is it found in the old testament in regards to israel and the treatment of israel? We see that no where are we going to have this as a problem again He says the soul that sin Will dies in other words that particular person is going to be guilty and held accountable for their own sins But the children will no longer be held accountable for what their fathers and their forefathers what their ancestors did That will no longer be the case now Let's go to another passage where he fleshes us out even more and we can begin to see why this is going to happen Jeremiah 31 he says but everyone will die for his own iniquity each man who eats the sour grapes His teeth will be set on edge. So he's speaking about this proverb And he says it's going to go away. Don't believe me. Well, let's just go back one verse Previous he repeats the proverb that we saw in Ezekiel in those days. They will not say again The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge In which days were in these coming days in the future now for us, it's the past but for them It's the future Why because he says behold days are coming declares the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the house of israel And with the house of juda. So what's the new covenant with israel and juda? What's the new covenant for them? Jesus coming circumcised in their hearts Calling them back to them Causing israel and eventually later on israel as a nation to have their hearts turned towards god So we see that's what's what's going to happen. So at that point in time Their father sins will no longer be counted towards them. Well, guess what happens the same with us Nobody's sins are going to be accountable to their children or their grandchildren the soul that sins That soul shall die the soul that the one that eats the sour grapes His teeth will be set on edge His teeth will be rotten and if anyone wants to take you back into that to cause you to believe that Paul likens that as to you being in bondage under the law Notice what he says in galatians 3 13. He says christ redeemed us from the curse of the law Having become a curse for us. So he becomes the curse How does that how could he become the curse? We'll cover that in a second. He says for cursed Is everyone who hangs on a tree so the person that's esteemed lightly that's regarded as such that's treated as such That's the person that's cursed and that person's hung on the tree Well, what does isaac 53 say in regards to him verse 3? He was despised and forsaken of men A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and like one from whom men hide their face He was despised and we did not esteem him So isaac is going to look back and say this person was cursed before us for us He was cursed before us for us. We didn't esteem him lightly as a matter of fact at that point He was not esteemed lightly. He was esteemed lightly by god. He was cursed for the benefit of mankind That's why he says for it is written curses everyone who hangs on a tree now He's speaking about jesus and he's redeemed us Gentiles and jews because the only way for a person previously to have any sort of fellowship with god Was under the law Following the dictates of the law that was a curse because you find out that you cannot live by that And so there are these consequences that are lingering from the fathers to the children's to the grandchildren under the law No longer will that be the case. He's redeemed us Not just the jews, but even a gentile who could go and live under that Such as a person like calip who was a not who was not born a jew or someone like rahab or someone like Ruth think about these people who Who lived who were not jewish by birth But came up to be part of the nation of israel who now have a godly lineage as a matter of fact through two of them We have our savior jesus christ what people are doing is abhorrent What they are doing is reprehensible whether they know it or not the result is the same To impugn jesus and his ministry what he came to do and to say that jesus failed Jesus said the spirit of the lord is upon me because he's anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind To set free those who are oppressed to proclaim the favorable year of the lord. So that was his ministry That's what he came to do and we're saying he failed We're saying that he did not accomplish what he came to accomplish And then to take that in view of john 8 36 he says so if the sun makes you free Then guess what you are you are free indeed ontos there it was thoroughly without question sufficiently. You are free So don't let someone come and say no jesus was wrong the scriptures are wrong You are not free indeed. You still have a generation of curses These are people who clearly either don't want to or don't know how to read the scriptures It's literally their guys. So whatever israel might have been bound under with the consequences of these generation curses It's not them anymore. And it's not us ever. There are consequences If you don't pay the bills then the consequences there will be no lights If you do not do x y's in your family, there might be some consequences that might linger But the the consequences can be stopped by anyone doing the right thing Similarly spiritually speaking anyone who places their faith in christ, they are set free Anyone who does not well. Yeah, there's a curse for them But the curse is not a generational curse the curse is not where if you're not safe your children can't be saved That wasn't even the case even them again See caliph again see rahab again See other people who are not jewish by birth who place their faith Who placed their faith in the lord and followed him and also have a godly inheritance And so it's never going to be where someone else's sins are going to affect you generation Not certainly not by a demon and definitely not by god So guys reject that sort of teaching reject those sort of teachers and embrace what the bible what christ has brought all of us freedom amen