John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Luke 4:18 – The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.

Liberty - Strong’s Concordance 859 Greek: aphesis (af-es-is) This word actually means in the Greek: freedom, pardon, deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission

Bruised - Strong’s Concordance 2352 Greek: thrauo (throw-o) means to crush.

So what Jesus is actually saying here is that he is anointed to preach the gospel to the poor, heal the  brokenhearted, freedom to the captives, sight to the blind, and lastly  to provide pardon, forgiveness to those who are crushed.

To me this leads me to think that those who are crushed are possibly the ones whose lives have been ruined by oppression and abuse. Maybe because of some family curse because then why would Jesus want to forgive or pardon the ones who are crushed if there was no sin or generational sin involved?

Let’s look and see if it is possible that we or someone we know could be suffering for what someone else did in the family line.  We all know how in genetics certain characteristics can be passed down from generation to generation.  Things like the color of your hair and eyes, your temperament, certain sicknesses and diseases.  Anytime I go to a new doctor they always want to know what kind of sicknesses did my mother and father have and then they try to see if that is happening to me. 

We have in our human bodies something called DNA. DNA is in us, and it’s passed on to our descendants. It’s passed on to the next generation. DNA is the genetic code or the blueprint of our ancestors.

There is something in the human spirit and for the sake of understanding, we’ll call it SPIRITUAL DNA, but the Bible calls it INIQUITY. There is something in the human spirit that was passed on to you from your father and from your grandfather and from your grandfather’s grandfather. The only way for it to be stopped in any of us is if it’s arrested by God.

One thing I do know is that Jesus Christ has come to give us freedom from the past whether it is our own past or that of our ancestors.  We must realize though that just because Jesus came to set us free that it doesn’t just come automatically.  First we must be “born again” believers before what Jesus came to help us with applies. Then we might need to be learning what Jesus teaches us so that we can apply it to our lives. 

GOD SPEAKS ABOUT PASSING DOWN THE SINS OF THE FATHERS

Exodus 20:1-6

1.        And God spoke all these words saying,

2.       I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3.       Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4.       Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5.       Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the father upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

6.       And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me.  And keep my commandments.

Some Curses Can Go Down to the Tenth Generations

Deuteronomy 23:2 – One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord, eve to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the Assembly of God (Since 10 is symbolic of completeness or finality it could mean forever).

Some curses seem to last forever

Proverbs 17:13 – If a man pays back evil for good, evil will never leave his house.

2 Samuel 12:10 (Word given to David) Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.

A curse can go down more than four generations.  If a sin is committed one hundred generations back, it is empowered up to four generations.  If that sin is repeated the next generation, it can go down another four generations (therefore now five generations).  If the sin is empowered in the next generation, then it can go down another four generations – therefore six generations from the original sin.

SOME OF THE WAYS INIQUITY ARE DEVELOPED

Ezekiel’s description of Satan in Eze. 28.15 – “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till INIQUITY was found in thee.”

1. Lucifer knows that iniquity is passed down from the generations.  All he has to do is sit and wait because iniquity is in him.  All he has to do is wait patiently, and as soon as iniquity starts showing up in your life, he sends his demons to intensify your weaknesses.

2. The second way iniquity can be formed is from the repetition of sin.  Satan tempts; we give in enough times until iniquity is formed, and then inside of us is the inability to stop this crookedness.  Satan comes to the Christian or mankind, He tempts; we give in; we fall and sin and repent and sin and repent. Soon something happens. Iniquity is now formed within us –“bentness,” a crookedness, a perverseness. No matter how hard we try, we cannot stop thinking those thoughts, feeling those feelings, desiring those desires.  It has a name. INIQUITY.

HERE’S WHAT WE SHOULD DO

1.       Ask the Lord to reveal any generational curse or sin issue.

2.       Ask the Lord how many generations back in the family line this curse was empowered.

3.       Ask the Lord what happened to empower that event

4.       Renounce, repent, and ask forgiveness for any sin committed in the family line.  This is called identification repentance.

AN EXAMPLE OF IDENTIFICATION REPENTANCE

Nehemiah 9:1 

1.       Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sack cloths, and earth upon them.

2.       And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

3.       And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of a day, and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God (So they stayed in church for a half day reading the Word and confessing their sins and worshipping God and most church have their services timed down to the minute [60] and if it goes longer the people leave).

5.       Ask the Lord Jesus to cover the family line and the memory or incident with His blood. Renounce and repent for sins related to that event that you may have done.

6.       Ask the Lord to break all ungodly connections from that event in the generational line to the present.

7.       Demand all evil leave and go back to the pit.

8.       Use the attached warfare prayer for continued declarations for freedom from iniquity.

9.       SHOUT! YOU HAVE WON THE VICTORY OVER INIQUITY!

 10.    After this: Go to prayer points and copy the Warfare Prayer and say it outloud everyday until you feel that you are free and clear of all demonic assignments.

When praying spiritual warfare prayers they must be prayed out loud.

 Shalom,

Patricia

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