There is a great deal of teaching today that Christians can be under generational curses and some even go so far as to say that Christians can be demon possessed. I’m going to show you evidence in God’s word that proves this to be false. These are false teachings that go against the truth of God’s word.
Exodus 20:4-6
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—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 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:8-10
8 ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image—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; 9 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 10 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Notice in these two verses iniquity is visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations to those who hate Him, and mercy to thousands who love Him and keep His commands. So when looking at these verses one would have to be unsaved and hate God for this iniquity to be visited upon them.
Exodus 34:6-7
6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Notice here the Lord God is merciful and gracious, long suffering, abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands and forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin. And by no means clearing the guilty visiting iniquity of the fathers on their generations to come. So who are those thousands He forgives? And who are the guilty? The answers are in the two verses listed prior- those who love God and keep His commands and those who hate God being the latter. That sounds pretty simple when you look at these verses in light of each other.
Romans 8:1-2
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,[a] who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
WOW! So how do those verses fit the teaching that a Christian can be cursed due to the sin of their Great Grand Daddy? How do these verses fit the teaching that a Christian needs deliverance from demon possession? Easy folks- IT DOESN’T FIT- it refutes it!
Ezekiel 18:2-4
2 “What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying:
‘ The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
3 “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel.
4 “ Behold, all souls are Mine;
The soul of the father
As well as the soul of the son is Mine;
The soul who sins shall die.
Ezekiel 18:19-20
19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not bear the guilt of the father?’ Because the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes and observed them, he shall surely live. 20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Please notice what these verses are saying: The son shall not bear the guilt of the father nor the father bear the guilt of the son. Yet more reason not to believe the false teaching of generational curses.
John 8:36
36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
If Jesus has set you free you are not cursed and you are not possessed – but you are free indeed!!
2 Corinthians 5:17-19
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Did you really read what that said? If you are in Christ you are a new creation, Old things have passed away, all things have become new, you are reconciled to God through Christ Jesus. Your trespasses are not imputed to you. So if your trespasses are not imputed to you why would your parents and grandparents trespasses still be imputed to you? How ridiculous is it to say Christ forgave our sins but holds us accountable for the sins of our parents and grandparents?
If you have turned from your sin and turned to Christ Jesus and put your trust in Him, repented from your sins, and he is your savior, the Lord of your life, then you have to believe that He delivered you , He saved you completely! He set you free!
These false teachers who teach that you can be under generational curses or be possessed are lying to you. They deny the power of Christ in doing this. They want to make you believe that they wield some sort of power to deliver you themselves apart from what Christ did on the cross. All these deliverance ministries are doing is getting you to trust in the man and not the savior. Christ did it all on the cross- He said, “it is Finished” (John 19:30) the Greek word for this is tetelestai- paid in full! All the deliverance you need Jesus already accomplished on the cross.
This falsehood has made its way into so many churches, Dana.
There are so many Christians, who live in fear and insecurity whereas Christ has done it all for them. Wonderful topic to tackle and I love how you simply listed the scriptures which are clear as day: It is finished!
Much love to you!
It’s terrible Christina! And God’s word is so clear that Christ has done it all.
Much love to you too!!
I am so proud of you! This is very, very good and I can’t wait to read more!
Thanks FOM! All the glory to God, His word is so good!
Amen!
Awesome article, this sad mess has caused so much fear and bondage for so many people. It’s right from the pit if you ask me. Great job D!
We know a lot of people that believe this don’t we Teresa? You know I also believe it’s a cop out and a way to blame your sin on someone besides yourself. If a person is sinning it’s on their own head and it’s their own fault not their ancestor’s. I seriously question someone who says they are a Christian but yet blames their sinfulness on others, Christians are mournful and broken over their sinfulness, blessed are those who mourn. It really is a sad thing.
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AMEN! Yeah, glory to God who has set us free!
Welcome to my blog Becky! Thank you for stopping by!!
Amen to this. Great article. I agree with you that sometimes people want someone else to blame. People also love to talk about their problems instead of casting their cares on the Lord… so this feeds right in having “generational curse counselors” to help them deal with their past. It is nothing more than a trick from the enemy so as to distract from the finished work of Christ on our behalf. We are to live our lives by faith and not by sight—which is what this teaching promotes. May the lord bless you!
Thank you for visiting my blog Diane, Welcome! Yes it is a distraction from the enemy! If people could only see what Christ did for us on the cross and realize he really did finish it. May the Lord bless you too!
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You know there’s another side to people using generational curses as an excuse to sin. There are those who truly love God and are living to please Him who are told about generational curses and start feeling condemned and helpless.
People sure do make God’s word much more difficult than it is. It’s quite simple, those who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ Jesus, those who are saved, children of God should never feel condemned or helpless because of generational curses, because of something their parents or grandparents did. Romans says there is therefore now no condemnation in Christ Jesus. Those who are in Christ Jesus are no more condemned and have been set free from bondage. And really we are helpless, we are helpless on our own without Christ we can do nothing, he is our help.