What does the Bible say about breaking generational curses?
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What does the Bible say about breaking generational curses? How can a generational curse be broken?
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- What does the Bible say about breaking generational curses? The Bible mentions generational curses in several places.
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- God warns that He is a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate
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- Me. It sounds unfair for God to punish children for the sins of their fathers. However, there is more to it than that.
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- The effects of sin are naturally passed down from one generation to the next. When a father has a sinful lifestyle, his children are likely to practice that same sinful lifestyle.
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- Implied in the warning of Exodus 25 is the fact that the children will choose to repeat the sins of their fathers.
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- A Jewish Targum specifies that this passage refers to ungodly fathers and rebellious children.
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- So it is not unjust for God to punish sin to the third and fourth generation. Those generations are committing the same sins their ancestors did.
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- There is a trend in the church today to try to blame every sin and problem on some sort of generational curse.
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- This is not biblical. God's warning to visit iniquity on future generations is part of the
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- Old Testament law. A generational curse was a consequence for a specific nation, Israel, for a specific sin, idolatry.
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- The history books of the Old Testament, especially Judges, contain the record of this divine punishment meted out.
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- The cure for a generational curse has always been repentance. When Israel turned from idols to serve the living
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- God, the curse was broken and God saved them. Yes, God promised to visit Israel's sin upon the third and fourth generations, but in the very next verse,
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- He promised that He would show love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. In other words,
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- God's grace lasts a thousand times longer than His wrath. For the Christian who is worried about a generational curse, the answer is salvation through Jesus Christ.
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- A Christian is a new creation. How can a child of God still be under God's curse? The cure for a generational curse is repentance of the sin in question, faith in Christ, and a life consecrated to the