Fantasy - Generational Curses

Faith Church, Oklahoma City, with Pastor Terry Bates sold packages of CDs and tapes for $40+ to help you break generational curses.  Many ministries across the nation focus specifically on generational curses. 

An easy way to get rid of your "generational curses" is to read, Ezekiel Chapter 18 which explains that generational curses were done away with by God hundreds of years ago.  People claiming to have generational curses are just blaming their parents or other elders for their circumstances today.  These circumstances are not curses from God, but probably due to drunk or sinful elders like my dad.  But it certainly wasn't a curse on me from God.  Most of the people who have claimed to have generational curses and have managed to "break" the curses were able to receive some relief because they just got around to forgiving their elders for their bad childhood like the Word of God tells us to.  I suffered in my childhood because my dad was a drunk and was finally put in prison, but that was not a curse on me from God.  Read Ezekiel 18, the whole chapter tells us that each person must answer for his own sins.  In 2 Corinthians 2:10-11, the Scriptures tell us that we must forgive others lest we give satan the advantage in our lives and that is why so many people feel like they are cursed because of their elders, but it is because they are holding unforgiveness against their elders and giving satan the advantage in their lives.  And satan will bring all kind of hurt, harm, curses and destruction into a person's life that is failing to forgive others or willfully failing to obey any other of God's Word.   Therefore, when they get around to finally forgiving their elders there is such relief by kicking satan out that they think they have broken a generational curse when in fact they just forgave like they should have in the first place. 

Fiction

On Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) owned by Paul and Jan Crouch, Pastor Brian Houston of Hillsong.Tv stated that all men have a measure of faith, just place your faith in Jesus.  Romans 12:3 is the Scripture which ministers use to teach that all  people have faith, and the Apostle Paul states, "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."  Paul is teaching about the gifts of the Spirit and is addressing his message to Christians in Romans 12, and all Christians do have a measure of faith, but only Christians.  Ephesians 2:8 states, "For by grace are ye saved through faith:.."  We receive the grace for salvation through our obedience to God's Words to faith.
Also, God speaks the word "faith" the first time it is used in the Bible, when He states in Deuteronomy32:20, "And He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very forward generation, children in whom is no faith."  God was talking about the Children of Israel who had become so evil they were involved in devil worship and disobedience.  Jesus says in Mark 4:40 after calming the storm on the sea, "Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith."  The Apostle Paul states in 2 Thessalonians 3:2, "And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith."  God says that all people do not have faith; Jesus say that even good people sometimes do not have faith; and the Apostle  Paul states that wicked and evil men do not have faith.  Therefore, it should be clear that the Apostle Paul was talking only about Christians in the gift of the Spirit Chapter 12 in Romans.
The Apostle Paul states in Romans 10:17, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God."  But it is not automatically faith just because we hear God's Word, for if we reject what we hear it is unbelief, only if we accept God's Word does it become faith to us.  Psalms 119:9 states, "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word."  We only receive faith if we accept God's Word.  Hebrews 4:2 states that even the gospel does not profit us when we hear it unless we mix it in faith or accept it. Knowing God's Will or Word and rejecting it is unbelief as shown in Hebrews 3:12-19.  The Children of Israel all knew they were leaving slavery to go to their promised land.  They did not trust that God would protect them when they arrived at the Jordan River because ten spies told them there were giants on the other side.  Their lack of trust in God caused them to reject God's Will and they refused to cross over the Jordan.  Hebrews 3:12 states, "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God."  And the Word of God to us is the Living God, not just a message, text, letter or email.  Hebrews 3:19 continues, "So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief."
All people do not have a measure of faith, ONLY those who have heard God's Word and accepted or received it into their hearts receive the Spirit and faith of God's Word. 

The seriousness of teaching the error "that all people have faith" is that many people can attend church and hear and know a lot of God's Word in their head without receiving it into their hearts.  I lived like that for over 20 years.  I think we have a lot of people, including preachers, in churches today that have not mixed the Gospel with faith. 

For more about FAITH look at my videos on faith. 
God Bless You

Facts

Hi   Three of the main topics discussed throughout the Bible are God's Love to mankind, mankind's response to God's Love, and the efforts of the devil to confuse and deceive mankind into responding incorrectly to God.  I hope to clear up some of the confusion by discussing some of the comments that I hear on TV and radio.  I am by training an Electrical Engineer, but I have preached and taught Scriptures at a nearby federal prison since 1976.  I thought for over 20 years that I had become a Christian when my aunt told me to go forward at age 9 to get saved and baptised.  When I did become a Christian at age 33, it was so different I thought everyone ought to know, and that is what I have been trying to do every since-- tell everyone!  If you continue to follow my blog, you will find that the pure Christian language has been changed so much by society through the years that it is hard to get the true meaning of Scriptures because of the changed word meanings.  This is a part of the devil trying to keep people confused since he was unable to keep the Bible from us.  Some may say that I am just being picky with words, but in Proverbs 30:5-6 the Scripture states, "Every Word of God is pure: He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him. Add thou not unto His Words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."  Only if we are teaching His pure Word will He back it up.  His pure Word is Christ, but if we add or change it in any way, it is then only our words.  We are supposed to be His ambassadors --- to only transfer His pure Word without change.  If an Ambassador changed any of a presidents words, the message would be invalid and would have no authority at all.  That is the way it is supposed to be with us, Christians, if we are sharing His pure Word, then it is Christ speaking through us.  If we change it in any way, it is us speaking and He will not back it up. 

Well, I will add more as I go along.  I just wanted to explain the importance of trying to be careful and making sure what we are preaching, teaching or sharing in any other way is pure and is Christ in and through us to others.  bybybyyb