Generational and other curses and the believer in Christ.

Are generational curses still operational in the world today, even in the lives of some who profess Christ? Definitely! See God's word concerning the generational curse in Numbers 14:18 -

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.’

This is God's word according to the Old Covenant (the law) and it will not return to Him void. He is the Righteous Judge. His righteousness demands that He punish every sin to the uttermost, even to the third and fourth generations. No wonder doctors say certain people are likely to have certain diseases because their parents or grandparents have/had it. No wonder many repeat their parents' mistakes even after vowing not to. God is the Righteous Judge and cannot bend the Law for anybody.

Generational and other curses were not designed and just slapped anyhow on people by Satan as many believe. The name "Ha Satan" is literally "prosecutor at Law" in Hebrew. As it is in any earthly court of law, sentencing offenders is the work of a judge. Satan the Accuser is a prosecutor at Law - the Law of Moses. His job is to accuse as his name implies and his weapon is the Law that many are striving to keep in order to be godly; the same Law whose every demand Christ has fulfilled for all who believe. (see Colossians 2:13-14, also quoted somewhere below.) For all who have Christ as their righteousness, our guilt and condemnation have been wiped away; every single demand that the Law made and can ever make of us has been fulfilled by our Advocate (Jesus Christ's) sacrifice for our sins. He died our death.

Satan cannot just sentence anybody to be cursed anyhow. Like any earthly prosecutor, he can only accuse, try to get a guilty verdict and then demand that the guilty/condemned pay the wages of sin: Death, preceded by its symptoms aka the curse- generational curses, sickness, lack and every earthly ill. Death is a process as we see in the life of Adam who did not drop dead physically on the day that his death sentence came into effect. All who are trying to keep the Law in order to be godly stand condemned and thus cursed: Galatians 3-

10 "But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under His curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.” 11 So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” 12 This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”"

Everyone who is under Law - believing that their right-standing with God or their ability to enjoy His blessings and be caught up with Christ at the Rapture depends on their own human effort at keeping the Law and not what Christ has done - is subject to the generational curse and every other curse that is attached to disobeying the law.

Because the finished work of Christ in redeeming us from the curse of the law and in making the sinner who believes righteous APART FROM WORKS is not the basis of their salvation from the curse, no matter how good such try to be, the charges that Satan brings against such in the court of the Law of Moses that they are trying to keep can stick, "For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the Law commands..." Romans 3:20.

Like the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the Law condemns the best of those who try to keep it in order to live a godly life (be like God) or score points of righteousness with God.

But believer in Christ, we are children of the New Covenant of Grace. In Christ, we are not under Law but under Grace where God "disarmed" Satan of the weapons (Law) that he uses to accuse: Colossians 2:13-

13 "At one time you were dead in your sins. Your desires controlled by sin were not circumcised. But God gave you new life together with Christ. He forgave us all our sins. 14 He wiped out what the law said that we owed. The law stood against us. It judged us. But He has taken it away and nailed it to the cross. 15 He took away the weapons of the powers and authorities. He made a public show of them. He won the battle over them by dying on the cross."

In Christ, not under law but under Grace, Satan the Accuser cannot bring a charge against us as charges can only prosper in the lives of those who are still living under Law. See Romans 8-

33 "Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us."

See the TPT: 33 "Who then would dare to accuse those whom God has chosen in love to be his? God himself is the judge who has issued his final verdict over them—“Not guilty!” 34 Who then is left to condemn us? Certainly not Jesus, the Anointed One! For he gave His life for us, and even more than that, He has conquered death and is now risen, exalted, and enthroned by God at His right hand. So how could He possibly condemn us since He is continually praying for our triumph?"

Believer, we are dead to the Law and alive in Christ. No one can charge a dead person to court to face the judgment of the Law of which is the generational curse. With Christ as our atonement for sins and our Righteousness, condemnation that brings the curse is no longer our lot. In Him, our heavenly Father does not remember our sins and lawless deeds (Hebrews 8 & 10), including the ones we inherited from our fathers! See the promise fulfilled for us in Christ in Hebrews 8.

"10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."

Do you see the contrast? In the Old Covenant, "He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations."

But in Christ, under the New Covenant of Grace, God says of us "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

Bear in mind that God disciplines His children, but His chastening is that we might "live" and "for our benefit" (Hebrews 12.) The punishment that Christ bore for us, including the curse of the Law, was unto death and God will NEVER lay that on us a second time. Christ suffered our punishment, took our curse and died our death, for us and as us.

Believers, if God does not remember our sins and will not punish us for them because they have been punished in the body of Christ, who are we to say differently? Believers, we are not under Law (Old Covenant) but under Grace (New Covenant) where Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13.) Under Grace, believing in and completely dependent on Christ for our right-standing with God and salvation, we are dead to the Law; whatever the law says, it does not say to us, according to Romans 3:19-20:

"19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin."

The curse of the law, including generational curses, is on those who are under law and not under grace. Galatians 3:10 tells us so-

"For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”

"Works of the law" is anything one does or does not do in order to obtain right-standing with God or receive from Him. In order to be justified by the law and thus escape the curse, one has to "abide by all things written in the book of the law." The one who depends on his ability to keep the Law in order to be godly has to do it ALL, and no one can: "For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the Law commands. The Law simply shows us how sinful we are." Romans 3:20.

Romans 5:9 tells us: "And there is still much more to say of His unfailing love for us! For through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in My sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God."

This is the only brand of righteousness that counts with God: Christ's, which we have as a gift. See Romans 5:19 -

"And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. 17 For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ."

Those who try to keep the law in order to get right with God or secure a place in heaven reject the right-standing that Christ died that we might have with God. Such also reject God's freely-given blessings in Christ (Romans 8:32) by trying to earn God's favour with righteousness that comes from human effort at obeying the law (self-righteousness).

Believers, Isaiah 64:6 describes our own righteousnesses as "a menstrual rag." Romans 3:20 shows us the futility of trying to abide by all things written in the book of the law: "Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin." All efforts at keeping the law only reflect "Guilty! Condemned! Cursed!" Including with generational curses.

Believer, our loving Father saw how hopelessly cursed and "generationally" cursed we all were and made His Son to become a curse for us, because He loved us so. The generational and other curses that we were fated to bear Christ became for us, as it is written in Galatians 3:13 -

"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."

For most capital offenses covered by Jewish Law, stoning was the form of punishment, not crucifixion. Under the Mosaic Law, those who were hanged on a tree were cursed by God (Deut. 21:22-23) Jesus took the curse of the law that was meant for us upon Himself to redeem us from the curse. His hanging on the tree (cross) for you and I was no coincidence. It was to redeem us from every curse, including generational curses.

The curse was not instituted by Satan the Accuser. The curse is of the Law and the Law was instituted by God, yet many are trying to break curses that God Himself is visiting on those who do not have Christ as their righteousness with 100 days fasting and prayer- trying to undo the Law of God with human effort! No friend. Don't be deceived by ministers of Satan on the pulpit whose aim is to keep you forever attending their monthly deliverance services! A vicious and unending cycle. No "free indeed" here.

These are the same set of "pastors" who tell you that you have to keep the Ten Commandments using your non-existent will-power (arm of flesh that will fail) in order to be godly (be like God the Righteous.) The same strategy was used on Eve who was deceived into believing that she would be godly "be like God" if she ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, a picture of the Law (Romans 7:8-12 MSG) which gives the same knowledge. The result? She and Adam were put out of Eden and cut off from the Tree of Life (a picture of Jesus Christ,) the same way all who profess Christ but are trying to keep the Law in order to be godly/righteous are cut off from Christ today:

"For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace." Galatians 5:4.

Believer, only God who instituted the Law can lift the curse of the Law and He did so on the Righteous foundation of sacrificing His own beloved Son to FREELY redeem us from the curse of the Law.

Believers, there is no curse, generational or otherwise, on we who are in Christ; we who have Him as our Righteousness! Please run far away from any church or preacher that tells you things like "your great-grandfather's goat that killed his neighbour's chicken is the reason why you cannot conceive." They are preaching a horrid mixture of law and grace. This horrid mixture that is neither Law nor Grace is the "neither cold nor hot" that Christ spoke of in Revelation 3. In Christ, we are not under law but under grace. In Him, every curse that was ours has been reversed. Every sin debt paid. This is Grace- undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour.

Under the law of Moses is where the curse remains (Galatians 3:10.) But this is our blessed lot in Christ:

"So let it be clearly known by you, brothers, that through Him forgiveness of sins is being proclaimed to you; 39 and through Him everyone who believes [who acknowledges Jesus as Lord and Savior and follows Him] is justified and declared free of guilt from all things, from which you could not be justified and freed of guilt through the Law of Moses." Acts 13:38-39.

All things, including the curse of the law.

Right believing always produces right living.