In Christ, we have been redeemed from the generational curse as well as every other curse (2/4)

The context of the following paragraph is found in (1/4)—

Believer, for those who still hang on to the Old Covenant of the Law (trying to live a godly life by human strength in order to be right with God) and thus are under its curse, God "visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations" is God showing His Love and Mercy without compromising on His Righteousness and Justice, even as He is including many in what Christ has accomplished for us with His death: hence His word in bold below appearing in the same verse that talks about the generational curse—-

"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.” Exodus 34:6-8

For churchgoers who are under Law aka rejecting Christ’s sacrifice to make them godly (be like God) by their trying to be godly by human effort and believing that Christians are still subject to the generational curse— and so are under the curse; for those who think God's visiting of sins to later generations is unfair, understand that “all have sinned,” including you. And the wages of sin is death.

You also have your own sins which merit instant death as would have been the fate of the unbelieving Israelites in the wilderness. If God were to pour out the wages of your own sins alone on you right now, as it was with Judah's son Onan who died instantly because his action displeased the Lord (Genesis 38:8-10,) you would instantly cease to exist on earth and still have the second death in hell to contend with, as would have been the fate of the unbelieving and complaints-filled children of Israel but for God's mercy in postponing the punishment for their sins across their generations.

God cannot bend His law for anybody. His righteousness demands that every sin be punished to the uttermost; the wages of sin is death. One death. The same death that Adam died after he sinned and passed on the curse of death to all of his descendants. See 1 Corinthians 15-

21 "For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive."

“….all have sinned…” is an immovable truth. God's word. All who still have the sinful/old nature inherited from Adam (Romans 5:19) are destined for death unless they receive God's gift of righteousness to us in Christ. This death that is through Adam is not merely physical. Recall that Adam did not drop dead physically right after his death sentence came into effect. God told him in Genesis 2:17-

"and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die.'"

After disobeying God, Adam existed on earth in physical form for almost a thousand years, but the life he lived was far from the Grace that he enjoyed in Eden. To God, "a thousand years are like a day that has just gone by." Psalm 90:4. See Adam's "death sentence" in Genesis 3-

17 "Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”"

Sickness is "death begun." Lack is "death begun." Toiling with sweat and stress and having little or nothing to show for it is "death begun." Fast-tracked ageing is "death begun." Bible “death” is not just falling down and breathing one’s last. It is translated from the Greek word “Thanatos” and has the following interpretations:

• the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell

• the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell

• in the widest sense, death comprising all the miseries arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life consecrated to God and blessed in him on earth, to be followed by wretchedness in hell

“Death” that is the wages of sin is a process which begins here on earth and culminates in the second death in hell. Every earthly ill is “death begun.” And this death plus all of its processes of weakness and sickness Christ died ONCE for all, beloved. ONCE. See this in Hebrews 9 says:

"27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many...."

No matter how many sins you commit in your entire lifetime, God's word says you can only die this death once. For our entire lifetime of sins, it is appointed for man to die only once. Christ suffered and died our death that the Law demanded us. Once. Believer, Jesus is not going to come and die again for the sins that you might commit tomorrow. It is appointed for man to die once. One death for our entire lifetime of sins- past, present and future. Christ has died that death. 

This death that is the wages of sin is a process that encompasses a downward spiral of earthly ills, including generational and other curses, that culminate in everlasting death in hell. Recall James 2:10 says-

“For whosoever shall keep the whole Law yet stumble at one point he is guilty of all.”

God was going to destroy the Israelites for their sin of unbelief in His goodness (Grace— undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour) in their refusal to enter and take the Promised Land; the same sin which many churchgoers are repeating today by wanting to fast, obey and generally depend on their works to defeat their “giants” of earthly ills such as lack, disease and ungodliness so that they can enter the Rest that He freely gives to all who believe in Jesus. Moses quoted God’s word in order to avert disaster—

15 "Suppose You put all these people to death and leave none alive. Then the nations who have heard these things about You will talk. They’ll say, 16 ‘The Lord promised to give these people the land of Canaan. But He wasn’t able to bring them into it. So He killed them in the desert.’ 17 “Now, Lord, show Your strength. You have said,

18 ‘I am the Lord. I am slow to get angry. I am full of love. I forgive those who sin. I forgive those who refuse to obey. But I do not let guilty people go without punishing them. I cause the sin of the parents to affect their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.’

19 Lord, Your love is great. So forgive the sin of these people. Forgive them just as You have done from the time they left Egypt until now.”

Also recall that when you plant a seed, you do not reap just one seed? If there was no generational curse which Moses used to plead with God on behalf of the unbelieving Israelites because he knew that there had to be a righteous foundation for God to stay the law’s demand for the death of the sinner, all of the Israelites would have perished in the desert on that day with no descendants save Moses' posterity to carry on after Israel, and even those ones too would be subject to the law of sin and death. And still face the second death in hell..Essentially, the generational curse is like a lifeline or credit card for the sinner whose bill of death (including its symptoms of “death begun") is due right now; a death that Christ died for all because God so loved the world. And people are offering up “menstrual rag” fasting for 70 days to undo it! Well, should God answer that kind of prayer, instant payment of the wages of sin will befall the one who is praying it.

Why hang on to the curse beloved? Christ hung on the cross to redeem us from every curse.