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! Everyone who is under law (those who believe that their right-standing with God or their ability to enjoy His blessings and be caught up with Christ at the Rapture depends what they do or don't do and not what Christ has done) is subject to generational curses and every other curse that is attached to disobedience to the law. See God's word concerning generational curses 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. 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.

But believer in Christ, we are children of the New Covenant of Grace. With Christ as our atonement for sins and our Righteousness, 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 was unto death and God will NEVER lay that on us a second time. Christ suffered our punishment and died our death for us and 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, 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." And no one can, "For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands...." Romans 3:20.

Those who try to obey the law to get right with God or secure a place in heaven reject the right-standing that Christ died that we might have with God, as it is written in 2 Corinthians 5:21 "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." They 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 "menstrual rags." This is the only brand of righteousness that counts with God: Christ's which we have as a gift. Romans 5:19 - "By one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous."

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.

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 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.

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 the law which DID NOT come through Christ and which kills. In Christ, In Christ, we are not under law but under grace. In Him, every curse has been reversed. Every debt paid.

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