There's a new trend going on about breaking on serious generational curses. Is there such a thing as generational curses? Is that biblical?
Does science confirm it? Can we break generational curses? We're going to deal with that in this video.
In the new Tik-Tok trend, moms and dads share the household rules they are not passing down to the next generation. Luster's viral video discusses this Facebook post. Let's take a look.
What 'unserious' generational curse are you breaking? I throw away stained Tupperware and we open more than one box of cereal. Luster has on the background this Facebook post by a woman named Taylor who goes by T who asked people recently on Facebook to share "unserious" generational curse they are breaking and then you know she says I throw away stained Tupperware and we open more than one box of cereal at a time and of course, people go down and start sharing different things that their family did, that they want to break that cycle or break that "unserious" generational curse.
Let's continue to watch what she's gonna say her "unserious" generational curse is. Listen first of all, you are changing lives for the future for the better, okay and I know that those are two prepositional phrases but you deserve two and I'm proud of you. All right, here's mine.
I don't save every plastic bag that I bring home. That's right, I do not have a bag full of other rolled up bags underneath my kitchen sink or in the one drawer. I don't.
I don't have them. I throw them away or recycle them whichever make you feel better. What are y'all doing to save the generations?
There's some other people who would post things that they wouldn't do like my kids do not have to clear their plates up. I let my kids ask a million questions, somebody else says and I try to answer them without, 'because I said so. ' One person said, I let my kids be grumpy in the mornings and I am not nice when I wake up either.
I keep the fridge open while I decide what I want, somebody else said. I wear pajamas all day sometimes and so do my kids and I refuse to feel or make them feel guilty so forth and so on. By modern definition it seems like the idea of generational curses is arbitrary rules that are adopted by our parents and grandparents.
They are random, silly and outdated practices you grew up with but you don't want to pass on to your children like saving every plastic bag that you bring home and while it's kind of funny and maybe some things are really good to break certain cycles instead of passing on to the next generation but what about the generational curses. Is there such a thing as generational curses? Are there "unserious" and are there "serious" generational curses?
Let's look at it from the biblical perspective. I'm gonna also look at some of that from scientific and as well as some of the things that we can do to break more of serious generational curses. First of all, the scripture tells us that we can inherit traits from our parents.
In Exodus chapter 20 verse 5 God says, If you bow to idols and serve them. He says, For I am the Lord your God, I am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations to those who hate Me. So like up to four generations, people can be carrying the consequences of their parents sins.
This is more than just caring actually traits like the color of your skin, the color of your eyes and particular proclivities that your parents have but actually experiencing punishment for their sins. Now Proverbs 3:33 says the following, The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked, But He blesses the home of the just. So you see the curse and the blessing and you see them hitting the houses not just the individuals.
That's interesting. We also see in 2 Timothy 1:5 Paul says to Timothy; He says, when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. We're not talking about hair color here.
We're not talking about you know Timothy just has a strong work ethic, we're talking about actually their faith that was in his grandma and his mom and now it's in him. So there are some things that kind of get passed on as we see in the scriptures. One of my favorite ones in the Bible and I never saw this until recently in Hebrews 11:23 when it talks about Moses it says, By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command.
I find it interesting that Moses's destiny doesn't start with Moses's encounter at the bush but it starts with his parents meaning, the faith of his parents had a lot to do with what happened to Moses even though he ended up in the palace of the Pharaoh yet that seed was planted there and it germinated and when the time came, that faith got pretty much kind of activated and so there is a lot of emphasis we'd see in the Bible where things that happen to your parents, your grandparents have an effect on your life. The second thing I want you to notice is that God many times dealt with families not just with individuals. For example, we see that God saved the home, the family of Noah.
The family of lot was rescued. We see that the lamb that was slain was for the house in Exodus chapter 12. The house of Rahab was rescued.
We see that Joshua said, 'Me and my house will serve the Lord. ' We see that the whole house of the Centurion believed on Jesus. We see the house of Cornelius received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
We see that the house of Lydia believed in Jesus and got baptized. The house of the guy that ran the jail also believed and was baptized. The house of the ruler of the synagogue believed and we see that Paul baptized the household of Stephanus.
So we see that God deals with houses. Now this does not mean that if you belong in a house or your mom or your dad is Christian, you automatically go to heaven but it does mean that there is an effect, that there's an influence that happens because of your parents serving Jesus like I'm a fourth generation Christian and so I do believe that I almost had like a head start, that Christian faith was passed on to me. I had a chance to observe it, absorb it as a kid and then when the time came and Jesus became real to me, Holy Spirit convicted my heart, I placed my trust in Jesus but my parents, my grandparents had a lot to do to influence me toward that direction.
We see actually a similar thing when it comes to the destruction. For example, the house of Jeroboam. God says, He's going to destroy the house not just Jeroboam, the house of Baasha, the house of Ahab like you were pretty unlucky to be born in any of these houses because those houses were doomed for destruction and majority of the people in those households followed the way of wickedness and ungodliness.
The third thing that I want to highlight concerning this generational curse is the seriousness of the generational curses is the science confirms that we inherit traits from our parents. Now you don't even probably need to know any science to know that the color of eyes, sometimes the color of skin, a lot of times different traits you inherit from your parents. I mean even if you go to the doctor, one of the things that they'll ask you does this run in your family and you're like, I'm here like for my issues not like my uncle, my mom, my grandma, my grandpa but I heard one preacher said you know Jesus can live in your heart but your grandpa lives in your blood.
I mean even doctors recognize that but there's a study of epigenetics which pretty much kind of says that, Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Unlike genetic changes, epigenetic changes are reversible and do not change your DNA sequence, but they can change how your body reads a DNA sequence. Now we know that if a parent smokes, that can affect child's genes.
That's epigenetics while these changes don't actually change the letters in your DNA but they can change how your body reads those letters and unlike the changes in your DNA, these cannot be undone meaning, you can be born with proclivity your parents always were drinking, your grandparents were drinking. It doesn't mean you have to drink. You can change that and now as Christians we can break that through the power of the Holy Spirit and because Jesus broke the curse on the cross and so that's something that is very powerful.
We know that epigenetic changes can be passed on generationally. So for example, if in your genes there was just this particular proclivity to do this in your family tree and you stop that, you say, 'No it ends with me through the power of Christ,' that change now can be passed on to generations. Now and I'll quote this from a journal.
Environmental influences, such as a person’s diet and exposure to pollutants, can impact the epigenome. Epigenetic modifications can be maintained from cell to cell as cells divide and, in some cases, can be inherited through the generations. In simple English what this means is that what you eat, the pollution that's around, you can affect how your genes work.
These changes can stick around even when your cells make new cells and sometimes these changes can even be passed on down to your kids and your grandkids meaning, choices you make today, they actually don't change your DNA, they just affect how your body reads that DNA, how you translate that into your environment and that can can get passed on to your children and your grandchildren. That's really encouraging. Another statement from an article that says that, For example, exposure to pharmaceutical and toxic chemicals, diet, stress, exercise, and other environmental factors are capable of eliciting positive or negative epigenetic modifications with lasting effects on development, metabolism and health.
In simple English, medicines, harmful chemicals what you eat, stress, exercise and other things around you can make good or bad changes in how your genes work. While you can't change your genes but it could change how your genes work. These changes can bring a long-term effects on how you grow, how your body uses energy and your overall health.
In other words all of us have stuff passed on from our parents but you must understand, you are responsible for what you activate through your decisions, through your associations and through the environment you choose to be in as well as experiences you choose to foster. You can break those cycles. You can break that trauma.
You can break those things in your family tree while you cannot rewrite the DNA letters, you can change how your body reads it and how you live your life and that can get passed on to your children and your grandchildren. That's really encouraging. Now the fourth thing that I want to highlight is that everyone has gotten an original generational curse which started with Adam.
Because of Adam's sin, we're all born under the curse of sin. The curse causes all of us to be born with a sinful nature which is a true catalyst for any and every sinful behavior we exhibit. Romans chapter 5 verses 18 through 19 it says, Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous. In other words, there's a curse that came because of Adam's choice to sin. This curse actually came from God.
This punishment came from God. This wasn't a witch doctor, a devil bringing this curse; God pronounced the curse and then what begin to happen is that Adam's sin became the chain that we became connected to our ancestor Adam with sinful bent toward doing sinful things and this curse, this generational curse from Adam that we all as humanity have creates a cycle of our personal sins, sickness and death and nobody can escape it without Christ. Birth gave us that curse but Christians who believe in Jesus can break that sinful nature because that sinful nature is crucified with Jesus, we can experience new life and we can receive this gift that came from Jesus, the second Adam and actually walk in the blessing that flows from Christ that affects our morality, that affects our behavior, affects how we speak, how we live and how we talk and most importantly gives us connection and peace with God.
The fifth thing that I want to highlight about curses and that is whatever is not transformed by God in one generation gets transferred to the next generation. So now we're going to deal a little bit more with specific traits, behaviors like alcoholism, infidelity even perhaps chronic diseases or overweightness or anxiety that seems to kind of run in the family, broken family, barrenness perhaps premature death, constant accidents or being accident prone, maybe it runs in your family, mental attacks. Whatever is not transformed by God in one generation gets transferred to the next generation.
How these generational curses, the serious and unserious work is they're passed down through generations with the same reoccurring problems and troubles that all the previous ancestors experienced. Look at Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We see a pattern of lying.
We see a pattern of favoritism. We see a pattern of brothers being cut off, poor intimacy and barrenness. Abraham lied, Isaac lied, Jacob took it to another level and Jacob's kids took it to another level.
We see favoritism with Abraham and Ishmael. We see a favoritism with Isaac and Esau. We see favoritism with Jacob and Joseph and Benjamin and it created these jealousies intentions.
We see brothers being constantly disconnected from their brothers. Ishmael being driven out. He's no longer close to his sibling.
We see same thing with Jacob running from his brother, Esau. This pattern of constant brokenness of the family unit and Joseph being completely sold by his brothers. I mean total another level.
We see poor intimacy that was happening within these families. I mean Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, they're patriarchs of faith, father of faith but we see these issues that were there and then we see barrenness. Abraham's wife couldn't have kids.
We see Isaac's wife couldn't have kids. We have Jacob's wife struggle with that and we see this this struggle that was happening there and so we have to go to God for the Lord to help us to break certain things so that we don't pass them on to the next generation. The sixth thing that I want to highlight is that sometimes we have to go back that we can go forward.
For the first 12 years of your life, you are like a tape recorder. You're absorbing everything and it's being recorded on your like if I could say internal tape. After the 12 years everything that is recorded, for the remaining of your life you actually played that tape onto other people You may observe father, mother you know fighting all the time and I'll never do that but it's being recorded onto you and without the transforming work of the Holy Spirit, without salvation, we actually end up replaying that very thing to our family, to our relationships what we've experienced in the family of origin.
The present is a window into a past. Be aware of your past. Think of like a play and a script being handed to an actor for a certain part.
We must examine the script that got passed on to us and rewrite it with God. Now I understand some of you already saying whoa whoa whoa Vlad, you don't believe the Bible. The Bible says all things have passed.
That's true but if you've been abused, if you grew up without a father and mother, you can't just put a blanket scripture without dealing with that past. If it keeps resurfacing in your life, if those traumas, dramas; if the same thing is being done in your life, you probably can't go forward without going backwards. You got to deal with those wounds.
Wounds neglected become wounds infected and we begin to honestly replay the same thing into our future, what we have picked up for the first 12 years of our life. Every family has a certain way, a pattern, a cycle of how they handle money, conflict, sex, grief, expressing anger, how families are ran, how relationships are maintained, how other cultures are viewed, also how success is viewed, how feelings and emotions are processed. Every family has that, my family has that and so does yours and these curses honestly a lot of times it's ungodly patterns that are being passed on from one generation to another and you can't change that, you can't just simply say oh I'm gonna change without going and beginning to deal with the root of that.
Begin to deal with the root of where it started and I'm going to deal with that in just a moment, how we can deal with that root. The seventh thing is some battles that you are going through right now, you are dealing with right now, some of the challenges you're experiencing, they didn't start with you but they can end with you. I like to use the example of Amalekites, King Saul and Ruth.
Amalek means people that licks up. Amalek attacked Israel first when they exited Egypt. They attacked them unexpectedly.
They attacked them indirectly and they attacked them viciously and and arrogantly. God promised to punish Amalek for his sin. Watch this, 100 years later.
100 years later Amalekites get punished for something that they did. God commands Saul to go and execute that punishment. Saul of course spares that enemy and doesn't complete the task.
500 years later, after this incident with Saul and Amalekites, we see that Haman, Amalekite's descendant is resurfacing in Babylon and Mordecai is Saul's descendant is called to finish what his great great great great great great grandfather did not and we see there is a rematch between Mordecai and Haman. The descendants of Amalek and descendants of Saul and through intervention, prayer, fasting and a lot of spiritual warfare this battle ended there. Maybe you're facing certain Hamans in your life that previous ancestors didn't deal with.
This is not about blaming your parents. Absolutely not. This is about being realistic and dealing with the roots of the problems.
This is not about trying to go into the past to figure out who did what but this is about being honest with, is this behavior, is this attitude, is this train of thought, am I doing this. It's not in line with God's word. It's not in line with God's purpose but why is it running in my life?
It didn't start with me but it can end with me. It can end with you. In the conclusion, I want to share with you how to end it.
I bought one time an old rundown duplex and it had an unkempt lawn. A lot of weeds there, no green grass. It was just horrible.
In fact it was really high and so instead of blaming the person who sold it to me you know I rolled up my sleeves and went to work and two things I did is I pulled weeds and I planted seeds and that's what I want to encourage you with. Maybe things were passed on to you that are unserious generational curses or serious generational curses. Blaming is not the way to go; Battling is the way to go.
Breaking is the way to go and how do you do that? Pull weeds. Pull down strongholds, lies and thoughts, patterns.
Catch them, address them, confront them and bring them to the scripture, in light of God's word. Is this a weed or is this a seed? Pull weeds, number one.
Number two is plant seeds meaning, create new habits, new patterns, new attitudes, new way that you develop routines. Create new traditions for your family that reflect most the kingdom values instead of your ancestry. On the practical level, recognize when something is repeating from previous generations that didn't start with you and it doesn't line up with the scriptures.
Secondly is repent. If you have allowed that to go on automatic. Repent from any way you've contributed to that and say Lord, I repent for allowing that.
I might even need to repent from my ancestors who allowed that to run rampant in my life. This doesn't mean so that they can be forgiven. It's so that I could be released from that.
The third thing is renounced sometimes there's a spiritual force that is over our life where maybe somebody pronounced the curse over us, maybe some of our ancestors broke a promise perhaps threw somebody under the bus symbolically speaking and there was a curse that was released, a violation that was done and you need to renounce that, break that. Perhaps a spell was cast in your direction, you just renounce that. I renounce the curse of premature death.
I renounce the curse of depression. I renounce, you need to verbally renounce that and then release. Release, I mean release forgiveness to people who have hurt you.
Maybe you've lived and you've seen family trauma and you were affected by it and you need to forgive those people that have caused that pain to you and then you need to replace. Replace like I said from weeds to seeds. Replace the patterns.
Replace those thoughts, the attitudes, those actions and traditions and resist meaning, continue to stand against the forces of darkness. The patterns of generations that have been passed on to you that are not godly, that you need to stand against it. I don't know if you've seen these images breaking generational cycles where the grandfather says, you're not good enough.
Father says, you're stupid but then you begin to say to your child, you are loved or another one where you know somebody screams, you're stupid. The other one says you're not good enough and the other one breaks that says, I love you and I think we can be those people or in Washington Post, it shows a person's and this is a beautiful image, their roots are connected to the mother, to the father, to other ancestors and the person begins to take the scissors and begins to cut off these branches, these roots from growing, from that person unto their generations. So in the conclusion I want to leave you with this verse 1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
So this aimless conduct received from our fathers, from the patterns, traditions, these curses we all were born with the curse from Adam, our original father and then we picked up a lot more curses but in Christ, we can be free. We have to recognize it. We have to repent, renounce, release, resist, replace and we can live a new renewed life with Jesus Christ reflecting His kingdom principles and values instead of living like our ancestors where those things may have not been in line with God's word and God's standards.
Thank you for watching this video. What generational curses are you breaking in your family tree? Let me know in the comments below.
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