Generational Sins and Curses

By: Shaila Touchton | April 12, 2017 A generational curse is basically a defilement that was passed down from one generation to another. For example, if your mother has been heavily involved in the occult, then she has become quite defiled (polluted or unclean), and has opened herself up to various demons to enter her. The Bible tells us that the sin of the parents can cause that same pollution to be handed down to their children: Lamentations 5:7, "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities." What happens is that not only is the uncleanliness handed down, but demons move right in and take advantage of this often at a very young age in a person's life (often before birth). The person then goes throughout life struggling with the same bondages that their parents struggle with. The good news is that the Blood of Jesus is more powerful than any bondage that may have been handed down to you! You can be set free and completely released from the effects of any generational curses handed down to you! If you struggle with the same bondages as your parents, or see siblings with the same problems, then it is quite possible that you are suffering from the effects of a generational curse. Many times when you see three generations suffering from depression... it's almost always a generational curse at work and a spirit of heaviness took advantage of those cures in each of their lives through the defilement that was passed down. I believe generational sin curses (curses caused by sins of the forefathers) are automatically broken at the time a person receives salvation, but the unclean spirits that entered in before they accepted Jesus still need to come out. Other generational curses such as encountered in Freemasonry, need to be renounced and broken in order to be set free from them. Once a curse is broken, the next step is to drive out the spirits that may have entered in because of that curse. Generational curses are curses brought on by the sins of our forefathers and foremothers back to the 3rd the 4th even to the 10th generation and possibly beyond. In Exodus 20:5-6 the Bible says, “You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. This, by the way, is part of the 10 Commandments. We see here that sin and its consequences can and will pass down from generation to generation. This promise, “yes this is a promise of God,” is repeated a few chapters later in Exodus 34:6-7 which states, “And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving inquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the inquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” Later Moses tells the next generation in Deuteronomy 23:2, “One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the Lord.” A child born out of wedlock is cursed to the 10th generation, unless that curse is broken, and it can be broken! Some other Biblical examples of generational curses are: Adam and Eve sinned and introduced sickness, death and murder into his family, then Cain murdered his brother Abel. We all still deal with Adam’s sin and the resulting curses. Noah’s drunkenness led to his son Ham dishonoring him. As the result an entire linage of people were and are still under a curse in the land of Canaan. Abraham went against God’s will for him and fathered a son in the flesh; this robbed the birthright from the firstborn son, which went on for the next three generations, and in the next five generations the youngest prospered instead of the oldest. We also see Abraham lying to Abimeleck and a spirit of lying and deception manifesting in his children. Jacob lied to his father concerning his birthright. His sons in turn lied to him about the disappearance of Joseph. David, the man after God’s own heart, fell into sexual sin with Bathsheba. He committed adultery and then had her husband Uriah murdered to cover up his sexual sin. As a result we see a history of incest, rape, rebellion and womanizing in his children. You always reap what you sow, it’s a spiritual law! There is good news to go along with this. That good news is found in Gal 3:13, one hung on a tree to take our curses upon Him. Jesus paid a full price on Calvary! In Acts 2:21 says, “And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” The Greek and Hebrew words for saved are sozo and malat. These are used interchangeably to mean escape, deliverance, healing, and salvation. The precious blood of Jesus not only paid for our sins, but it also paid for our healing and our deliverance. This includes the breaking of generational curses. But, the blood must be applied to break the curse. Category: Healing and Deliverance Tags: Generational Sins and Curses