Generational Curses and Freedom

I do not believe in generational curses. The Lord Jesus has conquered the enemy and when He lives in us, He eradicates all cursing because He blesses us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm, the realm of which we are now citizens.

Here's the way the Spirit inspired Paul to say it, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved.” (Ephesians 1:3–6, NASB 2020)

I understand very well that our upbringing and certain physiological traits, such as a tendency toward addiction for example, have a great effect on us as we mature. Many people find themselves unable to move past these things or to overcome the physiological proclivities they find troubling.

This is not an indication that God has not set them free. Galatians 5:1 tells us that it is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and in John 8:32 we are told that the Truth will set us free. Then in John 8:38 we find that if He sets us free, we are truly free.

When we find ourselves failing in the same way over and over, falling to the same temptation time after time, it can be easy to think that it means that something is amiss and to call into question our salvation. We may wonder about our acceptance by God. We may come to doubt the fullness of the Spirit living in us.

These accusative thoughts are a ploy of the enemy. He tries to convince us that we have not been freed. He wants us to think we remain in bondage to sin. But that is not the case at all. The truth is that such failures come because we are human and on some level, we still believe his lies.

Here's something I wrote on this a while back: Habitual Sin — E3 with Larry Eiss