Sermon Tone Analysis

Breaking of Generational Curses

God cursed the earth (Genesis 3:17-19)

How I was led to this truth

Define blessings and curses—emphasize continuation from one generation to

another—families as well as individuals.

Blessing and cursing are both key concepts in Scripture.

Biblical writers and characters wish or pray that good, beneficial and desirable things, or bad, disadvantageous and undesirable things, will happen to others.

In some instances the blessing or curse is understood to be in itself a powerful and effective mechanism for ensuring that such good or bad things will happen to others.

The words of blessing and cursing are thought to have inherent, autonomous power, so that once spoken they cannot be recalled, and unless some greater power is invoked to combat them the good or bad that they have called for is bound to happen

Examples of blessings

From God (note cause)

From man on behalf of God

The same principles apply to curses

The word “curse” occurs nearly 200 times in Scripture

There is always a cause for a curse

Every Human being is born under curse

FUTILITY Frustration, vexation, uselessness, and meaninglessness

evil, calamity, injustice, sin, deception, false, unprincipled, vain, vanity, idol, worthless,

John Piper expands it to say, “…it is referring to an empty, meaningless, unprofitable way of living that ends with destruction.

It says that these ‘futile ways’ are connected with our ancestors.”

And what is the result?

“There is a sense of fatalism that we are bound to live with the curse or the wounds from our ancestry.

The future seems futile and void of happiness.”

Effects of blessing (summed up):

God’s Favor

Exaltation

Health

Reproductiveness

Prosperity

Victory

Effects of curses (summed up):

God’s disfavor

Humiliation

Mental and physical sickness

Family breakdown

Poverty

Defeat

Oppression

Failure

Sin, transgression & iniquity

Sin - motives - rebellion

Transgression - transgressing God’s principle

Iniquity -bloodline as a stronghold

Sin - Jesus bore the sin of the humanity

Transgressors - Jesus intercedes

Iniquity - bruised , crushed

It costed Jesus everything

God is bound by His words: We have to appropriate the finished work of the cross and get released from generational curses through prayer and confession

Blessings and curses explained

Divinely ordained exchange

Blessings – 600 times ; Curses –300 times

Vehicles of supernatural power for good & bad

Pass on from generation to generation

Vehicles - words

Written

Pronounced by others

Pronounced inward

Objects also radiate curses (Joshua 7:1- Achan)

Cup of blessings – communion

Cup of water of curse – Numbers 5:21

Curses will be a barrier for healing, blessing, prosperity

Pass on from generation to generation

Deuteronomy 28- 14 verses of blessings & 54 verses of curses

Causes of blessings:

Listening to God’s voice

Doing what God says

Causes of curses:

Not listening to God’s voice

Not doing what God says

Conditions indicating curses (based on personal experience in ministering to people)

Mental and emotional breakdown

Repeated or chronic sicknesses (esp.

without clear medical diagnosis)

Repeated miscarriages or related female problems

Breakdown of marriage—family alienation

Continuing financial insufficiency (esp.

where income appears sufficient)

“Accident prone”

Addictions

Adultery

Infidelity

Causes of curses:

1.False gods (Ex.

20:3–5)

2. Idolatry-cult, occult, etc. (Deut.

27:15–26)

3. Disrespect for parents ( Eph. 6:1–3)

4. Treachery against a neighbor (compare Prov. 17:13)

5.Injustice to the weak or helpless

6. Illicit or unnatural sex/incest

7.Anti-Semitism (Gen.

12:3; 27:29)

8.Depending on flesh (Jer.

17:5–6)

9.Stealing or perjury (Zech.

5:1–4)

10.Stinginess toward God (Mal.

3:8–10)

11.Perverting the Gospel (Gal.

1:8–9)

12.Curses by servant of God – God’s Mouth piece

Joshua 6:26 - 1 King 16:34

David – Mt.

Gilboa – 2 Samuel 1:21

Jesus cursing the fig tree

Elisha – Gehazi – 2 Kings 5:26,27

13.Persons with relational authority