Series: Freedom
July 10, 2022
Exodus 20:1-6 NKJV And God spoke all these words, saying: 2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 “You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 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, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Understanding Setbacks:
God is a generational God, therefore He thinks generationally.
1. There is a
• They are negative patterns noticeable in particular families or communities.
• They are negative bloodline transfers, possibly from disastrous parental transactions with sin.
• They are limiting or disempowering forces of ancestral or generational connection.
2. There is a
A. What you open the door to
2Sa 12:7-12 NLT 7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! The LORD, the God of Israel, says: I anointed you king of Israel and saved you from the power of Saul. 8 I gave you your master’s house and his wives and the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. And if that had not been enough, I would have given you much, much more. 9 Why, then, have you despised the word of the LORD and done this horrible deed? For you have murdered Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and stolen his wife. 10 From this time on, your family will live by the sword because you have despised me by taking Uriah’s wife to be your own. 11 “This is what the LORD says: Because of what you have done, I will cause your own household to rebel against you. I will give your wives to another man before your very eyes, and he will go to bed with them in public view. 12 You did it secretly, but I will make this happen to you openly in the sight of all Israel.”
We can chose our actions, but we can’t choose our consequences.
B. We reap
3. There is a
Romans 5:12-14 NLT 12 When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. 13 Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. 14 Still, everyone died—from the time of Adam to the time of Moses—even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. Now Adam is a symbol, a representation of Christ, who was yet to come.
Psalm 51:5 NLT For I was born a sinner, yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Breaking Setbacks:
1. There must be a change in your
A. The blood of Jesus
Gal. 3:13-14 NLT 13 But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” 14 Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.
1Pet. 1:18-19 NLT 18 For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value. 19 It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
B. Salvation births new
John 3:5 NKJV Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
2. There must be a shift in your
A. The Word reveals the new
B.
1 Peter 2:9 NKJV But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
3. There must be a priority of
A. You are meant to
B. We all need
You may be one conversation away from a healed life!
James 5:16 NLT Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.
Deuteronomy 6:5 NKJV You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
If we don’t experience continual healing, we run the risk of projecting our inherited dysfunction on others.
4. There must be a passing of the
Psalm 145:4 NLT Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts; let them proclaim your power.