lasting arms. What have I to dread? What have I to fear? Leading on the everlasting arms.
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near. Leading on the everlasting arms. Leading
on Jesus, leaning on Jesus, leaning on the everlasting arms.
Amen.
Wonderful singing.
Let's start our service with a word of prayer.
Dear God, my father, we thank you so much, Lord God, for allowing us to be here this evening, Lord God,
to hear your word being preached. We do pray that you please just bless every aspect of the service, Lord God.
Please bless the singing unto you, and most of all, please be with our pastor as you fill him with your Holy Spirit, Lord God.
We do pray that you please just guide him to the scriptures and help us, Lord God, to be attentive tonight, Lord, dear God,
and apply the preaching to our lives, O Lord, and to our families, Lord God, now.
And we pray that you please, again, just bless the remainder of our service. In Jesus' name, amen.
If Jesus goes with me, song number 335, song number 335, if Jesus goes with me, song number
335.
We'll see you on that first verse, it may be in the valley.
It may be in the valley where countless dangers hide
It may be in the sunshine that I in peace abide
But this one thing I know, if it be dark or bare
If Jesus goes with me, I'll go anywhere
If Jesus goes with me, I'll go anywhere Tis heaven to me, where I may be, if he is there
I counted a privilege here His cross to bear
If Jesus goes with me, I'll go
song number 335 song number 335 on that second it may be I must carry the
blessed word of life across the burning deserts to those in sinful strife and
though it be my law to bear my colors there if Jesus goes with me I'll go
If Jesus goes with me I'll go anywhere
Wherever to be, wherever it may be
If he is there, I counted a privilege here
His cross to bear, if Jesus goes with me I'll go
my portion to bear my cross at home while others bear their burdens beyond
the bellows foam I'll prove my faith in him confesses judgment fair and if he
Tis heaven to me, wherever I may be, if he is there.
I counted a privilege here, his cross to bear.
If Jesus goes with me, I'll go anywhere.
On that last, it is not mine to question
It is but mine to follow the leadings of His word.
To go or stay, or whether here or there,
I'll be by my Savior anywhere.
If Jesus goes with me, I'll go anywhere.
I counted a privilege here, His cross to bear. If Jesus goes with me, I'll war.
All right, good evening everyone, great singing.
Just some announcements before we sing our next song,
which would be song number 336,
constantly abiding, 336.
We'd like to welcome you to our Thursday night Bible study.
We're starting a new book this coming up Thursday at 7 p.m.
So many teams and times are there below.
Continue to pray for the expecting mothers.
Tonight we have another night of our family summer nights. We have the jumpers and hot dogs
I have just a couple announcements about that once services over we're gonna make a line right here and
From the old foyer and no to wrap around to the to the back door, okay?
but obviously continue to come for the summer nights and you know
Just for us to be able to have some time together as a family here as a church
Fourth of July picnic Friday, July 4th. I have a couple announcements about that as well and
We address is there below and so for for that
Please make sure you are as deep for the picnic
There's a sign-up sheet in the back and then the addresses is there on the sheet
But also on on on our bullets in here as well
But just be aware that there's actually a parade on that day. So you have to make sure you
As it says right here, it says it's on Friday, July 4th at Eucalyptus Park from 1130 to 330 p.m.
And there is a parade on the main street at 1 p.m.
So plan to be there earlier than later to avoid detours and traffic before 12 is ideal.
And then, you know, there is a separate.
a sheet over there to sign up for bringing food.
And then the last thing here is,
do not forget to bring a chair or a blanket to lay on.
That's on July 4th, Sunday, July 6th.
We have our board game Sunday.
And then on July 13th, which is Sunday,
we have our watermelon Sunday.
I'm not sure who put this in here.
I don't know if they wanted me to say this or not,
but, but amen, I will be there.
I will be there, okay?
That's it for all the announcements, and please silence your phone to not be a disturbance to the service.
Please open up your hymnals to song number 336. Thank you.
Amen. Song number 336.
Constantly abiding.
Song number 336.
We'll sing it on that first verse.
There's a peace in my heart
That the world never gave
Of peace it cannot take away
Though the trials of life
May surround like a cloud
I've a peace that has come here to stay
Constantly abiding, Jesus is mine.
Constantly abiding, rapture divine.
He never leaves below me, whispers oh so kind.
The world seemed to sing of a Savior and King.
No peace freely came to my heart.
Troubles all fled away, and my night turned to day.
Blessed Jesus, how glorious Thou art!
This is mine, constantly abiding.
This treasure I have in a temple of clay
Won't appear on his footsteps I roam
But he's coming to take me some glorious day
Over there to my heavenly home
abiding, rapture divine. He never leaves me lonely, whispers oh so kind. I will never leave thee,
Jesus is fine. Amen. Wonderful singing at this time. Our ushers will be receiving the offering and
Exodus chapter 20 the Bible reads
And God spoke all these words saying I am the Lord thy God which I've brought thee out of the land of Egypt at a house of bondage
That should have no other gods before me that should not make unto the any graven image or 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
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation
of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not
hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
Six days shot that labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord God thy God
In it thou shalt do not not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thy
Cattle nor thy stranger that is within thy gates for in six days
The Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that is in them in them is and rested the seventh day
Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
And all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountains smoking when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off.
And they said unto Moses, speak thou with us, and we will hear, but let not God speak with us lest we die.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear not, for God has come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces that ye sin not.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
An altar of earth that shall make unto me, and shall sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and then oxen, and all places where I record my name, I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
And if that will make me an altar of stone, that shall not build it of hewn stone, for if thou lift up thy stool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Neither shalt thou go up by steps upon mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
Let's pray do look on just thank you for this time. We have tonight to hear the preaching of your word Lord
Just please bless us in the congregation that we have ears to hear the message and apply to our lives Lord
Please bless pastor right now Lord and give him boldness and strength and fill him with the Holy Spirit Lord as he preaches
Your word unto us Lord bless every aspect of the service. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen
And then, okay, we're in Exodus chapter 20 this evening and the time I'm serving tonight is breaking generational curses
Breaking generational curses look at verse number four of Exodus chapter 20
It says thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in earth
Beneath or that is in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy
I want you to notice this part of the verse here that says,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation,
of them that hate me and I believe that this could be referring to or is referring to
generational curses essentially referring to the fact that if one generation rejects the Lord
one generation has a propensity for sin they can easily pass that down to their coming progeny
their generations and it says here that God's not going to forget that he will visit the
iniquity of the fathers to those generations that come after him and it says there that he's going
of them specifically that what that hate me goes on the same verse six and
showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments we'll
come back to that in just a bit but I want to preach on the subject of
breaking generational curses and I think this is something this is more of a
pastoral type sermon where I just want to kind of
speak heart to heart with our church to kind of help you to identify and understand that, you know,
there are certain generational curses that people face. We all have them. There's certain bad habits
that we learned from previous generations. There's certain sinful habits, sinful behaviors that we
essentially get from our fathers, from our mothers, from our great grandparents, you know, and it's
passed down from generation to generation. And quite frankly, it could destroy you. It could
have some sort of victim mentality and say well this is how we've always been
this is how my mom was this is how my dad was the reason I'm in this
situation is because of my parents and it's one of these things where people
just shift the blame on other people for their decisions to continue down that
path right and there's obviously some truth to it
There's some truth to it, but at the end of the day, as I'm going to mention in the sermon,
we as Christians have a new nature.
We have the new man that's able to transcend those generational curses and break those
things.
So we're going to talk about the generational curse of sin, but obviously more specifically
great grandparents, curses of sinful behaviors from the environments that we grew up in,
curses from ideologies that we learned from our parents, and even genetic behaviors, right?
Where a person has more of a propensity towards a particular sin, that is a generational curse.
Now turn with me if you would to 2 Kings chapter 17, hold your place here in Exodus, go to
2 Kings chapter 17, we're just going to look at a couple of examples here.
Second Kings chapter 17, I want to encourage you this evening to just have a humble attitude,
have a humble heart, and recognize that you are not the exception to this rule.
And, you know, you might have grown up in a household of character and diligence,
and quite frankly, maybe even in a Christian home where Christian principles are being put forth,
but that doesn't mean that generational curses did not exist in that particular household.
And it's important for us that we...
better ourselves as Christians that we identify what is not pleasing unto God, what's the right
attitude to have, and let's reject the wrong attitudes, the wrong ideologies. Look at 2nd
Kings 17 verse 38, and the covenant that I made with you ye shall not forget, neither shall you
fear other gods, but the Lord your God ye shall fear, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of
But they did after their former manor so these nations fear the Lord and serve their graven images both their children
and their children's children, as their fathers did,
so do they unto this day.
What is this talking about?
A generational curse.
You have one generation that not only rejected the Lord,
but also mixed paganism into the religion of the Bible,
and now you have generations that are practicing that.
Now, what's a good example of this?
How about Mexico and Catholicism?
Mexico and Catholicism is a perfect example of a generational curse that's been embraced for generations on end.
Even to the point where you have Mexicans crossing the border illegally or illegally.
That's not necessarily the point, but they come here and they're Catholic.
Why? Because their grandmother was Catholic.
So what is that?
That's a person who's literally rejecting the truths of the Bible.
They're literally rejecting salvation in the gospel only because of what?
That generational curse of their great grandparents that also rejected the truth.
That has been passed down to them.
And let me say to every single Catholic,
God will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me the Bible says.
And so, you know what, the great-grandchild of that person who originally rejected the Gospel,
that person is going to go to hell.
That person is going to receive the just consequences of their actions in spite of the fact that,
hey, yeah, you know, it was your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
There was all about Catholicism and damned the entire family into believing
Catholicism you're gonna suffer the consequences of that because you chose not to break that generational curse
You know, I'm thankful that I'm standing up here today as someone who broke the generational curse of Catholicism in my family
And you know, I help my mom break that generational curse too because she was a Catholic
But you know as far back as I know, you know, but my family has predominantly been Catholic
Okay, and so I don't know of any safe family member in my family.
I think that essentially the vast majority of my family members, my ancestors, are all
in hell as far as I know, okay?
And, quite frankly, I get to experience the mercy of God, the grace of God.
Why?
Because I broke that generational curse.
I believe the Gospel and I'm not just like, well, my grandmother was a Catholic and so
Virgin Mary this and that, whatever, you know.
We want to make sure that we steer clear of the 2nd King 17 example of the children and
the children's children serving graven images and not fearing God because that's what their
Look at Psalm 78 if you would. Psalm 78. Psalm 78. Psalm chapter 78 verse number 5 says here,
for he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded
our fathers that they should make them known to their children, that the generation to come might
even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children,
that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.
and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that set not their heart or right, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
What's the point of even coming to church? What's the point of serving God?
Well, obviously there's various reasons and benefits to that,
but one of the main reasons is that we want to pass on a godly heritage to our children.
We want them to grow up in a godly environment.
loving God, esteeming the house of God,
seeking after righteousness, winning souls to Christ
so that they don't turn out like our previous generation
that rejected all those things.
And he's saying here, you need to make sure
you teach your children this.
And look, folks, it's time that we as a church
grow out of what I'm going to church
from my personal benefit and I'm going to church
because this is what I just wanna do.
You need to start looking towards the future here.
You need to start looking towards the future
of your children and your grandchildren
a generational vision that recognizes
the decisions I'm making right now
is setting up the generational curses
or the generational blessings
for future generations to come.
You know, let's not be like these people
who are just like, well, you know.
I'm a boomer, and as long as it's peace and truth in my days, I'm good to go.
This Hezekiah-type mentality, we need to make sure that we recognize, you know what,
I'm setting up my future progeny to either for failure or success.
And obviously, we're not excusing that future generation of their decisions.
But we obviously want to create an environment conducive to spiritual growth
that they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, they serve God, they have high standards,
they believe in the principles of the Bible.
Why? Because the Bible literally commands us here.
He says that that future generation might set their hope in God, you know, I don't know about you
But I want my grandkids to be fundamental Baptist. I
Don't want them to be non-denomers
You know, I don't want them to just want just a Christ follower. I want Baptist. Amen
And I want them to be fundamental Baptists.
I want them to be King James only.
I want them to believe in the right salvation.
I want them to be Trinitarians and Soloners and, you know,
to reject all the, you know,
pre-tribulation and Zionist nonsense and whatnot.
But also, you know, I want my daughters and my great-granddaughters
all to wear dresses, believe it or not.
And I want cross-dressing to be like a thing.
in my future generations, right?
I want all my daughters and my great,
my granddaughters and my great granddaughters
to all have long hair.
You know, you say, well, is that really a big,
of course it is.
You know what, and I'm gonna make a big deal about it
because I want that to essentially have a ripple effect
throughout my generations.
And you know, the future generations say,
yeah, great, great, great, great, great granddaddy.
You know, Pastor Bruce was a fundamental Baptist
and he just taught us, you know, Wreckab taught us.
You know to not drink the wine he taught us to reject this and this is what we're we're essentially benefiting from that previous generation
And so it's important for us to do that God wants us to pass on our faith through the future generations
And you know go go go back to Exodus chapter 20
And this is what essentially Exodus 20 is telling us.
He says he's going to visit the iniquity.
And you know, sometimes I think about this verse
and I think of people who just flippantly live the Christian life
and think, well, I'm only suffering the consequences of my actions.
But you don't really understand how that really works.
There's a ripple effect.
You know, your children will be affected by it.
Your grandchildren will be affected by it.
People are looking to, you're like that one,
you're that person they're looking to
to break those generational curses of apathy,
of rebelliousness and so forth.
And he says there in verse five
that he's gonna visit the iniquity upon the children
until the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
So obviously he's opening up the possibility
that there might be a generation
that chooses the right path.
chooses not to hate God chooses to actually serve him because he says that he shows mercy into thousands of them that love me and
Keep my commandments now. We have plenty of examples of this in the Bible think about for example, Abraham, right?
Abraham rejected the false gods of his father, but you know Abraham said had some generational curses himself. How about lying?
You know, he was a liar and you know, he didn't tell he didn't teach Isaac to lie Isaac just was a liar
He became just like his father almost I net in an identical situation, right?
So Abraham lied Isaac lied and then they produced Jacob, which means what deceiver?
Who is a major liar? What is that? That is like a generational curse that's passed down from generation to generation to generation
And you know what things like this need to be corrected?
Let me read to you from Jeremiah 7 25 go to Romans chapter 5 if you would
Jeremiah 7 25 says since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt until this day
I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets
daily rising up early and sending them,
yet they hearken not unto me, nor incline their ear,
but hardened their neck.
They did worse than their fathers.
So we often say, you know, what we do in moderation,
those who come after us will do in excess.
And you know, that is true.
Because there's instances in the Bible
where the children actually became worse
than their fathers, right?
And we want to avoid that.
So let me give you a couple of things this evening
in this sermon on how to break generational curses, okay?
First and foremost, let me just give you
something really basic and that is that
salvation is the first step in breaking
a generational curse.
Why is that?
Well, because the biggest generational curse
that everyone faces is the curse of Adam, right?
Look what it says in Romans 5 verse 14,
"'Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses,
even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who was the figure of him that was to come,
but not as the offense, so also as the free gift.
For if through the offense of one many be dead,
much more the grace of God and the gift by grace,
which is by one man, Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many.'"
Skip down to verse number 19. It's as far as by one man's disobedience
Many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous
So obviously mankind has this sin issue
We have this generational curse of Adam and Eve and that's why we're in the situation that we're in
But we can transcend that by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ
Trusting Christ as their Savior and we essentially bypass the consequences of that curse
is now we can live forever more, right?
But it's not just that.
Once we believe on Christ, now we get a new nature.
So it's not just like we get everlasting life.
The Bible teaches that once we get saved,
the Holy Spirit comes, quickens our dead spirit,
brings us back to life and gives us a new nature.
And this new nature is that new nature that is subject to the laws of God
does want to please the Lord and enables us to serve God
and enables us to transcend the curses of the flesh, okay?
In other words, you don't have an excuse, right?
Oh, I'm an alcoholic because my dad's an alcoholic.
Yeah, but you're saved, though.
Now you're saved.
You have the new man dwelling within you.
And yeah, does it take a little bit of work?
You know, does it take some effort?
Of course it does.
But now you have the capability of actually transcending the sins of the flesh that come
from your forefathers and you can actually live a victorious Christian life, so to speak.
And look, I'll give you an example.
You know, my dad, you know, he's not anymore, but he was, he used to be a raging alcoholic.
And, you know, he got to a point, there was an instance in his life where he got in a
major car accident that I think took the life of one of his friends.
He wasn't the one driving, but he was in the car.
And from that time forward, he was just like cold turkey, just quit alcohol and just never
touched that ever again, you know?
And I've never struggled with alcohol.
That wasn't my thing.
But you know, I'm thankful that you know, he just kind of quit that because it's possible that when he quit that
He it kind of like helped me to not have that vice or that temptation in my personal life, right?
Now you say what if you already have that temptation?
What if I already opened that door then it's time to close that door get away from that hallway
Get away from that building as far as possible make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the luster of and
Create some new genetics for that future generation to come
The point that I'm making here though is that I have the new man and I'm not like well my daddy was an alcoholic
So I'm gonna go ahead and be an alcoholic too, and I can just blame him for his failures or something like that
It's not gonna work that way. I'm a Christian. I have the new man dwelling within me. I can have my mind renewed
I can be a disciplined person. I can be filled with the spirit and I can abhor sin
You know the Bible says if any man being Christ
He is a new creature old things that pass away be all all things have become new
So we have that new nature that can transcend so obviously I'm speaking to Christians here those who are saved
The point that I'm making with you though is that you have no excuse as to why you don't change
We cannot point to our mom and dad and say well, it's their fault the reason I am the way I am
They set me up for failure. They raised me this way
You know I grew up in the ghetto. I grew up on food stamps
I grew up around alcohol and marijuana and this is what my parents did. I'm a crack, baby
Yeah, but if you're saved you got a new nature though and then new nature can transcend all that and you can be a mighty man of God
You can be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and you're not subject to the weaknesses of your flesh
You can actually keep under your body bring it into subjection
Let's by any means when you preach to others you yourself should be a cast away now
Obviously that doesn't mean that you're not you know
There's a propensity that propensity towards that particular sin has just completely been eradicated. That doesn't exist either
Obviously, you know, you need to be careful the point that I'm making though is that God sets us up for success though
Your flesh sets you, sets you up.
Yeah, yeah.
Your flesh can, your flesh can set you up for failure.
But the spirit sets you up for success, right?
So as you're walking in the spirit,
you're not fulfilling the lust of the flesh,
you can't live a life that's pleasing unto the Lord.
And look, all of us have seen a Christian
or have interacted with a Christian
and they tell us about their previous life
You don't look like that kind of person
Right and what is that? That's like because that person is spirit led. They're a new man, right?
They're not subject to that go to Leviticus chapter 26 if you would we went to this passage
This morning when we're ripping on the Jews, but we're gonna apply it in a different manner here
Let me read to you from 1 John chapter 3 verse number 6 says who serve as born of God does not commit sin for a seed
Remain within him and he cannot sin because he is born of God
This isn't teaching sinless perfection
What is teaching is that the spirit that now dwells within us is perfect. It cannot sin
We still have this corruptible flesh and there's always that constant battle
but God gives us the remedy.
He gives us the formula to succeed in our lives.
So obviously, number one, you need to make sure you get saved
and now you don't have an excuse as to why, you know,
you're struggling with this particular sin.
But number two, let me say this is that
we need to identify our generational curses, okay?
And, you know, the first part is really easy.
Just get saved.
Got that new nature, right?
The humbling step in this process is actually admitting.
What are some of the generational curses that are actually that you have in your family or in your personal life?
Now, why is this important? Well, how are you gonna fix something if you don't know what the problem is?
Well, I don't have I grew up in a great home. No issues. Okay. I
Guess we'll find out what the issues are in the coming generations that
right
Look at Leviticus 26, verse 40, says,
If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespass,
which they trespass against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me,
and that I have also walked contrary unto them, and I've brought them into the land of their enemies,
if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then, except of the punishment of their iniquity,
I'm not going to continue reading.
Verse 40 is showing us that
The children of Israel are commanded to confess their iniquity,
but they're also commanded to confess the iniquity of their fathers,
which would imply that they know the iniquity of their fathers.
They know where their fathers fell short.
They know where their ancestors fell short.
And so the principle that I'm trying to extrapolate here
is that we need to identify what are some things in my family
that they passed on to me that's essentially a generational curse.
And I already talked about this, but alcoholism will be one.
That's a major one.
You know, drug abuse, substance abuse, alcoholism,
if that runs in your family, that could be a generational curse
in your life.
And you can't just be like, well, you know, yeah,
that's for my dad, that's my father, my great-grandfather,
but I'm not going to struggle with that.
Well, you might have a propensity or a bent
towards that particular sin, though.
And you have to understand that runs in your family
Hey, you know diabetes runs in the family and certain certain families, right?
How about this adultery?
That's a generational curse
And you know along with adultery just you know having bastard children
That is a generational curse
Just a dude just sleeping with a bunch of women having children out of wedlock with the Bible refers to as being bastards
That is a generational curse my friends
You know, it's just like oh, you know well
That's just how my dad used to be and he kind of passed that on to me. Yeah, but that's your fault though
for adopting that philosophy
Adopting that mentality that ideology thinking that it's appropriate even even if it's before Christ
And look folks, you know, you like oh, yeah, I don't like how you just
Well, let me just let me just can I be transparent with you? I'm a bastard child. How about that?
You know, that's how I came about in this world.
So I think I have room to talk.
But you know what?
I remember being seven, eight years old,
and I didn't grow up with my father,
but I remember being a child and I went to my mom
and I said, one day I'm gonna get married,
I'm gonna stay married to that one woman.
As a seven, eight year old, I told her that.
And I said, and all my kids are gonna come
from that one woman.
And maybe it was like a little out of spite
for my father or something.
But hey, I'll take it.
Because as a child I determine in my little heart like I'm going to break this generational curse
Because you know my father was like that my great-grandfather
My grandfather was like that my great-grandfather was like that
It just kind of ran in the family and in fact on that side of the family. That's just kind of prevalent
That's just kind of what guys do there my cousins my uncles are all like that
Okay, I'm confessing the iniquity of my father's here
It just runs in the family, and you know, it's just kind of normalized in that culture,
in that family.
It's just like, well, you just have kids from different women, you know, that's just how
it is, you know.
Well, no, not me.
Sorry, no.
You know, I might bear the name Mahia, but you know what, I'm breaking this generational
curse of adultery, unfaithfulness, bastard children.
All my kids come from one woman, and I'm going to stay married to that one woman for the rest
of my life.
You know and I'm not gonna be a well, you know and my family we do it differently than you know
Then disobey God and and curse your future generations
I'm gonna stay married till death do us part and let me say this divorce is a generational curse and
This is common
Look at families that with the divorce rates, you're just like, oh, the dad got divorced,
the son got divorced, the daughter gets divorced, it's just a common thing.
How is that?
It's a generational curse.
And it requires one person in that lineage to say, you know what, I'm not going to divorce,
I'm just going to put up with the nonsense if I have to, I'm going to try to fix the
situation, I'm not going to quit, I'm going to stay married, and I'm breaking that generational
curse.
Because what what is divorce? I'm just gonna tell you right now. It's just it's just quitting is what it is
That's what it is. It's quitting when the going gets tough
That's what it is. It's just you know marriage is hard and you know what? Let me just tell you people marriage is difficult
Marriage is hard. You know, do we do we live happily ever after? Yeah, we do
But you know sometimes we don't run off into the sunset. Maybe it's raining
There's like storms, there's all kinds of problems,
there's health issues, you guys don't get along sometimes.
And let me be very transparent with you, okay?
You know, I don't have a perfect marriage,
I have a great marriage, but we're sinners,
we don't have a perfect marriage.
And let me just tell you, we disagree from time to time.
I'm not gonna stand up here and say like,
my wife and I just have just a perfect marriage,
nothing ever bad happens, we never disagree.
No, sometimes my wife disobeys me.
And sometimes I got to pull out the contract
and be like, you know, spousal discipline.
I'm just kidding.
Sometimes we don't agree on certain things.
Now, I will say this, you know, like we don't physically
fight because I would win.
Obviously, it's like this.
Come on.
And if you think like, oh, I don't know about that.
No, I'd win.
Why would I why would I fight my wife? It's just it's just a no contest
She knows it. Okay, and I'm not into that, but even if I was I would win
You might as well pin me against my my eight-year-old son or something
But let me say this, you know when we you say, okay, so you don't have a perfect marriage
Okay, cool. So it's okay to just yell and argue. Well, you know my wife and I also have set parameters and guidelines of what to do when we do disagree
So like pans aren't flying
Spatulas aren't going all over the place knives aren't being pulled out police aren't being called
So that's that's the difference
Okay, you know we experience the same disagreements that you experience the difference is my wife and I have already predetermined
What to do when we enter into that situation?
Okay, we immediately apologize
We make sure we don't argue in front of our kids, which is a big thing
You know if I'm like if I'm my wife and I are in disagreements, and we're disagreeing loudly
You know if my kids are around we just be like you know what let's save this for later
Why because you know we don't want to pass down any
Potential generational curses upon our children that it's okay to just yell in front of our kids or something like that
And let me just say this we're adults
You know adults do they know how to act like adults
and not throw tantrums in front of each other.
And you know what, I also set the parameters
within my marriage that we resolve conflict.
It's not like we're just not gonna talk
to each other for days on end.
And may I say, I have a generational curse
that runs in my family that there is no conflict resolvement.
You know, how many of you know what I'm talking about?
You know, I remember growing up, like if I got a whooping,
you know, me and my parents would just not talk
for like a really long time.
and then slowly later on in the week,
he's like, come down for dinner or something.
He's like, okay, I think we're good now, you know?
There's just no resolve.
There's no conflict resolution.
Oh, no, no, no, I'm breaking that generational curse.
And there is conflict, resolution in my household.
We do not let, you know, the sun go down upon a wrath.
We make sure we talk it out before we go to bed.
So look, let me just be transparent.
Obviously there's times when I disagree with my wife,
she disagrees with me.
We don't get along sometimes.
But you know what, we've already set up guidelines
so it doesn't go beyond that.
And we have a happy marriage.
Okay.
And let me just say this part of the guidelines in my marriage is that I don't make my wife an enemy
You know
I'm from Mars. She's from Venus or whatever Harvard that saying goes
But you know what she's definitely not my enemy and there's never a time when I argue with my wife that I'm just like
Oh, man, she's a direct opposition to me. You know, I have to win this argument. No, this is that's childish
We need to make sure that we realize like we're on the same team
We married each other
We chose to be with each other for the rest of our lives, and let me also say this
I don't invite people into my conflicts either
And let me say this let me say a lot of things
Let me also say this I never invite my my parents my mom or my in-laws especially you know into our conflicts
That's a no-no
So who do you invite it's just me my wife and the Holy Spirit?
That's it
But it's just I'm not gonna run. I'm not gonna call mommy
And tell her that Sarah is just like treating she she's being mean to me
Come deliver me I need to be mom
She's doing it again
Okay, let's say I just I'm just a straight weenie
Let's just say I'm a punk let's just let's just pretend for a second. I'm just a buster
And you know I'm getting in fight with my wife, and I'm just like you'll be sorry and
I go and phone my mom and and obviously my mom's gonna take my side because I'm her son, right?
She's gonna take my side and I can paint the picture to my mom
The that Sarah is just absolutely wrong for sure
Right, and I'm gonna tell you don't even need to talk to her. This is what happened. Just believe me
Here's the problem with that, okay
Eventually I'm gonna kiss and make up with my wife
And we're going to forgive each other.
We're going to live happily ever after.
And we'll get along again.
And it's just that we forget about the whole problem.
But guess who doesn't forget about the problem?
Guess who wasn't there when we resolved it?
My mom.
So now my mom has this perception of my wife
as being this horrible person.
But she doesn't have the other side of the story
where we actually made up.
That's wrong, my friends.
And look, leave and cleave.
Can I say that?
Hey, man.
You know stop inviting people to your marital conflicts that don't need to be there
Don't invite your sister don't invite your cousins don't invite your mom don't invite dad don't invite the in-laws
If I have conflict or conflict with my wife, I'm not on the phone calling her brothers
Or her mom like hey, you know you need to control your daughter
No, she's my wife. I need to control her
You know something I'm saying
Like, when she became my wife, she's my responsibility.
If my wife is not happy, that's my fault, right?
If she's happy, it's because of me.
I take credit.
Hey, if it's for one, you've got to be happy for the other,
too.
If she's not happy, it's her fault.
Yeah, but when she's happy, that's also me, though.
She's smiling, she's having a great time.
It's a good moin, because aren't I
better to do than Ten Suns, amen?
But let me say this you know, that's a generational curse running to your in-laws or anybody else inviting them to the conflict in your marriage
That's a generational curse learn how to deal with problems yourself
Don't get anybody to referee your your fights
You referee them
You deal with it. Don't put someone on speed dial you deal with the issue
And you know what sometimes part of breaking the generational curse is learning how to resolve conflict
Because you maybe you've never done it before
Maybe it was it wasn't exemplified to you your parents never resolved conflict
They did the exact same thing that you're doing well
You know what you have to do is break that generational curse and learn how to resolve conflict
Yeah, is it uncomfortable? Of course it is is it is it is it stressful? Yes, but you know what?
It's worth breaking that curse though, and you know this is all you got to do when you're in a fight with your spouse
You say this
Let's just resolve this.
You're not my enemy.
I'm not your enemy.
I love you.
You love me.
Where did I offend you?
And where, let me tell you where you've offended me.
And look, folks, let me just say this.
When it comes to marriage, you know,
we don't necessarily have to walk away
being the right person.
Meaning like, oh, I won.
There is no like I won in an argument in marriage.
We win.
The time the moment you walk away, and you said oh, yeah, you you got the last word in is
The time that your marriage loss because you're supposed to be in unity
You guys are supposed to win have the maturity to overcome that conflict resolve it and not fight in front of your kids
Okay
Alcoholism adultery having bastard children. These are generational curses. Let me talk about another one pornography is a generational curse, too
And you know what, we live in a day and age where like,
it's not just dudes who are into pornography,
women are into pornography.
But let me tell you why,
because of that generational curse.
Young man, you better break that generational curse
of pornography,
because you're gonna destroy your coming generations
with that vice.
Pornography will destroy a family.
How about this feminism is a generational curse? I haven't preached on feminism lately, so I need to mention this
You know, it's been a long time since I talked about feminism
like two weeks or something like that
Feminism is a generational curse the generational curse
And sometimes, you know, in a marriage, you know, even if the woman is a Christian woman who loves the Bible, is saved, she can have feminist tendencies because of her mother, because of her grandmother.
That's a thing. And you know what, you got to break that.
Young ladies, you got to break the feminist tendencies that you have. Well, I'm not a feminist. I don't know. You might be.
I don't know.
That's a thing and you say well, how do I break feminist tendencies? Well, first of all admit that you have some feminist tendencies about that
But secondly, you know actually adopt and embrace the biblical rules for a woman
Right what the Bible says to be married bear children
Guide the house and don't be a repulsive woman
an odious, loud, and stubborn, rebellious, disgusting woman.
And then you're good, that's it, right there.
Abhor that.
Don't talk back to your husband.
I'm just giving you practical advice
on how to break this generational curse.
Let your husband lead.
Stop trying to usurp the authority of your husband.
Stop criticizing your husband.
Stop undermining his authority.
Stop highlighting his failures and stop trying to fight battles that are only for men you know designated for men to fight
Well, you don't know my husband. He's just not that spiritual or whatever another ego
You're a feminist
Feminist is just the most unspiritual people on the face of the planet
Feminism is a generational curse.
And even within fundamental Baptist churches,
that's something that's crept in.
But within the new IFB, it crept in.
There's a lot of feminists in the new IFB.
I don't know if you noticed.
A lot of repulsive, disgusting Jezebel's out there
who want to just run their mouths online
and rebuke pastors and look for reasons to rebuke pastors
and rebuke this, that and the other.
They just want to have their own little ministry.
Online or you're saying I can't have an opinion. Yeah, that's what I just said
Yeah, how about that you saying I can't have an opinion. Yeah
You can't you shouldn't vote either
You said why are you still staunch on this because we need to push back even harder
That's why we need to push back harder and harder and harder because here's the thing
It's not like oh, you know, you're saying a woman can't know I'm not saying a woman can have an opinion
You know, I'm just I'm just not I just just tell me they can't have an opinion
What are they gonna do?
What are you gonna do if you tell me yeah, you shouldn't have an opinion online just mouthing off rebuke pastures teaching doctrine
Look, I get women who message me all the time say hey, you think it's okay for me to just like start a page teaching doctrine. Nope
No
Leave that up to us
I'm not trying to make any leeway
for any form of feminism to infiltrate.
Cause then, you know, a couple of generations down the road,
now you have a Joyce Meyer
because of that generational curse.
Are you saying that like women can't preach?
You know what?
Yeah, I'll say that too.
They can preach the gospel,
but they can't preach in church.
They can teach their children.
They can even teach other women how to love their husbands and how to not be a feminist
and to avoid being a repulsive woman, but that's pretty much where it ends.
And look, if you don't like that, it's because probably you have a generational curse of feminism
Just dug out destroyed because it will destroy future generations. It will and look let me just say this
I'm raising my sons to abhor feminism and never marry a feminist woman
Within fundamental Baptist circles get get that
Like don't pick out a boss woman
Some bossy loudmouth
odious repulsive woman who says that they're meek and quiet
But actually they're not
I'm gonna teach him how to discern
When people say oh, they're meek and quiet. Let me let me show you what a meek and quiet woman is son
Don't don't don't just listen to the loudmouth say that they're meek and quiet all the while they're being loud mouths
And you know I'm gonna raise my daughters too, and I know the feminists don't like it in our church right now
But it's okay. We're breaking the generational curse. I'm gonna teach my daughters to grow up
Not to go to college
I said not to go to college, to get married,
bear children, guide the house, make their husband successful.
That their main priority in life
is to make their husband succeed.
That's what I'm gonna raise my daughter.
And you know what, and I'm gonna preach it.
until the cows come home, they never come home.
Because I want that to be the environment in our church.
And you can clip it, put it on the internet,
let everyone hear it and criticize me,
but I guarantee you, there's a percentage
of the population out there,
they're gonna love what I say, because it's true.
I'm not raising my daughters to be doctors.
I'm not raising them to be teachers.
I'm not raising them to be rocket scientists.
I'm not raising them to be, you know, therapists.
I'm raising them to raise children to love their husbands and not be feminist
It's a generational curse now. Thankfully, you know, my wife comes from a lineage of
Families that abhor feminism
and they uphold that position of a woman being home
and guiding the house and loving and referencing
their husband and making them successful.
I remember being at my old church and my father-in-law
was just like, my daughters will be homegirls.
Not the homegirls like you were thinking,
like, he's like, they will be homegirls.
And then he would always say,
they're gonna make their husband successful
because that's their purpose in life.
And to that I say, amen.
That's your purpose in life, ladies.
Not to be some boss, lady.
Breadwinner. Oh, I can make a difference though. Make a difference in your home
Feminism is just disgusting and and you know what we're not gonna tolerate it here
And look husband husbands and fathers give heed to what I'm saying. I'm emboldening you
I'm helping you
Amen
Back this up, because I'm backing you up on this.
Let's create a very masculine, anti-feminist environment
in our church where feminism is abhorred and the,
let me say this, where the duties of a woman
are upheld as well.
And look, make no apologies about it either.
Oh, that sounds like a church who just hates women.
I don't hate my daughters, I don't hate my wife.
I hate the sisters in Christ here.
I'm upholding what the Bible says.
And you know what?
I can preach this, but husbands,
you need to make sure you handle it in your home though too.
And here's another generation of curse.
You being a weakling wuss,
because maybe the previous generation,
your daddy was kind of led by your mommy.
Oh dang, did I just?
Yeah, that's a generational curse too.
And look, you know, I'll put myself out there, you know,
I grew up with my mom only.
And my mom, you know, it was a strong-willed woman too.
Like she was the boss.
She was the boss.
Everything that she went, she says, this is my rule.
This is what we do.
I make the money here.
I mean, she was like that, majored.
So I had to make sure that I broke away
from that type of mentality.
When I became a Christian I had to adopt what the Bible says about these things and completely reject and yeah
I mean did I go a little extreme for sure? I went a little extreme, but that's good though
Because now I'm like on the opposite side
You know
But hey, it's possible because you know what I made the decision to break that generational curse
And I'm not gonna be some limp-wristed leader
In my household and you know what men you have to make that decision too to not be some wuss of a leader
And you know what? Maybe you didn't have the best of examples growing up.
Maybe your dad was a little weak. Maybe your dad was a little passive.
Maybe your father was led about by your mom, but may it not be so with you.
Break that generational curse because that's not pleasing to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Quick you like men!
Man up!
And you know you have enough examples in here of men who are leading their households. You need to adopt some of that
And you know what I'm not gonna fight your battles for you
I'm not gonna go to your house and tell you and tell your wife this that you have to do that. Oh
It's just easy for you because your wife is so meek and quiet. Yeah, but I married her knowing that though
Stop stop using that as an excuse
Because I made a decision to marry her like then you made a decision to marry your wife. We that's how it works
So what you have to do is bring yourself up to the biblical standard of what a masculine person is
Reflect the Lord Jesus Christ and make no exceptions
And you know what maybe you need to confess the iniquity of your formula
You know yeah, my dad was kind of like a passive guy, and I'm kind of like that too
My dad was a womanizer. Maybe he was an adult her. Maybe he's just using that used to have a bastard children
Or he was just used to my mom just leading him about you know
It's not a slam on them, but it's it's important for you to understand that and identify it
Because you have to change that
Because if not, then you're gonna raise children who exactly like you who are exactly like granddaddy. That's how it works my friends
We good or what?
Laziness is a generational curse
Not working is a generational curse
Being a victim is a generational curse. We see this in the black community
Being a victim. We see this with the Jews, but they're just cursed period, but
Being a victim. Oh, it's just it's it's not your fault just everyone else's fault, right? Oh
It's just the environment. You know, I believe that the environment plays a major role in that for sure
for sure
But you know what it's time to get rid of that excuse though time to get rid of it
And you know let me just say this about black people
Cuz it's true
It's true. That's that's like prevalent within the black community
They're just constantly oppressed. They're the victims, but you know, I just had a conversation with a black man in our church today
I don't know if you know what I'm talking about
That one right there
You know Maury doesn't struggle with any of that stuff
I've never heard Maury ever make an excuse and and Maury didn't necessarily have the most ideal situation growing up either if you know his story
You know
But you know Maury is a functioning member of society. He's a leader in the church
He is all how many children you got Maury
For all from one woman
Amen
You're married hopefully married to one woman you got yourself a white woman
It's part of the solution. Amen, I'm just
I'm joking
Hey, you got married you have kids, you know what he has an honest job he went to school
He's a successful individual and he never plays the victim
Never the guys up here making jokes about watermelon and stuff
And that was a smart move too because he knew he was gonna get roasted after the service
He's like he was gonna capitalize on that before anybody else could smart man
But he's not gonna play the victim
You know, I don't know how long he had his father and his I know his father passed away
But you know, he didn't have his father for very long, but he's not using that as a crutch
He's not being a victim
Why because he has the new man dwelling within him. He has a local New Testament church
He's not saying well, you know, I was I was dealt the bad hand and therefore I'm just gonna be an inferior
member of society
I'm gonna blame everything on anyone everyone else why I don't have a job why I
Smoke new ports. I drink 40s and just listen to gangster rap and all this, you know
He doesn't do that
He just changed
So he's the example of someone who just says you know what I'm breaking this generational curse that even runs within
You know that type of culture and saying you know I'm gonna do something different
Being a docile push-over husband is a generational curse
Negligence is a generational curse
and
This is one of the reasons I actually came up with the idea of the priestess is because let me just say this you know
People who come from families where molestations have taken place. There's a generational curse of just negligence within that family
Meaning that you just don't watch their kids
Just gotta watch your kids
And you know that ends up getting passed down from generation to generation of not watching over your kids
And the reason I even came up with the sermon is because I visited brother Eddie and brother Eddie and I were talking about this
He had a run-in with someone that he was helping and it was in that situation
And we just started talking about generational curses. I was like, man, that's a great idea for a sermon because it's true
Folks you may have grown up in a negligent home. Don't become that negligent home
Watch your kids
This is a fundamental new IFB, you know,
fag-hating church, but you know what?
That doesn't mean you can't,
you shouldn't keep your eyes on your kids at all times.
Okay?
And look, your kids are friends with my kids,
they're friends with all the kids here,
but you know what?
That doesn't mean we should just trust everyone
to go in every single room or something like that.
And let me just say this,
no kids should just be wandering about
into various rooms where there's no adult supervision.
I see kids with my kids, and may I say this,
sometimes I rebuke my kids, and by proxy, your kids too.
I do that on purpose, because I can't correct your kids,
but I'll do it by proxy sometimes.
Because I'll go up to my son, I'm just like,
you should not be going into this room by yourself,
never do that, and they're just, the kids are like,
maybe we shouldn't go in there either, you know?
But you should be telling your kids that too.
And we fellowship, we have a great time and praise God for that, but you know what?
Can't be negligent.
You can't be a negligent person thinking, well, it's church.
What can happen at church?
They throw out pedophiles here.
They throw out reprobates here.
Doesn't matter.
Watch your kids.
It only takes a minute to destroy that child's life.
And look, it's not enough that you teach the kids the right way.
You gotta like maintain, there's maintenance involved there.
That's a that's a generational curse. The reason there's most I mean just think about certain families
It's like most stations just running that family running that family running that family why I'll tell you why because the mom is negligent
The father is absent and there's just a generational curse of just silence within that household
Where no one says anything
Gotta break that
Anger and wrath is a generational curse.
You're an angry person, it might run in your family.
But you know what, you got the new man,
you gotta make sure you watch your temper,
you gotta make sure you control yourself.
Hey ladies, fear and worry is also a generational curse.
Faithlessness is a generational curse.
A lack of commitment is also a generational curse.
The point that I'm trying to make here, folks,
is that I want you to be able to identify,
what is it, the generational curse that runs in your family?
And just come to that conclusion and just say, you know what?
Yeah, this is something that I struggle with.
I am a lazy person.
I don't like to work.
I don't like to have a job.
That's why I don't hold down a job.
I'm always moving from job to job to job to job.
Or you might be the one that says,
yeah, you know what, my father was a docile father,
a pushover, a hand pecked type of guy,
and I am like that too.
Okay, then change that.
Or you might be like, you know what,
yeah, actually I'm a little feminist.
You know, I am a loud mouth.
You know, I could be a little repulsive sometimes,
that's true.
Then change it, break that curse.
Go to Isaiah 55, if you want Isaiah 55.
I'm not trying to offend anybody tonight.
I'm having a, I'm trying to have like a pastoral moment
with you.
I'm trying to have like a pastoral moment with you
where I'm just admonishing you and trying to help you
because I'm telling you right now in 20 years,
you're going to remember this sermon
and you're going to remember like, man,
I should have taken care of that generational curse
long ago.
I'm just telling you.
And let me just say this, when I talk about divorce,
I'm not getting on the divorce people in our church.
We have divorced people in our church and they're some of the most godly people that I personally know I
Love and the divorced people know in my church know that I love them
I know that they love me they know I have nothing against them, but you know this is preventative
So that the future generation don't get involved in that and they don't divorce
Okay, we got to break that generational curse and unfortunately, you know that generational curse runs in fundamental Baptist churches, too
Where divorce is just normal?
We do not want to normalize divorce in our church
And you know what, sometimes it comes with the territory
because we have a first generation church type Christians
where people just are newly saved
and the law of number says that you're just gonna
have some divorces, but you know what?
I wanna work this thing so that like when my kids grow up
there's just no divorces in the church.
They learn commitment, they learn till death do us part,
they have these convictions, and that's not against
the divorced people in our church,
but I have to say stuff like that because
for the sake of the future generations.
And the divorced people in our church
need to back me up on that.
And not get mad at me.
And let me also say this, folks, okay?
Regarding divorce.
You know, there comes a point,
and you know, I'm saying this as a pastor.
I'm saying this because I love you.
There comes a point where you gotta realize
it's not about you anymore.
It's time to like, kinda like,
you know, worry about the next generation.
You know what I'm saying?
There comes a point where it's just like,
you know, maybe your time has passed.
And I don't mean that in a mean way.
You understand what I'm saying?
I'm not saying like, oh, it's hopeless for you.
But what I'm saying is maybe stop focusing so much
on your situation and let's help that future generation
not make the mistakes that maybe you and others have made.
This is not like a blotch on you.
This is not a reproach upon you.
This is me as a pastor trying to help you
so that all things do work together for good in your life.
Because God can use you in a great way to be a blessing to future generations that are they might potentially consider divorce sometimes
You know what? I feel for the people who are in that situation and my heart goes out to you
And may I say I think about you often I pray and I think about you often. I hurt for you
My heart hurts for you
It does
But I can't change the situation.
All I could do is try to get you to realize, hey,
help me to help the ones who have not made the mistake,
not to make that mistake.
To break that generational curse, OK?
And so that's important.
Let me move on here, because I'm already out of time.
How do you break generational curses? Identify them, but also adopt the mind of Christ
This is the this is the biggest way for you to break a generational curse
You got to change the way you think
And I'm not saying you got to be some you got to get into philosophy and you know
You know the power of positive thinking you got to have the mind of Christ in this thing
Isaiah 55 verse eight, look what it says,
for my thoughts are not your thoughts.
Neither your ways, my ways say it to the Lord,
for as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
God is saying like the reason these people aren't changing
is because we're thinking differently.
We need to bring our level of thinking up to where the Lord is
and think the way he thinks.
You know why I hate feminism so much?
Cause I'm just like right there.
I hate feminism, maybe not as much as God,
but I'm trying to up it right there.
I'm trying to get as close to hating feminism
as much as God does.
And you know what, we need to bring up
our way of thinking to the Bible.
That's the best way to overcome
and break a generational curse.
What does the Bible have to say about it?
And if it rubs you the wrong way,
this is what you need to do.
Lord, help me to love thy precepts.
Help me to just embrace it, not to make excuses for it.
Oh, does the force really mean like, you know, and does it God want me to be happy?
Just believe the Bible
Stop
Well, there's a God, you know what? Yeah, and it's a monster
That needs to be like control
And look if I'm not careful I could allow my emotions to get involved and be like man
I love the people in my church
Maybe maybe you know if they just get married then they just get married. I have nothing to do
But you know, it's not right though
And you may think, yeah, but what am I, my kids,
my kids need a mother in their life.
My kids need a father in their life.
You know what, that may be true,
but it may not be true for you and your situation though.
And just because kids don't have a certain parent
in their life doesn't mean they won't turn out for God either.
How do you know?
Right here, baby.
Right here.
I'm sure there's a bunch of people in our church
who maybe didn't grow up with the father
and they're some of the best Christians in our church.
You know why? Because the new man transcends those generational curses.
And you know what? Thank God that you're in a church where there's male figures,
there's godly women in our church, there's an environment conducive to helping your child
be raised to have the right biblical perspective, and they will turn out for God.
I mean, this right here is way better than what I had growing up.
I just had gangsters and thugs and, you know, gangster music and I didn't have all this.
So this is a way better situation for your kids than the alternative, okay?
But you need to be renewed in the spirit of, you got to change your attitude about your
situation.
Please don't misinterpret what I'm telling you.
I'm not trying to be like, you know, mean to you.
I'm just giving you the reality check and telling you and I'm trying to help you to see the silver lining in your situation
Okay
Lead me to my next point and that is that aside from changing your mind. You do have to change your environment
Okay, you know the Bible says it Proverbs 115 my son walk not down in the way with them
Refrain thy foot from their path. What does that refer to get away from people?
That had the propensity to do the sins that you have the propensity of doing
Proverbs chapter 2 verse 14 says,
Take fast hold of instruction,
Let her not go,
Keep her, for she is thy life,
Enter not into the path of the wicked,
And go not in the way of evil men.
Avoid it, pass not by it,
Turn from it, pass away.
What is it saying?
Put yourself in the right environment.
If you are, if you have the generational curse of adultery,
Don't hang around adulterers.
If you have the power to get away from them.
You know, if your cousins, your uncles,
or a bunch of adulterers, maybe it's not a good idea
for you to be around them.
Because it's a generational curse that runs in your family.
If your family has a generational curse of alcoholism,
get away from them.
Hey ladies, if you, if your mom is a feminist
and you're married, you might wanna not spend
so much time with your mother.
You say well I thought we're supposed to honor well yeah we're supposed to honor
father and mother but not above your spouse though amen and if the if the
Lord of the house says you're not gonna see your parents you know sorry to
break it to you that's law that's law amen
Why because the man is the Lord of the house and you know what can you say amen for other stuff, too
Not just when I call out your your wives or whatever. Let's hear on some other points to amen
amen
Change your environment
You know if your mom is a feminist maybe you know
Maybe maybe your husband doesn't want you to adopt some of those feminist tendencies. Maybe that's why he doesn't let you be around your mom
You know why I let my wife hang out with my with my mother-in-law because my mother-in-law is not a feminist
She's the exact opposite. Yes, learn learn. Yes. Yes obedience. Yes reverence
I'm just like yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Why not?
Learn yeah, be like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I want my wife to be around other women
That will there's conducive to her reverence towards me and obedience towards me. Why not?
Is that crazy or something or what if it is I don't care
You know, if you think it's crazy, it's okay. You could have that opinion. You have every right to be wrong
But you know what you need to get away from people who are
teaching you
Influencing you in a way. That's not biblical
Okay
You know, hey dudes, you know stop hanging around pussyfooters and
Weakling men and maybe maybe that's one of the reasons why you're so weak
plain and simple
Our environment does matter to a certain degree.
All right, I've offended everyone seeing her.
Let's finish off on a good note.
I don't have any verses for this, but it's a good point,
though.
Let me advise you, don't start any new curses.
It's bad enough we got curses we got to deal with.
Don't set up your future generations for future failure by making more bad decisions.
And start adopting new generational blessings.
You know, let me give you just some basic ones.
Being faithful to church is a generational blessing.
Sunday morning Sunday night Thursday night why because mom and dad that's just
that's the generational blessing that we are giving to them my kids will
probably just be reading the Bibles every single day for the rest of their
lives the King James Bible because that is a generational blessing that we've
handed off to them throughout their childhood my kids see my wife read the
Bible my kids see me read the Bible
They see me go into my office and read the word of God and pray and you know what?
That's probably they're gonna inherit that too. Hey, hand off the generational blessing of preaching the gospel
Go soul winning with your kids
Take them out soul winning. Let them see you win souls to Christ
Reward them for going out with you winning souls to Christ. Go get ice cream with them. Go have fun with them
That's a generational blessing that you give them and you know what when they're older
They're just gonna be like we go so because that's just what we've always done
is just built in me to go on and preach the gospel
on a weekly basis.
And obviously there's other generational blessings,
saving money, being good with money, being honest,
not being deceivers, having Christian virtue.
These are all generational blessings
that we can hand off to our kids,
but you gotta be faithful in them though.
Plain and simple.
What's my point?
The point is, I hope you know your generational curse
and I hope you break it.
I hope you make a decision like, you know what, no more.
You know, I shall no longer bear this generational curse
of filling the blank.
I'm gonna break this.
I need to make sure that my kids are not like this.
I need to make sure I remove feminism from my life.
I need to make sure that I remove
being effeminate from my life.
I need to make sure that I remove conflict,
the avoidance of conflict resolution from my life.
I gotta make sure that I like take care of this.
And look, let me just say this.
Don't wait till next week.
Like, yeah, we'll put that for, let's put,
what's a good date to start that?
August.
Just start right away.
Confess it, say, Lord, help me to break this
and take the necessary steps to fix it,
change my mind, the environment.
And if you need counsel, get some counsel too.
Point is break it.
Let's pray Father we thank you so much for your word and thank you for helping us Lord as you people to identify these problems
They can arise in our families Lord help us Lord to identify these curses
being a victim
Lord being rebellious
alcoholism vice
Lord being a quitter
These are all generational curses and and obviously because we're in this corruptible flesh
We may not be able to get rid of all of them this side of eternity
But Lord may we get rid of enough that it gives us just a winning chance to pass on a godly heritage
To our future generation Lord. They're depending on us and we need to maintain
We need to maintain having a godly atmosphere a godly perspective
Godly goals Lord so that we can hand that baton to our next generation and Lord willing
They won't even know about the things that we struggle with because they will have inherited
Virtue and godliness and I just pray Lord that you help us to do so. We love you
We thank you pray this things in Jesus name