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The five minute Bible study- Understanding generational curses Part 1 · Spending time with Dr. Christina

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  Welcome back to my podcast spending time with
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  dr. Christina We're in season 7 of the five -minute
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  Bible study and we're on episode 5 Tonight we're
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  going to talk about generational curses so we're
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  talking about this topic because Well, one I
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  often get asked questions like this by other
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  non -christians even just people of other faith
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  they'd like to know about it, but also because
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  This is something that a lot of churches are
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  not covering as much as they should cover today.
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  And the reason why a lot of churches or ministers
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  are not even covering it because it deals with
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  sin, iniquities. So let's talk about this a few
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  moments tonight. We're going to do this in two
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  parts to start to break open this area. And then
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  later on, we're going to revisit it and later
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  episodes or seasons. So What's important to know
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  first is that generational curses Come about
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  through say sin or iniquities that were even
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  done by our forefathers Somewhere in the bloodline
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  and then we have those that we create as well
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  Now a lot of you may be thinking well, I'm a
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  born -again believer. How can I have this curse
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  in my life? well It comes about a lot of different
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  ways. As I mentioned, you'd say your forefathers.
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  Maybe it was something done by your grandparents
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  and so on and so forth. They committed sin. Maybe
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  they had some kind of sexual promiscuity. Maybe
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  they did not pay their bills. Maybe they did
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  other things like that to kind of generate iniquities
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  in the family bloodline. And when you become
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  a born -again Christian, yes, you are redeemed
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  by the blood, but there's still a part where
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  we need to understand that these curses that
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  came about, until there's repentance, and repentance
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  is turning away from sin, until we do that, it
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  still kind of hovers over us and exists in our
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  lives. So, Let me give some examples about this.
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  I'll start with the scripture. In Hebrews 13,
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  4, the Bible tells us that the marriage bed is
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  undefiled. It is a place where it should be sacred,
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  just between a man and a woman. Well, if you
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  are, say, fornicating, that begins to create
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  an atmosphere of iniquity and sin and lust and
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  it builds. And if you don't repent and turn away
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  from it and stop fornicating, this is something
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  that's going to go from generation to generation
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  to generation. You know, I know a family where
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  a mother got pregnant. in a relationship, got
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  pregnant, had kids, started at about 16 years
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  old. And it continued. And then the child did
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  the same thing. And that child did the same thing.
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  And no one was married. It just created an atmosphere
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  of iniquities because no one knew to repent about
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  it. Now, we know that children are a blessing
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  of God, but we also know that what the Lord tells
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  us about fornication and adultery. It's considered
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  a sin and we need to repent about it and turn
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  away from it like any other sin. So generational
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  curses can start just like that. Now another
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  example of a generational curse would be poverty.
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  And this poverty can be from just bad decision
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  making, lack, scarcity. Sometimes it is the inability
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  to manage what we have. When we have a belief
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  system that says we are poor or we are unable
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  to do better, sometimes that can get passed on
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  and on to the next generation. And it's a defeated
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  mindset. And until that person identifies it,
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  repents about it, and starts to walk in the newness
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  of God, they're kind of buried under this generational
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  curse of poverty. And this is not always the
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  case when people are experiencing hardships But
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  it's worth looking into because there have been
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  so many people that I've come across and they
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  said hey I'm doing well for a while and then
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  it stops and then all these things start to happen.
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  Well I'm going to ask you a few questions. What
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  are you thinking about? Because the Bible tells
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  us to renew our minds. And the Bible also tells
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  us that we need to watch what we are thinking
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  because as a man thinketh so shall he be. So
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  if you are thinking poverty thoughts, you're
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  thinking hardship, and you're thinking you're
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  defeated and you can't seem to do any better,
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  this will seem to manifest in your life. Well,
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  this is the end of this week's episode, but don't
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  worry We have a part two to this and we're going
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  to continue talking about generational curses
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  because it seems to be an Ongoing topic today
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  that people want to know about and the church
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  just isn't giving a lot of information about
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  So I'm wishing everyone a good week and until
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  the next time I'm hoping everyone will stay blessed