Generational Curses-Part2

3: Salvation: What it means and involved plus the benefits.
Salvation is God’s gift to man but it goes beyond just the forgiveness of sins and assurance of going to heaven. I want to draw your attention to salvation as a whole so that we can appreciate the whole deal.

The Hebrew and Greek words for salvation have the implication or meaning “safety”, soundness, healing, preservation and deliverance. Like Scofield states, it is the great inclusive word of the Gospel that gathers into itself all the redemptive acts and processes:

When one gets saved, the bible says, he/she is a new creature and other translations say he is a new species of being. Can I suggest to you that you look at a new born Christian as a new born baby. He has no past but a future that is secure and sure.
When you got saved, you got a new father and hence a new nature. You are now a child of the most high God and the life resident in you is the life of God or a better way to say it is the God kind of life.
We have thought that getting saved is just a small thing but it is not. There is forgiveness, and a total exchange. It is little wonder that some people have called salvation the Great Exchange where you get righteousness and forgiveness of sins.
Scofield made this observation and it is true:
Salvation is in three tenses:

(1) The believer has been saved from the guilt and penalty of sin (Luk_7:50); (1Co_1:18); (2Co_2:15); (Eph_2:5); (Eph_2:8); (2Ti_1:9) and is safe.

(2) the believer is being saved from the habit and dominion of sin (Rom_6:14); (Phi_1:19); (Phi_2:12); (Phi_2:13); (2Th_2:13); (Rom_8:2); (Gal_2:19); (Gal_2:20); (2Co_3:18).

(3) The believer is to be saved in the sense of entire conformity to Christ. (Rom_13:11); (Heb_10:36); (1Pe_1:5); (1Jo_3:2).

4. God’s word on Generational Curses
Generational Curses:
Like i defined these curses in part-1, it is important to realise that the phrase above in not in the bible(i checked it out in 11 translations including KJV).
From the little research i have done, it is based on Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for 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;
That scripture is as true today as it was when God said it then. Let us first note a number of things from this:
1-You must hate God for that to operate
2- He visits the inquity to more than 1 generation as indicated.
Let me also make some clarifications on this issue. A law or charge is in place until it is fulfilled or the charge settled according to he that set the law. Just like the New testament command is the LOVE commandment, there are charges that Jesus fulfilled. Actually Jesus is the end of the law and he fulfilled the law.
We need to now see what God said about these generational curses after Jesus came and died in our stead. We will look at both the old testament and new testament.
Old Testament;
Ezekiel 18:1-32
I will just draw some illumination:
1- God charges Israel to stop using the proverb, “The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge”. He then states that the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
2- God gives an example of where a righteous man gives birth to a wicked son who in turn gives birth to righteous son. God clearly states that the grandfather and grandson in the case above will live, while the father of the grandson will die. This clearly renders the ideology of our ancestors killing people and their blood being on our heads.
3- God does not cherish or is not pleased by the death of sinner.
Read the whole chapter and more illumination will come your way.
Jeremiah 31:27-35
In this portion of scripture which actually refers to our days, God states clearly that every one shall die for his own iniquity.
Later on in verse 34, He makes a powerful statement that makes theologians look for cover. He says that He will forgive our iniquity and our sin, will He remember no more. I don’t know how much more proof you want but that is evidence enough.
New testament

Galatians 3:13-14
Gal 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Gal 3:14 that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Christ when he died nullified the effect of the curse on us actually He became a curse that we might receive the blessing. We are blessed and now the lives we live are what we call a blessed life. Curses are in operation but we are live above them.

In Part 3, I will tackle the effect of generational curses on the community, why in some believers the curse operates and how to soar above the curses of life using two powerful laws of the new testament.