Break Sins Rule Over You

Exodus 20:5

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,

Psalm 18:23

I was also blameless before Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity

Psalm 32:5

I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Ezekiel 28:15

You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you

Defined Iniquity: unrighteousness, wickedness, injustice, evil

Iniquity came from fathers, yours and mine all the way back to Adam. So basically this understanding of sin tells us that sin was able to continue because of the generational curse of God visiting those iniquities on a person's future children. Sin is a curse. God doesn’t curse people today. But there was a recompensing or rewarding or compensating, (visiting) a right given that is still in effect today.

Want proof that sin still produces death? Just look around you, sickness and infirmity are there.

So is it possible that if you are struggling with sin that there is an iniquity, (sin of the fathers) operating in you? Ok, let's mention a few for illustration sake. Bitterness, self pity, pride, anger.

And what if that sin entity was the thing throwing temptation your way maybe most of your life? Yes Jesus is not accounting your sins against you if you are in Him. But the damage of sin is taking its toll. Take heart, provision has been made.

Recognize it for what it is. Take responsibility and own up to it with God. Repent, renounce, remove it through generational prayer. Resist its attempts to return. Rejoice!

Henry Wright said,

"The principle of separation is important to apply when we recognize the workings of a spirit in a person’s life or even in our own. It is a spirit, it is not us. It feeds us thoughts, feelings, and emotions that we accept and agree with. Once we reject and remove the spirit , we can live at peace again and begin to move forward into restoration and recovery.

It is all in our perspective. What we choose to listen to and agree with will become our reality. God offers real solutions to recovering our perspective and delivering us from the snare of iniquity."

God's Love for you is greater than any oppression that has been let into your life. He is for your complete victory over sin and disease. He wants His best to become your best, because His perfect love is within you. Overcoming can take time and be difficult but there is Grace for that. Grace is the important 2nd half of overcoming, "for by Grace are you saved through Faith." Go to God with all your difficulties and establish a practice of making Him first place in everything. You can become consumed with God instead of your troubles.

Figuring life out on your own will take you down a rocky path. The enemy of our souls will try and push us in the direction of self help, using our own resources, looking at "answers" from the internet, processing and condensing info to our own conclusions. The Holy Spirit will and should be our first and foremost guide to where we want to go. Seek, Ask, Knock.

Henry Wright - Jesus was somehow able to cry out to His Father while He was dying on the cross, being brutally murdered by those who stood around Him. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” Because of this, He is our example. Jesus was able to separate them from what they were doing and recognize that it was the devil who had bewitched them into killing Him. He did not take it personally. That is the standard for all of us.

The Bible says that if we don’t forgive others of their trespasses against us, neither will God forgive us. Forgiveness isn’t saying that the evil they do is good or okay. It’s releasing them to the Father’s righteous judgment, it’s praying for our enemies, it’s us choosing not to take their sin into our bodies. Forgiveness sets us free from the bondage to another person’s sin. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:14-15 KJV - Whom the Son sets free is free indeed!

In 1874, sociologist Richard Dugdale, a member of the executive committee of the Prison Association of New York and a colleague of Harris' was delegated to visit jails in upstate New York In a jail in Ulster Co. he found six members of the same "Juke" family, though they were using four different family names. On investigation, he found that, of 29 male "immediate blood relations", 17 had been arrested, and 15 convicted of crimes.

He studied the records of inmates of the 13 county jails in new York State, as well as poorhouses and courts, while researching the New York hill family's ancestry in an effort to find the basis for their criminality. His book claimed Max, a frontiersman who was the descendant of early Dutch settlers and who was born between 1720 and 1740, had been the ancestor of more than 76 convicted criminals, 18 brothel-keepers, 120 prostitutes, over 200 relief recipients, and two cases of "feeble-mindedness".

Many of the criminals could also be linked to "Margaret, the Mother of Criminals", renamed "Ada" in his report, who had married one of Max's sons. Dugdale created detailed genealogical charts and concluded that poverty, disease, and criminality plagued the family. Dugdale estimated to the New York Legislature that the family had cost the state $1,308,000. He published his findings in The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity in 1877

In the early 1700s a man named Max Jukes who was ungodly, married a woman of similar character • A tracing of his family line revealed the following results: 1,026 descendants’ lives were studied: 300 died prematurely 67 died of syphilis 190 public prostitutes 100 alcoholics 280 lived in abject poverty 140 received government aid 150 were criminals of which 7 were murderers. Incarcerating 150 of them cost the state more than 1.2 million. Jukes himself made no contribution to society. In comparison, Jonathan Edwards who was a Godly man and married a woman of like character produced Godly descendants of which 729 were studied with these results 300 were ministers 65 were college professors 13 were university presidents 60 authored books 3 were Congressman One was Vice President of the United States The family has not cost the government a single dollar. Edwards was used to spearhead one of the most influential moves of God in American History – “The Great Awakening”

* Note - Depending on which account of Max Jukes or Johnathon Edwards you read the numbers are different along with some of the details. The account of Jukes is from Wikipedia*

Deuteronomy 7:9 states: 9 “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;"