following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church heavenly father as we look at lesson ten about breaking every curse i pray father that we can apply these principles in her own life and so that lori can walk in victory that somebody times we allow the past to control us to manipulate us and to help  causes us to look at the present in the eyes of the past we want to move beyond that we want to be able to break every curse so that we can move forward that we can walk in victory and we can be overcomers in jesus name amen and the previous lesson we saw the roles that will on forgiveness intervallic and judgments play and opening doors to demonic influences in our lives do you believe that do you believe that will force them open up the door to the enemy in your life do you believe that unforgiveness will open up the door to the enemy just was talking to somebody about forgiveness and about the fact that the whole purpose of forgiving somebody is not for the person you're forgiving they may be dead so what benefit is to them when we forgive that help it helps us and if we walk in on forgiveness it does open up the enemy to come at us in our values and judgments when we make in our values and judgments we open up the door to the enemy so if i make a valid judgment that you just can't trust women no you don't think the devil takes that and what does he bring into your life even with him it time in and then and then who's fault is that that's your fault because you've made that decision that value made that judgment this is what's going to happen and so all those things open up doors for the enemy so never to look at some other doors and the other one is generational in tree that because of generational sin that there can be an open door to the enemy and i want us to take a look at this and we're going to get a concept here that a lot of people don't look at it properly so how many have heard about generational sin people have heard that ok and so most of us have heard something about generational sin and that is if your dad is an alcoholic then you have more likely to be a alcoholic if your dad's a drug addict you're more likely to be a drug addict if your dad is a womanizer you're more likely to be a womanizer now we picked on all the dads so this pick on the mom saul if your mom is codependent can you become codependent yourself absolutely so there are those in the generational sense some of that is due to genetic and some of that would be spiritual genetically is can you have a predisposition to be an alcoholic through genetics absolutely and so there's genetics that some volved and you're rather you want those genes or not guess what you've got rather you want to or not now those that mean because if there is generational stuff that's going on and genetically there's these going on if we're predisposed to alcoholism because of our genes does that mean i have to be an alcoholic no because nobody makes me pick up so if i have a genetic something within me genetically that i if i drink alcohol something in my system makes me crave for it and it makes be to all to become an alcoholic i have a solution that was the solution don't drink don't pick up so every understand that the reason we say that is because of or not careful we look at generational stuff with genetic stuff and they use it as excuse for our behavior and what we're doing is we're saying we want to move beyond the past we want to go a different direction and we're going to go a different direction we missed our closing doors but this look at generational curse letter a this is  five a says i the lord thy god am a jealous god this iniquity of the fathers upon the children until the third and fourth generation of them that hate me god said was not man god says that i will put on the sins of the fathers upon generations in the future now if the best as i don't like them and what kind of a god is that right when that big good question asked what kind of a god do that we'll find out in  second not getting there yet but that's the verse in numerous scriptures such as the one above as well as do honor me five nine in numbers fourteen eighteen god says that he will visit the iniquity of the fathers to the third and fourth generations then  the phrase it as punishing the children for the sins of the fathers and some is going to say that's not fair anybody to say that's not fair what should i be punished for what my father dead right but never be honest answer good honest question on a statement number two this principle is called spiritual determinism and is carried out by demons or familiar spirits or by genes genetics these off a manifest in tennessee's uncertain families poor particular diction sin penner's illnesses as cetera so before we talk about it this is fair or not has anybody seen this taking place have you see it take place your own there you go yeah so this go with just the fact again whether it's fair or not does it happen so do you think this bible verse is probably true that probably god is doing something in the midst of that now now that we have accept that that's true religion number three and then we're going to give you the balance since in this ok we're not going leave you hanging with the mean cruel god that puts sin upon one generation to another but  just makes sense whether god did it or not if i see my dad living a certain way would i not operate the same way so if my dad has children outside of marriage where am i more like that child outside of marriage why you saw that be illness this obviously right if the cancer in your family is there more of a chance are going to get cancer so that's true we can't deny that the true number three in equity is the effect of sin is the pollution that is released because of the sin so there is what sin falling short in equity is the results of falling short the consequences that there is a behavior there is actions that happen when there is then although we may be pent of you are doing is when it came to the you know them with gambling well what about the fact it can you go to god and say you know what cancer has been in our family not breaking that curse of cancer is not going to be in our family can you do that as a believer in jesus christ can you break that now let me give you balance in the midst of this go up to verse twenty five again in the letter a the lord thy god am a jealous god visit it would be of the father's upon the children to the third  fourth generation of them that that hate me so if you hate god it is saying this is going to happen why should it happen if you want to get diskette logical if you hate god why shouldn't god allow curses to come your way when it makes sense that if you hate it so if you know what if you if you if you hate my family and you're going to harm my family you do things to my family what am i probably going to do i'm going to take a stand and i want to say you're not going to do that ever again and there's going to be a consequence if you do see live next to the dover and you keep still no corn there's going to be a consequence that's just logical but out of this the key is a says them that hate me so if you don't hate god guess what the curse is broken the curse is broken yes exactly because what dad got set free dad stopped dead a longer show in that example dad showing that you can break that that you know how to walk and that so the understanding here is if you love god that any of the curse of the past can be broken why is this significant was this powerful but moving beyond the past how many people blame their behavior and give excuse me behavior because of the past well my dad was an alcoholic would you want me to be  if you're a believer in jesus christ guess what you don't have to be an alcoholic it's been broken and it and the power of this is to place of going to saying you know what in jesus name i don't receive receive those diseases and  that truth right so here's an example i can to give a test of i myself my dad died of diabetes at around fifty years old someplace around the early age he died of the side effects of diabetes he had a insulin shock when it to call ma become totally paralyzed became bread brain dead in then died ok and all happen because he couldn't stop eating his sweets and then all of a s that's what took place in his life ok so that means he had diabetes so the devil would tell me you're going to get diabetes because your father had diabetes so you get diabetes you know what i say and jesus name i'm not getting diabetes and to this day at sixty two years old guess what my blood comes back with no problem with no nothing to do with diabetes at all well that's just coincidence that's what people say coincidence you get older right that's just part of getting older my mom died around seventy two something like that but guess who my family has everything is it me or my brother does and you know i'm a brother does because the times i talk to him in the funny says yeah i got everything that mom and dad had why did he get everything that mom and dad had allowed he spoke it into his life he took on he opened the door for the curse listen to me it doesn't matter how it happens whether the devil's in the midst of it or not but if you turn around and say you know i'm going to get cancer like mom whether it's genetic or not would if you open the door up to the demonic realm can the devil turn around and do things obviously he can because obviously in the buyable many times when there is sickness and disease it was that blamed on a spirit of infirmity going to see this later on and so the idea is we want to close that door i don't hate god doesn't belong to me so when the symptoms start coming your way you say it doesn't belong to me does that mean that you won't get cancer no does it mean you won't get high blood pressure no but i don't want to open the door up to it i'm gonna close every door and then the devil has to come illegally to put it on me and he comes in illegally you say you're an intruder you go out there right now what's that you're trespassing you're not going to trespass on this body now if christians knew this believe this followed this i would argue they'd be healthier christians and oh by the way they eat healthy too so don't eat on healthy and sa to take that personal obesity and eat like somewhere that's obese ok so there is the responsibility of our selves but if i say i don't hate god i love god i'm not taking this curse on me i'm less likely have that come upon me and i live my life differently so that's another area the enemy can come in is through generational sin be spiritual and emotional trauma and as this sixty one one he has set me to bind up the broken hearted jesus was sent for what purpose bind up the broken heart to heal the sick to give sight to the blind the spiritually physically blind jesus came to bring healing into our life one the areas that a lot of people need healing in is their spiritual emotional life and when there  been trauma that is done to you whether it's physical spiritual emotional or mental how may know that can open up the door to the enemy because you start to believe something so number one says wounds emotional physical or emotional spiritual or physical can be source of infection and demonic influence with this is talking about is not talking about wounds physical like i get a cut of my knee and then the devil can come in that's not what  talking about is talking about if there's been physical abuse can physical abuse affect a person can a physical abuse affect a person to a point that they start to open up the door to the enemy how many know that if you've experienced physical abuse and you were told that it was ok that dad we have done you beat you and tortured you and you've been taught that how many know that you can marry somebody and then believe it's ok if they do it to you can't that open up the door for the enemy to bring you into a relationship with somebody that does that absolutely would have somebody what about spiritual abuse is there such a thing as spiritual be use absolutely and what spiritual muse looks like is a couple of different ways one of spiritual abuse is this ongoing message that god's got a hammer of to beat you up he's got a baseball bat to beat you up god's a mean cruel god and so whatever you did in the raw as a kid you were told god is going to get you for that that is spiritual abuse that is not who god is does given a distorted view who god is and so out of it there can be spiritual boost that way the other way is you know what if you're a good christian you dress act lock talk do this the certain way and there are certain things as christians we should act lock  walk talk dress a certain way but the spiritual abuse comes is like the church i came from a guy got water baptized non man got water baptized he got water baptized with the necklace on after he got water baptized the head  walked up to him says good to go water baptized but you should be wearing a necklace and jewelry i call that spiritual abuse do you think that guy showed up again that kid never showed up again i want to show up again that's spiritual abuse when those things happen they can open up doors for the enemy to enter in number to harsh wards broken promises rejection abuse produced pain anger bitterness and hate pain or memories emotions evidence th trauma has occurred the emotional hurts need cleansing closure and healing through the blood of jesus again most people don't talk about this here's what you hear from christians all the time somebody has gone through a lot of abuse whatever type of abuse it is and they end up accepting jesus and somebody with good intentions walks up to him and there's a truth in what i'm going to say but there is a truth in it but there's a lie in it too so they have all these wounds scars this happy life they accept jesus and then the good old saints current term says now that you  ccept jesus everything is going to be ok and just let go of all that stuff how many if you just accepted jesus you just don't let go of all that stuff and so you've tried to let go but you don't even know how to nobody tells you how to let go they say  doesn't let go of that everything's ok disfigured about the past you don't have a past anymore you've accepted jesus right all those things but if you don't give people tools what happens those things still haunt them those still taunt them and then they think they're not a good and so out of it is that one of our responsibilities that we should be doing with people is when they've had to move motional wounds scars all of that with things we should walk them through the journey of being healed through that and how's that journey is the very things that we've been talking about how many know that if you've been wounded in scarred you probably have bitterness is bitterness an open door so we know some of those head wounds and scars what should we do we should turn around and look at and say man this person seems to be a bitter person you do know when somebody is bitter right this very obvious that they just walk around with bitterness resentments because you could do everything right and what do they do they grumble complain they sure know that you're out to get them so if somebody you know and this is how you know i just feel like everybody is out to get me you just revealed what's going on in your life if you feel like every is out to get you then what should you do what should you do as a person i would argue look at yourself and say why do i feel that way and lord what judgments do i have what resentments do i have and how can we help them we walk and say you know pull somebody aside and be able to say you know i'm it seems like you know you have a lot of wounded in your life is there something we can pray about can we can we play with you but yeah you know my dad was this way or my mom was this way or this happened that happened and as you pray for people and they're able to let go what happens the door that the enemy keeps trying to pry open is going to be close to zero ok so if i turn around and i don't shake paul's hand and he's been healed and delivered then he says rich didn't shake my hand i don't know why but if he isn't hilton delivered what happens he didn't shake my hand he doesn't like me and somebody told him about what a terrible person i am because people who have a lot of did terrible person ok they come across as that way but if he's hill he turns around and then if he if he's mature and he's any gets hurt because can we get hurt and be mature people of course things hurt then he goes and he says pastor rich i went to reach out to shake your hand and you walk the other way and it hurt me does he have the right to say that yes in a mature person says that an who have had harsh words spoken their life broken promises rejection abuse they take on these wounds in these scars they wear them as a badge they have their little name tag it says rich the victim and then that opens up the door to the enemy to come in and say you want to close those doors next week we're going to talk about this fourteenth spirits the bible actually talks i want you to you can take a look at all these verses be all the verses list in the study the bible talks specifically splits specifically about fourteen different routes spirits that can be high and certain things and so those of you who think that the devil is a underneath every chair he's not ok and that you're walking a willful sin that he might be under your chair if not maybe one of his call hearts ok because the devil is in everywhere ok but we're not saying that devils everywhere but the bible talks about certain things that their spirits behind them in this and if there's a spirit behind something if you don't deal with that spirit guess what is still going to be there so if you just look at them there's going to be the spirit of infirm your sickness fear spirit of light spirit of air all kinds of different spirits so if we just look at that if there is a spirit behind your l g guess what happens unless that spirit is dealt with you will continue life no matter what just stop lie but if there's a spirit behind your line how can you just stop lying there's a spirit behind this or in talk about that next week and then also  hope that we get to it will get into the conclusion how you can break all these things off and be able to walk in victory so heavenly father we thank you that for the word of god because the word of god teaches us principles and gives us clarity to understand the word of god will show us where maybe we have opened up the door to the enemy in certain areas of our life and we know that through jesus christ those doors can be closed just like when our parents maybe they were involved then alcoholism them volved in addictions there w something in their life that we haven't taken to be inherited on genetic layer we took it on by habit by watching their behavior we took on that behavior we know that if we love god that those don't belong to us so we can say in jesus name i'm no longer going to walk in that addiction i'm no longer a walk on that anger among longer going to walk and that bitterness and we can walk in victory and that is the power of the gospel of jesus christ so we think you father god that because of jesus died on that cross taken on the sense of all of mankind including ours and because of his resurrection power that we can walk in victory me thank you for that we want to move beyond the past to me thank you that you've given us the tools to do that and we pray in jesus name amen are you struggling move beyond the past what is healing past hurts who needs 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say god i just love you with all my heart thank you jesus so you've done so much for me but i just love you lord what can i do for you that's what happens when you have true love love your book at night you love me how can i love you you know god is going to answer love people that's what he's going to say he's going to say love me because you already love him so loving god leads to loving people let me tell you if you love god or i love you so much what can i do he says i want you to love this person over here i today if you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v guide or that there is hope t v die or and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity we let you know step by step and accept jesus christ your lord and savior encourage you to go to there's hope t v dot or that is there is hope seen the dot or also on it you know if you would like to 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