当一个人具有相同的 (有罪的) 行为和经历与此相同的负面事物 (大)父母, 很多时候，人们认为这个人生活在诅咒之下. 但正如之前的博客文章中所写的那样, 一个重生的基督徒不可能 live under a curse. 因为借着在基督里的重生, a person is redeemed from the curse, because Christ has become a curse on the cross and has taken the curse for fallen mankind upon Himself. 除此之外, the curses that are described in the Old Covenant were part of the law and came from God and not from the devil. But if it isn’t a curse, 这是什么? What many people don’t realize and don’t see spiritually, because they are carnal and don’t know the Word, is when you became born again in Christ, you were transferred to another kingdom and don’t belong to the devil anymore, but have become an enemy of the devil. You have entered a spiritual warfare and the devil, 谁是这个世界的统治者, shall do anything to captivate you and possess your life and make you a prisoner of his kingdom again. And there is one way, he can accomplish his plan.
The spiritual warfare in the garden of Eden in heaven?
The first spiritual warfare, we read about in the Bible is the battle in the garden of Eden in heaven, where Lucifer, the archangel fought with God and eventually lost the battle. Lucifer was no longer yielded to God and no longer obeyed Him, but he had become prideful and rebellious and wanted to be as God.
Because of his behavior the archangel Lucifer became an adversary of God and God cast him out of heaven on earth. This first spiritual warfare evolved around one thing, namely disobedience to God(以西结 28:12-17, 以赛亚 14:12-16).
Lucifer was fallen because of his disobedience, which derived from a prideful heart and therefore he knew that disobedience to God (罪) would separate every creation from God. And so Lucifer tried the win the creation by making creation disobedient to God.
The spiritual warfare in the garden of Eden on earth
The second spiritual warfare took place in the garden of Eden on earth. The whole creation, including man, was created perfectly by God. 然而, the devil saw his chance to accomplish his plan, which had caused his fall from his position in heaven and the reason he was cast on earth.
Lucifer knew that the cause of his fall was 不服从上帝, which derived from a prideful heart. 所以, if he could ensure that man, who was the crown of God’s creation, became disobedient to God through obedience to him and would bow for him, he would take the position and authority of man on earth and man would belong to him and he could accomplish his plan, to be like god, through man.
And so he made a plan and found a way to seduce man and cause man to become disobedient to God and be separated from God and fall from his position.
How did the devil succeed to make man disobedient to God? By making man doubt the truth of the words of God.
The devil approached man through a serpent, a creation that God created and man was ruler off, and he tempted man by changing the words of God and by a twisted truth, a lie.
Man should have believed the words of God and stand on His words, which were the truth. 然而, man didn’t do that but instead began to doubt and believe the words of the creation above the words of the Creator.
And so the devil got, what he wanted; the position and authority of man on earth, the place in heaven (where he was able to come), and the rulership over man. He would be the ruler, the father, of mankind and therefore his nature would be present in mankind, who had become his sons (创世纪 3).
The power of the sinful nature in the flesh
在旧约中, we see the power of the sinful nature, which dwells in the flesh of man. We read about how the people of God, who were carnal, left God and wandered off and went after false gods and false doctrines and feared the people more than they feared God.
By doing their own will and through disobedience to God and His words, they fell in the hands of the enemy and blamed God for all their misery and lack, which derived from their own behavior.
But every time when the people cried out unto God and repented of their behavior, God looked after His people and send His Word and healed (restored, redeemed) His people.
This wasn’t a one-time event, but a reoccurring event, because of the weakness of the flesh.
The people were not spiritual, but carnal and therefore they trusted and relied on their own human knowledge, 智慧, and insight instead of the words of God, which possessed His knowledge, 智慧, and insight.
The carnal people rather wanted something tangible, than rely on something that was invisible to them. Therefore the people were focused on signs and wonders and the people constantly asked for a sign and were influenced and led by supernatural manifestations, which didn’t always come from God.
Although carnal people had knowledge of good and evil, they lacked spiritual insight, because the spirit of man had died because of the fall of man which was a result of the disobedience of man to God. 所以, they couldn’t discern the words and works of God and the words and works of the devil. They could only discern the words and works by the law.
Because God had made His will known and revealed 他的想法 和 他的方式 through the law. God revealed good and evil. Therefore sin is revealed by the law and the law is holy and not bad or evil (罗马书 3:20; 7:12).
然而, the flesh was not able to submit to God, since the nature of the devil is present in the flesh causing man always to exalt himself above God and want to do those things that go against His will.
By the obedience of Jesus Christ many be made righteous
因为如果一个人的过犯导致死亡由一个人统治; 更何况那些领受丰盛恩典和公义恩赐的人，将在生命中由一位掌权, Jesus Christ.) 因此，正如所有的人都因一次审判而受到定罪一样; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 因为许多人因一个人的悖逆而成为罪人, 因此，通过一个人的服从，许多人将成为义人 (罗马书 5:17-19)
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, 不随从肉体而行的人, 但在圣灵之后 (罗马书 8:3-5)
And so Jesus Christ came to the earth and became equal to man and took the place of man and carried the punishment of sin, 这是罪孽, and overcame death and gave back the authority, which God originally had given to man, back to everyone, who would become a new creation in Him.
He restored man through regeneration and made man whole (healed the people). The spirit of man was raised from the dead, whereby man had become spiritual and was reconciled and connected with God.
The new man is spiritual
他已使你苏醒, 那些死在过犯罪恶之中的人; 在过去的时光里，你们按照这个世界的轨迹行走, 根据空中力量王子的说法, 现在在悖逆之子心中运作的精神: 我们从前也都在他们中间谈论肉体的私欲, 满足肉体和心灵的欲望; 生来就是可怒之子, 即使和其他人一样 (以弗所书 2:1-3)
这 老人 is unspiritual and can’t see the Kingdom of God. Therefore the old man is darkened in his mind and doesn’t see spiritually, what the new man sees. The old man walks after the flesh in disobedience to God and is not focused on the things of the Kingdom of God but on the tangible things of the kingdom of the world; the kingdom of darkness and relies on the visible.
It’s not a curse, but the works of the flesh that derives from the lust and desires of the flesh and the mind that are controlled by the powers of darkness.
Some think they live under a generational curse, because they show a.o. the same behavior, the same sin and experience the same aspects in life as their parents, like for example, alcoholism, 瘾(s), 沮丧, rejecting of self, 焦虑, (emotionally or physically) abuse others, 不忠, 离婚, 淫乱, sexual uncleanness and perversity, stealing, lying and so on.
But all these things have nothing to do with generational curses, but with the will and the choices, which derive from the will of the sinful flesh of man.
Every person makes choices in life to do things and doesn’t do things.
Everything man does have consequences. If you walk after the flesh and do the works of the flesh, you shall reap destruction. 这就是圣言所说的, and the Word is the Truth.
A person can say all kinds of things and approve everything, which happens in many churches.
在很多教堂里, sin is approved and is no longer wrong. While the Word is very clear and says that everyone, who commits sin is not born of God and therefore doesn’t belong to God and shall not inherit eternal life but eternal death. These are hard words. But these hard words do possess the truth (哦. 约翰 8:34-35, 1 约翰 3:9).
Jesus also spoke hard words, which were the truth, but the people were not able to bear them. 为什么? Because the truth calls to repentance and a change and letting go of the familiar. And that is something the carnal man doesn’t want to do.
But every person is responsible for his own actions. You can’t blame your parents or grandparents or others for your behavior.
If you are led by unclean sexual lusts, it derives from the lusts of your flesh. These unclean sexual lusts derive from unclean powers, to whom you have submitted yourself to. No one else has done that for you.
It is not a generational curse, but a lack of will power
If you feed yourself with the things of the world and you watch and listen to things that contain, 例如, sexual elements, then you open yourself for unclean perverse powers and they shall manifest in your life. The same applies to the occult. If you get involved and move in the occult you will get involved with unclean spirits, who will manifest in unclean (性的) acts and perversity.
You can’t use generational curses nor culture for the choices you make, which derive from your will. It’s not a generational curse or any curse whatsoever, it’s the result of your behavior and the choices you have made.
Many people say, “呃，好吧, I can’t help it, it just runs in the family” or “it’s just part of my culture” and use these lies because they do not want to change and use them as an excuse to justify sin. But these lies of man may justify the act of sin for carnal people, but God will never justify the act of sin no matter what excuses and lies are used (另请阅读: ‘世代诅咒是否存在?‘ , ‘基督徒可以生活在咒诅之下吗?‘ 和 ‘每一种文化在基督里都消失了')
A thought is not a sin, but a fertilized thought is a sin. If an unclean thought, which diametrically opposes the will and nature of God, comes up in your mind and you immediately take that thought captive in Christ and cast it out of your mind, then you have overcome.
But if an unclean thought comes up in your mind and you meditate on this thought, that thought will overcome you and lead you to sin.
Adultery doesn’t just happen, but is a premeditated sin. When you commit adultery you have sinned wilfully.
Because before you have committed adultery, many moments have passed, wherein you had a choice to stop this work of the flesh. But you have not done that, but you have yielded yourself to – and obeyed this unclean spirit of adultery that has manifested in the flesh
Every person is born in iniquity as a sinner and it is the will of God that every person repents and by faith become born again in Christ and lay down his flesh, so that the darkness no longer reigns in a person’s life. But it’s a choice, every person makes for himself or herself and every person is responsible for it.
Regeneration and the change of nature
因此，若有人在基督里, 他是一个新造的人: 旧事已逝; 看, 一切都变成新的了 (2 哥林多前书 5:17)
小孩子, 不要让任何人欺骗你: 行正义的人就是正义的, 即使他是公义的. 犯罪的都是出于魔鬼的; 因为魔鬼从一开始就犯罪. 为此目的，神的儿子显现出来, 为要除掉魔鬼的作为. 凡由神生的，就不犯罪; 因为他的道（SEED）常在他心里: 他不能犯罪, 因为他是由神而生. 神的儿女在此显明, 和魔鬼的孩子们: 不行义的，就不是出于神, neither he that loveth not his brother (1 约翰 3:7-10)
When you are born again in Christ, you are a new creation. This means that you are a new creation and you are no longer the old creation.
You don’t have the sinful nature of fallen man, which reigns in the flesh and are no longer a sinner (a son of the devil), but you have received God’s nature, which reigns in the spirit and you have become a saint (神的儿子).
所以, when you become born again a visible change in your life will be the result of this spiritual change.
If this doesn’t happen and you persevere in sin and keep doing things, which go against the will of God and are an abomination to Him, you should earnestly ask yourself if you have become a new creation. Because the works you do are works of the flesh.
And if you are born again and your flesh has died in Christ, your flesh can do no works anymore, because it’s dead. If you keep doing the works of the flesh, your flesh has not died yet (罗马书 8).
The devil goes around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he can devour. He wants one thing and that’s to keep you in the flesh and keep you ignorant and far away from God, so that you keep doing those things that go against the will of God and live in disobedience to Him.
The new man has received in Christ the authority and the power by the Holy Spirit to stand in the faith and resist sin.
The new man reigns in Christ as king over sin
所以, 弟兄们, 我们是债务人, 不至于肉体, to live after the flesh. 因为如果你们顺从肉体而活, ye shall die: 但你们若靠着圣灵治死身体的恶行, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, 他们是神的儿子(罗马书 8:12-13)
You have a choice to say “no” to sin and to reign in Christ by the Spirit as king over sin.
Stop blaming your parents or others, who maybe have spoken negative or evil words over your life. Those words can’t do anything in your life, unless you believe the words of man above the words of God and act upon these words.
You must know that the power of God is stronger than the power of the devil. But you have to believe this and walk in it. Because as long as you consider the powers and works of the devil more powerful than the power of God and the work at 十字架, you shall never be able to resist temptations and overcome the devil and reign as king over sin and death, but sin shall reign as king in your life.
‘成为地球之盐’
