Generational Blessings [Part 1]

Pastor, author and Bible teacher Alan Wright goodness of God that is shown to thousand generations almost everywhere in the Bible the word the language for thousand is a way of saying on and on and on and on.

There is an end to the reign of sin, but there is no end to the reign of blessedness that's Pastor Alan Wright welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life for a whole new light on the deliberate excited for you to hear today's message in the series titled exponential rates as presented at renewal the church in North Carolina if you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now. It can be yours for your donation this month to Alan Wright ministry as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today special offer. Contact us at pastoralan.org that's Pastor Alan.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860.

More on that later in the program but right now let's get started with today's teaching in the series praying with our here is Alan Wright there is a favorite illustration amongst preachers that compares the, the notorious Jukes family Max Jukes and all his sock descendents and a contemporary of his Jonathan Edwards and his family because John Edwards the great preacher and theologian and rider are the catalyst of the great awakening and some body years and years ago.

Compare these two families and out like most good sermon illustrations. Unfortunately, when I go back and I really dig into the facts.

You will find out that sometimes like one of my friends wants to call it that preachers are little bit evangelistic and to try to little bit and so it is with the story. Comparing the Jukes family to the Edwards family the Jukes family so the illustration says Mac should family 1200 of them were were studied and over those 280 were professional vagrants hundred and 30 were sent to a penitentiary for an average of 13 years each. Seven of them were murderers.

100 were alcoholics hundred and 28 were prostitutes of the 20 learn to trade 10 learned in a state prison. None of them made a significant contribution to society. On the contrary, they cost the state of New York million $308,000 while some of PhD researcher actually went back in and investigated again the thorough story of the Jukes family, and indeed the Jukes family did have much sand in crime and problems, but they found it to be only about half accurate and not when that same researcher investigated what the sermon illustration said about the Jonathan Edwards family what was found out is that indeed the illustration was pretty much accurate in fact hear the true numbers in Jonathan Edwards family. There were practically no lawbreakers. There are more than 100 lawyers will know why that's on the plus side that is in their 3030 Judges 13 college presidents. 100 or more professors 60 physicians hundred clergymen, missionaries and theological professors 80 and Edwards family elected to public office, including three mayors, three governors, several members of Congress three centers and one VP 60 you attained prominence and authorship or editorial life with 135 books of merit. 75 Army or Navy officers and a comptroller and the US treasury. It is a illustration of what the impact of the generations can be rents between a family where there is so much sin that seems to be passed on in negative patterns that get repeated and a family like Jonathan Edwards where there was this importation of all these good things, and how much it can grow and how powerful the impact can be. And this all makes me think back to the days few years ago, one of our staff. Gladys Keating came and approached me and said that she collected a word from the Lord and I was eager to hear it was very simple she said in a your ability to communicate thinking from your dad about the. The reason that on the one hand that might seem like kind of a simple and obvious statement is a my dad was a TV news man and so that's what he did. He was in front of people in front of cameras, communicating, and so here I am in different different venue in different way. But being a communicator. Below is powerful about it is that is, as I've shared pretty transparently over the years that I've had to get healed a lot of the wounds that come because my family broke up and I didn't get the time with my dad and didn't receive a lot of the blessing that I so wanted to be all received to hear from his own lips, and to be touched by his own hands and have the kinds of of quality father-son things that we we just missed out on so much and so I've had to spend a lot of my life, as many of you have really paying attention to how the, the patterns of sin and in my family that then I've had to take steps of appropriating the blood of Jesus to really say okay here's where this pattern. Here's where this iniquity. Here's where this curse comes to an end, it comes because the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ has been placed between my life and any freight train of generational sin that is come down the track towards me and therefore it is a good thing. It is something we can help you with a view never never done this, our prayer measures can help you with this, and we we we think it is important that we identify those generational sin patterns say no to them and apply in faith that the finished work of Jesus, we apply the appropriate what Jesus has done for us where he has taken the curse on the cross. Galatians says, and therefore we are blessed and so I've done a lot of healing work and taken many healing steps so that I could be liberated from the effects of of wounds that came from the brokenness of my family and all of us in and in different ways. We have wounds that we've experienced some are deeper and they run deep. Some of you have been through the most severe of trauma and your family. Some of Ray's been raised in good families, healthy families, but they were perfect and we all have this opportunity to say that there was some things that went right my parents or their parents or their parents, but in my generation, it changes and it begins to be imparted to the next generation in a whole new way. So I spent so much time focusing on essentially how to eradicate generational curse that I had missed something of vital importance and was sent that day it triggered in my mind when Gladys said that to me your gift for communication. It came from your dad because what was loaded in that statement was something so powerful for me what I was saying is maybe now that you've taken steps for your own liberty. Maybe there's something else that you've missed and that is look and see the treasures that were there in the generations that maybe you've not seen and therefore not appreciated and, more appropriately, more more powerfully not really appropriated to your life.

Not too long after Gladys sure that my father died and I spoke at his funeral, and during that week of my grief. I began to look at other things that I saw and my father my father. He one of the things that was was so impactful to my life that I've told a story, a number of times but why was in third grade.

I believe second or third grade. I finished my peewee football game. Yes, I played football I was a running back and I was a safety and then I quit about the fifth grade whenever miles get big and we were walking off the field. Dad and I and there was an old man's after American guy sit at a picnic table and he is reading a book. He recognized my dad because a TV and he said he spoke to initially my dad always did. He always respected people and he stop and he spoke to the man really think those were the greatest qualities about my dad was he he really was no respecter of persons who didn't matter if you been the mayor, or if if you were this man sit at this table he stop a look on you the same and my dad said what you doing to me and said I'm learning to read.

He was full grown man he said I'm learning to read some go back to school and he said I want to I want to be alone be better.

Martin Luther King as we are walking away from the table.

I did something to my knowledge that I've never done before that time, and I certainly never did. After my dad and I laughed at the man in a mountain and I said he came reading must be better.

Martin Luther King and my dad turned to me and he said it was on. I think that's a very admirable goal for him to have know what went on to me that day there was a blessing that was in my father, where he was. He was no racist and he was no respecter of persons in a look at my life now and I just sent sometimes how the work of Christ has worked in me to love people, love. I love all people, and I'm not a respecter of persons in and not I realize that that that's a blessing. It came down through my dad, I began to think on things like this through preparing for his funeral and something in it was just so nourishing to me. I shared with a dear friend. Some of these thoughts I was having and he did something a secret that blessed my life but my dad I had shared with him.

He one prestigious journalism award, the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting and I were to some of the sometimes what happens in a broken family or dysfunctional family is that the things that ought to be celebrated. They don't get celebrated because you're so busy dealing with the problems you miss out on the celebrations and so trophies like that awards like that, who knows where they are, it wasn't really celebrated and I found myself having the sense women have been wonderful if I'd had that award. I could've found it in his his belongings and and and and display it somewhere just to remember a word that came from the Lord, your gift to communicate didn't start with you is started in your dad and I stood a good friend. He surprised me he went out and secretly research that award and he had a replica made up because there is a power that may be missing from our lives if we spent all of our attention trying to get healed of the hurts and never give any of our energy to celebrating appropriating and living out the blessing and handed to us through the generations are more blessed than you know what would happen if you went on a treasure hunt. What would happen if you unearthed hidden blessings actually been deposited in you through the generations. If you saw it, it appreciated more and you might water it, you might water that seed and see it grow an unbelievable way that JAlan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's important series when it would be like to be accepted perfectly free to be yourself with no fear of injection that people don't roll their eyes make fun of you and what he lacks. No more anxious feeling deep down that you feel like a pressure is always on the matter really lacks right here in and longing for life with no shame in paradise before sin came into the world. The Bible tells us only one thing that this relationship found no shaking ever since the fall of the human heart has been riddled wishing to allow that size can tell you that you can't be truly acceptable seemed condescending, so I'll try to be perfect in order to meet Ted to decide who listens on the measure at them as well. Right now how the role the heart is poisoned by shame and there is only one the grace of God in Jesus Christ and his highly acclaimed book for yourself. Deep South Ehrenreich not only exposes the lies of shame. He leads you into a revolution of God's love that heals your cell discover freedom, joy, and destiny as you shall performance-based ribbing shame or fear for good life-changing full-length book from Alan Wright for yourself. The were in the final days of this special offer being made available to you. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.like today's teaching now continues once again is Alan writing attorneys to Exodus chapter 20 the first place. With the 10 Commandments are given because here you see the principal laid out right here in the initial words that are forming the old covenant the commands of God. You can just see how the principle is woven so early on and then we'll discover how it grows so much with the power of the gospel in Exodus 20 verse for the commandment says you shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or those in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth shall not bow down to them or serve them.

For I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

There right here the Lord is demonstrating and the prohibition against idolatry in the prohibition that says don't look for your blessedness from any other source than than me, for the Lord God is the giver of all good gifts, and there is no other well from which you can draw living water is in the midst of this revelation.

This is where he says that there is something that is at work that because of the principle of justice, iniquity, falls on through the generations, even to the third and the fourth, but the contrast of this is the steadfast love, which is the Hebrew word has said the covenantal love of God which includes his mercy, his kindness, his goodness, his blessedness in all of his shalom. All of this is wrapped up into this the goodness of God that is shown to thousand generations in almost everywhere in the Bible the word the language for a thousand is a way of saying on and on and on and on. Is not really saying that once you get to the end of a thousand generations. Suddenly the blessing is gone.

What is saying instead is something that is absolutely remarkable that there is a way in which sin has its day and its consequences. But in the Lord's sovereign plan what he's saying is that there is an end to the reign of sin, but there is no end to the reign of blessedness that there is a way in which there is a curse that can be passed along to the patterns of sin, but it has its day and ceases to be, but when it comes to the steadfast love of God, the love of God goes on and on and on and on. It is an extraordinary thought. But it is clearly what the Bible teaches that in Jesus Christ. The curse is revoked, but there is no way that the devil can revoke the blessing of Jesus Christ. What I'm saying is that there is a temporary nature.

There is a limited duration and a limited power to the power of iniquity and its consequences.

But there is an unlimited unquenchable power of the love of God goes on forever and ever and ever and we in Christ are the recipients of such a blessing that it grows exponentially throughout the generations and I for one want to stand in a place like one who is under a shower from heaven and appreciate an appropriate and received the blessedness that is come down the line. We are so prone to look upon what we've missed, that we miss what we've actually received all of this is best understood if you turn to the first page of your Bible and see how it is that God designed his universe. It is the design of God that things are as they are in science is the glad unveiling of the design of God.

And so we can see by our natural observation. The pattern that was spoken of as integral on the third day of creation for after there was light. And after there is water, then verse 11 of Genesis 1, God said, let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind on the earth and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

God's plan for the design of the whole world is the principle of the seed and everything depends on this.

It arguably there is no other natural process more important than this. The rhythm of life itself depends upon it. And as his repeated in Genesis. Everything reproduces.

According to its own kind is so obvious. William think of it, and yet it is so powerful that it must consume all or ideology. Everything reproduces. According to its own kind orange seeds produce orange trees. They never produce apple trees.

Apple seeds never produce orange trees. They always produce apple trees and if this is true in the natural than what the Scripture affirms is is you can envision how this could also be true in the spirit so Paul says do not repay evil with evil, but overcome evil with good. He's appealing to the principle of the seed. In other words, if you had an orange grove in your life, and I really want to have apple trees you'll never get apple trees by going into that grove and planting more RMC's you have to plan apple seeds.

So Paul saying if you're in a relationship and what's always coming towards you and the fruit of that relationship is unkindness and hate. It is a foolish and illogical thing to think that you could somehow elicit love and respect from the other by showing them unkindness and hate it would be just as ridiculous as thinking that you were going to be able to get apple trees from orange seeds or vice versa. You cannot so hate and reap love. It works in the spirit because he also says that he who sows generously reaps generously and therefore Paul ties us into the whole notion of what it means to give your life away of what it means to do so.

Your time and your treasure in your life and what you have to impart that there is the mystery of the seed that is at work and what he saying is it the same way you can envision how the seed reproduces after itself in the natural you and your life and whatever is good in you is designed by God to reproduce after its own kind maladroit entities teaching generational blessing when it would be like to be accepted perfectly free to be yourself with no fear of ejection can affect people don't roll their eyes make fun of you and what he lacks.

No more anxious feeling.determining factor that you feel like a pressure is always on the matter really lacks what you're imagining and longing for your life with no shame in paradise before sin came into the world. The Bible tells us only one thing that needs relationship when making a family notion ever since the fall of the human heart has been riddled with shame surrounding size can tell you that you can't be truly acceptable. Shame condescending, so I'll try to be perfect in order to be accepted is to decide who listens on the measure at them as well. Right now the road ahead is poisoned by shame and there is only one the grace of God in Jesus Christ and his highly acclaimed book for yourself yourself. Pastor Ehrenreich not only exposes the lies of shame. He leads you into a revolution of God's love that heals your cell discover freedom, joy, and destiny as you shall perform its base living shame or fear for good life-changing full-length book from Alan Wright for yourself. The South gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries were in the final days of this special offer being made available to you. Call us at 877-544-4861 come to our website. Pastor our and got work. Alan God's love goes on and on in the series that brings on and on and on, is used a lot and it was given to you in the Scripture with the way in which thousand generations is interpreted right.

It is this really is a series Daniel that turns our attention away from something that I think is important and that is we need get healed from the traumas the past we need to break the curses and the that the problems that we've had in our in our ancestry and those sins is been handed down but if the sins and the consequences and pain of of of what is going wrong in our past comes down to third and fourth generation. The highlight of Scripture is that the blessing of God goes on and on. 2000 generations, which is like saying forever.

Forever. How do you go back and look at what good that God put in your parents graybeards great-grandparents and lay claim to that and I realize it a lot in my own life. I spent so much time getting healed from different things that come from being in a broken family and I've missed out. Maybe on claiming the blessings that are there generationally and so we gonna start out the first couple messages looking at that is very powerful stuff. Today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries