If we would carry this same heart, we would not only see our lives healed, but the land transformed. If we would carry this same heart as Nehemiah, we would not only see our lives healed, but the land transformed.Instead of whining or complaining, he had a prayer fest with God addressing not only his own sin battles, but the ones he inherited that were still affecting the land. He watched what the sins of his family did to his nation and his own personal life. We can either ignore the issue, blame our families for our problems or we can take a stand for our generation and the generations to come. ![]() We love the idea of receiving an inheritance of blessing from God through our family history, but we despise the notion of receiving the iniquity of our family lines. Jesus could not be born with iniquity if He was to be the sinless Lamb who would take away the sins of the world another proof of the inherited work of iniquity. If He had been born through the natural seed of man, he would have been born with iniquity. If you notice, the sins traveled mainly through the fathers, because they represent the seed. In Exodus 20:5–6, He said, “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, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.” The word “visiting” shows us that the same temptations and struggles will approach the next generation to repeat it. Iniquity is what Jehovah spoke of to Israel in delivering the commandments of God. So did Abraham take his sons and grandsons to lying classes each week? Did he sign them up for “How to Lie About Your Wife and Lie to Your Family?” This was ingrained in their spiritual DNA. This was all done to steal his brother’s blessing. Isaac’s son Jacob also delivered a bold-faced lie to his aging father, by deceiving him into thinking Jacob was actually his brother Esau. Abraham’s son Isaac years later ended up doing the same thing in the same situation. This drove him to lie to King Abimelech, saying that Sarah was his sister, not his wife. Because of his battle with a spirit of fear, it gave way to a lying spirit. In the Scriptures, Abraham had a lying problem. Unbridled sexual lust increased exponentially in David’s son Solomon, who had 700 wives and 300 concubines! Clearly we see here how inherited sin has a compounding work. This lust was given more fuel through the rejection of his father. David realized that he had a generationally inherited lust issue that was passed down from his father. ![]() He not only addresses the fact that he was born with sin, he was also born with iniquity, inherited sin. Iniquity can be defined as the sins in our family line that have not been defeated. He said in Psalm 51:5, “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.” This is what David realized in Psalms when he came to repentance over the sin of adultery with Bathsheba. Because of inherited sin, not only are we born with a seed of sin, but we inherit the unconquered sins of the family. ![]() These inherited sins are the work of iniquity. These specific sin struggles are waiting for the opportunity to repeat in us what has already been in our biological past. Generational sin is not some generic sin floating in the sky. We are actually born with certain sin battles that have been undefeated in our family tree. Some of our sin issues come as a result of our own journey in coming into agreement with the enemy, yet most of our deepest struggles are inherited ones. Some of the biggest battles you face in your life have been in your family tree for hundreds it not thousands of years. We must understand that many sin battles in our lives we have inherited. There are very few in Christianity that disagree with the fact that we are born with what is referred to as a “sin nature.” Yet many fail to recognize this is not only just a generalized sin nature at work.
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