Deliverance Ministry - Fire and Ice Ministries River of Life Fellowship

THE DELIVERANCE MINISTRY
“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 on
the children to the third and fourth generation of those that hate
me.”
Many people are confused about iniquities, because they do not
know there is a difference between sin and iniquity. The Bible
speaks of them a number of times as two different things (see Ps.
32:5, ‘the iniquity of my sin’). Sin is basically the cause, and iniquity
includes the effect. Generational iniquity works like this: A parent
can commit a sin such as occult involvement or sexual sin­ that
produces a curse. The curse then causes a generational iniquity, or
weakness, to pass down in the family line.
Here is an illustration: A pregnant woman has an X­ray and as a
result of the radiation the unborn child becomes deformed. The
fetus, who did not order the X­ray, nonetheless, is affected by it and
becomes a victim. Sin, like the X­ray, damages the generations to
come. This is an awesome thought and should put the fear of the
Lord in us before we enter into sin.
To summarize: When we sin, if the sin is not repented of, any chil­
dren that we have after this sin will reap what we have sown
through what the Bible calls iniquity. This iniquity can come in the
form of a spiritual bondage, such as different forms of addictions, or
as a driving weakness for sexual sin or perversion. It might be that
all your children will be extremely accident­prone or live a life of
extreme poverty.
The good news is that Jesus paid the price not only for our sin but
also for the iniquities of our forefathers! Iniquities do not affect our
eternal salvation, but they do affect the quality of life we have on
this earth. Isaiah 53:1­13 explains that He (Jesus) bore not only our
sins, but our iniquities. He became a curse for us, so that we can
be free!
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become
a curse for us. For it is written, ‘Cursed is anyone who hangs on a
tree’ (Gal 3:13).”(1)
Rebecca Brown on generational iniquity and curses
“Let’s look at a modern­day example. In the country of Rwanda in
Africa, one tribe rose up against another and massacred thousands
and thousands of people. The people of the oppressed tribe fled to
camps in Zaire. There in the refugee camps thousands more died
of cholera. The rest of the world watched in horror and amazement
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