I. EXORDIUM:
Will you die of generational sickness?
No. GOD will pass thru me, generational blessings from Abraham.
Deuteronomy 8:18 (Amplified Bible)
But you shall [earnestly] remember the Lord your God, for it is He Who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Genesis 12:2-3 (Amplified Bible)
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others].
And I will bless those who bless you [who confer prosperity or happiness upon you] and curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed [and by you they will bless themselves].
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers/unbelievers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that GOD is magnified when His people prospers that's why He has broken the generational curses and replaced it with generational blessings.
Psalms 35:27 (Amplified Bible)
Let those who favor my righteous cause and have pleasure in my uprightness shout for joy and be glad and say continually, LET THE LORD BE MAGNIFIED, WHO TAKES PLEASURE IN THE PROSPERITY OF HIS SERVANT.
IV. TEXT:
Jeremiah 31:29 (Amplified Bible)
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You have blessed me and the posterity I have, and the descendants that will come after me. HALLELUJAH!!
VI. TITLE:
No generational curses
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Jeremiah - the weeping prophet or lamenting prophet
B. Date written: 627 - 580 B.C.
C. Purpose: To declare GOD's judgement upon His people, to call them to repentance and spiritual restoration
D. To whom written: Judah
E. Main Themes: backsliding, bondage, Jew's restoration
F. Keyword: heart
G. Key verses: Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 31:33
Jeremiah 2:19 (Amplified Bible)
2:19 Your own wickedness shall chasten and correct you, and your backslidings and desertion of faith shall reprove you. Know therefore and recognize that this is an evil and bitter thing: [first,] you have forsaken the Lord your God; [second,] you are indifferent to Me and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 31:33 (Amplified Bible)
31:33 But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, says the Lord, I will put My law within them, and on their hearts will I write it; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
Jeremiah 31:29 (Amplified Bible)
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
Jeremiah 31:29 (New King James Version)
In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'
A. The fathers have eaten sour grapes.
"In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes,"
Jeremiah 31:30 (Amplified Bible)
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity [only]; every man who eats sour grapes—his [own] teeth shall be set on edge.
Lamentations 5:7 (Amplified Bible)
Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.
Ezekiel 18:2-3 (Amplified Bible)
What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
As I live, says the Lord God, you shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
Ezekiel 33:2-9 (Amplified Bible)
Son of man, speak to your people [the Israelite captives in Babylon] and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land and the people of the land take a man from among them and make him their watchman,
If when he sees the sword coming upon the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people,
Then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning shall save his life.
But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, he is taken away in and for his perversity and iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at My mouth and give them warning from Me.
When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his perversity and iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
But if you warn the wicked to turn from his evil way and he does not turn from his evil way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.
ILLUSTRATION: When a person comes to the age of accountability, he is now accountable of his own life before GOD, he will give an account, but when someone does not approach that age, like for example, special people who does not know what's right from wrong, they are not accountable before GOD, but GOD already saved them, for they know not what they do.
Romans 14:12 (Amplified Bible)
And so each of us shall give an account of himself [give an answer in reference to judgment] to God.
One example is Ahaz who is the father of Hezekiah.
2 Kings 16:17-20 (Amplified Bible)
[To keep Assyria’s king from getting them] King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases [of the ten lavers] and removed the laver from each of them; and he took down the Sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it upon stone supports.
And the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the temple court, and the king’s outer entrance, he removed from the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria [who if he heard of them might seize them].
The rest of the acts of Ahaz, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried [with them] in the City of David. Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 18:1-3 (Amplified Bible)
IN THE third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
He was twenty-five years old when he began his twenty-nine-year reign in Jerusalem. His mother was Abi daughter of Zechariah.
Hezekiah did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his [forefather] had done.
We learned that the father of king Hezekiah did evil in GOD'S sight by fearing the king of Assyria instead of fearing GOD, so he does things in favor of the king of Assyria, but his son king Hezekiah did fear the LORD GOD of Israel.
B. The children's teeth are set on edge.
"and the children’s teeth are set on edge"
ILLUSTRATION: There are things done by the fathers before that affects the children. For example, husbands came to be with another woman, so the child was left illegitimate or the more obvious is that fathers don't want to marry their woman, instead they go on with live-in.
Example: What happened to my father because of his own sins will not happen to me. My grandpa and grandma died of certain diseases from the heart, lungs and some died due to diabetes, it will not happen to me. GOD will see to it that I will enjoy long life, healthy and strong body and I will even bear fruit in old age.
Genesis 6:3 (Amplified Bible)
Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not forever dwell and strive with man, for he also is flesh; but his days shall yet be 120 years.
Job 5:26 (Amplified Bible)
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, and as a shock of grain goes up [to the threshing floor] in its season.
Psalms 92:14 (Amplified Bible)
[Growing in grace] they shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap [of spiritual vitality] and [rich in the] verdure [of trust, love, and contentment].
IX. CONCLUSION:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You have blessed me and the posterity I have, and the descendants that will come after me. HALLELUJAH!!
