Released: For Fathers For Sons

Now, I want you to know when I prayed there was no great fiery bolt from out of heaven that came, but there was a quickening power of the Holy Spirit that went through him. A little later on we were talking together again and I asked him what happened to him. He said, “I don’t know, but I feel almost like a new man.”

So, I put my arm around him, looked out over the congregation and I said, “Folks, I want to explain something to you. On the basis of this scripture, the truth is that when he was an alcoholic at home, his sons hated his alcoholism. They hated what it did to them, hated what it did to their mother, hated what it did to everybody and as a consequence, because he had never asked them to forgive him, they were never able to release that out of their lives. Because they hated it, they bound it to themselves and became like the thing that they hated. You see, both hate and love are a binding emotion. They bind things to you. They bring those things to you. What happened to him was very simple. He had offended his sons. They hated the alcoholism because they never were asked to forgive him, it was never released out of their lives.”

You see, that’s the reason why sins are passed from generation to generation. It’s the reason why sins are not only passed from generation to generation, but they’re passed from fathers to sons. The reason sins pass down is not by some kind of genetic process, but by the binding of unforgiveness. Generational sins are very real. That’s the reason why you have some nationalities, some societies, you have some people who over the period of time have never had a Holy Ghost revival in their particular society and as a result of it, the degenerative process has brought them even down as low as cannibalistic levels. It’s the reason why in America, there has been a constant renewing by a spiritual revival that has been able to release or forgive the sins of a previous generation.

That’s the reason why I have tried to teach men just like you everywhere I go that one of the things that you have to understand, in order to be free from the sins of others, you have to forgive them and release them out of your life. Because whose soever sins you do not forgive, they are not released and you bear those sins and you bind them to yourself.

I was in Colorado Springs and one of the men that was there was so moved by the Spirit of God that after the meeting he said, “My whole life changed tonight.” I said, “What happened?” He said, “My life has been a hell. My life has been miserable. For the last six years, I’ve tried to serve God and I’ve been up and down, in and out, never been able to do it and just last week I told God that if I don’t get an answer and something change in my life, I’m going to give the whole thing up. Tonight when I heard the principle of release, I realized what the problem in my life was. You see, when my father and mother gave birth to me, I was an illegitimate child. I was a bastard and what happened to me was they didn’t want me and so they put me up for adoption and nobody would adopt me and I just grew up in homes. I grew up just wherever in foster homes. Because I was the son of my dad and my dad had the reputation he did in the town, everybody hated me and I had to fight my way through school. I never met my mother until I was 16 years of age. When I was 16, my best friend told me he was going with an older woman and in his words and this is the way he used, he used a little colloquialism, he said, my best friend told me she was the best he ever had and if I would meet her, maybe I could get some of the action. When he brought her around, it was my mother. I hated my mother for what she was. I never realized until tonight that my problem in my life and the reason why I’ve lived the way I have and haven’t been able to maintain that measure of spiritual victory in my life is because of the sins of my parents that were still in my life that I had never forgiven.”