Disobedience to God. God isn’t out to “get us” or to
curse us. Those are not His plans for us. However, God gave each one of us free
will and He plainly gives us the choice to receive blessings (Deuteronomy 28:1-2 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently
obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments
which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all
nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake
you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God ”) or curses. Curses
are a consequence from breaking God’s
laws. Judgment is brought forth as His laws are broken or violated as outlined
in Genesis 3 after Adam/Eve ate the
fruit and in Deuteronomy 28:
Genesis
3:16-19 To the woman He said: “I will greatly
multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth
children…”Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your
wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall
not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you
shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it
shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the
sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, For out
of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”
Deuteronomy 28:15 “But it shall come
to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe
carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that
all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.”
Generational Curses. Many times other people bring
curses into our lives because of their sin which is passed down the generational
line. It starts when we open our lives
up to curses by giving place to them through our own sin, choices, and beliefs.
Curses get passed down the generational line directly through our DNA (Exodus 34:7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving
iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s
children to the third and the fourth generation,” - Deuteronomy 23:2
“One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of
the Lord; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall
enter the assembly of the Lord ).
Word Curses. Word curses are also a way that
others can affect us (James 3:10 Out of
the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought
not to be so). Examples of word curses are statements such as, “You’ll
never amount to anything”, and “You are a failure.” The Bible tells us that
there is the power of life and death in our tongue and our words. If a person
receives these word curses as truth, then the curses become real in their life.
Proverbs 18:2 (NLT) The tongue
can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.
Self-Curses. Even sadder than having our parents
or others curse us is cursing ourselves through our own words. Familiar
examples are: “I will probably ‘blow’ this job.” (expected failure), “I can’t
speak in front of people,” “Our family
will always be poor,” “I cannot do
anything right,” “nobody loves me” or even worse, “God doesn’t love me.” This is an open door for enemy to come in and
make your life miserable because we don’t believe what the Word of God says.
Summary - This is the essence of the Law of
Sowing and Reaping. The Bible clearly warns each of us that our actions have
consequences. Don’t be misled. Remember
that you can’t ignore God and get away with it. Eventually, you will always
reap what you sow! Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful desires will
harvest the consequences of decay and death. But those who live to please the Spirit
will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.” Galatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for
whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows
to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit
will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness - Romans 1:18 For the wrath of
God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,
who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
