now what I’m going to do now is explain
to you the nature of curses and
blessings these are two major themes of
Scripture I think the word bless in
various forms occurs about 600 times in
the Bible and the word curse probably
nearly half that number of times but I
have learned by experience that most of
God’s people are not really familiar
with the nature of curses and blessings
I believe it’s the purpose of God that
through the redemption in Christ we
should be released from curses and enjoy
the blessings but wherever I travel I
find many of God’s people who are
enduring curses when they should be
enjoying blessings and one main reason
is that they don’t know how to recognize
what’s a curse and what’s a blessing
second reason is that even if they
recognize it they may not know how to be
released from the curse and entered into
the blessing so let me begin by offering
you a simple definition of blessings and
curses both of them are vehicles of
supernatural power it’s very important
to understand we’re not dealing with
something that’s purely natural it goes
beyond the natural they are vehicles of
supernatural power for good if their
blessings for evil if their curses and
one characteristic feature of them is
that very frequently they’ll continue on
from generation to generation often
until somebody knows how to cut them off
if their curses the result of that is
that many people and some of you are
here tonight are enduring in your life
consequences of things that may have
taken place many generations ago
and you have to trace your problem to
its source and take the appropriate
action in order to be released now the
vehicles of blessings and curses are
usually words they may be words that are
spoken words that are written or simply
words that are pronounced inwardly
however both curses and blessings can be
transferred or transmitted by objects by
physical objects so it is not always
just a question of words Ruth and I were
counted a Jewish lady who had meant the
Lord Jesus and acknowledged him as her
Messiah and her Savior and she told us
firsthand this story and we got it
straight from her she was a what they
call an executive secretary very highly
qualified and she had a very well-paid
job with a man who was the president of
his own firm and after a little while
she discovered that the president and
all the executives in the firm were in a
strange cult under a lady guru and then
the president asked her if he if she
would type out some blessings that this
guru lady had pronounced on the
executives well when this lady began to
type them she realized that there were
anything but blessings as far as
Christians were concerned and so she
went to her boss and said I’m sorry but
I don’t feel free to type these
blessings the boss was gracious he said
I’m sorry if I’d known it was against
your conscience I wouldn’t have asked
you to do it that was the end of them
now we have to supply something by
inference but I am sure that the lady
guru heard about this secretary that
wouldn’t type her blessings and who
knows what she did
she may have prayed or she may have
pronounced a curse but from that source
it
they wouldn’t make much difference which
it wants within a few weeks
this lady secretary I’ll call her Miriam
it wasn’t her name
Miriam’s fingers began to go stiff and
curl up and set and in a short while
they were extremely painful and she
couldn’t bend and she said you wouldn’t
believe the pain she had to sleep in a
separate bed from her husband because
any time my husband turned over and the
bed shook the pain was unendurable in
her fingers she went to a specialist who
x-rayed them and said it rheumatoid
arthritis and she was in a sense a
crippled person
well another lady a charismatic lady had
received these three cassettes of mine
and felt that this lady Miriam ought to
hear them
I don’t think Miriam was really very
excited about them she was a rather
sophisticated lady and I think thought
of curses was something remote medieval
in her eyes anyhow this other lady
prevailed so they sat and listened to
the three cassettes and at the end of
the third cassette I leave people in a
prayer by which they released themselves
from any curse over their lives at the
point where the prayer began the
cassette jammed it wouldn’t go forward
it wouldn’t go back and it wouldn’t each
act that is not purely natural so Miriam
said well and I can’t say the prayer but
this indefinite Abel lady said oh no I
have the prayer typed out and
I’ll bring that so she persuaded Miriam
I think rather against her own judgement
to read this prayer now you could read
the prayer I would say in three minutes
I wouldn’t take as much as there so
Miriam just dutifully read the prayer
and in between the time she began
reading the prayer and the time she
finished her fingers and her hands were
totally released there was no trace
about the writers she went back to the
doctor he confirmed medically the
healing now what I want to emphasize is
this she was not praying for healing it
wasn’t in her mind she was simply
releasing herself from a curse but when
the curse was broken there was no more
reason for sickness you see another
example of the invisible barrier all
right now I want to deal out of
Scripture with the forms that blessings
and curses take there is one particular
chapter in the Old Testament which deals
exclusively with blessings and curses
how many of you know which it is
Deuteronomy chapter 28 alright it’s got
14 verses of blessings and 54 verses of
curses now we can’t go into that because
of time but I suggest if you’re
concerned that at your own convenience
you study that chapter carefully I’ve
studied it many times and I’m going to
offer you my summation but please
exercise your own judgment as to whether
you think this is accurate or not here
is my summation of the main blessings
and the main curses as a matter of fact
really they’re exactly opposite to one
another so here are seven blessings
number one exaltation means being lifted
up you’re no longer living under things
number two a word I had to coin
reproductive nurse I couldn’t find one
normal English word but
person whose the blessing of God is is
fruitful in every area of his life or
her life
number three health number four
prosperity or success number five
victory number six Moses said you’ll be
the head and not the tail and number
seven you’ll be a bum and not beneath
now when I was studying that some years
ago I asked the Lord what’s the
difference between the head and the tail
and I feel he gave me a simple answer
the head makes the decisions the tail
just gets dragged around so which way
are you living are you making the
decisions are you in charge of the
situation
or are you simply being dragged around
like a tail by circumstances and forces
that you don’t understand and you can’t
control if you’re a tail it’s very
possible you’re under a curse now I’m
not saying every one of those blessings
is due to this cause but that’s for you
to discern there’s only one expert in
this field and his name is not Derek
Prince it’s the Holy Spirit he’s the one
who has to show you personally I can
preach the general truth but you have to
get the specific application from the
Holy Spirit then let’s look at the
curses and they’re just exactly the
opposite humiliation
failure to reproduce or Berenice and I
would say basically Berenice is nearly
always in some way associated with the
curse number three sickness of every
kind and if you read Deuteronomy 28 I
mean there is no sickness that is left
out but the time you’ve come to that
list number four poverty of failure
number five defeat and number six you’re
the tail are not the head and number
seven you’re beneath not about you prob
heard about the two Christians you met
one of them said well how are you doing
brother and he replied well under the
circumstances I’m not doing badly and
the first Christian said well what are
you doing under the circumstances you
should be an above and not beneath now
over the years independently of this
list I made a little list of indications
that to me alerted me that I was
probably dealing with a curse I only say
probably and this is I made this
independently of Deuteronomy 28 but it’s
amazing really how close it is and I
happen to have a list of seven now I
want to be very clear I’m not saying if
you have one of these it’s absolutely
sure you’re under a curse you need to
examine the possibility and seek God but
if you have several of them the more you
have the greater the possibility that
you’re under a curse and here’s my
little list number one mental and/or
emotional breakdown where people fall
apart that’s a phrase that’s used today
you say he or she just fell apart that’s
what I’m talking about emotionally or
mentally or both number two repeated or
chronic sicknesses especially if they’re
hereditary because you see curses passed
from generation to generation also in
situations where doctors cannot find any
normal cause number three want to call
female problems Baroness
a tendency to miscarry and problems with
menstruation and Ruth and I’m dealt with
so many cases like this that wherever a
person comes for prayer in that category
we just simply act on the basis that
it’s a curse in fact we have come to the
place where we really feel often we’re
wasting our time
minister to the sick without first
teaching them how to be delivered from
the curse I once we once called for a
lineup of people with female problems
and in the middle of the line was a man
so when he came up I said what’s your
problem how can you have a female police
ed my problem is depression and that’s
fever however I don’t accept his
statement the next one a breakdown of
marriage and family alienation where
families fall apart
where marriages break up where children
are alienated from their parents
brothers from sisters very very probably
a curse at work the next one
financial insufficiency and I want to be
careful how I say this I don’t think
that poverty for a short period it may
be a test that God is putting us through
but if you’re always short if you never
have enough if you’re always scraping I
think you very probably under a curse
then the next one is what they call
accident-prone in other words you’re one
of the people who always has an accident
you know now this is this is kind of
objective because insurance companies
will check on you and they’ll give you a
higher premium if they classify you as
accident-prone I mean that’s not natural
to be the person who always breaks your
ankle when you step off the curb or your
wife always slams the door the car door
on your finger or whatever it may be or
it’s always your eye that a little bug
flies into I mean that’s it’s not
natural if it’s always going on and then
finally in our family
a history of suicides or unnatural
deaths if there is a frequency of those
things in a family you could say a curse
is like a long evil arm from the past
and you don’t know how far back and it’s
stretched out and every time you’re just
about to succeed or get to where you
want to be this evil arm trips you up
and you have to get up and start again
and you get so far you’re tripped up
again and that really becomes the story
of your life and you’d be surprised how
many people have told me stories like
that and so many times they said well
the same thing happened to my father or
my grandfather in other words it seems
to run in our family or another simple
picture is a dark shadow from the past
over your life shutting out the sunlight
of God’s blessing and you can see other
people walking in the sunlight and you
know it’s there and real but somehow the
Sun very seldom seems to shine fully on
you let’s go to Deuteronomy 28 for what
I would call the primary causes both of
blessings and curses and fortunately
they’re very simple the first two verses
of Deuteronomy 28 says this 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 at
the earth and all these blessings shall
come upon you and overtake you because
you obey the voice of the Lord your God
now that’s a translation which I think
is followed by most modern translations
but the old King James used to say if
you will listen diligently to the voice
of the Lord your God and in Hebrew that
phrase is formed by repeating the word
listen if you will listen listening
that’s emphatic to the voice of the Lord
your God and do what he says so very
very simply
the primary cause of all blessings is
listening to God’s voice and doing what
he says now the primary cause of all
curses is exactly the opposite in verse
15 of the same chapter 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 come on you today that all these
curses will come upon you and overtake
you so what’s the cause of curses not
listening to God’s voice not doing what
he says so they’re basically you have
the two route problem or the two root
causes the cause of blessing listening
to God’s voice doing what he says the
cause of curse is not listening to God’s
voice not doing what he says so we’re
going to deal first of all now with
curses that proceeded from God himself
and there is one supreme cause which is
stated in Exodus chapter 20 verses three
through five Exodus 20 verses 3 to 5
this is the first part of the Ten
Commandments and let me say before we
read the greatest and most common cause
of curses in people’s lives is breaking
the first two Commandments in fact I’m
inclined to believe you cannot break
those Commandments without coming under
a curse now let me read those words you
shall have no other gods before me but
the Hebrew means just as much beside me
it’s not a question of having the Lord
as the main god on other gods as well
because he says I am the Lord and beside
me there is no other God so you must not
acknowledge any other God except the
true God and the second is what we would
call idolatry you shall not make for
yourself any carved image or any
likeness of anything that
isn’t having a bomb or that is in the
earth beneath or that is the water under
the earth 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 father’s on the children to the
third and fourth generation of those who
ate me notice that’s a specific feature
of the curse it goes on for at least
three and probably four generations but
whenever you go to a source other than
the true God for things which you are
free only to seek from the true god
whatever source you go to you are
actually making your God so if you go to
a fortune-teller for information about
the future which God has said you shall
not receive through that channel through
that fortune-teller you’re making the
power behind that fortune-teller you’re
gone if you play with the Ouija board if
you get involved in all sorts of occult
experiences or counts that deny the
truth of the Bible in all those things
you are making a God who is not the true
God so it’s very important to say this
the curse is pronounced for the breaking
of the first two Commandments cover
every form of account now in Deuteronomy
22 27 verses 15 through 26 we have 12
curses pronounced and when Israel went
into the promised land they had to
pronounce all these curses upon
themselves if they disobeyed the law
they automatically came under these
curses they couldn’t get into the
promised land without and I think it’s
very much the same in a way when we come
into a relationship with God if we’re
obedient we come under the blessings but
if we’re disobedient we’re in real
danger of coming under the curses now
I’ll just give you my little summation
of the things on which the curses are
pronounced in Deuteronomy 27 verses 15
and following
number one once again idolatry false
gods that’s always the top of the list
number two disrespect for parents and
this is repeated in the New Testament
Ephesians six honor your father and
mother which is the first commandment
with promise that it may be well with
you and you may live long on the earth
my personal conviction is any person who
does not honor his parents never will
have it well with them never and I can
think of scores of examples of people
that doesn’t mean you can’t get saved
and speak in tongues and go to heaven
when you die but there will be something
missing in the quality of your life
until you adjust your relationship with
your parents that doesn’t mean you have
to agree with their parents or do
everything that they say but you have to
respect I think of another young man I
don’t with he had a very bad
relationship with his father his father
was dead buried in a cemetery more than
a thousand miles from where we were but
when this truth really penetrated he
took a journey of a thousand miles to
the cemetery where his father was buried
went to the grave know that it confessed
his wrong attitudes to his father
wept his heart out and gone up a
different person and from then the
course of his life changed now I know
that there are lots of parents
especially today you have a lot of
reasons for having something against
them I understand them
I say there are no delinquent children
there only delinquent parents but
nevertheless if you want to have it well
with you you better do what God says you
can’t afford not to
then the next and we must go quickly in
this list is treachery against a
neighbor and the book of Proverbs says
whoever rewards evil for good evil will
never depart from his house and then
injustice to the week or the helpless
personally I can’t think of anything
more weak or helpless than a baby in its
mother’s womb and personally my
conviction is anybody who deliberately
procures an abortion comes under a curse
I would never minister to such a person
without dealing with the curse I want
you to understand I’m not saying you’re
cursed forever please understand I’m
telling you the problem because I’m
going to show you the solution and then
illicit or unnatural sex especially
incest and again I don’t know what the
particular figures are here but in the
United States it’s now estimated that
one out of every four girls under 10 has
been sexually molested and one out of
every five boys under ten and I cannot
think myself that it will ever happen
without a curse following then in
Genesis when I’m going on from this list
Genesis chapter 12 we have God’s call to
Abraham and we need to look at that
because it has something significant in
it
God’s calls Abraham out promises
there’s things and in verse three this
is the end of the call he says to
Abraham I will bless those who bless you
and I will curse him who curses you so
there’s both a blessing and a curse I
believe that was necessary because
whenever God singles out a man to be
blessed that man becomes the object of
all sorts of evil satanic forces so God
incorporated a protection he said to
Abram anyone who curses you I will curse
and what is the generic name for cursing
or speaking against or abusing the
Jewish people anti-semitism now in my
personal opinion anti-semitism almost
invariably is followed by a curse for an
individual for a nation and she look at
the history at the last 19th centuries
you can see nation of the nation of the
nation that came under a curse because
they cursed the Jewish people then
there’s another very important curse
pronounced in the Prophet Jeremiah which
is just a few short words and I think
often we pass them over without really
appreciating their significance Jeremiah
17 verses 5 & 6 thus says the Lord curse
it is the man who trusts in man and
makes flesh his strength whose heart
departs from the law for he should be
like a shrub in the desert she’ll not
see when good comes but shall inhabit
the parts places in the wilderness in a
salt land which is not inhabited notice
please that that’s a very good
description of somebody under a curse
blessings are all around but he lives in
a salt land rain falls everywhere else
but it doesn’t fall on him what’s the
cause of that curse trusting in man
making flesh your arm but the scripture
says whose heart departs from the Lord
in other words here is a man who’s known
the supernatural grace and blessing of
God
and then turn back to relying on his own
efforts turned his back on God’s grace
and that brings a curse in Zechariah
five verses one through four Zechariah
had a vision of a flying scroll and
there was a curse on each side of the
scroll one I was on the curse on anyone
who steals and the other was on anyone
who commits perjury and in the vision
this scroll would go into a person’s
house take up lodging there and the
whole house would disintegrate see
that’s the nature of a curse it doesn’t
just affect the particular area but it
has a kind of corrosive effect all
around it and then in Malachi 3 I think
we have to look at this Malachi 3 verses
8 through 10 will a man Rob gone did you
have robbed me but you say in what way
have we robbed you in tithes and
offerings you are cursed with a curse
for you have robbed me even this whole
nation bring all the tithes into the
storehouse that there may be food in my
house and prove me now in this is the
Lord of Hosts if I will not open for you
the windows of heaven and pour you out
such a blessing that they will not be
room enough to receive it now I’m not
teaching that all Christians ought to
pay tithes because as I understand the
New Testament it’s not law it’s grace
but I would suggest you that grace
should make us more generous than law
it’s we’re told we have a better
covenant established on better promises
do you think on that basis we could
offer less than the Israelites but I’ll
say this one thing sting genus toward
God brings a curse it is very poor
economy to be stingy with God and I tell
Christians everywhere when the offering
comes around God does not need your tips
another specific source of curses is men
who speak on behalf of God as God’s
mouthpiece and there are many examples
of this in the Bible we only look at
just a few the first is found in Joshua
chapter 6 and verse 26 after Israel had
captured and destroyed Jericho Joshua
the leader of God’s people and God’s
mouthpiece pronounced a curse on anybody
who would subsequently rebuild a city on
that site in Joshua 626 then got Joshua
charged them at that time saying curse
it be the man before the Lord who rises
up and builds this city Jericho he shall
lay its foundation with his firstborn
and with his youngest he shall set up
its gates that’s a very specific curse
not a general curse but the form that
the curse would take would be that the
person who rebuilt Jericho it would cost
him the lives of two hit two of his sons
now I’m sure most of the Israelites
forgot that curse it just receded into
history but about five hundred years
later in the reign of Ahab king of
Israel a man did just that thing on
which Joshua had pronounced a curse and
this is recorded in first Kings chapter
16
in the reign of Ahab first kings 16 and
the last verse of the chapter verse 34
in his days that’s the days of a ham
heel of Bethel built Jericho he laid its
foundation with a beer on his firstborn
and with his youngest son C goob he set
up its gates according to the word of
the Lord which he had spoken through
Joshua the son of nun the marginal
translations says at the cost of the
life of his son and most modern
translations follow that so the man who
went against the curse pronounced by
Joshua five hundred years earlier it
cost him the lives of two of his sons
now I want to go on to other sources of
curses and the next one is very
important and very little understood by
contemporary Christians
I call it persons with relational
authority that is persons who have
authority because of a relationship now
Authority is a very unpopular concept in
many persons places at parts of the
world today but the fact remains it’s
still real authority is not created by
man it proceeds from God and there are
many different relationships in which a
person has Authority now you may not may
or may not like it but a husband has
authority over his wife in certain
contexts parents have authority over
their children teachers have authority
over their pupils pastors have authority
over their congregations just to take a
few examples now because of the
authority relationship words spoken by
those persons to those under their
authority have special supernatural
power whether they’re blessings or
whether they’re curses and if you look
at the Bible you’ll find that 2nd to the
blessing of God the most important
blessing that any person could ever have
in his life was the blessing of his
father or her father that’s still true
today I say to any of you whose fathers
are alive do everything in your can in
your power everything you can to obtain
the blessing of your father and your
mother but primarily your father it
makes a lot of difference when I was
saved I’m afraid I had a bad attitude
toward my parents I thought they’re not
saved
I’m saved they don’t understand I do
understand I praise God he rebuked me
for it and he showed me that I could not
expect his blessing if I didn’t honor my
parents and before they died I had shown
them the honor that was appropriate I
don’t believe otherwise I could have
ever enjoyed the blessing of God in my
life and ministry now let’s consider a
few other possible examples and most of
these are constructed out of situations
that I have actually dealt with but I’ve
kind of changed a little so that I don’t
expose the identity of people let’s take
a father this is perhaps the Communists
of all a father has three sons the first
is the firstborn because he’s always
welcome the third the youngest is
brilliant but the middle one is now the
firstborn though brilliant and he has a
lot of the same characters
characteristics that his father has have
you ever noticed when people are bad and
they’re bad in the way that we’re bad we
like to take it out on them rather than
ourselves have you ever noticed that
parents if you pick on one of your
children it’s probably the one that’s
most like you if you knew it what you’re
objecting to is what’s in you that you
don’t like anyhow so the house the
father says to this second time you’ll
never succeed you’ll always be a failure
you’ll never make it
what’s that it’s occurs and I’m dealt
with many men in their 40s and 50s who
were still struggling against words
spoken by our Father before they were
teenagers
or let’s say the father has a daughter
15 like some young ladies of 15 she has
acne and the father has to drive at a
school every day and every day
she’s they up there in the bedroom
putting things on her pimples and so
she’s late and so the father gets
exasperated and one day he says you’ll
never get rid of those pimples you’ll
have pimples to the rest of your life 15
years later she’s a married woman with
children tomorrow and she is still
struggling with her acne why because of
a curse let’s take about teachers the
teacher has a pupil who can’t spell
maybe he’s got what they call dyslexia
you know you put the letters of the
wrong way around you’re silly
you’re stupid you just don’t try hard
you’ll never succeed there are no
teachers shouldn’t talk like that but
sometimes they do what’s the result our
child a boy or a girl
that never can make it in life Ruth and
I have a friend a teacher said to her
when she was a teenager you’re shallow
she’s now I think in her sixties or at
least in her late 50s and we discovered
that she all her life she’s been
struggling against that statement you’re
Shanna and the strange thing about it is
if anybody doesn’t deserve that
statement it’s that lady she is far from
shallow to see there’s authority behind
those statements and that makes them
powerful usually speaking there’s a
demonic element just show you one thing
in James chapter 3 which is very
important James 3
verses 14 and 15 but if you are bitter
envying and self-seeking in your hearts
do not boast and lie against the truth
this wisdom does not descend from above
but is earthly soulish demonic in other
words if your attitudes are wrong and
your reactions are wrong and you speak
what’s going to come out we’ll have a
demonic element in it then we come to
another tremendously important area
perhaps the most common of all what I
call self-imposed curses people
pronounce curses on themselves in
Genesis chapter 27 we had the story of
how Isaac was going to bless Esau and
the mother Rebecca who’s the first
addition mama if you know what a Yiddish
a mama is switched them and she got
Jacob acting like Esau and claiming the
blessing Jacob wasn’t reluctant but he
was afraid and he said this in verse 11
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother looked
Esau my brother as a hairy man and I am
a smooth skinned man perhaps my father
will feel me and I shall seem to be a
deceiver to him and I shall bring a
curse on myself and not a blessing but
his mother said to him let your curse be
on me my son she took on herself the
curse that would have been due to Jacob
their self-imposed curse now if you go
to the end of the chapter just the last
verse you find Rebekah beginning to use
very negative language about herself
Rebekah said to Isaac in verse 46 I am
weary of my life because of the
daughters of health if Jacob takes a
wife of the daughters of health like
those who were daughters of the land
want good way
my life B to me I’m tired of living
what’s the good of living that’s a
typical statement by somebody who’s
under a curse C never permit yourself to
say that don’t make negative statements
about yourself don’t say I’ll never be
able to do this
I never succeed I’m no use I’m a failure
I just can’t take it anymore
and then you go on and say I wish I were
dead I’d be better off day do you know
what you’re doing you’re inviting the
spirit of death and he doesn’t take many
invitations ruther not dealt with
countless people who needed to be
delivered from the spirit of death
because they’d invited it that imposed a
curse upon themselves and we’ve learned
one beautiful verse that will help that
has helped hundreds of people and I’ll
share it with you
psalm 118 verse 17 I shall not die but
live and declare or proclaim the works
of the Lord if you have made a negative
remark about yourself if you’ve imposed
something negative on yourself you need
to revoke it by the positive you see as
a remarkable example you know that Peter
denied three times he knew the Lord
later on after the resurrection beside
the Sea of Galilee Jesus had a personal
talk with Peter and three times he said
do you love me he made Peter affirmed
three times that he loved and wanted he
do that because Peter had to revoke the
negative statements he’d made before the
crucifixion see so if we’ve said
something negative and brought some dark
shadow over us we need to revoke the
negative and replace it by the positive
and this verse is a perfect one I shall
not die doesn’t mean you’ll never die
but it means Satan’s not going to kill
you before your time I shall not die but
live and declare the works of the Lord
then the next common cause of curses is
what I call unscriptural covenants
Exodus 23 verse 32 in relationship to
the people whom Israel was to dis
possess from the land of Canaan that is
all of them idol worshippers people who
lived in total rebellion against the
Living God Moses in Exodus 23 32 you
shall make no covenant with them nor
with their gods you understand if people
have false gods and you make a covenant
with those people you are also making a
covenant with their God now I’m going to
say something that I trust will not
offend anybody and I say it simply
because my desires to help people one
extremely common example of that in our
contemporary culture in the Western
world is Freemasonry because a person
who becomes a Mason makes a covenant
with those who are Masons freemasons
will tell you that it’s secret but it’s
not in the 1950s a book was published in
Britain by an Anglican clergyman named
Hannah called darkness visible which
sets out all the main rites and
ceremonies of Freemasonry and no mason
has ever challenged that book in more
than 30 years when you become a Mason
you have to pronounce a curse on
yourself if you disclose the secrets of
the Masons and includes things like
having your tongue cut out your right
arm cut off and thrown over your left
shoulder and your body being exposed in
a tight place where the tides rise and
fall twice in every 24 hours
those are self-imposed curses and that
Freemasonry is an idle religion is clear
in the 32nd degree the Royal Arch degree
which acknowledges and offers worship to
a person called Jah bull on J a bul om
which is a combination of Jehovah bale
and Osiris and so the true God of the
Bible is joined together with two idol
deities whom God has totally condemned
and when you make a covenant with that
you’re making a covenant with those guns
there are the ways that this kind of
curse can come in tribal societies very
commonly a baby or a young person is
initiated into the tribe by certain
rights very often there are cuts made on
the skin or powder inserted under the
skin and that exposes that person to the
curse that’s on the idolatry that’s the
the focus of that tribe and then there
are curses pronounced by servants of
Satan in an African Christian Church two
elders fell out with one another and
this may seem strange to you but it’s
quite common in Africa the one elder
went to the witch doctor to get him to
put a curse on the other elder okay and
when he did there the witch doctor was
very happy to oblige because it was a
Christian see and this is what he did he
went out somewhere into the bush got
some soil of a certain kind brought it
back smeared it over a hand mirror and
then he said to the elder now wipe the
soil away and tell me what you see
and he looked in the mirror and saw the
man the face of the man on whom he
wanted to curse in the mirror now the
witch doctor said take a knife and cut
it through the mirror and he did and
when he did that blood appeared on the
mirror
and when the elder returned he
discovered the other elder was dead what
would you call that see you couldn’t
call it murder can you understand why
the Bible prohibits witchcraft jesus
said behold I give to you
authority over all the power of the
enemy he didn’t say the enemy doesn’t
have power he said I’ll give you
authority over that power that’s the
realistic approach yeah I’m not just one
interesting example because this is
something that’s unfamiliar to many
Westerners in the conflict between David
and Goliath when David went out with his
sling and no armor Goliath was angry and
insulted and this is what happened first
Samuel 17 43 so David so the Philistine
said to David I’m our dog that you come
to me with sticks and the Philistine
cursed David by his gods do you
understand before they’ve joined in
battle he invoked his idol gods and
David replied I’m not coming to you in
my own name but in the name of the Lord
of hosts the God of Israel see it was a
fight between gods and you know who was
victorious but I just want to point out
to you that Satan’s servants have power
to curse again I could illustrate it
from examples of people that we
personally have helped one final way in
which a curse can come stated in
Deuteronomy 7 and verse 26
the previous verse says about the
inhabitants of Canaan you shall burn
their car the carved images of their
gods you shall not covet the silver or
gold that is on it and then it says
verse 26 nor shall you bring an
abomination into your house lest you be
doomed to destruction like it but you
shall utterly detest it in utterly a
poet for it is an accursed thing so when
you bring anything that’s associated
with idolatry or the account into your
house you’re opening the way for a curse
to come into your home again this is
something we deal with frequently I tell
people and after such a services this if
you believe you’ve needed deliverance
from because you better go home and
check what you’ve got in your home check
if there’s anything there that
advertises any other God but the Lord
Jesus Christ
my personal principle is I don’t want
anything in my home that dishonours
Jesus Christ because let me give one
quick example we often have cases where
parents tell us that the children don’t
sleep well at night they’re Restless
they cry they’re frightened now one
common reason for that is that somewhere
in that house is something which gets
Satan right of access you need to go
through your house from top to bottom
clean out anything that’s associated
with the occult
any kind of superstitious thing if you
have horse horse shoes to ward off your
luck that’s superstition
it doesn’t ward off your luck it opens
the door for Satan all right now we come
to the really important plan X which is
how to be released from incurs and I
want to give you some simple
instructions when you’ve met the
conditions all right
but resisting is sometimes an ongoing
process it’s like if there’s a strong
wind blowing you have to keep the door
shut see if you open the door the wind
will come in
then I say establish a clear scriptural
basis for your release the best one is
Galatians 3 13 and 14 Christ has
redeemed us from the curse having become
a curse for us that we might receive the
blessing of Abraham give you a few other
scriptures Ephesians 1:7 in him Jesus we
have redemption through his blood
Colossians 1 12 through 14 the father
has qualified us to be partakers of the
inheritance of the Saints in light he
has delivered us from the domain of
darkness and translated us into the
kingdom of the son of his love in whom
we have redemption through his blood so
through the work of Jesus on the cross
we can be delivered from the domain of
darkness that Satan’s domain and
translated carried over into the kingdom
of Jesus Christ it’s like there are two
territories and there’s a chasm between
them this territory is the territory of
Satan this territory is the kingdom of
God
but there’s only one bridge across that
chasm and that’s the cross of Jesus if
you take that bridge you can get out of
this Kingdom and into that Kingdom which
is where God wants you then
1st John 3 verse 8 the second part for
this purpose the Son of God was revealed
that he might what destroy the works of
the devil to do what destroy the works
of that that’s why he came and then Luke
10:19 which I quoted earlier Jesus says
behold I give to you
authority over all the power of the
enemy so those are very clear scriptural
basis then when you’ve established that
basis confess your faith in Christ
because Jesus is the high priest of our
confession it’s on the basis of your
confession what you say about him that
he acts as your high priest thirdly
commit yourself to a
you remember how do we qualify for the
blessings what do we have to do hear
God’s voice and do what he says so when
you’ve received your release make up
your mind commit yourself from now on
I’m going to listen to what God says and
do it the next step is confess any known
sins either by yourself or your
ancestors because it’s sins of your
ancestors can in some ways affect you
but there’s a difference you are not
guilty for your ancestors sins but you
are affected by them you understand you
are responsible for your own sins but in
order to be fully clear if you are know
that your ancestors were idol worshipers
so Christian Scientists saw Mormons or
let’s not go too long into this but
something that’s totally unscriptural be
released from it then you need to
forgive all other persons jesus said
when you stand praying if you have
anything against anyone what did he say
to do forgive that’s right
anything against anyone that leaves out
nothing and no one
unforgiveness in your heart is a barrier
to the answer to your prayers
now forgiveness forgiving is not an
emotion it’s a decision I tell people
it’s tearing up the IOU
then you must renounce all contact with
the occult okay by yourself or by your
ancestors again you’re not responsible
you’re not guilty for what your
ancestors don’t but it affects you then
you must get rid of all contact objects
the things I’ve been speaking about if
you bring them into your house you bring
a curse with them then when you’ve met
those conditions you can release
yourself in the name of Jesus jesus said
whatever you bind on earth will be bound
in heaven and whatever you release on
earth will be
released in heaven now we’re going to do
that in a moment but I want to show you
where to go from there when you’ve been
released then you have to confess and
expect the blessing of Abraham because
we’re released from the curse that we
may receive the blessing of Abraham and
so Ruth and I are going to make our one
of our communist confessions as a
pattern to you through the sacrifice of
Jesus on the cross we have passed out
from under the curse and entered into
the blessing of Abraham who God blessed
in all things how many things oh do you
want that blessing God has provided it
for you we’ll probably do that again
thank you sweetheart
remember that it’s the blessing of the
Holy Spirit in other words it’s the Holy
Spirit who administers the blessing
that’s important you’ve got to be
friends with the Holy Spirit
see if you grieve the Holy Spirit if you
don’t honor the Holy Spirit he withholds
the blessing he’s got the key to God
stores
if you want the treasures make friends
with the keeper of the storehouse and
then as I’ve said already bear in mind
that it’s in all things you won’t get it
all in one night but you’ve qualified it
for for it in one night you understand
if I can put it like this some of you
are going the wrong direction tonight
you can make a u-turn and start going
the right direction but that doesn’t
mean you’ve arrived you’re on the way
you have to keep that direction
you have to keep hearing and doing what
God says if you want to continue in the
blessing of Abraham and you have to keep
making the right confession I think I
won’t make it let you say it now I’ll
wait now if there are those of you here
this evening who feel that in some way
there’s the shadow of a curse over your
life and you want to be released
I want to lead you in a prayer of
release you remember the story that I
told you of Miriam who do read the
prayer and was completely healed now I’m
not promising you healing that’s in
God’s hands but if your sickness is
directly due to a curse if you’re
released from the curse you qualify for
healing from your sickness so those of
you that would like me to lead you you
just have a few moments left I’d like
you to stand to your feet and then I’m
going to lead you in a prayer first of
all we’ve established a clear scriptural
base okay I gave you the descriptions
now you need to confess your faith in
Christ commit yourself to obedience
confess any known sins of yourself or
your ancestors and when we do that I’ll
give you a few moments to confess them
silently then forgive all other persons
and I’ll give you a few moments to do a
little forgiving and then renounce all
contact with the account by yourself or
your ancestors commit yourself to get
rid of all contact objects and then
release yourself in the name of Jesus
all right now I’m just going to give you
the words you’re not praying to me
you’re praying to the Lord Jesus Christ
and he’s the one that answers not I I
don’t have the power he does all right
say these words after me Lord Jesus
Christ I believe that you are the son of
God
and the only way to God
that you died on the cross for my sins
and rose again from the day that on the
cross you are made a curse with every
curse that is due to me that I might be
redeemed from the curse and enter into
the blessing lord I confess any sins
committed by me or by my ancestors I ask
your forgiveness I also forgive every
other person who ever harmed me or
wronged me
I forgive them as I’ve had have gone
forgive me I also forgive myself I
renounce all contact with the account in
any form and I commit myself to get rid
of any contact objects and now Lord
having received by faith your
forgiveness with your 30 I have the
child of God I now release myself and
those under my authority
from any curse over our lives right now
in the name of Jesus I declare release I
claim it and I receive it by faith in
the name of Jesus now I’ll begin to
thank him that’s the surest expression
of thing thank you lord thank you lord
thank you Jesus thank you Lord Jesus
thank you thank you thank you