"Behold, all things are become new".

(2Corinthians 5:17) “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

I remember as a newly saved believer I heard murmurs about bloodline curses and ancestral sin being echoed in the shadows, as reference is made to these judgements in the Old Testament within certain circumstances. "See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: (Deuteronomy 11:26)

Moses concludes his general exhortations to obedience; “He sums up all his arguments for obedience in two words, the blessing and the curse that is, the rewards and the punishments, as they stand in the promises and the threatening, which are the great sanctions of the law, the purpose behind this was to ignite both hope and fear in order for them to chose wisely, if not there would be consequences. So now in the fullness of time God sent His Son to do what the law could not do, that is save us from the wrath of God. The law, which is good and describes the attributes of God, was there to teach us that we needed a Saviour; “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”(Galatians 3:24)

Therefore without a Saviour we would all have to face the wrath of God and that meant without exception! Everybody ever born would have ended up in hell if God had not shown mercy by sending the Lord Jesus to live on this earth without every breaking one of God’s laws given to mankind through Moses and then paying the ultimate price by dying on a cruel Roman cross on the hill of Golgotha. God judged His Son because of our sin! Now because His wrath has been satisfied by His Son’s sacrifice, we (all who believe) can go free! "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” (John 3:16-17)

Now for some to suggest that after we have believed and been adopted into God’s family that we are still subjected to the sins or the fathers, is ludicrous! Let us reason as men and then we will look to prove the point by scripture. Let’s say we adopt an orphan into our family as he lost his mother and His father was executed for a murder he committed. Would we as his new parents now hold that to his charge! Would we say to him every time he was disobedient that we would punish him because of his father’s sin? Never, not if we understand the laws of adoption, the child now carries our surname, we are now his new parents and even if his parents were still alive they would have no claim to his life as he now belongs in our family. He would be entitled to every right and blessing of our other children. This is what the law teaches, how much more we are now entitled to with the only true and Holy God as our Father. He is far more just! This is exactly why the Apostle Paul teaches us; “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” If I was once subjected to the sins of my father, yet I have now found forgiveness and repented by believing on Him, by default that curse falls away, it must! There is a new beginning for every regenerated believer; this is what it means to be born again!

I have recently read how that by implication a believer must find keys to bind and lock the principalities of darkness from having access to us. Let me reiterate with a clear statement, Satan and His demonic forces are subject to God’s Sovereignty and that is without exception, he can do nothing without God’s permission. I am not for one minute excluding the “sins of the father”, but what I am saying is that after salvation they no longer have any bind on the believer, if they once did! If anyone suggest otherwise they do not understand the work of the cross and what He accomplished on our behalf. As the Lord Jesus hung on that cross, weak in the flesh as He battled to breathe having to push done on the nails through his feet in order to get the next breathe of air to fill his lungs, He said “IT IS FINISHED”. Our great Saviour overcame hell, death and the grave. Do you remember the man chained and demon possessed with many demons, known as Legion? He was in such a mess prior to his meeting with the great I AM, but after that encounter he was as gentle as a dove! “Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked. When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country. Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.” (Luke 8:33-35)

He now was a new creature in Christ, old things are passed away; behold, all things had become new for him. It is like that for all who have been touched by the hand of God, if not, then we need to examine our birth certificate and if we are convinced that it is in order and we still hold to the thought of curses having an effect on our lives then we need to change our diet and feed upon sound doctrine and the Apostles teachings. We need to eat from God’s word and not peoples opinions. Get away from that type of teaching and fast!

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:31-39)

That would include ancestral sin, bloodline curses and the like! Let no one teach you otherwise, they may mean well, I know not their hearts, but God knows! Let us never undermine the accomplishment of our great Saviour and what he achieved on the cross for all of us who now have been given sight to see and now confess him as Lord and believe in His resurrection.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2Corinthians 5:17)

“Some read it, Let him be a new creature. This ought to be the care of all who profess the Christian faith, that they be new creatures; not only that they have a new name, and wear a new livery, but that they have a new heart and new nature. And so great is the change the grace of God makes in the soul, that, as it follows, old things are passed away - old thoughts, old principles, and old practices, are passed away; and all these things must become new. Note, Regenerating grace creates a new world in the soul; all things are new. The renewed man acts from new principles, by new rules, with new ends, and in new company.” (Matthew Henry)

How then would He still leave us handicapped to do His will? He wouldn’t and he doesn’t! All things are new! We start with a clean slate and all because of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. What we must now do is put on the Armour of God, and having done all we must stand in Him. We have no armour for our backs, because He has our back! He is the Great Shepherd! Praise His name, all honour and glory belongs to Him.

Signing off

Tyrone