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Free Indeed PROGRAM 1. Define the problem 2. Look at two causes: A. Ungodly Soul Ties. -Prayer time B. Generational Iniquity. -Prayer time 2

Free Indeed 1. The Problem: Sin… 3

Free Indeed Mistake 1: We believe that strong willpower, determination and self effort is all that is required to overcome sin, and walk in victory. Self Effort is not, nor was it ever meant to be, the primary means by which we overcome sin and walk in victory. 4

Free Indeed Mistake 1: We believe that strong willpower, determination and self effort is all that is required to overcome sin, and walk in victory. Mistake 2: Because of the on-going battle with sin, we mistakenly call abstinence victory. Mistake 3: Those not sinning because they are trying desperately hard, and those not sinning because there is no battle, both look the same to an outsider. This fosters a false understanding of Spiritual and Christian maturity. 5

Free Indeed Maintenance Free Victory Labour Intensive Victory 6

Free Indeed Maintenance Free Victory Labour Intensive Victory 7

Free Indeed Mistake 3: Those not sinning because they are trying desperately hard, and those not sinning because there is no battle, both look the same to an outsider. This fosters a false understanding of Spiritual and Christian maturity. Maintenance Free Victory Labour Intensive Victory 8

Free Indeed 2. The Cause: • Ungodly “soul ties”; • Generational sin / Iniquity; • Personal sin, particularly unforgiveness; • Curses; • Ungodly vows; • Bitter Root Judgments; • Physical acts carried out on or against yourself, or in your presence (or more correctly, your response to them); • Abandonment; • Shame; • Rejection; • Cultural bondages • Demons. 9

Free Indeed Mind Will Emotions Spirit Body Soul The parts of man 10

Free Indeed Note: This does not make us Counselors… 11

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties God’s Intention: That their be ties between… • Christians and: • God • Jesus • Holy Spirit (John 17) • one another in the Body of Christ • husband wife (Matt 19: 5 -6) • friends • parents to children. (John 17) 12

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties Anything God has created, Satan attempts to distort and warp. Interestingly, “evil” does not exist of itself, but is merely a distortion and warping of good. 13

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties Effects of Soul Ties: • Obsessive thoughts / preoccupations about another. You may be unable to put a past relationship behind you; • Inability to commit in a new relationship; • When a past partner / authority figure still has the power to turn you to jelly (through fear or love/lust), even after a long time; • You have excessive fear at the mention of someone’s name; • You have a tendency to be passive and apathetic in a relationship; 14

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties Effects of Soul Ties: • You were involved in a cult and have trouble feeling free; • You continually have another person’s voice playing over and over in your mind; • There are patterns of anger, blame and accusation in a relationship; • You are STILL desperately attempting to please your parents, even though you are an adult. 15

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties To the Soul Ties Diagram… 16

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties Un-godly Soul Ties to…. . 1. People 2. Things 3. Places 4. Through… 17

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties 5. Sexual 7 Lover / sexual partner 8 Ex husband/wife 9 Abusive husband / wife 10 Rape Victim 11 Incest Victim 1. People 12 Cults 13 “Friends” - Intense relationships 14 Leaders: Religious, Sects, bosses 6. Non-Sexual 15 Parents 16 Club / Lodge leader 17 Co-dependent relationships 18 The dead 19 Anyone you withhold forgiveness from 18

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties 20 Food 21 Presents 22 Animals 2. Things 23 Handed down jewellery, objects, etc 24 Organisation, Club, Sect, Fraternity 25 Even some controlling churches 26 Sport 27 Money 19

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties 28 House 3. Places 29 Where something significant happened 30 Country / State 31 Ethnic background 20

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties 32 Blood oaths 33 Words, vows, commitments, promises 4. Through… 34 Shared Trauma 35 Psychic ties 36 Occult ties (to demons) 21

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties So how do we cut these ungodly soul ties? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Ask God’s forgiveness for your involvement in the relationship; Pray and forgive the other person (Use the person’s initials if it makes it easier) “Father God, I forgive…. for…. ; Renounce any vows made before God; Renounce the ties, and pray to cut the ties; Ask God to re-unite all parts of you back to yourself, and to take all parts of the other person away. Ask God to remove the image of the abuser and replace it with the image of Jesus; Commit to getting rid of gifts that might empower the tie. 22

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties Effects: • The merri-go-round in your mind stops… • The other person may attempt to reestablish contact. • Besides freedom, there may even be a feeling of loneliness… 23

Free Indeed 1. Soul Ties Exercise: …then morning tea 24

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity Sin is missing the mark that God has set for us. In the bible we have five definitions of sin: 1) Transgression (overstepping God’s boundaries. ) 2) Trespass (entry into any area that is forbidden) 3) Disobedience (knowing the difference between right and wrong, and choosing wrong) 4) Rebellion (denying accountability to God or denying any authority rule in the church or the home) 5) Iniquity … 25

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity Sin… In the bible we have five definitions of sin: 1) Transgression (overstepping God’s boundaries. ) 2) Trespass (entry into any area that is forbidden) 3) Disobedience (knowing the difference between right and wrong, and choosing wrong) 4) Rebellion (denying accountability to God or denying any authority rule in the church or the home) 5) Iniquity … 26

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity Sin… is the umbrella under which all wrong resides. When spoken of specifically, it means accidentally missing the mark. “I did not know and I am sorry. Forgive me. ” – an unintentional wrong. Sacrifice was almost always for the sins (unintentional wrongs) of the Israelites. Lev 4: 2 "Say to the Israelites: 'When anyone sins unintentionally… Lev 5: 15 "When a person commits a violation and sins unintentionally… Num 15: 27 "But if just one person sins unintentionally, he must bring a year -old female goat 27

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity: It is a grievous and intentional sin carried out (usually repeatedly) by someone, that has an on-going effect through the generations. It causes us to inherit a bias towards a particular sin. It is deliberately doing what God sees as grossly evil. eg. murder, theft, adultery, idolatry, witchcraft. But there is more. It will distort or twist a person’s core being. And it will pass down to following generations. It is the desire to do wrong. “full of …iniquity. ” Matt 23: 28 28

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity “Iniquity is the innate power in you that drives you to sin. It is the hidden sin of your ancestors, which… causes you to seek out the sin that gave birth to it. ” http: //www. is 61. com/is 61 min/iniquities. html 29

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity “Iniquity is a force that compels our will to sin. Iniquity is the twisted nature that lasts long after the transgression has been committed. This iniquity can be passed down through future generations, unless the iniquity itself is removed. Iniquity affects the will and personality in such a way that each generation has an inbred tendency to act in the same way as their ancestors did. ” (This definition from “Victory in the Battle” By John Kowalczyk) 30

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity “…often, if not usually, [iniquity] is the reason why the other [sins] are committed. Correspondingly, if the iniquity is removed, then the major reason why sins and transgressions are committed is removed, too. This alone explains why Christians continue to struggle with committing the same sins and transgressions for years and years because the iniquity is still pending and is an open and viable force compelling the person to sin and transgress. ” (from-http: //www. lmci. org/articles. cfm? Article=14) 31

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity “We do not inherit the sins of our ancestors, we inherit the consequences. ” http: //www. thepoolministries. org/deliverance. htm 32

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity So iniquity is: • A grievous and deliberate sin before God. • AND it is an inner impulsive force, or “driver” that pushes us towards an area of sin. 33

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity But be very aware – We are totally responsible for our own actions. Iniquity, or no iniquity! Be very aware also – We are not responsible for, nor will we be judged and punished for, the sins of our parents. (Ez 18, Jer 31) …but we do inherit consequences of their sin. 34

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity So what does the Bible say? 35

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity: In the Old Testament Exodus 20: 4 -5 & Deut 5: 8 -9 Exodus 20: 4 -5 “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. [5] Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; While this is stated within the Ten Commandments, this is not the “Law” but is a characteristic of God’s ways. It is as valid 36 today as it was then.

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity: In the Old Testament Exodus 34: 7 …Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. 37

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity: In the Old Testament Exodus 34: 7 NIV …maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. " 38

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity In the Old Testament: Even though you’re not guilty of the iniquity of your parents (see Ezekiel 18: 1 -32, for example), you are impacted by it. You are not judged for their sin, but you are affected by it. 39

Free Indeed Iniquity is a sinful act: • Eze 3: 20 And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity… Iniquity is a bias toward sin, a driver within us: • 2 Sam 22: 24 I was also upright before Him, and have kept myself from my iniquity. It affects our nature. • Job 15: 5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. 40

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity The iniquities of the nation were dealt with differently from their sins. Lev 16: 15 Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring its blood inside… Lev 16: 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: [22] And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. 41

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity: In the Old Testament Examples: Adam: “For as in Adam all died…” (1 Cor 15: 22) David: Had a problem with women (9 wives, 10 concubines) Solomon: Had a bigger problem with women Abraham, Isaac Jacob: Lying and deception Noah’s son, Ham: His children would serve their brothers 42

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity: In the New Testament Judas: (Ps 119: 9 -16) Like his father! Simon the Sorcerer: (Acts 8: 9 -24) “…you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity. ” Pharisees: (Mat 17: 24) “…his blood be on us and on our children” John 9: 2 “And his disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? ’” 43

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity: In the New Testament Heb 7: 9 "And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes, for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him. ” Levi participated in paying tithes while in the loins of Abraham who was not his father but his great-grandfather. It is not unfair then, to say that Levi also participated in the sins of his fore-fathers. 44

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity: In the New Testament Mat 5: 21 You have heard that it was said to the ancients, "You shall not kill" --and, "Whoever shall kill shall be liable to the judgment. " [22] But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be liable to the judgment. And whoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be liable to the sanhedrin; but whoever shall say, Fool! shall be liable to be thrown into the fire of hell. Mat 5: 27 You have heard that it was said to the ancients, "You shall not commit adultery. " [28] But I say to you that whoever looks on a woman to lust after has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 45

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity Outworking of Iniquity: 1. A bias 2. A (legitimate) curse ". . . judgments that are passed on to individuals because of sins perpetuated in a family in a number of generations. . . They bring judgment or bondage during an individual's life, until that individual addresses the sin issues that put the curses into place. " 46

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity The following biases may be the outworking of Iniquity: • Lust, and related sexual sins Paedophilia, incest, bestiality, prostitution, adultery and illegitimacy • Greed • Desire for occult knowledge • Control • Bitterness • Obsessions • Shame • Addictions: drugs, alcohol… • Self pity • Envy • Withhold affection / acceptance • • • • Abandonment Fear Rejection Hopelessness Powerlessness Violence / Hate Domestic Violence Stealing Jealousy Pride and Arrogance Criticism / Judging On-going grief Depression Nervousness • Lying • Hatred of men / women • Abuse / Abusing • Gluttony • Desire for Power • Inability to forgive • Rebellion • Covetousness • Anger • Idolatry • Phobias • Illegitimate children 47 • Racism

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity The following curses may be the outworking of Iniquity: Deut 28: 15 f • • • Poverty Sickness Childless Early or untimely death Inability to retain a job Inability to marry Can’t stay married Always the follower. Never the leader Injury prone Insanity Depression God is always distant • Marry losers / abusers • Born with a label: “I’m available”, “Abuse me”, etc 48

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity This is NOT Ralph’s theology. It is taught by: • Chuck Pierce • C Peter Wagner • Rebecca Wagner Sytsema • Bill Johnson • Che Ahn • Peter Horrobin (Ellel) • Charles Kraft • Derek Prince • Noel and Phyl Gibson • Neil Anderson • John Calvin • Cindy Trimm • Elijah House – John and Paula Sandford • Anazao – Peter and Heather Toth • Ed Smith • Matt Sorger • Mark Mubeck • Harold Dewberry • Ana Mendez Ferrell • Stewart Pieper • John Eckhardt • Cindy Jacobs 49

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity “Satan uses generational sin more than almost anything else, to afflict individuals, families, groups, churches, cities, regions and nations. ” (John Sandford) 50

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity The land is affected by sin: Lev 18: 24, 25 Do not defile yourself with all these, for with all these the nations have been defiled, which I am casting out before you; and the land is defiled, and I will visit its iniquity on it; and the land is vomiting out those living in it. 51

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity Q: How do we deal with Iniquity? A: Identificational Repentance! Lev 26: 40 f If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, … if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, … then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. Jer 14: 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. 52

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity Note particularly that Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel did not commit the sins they confessed, but as representatives identified with and confessed the corporate sins of others: • Isaiah repented on behalf of all the Israelites (Isa. 6: 5) • Jeremiah confessed the sins of his generation and his forefathers (Jer. 3: 25; 14: 7, 20) • Daniel’s identificational repentance delivered God’s people from the demonic principalities of Persia and Greece (Dan. 9: 8, 2022; 10: 2 ff. ) • Ezra’s identificational repentance (Ezra 9: 6 -15) led to corporate repentance (10: 1 -4) • Nehemiah’s identificational repentance (Neh. 1: 6 -9) also paved the way for corporate repentance (8: 9 -11; 9: 1 -2) 53

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity “Identificational repentance, ”simply means we: 1. Recognise the presence of the twistedness, the iniquity; 2. Own the sin. “Father, we have sinned…”; 3. Ask God to apply the full and complete work of the cross to the sin and its consequences (bias towards sin, a curse); 4. Ask God to lift it off our children, also. 54

Free Indeed 2. Generational Iniquity Exercise: END 55