EUPHORIA Devotional (The spirit of joy, an ecstasy that comes from God) November 4, 2024 ONLY GENERATIONAL BLESSINGS IN CHRIST REV. AROME E. TOKULA John 9:1, 2 1 Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was BLIND FROM BIRTH.* 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, WHO SINNED, this man or his parents, that HE WAS BORN BLIND?* Under the dispensation of the Law of Moses, sin was paid for either by the one who sinned or by someone else. The clause upon which the Old Testament hung, demanded that men paid for their sins. When Moses was given the Law, this is what God told him in Exodus 34:6, 7, “... ‘The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 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.” This is the origin of generational curses in scripture! A curse is the direct consequence of breaking the Law and the effect is visited upon men even to the fourth generation. Note that the punishment required by the Law doesn’t mean that God punishes with evil because there is no evil in His character. Exodus 34:6 says that God is merciful, kind, forgiving, and abounding in goodness and truth but ‘the Law’ requires that the guilty CANNOT be cleared without punishment. That is why Jesus was asked by His disciples when He came to the man that was born blind, “... who sinned?”The Law had taught them that the punishment for sin can be passed from one generation to the other. Jesus’ answer, “... “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that THE WORKS OF GOD should be revealed in him,” is significant” (John 9:3). God was using this man’s case to reveal ‘His’ good works. What is God’s work today? It is the grace of God which we enjoy today because of the finished ‘works’ of Jesus on the cross. Hebrews 4:3 says, “... the WORKS were finished from the FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD,” and Revelations 13:8 makes us know that the Lamb was slain from the foundations of the world; thus, God’s work is the Lamb slain. The slain Lamb is the basis of the New Covenant and in this New Covenant; sin has been fully paid for. In Christ Jesus you have been brought into generational blessings! Today the clause upon which this New Covenant hangs is Hebrews 8:12: “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.” This is the covenant God has with the believer today in Christ Jesus. When the blind man heard what Jesus said, he was freed by the truth that God wasn’t punishing him for the sin of his fathers and he got healed. Even today, God no longer visits the iniquities of the fathers on the children because Jesus has fully paid for everything. As a child of God, there are no generational curses on you, only generational blessings. You are blessed because of Jesus. Look completely to Him today as the full price for whatever wrong done in your lineage and become everything His Word says you are. You are free and blessed! DECLARE In Christ Jesus I have become a member of God’s family and every curse is broken in the name of Jesus. I boldly declare that I am free of every generational curse because the consequences fully came upon Jesus. I am blessed and walking in the fullness of the blessing of God upon my life in Jesus name. PONDER As a child of God, there are no generational curses on you, only generational blessings. You are blessed because of Jesus. #IOFWithPastorArome #MorningDevotion #Euphoria #Devotional #November #TheCaravansAreHere #2025_TheChristOurLord