Hey, Matt
Well, I think they went a little overboard on this one. Iniquities are
(simply put as they would say) sins. Sometimes with the twist of being
unjust, but it's just another way of saying evil or wrong doing. There is
nothing to link it to family traits other than the fact that all people are
sinners, including our parents. But I think they read a lot into this one
that isn't necessarily borne out in Scripture, but is their interpretation.
Everything they say may be true, but their original premise that iniquity
has something to do with family systems (other than sin in general being a
trait of all families) is a big stretch.
There is a school out there that...I think his name is Huck...some
televangelist really pushes about "breaking the bondage of past sins and
inherited sins" but that is based on an old Scripture that was later
rescinded by the LORD.
Previously, Israel had been taught that the sins of the father would be
visited on later generations. Exodus 20 verse 5 says that the children of
Israel are not to worship idols because " I, the LORD your God, am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and
the fourth generations of those who hate Me," (This is where your authors
got their thing about iniquity being related to families from.) But
Jeremiah 31:29 through 34 says: "In those days they will not say again,
'The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on
edge.' "But everyone will die for his own iniquity;
each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge." Behold,
days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with
the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which
I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them
out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a
husband to them," declares the LORD. "But this is the covenant which I will
make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will
put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be
their God, and they shall be My people. "They will not teach again, each man
his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they
will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares
the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember
no more."
That is the promise we have in JESUS, that He makes a personal relationship
with us, without regard to what kind of relationship our parents did or did
not have with Him.
Paul
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From: "Matt" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:58 PM
Subject: aniquities
> An Aniquity is simply put,
> Something that was wrong in your parent's home or family history that has
> created that tendancy for you.
> Check out exidis 34.
> It says that what you are doing right now in your life is affecting your
> great great grandchildren.
> Our lives create the force that causes our children to either be blessed
or
> to have to fight against our influence in order to be blessed.
> An aniquity just means a bent. Like a tree which is bent by a prevailing
> wind. Rather than growing up strait, we will grow up with a certain bend
in
> the way we respond to situations.
> Examples, anger, substance abuse, physical abuse, imorality, domanance,
> chovanism, chovanism?
> Anyway, legalism, sexism, rasism.
> disfunctional family systems,
> Conditional acceptance, I love you more when you make strait a's than when
> you make a b or a c.
> I love you more if you do this instead of that.
> You have to deserve to be part of this family.
> The bible defines what strait is and anything that your family did that is
> not according to the guidelines of the bible mistraned you.
> This does not mean that you look back in your past and blame your family
for
> everything that has happened to you.
> It means that the only way that we can keep from carrying those aniquities
> into our marages is to simply say, My family was wrong.
> If you have fallen into a behavior that is wrong, you recognize it, repent
> and try to break the aniquity so that you do not carry it to your children
> and your children's children and so on.
> This is just a piece of a teaching by Jimmy Evans which I relisten to
quite
> often.
> Thought I would share it here.
> I think it is another of our responsibilities in life to try and break
these
> aniquities when ever we can, don't you?
> Terri's family has a lot of dominant women in it and I think men who have
> not tended to their households propperly and that is one of our's. What
> happens their is that if you gro up in a family of dominant women and you
> are not dominant yourself they persecute you.
> My family has a lot of distrust, anger, substance abuse and the list goes
on
> on both sides.
>
> Take Care,
>
> Matt
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