Breaking the Authority of the Bastard Curse
Restoring the Congregation of the Lord
By Carl L. Fox and Paul D. Norcross
Reaching The Lost Sheep
The bastard curse starts at the time of an illegitimate conception. It’s consequence is that for ten generations people are not able to come into the congregation of the Lord.
Sex outside of marriage, even if that couple subsequently gets married before the child is born, produces a bastard child. That child is the second generation of the next ten. If the people repent and break that curse, they and the child that they have authority over are set free to come into the congregation of the Lord.
In the Old Testament the only way to break the bastard curse was through capital punishment — death to all the family. In the New Testament, Jesus died on the cross to redeem us from the curse of the law – if we repent. His death on the cross substituted the need for us to die in order to break the curse. Praise God! His mercy endures forever and ever.
In Deuteronomy 23:2, it says ten generations. Do you know everything that has transpired in the last ten generations in your family? Many parents don’t even know what their children did last night. How can we know the details of all our ancestors’ lives for the past four hundred or more years?
Consider warfare – modern and ancient. War has, for centuries, involved raping, killing, and plundering. Every war, from the smallest African tribal conflict to the largest world war has always left behind a trail of bastard children. If you are from a European background, how many bloodlines were corrupted by such warring peoples as the Goths, the Gauls, the Celtics, the Franks, or the Vikings as they devastated villages all over Europe? Or if you are from Asia, how many generations have been affected by the marauding Huns, Mongols, or Seleucids? Or from American Indians, who warred against neighboring tribal nations? You can be pretty sure that we all have been under this curse, and still are if we have not repented for the sins of our forefathers or our own sin in these matters.
We must add that an abortion does not set people free from the bastard curse, even though the child was killed before it had a chance to be born. If you have done this, even though you have asked God to forgive you for the abortion, you still need to repent to remove the curse of the bastard off you.
Would you please join us in prayer to break the bastard curse off of ourselves and our families?
Heavenly Father, and Almighty God, we come to You humbly in our hearts, letting loose of all the pride of the greatness of our bloodlines. And we ask You in the name of Jesus Christ to forgive us for our involvement in illegitimate children.
We repent for our behavior, and the behavior of our ancestors, going back ten generations. We know that we cannot change their judgment, but we know from Your Word Father, that Jesus died on Calvary’s cross to redeem us from all curses, but especially right now we ask You Father to redeem us from the curse of the bastard. We nail the sin, transgressions, and iniquities of ourselves and our ancestors to the Cross, going back ten generations in the name of Jesus Christ.
We ask You Father, that You restore the blessings in our lives, that we can come freely into the congregation of the Lord, having sweet fellowship with You Father, with You Lord Jesus, and very importantly, that we can have fellowship with our brothers and sisters in Christ. We thank You Father for Your faithfulness. Help us break any habit patterns we may have from living under this heavy curse, in the name of Jesus Christ we pray and thank You for this deliverance, Amen.
If you prayed this prayer with us in faith, with a heart of repentance, forgiveness and thankfulness, then you are free from the bastard curse. He who the Son sets free is free indeed.42 What a wonderful realization to know that we do not have to tolerate four hundred years of this curse, that satan’s bondage over us is broken, that the spirit of offense has lost its grip. You should be really blessed. We are! What we have just done together is monumental. Our experience has been that people who have been set free of the bastard curse see enormous blessings in their relationships both in their churches and in their prayer closets. But why stop here? Why not reach your own family members?
Now that we have been set free of the bastard curse, by the price Jesus paid on the tree, let’s go out to the scattered sheep, and help them come back into the sheepfold. Explain this to them, or have them read a copy of this book. This book could be a wonderful gift to help your loved ones become set free. Once they understand about this curse, and you pray with them and encourage them to come back into the congregation of the Lord, then you can all stand together, even if there are goats.
The Lord Jesus is coming back for a glorious church at His return. We believe helping our brothers and sisters break free of the bastard curse that has inhibited their fellowship is an important part of helping His church be more glorious. If we, the sheep of the Lord’s pasture, will look out for one another, and stand together, we will not have to fight off the goats. The battle belongs to the Lord. We just stand together in love, helping and encouraging one another, and the authority of this terrible curse will melt away until it is only a bad memory. We believe with all our hearts that this is the truth.
The Lord led us into this revelation. We are not smart enough to figure it out for ourselves. Praise God! Those of you who are pastors, and have a sheepfold, wouldn’t it be wonderful to have it full of sheep again, to see the goats leave because they could not get their way? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see the flock that the Lord has given you to shepherd continue to grow, seeing signs, miracles and wonders day by day?
Jesus said that we can do the works that He did and greater.43 He paid the price by dying shamefully on the tree to redeem us from the curse. But we are in the position that we can do a great work of filling up the church that He is building!
So may God bless you abundantly in your pursuit of The Lord, in reaching the lost sheep around you, and in continuing to walk in the freedom and the liberty wherewith Christ has set us free.44 Let us reach out and grab hold of His blessings in faith, and help others to do the same.
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42 John 8:36
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
43 John 14:12
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
44 Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.