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Speaker 1: because He laid down his life for us, and we

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Speaker 1: John three sixteen. Lord, help me comprehend the kind of

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Speaker 1: see how limited my love is. Show me how to

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's Daily Prayer for more

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Hardwired with Jeff Wickwire. Here's what's coming

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Speaker 3: up in today's edition.

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Speaker 2: The impact and influence may be felt upon the offspring

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Speaker 2: the great grandchildren. But the punishment only falls upon those

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Speaker 2: who choose to engage in the same behavior. They don't

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Speaker 3: Do you believe that you are doomed to repeat the

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Speaker 3: Well, Pastor Jeff assures you today that scripture doesn't teach

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Speaker 3: that those curses are handed down by God. Rather, if

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Speaker 3: you and she'll mercy to you. Well, let's join Pastor

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Speaker 3: Jeff in the Book of Exodus, chapter twenty as he

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Speaker 3: begins his message generational curses.

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Speaker 2: Is it true? I'm calling this series the things you

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Speaker 2: thought you knew I'm gonna be dealing with what we

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Speaker 2: I'm choosing because I believe it's important that you believe

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Speaker 2: will always set you free. If you believe the wrong thing,

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Speaker 2: it hinders you, it encumbers you. You may not know it,

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Speaker 2: but it does encumber you. Believing the wrong things can

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Speaker 2: we fellowship with suffering. We're so used to it we

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Speaker 2: important that we understand because it's a teaching that's out

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Speaker 2: Everybody's heard it, and maybe many of you have even

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Speaker 2: you enough said. Let's define a generational curse. A generational

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Speaker 2: Accepting Jesus Christ as savior was not enough. Now we

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Speaker 2: the generational curse. Let's look at one more. Deuteronomy five nine.

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Speaker 4: Hello everyone, this is Cindy Wickwire and I'm here with Jeff.

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Speaker 4: We're excited to introduce Jeff's latest sermon series, Things You

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Speaker 4: I know it's so easy to accept things as truth

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Speaker 2: valid than generational curses. Here it is generational consequences. There's

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Speaker 2: generational consequences, not generational curses. What do you mean, Jeff,

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Speaker 2: Here's what I mean. The consequences are that the idolatrous

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Speaker 2: But no way, you're under some kind of curse that

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Speaker 2: Do you hear personal responsibility coming up here? I can't

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Speaker 2: The people should no longer quote this proverb. Children pay

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Speaker 2: not what we've heard. This clearly teaches that sin or

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Speaker 2: you amen. Each person has an individual responsibility before God.

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Speaker 2: We all do. Everybody will give an account for his

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Speaker 2: It's nowhere in the Bible.

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Speaker 3: Generational curses are something that Christians are taught to be

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