Recently spotted this article 'The long echo of WW2 trauma'.
No reference to the Bible there - but seems to link in with generational blessings and curses.
Jeremiah 31:29, Ezekiel 18:2
... the parents have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth on edge ...
Depressing? Hopeless?
Have you heard the Good News ...
Ezekiel 18:3
... you will no longer quote this proverb ...
Ezekiel 36:26, Ezekiel 11:19
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
... I will save you ... you will no longer suffer disgrace ...
Mark 1:8b, Matthew 3:11b John the Baptist declared
There is one coming who will baptise you with the Holy Spirit.
John 1:29 John the Baptist saw Jesus and declared
Look the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
... this is the one I spoke of ...
John 3:3
No-one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born from above.
John 1:12-13
To all who received him (i.e. Jesus), to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God - children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
2 Corinthians 5:17
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new is come!
Romans 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Luke 4:18-19, John 10:10 Jesus speaking of himself
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Is that true?
Could a good man say such things?
Is Jesus really a good man?
Many voices through the last 2000 years declare "Yes", God has visited his people, this is the year of the Lord's favour.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Acts 1:38 What shall we do?
Repent and be baptised, every one of you (no exceptions), in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Sprit. The promise is for you and for your children.
Repentance - take ownership of problem and change direction.
Forgiveness - no longer stand in judgement of.
Jesus teaches us to forgive others as we have been forgiven Matthew 18:21-35.
We make a break with what happened in the past, what happened in childhood, what happened 200 years ago ... and we walk in new life, a new creation, Jesus living inside me by his Spirit John 14:15-27.
