SECRET BAGGAGE (Part 1) • ”Generational Sin” • Barry Bandara

• This Series: Each of us has unresolved issues that we carry around. In a word, it’s called baggage. Although you do your best to ignore it, conceal it, or fake it, your baggage burdens your life while slowly squeezing out hope for your future. Before passing your baggage on to your children, let’s unpack this dead weight so you can begin living a life of freedom that God desires for you.

 

• This Week: Any wrong attitude, action, belief, behavior, and/or habits that we inherited from our parents. The reason we act the way we do is that these attitudes and actions were modeled and repeated over and over for us growing up. These sinful attitudes and behavior tend to be passed from one generation to the next, and the next, and the next. Examples of generational sin: worry, anger, unfaithfulness, financial irresponsibility, alcoholism, greed, laziness, control, etc. Thankfully, Jesus Christ can break any cycle of generational sin.

 

Key Phrase: "To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did." 2 Kings 17:41