Generational Sins
Key Passage: Exodus 20:1-10
Date: June 7, 2024
Exodus 20, we’ll start in verse number one. Would you read it along with me? Here we go. And the Bible says, and God speck all these words saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. If you were not here last Sunday, you can go on YouTube and listen to last week’s sermon to get commandment one in there. Here we’re starting commandment number two in verse number four. Here we go.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
I believe the Lord would have us focused this morning on generational sins. Generational sins. In fact, that’ll be the title for our PA: generational sins.
We’re going to use the illustration here. I’m going to use Aeneas back here. Would you mind be in my illustration for me a little bit? Aeneas, would you stand up so everybody can see you real quickly there? That’s Aeneas right there. But we’re going to picture that Aeneas meets the dream lady for Aeneas, the one that God wants him to marry. And when he sees her, his heart goes, and she’s the right one. And so he says, “Wilt thou?” and she wilts. And she says, “Yes.” And they’re married. Aeneas joins the Navy; he becomes a Navy SEAL. Is that good, Aeneas? He says he likes it. He becomes a Navy SEAL. And they ship Aeneas out, I don’t know, to Iran. And he’s over there for months. He’s in a secret mission. Nobody knows he’s there. And he has the ability with all the technology we have to call his wife at any time. In fact, she can call him at any time. Hopefully, it’s not while he’s in a gunfight. You know, that wouldn’t be a good thing. But anytime, and Aeneas is over there for months and months, and finally his wife, she says, “You know, I miss my hubby. I miss Aeneas.”
She said, “Man, I just miss seeing him, miss being around and whatnot.” And so she makes a statue just like Aeneas. I mean, strong and muscular and handsome. Just like it is. And here’s the thing: she has this statue made. She puts it up in her house. And she actually starts talking to this statue. In fact, instead of calling Aeneas sometimes, she just talks to the statue. There’s been a time or two that Aeneas has called home to his beloved wife, and she didn’t answer the phone because she was busy talking to the statue. And it gets to the point that Aeneas says, “Well, she’s worshipping this statue. Who cares about the statue? I’m the real deal here.” Aeneas gets jealous of a statue made of him.
And that’s exactly what commandment number two is all about. God says, I don’t want any statues of anything that looks like God. And beyond something you bow down to or worship or serve. You notice that word there? It’s even worse in our illustration. That’s not a perfect illustration, but God does. Notice the Bible says he is—in fact, one of the names of God is jealous. You can show that to Jehovah’s Witnesses sometimes. Their old Bible, New World Translation, had not made that change. The most recent revision didn’t make a change in that, but isn’t it interesting how they can change their Bible to fit them? One of his names is jealous. And God gets jealous when we make images of God or a Lord, a God. It’s worse, because Aeneas’ wife knew it, and he just looked like—we don’t know what God—we don’t even know what Jesus looks like. So, “Oh, Pastor, I’ve seen a picture of Jesus.” No, it wasn’t a picture. It was a drawing or a painting or a picture of a drawing or a painting of what someone thought Jesus looked like. But the vast majority of those are very inaccurate. You say, “How do you know? You never saw Jesus?” No, but I’ve got his written word. And in his written word, he says it’s a shame for a man to have long hair. So he wouldn’t go against his own word. Come on now. So where do you know all these pictures come from? Well, they came from a fifth or a sixth or a 12th century, a lot of times, of a feminine man that drew a picture of a long-haired Jesus. Come on now. Don’t get quiet. Don’t get afraid. We’re all right. No, I said, I don’t want any of these images and graven images and statues and shrines. I said, “Oh, that.” And God says, “I’m jealous. I want you praying to and worshipping and serving me.”
I’ll be honest with you, we have a cross here, and I like to have that. I love the light behind it. Brother Calvin Davitt did a great job making it. And I like it. Amen? I like that. But we’re not to bow down or start praying to or worshipping the cross. I don’t think it’s a sin by the cross. In fact, in the tabernacle, a little bit later on, he tells them how to build in the book of Exodus. In the veil, the very entering into the most holy place, he said, “I want you in the veil to have woven in there cherubim, somewhat like angels.” I don’t think it’s wrong to have something like that. But if I’m to wear that for good luck? No, no. By the way, I understand it once in a while I’ll use the term “luck,” but the honest truth is we’re not lucky; we’re blessed. And I’m not supposed to have any image that I’m to pray to or worship or serve or look to for answers. I look to the Lord Jesus Christ for answers.
You say, “Why? Why do we have so much of that in the world?” In some countries, they’ll make shrines out of many different animals. Just heard a preacher, I think it was in India, and he said they had a shrine and he poked his head inside and saw what was inside their little house. And inside there, they had been killing chickens. It wasn’t fried chicken either, folks. Wasn’t KFC. And they were making shrines out of those thousands of them. And the Bible said, “No, no, no, don’t do that.” We have much of that even in our country, and many times amongst the Catholic Church. And it’s very unbiblical. In fact, if you go to the Catholic websites and you check out their decalogue of their Ten Commandments, this is what they do: they’ll have Ten Commandments, but they’ll miss Commandment Two. They don’t have this second; they don’t have it in it. Check it out. They skip Commandment Two, and then they’ll divide the Tenth Commandment into two. Why? Because it’s very clear: I’m not supposed to have a statue of Mary or even what I think Jesus looked like, or a cross that I’m bowing down to them. No, I’m not supposed to do all that. Very clear in the Bible. You understand? Don’t get quiet. I mean, we’ll just stick with the Bible, amen. Part of the Bible you tell where you stand, and part of that, tell him that I don’t want to stand over there; it’s not biblical. So I’m not to bow down. I’m not to worship. I’m not to have these images of idols and statues that I serve or pray to or worship.
Our church building here—I’m so thankful for this church building. I understand this is not the church people are, but there’s something wonderful about the place where God’s people meet together at. Something a little bit sacred as far as the place where God’s people gather, and we hear the preaching of His Word, and we pray, and we worship God. You can worship all the time, but it’s something special right here in God’s house. By the way, I like it when people dress up. Now, when I say “dress up,” I would often go visit Granny Lee. I’d stay over there a couple of days during that time. We’d go to church. Uncle David and I would go to church. Uncle David, the best he had was jeans, and he’d wear jeans. Now, Granny, back in the day, she’d make sure those jeans were pressed. I mean, that was that line going on. But here’s the thought: I’m not saying you’ve got to have this three-piece suit and all that, but here’s the thought: I’m going to meet God in God’s house. If I were going to go meet the president, I’d dress up. Man, I don’t want to look good going to meet the president. I recently went to make sure everything was good for prayer on the square, and a secretary—been dealing with for years and years down there—she said, “Hey, Pastor, can I introduce you to the county mayor?” Well, I didn’t have a title. I didn’t have anything on. And she said, “Come on.” And she took me over to the mayor of the county, and Bill Kittron was there, and the man over the maintenance of the county and the vice-man—all these people were there. And I’ll be honest with you, if they all had ties on, I didn’t. I felt a little embarrassed. My goodness, they need to dress up, you know? But I didn’t realize I was meeting them. Here’s the thought: I want to dress up going to God’s house to meet with the Lord a little bit. You can meet with them anywhere, but it’s a special day on the Lord’s day. So that’s the thought. Now, in saying that, if the best you have is jeans and holes in them, man, get them out, put them on, come to church. Amen? We’re thrilled to have you in the house of God, thrilled to have you. Just come. But I want you to kind of understand why we do what we do—the thought behind it, see?
But here’s the thing we’re getting at: God’s house, I love it. I think it ought to look the best we can make it look. I want to take care of it. God’s house, God’s property, God’s buildings, all God’s. But if we begin to worship this building, it’d be sin. If we begin to really value this building to the point of maybe bowing down to it or serving it and making an idol of it, it’d be a sin. No, no, it’s not about that. And this second commandment, hey, he said, “I don’t want you to make any image, any likeness, even things that you think it looks like in heaven.” No, no, no, no, none of that. I’m biblical. You all with me this morning? Let’s move on.
And I believe God wants us to look at something here in this. Look in verse number five of Exodus 20. Look in verse number five. I believe God wants to get this particular thing God says here. Verse number five, you’re there, amen? Good deal. Exodus 20, look at verse number five. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God. Here’s the thing: would you read with me from here on to the end of the verse? Here we go: “Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.” Four times the Bible uses that word “visiting.” You heard about the pastor, he bought a boat and he named it Visitation. That way, anyone called his wife, “Where’s Pastor?” “Well, he’s on visitation.” Call him on his cell phone, “Pastor, where are you at?” “I’m on visitation.” Wasn’t lying, you know. But I wasn’t planning on telling that one there. Now I’ve got to get serious again if I can, you know. But “visiting” is found four times in the Bible. Every one of those times, this being one of them, it’s talking about the iniquity of the fathers visiting the children under the third and fourth generation. Wow.
I believe God would have us share some truths about this thing here for a little bit. First of all, this word “visiting.” God says that the iniquity of the fathers will visit you. The iniquities of my fathers visit me. It’s good for you to realize. It’s good for you to admit they are going to visit you. Statistics will bear true. If my father is an alcoholic, I have a much greater percentage to become an alcoholic. You understand where I’m coming from? I don’t think I have to emphasize a whole lot; it’s fairly well known in time. This is true. I went to California this week. The college is ending out there, whatnot, and I was fine. And it’s interesting on planes the people you sit beside, just whoever. I sat beside a fellow—nice man, I believe he was saved—talked to him about the Lord. He began to tell me about his first wife. He said he knew what about—he said her parents, once the children had grown up and moved out, divorced. So he said, “The longer we were married and our kids grew up, moved out of the house, it’s just amazing how really that thing that had been in her past took her over, to the point she became literally like a control freak.” He said, “In my opinion,” he said, “we did go to four different counselors. All of them had the same opinion. Maybe I’m wrong, but that thing that she hated from her past, her parents, she became it.” She said, “They told me you got to get out of this thing; it’s going to kill you.” And right or wrong way they did him, just telling you the story. I said, “Well, why wouldn’t she just face it? Why would she just deal with this thing in her past?” He said, “She just wanted to live in denial that that really doesn’t affect me, doesn’t bother me.” And he said, “Everybody said it does bother you.” Now look: God says the iniquity of the fathers will visit you. You understand where I’m coming from? And it’s good for us to realize that’s a biblical, godly principle.
Now, number one, it’ll visit you. Number two, they only visit you. You ever say this or hear this about people coming to visit you? “Good to see them come; good to see them go.” You ever hear that? They only visit you. They come. You have a choice in the matter. You can open the door, “Come on in, camp out here, stay here.” Or you can open the door and say, “Hey, alcoholism, I don’t want you here. You can visit, or you can slam the door. I don’t want you.” You have a choice in the matter. Just because maybe your past heritage, maybe very selfish, your heritage, you have to be selfish? Yes, it will visit you, but you have a choice in the matter. The Bible word is “visit.” Well, Pastor, this is my head; this is just the way I am because of this past back here. No, no, it will affect you. It will visit you, but you have a choice in what you allow to stay in your life or to kick out of your life. The Bible says, “visit.” And every person will have things visit, whether it be pornography issues, whether it be not being a loving person, whether it be bitterness issues, whether it be a drug issue, whatever the issue. Yes, it will come visit you, but you have a choice in the matter. And don’t you let Satan condemn you because that’s in your past. You have the opportunity by the grace of God to slam the door and say, “This is my right. I choose what I am for the Lord Jesus Christ.” It visits. It visits.
Now, it’s amazing. Look at the rest of that little Bible phrase there, if you would. He says visiting—y’all there? Y’all there?—he says visiting the iniquity of the fathers. It’s amazing, upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. That word “hate” has to do with opposition to the point of a very strong opposition, to the point of hate. This can come in different forms. Sometimes, maybe abuse has been in the past. And that thing visiting you, you had no choice in the matter. It was those before that did that to you. And this abuse, it comes, and you can get so bitter over that. Come on, you realize how bitterness ultimately goes back to God. And you get to the point you’re so opposed and bitter—I’m not saying that’s right. I’m not even saying God did that, but God in his world did allow that. God didn’t want it. God’s not ever wanting sin, but God often doesn’t get his will. We have talked about that many times in our church. He’s not willing that any should perish, but everybody doesn’t get saved. But it’s his will that everyone does. But God, in his kingdom, his kingdom rules over all. He has allowed men to make sinful decisions. You’ve had abuse in your life. And if you’re not careful, bitterness seeps in to the point that it’s just opposition. “I can’t believe this happened in my life. It’s so unfair.” You get bitter, almost hateful, if you will. It’s a very sad thing how this bitterness keeps harming your life, and many are defiled to the third and fourth generation. See? And those that hate him are just bitterly opposed to him and what’s going on in his world that he created. You understand? Them that hate him.
Sometimes some people just out of their choice, they choose to live a different lifestyle than the lifestyle God wants them to live. And very interestingly, twice in the New Testament, the Bible talks about he cannot serve God and man and money. And he uses this equation. I read it for—it’s in Matthew chapter number six, verse number 24. He says, “No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other.” God and Mammon. I’ve seen people; it’s almost like they want to go after money, they want to go after money, but God keeps getting in their way. And God’s system, and God’s commandments about money, keep getting in the way. And it’s to the point they want to go after money, but when they go after money, they know in their opposition to God, you can’t serve them both. And it’s to the point that either they will despise God or hate God, simply because they want to go this way. Or, and very interesting—I get all my illustrations from planes, you know—but I sat beside a man, a fairly wealthy man, a Christian man, a good man. And he said this: he said, “You know, honestly, I hate money. It’s kind of a bother. You get a little money, everybody wants it, and family fighting over and all the problems.” Because I kind of hate money. I thought, “Wow, that’s a little biblical there.” You love God, you serve God. And honestly, money’s part of it. We had to talk a little bit about money in Sunday school. I don’t really like talking about money. It’s part of it, though. But you can’t have them both. And sometimes, here’s what I’m getting at, sometimes we just don’t want to go God’s lifestyle, God’s way of living, to the point that we just say, “No, I’m going to go my way and do my own thing.” And I just this opposition always going another way—I hate that, I’m tired of it. And that lifestyle, the iniquity passes down to the third and fourth generation. What an impact! The iniquity of our fathers visiting the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Wow.
It’s amazing how strongly God teaches this principle. Now let’s look at the other side. Look at verse number six. It is verse number six. Exodus 20, verse number six. Y’all still with me this morning? Exodus 20, verse number six. He says, “And showing”—by the way, “and” means it’s joining those two together—his first thought, second thought, second truth—“and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.” This word “love.” The Hebrew word that’s translated here is sometimes translated “friend.” Those people, they don’t oppose to the point of hatred. They say, “I’m going to accept the Lord. I’m going to befriend the Lord. I’m going to love the Lord.” In fact, I’ll accept his plan of salvation. I realize I’ll never keep the law, so I’ll accept Jesus, who did keep the law for me, and they love the Lord, they welcome His salvation, they accept Jesus as their Savior.
Now here’s a wonderful thing about that: the moment you get saved, if you are saved, it’s already happened to you. If you’re not, it could happen today. But the moment you get saved, you have a brand new Father. You are born again. Like them old country preachers, sometimes I mess up and say, “Born again”—you’re born again. And when you’re born again, you have a heavenly Dad. That’s what the Bible says in 1 John 3:1: “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” God says, “I tell you what, I realize you got some iniquity visiting you from your earthly father. God says, I’ll do something for you; I’ll become your Dad.” Pretty good deal right there. You see, when you’re saved, the Spirit of God moves inside of you. He regenerates you. You say, “What does regeneration mean?” It means you’re regained. Now, you still have your old flesh that comes eventually from our father, Adam, our body. When we go to heaven, we’ll lay this robe of flesh down. I’m looking forward to that day because then I won’t hit the snooze button 250 times, amen. And we’ll have that old flesh. You know, don’t look at me; you do the same thing every once in a while, you know. But look, now I’m born spiritually by the Spirit of God. I’m born from above by the Spirit of God. It regenerated. I’ve got God’s genes flowing through me now. I’m born into the family of God. That’s what the Bible means when he says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; all things are passed away; behold, all things have become new.” Everything is God. I have a different man. I have the Spirit of God that regenerated me now. Now I have the righteousness of God visiting me. See? Them that love me. They accept my salvation. They become one of my children. That’s the sacred relationship for God, that He’s your Father, you’re His child.
In fact, it’s so sacred to God, the Bible says in Matthew 23:9, “And call no man Father upon the earth, for your Father is which is in heaven.” So the Bible says, you understand, Matthew 23:9, that’s sacred to God. God said, “I want us to be close. I want to be your Dad, Abba Father. I want us to be my child. I want you to pass down my heritage to you.” By the way, that’s why we’ll have heaven, amen. We’re joined with Christ. What that means—I’m amazed. My daughter is 22; my son’s 24. And I’m amazed sometimes because I know I’m far from a perfect dad, but they want to know—it affects them greatly. Every once in a while, I’m very, very cautious about it because they’re grown kids. I may, very rarely, but I may get on to them about something, and I’m shocked. They don’t have to listen to me at 24 or 22. But I’ve seen them, man, just change things on the dime. And I thought, “Wow.” And I say that to say—and I just got good kids, it’s not mean—but I say that to say that’s the way God wants to be with you. God wants that relationship where you’re always, “Hey, is Dad pleased? What does Dad want? What does Dad not want here? What would Dad say? Dad, what do you think?” And mercy, the mercy of the Lord endureth forever. That’s why when you get saved, you’re going to heaven forever, not hell forever. And it becomes your Dad, and you have this wonderful relationship, and it changes everything about you. Why? Because I have a wonderful relationship with him. That’s what God wants. And he is the I AM God. “Well, my parents didn’t do this or they didn’t kind to make a lifestyle pleasing to God.” And God sees that. “I got so much mercy for you.” That’s a merciful God. He’s so merciful.
Well, I sincerely—I mean, honestly—we left here going to visit Ms. Sun and fiancé Monday morning. We were flying buddy passes. You know what a buddy pass is? You don’t pay for it, but sometimes you pay for it in other ways. You can reserve a flight, but if it fills up, you’re bumped off. We flew into San Diego. We got there, I can’t remember, early in the morning. We were to wait maybe an hour, get another flight and fly up to San Jose. But there were some flights canceled up to the San Jose area, three airports close by. There were some flights canceled to one of those three airports, more than one. And so all the flights got filled up. And we were in San Diego. It was supposed to be for about an hour; we didn’t fly out of San Diego until 9:30 that night. And we finally decided, “Let’s go rent a car and go check out San Diego.” You know? And we went down to the Mexican wall, and we seen Brother Warren trying to climb over the wall. I’m teasing the court, but we did. And here’s what I’m getting at: so I’ll be honest with you, I’m confessing here, I don’t know that I was really right with the Lord real good. I’m just being honest with you. I mean, we didn’t get in until our time, oh, maybe about 1:30 a.m., and I probably wasn’t the best Christian at that time. So I woke up Tuesday morning, and there’s a park over by where we’re staying at, and I went and took a walk in the morning time. And I just confessed my sins. I was just honest with God. “God, I’m sorry.” God’s so merciful. It seemed like maybe halfway through, a quarter through my prayer time, it just seemed like God moved in and said, “Paul, I still love you. I forgive you. Let’s get back close. You’re my son.” It was a sweet time. But I was sincerely tried. Now, God says those that they just oppose anything about God and God’s lifestyle and God’s system and what God’s allowed in their life—God said, “No, no, you have the iniquity of fathers visiting unto the third and fourth generation.” Those that love God are trying to keep his commandments. God said, “I got mercy.” God’s such a merciful God. The choice is up to you; it’s up to me. He’s a merciful God.
I thought about my family, and I want to be careful. Maybe I’ll say too much here; I’m not sure. But my grandfather, one of my grandfathers, was Hungarian. He had snuck on a ship in Hungary and hid in like a trunk until they got far enough out into the sea, long enough out there, once he came out, they could not turn around and go back; they were too far out. Came to Ellis Island and so on. I was telling someone recently—I’m a little embarrassed about some of it. I was telling the Meads the other day. But my grandfather was a hard man, and he always drove a Nova. It wasn’t fixed up, just an old Nova back in the day and time. He’d always race that thing up, you know, he’d race it up, and then he’d just drop it down in reverse. Every time I hear him pulling out of the driveway, every time—er! That’s just the way it was, you know. The transmission survived in some way, you know. I remember when my grandpa and him wanted to get cigarettes. He couldn’t speak much English at all. He’d tell the girl behind the counter—and back in the days, I believe, even—but she’s trying to get the cigarette. My grandpa won’t—I’m not saying it’s right—but I’ll just tell you what it was. And she wouldn’t get the right one. He’s trying to point to it, couldn’t speak English, and he would get mad. He would curse her out in Hungarian. I know some Hungarian words that are not good. I’ll just speak in hillbilly; I’ll leave Hungarian alone. My grandma—I’m a little embarrassed—Grandma, my dad’s side of him, I can tell you, my grandma, they grew up in the Depression era. I mean, they burned in their backyard what they couldn’t burn. What they couldn’t burn, they put it in trash bags, ride down the road. I’m not saying I’m for it; I’m just being honest. That’s just kind of sharing a little bit. Grandpa on the other side, alcoholic. Everybody knew it, and known in the town for being the drunk.
But my mom got a little track, a gospel track, somebody gave her. She read that, “Hey, we’re all sinners, and we have a penalty on our sin, death and hell, and God loves you. They love to save you.” She said, “I’d like to be saved.” She bowed her head alone at the house by herself, and she bowed her head and asked Jesus Christ to be her Savior. She accepted the love of God. She befriended him. A year and a half later, my dad got saved, and he accepted the love of God. Mom, when she got saved, she said, “All right, I love him. He’s got a different lifestyle. I want to keep his commandments.” Honestly, she built a fire in the backyard. Picked her immodest dress and whatnot, she took her back there and she burned it. Dad, I’m talking about, if you know Hungarians very much, usually we like money. And Dad was raised that way. Dad had a good job. Dad quit his job. He felt like God was calling him to go to Bible College in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Quit his job. And by saying, “You’re crazy. What in the world are you doing?” He said, “I just feel like that’s what God wants. I’m going to do it.” And God showed mercy to my family. Our family tree is totally different. God changed that family tree. And why? They don’t have iniquities visiting. Why? That’s for them that hate him. But those that say, “Hey, you know what? I’m not perfect, but I love him, but I’m going to keep his commandments.” God says, “I got so much mercy for you.” The mercy of the Lord endureth forever. Are we perfect? Does it still affect us somewhat? Yes, but God says those people that love me and they’re trying to keep my commandments, I got mercy. So much mercy. It’s how family trees get changed. This thing, the third and fourth generation. Hey, what are you passing down? Are you passing down iniquity? Are you passing down mercy to the third and fourth generation?
Actually, you might not know this—this is odd. I’m telling a bunch about—I’m going to be in trouble if you find out too much about me, you know. But actually, my first name is John, John Paul Chisgar. I have always just called me Paul. So I go by Paul. You can call me anything, just don’t call me late for supper, amen. I used to tell Tammy when we had newlywed—I said, “Well, you know, we have a son. I don’t want to name—only bigoted, egotistical men name their son after themselves.” And of course, my son’s name—well, let’s go ahead. John Paul Chisgar, he’s a junior. He’ll be the first generation after me—their children. If John… Well, not if John, after he gets married, getting married the 25th, he better have kids somewhere along because I want grandkids, amen. Suffered enough with kids, I want grandkids, you know. But if John has his son, that’d be the second generation—children’s children. Then if the grandson has another one, that will be my great-grandchild. And then my great-great-grandchild. What I do here affects all the way to the great-great-grandchildren. If I want to oppose God and do my own will for my life to the point, “No, God, stay out of this my life,” I’m passing down iniquity into the third and fourth generation. Or I can say, “Lord, far from perfect, but I do love you and try the best to keep your commandments.” I pass down mercy unto the third, fourth generation. Now they’ll have a choice every one of those generations: what are they going to do when it visits them? I like to pass down mercy. What are you going to pass down? He says he’s going to visit. You have a choice in the matter. You can say, “I oppose to the point of hatred, visiting the iniquity,” or “I love, and I want to try to keep your commandments.” I’m going to keep them best I can. Mercy unto the third and fourth generation.
Original File: Generational Sins - Pastor Paul Chisgar Sunday AM 5-12-19