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The Blessing is greater than the curse

 I have heard people use Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
To back their belief in generational curses. What puzzles me the most is how verse 6 is missed or ignored.
Exodus 20:6
but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Why is it that for people to believe the cursing part but not the blessing part?
I am not saying that verse 6 cancels verse 5 but that people will focus and build a doctrine around verse 5 but virtually ignore verse 6.
Also, through Jesus we have been delivered from the curse of the law. So yes verse 5 is serious but through Christ we can be changed and delivered and also be positioned to live in the promise of verse 6.
Let us fully know and live our true identity in Christ. We have been adopted by God the Father into the family. We are in the will, joint heirs with Christ. We have been made the righteousness of God in Christ.
Search the scriptures, find out how loved by God you are and how nothing you did ir could ever do could earn that love. So stop striving, competing to earn the Father’s love that is already yours. Stop living for God and start living from God.

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