Building A Covenant Home That Passes On Faith

What if the biggest spiritual battle in your life isn’t out in the world, but right in your living room? We talk straight about “Inherit The Blessing Plus” meaning your children can inherit covenant privileges, but they can also inherit your household culture. That culture will either help spiritual growth or quietly sabotage it.

We build the case from Scripture: Joshua’s commitment that his house will serve the Lord, the call to “inherit a blessing” in 1 Peter, and the relentless parenting rhythm of Deuteronomy 6. We push back on the modern habit of handing our kids to “experts” and calling it discipleship. Church matters, camps matter, fellowship matters, but parents still carry the main responsibility to teach, model, correct with patience, and create a home atmosphere where the Word is normal.

We also trace how patterns pass through generations using Genesis: Abraham and Isaac repeating fear-driven failures, Esau despising his birthright, and Jacob showing that a family blessing must become a personal encounter with God. The point is not despair, it’s hope: mercy can run to a thousand generations, and the mold can be broken when we choose obedience, integrity, and self-sacrifice for our children’s spiritual future.

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Greetings, Bible believers and followers of the end time message. Welcome to another episode of the Jason Demars Podcast, the place where we explore the incredible mysteries hidden within the pages of the Bible. I'm your host, Jason Demars. It's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word. If it's your desire to grow in Revelation and see the message in the light of the Bible, you're in the right place. Today, brothers and sisters, we delve into the scripture, guided by the extraordinary revelations that God chose to unveil through Brother William Marion Branham, a messenger with a unique calling to fulfill Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7, and unlock the secrets of the end time message. Our purpose isn't to have another basic Bible study. We're going to dig deep and peel back the layers of prophecy, decoding the signs and perhaps discovering how the Bible resonates within the very fabric of our present day and time. In this podcast, my purpose is to help you grow in your faith through solid Bible teaching through the lens of the message of Malachi 4. So grab your Bible, a cup of coffee, and let's get started. And remember that your feedback, testimonies, questions, and prayer requests are always welcome. Please send them on social media or at jasondemars.com. With that said, let's get into today's podcast. God bless you. Thank you so much for tuning in to the Jason Demars podcast. And I want to continue looking at our subject. Thank you so much for tuning in again. Of course, there's a lot going on in the world, and I don't definitely don't take that for granted. But let's continue in the word. I think the greatest way we can make a difference in our lives and in our small way is to raise our family according to the word. Raise them differently than previous generations did, that put us in the situation that we're in today. Raise your children to serve the Lord. Take the time to teach them and study the word with them and pass on the blessing that you have received into your family. So the the subject I'm going to title, and we're going to uh just to let you know where we're going, uh we're going to speak about inheriting the blessing, continuing from last week, but we're going to say inherit the blessing plus. And I'll put behind that plus dot dot dot plus what. And so we'll look into that. But this will be sort of our way of finishing up this uh series on uh family, love, inheritance, and redemption. And then we want to begin to go into some subjects we've gone into before, but maybe in a little different way. We've changed our format since the last time we went through. I think previously we did about 30-minute episodes, and I want to go through and go through the major teachings of the message to establish them in the scripture and for them to sort of become an outreach tool that believers could use to help them to share the message with others. So, as I taught in last week, there's a blessing of being raised within the context of a covenant family. And we also detailed the necessity of personal repentance, water baptism, regeneration, and the fruit of the Spirit for every child born into a family that's in covenant with God. In today's podcast, I want to look more at the promises of God to us that detail this covenant family and the blessing it entails. Then I also want to show that even within the covenant blessing, that we as parents can pass on either bad cultural habits or positive cultural habits. Or we can pass on habitual sins, or we can pass on habitual blessings and the goodness of God. And it how we engage with our ch children and engage in this covenant with our children will spell out much of the direction that they go unless they put the stake down and say, I'm gonna do it the way the word says. So let's start and let's look at this. Joshua 24, verse 15 says, And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve. Whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. So here is a declaration by Joshua. He doesn't say, As for me, I'm gonna serve the Lord. No, it's a big picture. There's there's a patriarchal picture that goes into uh life as a Christian and life as a believer. And so this patriarch of his family says, I'm gonna ensure that me and my house serve the Lord. I'm gonna do what it takes so that me and my children, and in this case, my the people that work in my home, my servants, are going to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. And so that's the that's the culture, that's the atmosphere, that's what Joshua is expecting in his home, and that is what we as men need to cultivate and to work towards as as leaders, as covenant leaders within our heart household. Genesis 28, verse 3 And God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people, and give thee the blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy seed with thee, that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham. So there's going to be a blessing that's inherited. He's going to in he's he's going to cause the blessing of Abraham to be inherited by Jacob. So this blessing then goes from from Isaac on to Jacob. All right. This isn't just an old covenant thing, this is also a new covenant thing. First Peter three, eight through twelve. Finally, be all of one mind, having compassion one of another. Love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous, not rendering evil for evil, but c or railing for railing, but contrary wise blessing, knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. So there is a blessing we're called to inherit, right? And being of one mind and not rendering evil for evil, that is part of our inheritance. Verse ten for he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile. Let him eschew evil and do good, let him seek peace and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers, but the faithful face of the Lord is against them that do evil. And so, as we see here, we we can there's there's an aspect where we have unconditional inheritance, and there's an aspect where we have conditional inheritance. Now, our children are going to can inherit the blessing that we have of being under the covenant, but then we can live our lives and raise them in such a way that they also inherit something that isn't so good. They can help inherit a culture that is evil for evil, railing for railing, not being of one mind, having discord in the family. There's good godly individuals that when it comes to their household, they have passed on a culture that is evil, and that evil culture gets passed on, and what happens? The kids don't inherit a blessing, they inherit something different. So to inherit means to take by descent from an ancestor. So as we read many scriptures in the last week that salvation was offered to you and your children, or you and your house. And we also saw even though all are born with the sin nature in them, the children of believers are considered holy or set apart, meaning they grow up with the means of grace all around them, or they ought to if they're in a house with believing parents. And we should all be fair very familiar with the scriptures about parents teaching and instructing their children in the faith. And I want to bring those out again. This is a huge part of our responsibility as Christians. We can't leave it to the local church to do it. It needs to be done by parents, and we can't submit that to the Sunday school teacher and to the pastor and to the youth camps and to the youth group meetings. No, our responsibility to do that. Otherwise, we will perpetuate the same thing that we've received, which is okay, just send them off to the experts. No, we're supposed to have a godly home. We're supposed to have a household that's following God, that's worshiping God on a daily basis. Ephesians 6, 4, and ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. That means the teaching and instruction of the Lord. So fathers are to be teaching and instructing their children in the Lord, not manipulating and controlling them, but teaching them, instructing them, taking the time to show them in the scriptures what salvation is, to lead them to Christ, to lead them to the message, to introduce them to the teachings of the message, to introduce them to the character of Christ and how a godly person would live. And this was part of the reason that that God saw and revealed himself more to Abraham. Genesis 18, verse 19, for I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which we he has spoken of him. So it goes way beyond just a list of rules, but that he's gonna teach them to keep the way of the Lord, not just the commands of the Lord, but they would know his ways, they would know how the character of the Lord and the direction of the Lord. That's why Abraham could come and say, Surely, surely the Lord will not destroy the righteous with the wicked. See, he knew the ways of the Lord, and he knew that that that couldn't be part of God's plan and part of God's program there. And so he knew the ways, he knew the heart of the Lord, and that's as fathers, we are not only just to teach them what the heart of the Lord is, but we're to demonstrate to them what the heart of the Lord is. Deuteronomy six, verses one through seven. Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land whither you go to possess it. Verse 2, that thou mightest fear the Lord thy God to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee thou and thy son and thy son's son all the days of thy life, and that thy days may be prolonged. Verse three. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee in the land that floweth with milk and honey. Verse four, hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. Verse five, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words which I command verse six, and these words which I commanded thee this day shall be in thine heart. Verse seven, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, when thou walkest in the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. So when you when you wake up in the morning, teach your children. When you go to before you go to bed, teach your children. When you're walking, teach your children. When you're sitting in your house, teach your children. So this is more than just one time a week we go to church. This is a continual uh teaching, a continual direction that you're creating a culture of instruction and teaching. You do have specific times of family worship where you uh read, pray, and sing together, but then you also have uh times of instruction, like in the middle of life, the child makes a mistake or says something wrong or says something that's unscriptural. You sit down with them and you go through the details. And he says in verse 6, the words that I command thee this day, they'll be in your heart. So you're you're to take the word and hide it in your heart and then teach your children. So it's through every circumstance of life that you're teaching them. It isn't just to say, hey, in the morning you have family worship, in the night you have family worship, and then you teach when you when you sit down and then you teach when you're walking on the way, like those, only those circumstances saying you're creating an atmosphere of teaching, that you as fathers are creating an atmosphere that your children are being taught in the covenant blessings and ways of the Lord. Proverbs 22, verse 6 train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Okay, so this is both for sons and daughters. We don't raise our sons the same way we raise our daughters. If we did that, that would be evil. In in the scripture, it gives specific commands. This is what you should, this is what the things that you should teach the young men. This is the things that you teach the young women, a young man He that doesn't provide for his own household has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel. Right? If you sh if a man shall not work, neither shall he eat. Right? We we teach him that he needs to teach and instruct his family when he gets married. We we teach him and train him, even helping him find the direction that he should go in his life so that he knows what work he should have. That part of part of mom and dad's job together as parents, as they're raising a young man, they're giving him a direction to go so that he know that he knows a trade, he knows how to, whether he becomes a lawyer, or he becomes a doctor, or he becomes an electrician, or he becomes a a a pipe fitter, or he becomes whatever he might be, he might become, that the parents are specifically the education that he has is directing him towards some sort of way that he can provide for his family. And that shouldn't be just something that's surprising at 18 years old, but that it'd be something that even in the as soon as they're reaching the age of 13, that you're starting to give that vision and direction to a young man and helping him determine what his profession is going to be so that he can become a provider for his family. And young you're teaching young ladies how to love their husbands, love their children, how to raise children, how to nurture children, teaching them and then how to keep keep keep a household running. And so these are the things of train up the child in the way they should go. It's not just in biblical truth, but it's in biblical truth and their life and the direction that God has for them. And there's a specific direction that God sends young men, and there's a specific direction that God sends young women, and the outworking of godliness is different for men as it is for women. Yes, the fruit of the Spirit is the same for both, but the outworking of that in the sphere of life that God calls them to is different. He doesn't call women to be providers, he calls men to be providers, he calls men to be providers and women to be homemakers. Say that's a backward way of looking at it. No. Your way of looking at it is backward. You've adopted the world and the worldly ways instead of the scriptural ways. Say we have no choice, we have to do it this way. There's always a choice. You can follow God or you can follow the world. You choose. Choose you this day whom you serve. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. We'll we're we'll set a direction. You say that's that's a hard path. Okay, it's a hard path. But with God all things are possible. We choose God's way, and then we we can see God's supernatural sustaining grace through God's way. Proverbs one verse eight in the JPS Hear my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother, so mothers are to be teachers of their children. Titus two, three through five, the aged women likewise, that they in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much m wine, teachers of good things, so older sisters are to be teachers. Are they teaching the men? No, that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their ch husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. I believe that every local church, every local pastor should facilitate a means for the older sisters to teach the younger sisters these very specific things to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands. There should be a a teaching time where maybe they gather in one of the sisters' homes, one of the family's homes, and they're they're teaching these things to the young teaching housekeeping and sobriety and modesty to the the younger girls. All right, so our children get to inherit the blessing of grace from us as their parents. That means we're utilizing our time to pass on the means of grace. We cannot give them the new birth, we cannot give them a heart of repentance, we cannot give them faith, but we're to teach them the word, to lay a foundation in the heart, to set the Holy Ghost atmosphere in the home, and to take the time to truly instruct them so that they know what they believe. We don't just uh leave them to whatever happens around us. We are very, it means we're intentional, it means we are scheduling things, it means we're looking at time and we're we're approaching things with wisdom and understanding. We're not just running and hoping that nature does does its job. That's not what parenting is supposed to be. That's not even what Paul is detailing, or the Old Testament or the New Testament is detailing for us of what it means to be a part of the covenant. They're just automatically a part of the covenant. No, the part of the covenant means that they are raised in the atmosphere of the covenant. No, only God can only God can give the covenant. We can't, we can pass on the blessing, but it takes God to give it. So every parent is called to be a teacher and instructor of their own children in the faith. Parents should be actively leading their children to Christ. Yes, bring them to church, to Sunday school, get them to youth camps, get them in fellowship with godly young people. Be very intentional about it. But don't use those things as an excuse to forsake your duty as a father or as a mother to give instructions in the word and in godliness in the home. This is part of our calling, and this is how our children are receiving the blessings of the family covenant inheritance of redemption. The influence of another, 1962, Brother Branham says, Oh, your family is what you are. You raise your child in a certain environment, it's got a 98% better chance to go right than it has if you bring it up in the wrong way. Amen. Bring up a child in the way that it should go, and when it's old, it will not depart from it. Be brought up right. Teach your children to do right, to be honest, to be fair, square, and fair, even when they're in school. Right? 98% better chance to go right than if you bring them up the wrong way. So raising them in an environment, the right environment, that you're teaching them and instructing them and sitting down with them and with patience, going through, you know, my friend said that you should have such an open relationship with your children that they're willing to tell you about conversations and things that happened with their friends, and then you don't you're not condemning them or coming down hard on them with everything that they say, because that makes them to not want to open up, but you're speaking to them in such a way you're listening. Oh, wow, that's interesting. Hey, have you ever thought about this aspect of that and this aspect of that? And helping gaining uh their trust and their love so. That they'll open up to you and then being able to teach them through their opening up to you. In marriage and divorce, 1955, Brother Branham says it wasn't so from the beginning. That is right. It wasn't so, and it will not be at the end. But under modern conditions, as God's servant. So under the modern conditions, I command you to go to your home with your wife now. If you're happy with her, live with her, raise your children in the admonition of God. But God be merciful to you if you ever do that again. You teach your children to never do a thing like that. Bring them up in the admonition of God. All right. So he's speaking about marriage and divorce, and I don't want to get into the nitty-gritty on that, but let's just say it this way in the beginning, God made one man and one woman, and he he joined them together. What God joins together, let them not put asunder. So what he's saying is don't get divorced and stay together. If you're in a covenant household, there's no such thing as divorce. Right? For two Christians, there's no such thing as divorce. So teach your children, don't be going around getting married, things not working out, get get a divorce, get remarried. No, that's not scriptural. When once you want make a wise decision, a prayerful decision, and when you do that, that's your mate for life. Amen. So it's it's necessary for us to teach our children about marriage and divorce. Have you done that? In the sermon Expectation 1955, Brother Branham says, God, I pray that you'll mend up the broken homes and make the ones that's in homes that's indifferent, fathers and mothers who don't pray, give them an experience tonight that they'll start a family altar at their home. God grant it, Lord. Amen. So are you, Brother Branham says, in just one more time, Lord, 1963, are you ready to establish the old family altar again? Or do you just want to continue on the way you are? Amen. That's I ask you the question. We love our pastors, we love the ministry team, the evangelists that come through, the missionaries. They're responsible to preach the word and equip the bride for the ministry, lead new people to Christ, but they cannot lead your children and your home. It's impossible. It's your duty to do that in your home, and you set the atmosphere. You're the one that will mold and shape the environment that your kids are in in order for them to grow up and inherit a blessing. In 1964, questions and answers, Brother Bram says, make your home nice. Make your home a place where your daughter or son will not be ashamed to bring their company before their father and mother and into their house and make home so happy that they'll be pleased in their home to stay there. So we want our home to have the right kind of atmosphere. If we're always drilling down on our children and rebuking them with harshness, making them feel inadequate, we're not demonstrating love to them and patience through our concern for them, and they'll not want to be with us. If we're constantly telling them you're you're not being around us, and once you're 18, you're out of here. That's not the kind of home. Of course they're out of here. It's it's self-fulfilling prophecy. They don't want to be around you. They don't enjoy your company, they don't enjoy your presence. Brother Branham says, make your home nice, make it a place that's so happy that they'll be pleased to stay with you as long as they can. Amen. And and I I would just say this this whole idea that we gotta shoo our kids out when they're 18, I think it's not scriptural. From what I can see, our children are under our headship until a new headship is formed. Once they're married, then that changes things. But uh our daughters should be under our protection and headship as men until that we hand them over to another young man. They don't need to be moving out and establishing their own quasi headship, separate from their father, and in this position where they're exposed to all the evils of the world. No, we don't want to do that. We don't want to follow the ways that the world has designed for us to do. Our sons can stay with us until they get they get married. Teach them to be responsible, teach them to take care of the home, teach young men to how to fix the car and how to how to work on the house and how to take responsibility for bills and teach teach your daughters how to take responsibility for meals and for shopping and so forth. They can, as they grow, they can get more experience in the home. And then, you know, if if they reach 18 and they want to, they're still at home, young men should be working, obviously by then. Young women, if they if they want to do some work out of the home, you can there's many, many options for home businesses that they would be able to stay in the right atmosphere and not go out into a career. And so the other part, the other part in our homes is demonstrating consistency, consistency of of life habits, consistency of behavior. You go to church every week, you're not skipping all the time and making all kinds of excuses. Sunday and Wednesday, you go to church. There's there's a special thing at church, go to that if you can. You do devotions every day, you know. You you you do family worship every day. Demonstrate day by day and step by step regular consistency in the home. But then beyond that, you know, be consistent in your life choices. Don't say and do one thing for people in the church and and then do another thing when you're in your the privacy of your home or when you're by yourself on vacation. We're training our children then to be hypocrites. Privately, we do this, we drink wine and we watch rated R movies. Uh don't tell anybody about it. Don't tell people in church. It's like living a double life, and this will lead to your children walking away and saying, a bunch of hypocrites. Or you'll just put rebellion and hypocrisy into them. Be consistent with how you live. Don't live in such a way that you need to hide it from other people. Create an atmosphere of building up and encouragement in your relationships with your children so they really do enjoy being around you. Then, from that loving atmosphere that you've created, you can take time to instruct them in the word and and correct them, not with harshness, but you can be a teacher and an edifier because you have the vision you're passing down. This is this is a family inheritance of the blessing of the covenant that God has made with us. And I want to, I want to take it in, I want you to take it into your heart. I want to receive it the same way I did, and I want you to walk with this and pass it on to your children and teach your children to pass it on further. And we look on this passing on, I want to go back to the types and shadows and see that though it is a family blessing and inheritance, and it has to go from a family faith to a personal relationship. So look at Genesis 28 is a perfect description of this. And Isaac called Jacob, so Jacob stole the blessing, he deceived his father, and so all this has happened. Now Isaac calls Jacob and blesses him and charges him, said unto him, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Paden Aram, to the house of Bethuel, thy fat mother's father, and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother. And God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people, and give thee the blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy seed with thee, that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham. Alright, so now this is the unconditional covenant. Isaac comes and says, Look, you bought the inheritance from Esau, you caught him in his weakest moment and tricked him, and you took it away from him. Then when I called Esau to me, you you your mother, you and your mother deceived me and stole the blessing. So, okay, we I see that God has ordained for you to be Jacob, the supplanter, and you've supplanted your brother. Now I'm giving you the blessing. Now you can have it. It's unconditional, it's not based on your behavior, it's not based on obviously not based on his behavior. Right? So I'm giving it giving it to you. Here it is. So then Jacob, in obedience to his father, goes out, and he goes unto his family. Right. And on the way, it says verse 12, he dreamed a dream, behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and on the top of it reached a heaven, and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it, and behold, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, the and the God of Isaac, the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed, and thy shed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east, and to the north, and to the south, and in thee, and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed, and behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land, for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. And Jacob waked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. So here Jacob had the blessing from his father Isaac. It had to go from that family blessing to a supernatural blessing that he received directly from God. And this is the very same process for our own children. We can and must give them our blessing to inherit eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. But the only way for them to truly inherit is if God meets them personally by the new birth. Right. So this is this is critical, this is key, this is an emphasis. It's only through the genuine receiving of spiritual circumcision, spiritual regeneration. We call it we can call it the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the receiving of the Spirit is that they're they're sealed into the new covenant. They have faith, but they must be sealed into the new covenant. So Jacob had the blessing from his father Isaac, but he had to be go to being a blessing directly from Almighty God. And the same thing must go to our children. As we talked about before, you know, you can you can be a believer, you can be a part of that covenant, but then at the same time, you can also through the behavior that you have, and maybe you could say even the lack of character that you have, you can go on and walking and living in immaturity and not correcting yourself, and you can pass on a culture of a culture that causes damage, let's put it that way. If we think of it in terms of what we were speaking about before, that love is that which desires and purposes to bring someone into spiritual growth, right? And that evil is that which hinders or blocks spiritual growth. So, you know, we we love our children, we are we're in covenant with God. They're because we're believers, our children are set apart and they're in covenant with him, but all we do, we take them to church, we take them to Sunday school, but we never take the time to teach them and train them individually, and not only that, but we live in our lives in such a maybe a lazy, lazy, self-centered way. What are we passing on to our children? You say the grace of God takes care of all that. Well, yes and no, in the sense of ultimately being saved, sure, it does. People that that habitually hinder other people's spiritual growth can be saved and go to heaven. But I don't think as as the bride of Christ, we want to be in a position where we're habitually hindering the spiritual growth of our children by our own laziness and our own lack of investment in our children's future. All right, so and but and by even our own ungodliness. So here we look, we could see this in the life of Abraham, Genesis 20, verse 2. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She's my sister, and a big Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah. This is an act of despicable cowardliness that he will sacrifice his own wife to protect his own sick self. How sad and how pathetic that is. Now he passes that very same thing on. I mean, it's literally the definition of evil. In order to protect his own sick self, he sacrifices his wife. Not only her spiritual growth, but sacrifices her very existence that she's in in order for sends her off to a pagan king. Well, Isaac does the same thing. Genesis 26, 6 through 7, and then verse 36. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar, and the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he said, She's my sister, for he feared to say she is my wife. Lest said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebecca, because she was fair to look upon. So again, in order to protect his own sick self, what does he do? He's willing to sacrifice his wife to a bunch of pagans. Very, very sad. And then we pass this on. We look at this whole picture. In this family, you have you have generation upon generation where men will sacrifice anything, the truth itself, on the altar and of protecting themselves, protecting their own skin. Genesis 26, verse 36. I mean, we go we go on before we read that Genesis 25, 29. And Jacob sawed pottage. And Esau came from the field and he was faint. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage, for I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, am I I'm at the point to die. What profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day, and he swear unto him, and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. So we have here multiple cases. I mean, the the the the the family culture and atmosphere you got now we have grandpa, he'll sell his wife to protect his own skin. Great grandpa. Yeah, grandpa. Dad will sell his wife to protect his own skin. Next we have Esau. What does he say? The blessing, the blessing from Abraham is meaningless to me. What does it matter? I don't need it. I'm hungry. Give me some red lentil soup. Because I'm hungry. Number one, and and Jacob says, okay, I'll I'll I'll sell I'll give it to you if you give me your birthright. Look, I like this is your brother. You don't care you don't care about your brother staying alive? Wow, you don't care about your brother staying alive, so you say, Okay, I'll give you something to eat because you're starving. I'll give you something to eat. I'll make a plan, I'll make a plan for you. Here it is. Sell me this and I'll give you a bowl of soup. And this man disregards is so uh dis puts his own self above the birthright, above the inheritance that's to come from Abraham to Isaac to Esau. He says, Forget it, it doesn't matter, just give me the bowl of soup. The value that he placed on it, he despised his birthright. And we go on. The character we have Genesis 27, verse 36. Esau said, Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. Then he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me? So Esau speaking to Isaac, don't you have a blessing for me left? Well, you sold it before. Well, yeah, he cheated me. Did did Jacob cheat Esau? Yes, he did. Yes, he absolutely did. Now we let's go, let's go further. Let's go now into Jacob's children. Jacob's children. Their daughter gets raped by Shechem, the son of Hamor. And so what do they do? Well, Jacob is afraid and he says, We can't do anything. Be careful what you do. We're in this people's land, they'll kill all of us. Well what kind of faith is that about God's promises, about the birthright, about the blessing, about being a great nation. Alright? No faith. Yet the unconditional covenant is there. God's grace. All right. So then those children say, Well, we'll take the thing into our own hands. We will join. They say, Shechem says, I want to marry Dinah. They say, Okay, no problem. You can marry Dinah. We'll make marriages and make allegiances. And what do they do? They say, only thing is, in order for to do that, you have to get circumcised. So they get circumcised and they wait until they're deeply sick because of the inflammation in their bodies after getting circumcised, and they go in and kill all the men. So we have Jacob's children pulling a Jacob. All right. Brother Branham says this in the sixth seal. We see this culture has passed down, and the culture is still there today. It hasn't changed. It hasn't been, they haven't been delivered from it. They're still in the same spirit. Jacob had the birthright, is that right? Brother Branham says in the sixth seal. Jacob had the birthright, is that right? But he sure was a little shyster with it. See, he went down and he deceived his daddy. He deceived his brother. He done everything, but yet legally right down he had it because Esau had sold it. But then he goes down there to work for his father-in-law. He put those poplar sticks in the water to make those pregnant cattle and things bring forth speckled calves. And oh, you know, everything he done like that just to gain money. Now, watch now. He was ousted from his people. Now it's a type of the Jew now. He's a money snatcher. I don't care how he gets it, he'll get it. He'll skin you alive to get it. Now you know that. He's a little shyster. That's all, boy. Don't deal with him. He'll get you, boy. Yes, sir. Why? He's got to be that. That's kind of a spirit that's dominating him. So this is the spirit of Jewish culture that's been passed down from generation to generation, all the way back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You create a culture within your family, and if you're not careful, it's the wrong kind of culture, and you'll pass that directly on to your children without, and they'll behave that way and do that without even know it. And so if you have this culture of cheating and stealing and putting your self selfishness, you're going to pass the same culture on to your children. And if you have a culture of condemnation and harsh harshness, that that spirit will pass right down through the strain of your family and until some. Somebody breaks the mold, and you have a promise of God to break the mold. Or you could say if you're stubborn and easily angry, that's going to pass on to your family as well. If you always tuck down on yourself and always view yourself as lesser and I'm no good, I'm this, you'll pass that on to your family. If there's sexual abuse in the family, if you don't make a concerted, concerted effort and put yourself before God to change you, you'll pass that on from generation to generation. And if there's loose women, you'll find that hardly anyone is married in the family family. If it's anything like that, if you're real lazy and you refuse to connect with the hearts of your children, you keep them at a distance and let them raise themselves. That same spirit will pass down that strain of your family. And sometimes that's uh the biggest thing in in America that you'll find is you the culture is send your children to the experts to be trained, send them to send them off to school, send them off to this. Well, we won't get into that in detail, but you send them off to to public school or private school and say, hey, someone else should teach them. And then then you bring them, you send them off to Sunday school, and you send them off to youth group, and you send them off to youth camp. And you have this distance between your heart and your children, where your children are more oriented towards other children than they are towards their families. And so you have this family disconnect that goes from generation to generation until everyone, nothing, nothing to that, you know, third generation, nothing is important to them anymore. They don't see the importance of faith, they don't see the importance of the walk with God because you didn't pass it down to them. You expected the experts to do it, and we're finding that you found that very clearly in American culture coming out of World War I and World War II, where we've made these massive public schools, corporate, corporatized public schools, and put kids away from their parents. Now, parents barely have a relationship with them. All right. Brother Branham's speaking in 1963 in the sermon A Paradox. He says, Now, this young fellow's parents, his mother's German, no reflection on the German, but there's a strain in that family, and that is they'll just sit and you can talk to them and they'll just stare you right in the face. The girl's sister, the mother of this boy, her sister. I've come down the street many mornings, and this young lady be setting out in the yard and I'd say, Good morning to you. She'd just look at me and I'd stop and I'd say, Sure, a fine morning. She would just stand and look right at you, an intelligent woman. And I'd say, Come up to see us sometime. She'd just stand and look. Well, her brothers are that way, father and mother is that way. Now the father of the boy is strictly an Irishman, moody and high tempered, high strung. That's his whole family like that, except except one other out of the family converted. Now and this this boy, this father and mother, both are Christians, filled with the Holy Ghost, and they brought this young man up in the way of the Lord, and now the young man is about 17 or 18 years old, something along there. Very fine kid. He's been a real model boy at home, nice kid, and he's got a brother that's just vice versa. Alright, so Brother Branham's speaking about you know, you're raised up in a family culture, and you have to specifically work to break that. There is a family strain that's coming, and it's coming down, it's gonna pass on from generation to generation. Now look at this. Exodus 20, verse 5. There's a there's a scriptural precedent for this. Thou shalt not bound thyself 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. Adam Clark's commentary says about this verse, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children. He says, This necessarily implies if the children walk in the steps of their fathers, for no man can be condemned by divine justice for a crime of which he was never guilty. And Exodus 20, verse 6 in the JPS says, and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love me and keep my commandments. So children walk in the steps of their fathers, not just in general, as we saw, but in the culture that the father creates in his home, and then the attitude he takes towards his wife, his children, his church, those around him, and his life in general. We can pass on the right kind of an attitude of faith, an attitude of love, an attitude of forgiveness, and at it and an attitude of strength, and an attitude of decisiveness. Or we can pass on an attitude and an atmosphere where we're deceiving people to protect ourselves. We're operating and working out of the standpoint that everything is all about me and it's all about what I want, and I will sacrifice everyone to protect my own sick self. So we can pass that on an attitude of anger, frustration, wick, weakness, unforgiveness, fear, disconnect. Or we can be men and women that say, Whatever happened in the past, it stops now. We're going to follow the word. It's for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. We're going to set the right atmosphere. We're going to speak the right things. We're going to speak the right attitudes. We're going to be aware of how we need to change. And then we're going to make those changes so that we can pass on the right atmosphere and the right kind of character and behavior to our children, as we read at the beginning from 1 Peter chapter 3. Finally be all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous, not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing, but contrary wise blessing. Knowing that ye are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing. For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that speak no guile. Let him eschew evil and do good, let him seek peace and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. So again, we can we can inherit a blessing, and then we can pass on that covenant blessing to our children by walking in the word, by cutting off the lies and the deception and the selfishness and the evil, or we can just accept the evil and continue on and walk in it and pass that on to our children, and then they have to deal with it. And we either damage them to the point where they walk away. You could say, Oh, well, if they were predestinated seed, they would have accepted it. That is one of the most evil and wicked things to say. We are a part of a covenant, and it's our duty to pass that covenant on to our children. We know that only God can seal that word in their hearts, but it's our job to place it in there. It's our job to work to put it in there. It's our job to create a family culture where our children aren't selling their wives out to protect their own skin or selling their children out to protect their own skin. So this is ultimately what's happening is we're sacrificing on our children on the altar of our own personal image in church or in life or in society. No, we don't do that. We don't sacrifice our children. We sacrifice ourselves in order for our children to be able to move forward in the blessing that God has for them. We have to see their lives going forward. A real true parent will sacrifice themselves, not their children. Again, this is what this is what this is going back to paganism and idolatry. When parents sacrifice their children, even though even in even in a spiritual sense, not literally, this is offering your children up to Molech. Your God isn't the God of the Bible, your God is Molech. And you're engaging in idolatry. Idolatry of what? Idolatry isn't just worshiping cartgraven image. Idolatry is worshiping your own self. Idolatry is worshiping your own image or the image of a pastor or a prophet, and you're sacrificing the spiritual growth of your children and for for the sake of holding up this image that you have. We shouldn't do that. We should sacrifice ourselves for the sake of our children. Well, if you have any questions or prayer requests or testimonies, please let me know. I love to hear from you. Please make sure to like and to respond. I love hearing from you. It's a little difficult to engage in ministry uh behind the camera and the lights when there's no feedback like this. But my desire is to be a blessing and and to uh feed God's sheep wherever they are in the world. I know this goes goes around the world into many places. I trust it's a blessing, but I'd like to hear from you, I'd like to get feedback from you. Whether it's good or bad, I'll take any of it. So appreciate that, and may the Lord richly bless you.