You'll keep your temper five times out of six, and then the sixth time out you go! Whack! Come back in - you know they all saw it. It's too late to get it back - or you'll try not to talk about the things in your heart. Suddenly WHOOSH! Out it comes. It's too late. It's out there. Now your own mouth has revealed the iniquity that's in your heart. Bitterness or hate or whatever it is, envy and jealousy, all those things. Those are iniquities in the heart, and they will carry on generationally if we don't deal with them.
He says this is the covenant I'll deal with, this is the covenant. The covenant is - this is how God is - I love this. He said first of all, when Jesus went to the cross, God put all the iniquities on Him, so He shed His blood, all the iniquities He dealt with - I've get to get this thing to apply, so this is what God says; I'm going to make a new covenant. It's not external, it's internal. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going change that crooked spirit you've got inside you. That spirit that's carrying all that corrupt DNA, that spirit that's carrying iniquity, that part of you that motivates you, drives you, He said I'm going to put it to death and give you a new spirit! That's the deal! When you get born again, you get a whole new spirit inside you! You come alive inside, on the inside! You come out of death and trespasses and sins alive in God, a new creation!
What else do we need to do? We need to apply the blood to my lifeline. I need to apply the blood to my generational background. I need to put the cross and the blood between me and where I've come from and declare by confession of my mouth it stops here. [Applause] IT STOPS WITH ME! Iniquity stops with me! It will not proceed! It will not go any further! How can I apply this? I've got to confess it.
The Bible talks in Leviticus about confessing the iniquity that's in your family, confessing your own iniquity, get it out into the realm of the courts of heaven, and speak it out. You know, in Nehemiah 9:2 it says they confessed the iniquities of their fathers and their own iniquity - said we've walked this way and so did our family. Our whole family's been into this stuff and we've gone along with it. That's why we're in a mess. Bring it out to the light! If you've got a bad corrupt seed you've come from, bring it to the cross! Bring it to the blood! Make value of Jesus' bloodshed. He shed it for our iniquity, shed His blood for our iniquity so I need to confess it, bring it out!
Lord, this thing has been in my family. It's been an iniquity in my family line, and I've been a part of it, and it's resting on me. I bring it to the cross today! I thank you, your blood shed at the cross breaks the power of iniquity!
See? And so the Bible says in Romans 6:16, then reckon yourself dead to that thing. See, now you say but I keep having the thing come. Well now you've got to actually stand up by faith. To reckon is an accounting term. You've got to hold over it and say, I don't care if I feel that thing pulling on me. Spiritual reality, the cross says you're dead! You're dead. I hold the blood over that thing right now.
Start to do it, assert the blood over the iniquity in your life, and begin to watch as it loses its power. The devil will try - now here's the difficulty, is of course there's cells in your body retain memories of iniquity. That's a part of the problem. Cells in your body retain memories of iniquity and your mind itself, the way it's constructed, it retains memories of the things you've done that were wrong. It does it in the form of neuron trees, and I just saw something recently that really just fired me up. I see Jesus spoke to a tree, it was a bad tree. He cursed the thing. No more fruit! And I encourage you to just bring whatever's in your background to the cross, hold the cross and the blood against it, reject anything coming down your family line, and speak into your thought trees - NO MORE FRUIT! Just speak to them like Jesus did. Speak into that kingdom of iniquity, no more fruit! Hold the word of God - NO MORE FRUIT! I bring the blood of Jesus against that tree, against those memories - NO MORE FRUIT!