Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

personal responsibility for their actions. The idea of being cursed becomes more of a cop-out for permitting your own actions, thereby never taking personal responsibility for dealing with your flesh. R EDEMPTION C HANGES Y OUR C ARNAL N ATURE One of the supernatural blessings of those who have received a redemptive covenant through Christ is that the act of redemption is not just a mental process, but it’s a literal transformation that occurs within the human heart and spirit. Those who have entered into a new covenant of redemption through faith in the blood of Christ and the forgiveness of sins are new creations! The Bible says that if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature ( creation ), and the old things pass away and all things become new (2 Cor. 5:17). This covenant is initiated when a person repents of his or her sins and turns from wickedness. It is written: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). Once we have been sealed in the covenant through the shed blood of Christ, then “old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Cor. 5:17). From God’s perspective He takes the sins of the past, forgives them, and never recalls them again. Isaiah wrote, “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins” (Isa. 43:25). B IBLICAL R EFERENCES TO A G ENERATIONAL C URSE