The Wayside Pulpit No.78

5th June 2000

Ancestral Bondage  

In this last of the three papers on the state of the dead, we shall be quoting from those who adopt the practice of "Healing the Family Tree", founded in 1994 by Dr Kenneth McAll, who was born in China in 1910. His experiences as a medical doctor in Japanese interment camps led to the study of psychiatry, and a life devoted to the healing ministry. His best selling book "Healing the Family Tree" has sold nearly a quarter of a million books, and is translated into at least 13 languages.   Rather than quote from McAll's fascinating book, we shall instead take an extract from a letter written by the American Attorney, James Alspaugh of North Carolina. James heard Dr Kenneth speak about his work, and proceeded to convene  a group to study and practise the "Resurrection Eucharist" to assist people in being released from generational sin and bondage. The quotation contains vital information in brief compass, making it ideal for our present purposes. More will be said in the next WP. Here then is the quote -

"We have been so busy lately but we still do a Resurrection Eucharist each Wednesday at noon. The base group is still with us, with new people coming and going according to their needs. It seems to us that we have people who have personal salvation, but their own confession of sin did not cover the sins of their parents, grandparents etc. Once they requested Jesus to forgive the generation sin of their ancestors and for his Blood to go backwards to cover them too; then Jesus, at his Eucharist, takes care of the problem and frees both them and their ancestors. I had to change my thinking to include the fact that personal confession of sins is not broad enough to cover ancestral sin. This comes as a revelation to many people and is important for emphasis. It seems that many Protestants have to change their thinking that people go to Heaven or Hell immediately when they die. This presents a big problem especially when they are not used to praying for the deceased. They think it is a séance or something worse. The other problem is to be aware that the sins of our ancestors can affect the descendants now. They feel that their personal confessions of sins should cover the matter and it does not.

We have seen much healing in this Generational healing area. It seems that we have the folks who have tried everything else and nothing has worked. Now they begin to see that Jesus is bigger and more real than they thought he was. We constantly see the suicides doing the repetitive act that killed them as if they are trapped in a time warp. Last week we were praying for several suicides and Carey saw two of them appear with "Suicide" written on a sign across their chests. The Angel took them to Jesus who forgave them and up they went. This ministry is very loving and tender hearted. So many of the people have been to various churches and preachers but have received no help or release. They just are not involved in this area. The Resurrection Eucharist has helped so many unsolvable problems with people that we still find it hard to believe that the main-line churches have so many difficulties with it. My own priests in the Episcopal church do not want to have anything to do with it, even though I gave them good reports of the numerous healings.

We have been reading of people in the New Age movement who in meditation are seeing people in past lives, as if reincarnation were true. However, the Lord has told us that what they are seeing are their past ancestors and those connected with them. People do not realise how much influence their ancestors have on them. Jesus has been teaching us that His Blood will flow forward and cover our descendants’ sin so that they can be set free to find him, and then he can enter their hearts. So we are taking the Eucharist both for the living and the dead. This is a wonderful ministry. It answers so many of the unanswered questions that we have. The people that are coming to us are the ones who are desperate and who are willing to consider that ancestral sin (could) be the root of their problems. Many of them know Jesus in salvation (forgiveness of sins) but they don't know him as their Bread of Life.

[The "Family Tree Ministry" may be contacted by writing to the Secretary, FTM Ministry, 67, Old Kennels Lane, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 4JT, England. Tel 01962 - 855963  Fax 01962 - 854791  Email sec@ftmin.prestel.co.uk]

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