Ezekiel 18:20 · World English Bible
The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
No one can carry your account for you, which means every inherited excuse quietly stops working today. Three decisions run a life: what a person aims attention at, what they decide it means, and what they do next.
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No one can carry your account for you, which means every inherited excuse quietly stops working today.
Three decisions run a life: what a person aims attention at, what they decide it means, and what they do next. Aim the first at a father's failures and the second writes itself, that the blood was bad and the ending was fixed before birth, and the third never gets made at all. God refusing to transfer one soul's debt to another strips that story of its material.
A man who stops paying down a debt never billed to him gets those three decisions back, and sees how long they were made by default. The cost of keeping the inheritance is every year spent proving a verdict no court entered against him.
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Whose debt have I been paying that was never billed to me?
By oneself the wrong is done and by oneself it is undone. No one purifies another, and no one is stained by another's choosing.
Your family, your body, your history are not up to you. What you do with today is entirely up to you, and that is where your whole life actually sits.
No bearer of burdens carries the burden of another. Each person has only what they themselves have worked for.
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