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City of Light Church
Sermon Notes: 6.29.2025 Bloodline Battles: What You Don’t Renounce, You Repeat
Speaker: Brian Mckee
Locations & Times
City of Light Church
6725 W Burleigh St, Milwaukee, WI 53210, USA
Sunday 9:00 AM
Main Text: Judges 6:25-32 — Gideon is called to tear down his father’s altar to Baal before he can defeat the Midianites.
The Tale of Two Sons
Riches That Ruin: Idolatry Leads to Bondage and Poverty
The more you return to an altar with action, the more power it gains
The altar you feed is the altar that feeds on you
Bloodline Bondage: Inherited Altars
Facts About Gideon:
Gideon's family had a literal altar to Baal
If you don't confront the family altar, you'll continue the family outcome.
Family Frameworks: The Power of Generational Choices
Cultural Curses: Modern Generational Altars
• Fear and worry as a lifestyle
• Addictions that run in families
• Unforgiveness passed off as loyalty
• Poverty mindsets and distrust of success
• Cultural sins celebrated as normal
• Addictions that run in families
• Unforgiveness passed off as loyalty
• Poverty mindsets and distrust of success
• Cultural sins celebrated as normal
What you tolerate, your children will embrace. What you cover, they will inherit.
What’s in your house?
What’s in your house?
Breaking Baal’s Bondage: The Altar in Gideon’s Family
God required Gideon to break the old before He could bless the new
The fight you're in may have started long ago—but it can end today
Demonic Designs: Signs of Life Under Evil Altars
A person influenced by an evil altar often experiences cycles of hardship, delayed destiny, and mental torment.
Chronic stagnation or repeated failure
Addictions and compulsive behaviors
Constant nightmares or spiritual oppression
Fear, anxiety, and depression with no medical cause
Financial leakages—never retaining wealth
Repeating generational patterns (e.g., divorce, addiction, poverty)
Addictions and compulsive behaviors
Constant nightmares or spiritual oppression
Fear, anxiety, and depression with no medical cause
Financial leakages—never retaining wealth
Repeating generational patterns (e.g., divorce, addiction, poverty)
Patterns are often the proof of a hidden altar
Deceptive Disguises: Occult Practices in Popular Culture
• Burning sage or incense to "clear energy"
• Affirmations that invoke "the universe"
• Horoscopes and zodiac-based decision-making
• Ancestor worship
• Music, dance, or imagery invoking pagan gods
• Affirmations that invoke "the universe"
• Horoscopes and zodiac-based decision-making
• Ancestor worship
• Music, dance, or imagery invoking pagan gods
Just because it’s popular doesn’t mean it’s pure
Consecration Commitment: Sustaining the Freedom
Deliverance is not freedom if we go back to the same altars.
Steps for Sustained Freedom:
• Daily Prayer & Devotion – deepens intimacy with God and renews the mind.
• Fasting – sharpens spiritual sensitivity and empowers prayer.
• Spiritual Accountability – fosters consistency and provides protection.
• Declarations – proclaiming God’s truth over life, family, and community.
• Corporate Prayer – collective intercession breaks through strongholds with multiplied power.
• Fasting – sharpens spiritual sensitivity and empowers prayer.
• Spiritual Accountability – fosters consistency and provides protection.
• Declarations – proclaiming God’s truth over life, family, and community.
• Corporate Prayer – collective intercession breaks through strongholds with multiplied power.
You stay free by staying surrendered
Prayer of Renunciation
In the name of Jesus Christ, I renounce every altar of Baal, Asherah, and every false god that has received sacrifice from my bloodline or through my actions. I declare that every legal right given to demonic powers through these altars is now broken by the power in the blood of Jesus. Let every covenant made knowingly or unknowingly be canceled. I sever every soul tie and reclaim all territory surrendered to darkness. Amen.
In the name of Jesus Christ, I renounce every altar of Baal, Asherah, and every false god that has received sacrifice from my bloodline or through my actions. I declare that every legal right given to demonic powers through these altars is now broken by the power in the blood of Jesus. Let every covenant made knowingly or unknowingly be canceled. I sever every soul tie and reclaim all territory surrendered to darkness. Amen.
Prayer of Freedom
Lord, expose every hidden altar influencing my decisions, patterns, and emotions. I ask You to shine Your light into every shadowed area of my life and lineage. Deliver me from every cycle of defeat, fear, and failure that was activated by evil altars. I receive the freedom purchased for me at Calvary and declare that I walk in liberty from this day forward. Amen.
Lord, expose every hidden altar influencing my decisions, patterns, and emotions. I ask You to shine Your light into every shadowed area of my life and lineage. Deliver me from every cycle of defeat, fear, and failure that was activated by evil altars. I receive the freedom purchased for me at Calvary and declare that I walk in liberty from this day forward. Amen.
Prayer of Rebuilding
Father, help me to build a godly altar in every area of my life that once belonged to the enemy. Let my worship rise to You daily, and may every thought, action, and offering glorify You. Let my life be a testimony that declares, “The Lord is God here.” Teach me to build altars of obedience, purity, faith, and love that shift atmospheres and break generational bondage. Amen.
Father, help me to build a godly altar in every area of my life that once belonged to the enemy. Let my worship rise to You daily, and may every thought, action, and offering glorify You. Let my life be a testimony that declares, “The Lord is God here.” Teach me to build altars of obedience, purity, faith, and love that shift atmospheres and break generational bondage. Amen.
Prayer of Consecration
Holy Spirit, seal this deliverance with Your fire. Sanctify every area of my heart and fill me afresh. I yield to You completely and commit to walking in truth, in purity, and in boldness. Strengthen me to resist temptation, to speak truth in love, and to advance the Kingdom with joy. Let my freedom be permanent and my life be a weapon of righteousness in Your hands. Amen.
Holy Spirit, seal this deliverance with Your fire. Sanctify every area of my heart and fill me afresh. I yield to You completely and commit to walking in truth, in purity, and in boldness. Strengthen me to resist temptation, to speak truth in love, and to advance the Kingdom with joy. Let my freedom be permanent and my life be a weapon of righteousness in Your hands. Amen.
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