At a church meeting late last year I also believe that a “spirit of passivity” was “blocking” the flow of the spirit. I assumed it was related to the word I received about “ideologies”, but later the Lord led me back to it and added “legacy”- i.e. “something” from the past.
I have been busy so I have only just had time to seek the Lord about “Legacy”. The Lord gave me “sins of the fathers” (Exod 20:5b, Num 14:18) and “identificational repentance”(2 Chron 7:14, Jer 14:20, Dan 9:20, Neh 1:6, Lev 26:40). This suggested that something had happened in the churches past that appeared to require more repentance. I hope this makes sense?
In 1961 the vicar of the church was known to be a Freemason and for his sexual immorality. He was defrocked for committing adultery with a Sunday school teacher and for sexually assaulting the curates wife and three teenage girls in the congregation. There is no evidence that he repented, but rather that he continued his “amorous” ways as a non-conformed minister.
Derek Prince (2006) , Peter Horribin (1991), Alistair Petrie (2000) and Ken Hepworth (2003) all warn about the consequences for churches with a history of Freemasonry and/or sexual sin. Not long after we joined the church we had a picture of a black dog near the altar. We did not think very much about it at the time, but given the word about “legacy” it made more sense. Black dogs are considered to be a familiar of triune goddess Hecate and Hecate to be associated with Masonry as well as being the goddess of sex and death.
Alistair Petrie’s states (2000 Page 151) that Freemasonry falls under all four major categories ofsin: idolatry, Sexual immorality, untimely bloodshed and broken covenants. He goes on to say that “yet for many years the Church has willingly opened her doors to receive this Trojan horse. Once inside the Church, the spirit of Freemasonry permeates almost every component of ministry”.
Peter Horribin mentions (1991 Page 92) a link between Masonry and mind controlling spirits (including passivity) making it hard to understand spiritual truth … and be filled or anointed with the Holy Spirit.
According to Horribin (1991 Page 100) “Spirits of Freemasonry will legalistically exercise their right over whatever congregation is gathered in that church for all of time. They will hold the fellowship into the bondage of the past, unless the matter is properly dealt with through repentance for the sins of the ancestors by the present day leadership of the church, and by effective spiritual warfare against the ruling spirits through praise, worship and deliverance ministry. Effective cleansing of both churches and individuals requires specific ministry to deal with the legalistic rights that demons have”.
I am wondering if after the vicar left the church the subsequent leadership engaged in “identificational” repentance and wondered if more needs to be done?
Prince, D. 2006 Blessing or Curse : You Can Choose, Chosen Books, Grand Rapids.
Petrie, A. 2000 Releasing Heaven on Earth, Chosen Books, Grand Rapids.
Horribin, P. 1991 Healing Through Deliverance, Sovereign World, Tonbridge.
Hepworth, K. 2003 Reclaiming The Ground, Soveriegn World, Tonbridge.