How to Break Cycles of Bitterness in Your Family

You know what? What we have here described isthis is an ideal pattern of wisdom that that we wanna see families intact to where grandparents and parents and kids and everybody is is moving in the same direction and everybody has a a faith, and everybody celebrates the good moments. But quite frankly, these are not guarantees. Thisproverb here is not a guarantee. This is the ideal. This is the pattern of wisdom. This is the direction that God would love to have within families, is that people would look to him and that by his sovereign grace that he would keep families together, [00:06:50] (32 seconds)  #FamilyWisdomIdeal

And a simple lesson that you and I can take away, if we want just a very simple one liner here from this, we can understandthat God desires for us to become a person with a good reputation.We might have a checkered pastand it might take a long time to to develop a good reputation.But living a life of faith, we should have a good reputation.And the story goes on, verses 13 down to 24. Again, I'm not gonna exegete all these things. Just understand that as as it goes on, now there's another bucket of of of truths that we can receive and and encouragement that we can pull from as it pertains to behavior. [00:39:12] (38 seconds)  #BuildGoodReputation

And I don't know which again, I don't know what your your individual story is, but I do know that I do know this. Is that the body of Christ, I do know that the that the local assembly of the saints, the church,that that that here we sit as a church with our doors wide open to a hurting community, and what typically comes inside of the church is those that are are spiritually sick, those that are that are that are hurting in life, those that that need hope, those that need direction for life, that those [00:08:22] (24 seconds)  #ChurchForTheHurting

Some of you in this room are grandparents, and you need to understand that whether you have one or many grandchildren, that your influence matters in their life.And what I've I've discovered is is what some call a young grandfather,at least for this many kids,is thatthat our legacy has to be more than money. You know, I I know that the Proverbs talk about that that a good a good man lays up an inheritance for his children's children, for your grandchildren. [00:14:26] (32 seconds)  #GrandparentLegacyMatters