Passing Down Faith: A Generational Responsibility

"Generations all eventually die and then new generations are eventually born yet one thing is true about all generations the future of any generation is determined by how past generations have impacted and influenced and she said I heard this reagan movie was really good well I always liked ronald reagan so we watched it and I was reminded of a quote uh that he had had made many years ago they repeated it in this movie he said freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction it is not passed on to our children telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free now that's not only true about freedom it's true about truth it is true about morality it's true about right and wrong good and evil godly and ungodly and that's why history is so learned from the mistakes of yesterday we will repeat those mistakes today and it'll doom us tomorrow and that's why we're starting off the new year with a new sermon series of calling back in my day every one of us have heard that from grandparents parents and" [00:21:57] (67 seconds)


"Now, what if the lessons that these folks were taught are beneficial for us today? See, God is for all generations. He is a generational. So there is no generation gap with God. He is faithful to every generation, and He wants every generation to be faithful to Him as well, to know Him, to love Him, to serve Him, to worship Him. And He also wants every generation to be sharing with the next generation the truth of things more vital to the race than these. What man shall marry what woman, and what shall be the first things taught to their children?" [00:23:04] (34 seconds)


"Psalm 78, things from of old, things that we have heard and known that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from our children, but tell them to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord in his might and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, and he commanded our fathers to teach to their children that the next generation might know them, the children keep his commandments, and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God. Heavenly Father, we come before you this day, Lord, just grateful and thankful that we can boldly approach your throne of grace through the shed blood of your Son, Jesus Christ. God, we thank you for the gift of your Holy Spirit, and we thank you for the precious gift of your Son, Jesus, who was born to us. Amen. You suffered and died for our sins. We thank you, Lord, for his glorious resurrection and for the abundant and eternal life that he offers to us as a free gift, simply by placing our faith and trust in him alone to save us. So, God, I just pray you walk down. We pray all this in his precious name. Amen. You may be seated." [00:25:57] (69 seconds)


"Now, the psalmist is encouraging the people not to let history repeat itself, but to learn from the mistakes of the past and to defeat them in the present. So, in these eight verses, we're going to see three things. Now, the psalmist, known as Asaph, is exhorting the present generation of the possibility for teaching and reaching the next generation. He says, Give ear, O my people, to my teaching. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable, and I will utter dark sayings from old, things that we have heard in Israel, because what he's referring to is the past." [00:27:06] (33 seconds)


"God does not recognize a generation gap. It's to be one unbroken chain of truth from one generation to the next, not just so they will know the truth, but so they will live. From the dead, you will be saved. You see, that's the key to salvation. So you've got an intellectual understanding of who Jesus is, but then you have a volitional, a choice of the will to trust in Jesus and in his resurrection." [00:34:50] (25 seconds)


"And that's what we need to be teaching our children. Not just Jesus is Lord. Yes, he is. Jesus is Savior. And that's what this is. That's making Jesus the Lord. He's the Lord of your life. You know something with your mind, but you can trust something with your will. Verse 7 says, so they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments. And that is the spiritual chain reaction that God wants. You see, he wants the truth that gets into your head. So teaching the next generation to put their trust in God, because what you really believe, you will live. The rest is just talk." [00:35:32] (35 seconds)