Transforming Generational Influence Through Faith and Obedience

1. "My natural inclination moves me towards brokenness. My natural inclination moves me towards sin. My natural inclination moves me towards selfishness. If I'm just left to my own thing, I will start looking out for number one, and selfishness, at the end of the day, hurts everyone around me because it puts me in first place and everyone else behind me. And I do things that benefit me at the expense of other people. We're just naturally born that way. The despicable me, we really kind of are. That's the bad news. The good news is Jesus changes everything." [05:26] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Everything that I do is influencing the generations below. Like, what I do, how I react, my spiritual life, how I treat my wife, how I treat my neighbors, my work ethic. All of those things are being passed down to my kids. And they're being shaped by me as I was shaped by my father and my grandfather and my parents and the generation below. Like, and you see that? You see that, too." [11:22] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "If you don't seek me out in this, that anger that was in your father and I found out later was in my grandfather. Grandfather and great-grandfather. If you don't do something, you're going to be controlled by anger. As a 16-year-old, I made a decision. Lord, whatever it takes, I want to walk with you wherever you go. And I do not want to be angry. I was a byproduct of my family. My parents and my grandparents, they influenced who I am." [10:25] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "If you want to heal our children, we may well start by seeking the help we need to heal ourselves. Because everything that I do plays a piece into the next generation. Now, you might be sitting in here and you go, listen, I'm not married, I don't have kids, or I'm a teenager. This is not a parenting discussion. This is not a parenting message. If you're a parent, it's just exponentially higher. If you're a grandparent, it's exponentially higher. But if you're single, you don't have kids. You're a teenager, you don't have kids. Everything you're doing at this moment affects the next generation." [13:44] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "What is it about your life that you don't want your kids or your grandkids to have? I'm not talking about, like, material things. I'm not talking about, like, why don't I want them to drive my car? Like, for me, it could have been anger. Like, what is it about your life, the way you do life, the characteristics in your life, that if you looked at your life, and you may not say it out loud to other people, but you go, you know what? I wrestle with this. I would just wish my kids. I wish my kids wouldn't have this. I wish the generation below me wouldn't have that." [29:20] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "When God says this, love and obey me, and I will lavish my unfailing love on the generations coming behind you. Pouring it out, that wedding's gonna look silly, compared to a God, God who has more than billions as his unfailing love comes out on generation after generation after generation. So what do we do? What's our next step? Because we talk about it's one of our values, taking our next step. We want Sunday to impact Monday. We want when we open this Bible, we want not just to get head knowledge. We want to walk out doing something." [29:20] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "What bridges is your family building? Teenagers, what bridges are you, you don't have a husband, wife. What bridges are you building now so that God brings that person to you that is your husband or wife? They're a bridge builder and you're a bridge builder and you guys are going with Jesus towards whatever he's calling you to do. Grandparents? It's not too late. because it's generations. If you haven't started, you need to start. This is about not just the generations above you and how they shape the way that I see myself and my world. walk with Jesus shapes the generations below." [36:03] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "I wanna go see Jesus having handed the keys, taking the torch that God had given me and said, I'm out, I can't do it anymore. You take it and run with it. And I wanna leverage my life to prepare that next generation so that they'll prepare the next generation, so that they'll prepare the next generation, so that generation upon generation upon generation experiences the unfailing love of God. That's what this church is about." [37:34] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "God's grace is extravagant, right? Like when I read this, I get caught on like three or four generations of punishment or whatever, the consequences is really what it is for other people. But what God is saying here is yeah, there's consequences. That just happens with sin. But I want you to know, so what God's saying, well, I want you to know, man, if you will just love and obey me, that's what he says at the end of that verse. If you'll just love and obey me, I'm gonna pour out blessing on thousands of generations." [25:37] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "I know that my anxiety can radiate outward to affect my kids. If we want to heal our children, we may well start by seeking the help we need to heal ourselves. Because everything that I do plays a piece into the next generation. Now, you might be sitting in here and you go, listen, I'm not married, I don't have kids, or I'm a teenager. This is not a parenting discussion. This is not a parenting message. If you're a parent, it's just exponentially higher. If you're a grandparent, it's exponentially higher. But if you're single, you don't have kids. You're a teenager, you don't have kids. Everything you're doing at this moment affects the next generation." [13:44] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)