Our Duty Toward the Rising Generation (1)

The point: Acknowledge God's sovereignty over our lives while diligently fulfilling our duty to the rising generations.

Compares acknowledging God's sovereignty over health while still practicing good nutrition to acknowledging God's sovereignty over future generations while still fulfilling our duty to them.

I have stated we are determined to establish, maintain, and transmit an understanding and practice of our biblical duty toward the rising generations of our children. But in saying that, I am not in any way inferring that we have the power to implant and to implement that biblical vision and practice with respect to the rising generations. God alone is the ultimate guardian and perpetuator of His truth. And each generation must know the divine intervention of God's sovereign grace. For men who have an internal conviction of doing the will of God are men and women who are born of the Spirit. An...

12:27 - 13:52 Read in full sermon

The point: As those in positions of responsibility, command a pattern of universal submission to the word of God in the lives of the rising generation.

Illustrates the intergenerational transmission of truth as a relay race where each generation receives, runs with, and passes on the baton of truth to the next.

And you know, in a relay race, not the kind you have out in the backyard here, but the kind you have when you have your field day, and the kind they have in college and high school athletic events, and in professional track and field meets. In the relay race, you have a baton, and if it's a 4x100 or a 4x400 or 4x440, a man who starts the race holds the baton, and he has a responsibility to hold the baton, to know how far he is to run, complete his part of the race. But then he has another responsibility. He must safely place the baton into the hand of the man who is to run the next segment of ...

38:33 - 39:38 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Because in my house, God's word is law and God's word rules.

Contrasts the psalmist's desire to declare God's strength to the next generation in his old age with the modern lust for retirement focused on self-indulgence.

Because in my house, God's word is law and God's word rules. I want to look at an old man and his perspectives on retirement who caught this vision. What a contrast from today's lust for retirement that means playing golf every day and sleeping till 10 in the morning and fishing three times a week. Here's an old man, an old man in great distress.

46:11 - 46:40 Read in full sermon