Sermon Tone Analysis

The Gospel through Generations

My Testimony

Not some crack head in a gutter

Grand fathers in mission

Father a missionary and pastor

Godly women and men in my life

I am a third generation teacher and preacher

And that is my testimony

Now of course as anyone of my family members could tell you i was not born a christian, I like everyone else since the fall was born as a depraved tiny human being.

I was not a great child, when in Russia as a 3 year old i was so awe full my parents began to wonder if my behavior disqualified them from ministry.

I think anyone with children especially a toddler can relate to those sort of feelings.

Terrible twos, no one ever mentions the treacherous threes

But when I was three almost four, my parents as all parents should, read scripture to me.

One night my father was reading to me from the gospels, out of a children's bible that had many pictures, I remember looking at this Jesus character who seemed so kind and loving and who my father so clearly believed not only had all the answers but was the answer.

I told my father I want to receive Jesus

He said I was to young.

I said that i wanted to and I wanted him to pray for me, he said that he could not pray for me that it was something that i had to do myself, so I asked him what i should pray and he lead me in that prayer.

I do believe that I became a believer that day.

Now the treacherous threes did pass but then I came to my teens and tho i never forsake God or ran from him, I certainly reached a place where I was serving myself and not him.

When I was 16 girl in front crying

Cross the line

Youth, group, bible college, wife, kids, church planting, Youth ministry, planted AC

And here I stand today

Each of you have your own story that has lead to you sitting there today

I am willing to bet that everyone of you are here today because someone loved you enough to share the good news of Jesus Christ to you.

For many in America that was a parent or family member, for others a good friend, for some maybe a stranger.

But someone shared the gospel with you, or took you to church to hear

Everyone one of us have accepted the gospel and have grown spiritually because of the investment of other people.

Even this building we are in today is from the investment of other people and generations before us

The gospel though generations is the only way that it can be spread.

As the Apostle Paul tells us in

It must be shared.

And the gospel has reached us 2000 years later and is more relavent and wide spread than ever before because it has been passed through the generations.

This is exactly what Jesus has commanded, and by Gods grace the church has been faithful to do it, not perfectly of course, but Christianity is the largest and most influential religion and more importantly way of thinking and way of life across this globe.

Because it has been faithfully passed through the generations

It could all have ended with one unfaithful generation

One selfish generation who chose not to pass on the good news.

You say how could that ever happen?

Well it has happened before

Judges 2:

We can all agree that this is a tragedy, one of the saddest verses in the bible

And if you have ever read the book of judges you know that this results in the saddest and most twisted book of the bible

A generation that does not know God or what he had done results in a lot of awful things.

He was one of the best kings they had, he cleansed the temple, got rid of Idols and so forth, He even said

So let us read the great commission

Now today my testimony and even the language I have used suggests a literal family lineage in which the gospel is passed on or the generational passing on of the good news from one literal generation to another within a society.

Both of those are of course good, and are needed.

But I also want to talk about a much faster generational ministry, which is that of multiplication

Family Language throughout

The Great Recommission

Compare to preach to all creation

Whitness to Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth

Or Make disciples of all nations

Subdue

to conquer and bring into subjection

Teach them to obey

Matt 28:1

Generational Language

Prov 22

Spiritual Generational Language

Hezikiah is another example.

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He was one of the best kings they had, he cleansed the temple, got rid of Idols and so forth, He even said

Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.”

For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my lifetime.”

Hezekiah was not sucessful in teaching the next generation

Hezekiah fathered the heir to Judah’s throne, Manasseh, who would turn out to be the evilest king ever to reign in Judah

Mannaseh was so bad

Last verse

Psalm 127:

Teach to obey

Prov

yes in the 50 years but also to 5 and 5

Col