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INTRODUCTION
OPENING STORY: 12 YEARS IN MEMPHIS DOING AMAZING THINGS.
REALLY SAW GOD MOVE.
HAD A GREAT HOUSE WE PAID ABOUT 5 DOLLARS FOR! RIGHT WHEN WE WERE MOVING, ON OUR LAST DAY IN THE HOUSE I HAD MY KIDS DO SOMETHING EXCITING THAT MAY HAVE BEEN A LITTLE ILLEGAL.
NOT SURE.
THEY GOT SHARPIES AND WROTE IN A PRETTY OBSCURE PLACE: QUENTIN WAS HERE.
MYLES WAS HERE.
JADEN WAS HERE.
WE ALL WANT THAT DON’T WE.
WE WILL MOVE OUT OF THE HOUSE THAT IS THIS WORLD.
AND WHEN WE LEAVE WE WANT TO LEAVE SOME SORT OF EVIDENCE THAT WE WERE HERE.
WE WANT TO LEAVE A LEGACY.
WHY SHOULD I LISTEN:
WE ALL WANT TO LEAVE A LEGACY? THAT’S WHY YOU’RE WORKING HARD, GETTING AFTER IT, SAVING MONEY, INVESTING IN YOUR KIDS DREAMS…YOU WANT TO LEAVE A MARK THAT YOU WERE HERE.
YOU WANT SOMETHING THAT WILL OUTLAST YOU.
THE LENGTH OF YOUR LEGACY DEPENDS ON YOUR VISION OF TIME.
IF TIME FOR YOU IS ALL ABOUT THE RIGHT NOW, THEN YOU WILL LEAVE NO LASTING LEGACY.
THIS IS WHAT ONE WRITER GETS TO WHEN HE SAYS, “”Without God and the future life…everything is permitted, one can do anything”- Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
SADLY, THOSE WHO HAVE DONE THE MOST DESTRUCTION TO HUMANITY THROUGHOUT WORLD HISTORY HAVE BEEN PEOPLE WHO DID NOT BELIEVE IN LIFE BEYOND THIS LIFE.
THEY LEFT NO REDEMPTIVE LEGACY.
BUT ON THE FLIP SIDE, THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT A LEGACY THAT HAS REVERBERATED THROUGHOUT TIME…THOSE WHO HAVE DONE THE MOST GOOD FOR HUMANITY, HAVE BEEN THOSE WHOSE VISION OF TIME WAS ETERNAL.
THIS IS THE POINT C.S. LEWIS GETS TO WHEN HE SAYS, “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this”- C. S. Lewis.
William Wilberforce, Mother Teresa, MLK.
APPLICATION: THE PROBLEM WITH LIFE IS IT IS OH SO DAILY.
GOD HAS SO MUCH MORE FOR YOU THAN PAYING BILLS, GOING TO CLASS, GOING TO WORK.
YOUR LIFE MATTERS, AND HE WANTS IT TO MATTER BEYOND THE GRAVE.
HE WANTS YOU TO LEAVE A LEGACY!
CONNECT TO THE TEXT: OUR PASSAGE IS ALL ABOUT LEGACY.
SUM UP THE STORY BRIEFLY.
PAIN IN CHAPTER ONE.
PROVIDENCE OF GOD IN CHAPTER TWO AND THROUGHOUT.
GREAT FAITH IN CHAPTER 3. NOW SHE’S READY TO CASH IN ON THE LEGACY.
BUT HOW DO WE LEAVE A LEGACY FOR GOOD BEYOND THE GRAVE?
OUR TEXT TELLS US THREE WAYS.
LEGACY REQUIRES OBEDIENCE-
EXPLANATION: ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SHOULD STRIKE YOU IS THERE ARE A LOT OF NAMES IN THIS TEXT.
BUT THERE’S ONE NAME MISSING.
WE DON’T KNOW THE NAME OF THE PERSON WHO IS THE CLOSEST REDEEMER.
WHY? VERSES 5-6 TELLS US.
HE IS NOT OBEDIENT TO WHAT GOD WANTED HIM TO DO, AND WHERE THERE IS NO OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WORD THERE IS NO LEGACY.
QUICK APPLICATION: WILL YOU JUST THINK ABOUT IT- GOD TAKES THE LEAST LIKELY CANDIDATES AND USES THEM TO LEAVE SIGNIFICANT LEGACIES.
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