208: Doorframes; One Message; Deut. 6.20-25

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Ada’s Wedding gifts
Doorframes series
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One message to pass on the next generation.
What about me? The church is a family and this is everyone’s responsibility.
It may be that you:
it’s a grandchild
or, an adult child
Get involved in kids, students, or nursery.
Maybe it’s to encourage a young mom or dad
This is such an incredible generation. They care about social justice and things my generation simply ignored.
Notice the incredible flow in the text.
Our task is to take that God-given desire to make things right and mold it to Jesus.
Our goal isn’t simply to get our young people in the baptistry. Let’s set them up to change the world for the Kingdom.
In our youth group and our kids ministry right now, there are missionaries, Kingdom workers, future church elders, moms and dads who are going to make incredible choices of love and sacrifice.
They’re not simply the church of the future, their the church now!
There’ a bunch in 6 verses here. Put your seatbelt on.

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Deuteronomy 6:20 NIV
20 In the future, when your son asks you, “What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the Lord our God has commanded you?”
Moses looks forward to that time when a young person in your life comes up and asks tough questions.
In my own home:
Deer reference
Why do you fast?
Are you sure I need to tithe? I didn’t make much.
Why do you keep reading your Bible even though you’ve read it several times?
Deer reference
I don’t read the Bible for my knowledge but because of our relationship.
3 Important Implications:
#1 God’s word should be an active agent in our lives. Molded by the Bible, our lives should look different than the rest of the world. The question is really; why are we different?
If we don’t look different, we don’t look Christian.
If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck...
The Christian life is different. ICOM 5 practices of the early church that were so counter-cultural...
Holistically, pro-life
Committed to marriage
non-retaliatory
Multi-ethnic
Care for the poor
Best place to start: love God, love your neighbor. Let your heart be molded by God’s word. This should be visible in your home.
Ultimately, it’s not you they should emulate, it’s the reflection of Jesus, in you, that you want them to notice.
Holistically pro-life
#2 We should have the type of relationship where young people will feel confident coming to us.
As a parent of teenagers, I’m seeing this isn’t something that happens naturally.
Play-intimacy-innocence-cooperation and trust. Spend time doing what they enjoy.
#3 know our faith. You can’t share what you don’t know. So to that, Moses provides a simple four-part outline.
Deuteronomy 6:21 NIV
21 tell him: “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
#1 Remember your deliverance.
The story of the church is the story of God rescuing and redeeming sinners.
The story of the church is the story of God rescuing and redeeming sinner.
Remembering your own story:
There tends to be pendulum swings.
I did everything right…back in my day.
You don’t want to isolate a young person by telling only the good parts of your story. They have sin struggles, you’ve had sin struggles. Be honest about your need of a savior.
Or, we glorify our sinfulness as a badge we get to wear.
Jesus didn’t come to make good people just a bit better or to break wild horses. He came to raise the dead.
Tell them about how you got saved.
Can I add an asterisk? Please don’t look back on sinful struggles as the “fun time” that God pulled you out of!
Deuteronomy 6:22 NIV
22 Before our eyes the Lord sent signs and wonders—great and terrible—on Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household.
#2 Remember God’s great work.
In the Exodus, God put on an incredible display of power.
What they knew by faith, we know by name. The looked forward in faith. We know that God’s great act of saving came through his son...
God doesn’t simply move in history. He moves today.
Hospital visits.
Oftentimes it really comes down to paying attention to what God is doing around me every day.
My dad’s call
Look carefully at the time when you came to Christ and you’ll see his fingerprints all over it.
Coincidence?
God does these incredible things because he has incredible plans!
Psalm 145:4 NIV
4 One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts.
Psalm 145
Remember God’s great work.
Deuteronomy 6:23 NIV
23 But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors.
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#3 Remember the gift and the promises.
He made slaves free and gave them a home and an inheritance.
Teach the young people in you life about the incredible gifts of God.
Eternal home
Church family
The presence of the Holy Spirit
Forgiveness of sin
But even forgiveness of sin isn’t the greatest gift.
It is an incredible gift of be forgiven of sin and to have the judge declare you righteous, but even that isn’t as incredible as being loved and cared for by God the Father - to be his child. The greatest gift, is adoption.
And as if he needed to do more, he gave us promises!
Imagine the impact on a young person’s life, simply knowing and believing the promises of God!
When they struggle.
There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus
When they feel isolated and alone
He promised to never leave me or forsake me.
When they unloveable
He promised to love me and discipline me when I…
Deuteronomy 6:24 NIV
24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.
Tell them about the gift and the promises!
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These are the promises that they/we need buried down into our very fibers.
Because everyone strays. Everyone struggles.
Kentucky lake buoys. We need a fixed point to help us navigate when everything else tells us otherwise.
The importance of following God’s word.
Deuteronomy 6:24–25 NIV
24 The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. 25 And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”
Deuteronomy 6:25 NIV
25 And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”
#4 Remember, a response is required.
God doesn’t have grandkids. Your faith won’t be enough for your kids, they have to choose.
Notice Moses says God’s word is for our good. It’s not an antiquated list of rules and regulations.
What was true then, is true now. God’ word is for our good.
They looked forward in faith to the time when Jesus would come
In God’s Word
We find that Jesus came to live a life we would refuse to live.
Jesus died on a Roman cross, even though he did nothing wrong. He took the punishment for our sins.
Three days later was raised from the dead in the greatest display of power in history.
He ascended to Heaven where he sits at the right hand of God the Father until he physically returns.
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WE LIVE LIKE IT!!!
We put our faith in him
We repent of sin
We stir the waters of baptism
He will be our righteousness
We have to teach our young people that a response is required. God doesn’t have grandkids. My faith won’t save my kids. They have to respond on their own.
We repent, We put our faith in him, we are baptized, we live for the kingdom.

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It’s a gift to be able to pour into the next generation.
Remember deliverance - remember your story
Remember God’s great work - remember the way you have watched God at work
Remember the gift and the promise - remember salvation
Remember, a response is required - it’s not about head knowledge. This isn’t history class. We have to respond to God’s work.
You watch what God does, and already is doing, through them.
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