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Intro
Ada’s Wedding gifts
Doorframes series
Open to
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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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.
#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!
#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
Remember God’s great work.
De 6
#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!
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