The Power of Generational Impartation - Part 2
080413 The Power of Generational Impartation 2
Tim Franklin
Introduction:
- Coming soon, April 24-26 is our second annual Making Room for Generations—Children’s Equipping Conference. I want to begin preaching into this conference so that we can maximize our effectiveness in receiving what God has planned for us.
- Please do not think that this conference is just for children. It is designed to equip children but at the same time equip parents and grandparents in the art of equipping your heritage.
- It is a conference for the whole church. Singles should be there—because you will be exposed to information and activations that could determine your children’s future. It also will better prepare you to serve at FCC regarding our children.
- It is a conference for the whole family from Grandfather to grandsons/daughters.
- I want to share with you today the power of imparting to your children the truths that help prepare us for life.
- Impart—Gr. – metadidomi-to give, to share. To make know or disclose. To transmit to another.
- Rom 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established NKJV
- 1 Thess 2:8 we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us. NKJV
- I want to talk to you about imparting to your children and grandchildren. I believe this to be one of the most powerful tools we have as adults and yet one of least used when it comes to our faith.
· There is incredible power in imparting blessing to our families and incredible backlash when it is not done or when it is not received. Let’s look at the power of Blessing as an impartation.
1. Understanding the Impartation of Blessing
a. Spiritual things are happening around us all the time. Some for good and others for bad.
i. If we know that things like this are going on around us all the time then we want to position ourselves so that we and our children and our children’s children have all they can get from us to assist them in life.
ii. Spiritual things get handed down from generation to generation. Sometimes they lie dormant through a generation and awaken the next. Again, I want to so fill the next generation that they will have more of God in them than they will of darkness. I want more of heaven assisting them than hell opposing them.
b. What does it mean to bless?
i. To bless—Hebrew: Barak --To bless in the OT means "to endue with power for success, prosperity, longevity, (from Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament.) Ie. Yoda and Obie Wan impart to young Skywalker—May the force be with you! The force was this unseen undefined, power for good that was at work in the universe.
ii. In general, the blessing is transmitted from the greater to the lesser. This might involve father to son (Gen 49), brothers to sister (Gen 24:60), king to subjects (1 Kings 8:14). (from Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament.)
iii. The blessing might be conveyed at departures on special occasions (2 Chron 6:3) or upon introduction (Gen 47:7,10). Its major function seems to have been to confer abundant and effective life upon something (Gen 2:3; 1 Sam 9:13; Isa 66:3) or someone (Gen 27:27 ff; Gen 49). (In this respect, notice that Michal, despising her husband's blessing, was afflicted with barrenness, 2 Sam 6:20-23).
iv. OT sees God as the only source of that life. As such he controls blessing and cursing (Num 22). His presence confers blessing (2 Sam 6:11-20), and it is only in his name that others can confer blessing (Deut 10:8; etc.). Indeed, God's name, the manifestation of his personal, redemptive, covenant-keeping nature, is at the heart of all blessing.
v. As a result, those who are wrongly related to God can:
1. neither bless Mal 2:2 If you will not hear, And if you will not take it to heart, To give glory to My name," Says the LORD of hosts,"I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, Because you do not take it to heart. NKJV
2. nor be blessed (Deut 28) and no special word can alter this. Those who are blessed manifest God's hesed (loving kindness and faithfulness. )
vi. The lesson is clear. God gives life. Neither god, nor man, nor rite can do so. Nor does God have to be cajoled to give his blessing. He wishes to give it to all who will trust him (Gen 12:3). From this base the understanding of God as the lifegiver is expanded to its ultimate expression in John 3:16 ff; John 10:10; etc.
c. What do blessings do?
i. They"to endue with power for success, prosperity, longevity. Look through the Word of God and follow the blessings that are imparted generationally. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Preachers have alluded to the scarlet thread that runs through history. The blood of Jesus from Eden to Calvary.
ii. They transmit life through spiritual impartation that is spoken, given through laying on of hands and through actions. They are given through faith and are received by faith.
2. Great Impartations come out of Great Encounters
a. Encounters of Good. David encounters a God of Truth—David attempted to move the ark mans way and failed.
i. He worshiped God—vs. 13-16. (1 Chron 15—7 bulls, 7 rams) at least 4k bulls and 4k rams.
ii. He blessed the people vs 18-19—and gave them bread, meat and raisins.
iii. He blessed his family. Vs. 20
iv. Others: Jacob-and the ladder, Joseph and his sons, David and Solomon, Joseph and Mary etc. This should be one reason that we pursue God that we might have an encounter with him that would cause us to be rich in spirit to impart to the next generation.
b. Encounters of Evil. Great set-backs come out of inaccurate impartations. Lets Look at Michal the daughter of Saul. Key words: dysfunctional, unforgiveness, offense, lack of communication, unwillingness to find truth.
i. She loves David. She is promised to David if David comes back with the foreskins of 200 Philistines. He does.
ii. Saul gives her to David. Then Saul asks her to turn David over to him that he may kill him.
iii. David is forced to live on the run while Saul is alive and Saul gives his daughter Michal to another man.
iv. Saul dies and David goes to get Michal and while she is being taken from the husband that Saul gave her to her husband follows weeping.
v. What were the impartations that Michal received?
1. Rejection by a father
2. Deceit by a Father
3. Broken heart by David who later claims her but doesn’t love her.
4. This woman is broken in heart, shattered, abused.
vi. This presents a problem because when the blessing of God is coming to the house she cant receive what God has prepared for her.
3. Great Impartations are Intentionally Given Away
a. Through words
b. Through hands
c. Through actions
Number 6:23-27 Moses blessing
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