100418 From Generation to Generation
Tim Franklin
100418 From Generation to Generation
Tim Franklin
Introduction:
- Next weekend we will hold our annual Making Room for Generation Conference. This year entitled: Extra-ordinary Family Life
- We are living in a time when we are seeing families shaken! Parents are being tested on every side by the culture that surrounds them and children are being overcome by a culture that only desires to enslave them.
- I want to preach into that conference this morning. I want to stir your vision for your family, your children and your grandchildren. I want to see you as parents and grandparents taking time to invest in your family. You will have time to register after service at a kiosk in the foyer or you can do it on line. $25 family conference!
- Bill Gattle will be our guest speaker.
- Folks, this is about you building your family.
- It is about our kids!
- It is about how we lead our kids, in our homes!
- It is about destiny of the next generation!
- It is about learning to see generationally and not just for the moment.
- It is about bringing change into our own lives for the strengthening of our homes and the lives of our heritage.
Dan 4:2-3 I thought it good to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked for me. 3 How great are His signs, And how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation. NKJV This is why we must always be creating/considering the next generation.
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise (crush NIV) your head, and you shall bruise His heel." NKJV
Gen 18:18-19 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. KJV
Moving from generation to generation—how do we do that?
1. We must see as God sees!
- God sees generational. What does this mean?
i. God is eternal therefore everything He does is done with eternity in mind. How different would our choices be if we did everything with eternity in mind?
1. When man was created there was no time, only night and day.
2. In that economy of God the world was self sustaining and Adam and Eve would have lived forever thus maintaining God’s purposes.
3. When they sinned, death entered and now God needed a way to maintain His eternal purposes within humanity. This he fulfilled through generations or the “seed” of man and through “time.” The promise of the seed and succeeding generations had a futuristic dimension. Time or generations was how God would restore or redeem mankind!
a. Generation defined –
i. 1. The circle of a man's lifetime, from birth to death.
ii. 2. A period or age of time. Greek word is genea from which we get genealogy. Genealogies reflect a man’s life.
ii. Each of the previously read scriptures reflects eternity.
1. Dan 4:3 from generation to generation.
2. Gen 3:15 the continued crushing of Satan’s head – forever
a. The woman would reproduce
b. The seed would be born with specific purpose
c. That purpose would be to crush Satan’s head.
3. Gen 18:18-19 A blessed world because of commanded obedience.
a. 10 generations later!
iii. The purpose of the generations was
1. To ensure that a messiah would enter the world in the “fullness of time” 1 Cor 15:55 “Death where is your sting, grave where is your victory.” Power of enemy completely destroyed.
2. Is to bring God’s life into the dark world of lost men from generation to generation. This can only be fulfilled by the descendants of Adam. That is why we are called the body of Christ! That is who we are in the earth. We are God’s redemption, with the message of redemption.
3. God looks on our world from a position of eternity where there is an everlasting dimension.
4. Therefore He has enabled us to “stretch out” our existence beyond our own life times into succeeding generation. IE. Prophetic word to me, “ The call of God has been upon you and your family for generations.”
- When God looks at a man or woman, he sees the promise of seed and the hope of generations, a seed with the potential to crush satan’s head.
2. We must connect that vision with past and future generations.
- Our history not only brings shame but also hope! The story of our generations brings not only pain but promise! Let’s look at past and future connected in generations!
- Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise (crush NIV) your head, and you shall bruise His heel." NKJV
i. Eve knew that in their seed was the promise of the crushing of satan.
ii. In their despair of their sin was the promise of their redemption. In the fog of failure was their gratitude of the promise. God’s promise required them to look within themselves for its fulfillment. Why therefore do we fear bringing kids into our world today!!! We fear because we have forgotten the promise!
iii. Their first child was Cain a man begotten of the Lord. And he became the first murderer!
1. Now notice the name of their third child. Seth – which means “appointed” God has appointed me another seed instead of Able, whom Cain slew. Gen. 4:25b.
2. Adam and Eve were connecting their past and their future in the next generation!!! Why have babies? Because there are generational promises that are being fulfilled every time a child is born!
3. Seth was marked… you will have seed! There yet awaits a divine promise. Each generation holds promise because of the word of the Lord, Isa 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. KJV
- Abraham had to see himself as part of the generational chain. Gen 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. KJV
i. He had to project himself into the future because of the promise God gave him.
1. The promise was for seed.
2. The seeds of promise would perform mighty acts for God.
3. Abraham could only receive promises for his own lifetime, based on the condition that he would anticipate seed, reproduce seed, and teach that seed obedience to God’s law. It could only be perceived and received by faith!
ii. Abraham had to become a generational man! He had to see the way God sees and think the way God thinks, for when God looks at a man he see more than just the man he sees his seed stretching far into the future. An eternal covenant can only be received by a man who has ceased to be bound by time.
- You must develop a strong sense of history and consider the purpose of your survival. God’s purpose for you is to bring forth children of promise who have history locked up in their loins, and in whose spirits is injected all the strength of their past! In their legacy are great kings, great warriors, powerful prophets and compassionate minstrels that sing the praises of their God.
- Every generational person must see himself as a generational link (connecting past and future) in the plan of God for the salvation of the world. It is His will that none perish.
i. He must hear the words of the promise of God in Gen. 3:15!
ii. It must be heard like it was first spoken!
iii. It must be appropriated by the hearer in a later generation as if it were spoken to him
iv. The hearer must say as Mary said, Be it unto me according to your word! Luke 1:38
- We must be committed to producing seeds of promise for our generation and for the next.
3. We must think generational like our eternal God thinks.
- If you and I stop thinking about ourselves and turn our hearts to the children, God will activate blessings for us and for our seed.
- Cant you hear Moses mother! Not this one! Not you, my child! For I discern in your eyes and infinite depth of history. I see within the depths of your striving a determination to live. I see a future hope , a radically fierce determination to survive- for you must set your people free!
- Can you hear Joseph?
Are you Mary’s child? Whose son are you?
Born to die, born to crush the head of Satan! Born to set your brothers free!
I will bare you in my arms and I will give you to your Father and I will teach you who you are!
I will disciple you with servant hood and you will learn to love your people.
You will learn to love your heavenly Father and blindly perform his every desire!
You will learn every promise purposed for you, and you will reach up into eternity and take hold of every word spoken to you.
You will say, “That the scripture and the word of the prophets might be fulfilled , I go…
I my son will stand aside and let you be about your Fathers business. And I will stand amazed as you bring judgment to your generation and hope to all men of every race and every age.
Then will I fully understand how God could invest His Divine Hope in such a Son as you…as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed forever…
May we arise and declare, “May my sons and daughters arise in their generation to crush the head of Satan!
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