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00:00:02 good morning everybody um welcome back families can I oh thank you so much um it's great to see so many and today because we've opened up the church back to young people old people the generations they are here we have babies with us I just met a delightful uh Auntie first timer from Brickfield set the back I think my friend don don CH is here is Donal here Where's Donald do you raise your hand I see you where are you Donald is Donal all right there Don thank you sorry he's a very old friend of mine but his friends welcome back to
00:00:33 the house of the Lord it's great to have all of you back here today and it's great to see the generations here uh today we're going to Target in particular we're going to Target fathers right but there's a message for everybody here but fathers pay a bit of attention and first a bit of advertising Family Life Ministry is considering running a program on the Durano father school and this is Pally targeted for father to be better fathers I I'm also would like to consider joining if time allows me and they Bas it on biblical
00:01:07 principles of Grace and forgiveness and so that the fathers can reclaim their roles as head of the family and also reclaim their spiritual mentorship something which is quite lost so if you're interested please contact Brandon because they need a certain minimum of packs for for the seminar to run speaking of fathers if you are my age let's take you through a very famous uh father story My Generation all right and of course if you are at my age a very famous pivotal moment of course of Father meeting the son and of course
00:01:47 that most famous line I am your father you know so we all know that see okay like those of you who Bor in pop culture this from The Empire Strikes Back who started entire Star Wars phenomenon everyone know is a last minute rewrite to make him the father was a clever move of course in episode this is episode four S of heav stream no five in episode six the son gets his back on the dad all right the son becomes a Jedi master those of you who have seen the Mandalorian series that's the green lightsaber if you follow and then gets
00:02:20 back in the father and there this very famous scene where he cuts off the father's hand if you watch that very carefully it's quite poetic you know pop culture has his moments of significance because he cuts off his father's hand and realizes the father's hand is cybernetic and then that's this scene where he sees that and then he looks at his hand why because his own hand had been cut off by the father and in that moment he realizes the sins of the father are passed on to the son generational sin generational
00:03:07 blessings Filipinos go to the Post soon ask our sister Joy there anyone knows one is the name of a leading candidate there he's got the Legacy Ferdinand who Marcos and of course everyone to know is he going to be like father like son and maybe he's going to marry a woman who's going to keep a lot of shoes we have no idea so today we're going to look at the idea of generation and is part of our Series in Genesis where we take very key things of scripture and we looking at Kingdom image Covenant and these are major
00:03:48 themes that carry through all of this scripture and in fact the Book of Genesis is divided into two parts chapter 1 to 11 is really a genealogy of the world Noah's AR table Nations to Bab chapter 12 onwards it begins the genealogy of only one man Abraham and we're going to think a little bit on it we won't look at Abraham so much we're going to look at his son we're going to ask ourselves like father or like son and we take this over a few weeks before we hit women of Genesis so today like Father and Son let's pick up a little
00:04:27 bit of this okay let's come before the Lord in prayer Lord we thank you that church has opened back up to the generations young and old are here I pray for myself you humble me that I speak this morning here with fear and trembling not with persuasive words human wisdom but with the Holy Spirit convicting humble me break me may your word and your word goes out and make me teachable if whatever I teach is not according to your scripture teaching Jesus name we say this amen let's give a little bit of background to this and one
00:05:08 of the first accounts about Abraham teaching the children is found in Genesis 18 let me read up read this up to you a very famous text about a visitation by God and the angels and this is just before the Sodom the destruction of Sodom right and verse 17 the Lord say shall I hide from Abraham what am I about to do Abraham will surely become a great and powerful Nation All Nations on Earth will be blessed through him here's quite interesting for I've chosen him chosen him what so that so that what so that he
00:05:44 will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just why so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what has promise amen here's the foundational role for fathers and parents we are to pass on to the next Generation what the Lord has been doing to our lives that's a pillar there and what we do is a respond to what God has done for us and you find that being picked up again in The Exodus story and all the way to the New Testament the
00:06:29 context of this is interesting we'll come back to this later on because they walk down to Sodom just before outside Sodom and Abraham does something really interesting with the Lord and then the next one comes in Genesis 22 and here we need to understand a bit of the relationship between Isaac and Abraham now Abraham has a few Sons the first is ishmail he loved we know that in chapter 21 but Isaac he loved the most after that he had a wife coutura he's not really faith is not really very good he
00:07:01 had concubines had four other kids and as you read before that he's supposed to bring up all his children in the fear of the Lord not all of them will follow that remember that if you take the earlier chapter we just read he's supposed to teach all his children that but one one boy picks up very much and here in verse two take your son your only son whom you love because this is the son of the Covenant the other children are not part of the Covenant blessings and then let's con let's let's let's let's let's have this tension
00:07:35 here's your son your favorite son the one you love the one you waited a very long time you love more than life and here's ATT tension give him over to me you love him very much right give him to me that because you have not withheld your son and that is a refrain again your only son so here's the attention you love your son right you love him very much right give him to me pick that up all right as we're going to go to chapter 26 now this is a really boring chapter I I I remember we did Genesis before I think we bypass this
00:08:10 because it's about the sun digging Wells I mean who wants to know about digging Wells we are in a computer generation we could learn about farming so very boring one you know but this is a very much an overstated chapter let me tell you one thing about chapter 26 is about Isaac going to Philistine land and he digs BS but one thing picks up again and again is this word Abraham Abraham your father Abraham Abraham all right Father Abraham father Abraham Abraham Abraham Abraham Abraham so the author of this the trying
00:08:44 to very tell you Isaac you are your father's son and this chapter is very often picked up as a generational story he but the father and the son so let's pick it up a little bit on this and we go to the first part of it verses 1-6 there was a famine in the land and you heard of the word Deja Vu the word Deja Vu means we hav heard that before and he tells you beside the previous famine in Abraham's time second famine and Isaac went to aimc King of philistine in G where have you heard that before because the father also went
00:09:25 to ABC King of the Philistines so a lot of deja vu moments in this text the Lord appeared to Isaac and who did the Lord appear to before that the Lord appeared to Abraham do not go down to Egypt live in the land where I tell you to live stay in this land for a while I will be with you and I will bless you and here to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and I will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham you got to ask yourself when did God confirm the oath we're going to go back a bit to
00:09:58 that context of it I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the skies give them all their lands through the offsprings All Nations on Earth will be blessed where have we heard that Genesis 12 same words to the father pass on to the son with a bit of Shifting and I'll tell you why later and this is why because Abraham obeyed me did everything I required of him keeping my commands my decrees instructions here again the clue to you when have you heard this phrase my commands my decrees my instructions
00:10:29 take care the back of your head so Isaac stay G you know we we we we normally don't like to talk about Prosperity because of this false teaching called Prosperity Gospel but here the text is very clear this is Isaac getting the favor of the Lord he's having favor and blessings because of what the father did so there's a generational blessing and the generational favor passing on from Abraham to Isaac and this is the teaching we need to ReDiscover for the church we should not shy away from this because there's so much false teaching
00:11:06 on that but Isaac is going to prosper because of what the father did and what the father did was in respon to what God did to the father so here here here here's the way to frame it God blessed Abraham Abraham bless Isaac right pick that as we go on and then right so what does Isaac do he goes to Philistine he meets a king and when a man of the place asking his wies he says she's my sister have you heard that somewhere before because you're afraid to say she's my wife he thought the man of this place might kill
00:11:44 me in the car of Rebecca because she's beautiful have you heard that also so there lot Dej where have we heard this we heard this verse in Genesis 12 read it for yourself and he meets King pH arrow and he says the same thing he tells the father tells the wife okay the wife was beautiful the daughter-in-law is beautiful okay you're beautiful say you're a sister to me so same thing happening all right let's it it's quite funny you know the way the narrative writes it right and then so it goes on um and so when Isaac has been
00:12:21 there a long time aimc king of philistine looked down from window saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebecca so abim summoned Isaac and said she really your wife why do you say she's my sister Isaac answered him because I thought I might lose my life account of her then ABAC says what is this you have done on us one of men might have slept with your wife and you have brought guilt upon us so abim gave orders to all the people anyone who harmed this man or his wife will surely be put to death and Pharaoh
00:12:51 does the same thing what have you done to me it's almost like cut and paast you know why didn't you tell me she was a wife see at the T of cut and Pa just it's is a repetitive motive now you you would have thought that the father messed up so badly in Egypt the father would told the son you know what this is what I did in Egypt you know next time you've got a famine right don't do this son tell the king tell the king she is your wife why because the blessings of the Covenant are going to go to the wife
00:13:21 you see is a bit he's a bit thick you know if your wife is going to be taken away where where is where's the next Generation going to go your wife just joined Haram so it doesn't make sense but Abraham father Faith isn't that bright you know because he doubles down he not only does it to the Pharaoh he does it to King ABC same King so Genesis 21 another account when he was G IAH said his wife say she is my sister you know what uh same King you know so can you imagine just just just give a story
00:14:03 so so imagine your Isaac right so Isaac sorts of goes to Philistine Hil King ABC you have met my dad before right hail King this is my sister and the king is probably quite old now the king probably says yeah I Met Your Dad before I think he told me the same thing about I thought I heard the same words before you know so the story is quite funny and so of course we have Pharaoh saying what have you done for me you know what's so funny the same words are repeated okay what have you done to us what have you done to us what have you
00:14:41 done to us so abim having a real Deja moment you said you know what you yeah you're really like your dad you lie like your dad you lie your dad was a liar you're a liar now that's the point of the text that's a generational sin being passed on now in case you think it stops there it goes on Abraham lies about Sarah to pharaoh and King aimc Isaac lies Rebecca to the same King Jacob which is the son of Isaac tricks his brother of his Birthright and then Jacob lies to his father and the mother now is in
00:15:26 collaboration to trick the father now this is quite interesting you know how he tricks so let me just give you a little bit firstly Jacob tricks the firstborn son that's the way the narrative goes number two Jacob tricks by using Rebecca teaches him to trick the father by cooking a stew using two goats right I'm pick out a little bit of that then Rebecca's brother it runs in the family Laban tricks Jacob to marrying Leah you know who is Leah Leah is the firstborn daughter so you tricked your firstborn son you now you get
00:15:58 tricked into marrying a firstborn daughter you don't love the labar's daughter lies to the father in a really really terrible way and steals his stuff Jacob's son tells the father your favorite son died and you know how they lied the father they use a goat the blood of a godat so they call this poetic Symmetry and if you can't get the trail you got to be thick about it because the Genesis author is very clearly trying to tell you that there is a pattern of Deceit going into four generations it runs from Abraham to
00:16:36 Isaac to Jacob to Joseph's brothers four generations all right do you think that's the only one that's not the only one Sarah gets tired of waiting to have a son the natural way so he true cultural ways takes his Egyptian slave quite important Egyptian remember the people reading this are those running from slavery from Egypt and then has a son and then hates the son and we find out Isaac likes Esau he loves Esau because Esau's like him they both Macho Man they probably all W down the gym you know and and and Jacob was
00:17:11 mama's boy he was he was a bit of a nerd the Jacob loved Rachel he neglected the other wife and Jacob loved Joseph over so the idea of favoritism runs through generations the idea of Deceit runs through generation you can't is this and so scripture is telling us about the sins of the father being passed on to the sons now if you think there just a story of the patriarch we have this story and we get about David and we all know David sleeps with bashah and Nathan pronounces judgment on him and he says this now therefore the sword
00:17:53 will never depart from your house and we know what happens after that right because he kills you violence begets in a house and it ends with his son Absalom leading a rebellion to kill the father so this is a pattern is it a curse I don't think it's a curse because you can see his man's action coming out out of this but let me now go into a little bit onto human nature because it's a family life topic once a month we're going to see what science tells us about this and we going tell us see how the gospel breaks the power of sin but
00:18:29 let's go to science all right and his book emotionally healthy spirituality Peter skaro teaches something which is called a g it's called Journal graph jogr jogr and you say is helpful for people to trace back to at least a few generations and when you trace back you can see patterns and when you see patterns these patterns helps you to discover why you have certain Tendencies for example if you're a kid of an alcoholic very likely you'll be an alcoholic some people have problems with addictions sexual addictions you find it
00:19:05 comes from certain family line certain people have issues with their temper it comes from family line because that's what Genesis is saying and there have two traits coming out one is lying and deceitfulness the second was favoritism and here's something which is you you can we can talk later if you're interested they teach you certain ways of doing it by just marking it and you can do it by yourself and you can trace it all right right secondly what is more important is to understand where does
00:19:33 the line go to and the line for Abraham leads to Jesus what scripture trying to tell you you and I don't have to be the image of our parents you don't have to take that image of lies or deceits or anger you don't have to say I I I'm a victim I I'm a victim of generational curse I'm a victim my my dad did this so I did this my my my my dad my parents had a bad marriage so I'm cursed to have a bad marriage you don't have to say that you made the image of God let me tell you why that's important because the moment
00:20:08 you say that and you get married guess what you're going to tell your kids you won't use those exact words you see many people are very good at saying uh this is what happened to me I'm like this because of my upbringing what we are not very good at saying is that you recognize your you have all these issues because of your parents but you don't realize you are going to pass this on to your children that's the big lesson today you either pass on blessings or you're going to pass on sins it doesn't
00:20:42 matter whether it's nurture or nature whether it's your DNA template or is not bringing it's probably a mixture of both and it's very important to pick up because the Seed of Abraham is the image of God in Christ and say we are made in the image of Christ here's the second thing to pick up and what science cause intergenerational trauma let me give you an example of how this works so the scripture becomes alive and real and practical say you're in a family right and everybody yells because they the only way you know
00:21:17 how to communicate and that could be of unresolved issues or whatever some trauma happened there was a war before some issues so the Dynamics the family is you when there's a conflict you scream the guy who screams the loudest wins the battle and your children are four 5 10 the prea contexts isn't well shaped the only way they understand communication is what yelling and when they get into marriage and the spouse triggers them you think they're going to keep quiet they're going to yell and then their children are going
00:21:57 to do the same so science lines up with scripture all right I want you pick that up we're going to see how the gospel breaks that bondage let's continue the story so Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped aund fold because the Lord blessed him the man became Rich his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy like the father he became very rich Abraham was very rich he had so many flocks and herds and servants the Philistines envied him so all the way tell that his father's servants had
00:22:30 darken at time his father Abraham the Philistines stopped up filling them with Earth and we begin to see why the Philistines will end up to become the enemies of the Israelites when they hit the promised land it starts from here generation from on the Philistines remember this and they see they see the Israelites as a threat and we find this in verse 16 then aimc said to Isaac move away from us you have become too powerful for us you're a trap so Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the valley gar where he settled Isaac
00:23:06 reopened the wells that been duck in the time of his father Abraham that's clearly generational where the Philistines has stopped up after Abraham died and here's how much he respected the dead he gave them the same names his father had given them and here is what the story is because Abraham had issues with Wells also the father had issues about Wells being stolen that the time of King aimc the son has same issues or Wells being stopped up under King aimc but the son has the issues far wor because aimc
00:23:48 allowed Abraham to State the father now revokes the Covenant or treaty they made and sends away Isaac so imagine now Isaac on a move with a lot of sheep and if you understand agriculture if you don't have water your wealth disappears it's like the stock market you get wiped out so it's a matter of life and death verse 9 Isaac servant D the valley they discover well fresh water but the herders of gah Philistines quarrel with those Isaac and say the wat is ours you see something similar here lot and Abraham
00:24:27 quarreling so he named the is said because they disputed with him then they duck another well but they quarreled over that one he named the sitna he moved from there and duck another well and no one C with him he does like what the father does the father doesn't pick a fight with Lord Isaac's got the same DNA I'm not going to pick a fight with you you say is that well I'm not going to get my lawyers to claim it and say I dug it you take it I walk away he named it re and now say now the Lord has given us room we flourish in
00:24:55 this land from there on he went up to basiba that night the Lord appeared to him I'm the Lord the god father Abraham do not be afraid I'm with you I will bless you and will increase the number your descendants for the sake of my Ser servant Abraham Isaac built an altar there called on the name of the Lord he pitched his T and there his servant d a well and exactly in Genesis 21 same place bashah same thing he did he called the name of the Lord by the way when Abraham comes down from the mountain of after
00:25:27 what called the aidas story of giving Isaac you know where he goes he goes to basiba let me tell you a little bit about bashah the son of Jacob will have a visitation from God in bashah and when the nation of Israel is brought up do you know what are the borders of the nation Israel is from Dan to the southern side of the desert of ngev it is a place called basiba and when the Lord calls Israel out for battle let every man rise from done to bashah and do you think the generation doing this now see this significance
00:26:06 because a torous tree is a tree that will flourish so prophetically Abraham plants a tree in the middle of a desert and that tree will have streams of Living Water and will bring forth the promised land generational blessings begin as we see the story of scripture unfold and and then this one is also another very funny story so I sees this guy right he he he's got he's fighting with he doesn't fight he A's people are really quite nasty to him now this guy has to move right he's going to dig a well again and again again every time
00:26:44 the philistin says no you can't have it no you can't have it he's got a lot of Grace he's got a lot of Grace fine fine and when he finally gets it he says something very gracious we have room telling the filistini don't be afraid of us we have room he's a testim we live together and because of that AB comes to him with pico the commander and of course is said why have you said to me you sent me away and he said we saw clearly the Lord was with you you know what the same thing you know what same Commander P can you
00:27:18 imagine the guy he was probably a young Commander there and I Met Your Dad oh going to met going to meet the son again you know and you know what the father and the son the king says the same thing the king tells Abraham God is with you in everything you do and the King tells the son we saw the Lord is with you and now to double down on the the deja vu moment let me just put it up abim wants to make a treaty with Isaac a put in raid and they swore an oath and you know what he did the same to the
00:27:52 father you you can't miss this you can't the author is clearly trying to tell you you're the father son is a parallel not just from the the incident with the wives with the wealth with have the king with have the commander with have the treaty with the testimony with the oath so where are we going with blessings so let me give you three points which want to pick up from this because the chapter is really about generational blessings and generational sins and I'm going to see how we can pick the two together okay and here's
00:28:30 one thing I want to tell you about Chinese people Chinese people when they talk about gener blessings what's the main thing we do is education we believe we should educate our children or we should pass on the family name or or you know your your Haka Haka you know your Haka Community I'm H you know so Legacy you know your own case you know whatever you want to do so like Warren buffer says someone sitting shade because you planted so parents always say Hey you very lucky know you you have so much
00:29:10 because Mom and Dad suffered for you you so lucky you go to Australia to study because I never got to Australia study no but you should be very fortunate that you got this and then then then then blah blah blah blah but what the scripture tell us and and and we're not saying that Financial blessings and name and cash character of white but what does the text tells you so here's here's three lessons which I think the Lord spoke to me what we should teach our children what we should give our children so there are three here and I
00:29:42 really hope it speaks to your heart all right three number one okay let me pick you back up again okay in the early part of chapter we see these words I will bless you or make your descendant where do we get that from you get that from Genesis 22 too it's almost word for word you know so you love your children the way God loves you and if you taking the context of the chapter it means you love your children very much right you give you do not withhold your children from me because a lot of us want to shape our children to
00:30:22 our values but God wants to shape our children to his values and you do not withhold from me why do we say that because God did not withhold his only son from us for God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son Romans 8 him who did not withold his only son what more will he give us and this is how is foundational to raising children you surrender your children to the Lord and you bring them up with the love that God gave us to our children the way God sacrificially loved me that's how we love our children now why
00:31:06 is that important and you might say Anor we all know this no you don't no you don't I don't because the love we have for our children is very tainted it's transactional it's not covenantal uh there's a book out there by by this pair of therapist right and let me just pick up a few Verses first we the secular says with the love of children for who they are not for what we want them to become that's partially true because the question is who are they and scripture is very clear we are to bring them up to that in the image of
00:31:46 God it doesn't matter whether they take it or not it doesn't matter whether they decide not to take the faith that's not the point you pass on that generational Blessings by that love the fear of the Lord and if they don't accept it that's not your responsibility I'll come to that later right but let me give you something that focus on the family says in in in this there's a book out there this he says our pattern of relating to others is set in motion long before each of us met our spouse this is about
00:32:14 marriage our childhood experiences and the way our parents related to us have imprinted certain thoughts patterns on us and this is husband wife K and Milan they call it love Stars Y is a is a pastor and K is a family therapist I forgot the book I can pass it to you guys one for few of us our early love lessons were real our love style is healthy and positive most of us though had some hurtful experiences resulting in a harmful imprint and impaired our lovestyle and handicap our marriage relationship and you will handicap the
00:32:53 children from their marriage it's a generational issue and they give us four ways four categories and they're not they're not cut in stone it's like Lang you know you know your your your language or little Gary Chapman they're not cast in stone but they're helpful so let me give you five sorry five categories and I think we all fall into this we love our children but they were affected by our upbringing we love our spouse they were affected by upbringing and you see where which category you fall to and the first
00:33:30 one the first one is called the avoider I I I put it up there you can read it for yourself and you ask yourself whether that's you and let me tell you what it does to your marriage one if you're an avoider you avoid showing your emotions because the in in Chinese families in particular right Chinese families value performance so if you're a kid right your parent only valued you if you did well in school that's the only way they see expression it's a transactional love you know if I do well I do I do this I get rewarded my parents
00:34:13 love me if I don't I get whacked so you only see that is transactional so when you go into marriage right you you you unable to express vulnerability and when you take it to your children you do the same that's one the second is the pleaser these are people who are brought up in very strict moral families and and Christians are not the only one moral upbringings you know and basically the family has such a strict moral upbringing you as a kid you learn this if I keep in line my mom and dad love me
00:34:55 or my mom if I don't something's going to happen a family so it could be for example you could have a mother or father who's highly emotional so the mother reads certain of your behavior as wrong but to you is not wrong the mother doesn't bother to tell you is wrong you step out line you going to get W or you going to get something so after all you walk on eggshells in your childhood you know you don't know whether you wake up whether you could be saying something and your parents will go ballistic so you learn to please your
00:35:29 parents without being able to process whether is right you don't learn to distinguish right and wrong and when you get into a marriage and you fight with your spouse you don't distinguish right and wrong you give in because you want it to work out and can I be very honest with you since we won't be vulnerable I completely relate with this and I'll tell you privately here's the third one the vacillator read it and this one we understand in family life when when you have a a upbringing where you know you know it's like the
00:36:09 parent can really love you but can pull you back the parent because comes from a separation really overwhelmingly loves you but then reminds you you owe me this is what your dad did to me you owe me you cannot leave me when I'm old you cannot do this is they call it being overbearing parenting some you know you get this helicopter parenting Tigerman parenting guess what happens when you get married when you get married you cannot read emotional signals because you want a good marriage but you fear being hurt so you push you
00:36:48 pull your spouse shows demonstration of love you pull back because you don't want to get hurt now the last two are the most common and Yana Movic they tied together and this one is this one is self-explanatory we all know this right because abusive children come up two ways if you abuse as a kid you were in a very toxic family you either grow up to be a victim and you say I deserve it and sometime we see know we see it especially in women women coming tell me yes honor I deserve it I'm a bad wife you're not a
00:37:30 bad wife he has no right to talk to you like that I deserve it I'm bad you're not bad no yes I am Anor I I I didn't please him but what he asked you to do is not respectful where do you think that came from the other thing is because you a victim your your coping mechanism was I need to control so you grow up becoming an abusive person that's why a lot of abusive husband come from bad childhood now can I just say this in love all of us have mixture of this all of us so image God for he loved us so much
00:38:14 he gave his one and only son what does it mean for some of us as parents love your children sacrificially number two as Isaac did not withhold his son from God you are not in that image do not withhold give yourself to God now let's see where we go about breaking some things all right number two uh this is classic when you talk about parenting uh DC Comics started off uh by making Superman gay so there's a gay Superman out there now of course the Christian World went up in whoa Ben chaparo say we got to produce our own
00:38:50 series you know uh Marvels doing the same thing so is Disney and of course they doubled down by having a a a a gay superhero team now so this is where I struggle a bit and I I think why the chapter is very informative we get so worked out we see only the morality but if you understand especially liberal thinking and especially watch movies right the culture your children are growing up now is what we call an inclusive culture and every movie nowadays we have someone who's gay some Chinese some afroamerican
00:39:26 a disabled person you you just watch it and here's the latest one a Muslim just watch Spider-Man watch Game of Thrones watch all your Netflix series you will find the number of actors who are mute now getting Rose has tripled quadruple they winning Oscar the L Oscar award winner was the guy who was mut but the church cannot see it in his totality so this is what your children are being brought up and what I just showed you you see the bottom right hand s there Marvel Universe next Miss Marvel she's
00:40:01 Muslim you got to ask yourself why Muslims don't vote Republican you know you know why they don't vote and you may not like me saying this because they don't think Christians respect them so the question here is not about getting upset so much and building walls around the church to keep unclean people away yes we shouldn't let these values affect us but when you tell this to your kids your kids are going to go to universities and they're going to be taught that Christians are bigots and unless we as a church are a
00:40:31 testimony to people out there to Muslims to Gaye to crippled people to Sodom to Gomorrah to filistini we have no business moralizing everyone and this is where the chapter hits front and center because what did King aimc see in Isaac did he see Miracles no did he see healing no he saw a man digging Wells he kept digging digging digging and when the Philistines say is my well by Grace he walked off and when he finally found a well he named it there is room meaning fellow filistini fellow gay fellow LGBT
00:41:23 fellow Muslims fellow Democrats there is room for us together do you get that and on that they see the witness of the Lord now can we double down on this there's a lot of this in scripture we went through this I want to take you this the earlier chapter you see when when God tells Abraham I've chosen him to direct his children do you know what Abraham does after this he intercedes for what for Sodom he tells God you know God don't destroy Sodom you can almost imagine the discussion some of his friends say hey
00:42:05 but sod's full of this lgbtq people they have gay pride in there you know all your Muslim friends they all there all these pagans all all these immoral people Smite them Lord Smite them he tells the Lord would you save them and he negotiates down to 10 people for the sake of 10 will you you save the entire city for the sake of 10 people would you save all the entire LGBT community that's the way the context is and the Lord says yes I will withhold my hand but we all know in Sodom there wasn't even
00:42:46 one you know what Abraham is doing he standing the Gap and interceding and who did that for us Jesus Christ stood in a gap and interceded for us while we were still Sinners and this is what we're supposed to teach our children do we see this else in scripture yes I'm going to double down we find this again in this word in the text he says keeping my commands my decrees instructions why do you think the Genesis author puts this in because this is what this is Torah language this is Mosaic language this is The Ten
00:43:24 Commandments what kind of what kind of commands did abrah have he didn't you didn't have the Ten Commandments then you know the the author is trying to pick you forward and so let's look at Psalm 78 a very famous text about teaching children and sandwich between what I just highlighted to you is what you teach children verse five he decrees statutes for Jacob establish the law we get it but what is in their one the praiseworthy Deeds of the Lord meaning what he's trying to say is that don't follow the ten commandments
00:43:55 because the Ten Commandments going to save you follow the Ten Commandment because the Lord saved you out of bondage in Israel and teach your children the same thing the Lord saved us out of Israel and so therefore be a good boy but what we're doing with kids nowadays he was tell say be a good boy I'm going to whack you you know don't do this because it's immoral don't do this because lgbtq is a sin don't do this because the word is like that but the Bible is telling you teach Church children that because God saved
00:44:30 us and we miss this and John Piper picks it up many parents miss this and so they take the word of God and they make it their personal morality and the kids just see hypocrisy because they see no testimony no testimony to Sodom to gomorra to Philistines to lgbtq to Muslims that you are just old fashioned man and they walk away the verses are very clear so they will put their trust in God and not forget his deeds so here's a question to all of us as parents and and I struggle with this is my life reflecting that Testament my
00:45:10 my wife knows right few days ago me and my daughter we had a zoom you know you know when you a preacher right you go into preacher mode you know can't help it l since so how my daughter would telling me something she learned in church my wife would tell you that I went to preacher mall I started preaching to my daughter I went on and on and on and on that's why I'm such a terrible Bible study leader I'm really bad ask sa I can't get this out my head my dactor just paused you know and with my daughter said Dad don't don't don't
00:45:37 don't preach to me Don't Preach to me dad my wife had to tarrow me after that that's why God gave wives to see if my daughter is to listen to me is my life is my life showing gratitude that God saved me for my sins is my life a testimony to the world have I made room for people around me in this Pagan Society on one hand Muslims one hand liberals they see that then you can talk theology to them and I know I fail so he has a simple lessons to us you see look at this in Deuteronomy 6:4 love the Lord
00:46:15 of God that's why you say you love God and the love of God is the way you love your children and then what you do impress them your children are is the text telling you have Bible study when you wake up Bible study you sit at home bible study on the road Bible study you sleep Bible study get up of course not you know what the text is telling you show your lifestyle as a person who loves the Lord and how do you love the Lord the rest of Deuteronomy 6 tells you because you're grateful the Lord saved
00:46:45 you so here's two extremes we go one we think we are such lousy Sinners we subcontracted out to Sunday school the other one is we think it's my job to teach my kids the law I'm going to teach them your kids are just going to walk away a friend of mine is is is a Elder of a of of of a church a Reformed Church in a calvinist anyway he's a very good friend of mine he told me he had three kids one came to know the one stay the Lord the two left and he told me incident because he's a businessman he say one day he was on the phone no and
00:47:21 then and then uh the kid H him and the kid T him you know hey you are Elder of the church no Reformed Church no and he knows the scripture very well I just heard you lying to your church your to your client you know I heard you just saying this is not right no testimony he told me at the moment he had two things to do because the kid was there one lie to the kid be and Isaac and no no no boy you didn't hear me that's not what that meant actually what dead man is this understand the son ah hypocrite
00:47:58 or he could have said yeah you're right that light that's a sinner would you forgive that how many of you fathers there to say that Chinese culture cannot apologize to Kids one you know hey cannot oh you no face man correct or not but you see the power of Grace and forgiveness is the only way you break generational trauma children don't want to see perfect parents they want to see parents who understand Grace and forgiveness because that's the pillar of the Christian faith if you do not demonstrate and live up
00:48:41 forgiveness and Grace your children are not going to appropriate that when sometimes it's almost better parents quarrel you know and children see and then they see you quarrel but you made up and there Grace then Mom and Dad saying hi everything's fine how are you at school today very good excuse me yeah I got to go to the bedroom for that go to the room come on Hi how are you dinner good excuse me got to go back room again that is Biblical teaching okay let me end with this because I know bit long
00:49:25 today right you know wrong ran said freedom is never more one generation away from Extinction here's the last one the most painful one for us and we talk about losing our next generation and so he says fight it and hand it down he's partially right but not entirely right so let me end with the most painful thing if you are like most parents here you will have children who have given up the faith and when they have given them a faith you won't talk about it in church you just worry and when they have given up their
00:50:03 faith you would think you're responsible I wasn't good enough as a father I wasn't good enough as a mother I know a lot of you in there and I want to say this without judgment so here's the third and most important lesson you can't save your children Only God Can I I I I really hope that goes in you see in the same way you don't get saved by following the Ten Commandments you get the Ten Commandments are response for God taking them out of Egypt from bondage we try to walk righteously as scripture teaches us
00:50:44 because God saved me the problem is we dichotomize that with our kids we think we can save our kids if I bring them up right if I do this right they will know the Lord hello you are not God and the story is very clear isn't it read it for yourself so let me end this story about this and why we do not lose hope you see the chapter ends after the oath is done with King ABC the story ends we found water there's some poetry there after there is a testimony they find water and water in Scripture has
00:51:27 significance as Wells have significance bear with me on this you know what Isaac doing he never gave up you know he kept on digging and digging and digging until he found water because he trusted the Lord so here's I want to say to all you parents who are feeling heartbroken because someone in your family as a kid gave up the faith and I want to say this with deep love trust God until you draw your your last breath keep on digging for Wells that's all the Lord says and trust him you don't give up you do two things
00:52:07 you love your children the way God loves you number two make sure your testimony is there before you teach them and then the rest the Lord says you leave it to me so let me end with this as the story ends verse 30 Isaac made a feast the and and drank Isaac descending away that day Isaac's servant came he said we found water he called it shiah you know what is Shiba Shiba is seven and in Genesis 21 when Abraham makes the same treaty aimc it is seven and the town BBA is the oath of seven and the story ends and the story is
00:52:55 telling you God's Covenant will continue for Generations what happens after this what happened to the well Isaac du was it filled up again did it disappear 2,000 years later a woman SE at a well she's a Samaritan she meets a man and this well has been kept for Generations guess who duck that well and if you know that chapter in John is the well that Jacob built and so the son of Abraham dug a well like the father and the son of Isaac dug a well like the father and that well went on from generation to generation to
00:53:55 generation and one day Day Jesus missed that woman at Jacob's Well and Jake and Jesus offers that woman water Living Water to eternal life and I want to challenge you here today if you're here for the first time and you do not know Jesus this is the legacy of the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob to hear God God wants to know you today and he wants to give you streams of Living Water to this woman who had a broken marriage who was hurting who could be like us where our marriages are bad our parenting are bad Jesus comes up to this
00:54:46 hurting woman who came in the afternoon when nobody saw and he offers her water and so he offers to us the same water and he's asking us will you take it since I start with Star Wars I'm going to end with Star Wars and so Dar Vader Seafood is a guy called Palpatine in the last episode of Star Wars he has a daughter or granddaughter the bloodline comes in Ray Palpatine and Palpatine tells her the blood runs in you you have to be a Sith you cannot Escape it come to the dark side you cannot break that sin and
00:55:39 there's some here who say that sin runs in my blood pain runs in my family strouble runs in my family I cannot have a good marriage because my parents had a bad marriage my life is destined to be in darkness and what do Ray uses at the end of it I'm not Ray Palatine I'm Ray Skywalker and you are not in the image of your parents you are in the image of God I want to close by challenging you this as we bring up the the worship theme and ask yourself are you in any of this and may healing come to you as it
00:56:24 was passed on generation to generation and streams of Living Water came from Jesus Christ today in this hall right here right now Generations have passed and God's love is being passed on now and as the worship SE sings I ask you to think of yourself as a parent think yourself as a wife think of yourself as a husband think yourself mostly you're in the image of Jesus Christ for God so loved us he gave us his only son that None Shall Perish but all shall have eternal life so as we prepare can we have some background music I want to
00:57:14 lead us in a time of just Prayer of Healing you feel God is speaking to you just join me Lord we ask for generations of generations we are this morning you break us you mle us you make us your children as Sin entered through one man through Adam and we all suffer from that generational trauma as we pass on sins from one and on so sin was broken by the seed of the woman the Seed of Abraham through Jesus Christ and we have Redemption and freedom and streams of Living Water Lord we ask to pass through an anointing to
00:57:58 come in the hall right now free us from that bondage anyone he feels his trapped by a sin by a habit we ask you break it ask him to ask himself he does not need to be an avoider he doesn't need to be a pleaser he doesn't need to be a Viator he doesn't need to be a victim or a controller he just needs to be in the image of Jesus Christ Lord and Lord we ask that we as a church we are that spiritual family and here in this Hall Generations are gathered here this morning young and old teach us to pass on that love to each
00:58:34 other and as we leave here today and we go out to the Garden Cafe remind us to pass on your love is fresh like spring and we only want to pass it on we say this in Jesus name amen shall We rise As we sing this really old song for all the older Generations and may the Lord minister to you in this [Music] song it only takes this SP to get a fire going and soon all those can warm up in it's [Music] GL that's with God love once you've experienced it you spread his love to everyone you want to pass it
00:59:54 all what time is spring when all the trees are the birds begin to sing the CL start [Music] the all with God love what here you want to see it's fresh I spring you want to pass it all I wish for you my friend this happiness that I found you can to turn on him in that is not where you [Music] down I shout the mountain I my to know the Lord Of Love Has Come to Me I want to pass it on I shout it from the Mountaintop I want my word to know Lord Of Love has come to me I want to Jesus the go out here the music place
01:01:39 we ask that we really want the world to know that the Lord Of Love Has Come to to everybody here Lord as the generations are gathered here we ask we become truly an intergenerational church that we can be fathers and mothers to those who are younger here who are hurting we can be children to some people and open ourselves up to be vulnerable to receive a hug from an older person to wipe away the tear let us be a real Church a vulnerable Church a church of Tears a Church of Joy a church of pain but a safe place where
01:02:19 the cross is Center and we can express our struggles and we can journey together and heal and we can pass on that love from generation to generation and God's people say amen thank you you may be seated and we again Ask as part of the eldership body you have any issues any struggles contact anyone from the Pastoral board or the elders if you don't have our numbers contact the church office stay back talk to us let us pray for you do do not struggle alone you are in a church and family we are not going to come to the
01:03:01 time of the Lord's Supper so you can come up the slide and we're just going to quieten ourselves down if you have not received any of the emblems would you just raise your hands some at back have not received it we're going to quieten ourselves right now and remind ourselves we are a body of generations young and old gathered here and and as we do this we remind ourselves the need to pass on what Jesus taught us when he said do this in remembrance of me and for Generations after Generations the church has been
01:03:39 doing this to remind ourselves we are one body please raise your hands get it um if you don't have quieten yourselves down can I have the next slide please all right let's uh I'm going to do this only the moment I stop hearing plastic scraping I think when I stopped hearing plastic scraping it means everyone's ready right I still hear plastic this is a very sober moment so we're not going to rush this until there's no more plastic scraping meaning all of you taking it out let's quieten ourselves
01:04:26 and may the Lord I hope the Lord spoke to you today not anim let's quieten ourselves down and let's close our eyes for I receive from the Lord that which I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread and we had given thanks he broke in and said this is my body which is for you do this in remembrance of me and Lord so here we are gathered young people adults older generation Caris youth Sunday school but we are all one body teach us to pass on what you the god of Abraham Isaac and
01:05:20 Jacob has done for generations and the church has done this since the first time you broke bread to remember this in Solly so let's prepare ourselves as we remember how his body was broken for us and by that with gratitude we go out and LIF out that testimony and we pass on that testimony to our children before we lecture them on Morality In the same way he took the cup after supper saying this cup the New Covenant is my blood do this as you drink it in remembrance of me shall we partake of the blood of the
01:06:23 Lamb let's have a moment of silence say remember and when John the Baptist saw Jesus in The Book of dawn Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world that God was so loved usus that he would give his one and only begotten son to die a death so terrible because he loved us for his body was broken his son was pierced for all our sins he took on him for we cannot save ourself salvation is but by grace and a free gift from God and we cannot save our children so do not exasperate them
01:07:17 fathers we trust in you we trust our marriages our children our parents in you we will continue to dig Wells and keep on digging and there's room for us in this pluralistic society to shine for Christ and may we dig for streams of Living Water to testify for as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup you proclaim the L's death until he comes shall we take of the body of Christ let's have a moment of silence as we reflect on our sins in gratitude Lord there many in our midst here who feel ashamed they think they
01:08:12 not worthy to be fathers or mothers and so they subcontracted out to Sunday school we ask oh Lord that you do not let the devil deceive them that they are your child they just need to show a life of forgiveness and Grace and their children would see and this is what we have done right now in this communion forgiveness and Grace and we're thankful Lord you chose us you do not know why but you chose us who do you choose that is not for for us to us it is your will we are thankful that you have predestined us for
01:09:05 glorification and so Lord now we just quieten ourselves and we are just thankful we ask for healing to come in the church we thank you again for as we remembered your body broken for us your blood spilled for us as Abraham did not withhold his son you did not withhold Christ so teach us not to withhold our children withhold ourselves but to give ourselves wholeheartedly to you and in Jesus name we say this amen please remain seated as we continue the rest of the service
