Things To Pass on to your Family

Deuteronomy 11:18-23

INTRO:

1. The most precious things that have been passed on to children and grandchildren have been seeing Mom and Dad or Grandparents worship the Lord – such as shouting, testifying, and praising God!

2. It is a precious memory and a special memory when a child or grandchild remembers their mother or dad reading the Word of God with tears in their eyes as they spoke God’s precious words and testified.

3. It’s a precious memory when you remember someone in your family who prayed in the Spirit with God dripping off of them when they were simply saying the blessing over a meal.

4. These kind of thing are even more valuable today than ever simply because they are so rare and so very hard to find in this wicked day we’re living in.

**Our text tells us and teaches us to pass these things onto our family. We are to pass onto our family everything we can about God, about Christ, and about the Church. How else will our children and grandchildren know of these things if we don’t pass it onto them?

**Here are some things to pass on to your family!

I. TELL YOUR FAMILY ABOUT A FAITH

II Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

**There’s Three Phases Of Faith

1. I See An Ancestral Faith.

It “Dwelt First In Thy Grandmother Lois”

2. I See An Active Faith.

“And Thy Mother Eunice”

3. I See An Accepted Faith.

“In Thee Also”

**Did your grandparents have a faith that is a keepsake in your memory bank?

**Did your mother and dad have a faith that is a keepsake in your memory bank?

**Do you have a faith that your kids and grandkids can treasure as a keepsake in their memories of you?

**You cannot get into heaven on the faith and salvation of your grandparents or the faith of your parents just like your kids and grandkids cannot get into heaven based on your faith and salvation! (Everybody has to have their own faith and salvation!)

**However, you can pass on and teach your kids and grandkids about your faith and your salvation that will help persuade your kids and grandkids to put their faith in Christ and to live by faith!!

A. Pass on and teach them about Saving Faith!

**I want my family to know beyond all doubt that I have a faith that SAVED me!

B. Pass on and teach them about Serving Faith!

**I want my family to know that I served God by faith!

C. Pass on and teach them about Sharing Faith!

**Apostle Paul shared his faith with every leader, king, jailer, inmate, Jew, and Greek he came in contact with!!

**I want my family to know I shared my faith!

**Will your family be able to say that you passed onto them by teaching them about a Saving Faith, a Serving Faith, and a Sharing Faith?

II. TELL YOUR FAMILY ABOUT A FIRE

A. Tell Your Family about a Hell Fire!

Isaiah 14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

**Pass on to your family that Hell is real and prepared for:

1. Worldly People

**Lovers of Worldly Movies, Worldly Music, and Worldly Minds (such as beer, ball, and babes!)

2 . Wicked People

**Wicked Assassins, Attackers, Assailants, and Addicts!

3 . Wonderful People

**Some of those wonderful people that are going to hell are in the church, in the community, in the congress, and in the courthouse!

4 . Without People

a. People Without the Savior

b. People Without the Spirit

c. People Without the Salvation

B. Tell Your Family about a Heavenly Fire!

Jeremiah said in 20:9, But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones

**Let your family see this fire – the fire in the Scripture, the fire in the Singing, the fire in the Sermon, the fire in the Shouting!!

**Pass it on and let your children and grandchildren know that Mama and Daddy said and sang, “The only fire I’ll ever feel is burning in my heart!”

III. TELL YOUR FAMILY ABOUT A FOE

**The Bible tells us that the Devil is our Adversary.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

A. He Has A Method

**He wants to cause you to doubt God.

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

B. He Has A Means

**He still uses the same tactics he has always used.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

C. He Has A Motive

**He hates God and the Child of God.

**He wants to see your life . . .

1. In Dishonor

2. In Disgrace

**Make sure you hand these truths down to your family and they have it in their minds that you always warned them about a foe called Satan!

IV. TELL YOUR FAMILY ABOUT A FRIEND

A. Jesus is a Friend that Cleanses

I John 1:9 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

B. Jesus is a Friend that Cares

I Peter 5:7 7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

C. Jesus is a Friend that Comforts

Psalms 94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

D. Jesus is a Friend that’s Close

Proverbs 18:24 there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

**Pass onto your family your personal testimonies of how He has cleansed you, cared for you, comforted you and how He is close to you!

V. TELL YOUR FAMILY ABOUT A FOUNDATION

I Corinthians 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

A. This Foundation is the Blood!

Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

B. This Foundation is the Bible!

II Timothy 3:16-17 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

**It’s a foundation that will tell you about Life, Love, and the Lord!

**Hand down your worn-out, underlined, note-filled, tear- stained Bible to your children and grandchildren!

**It is the greatest keepsake you can give them!

VI. TELL YOUR FAMILY ABOUT A FUTURE

I Corinthians 2:9 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

A. Heaven is a Place of Beauty

It’s beautiful because it’s a place of . . .

1. Numerous Splendors 2. No Sickness

3. No Sorrows 4. No Separations

B. Heaven is a Place of Blessings

It’s a blessing because that’s where . . .

1. The Savior Lives! 2. The Saved Live!

**Pass on to your children and grandchildren a testimony that your future has been reserved in heaven!!

**It’s the greatest keepsake your family could ever have!!

CLOSE

**What are we really passing onto our kids and grandkids?

**It is important to have those great memories to leave behind to our children and grandchildren – the family get-togethers, the family vacations, and the birthday parties and fun stuff.

**However, the greatest thing to pass onto our kids and grandkids is the things of God and letting them see God working in our lives.

**If you do not consciously think and work at passing on the things of God and teaching your kids the things of God in every situation every day, then don’t be surprise when they go astray!! God forbid! I don’t want to see that happen and neither do you. Learn how to pour Jesus into your family from the time you rise up until the time you lay down!