A Multigenerational Vision

Dec. 2, 2019

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Transcription

Give a vision. Well, there's no vision that people perish. Generations perish. When you give our sons and daughters a vision of a multi-general legacy, I jokingly say to my kids that my goal is to be the worst dad for the next 10 generation of Smiths. Not that I'm that bad, but my sons will build up on my shoulders.

They'll have a better vision of what a father is. They'll have less baggage from my fatherhood transferring to them, and they'll do the same to their kids as well. So when we cast that multigenerational vision, our sons can grab on to that and say That's what I want. And secondly, we must keep on pointing them back to Jesus Christ. Back to Jesus Christ.

Back to Jesus Christ. Because He has the ability to go from one generation to another generation. The Rechabites, for ten generations, would not bow even to the prophet Jeremiah's pleas for them to drink wine because they'd be given a vision from their father not to imbibe, not to to live dramatic lifestyles, not to go into the city and set up a dwelling place there. And so we know that since we see that as a reality in the recombites, it can be a reality in our lives as well.

How can we as parents help to facilitate generational faithfulness to God?

Kirk Smith explains in this video that generations will perish if there is no vision. He tells his children that he hopes and prays that each generation of his family will continue to grow in godliness and build on the previous generation.

To facilitate generational faithfulness, parents must point our children back to Christ. Only He can radically change a generation from sin to following God and empower them to continue serving Him throughout generations.

Psalm 78:5-7 (NKJV) - "For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; that the generation to come might know them, the children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children, that they may set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments."

Speaker

KS

Kirk Smith is the Executive Director for the Illinois Christian Home Educators (ICHE). As such, his consistent message is the emphasis on home discipleship (particularly father-led) and the fear of the Lord as the source of wisdom and knowledge. Prior to his present position, he founded and pastored a church in Albion, Illinois for twenty-five years. He and his wife, Joely, live on a small farm outside Bone Gap with their eleven children.

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