Reaching The Next Generation | The Book Of Psalms Week 7

What is your legacy going to be? Maybe it’s your life savings or a collection of bobbleheads you leave to your friends and family. A snoopy bobblehead and money are nice, but they won’t last. What can we do to create a legacy that will last for generations? Today Joel teaches us how not to be the last link in the chain of our faith.

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    - Listen to me, don't be the last link in your chain.
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    Today we're talking about legacy,
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    and we could use a family tree,
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    but chains are just a lot cooler,
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    and we like to have fun over here.
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    But also generations is -- it's linear,
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    one to the next to the next to the next.
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    And this is exactly what a chain is.
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    And I'm afraid just possibly your family legacy
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    is going to end with you instead of go beyond you.
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    Hey, my name is Joel, and I lead the student ministry
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    at all of our sites across Crossroads.
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    And I am so passionate about what we as people
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    are doing for the next generation because
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    we will not let the generations stop with us.
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    We will have it go through us to the next generation.
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    And I think the same is true for you.
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    In fact, at Crossroads we're at the series
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    called All of the Feels, and it's about the Psalms,
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    which has all these emotional feels to it,
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    and it talks about deep theological concepts
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    that they put a melody to it.
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    And today we're going to get into the Book of Psalms
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    as we talk about why this is so important
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    and what you can do to make sure
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    you're not the last link in the chain.
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    - Where are we in the Bible?
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    Let's begin at the beginning, shall we?
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    The Bible begins in the Old Testament,
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    written around 3500 years ago.
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    The first five books of the Old Testament:
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    Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy
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    are known as the Pentateuch, or books of the law.
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    The next 12 books: Joshua, Judges, Ruth,
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    1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings,
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    1 Chronicle, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther.
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    Whew. That's a lot.
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    These are known as the historical books.
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    This brings us to the books of the Bible
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    known as the Wisdom Literature.
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    It starts with Job and then into
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    a collection of 150 poems known as the Psalms.
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    - It's fun to joke about the generations behind us
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    and ahead of us and and even our generation,
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    in fact, something that's so popular right now
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    for this generation it's called Tic Toc,
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    maybe you've heard of it.
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    So today we're going to have some fun
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    and we're going to make one.
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    [tone]
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    [music]
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    [tone]
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    - Gosh, I am so not cool to this generation,
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    but that doesn't mean I couldn't be impacted
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    to reach them, and the same is true for you.
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    Let's talk about family chains, all right.
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    Mine starts with my dad.
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    He started the legacy of our family. Why?
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    He was a first generation Christian in our home.
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    So he didn't grow up with people telling him about God
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    or even in a home that that took him to church
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    or showed him any sort of concept of God.
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    But at eight years old, a friend invited him
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    to something called Vacation Bible School.
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    And, you know the puppet thing. Yeah.
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    And it worked for him, and he gave his life to Christ.
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    And he became the first link on a legacy
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    that went through and beyond him.
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    In fact, he actually went home
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    and started trying to reach his parents.
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    He started telling them about church,
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    and eventually they went
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    and both his mom and his dad gave their life to Christ
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    because an eight year old invited them
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    to something called Vacation Bible School.
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    And now I'm here now. This is me.
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    I'm Joel, this kind of cute link right here.
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    And now I get to have Christian parents and grandparents
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    because an eight year old told somebody
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    about a God who loved them so much
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    and it better not stop with me.
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    It better not stop with me.
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    In fact, maybe you're listening and you're going,
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    "I don't even have kids
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    or I'm not even close to the kid age,"
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    and I don't have kids either.
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    But yet, it's why I've dedicated my life
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    to reaching this next generation,
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    to a legacy going beyond me.
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    And I hope you're interested in doing the same
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    because we're going to talk about it today.
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    We are in this series that's all about this concept,
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    theological concepts put into melodies.
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    And the theological concept we've been talking about
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    and will talk about is legacy.
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    But I want to show you it.
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    This is what the psalmist, his name is David,
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    this is what he says about the generation
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    below him and beyond him. He says:
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    In other words, it is a biblical command
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    to pass your faith on to the next generation.
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    Well, why don't we have a little bit of fun
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    and talk about how different generations
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    have done this over the years?
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    The very first generation, the oldest one
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    is the traditionalist or the silent generation.
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    They are 77 years or older.
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    And if you're watching, good for you.
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    You're a legacy builder. Keep going. All right.
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    Now, your generation, you got it handed to you
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    or you handed it on to the next with big revivals.
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    And they did these revivals
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    with a guy named Billy Graham.
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    And Billy Graham would reach the masses.
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    He wasn't in a dope vibe-y bar like this.
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    He would reach so many people from stages
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    and they handed it on to the next generation,
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    the boomers.
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    And the boomers then took it in
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    and handed their generation on to,
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    about 58 years old to 77,
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    to Gen X by a thing called tracts.
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    You remember Bible tracts? You'd go door to door. Yeah.
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    And then Gen X got wild. You all got out of control.
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    If you're Gen X, you about 47 or older right now
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    and you pass on your faith to our generation
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    by using something like this.
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    If you didn't grow up in church or any sort of mass
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    or anything like that,
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    you probably have no idea what this is.
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    This is a flannel graph board. It's incredible.
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    Some people argue that it never works
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    past 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning,
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    but this is how literally the generation above me,
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    Gen X, handed their faith
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    on to the millennial generation, mine,
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    was through a flannel graph board.
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    The first time I heard about Jesus
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    was through a piece of felt.
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    Now, if you didn't grow up in church,
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    let me explain what's going on here.
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    Just pretend it's six in the morning.
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    Your parents drag you to some room
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    that smelled like dust, and some person
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    that was 140 stood next to this
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    and put magical felt pieces on a board.
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    You're caught up. All right.
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    And I literally heard about Jesus this way.
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    Now, I didn't start following Jesus because of this.
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    It was fun to see a teacher take a boat
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    and wave it over and put it on a board that would stick.
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    If you were if you were picked as a volunteer
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    to come put the character up, it was crazy.
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    However, this was all 2D.
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    Those teachers could then go
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    and live and do whatever they wanted.
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    The way I learned about faith,
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    the way my faith started expanding,
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    was through my dad, a 3D example,
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    skin to skin of somebody who wanted to make sure
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    the generation behind him, me,
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    knew that it wasn't his link.
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    I couldn't hang on his link.
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    I needed my own link to do this,
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    because way more is caught than is taught.
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    Let's just talk about this generational fade. All right?
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    This doesn't just happen in the Christian world,
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    like, they will catch what our generation hands them.
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    And the generations above us,
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    we've caught what they've handed us.
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    I'll give you an example.
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    Right now I work a lot, as I mentioned,
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    with the next generation.
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    And a 16 year old, so someone a part of Gen Z,
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    this was the exact phrase they said to me.
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    They said, "Respectfully,"
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    which if anybody of that generation looks at you
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    and says, "Respectfully," you're about to get roasted.
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    He said, "Respectfully, the outfit,"
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    I think he said fit. "That fit is mid."
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    You need a translator, right?
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    But what he was saying here is basically
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    my outfit is like okay and average.
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    And he just wanted to tell me and he was allowed to
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    because he said, "Respectfully."
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    Where did they catch a concept like that?
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    My generation.
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    I'm part of the millennial generation,
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    so that's right now about 27 to 45.
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    And for our generation, it was, "No offense."
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    You could just be like,
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    "That shirt doesn't look good, no offense."
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    And you were fine. Where did we get it?
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    The generation above us, it was "Bless their heart."
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    You remember that?
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    You could say whatever you wanted,
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    and if they said, "Bless their heart," then didn't matter.
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    So, so much is caught from generation to generation,
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    from chain link to chain link to chain link.
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    And what I want to make sure
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    and what I want to challenge you on
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    is that your faith, your link,
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    it can't stop there because right now we are failing.
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    Barna, a Christian organization, said that
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    64% of the millennial generation
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    have left the faith altogether,
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    if they grew up in any sort of concept with it.
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    Gen Z, the one beyond them,
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    they are twice as likely to do it
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    as the millennial generation.
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    And it's impacting our nation.
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    It's impacting our world.
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    Teen suicide is at an all time high.
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    Depression is at an all time high.
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    Anxiety is at an all time high.
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    Addiction, even in young people, is at an all time high.
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    And we can blame the generations above us.
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    And they may have been a part of it,
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    but all I know is this time to get solution minded
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    and to make sure the link doesn't stop with us.
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    Maybe you're listening
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    and you're not even a Christ follower.
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    You don't even believe in God,
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    but you love chains, big chain guys.
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    You're followed along and you like watching.
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    But I'll give you a business principle
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    that's doing the same thing.
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    It's not being passed on from link to link,
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    generation to generation.
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    It's called the third generation problem.
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    If you're in the business world, you've probably heard about it.
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    The concept's simple.
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    It's that it's almost impossible for a business,
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    a family business that's successful
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    to last three generations.
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    The joke in the business world
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    is the first one starts it,
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    the second they run it,
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    and the third one, they just ruin it.
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    And this is what happens in the business world,
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    because the first one is their business
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    and they're entrepreneurial and they run after it
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    and it's successful and they see some reward
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    and the next one just says,
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    "I don't want to screw this up."
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    So they preserve it and they keep it safe.
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    And then by the time we get to the third generation,
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    they're sitting there going,
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    "I don't want just a safe life running someone else's business.
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    There's no risk there.
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    There was no really even big reward there.
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    I want to do my own thing," and usually they do.
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    You see we see countless examples of this in Scripture,
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    not just the Psalms.
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    There's a guy named Joshua who he was so successful,
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    he was a man of God.
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    He got a generation to follow God
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    and they would win all these battles.
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    They were victorious.
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    And then they hand it on to the next generation
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    and they just keep it safe.
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    They say, "Let's not fight any battles.
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    We did pretty good.
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    Joshua handed off a pretty good thing."
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    And by the time it gets to the third generation,
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    here's what we read, Judges 21:25 says this:
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    In those days Israel had no king
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    and they did whatever they wanted in their own eyes.
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    You see, it's one thing
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    if it's happening in the business world,
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    but in the faith world, the exact thing is happening.
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    A first generation Christian usually is inspired.
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    They're excited. It's like my dad.
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    He couldn't stop telling everybody about it.
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    He was the first links others need to know.
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    And maybe you have someone in your legacy line,
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    your chain that's like that.
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    Maybe you have a grandmother
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    that they just have such a strong faith
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    and like you always see them praying.
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    Why are they always praying?
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    But you're also glad that they're praying for you.
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    And then it got to your parents possibly,
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    or people your parents age and they said,
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    "Let's just preserve it. Let's just -- I mean,
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    we'll go to church Sunday mornings
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    or watch something online once a week.
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    And that'd be good. That'd be good."
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    And you look at that faith, you say,
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    "That's not inspiring.
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    I don't want anything to do with that."
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    And listen to me, faith is inspiring.
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    Around here we call it an adventure
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    and we say you're born to do it,
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    but not when it's a 3D thing
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    that you're just being told about or preserving.
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    When it's one lived in action and when handed off
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    to the generation behind you, it's a life giving.
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    It's exhilarating.
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    And we can't be the one.
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    We can't be the one that fails to hand it on
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    to the generation below us.
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    We can't afford it.
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    The faith of the next generation is worth everything,
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    and we need you to do it.
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    You see, people think legacy is about your name
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    being put on a college dorm or a statue,
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    maybe a business handed off.
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    But it's so much bigger than that.
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    It goes beyond you.
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    In fact, what if it's not about your name at all?
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    What if it's about a bigger name?
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    What if it's about God's name?
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    What could you do to make sure the next generation
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    gets and catches this faith?
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    What can you make sure to do to make sure
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    you're not the last link in it?
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    We're going to talk about that in a little bit,
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    right after this.
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    - Hey. I'm Kyle. - I'm Hannah.
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    - Hey, we hope you've been with us through
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    this entire series in the Book of Psalms.
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    And whether you have, whether you haven't,
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    we want you to know that we're able
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    to do videos like this in the series like this
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    because of your giving. - That's right.
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    And if giving is something that you want to try,
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    it's super simple, you just go to the Crossroads app,
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    you click the gear in the corner,
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    and then you click give.
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    - So easy. Let's get back to the message.
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    - Here at Crossroads we go to the Bible
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    for our ultimate source of truth.
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    Like, if we've got questions or want advice,
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    it's where we go.
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    And if you're kind of new to faith
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    or the whole Bible thing,
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    it's split up into two different sections.
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    There's an Old Testament and a New Testament.
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    In most Bibles right in between the two
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    they've got a single page, usually a blank page.
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    And people don't know this,
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    but that page represents about 400 years.
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    So between the Old Testament ending
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    and the New Testament beginning,
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    it's about a 400 year gap
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    that you could just rip out if you wanted to,
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    because really it's one total story of legacy,
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    chain building, of people passing things on
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    from one generation to the one behind them.
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    In fact, all of Malachi,
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    the very last book of the Old Testament,
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    it's talking about a prophesied to come Messiah
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    by the name of Jesus.
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    And then you flip past that one page
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    and the New Testament starts with this.
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    It's just a list of names that, honestly,
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    people always skip over and just go to like verse 22,
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    because they don't want to read
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    all those long, weird Bible names. Right?
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    Well, guess who's one of the names on that list?
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    It is David, who I know, looks exactly like Jesus.
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    But, you know, budget cuts probably.
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    And David was on that list of names, like,
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    he was one of the names of people
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    that went through him all the way to Jesus.
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    And it's fascinating.
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    If you missed it earlier, David is the guy
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    who wrote the Psalm we talked about,
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    the theology of legacy put to a melody.
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    He cared so desperately
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    about the next generation hearing about this.
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    You see, a lot of you in here,
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    you have some sort of chain,
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    you have some sort of chain in a way or another,
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    and maybe you're the first link, you started this.
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    You're like my dad, the first generation Christian.
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    Or some of you, though, you're pretty far down.
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    Legacy has been handed on to you.
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    But the heartbreaking part is
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    it's not going to start with you, or even continue with you.
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    It's possible you actually are the one
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    that breaks the link, it ends with you.
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    And the reason this is,
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    is we care so much about happiness,
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    bowing down to the God of happiness
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    that we care about the now and me.
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    When the entire message of Jesus was
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    what if you cared about later and others?
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    It's the key to passing down generational stuff.
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    In fact, my dad was a first generation Christian.
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    You knew that. What I didn't tell you is
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    he was actually a first generation pastor.
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    And so it's cool when now I get to do the same thing.
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    And a few weeks ago,
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    Shep called this a professional churcher.
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    And I hope there's a long legacy behind me.
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    I hope I'm not the final link.
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    I hope I can pass this on to the next generation.
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    My dad likes to tell this story
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    of while we were at church, w
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    e basically just lived there as a pastor's kid.
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    I was pretty much born on a pew.
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    I was there all day Sunday.
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    And I just -- all my memories were at church.
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    At about five I figured it out that other kids,
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    they don't just go to church all day
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    and I got mad about it.
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    And they tell the story where I ran up to them
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    while they were praying with someone.
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    And I literally said,
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    "Do you know some kids just go to part time church?"
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    This is the problem.
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    The problem right now is
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    that we're attending part time church.
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    We think church is either what we do
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    for an hour on Sunday
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    or what we watch for some hour during the week.
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    And we call it good, but it's 2D.
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    Our faith's never affected or changed because of it
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    because we're so content
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    with this part time version of what church is.
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    You are the church.
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    You are made to pass people on to the next generation.
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    This is what David did.
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    In fact, we did have one other felt character.
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    David had a son named Solomon,
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    who I think is a little older than him
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    in my 2D analogy. That's why we got to be 3D.
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    And he cared about him knowing.
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    1 Chronicles we have this recorded talks about this.
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    It says this in Chapter 28:
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    In other words, what he's saying is,
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    "Go be the church, go and do this.
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    Pass this on to the next generation."
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    In fact, let me take you back to David's Psalm.
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    Psalm 145, remember,
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    this theology of legacy put to a melody, says:
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    When I read that word commend,
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    I legitimately thought my Bible had a typo in it,
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    but it's a real word, commend.
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    The definition here, I had to look it up myself,
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    it's praise formally or officially.
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    And this is a lot more fun because
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    what David is saying is not, hey, tell and a 2D way
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    the next generation and make sure
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    you're extra boring when you do it.
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    He's saying model it, just praise,
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    live this big faith, and it's how
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    the generation behind you will catch it.
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    And so hear this today:
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    if you're worshiping, I need you to do it
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    with both hands raised because
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    there are tinier hands behind you modeling what you do.
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    If you're singing, I don't care if you can sing or not.
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    I want you to singing at the top of your lungs
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    because there's tinier squeaky voices behind you
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    that will be repeating what you're saying.
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    Feel like doing something with your time,
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    serving somewhere at a nonprofit
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    or even we do these things called Go Trips,
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    we put our faith in action.
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    Go on one,
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    because there's littler feet behind you following.
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    There's tinier bank accounts watching how you give.
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    So give generously.
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    Get in a Bible study with people.
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    Get around a community because
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    the next generation behind you, they're watching you
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    and the way we pass our faith on,
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    it's not by just saying it,
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    it's not by preserving our faith and keeping it safe.
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    It's by having a faith in action.
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    It's by modeling it, it's by moving it,
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    it's by doing it.
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    And we will see the next generation reached.
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    We will see them have a faith of their own
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    if we first can work on our faith of our own.
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    We've got a tool for you today to help you do this.
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    We actually put the theology David talking here
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    to a melody and we're going to play this song.
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    This is one of our own,
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    and I hope you stick around for it.
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    In fact, I hope you play it all week
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    so that this doesn't just stay
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    in this one little moment you're watching this.
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    I hope you're on the treadmill
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    and you're singing this song loud in the gym
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    because you know there's smaller people there listening.
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    This is for you so you can take your faith,
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    put it in action, go and do something about it,
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    not just for your life, but because
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    the next generation behind you hangs on it
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    and their faith is worth everything.
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    - We hope you enjoyed the message today
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    and that you were able to get something
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    out of going deeper into the book of Psalms.
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    - That's right, and this entire series on Psalms,
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    that's all been connected with an initiative
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    our whole church has been doing
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    called the Bible Challenge. - That's right.
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    As a community, we're in the Crossroads app
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    all throughout the week,
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    reading and diving deeper into scripture.
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    I know I'm going to be there
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    and Brian's there and Kyle's there.
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    - I've been trying to hit three times a week,
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    helped me connect to God. It's been amazing.
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    If you want to jump in with us,
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    just download the app and you're all set.
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    - That's all we've got for you today.
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    We'll see you next time on Crossroads.
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    - You might be here right now
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    feeling like your joy has been stolen
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    or it keeps getting stolen from you.
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    I got good news for you, no one can steal your joy.
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    You choose to give it away or you choose to keep it.

Jul 29, 2022 23 mins 3 sec

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