Message Notes

THE IDEA OF A GENERATION

1. More than an individual

2. Reaching a Generation

a) Age

b) Reaching a nation

ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER

1. The original generation

a) First-hand experience

b) Special experiences

i) To be noted

ii) Lessons learned

c) Determination to pass on knowledge to the next generation

2. This was taught by Moses

a) When you begat children and grand-children   (Deuteronomy 4:25)

b) When your son asks you in time to come   (Deuteronomy 6:20)

3. An established practice

a) We will not hide them from their children   (Psalm 78:4a)

b) Telling to the generation to come   (Psalm 78:4b)

i) The praises of the LORD   (Psalm 78:4c)

ii) And His strength and His wonderful works   (Psalm 78:4d)

c) He established a testimony and appointed a law   (Psalm 78:5a)

i) That they should make them known to their children   (Psalm 78:5b)

ii) That the generation to come might know them,
The children who would be born   (Psalm 78:6a)

iii) That they might arise and declare them to their children   (Psalm 78:6b)

COMPELLING MOTIVATION

1. Hope

That they might set their hope in God   (Psalm 78:7a)

2. Not forget

And not forget the works of God   (Psalm 78:7b)

3. Keeping the commandment

And keep the commandments of God   (Psalm 78:7c)

4. Not like the old generation

And not be like their fathers   (Psalm 78:8a)

a) Stubborn

b) Rebellious

c) Heart not set right

d) Spirit not faithful to God