From Generation To Generation

What will your grandchildren believe about God? Not what you hope they’ll believe, but what they’ll believe because of what they saw in you.

In this opening episode of our new series, Heirs to the Kingdom, we follow one great thread that runs through all of Scripture: God wants to be our God, and He wants us to be His people, from one generation to the next. We start with God’s covenant with Abraham: “and your descendants after you” (Genesis 17:7-8). Then we stand with Israel at the edge of the promised land as Moses calls them to love the Lord with all their heart and to teach His words diligently to their children, at the table, on the road, at bedtime, and in the morning (Deuteronomy 6:1-9).

We also face a sobering warning. Just one generation after Joshua, “there arose another generation… who did not know the Lord” (Judges 2:10). Knowing about God has never been enough. Faithful obedience is how we show our love for Him (1 John 5:1-4), and the home is the first mission field.

Finally, we turn to Galatians, where Paul shows that all who are baptized into Christ are Abraham’s descendants, “heirs according to promise” (Galatians 3:26-29; 4:4-7). If you’re an heir, the question is: who is going to inherit this faith from you?

Key verse: “Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God” (Galatians 4:7).