Go and MAKE disciples of all nations …
Matthew 28:19
This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear MUCH fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
John 15:8
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s more of a diminishment of anything that isn’t happening right now.
Douglas Rushkoff
The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, MAKING it UNFRUITFUL.
Matthew 13:22-23
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Picasso
I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work.
Ecclesiastes 2:18,24
Legacy isn’t measured by what you accomplish during your life span. Legacy is measured by the lives that are affected by your life long after you are gone.
Mark Batterson “Chase the Lion”
Go and make disciples of all nations …
Matthew 28:19
One generation will commend your works to another; they will tell of your mighty acts.
Psalm 145:4
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I declare your power to the next generation, your power to all who are to come after me.
Psalm 71:18
What we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done.
Psalm 78:3-4
Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them…so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 6:1-9
Moses = First Generation
Children of Israel = Second Generation
Their Sons = Third Generation
Their Grandsons = Fourth Generation
The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.
Numbers 14:18
And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.
2 Timothy 2:2
Paul = First Generation
Timothy = Second Generation
Reliable men = Third Generation
Others = Fourth Generation
A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
Luke 6:40
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Acts 1:8
Jerusalem = First location
Judea = Second location
Samaria = Third location
Ends of the earth = Fourth location