From Psalm 78

The Next Generation is for .

Psalm 78 is a to generational .

📖  Psalm 78:7-8 ESV so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments; 8 and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

The most important message we can send to the next generation: never when you .

Generational Impact happens when:

1. We what we have and .

📖  Psalm 78:1 ESV Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! 

📖 Psalm 78:3 ESV things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.

Every Christian can be a .

📖  Colossians 3:16 ESV Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

📖  1 Corinthians 1:27–29 ESV God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

Generational Impact happens when:

2. We about things that .

📖 Psalm 78:3 ESV I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old…

📖 Matthew 13:35 ESV This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”

The words of Jesus .

Generational Impact happens when:

3. We our for the sake of another’s .

📖  Psalm 78:4 ESV We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.

📖 Matthew 5:14 ESV “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”

Two big themes of Psalm 78:

A. God is even when people .

📖 Psalm 78:11 ESV They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.

📖 Psalm 78:23–25 ESV Yet He commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven, 24 and He rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. 25 Man ate of the bread of the angels; He sent them food in abundance.

B. God anyone’s .

📖 Psalm 78:35 ESV They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.

📖 Psalm 78:38–39 ESV Yet He, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; He restrained His anger often and did not stir up all His wrath. 39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.

Sermon in a Sentence:

The next generation doesn’t need me to be ; they need to hear the of God’s on my .

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