Legacy of Love - Outline

God uses families

If you love your kids, love God first

God has a history of choosing out those who love Him and blessing them and their descendants.

Corollary: your best bet for blessing your descendants is to love and serve God.

Problem: raising kids is hard

Scripture solutions

Teach, discipline, do not exasperate. How?

Observation: God uses families

Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel), David... placing Jesus in a family

God has a history of choosing out those who love Him and blessing them and their descendants.

Corollary: your best bet for blessing your descendants is to love and serve God.

Exodus 20:4-6

The math of blessing: only 4 generation of iniquity, 1000 of love (20 millennia)

Scripture was about 175 years ago

Love God and keep His commandments: blessings for 20,000 years

Idols... because our kid can become our idols. Abraham and Isaac?

If you love your kids, love God first

True North - Am I loving the Lord with all my... and letting the next generation see me do it

This is not mechanical. God is not mechanical; and neither are your kids. Still, the best strategy