Abraham: Faith under siege | Diet 5

 

FAITH HAS NO GENERATION GAPS 

Faith is a power that can tie generations together. Faith is the authority to say to your son —"I've got it, you get it; you give it to your children." Faith is the power to transcend generations. Denominations die because they do not have the faith to move into another generation with the same stamina and spirituality that they had in the old generation. 

Hebrews 11:9 says, "By faith Abraham sojourned...in a strange country." You are supposed to live on the face of this earth as a stranger to the earth. This world is a place you are passing through. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise,

as in a strange country. He lived separated from others, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac (one generation), with Jacob (another generation), the heirs with him of the same promise. Abraham shared his faith with new generations. Doubt and fear and compromise can never do it. It takes faith to do it. You have to believe God that your children will believe the same as you believe. You say, "When does it begin?" It begins in your own heart before the child is conceived. 

All during the time that the child is in the womb, and when it is delivered, you pray over that child and as he grows up, be sure that is the major thing he is taught. We have a lot of disagreement about the Bible being taught in schools. Many of the people that are quarreling about it do not even have a Bible in their homes. The major place for the Bible is in the home. The second major place for it is in church. 

A lot of churches do not have much Bible teaching either. When you send your children to school, they should be walking Bibles—speaking out the word of God that they have already heard. Faith is the power to germinate the Christian religion from one generation to another. I have all three of my sons around me here like I did when they were children. If one of them would begin to do wrong, I would quickly go to his house. I am still Father. They have to do the same toward their children. I want to do the same toward my children and toward my grandchildren as long as I live. You say, "Why?" I want them to serve the same God I serve; My boys can tell you that there was no time during their life when I did not know where they were. When it came time to go to college, I did not bring in a lot of great big catalogs and say, "Now which one do you want to go to?" I had already decided that years before. I put them in my car and took them to an independent Bible school that would teach them about the gifts of the Holy Ghost and flowing in the Spirit, so they could learn more of the truths of God.

We've got to be intentional with parenting, don't leave them to make ungodly choices. 

You send your children to an ungodly school that teaches them atheism and every evil thing, including that they came from monkeys, and what are you going to expect of your children? You are to blame for it. 

What is faith? Transcending generations!

Author: Lester Sumrall 

Complied and edited by: Peter O. Olutoyese