“Tell the Next Generation”
(Sunday message for House Church and individual use: preached 10/31 – 11/6/2021)
“Tell the next generation that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.”
(Psalm 48:13-14)
Introduction:
Walk about Zion, go around her, number her towers, consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels, that you may tell the next generation that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.” (Psalm 48:12-13)
A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures. Wikipedia
In fortification architecture, a rampart is a length of bank or wall forming part of the defensive boundary of a castle, hillfort, settlement or other fortified site. It is usually broad-topped and made of excavated earth and/or masonry. Wikipedia
A citadel is the core fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle, fortress, or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of “city”, meaning “little city”, because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core. Ancient Sparta had a citadel, as did many other Greek cities and towns. Wikipedia
“Tell the next generation that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.” (Psalm 48:13-14)
“Tell the next generation…”
I. This is our God!
“For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.” (Deuteronomy 4:24)
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7)
“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:8)
“Tell the next generation…”
II. This is our God forever and ever!
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings,” (Hebrews 13:8-9a)
“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.” (Psalm 136:1)
“Tell the next generation…”
III. He will guide us forever!
“But the word of the Lord remains forever.’ And this word is the good news that was preached to you.” (1 Peter 1:25)
“And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.” (1 John 2:17)
Conclusion: What hast thou done?
“He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” (John 12:48)
- Tell the next generation to have life!
- Tell the next generation to have love!
- Tell the next generation to have liberty!
- “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)
- “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:2)
- “Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.” (Romans 6:18)
OUTLINE:
“Tell the Next Generation”
(A Message to the Multitudes)
“Tell the next generation that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.” (Psalm 48:13-14)
I. This is our God!
II. This is our God forever and ever!
III. He will guide us forever!
Conclusion: What hast thou done?
SCHEDULE OF SERVICE:
1:30 – 1:45 p.m.: Prayers
1:45 – 1:50 p.m.: Set up
1:58 – 2:02p.m.: Opening Music Presentations:
2:05 – 2:15 p.m.: Bible Reading by Abel Jr. followed by a song:
They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love (3:06)
2:15 – 2:25 p.m.: Comments on 1 Corinthians 13
2:25 – 2:30 p.m.: Reading by Dora (pg. 170):
Biblical Descriptions of Hell from the Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps & Timelines
2:30 – 2:35 p.m.: Special Video Before the Message:
Here Is Love Vast as the Ocean (3:48)
2:35 – 3:00 p.m.: Sermon:
Tell the Next Generation
If end by 2:55 p.m.: Announcements
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Suggested Viewing:
To Weep or Not to Weep? (20:34)
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Reading from Matthew Henry, Volume 3, pg. 341, on Psalm 48:12-14:
“Consider the towers, and bulwarks, and palaces of that, that you may be invited and encouraged to join yourselves to it and embark in it. See it founded on Christ, the rock fortified by the divine power, guarded by him that neither slumbers nor sleeps. See what precious ordinances are its palaces, what precious promises are its bulwarks; tell this to the generation following, that they may with purpose of heart espouse its interests and cleave to it.
“Let us triumph in God, and in the assurances we have of his everlasting lovingkindness, Psalms 48:14; Psalms 48:14. Tell this to the generation following; transmit this truth as a sacred deposit to your posterity, That this God, who has now done such great things for us, is our God for ever and ever; he is constant and unchangeable in his love to us and care for us.”