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Passing Faith On
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| But Dr. Jeffers, can you please speak to that? | |
| Because I believe there's a lot of young parents who are seeking and trying to figure out what role do they play right now. | |
| Well, my predecessor at First Baptist Church Dallas and my pastor growing up all of my life, Dr. W.A. Criswell, used to say, every civilization is only one generation away from barbarianism. | |
| The fact is, if we do not pass on the faith that we've embraced, if we don't pass that faith on to our children and grandchildren, we will turn into barbarians and infidels and unbelievers. | |
| And that's why in Deuteronomy chapter 6, you know, the great Shema of Israel, you know, the great words, hero Israel, the Lord your God is one God, and you shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength. | |
| Moses said, through God, you have to love God yourself. | |
| But then he says, and you shall intensely sharpen your children with these truths as well. | |
| It's hard to give away something we don't possess. | |
| We have to, first of all, embrace faith in Jesus Christ and dedicate our lives to following him. | |
| And we need to model that to our children. | |
| There's an old adage, some things are better caught than taught. | |
| And that's true about faith. | |
| We need to teach it. | |
| Yes, we need to model it as well. | |
| But if we don't pass along that faith, we're going to have children that grow up as unbelievers and they pass that unbelieving heritage to their children and to their children's children. | |
| So, you know, I would just say, you know, even through this pandemic, which I believe is real, I don't think it's made up. | |
| I think it's real. | |
| I think during this pandemic, it will pass one day, but our children, our grandchildren are going to remember forever how we responded to this pandemic. | |
| Did we respond in fear? | |
| Did we allow it to paralyze us and question God? | |
| Or were we examples of faith to our children and grandchildren? | |
| And I've got, you noted my grandchildren. | |
| I have triplet grandchildren. | |
| They're two and a half years old. | |
| And my daughter told me that at night they pray about the COVID virus, that God would take it away. | |
| And I'm so proud of my daughter and son-in-law for teaching our children, grandchildren at a young age the importance of praying to God and asking him to do a miracle. | |
| And that's what we need from God right now. | |