How To Build Generational Wealth
I Must Fearlessly Live My Inheritance
April 28, 2024
Minister Tony Igwe
Psalm 84: 10-12 10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. 11For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. 12 Lord Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you.
Sermon in a sentence: God is my inheritance - I can’t give what I don’t have!
1. God has given me a great inheritance
Psalm 16:5 5 Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.
Psalm 142:5. 5 I cry to you, Lord; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
2. No matter what it looks like “God has done well by me!”
Psalm 16:6-7 6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.7 I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.
John 3:27 27 To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.
Psalm 33:20-22. 20 We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. 21 In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. 22 May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you.
3. I will fearlessly live my inheritance
Psalm 16:8-9 8 I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,
Psalm 23:4 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff,they comfort me.
Isaiah 26:3-4 3 You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. 4 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
Matthew 7:24-27 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.”
4. God, my Father will never abandon me!
Psalm 16:10-11 10 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.11 You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Psalm 23:6 6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
5. I will set an example for my children’s children. Joshua 14:6-12 6 Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, 8 but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly. 9 So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’10 “Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11 I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. 12 Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”
2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design
Sermon Series: How to Build Generational Wealth
Rehearsing the Goodness of God
April 21, 2024
Trashawnda Ward
Proverbs 13:22 (New Living Translation), “Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren, but the sinner’s wealth passes to the godly.”
Sermon in a Sentence: If we really want to pass down generational wealth, we need to spend less time complaining and more time praising.
Key Words:
Rejection: a refusal to accept, consider, submit to, take for some purpose, or use
Complaining: to express grief, pain, or discontent
Praising: to express a favorable judgment of
- God's chosen people complained, even when they had every reason to praise.
- Complaining leads to hopelessness, hopelessness leads to a lack of trust in God, then the lack of trust breeds disrespect which turns into turning away from God.
Exodus 16:1, The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. 2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
Exodus 17: 1-3, The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”
Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?” 3 But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
- The way to deal with complaining is to recount your history with God.
- The Psalmist provides a remedy for praising, or passing down the goodness of the Lord to the next generation.
Psalm 78:1-8 says, “O my people, listen to my instructions. Open your ears to what I am saying, 2 for I will speak to you in a parable. I will teach you hidden lessons from our past—3 stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us.4 We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord, about his power and his mighty wonders. 5 For he issued his laws to Jacob; he gave his instructions to Israel. He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children, 6 so the next generation might know them—even the children not yet born, and they in turn will teach their own children. 7 So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands. 8 Then they will not be like their ancestors— stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.
- Choose to praise, by remembering the goodness of God, every day and celebrating HIS blessings for the year, at least once per year.
The Blessing Jar Challenge (Practice this with your children and grandchildren)
1. Get your blessing jar
2. Start today, write down blessings and add them to your jar. These are significant things that God has done for you this year.
3. On December 31st, sit down with your family or friends and rehearse what God has done for you.
If you’d like to journal these instead, feel free to keep a journal, be sure to include the dates, and give it to your children before they go off to college or before they leave your house. When tough times come, they should be able to read about what God has done for you and be encouraged.
Psalm145:3-4 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable. One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design
Sermon Series: How to Build Generational Wealth
John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
April 14, 2024
Key Term
Repent—to make a change of mind, heart, and action, by turning away from sin and self and returning to God.
Sermon in the Sentence
After we acknowledge God’s ownership we must repent of our mismanagement
Acts 26:20 First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.
Genesis 4:3-5 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. SoCain was very angry, and his face was downcast. 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
Key Truths
1. Tithes and offerings are evidence of repentance
Malachi 3:7-12 7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’ 8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings.
2. There are consequences for our mismanagement
Malachi 3:9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.
Haggai 1:2-11 Haggai 1:2-11 2 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.’”3 Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” 5 Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, butare not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the Lord. 9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”
3. Tithes and offerings are a test of our faith and of God’s faithfulness
Malachi 3:10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
4. Tithes and offerings invoke God’s protection
Malachi 3:11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty.
5. Tithes and offerings result in a demonstration of God’s blessings
Malachi 3:12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty.
Proverbs 3:9 Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; 10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.
Application
Take the Generational Wealth Challenge
1. Corporately fast and pray every Tuesday in April
2. Review current financial condition
3. Repent as needed
4. Begin to, or increase, tithes and offerings
5. Design and implement a Generational Wealth Plan (e.g., Wealth Map (budget), get will, insurance, power of attorney, etc.)
6. Attend Church meeting on Tuesday April 30th at 6:30pm
2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design
Sermon Series: How to Build Generational Wealth
John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
April 7, 2024
Key Term
Repent—to make a change of mind, heart, and action, by turning away from sin and self and returning to God.
Sermon in the Sentence
After we acknowledge God’s ownership we must repent of our mismanagement
Acts 26:20 First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.
Genesis 4:3-5 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. SoCain was very angry, and his face was downcast. 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
Key Truths
1. Tithes and offerings are evidence of repentance
Malachi 3:7-12 7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’ 8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings.
2. There are consequences for our mismanagement
Malachi 3:9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.
Haggai 1:2-11 Haggai 1:2-11 2 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.’”3 Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” 5 Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, butare not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the Lord. 9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”
3. Tithes and offerings are a test of our faith and of God’s faithfulness
Malachi 3:10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
4. Tithes and offerings invoke God’s protection
Malachi 3:11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty.
5. Tithes and offerings result in a demonstration of God’s blessings
Malachi 3:12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty.
Haggai 6:12-13 12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshuason of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared the Lord. 13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, gave this message of the Lord to the people: “I am with you,” declares the Lord.
Proverbs 3:9 Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; 10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.
Application
Take the Generational Wealth Challenge
1. Corporately fast and pray every Tuesday in April
2. Review current financial condition
3. Repent as needed
4. Begin to, or increase, tithes and offerings
5. Design and implement a Generational Wealth Plan (e.g., Wealth Map (budget), get will, insurance, power of attorney, etc.)
6. Attend Church meeting on Tuesday April 30th at 6:30pm
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2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design
Sermon Series: How to Build Generational Wealth, Resurrection Sunday Edition
John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
March 31, 2024
The Resurrection
The belief that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day after he was crucified. A central of truth of Christianity and of the good news of the Kingdom of God
Matthew 16:21 From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
Sermon in the Sentence
Our faith in the Resurrection makes us beneficiaries of God’s will (what He promises and what He wants)
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 3 I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. 4 He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.
John 3:16-17 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 3:23-26 23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24 Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. 25 For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, 26 for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he makes sinners right in his sight when they believe in Jesus.
The Reading of the Will
1. According to God’s will, the Resurrection demonstrates the depth of His love for us
1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
1 John 4:9-12 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Romans 5:7-9 6 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!
Romans 8:32-34 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
2. According to God’s will, the Resurrection destroyed satan’spower over us
Hebrews 2:14-15 14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
Romans 6:5-7 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
1 Corinthians 15:20-25 20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. 24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
3. According to God’s will, the Resurrection is an umbrella life assurance policy (and fire protection plan!)
1 Peter 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Romans 6:3-4 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Matthew 25:31-34, 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Romans 10:9-10 9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
Application
1. Get in God’s will
2. Commit to getting a will and some life insurance
A New Lease On Life
Good Friday Service
March 29, 2024
Elder Gary Nelson
Sermon in a Sentence:
God considered us valuable and decided to repurchase us by investing the life of His only begotten son.
Key Text:
Exodus 6:6 (NLT) - “Therefore, say to the people of Israel: ‘I am the Lord. I will free you from your oppression and will rescue you from your slavery in Egypt. I will redeem you with a powerful arm and great acts of judgment.
Kingdom Key Words:
➢ Bondage – a state of being bound or an enslaved person
➢ Reconcile – to restore to friendship or harmony
➢ Redeem – to free from captivity by payment of ransom, to buy back
➢ Ransom – (noun) a consideration paid or demanded for the release of someone or something from captivity (verb) to free from captivity or punishment by paying a price
➢ Lease – a contract by which one conveys real estate, equipment, or facilities for a specified term and for a specified rent
I. Owning vs. Leasing:
Psalm 24:1. The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him.
a. When it comes to our lives, we don’t own those either.
b. Our poor handling of being lessees caused us to be considered God’s enemies. Colossians 1:21 (NLT) - This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions.
II. What is Our Worth?:
a. Psalm 8:3-5 (NLT) - 3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—the moon and the stars you set in place— 4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them 5 Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them[c] with glory and honor.
b. God refers to the nation that would become Israel as his own special treasure. Exodus 19:5 (NLT)
c. Matthew 13:46 (NLT) – A gem merchant finds a pearl of great price and is willing to sell all that he has to obtain it.
III. Repossession Scenarios:
a. Scenario #1 – Hebrew people in Egypt
i. God’s property has been leased to the Egyptians/Pharoah for 400 years. (Part of God’s covenant with Abraham)
ii. Pharoah has not handled God’s property well.
iii. The lease end date has arrived
iv. God sends a redeemer, Moses
Exodus 6:5-6 (NLT) - 5 You can be sure that I have heard the groans of the people of Israel, who are now slaves to the Egyptians. And I am well awareof my covenant with them.6 “Therefore, say to the people of Israel: ‘I am the Lord. I will free you from your oppression and will rescue you from your slavery in Egypt. I will redeem you with a powerful arm and great acts of judgment.
b. Scenario #2 – All mankind in bondage to Satan via Sin
i. Here the stakes are even higher than the previous scenario as all humanity is in a spiritual prison with Satan as our jailer.
ii. We have an eternal sentence with no chance at parole.
iii. God himself, in the form of the God/Man Christ Jesus becomes the ransom to secure our release and restoration.
Colossians 1:19-20 (NLT) - 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
iv. God chose to repurchase property that he already owned.
Closing Thoughts:
Key lyrics from the song “Worth” by Anthony Brown and group therAPy – You thought I was worth saving, You thought I was to die for
John 15:13-14 (NLT) – There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.
Exodus 15:13 (NLT) – “With your unfailing love you lead the people you have redeemed. In yourmight, you guide them to your sacred home.
Let us reflect on this Good Friday upon the ultimate price that God paid to rescue us and reconcile our relationship with Him, motivated by his endless love and the priceless value he has placed on us.
In light of these things, I urge you to respondby accepting the finished work in the earth of Christ Jesus and sign on for
A New LEASE On Life
2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design
Sermon Series: How to Build Generational Wealth, Part 6
Steve “Corky” Davis
March 24, 2024
Key Words:
Mentoring: The act or process of helping and giving advice to a younger or less experienced person.
Teaching: Engagement with learners to enable their understanding and application of knowledge, concepts and skills through study, experience or being taught.
Key Kingdom Principle (Sermon in the Sentence):
The way to build generational wealth includes seeking wise counsel.
1.God is the source (It all belongs to God)
Deuteronomy 10:14-17 To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. 15 Yet the lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations-as it is today. 16 Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. 17 For the Lord your God is God of all gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.
Deuteronomy 8:17-18 You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” 18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
2. Learn from Others
Exodus 18:9-24 9 Jethro was delighted to hear about all the good things the Lord had done for Israel in rescuing them from the hand of the Egyptians. 10 He said, “Praise be to the Lord, who rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who rescued the people from the hand of the Egyptians. 11 Now I know that the Lord is greater than all other gods, for he did this to those who had treated Israel arrogantly.” 12 Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God. 13 The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening. 14 When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, “What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?” 15 Moses answered him, “Because the people come to me to seek God’s will. 16 Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God’s decrees and instructions.”17 Moses’ father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good. 18 You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. 19 Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their disputes to him. 20 Teach them his decrees and instructions, and show them the way they are to live and how they are to behave. 21 But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fiftiesand tens. 22 Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. 23 If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied.” 24 Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.
2 Timothy 2:1-2 You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.
3. Teach, Teach, Teach
Deuteronomy 6:4-8: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be onyour hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
4. Benefits of following wise counsel
Proverbs 3: 13-16 Blessed are those who find wisdom. Those who gain understanding, 14 for she is more profitable than silver and yields better return than gold. 15 she is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. 16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
5. Commit to a plan of action
A.) Identify your board of advisors(spiritual, personal, financial, professional)
B.) Ask for assistance
C.) Write your goals down
D.) Find an accountability partner
E.) Celebrate your big and small victories
2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design
Sermon Series: How to Build Generational Wealth, Part 4
John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
March 17, 2024
Key Kingdom Principle (Sermon in the Sentence):
The way to build generational wealth is through obedience to God’s word
Deuteronomy 5:33 Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
God’s Generational W.E.A.L.T.H. Map—Directing HisMoney Where to Go through Prioritized, Percentage, Financial Planning
1. Wealth creation (Investing for the future)
Genesis 30:31-32,43 31 “What shall I give you?” he asked.“Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them: 32 Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages. 43 In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
Proverbs 24:27 Finish your outdoor work and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.
Ecclesiastes 11:1-2 NCV Invest what you have, because after a while you will get a return.
2 Invest what you have in several different businesses,because you don’t know what disasters might happen.
Luke 16:9 NLT Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home.
2. Enjoy life (Guilt-free spending)
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.
1 Timothy 6:1Tell those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which will soon be gone. But their trust should be in the living God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment.
3. Acknowledge God’s Ownership (Tithe)
Proverbs 3:9 Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; 10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.
Numbers 18:21 I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting.
Leviticus 27:30, 32 30 “‘A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord. 32 Every tithe of the herd and flock—every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s rod—will be holy to the Lord.
Malachi 3:8-11 8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.“But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty.
Luke 11:42 NLT What sorrow awaits you Pharisees! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore justice and the love of God. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.
4. Living Expenses (Paying your bills)
2 Samuel 24:22,24 22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. 24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
Psalm 37:21 The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously.
Colossians 4:1 Masters, give what is good and fair to your slaves. Remember that you have a Master in heaven.
James 5:4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
5. Tuck away for a rainy day (Save)
Proverbs 6:6-8 6 Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and be wise! 7 Even though they have no prince, governor, or ruler to make them work, 8 they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter
Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest money dwindles away,but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
Proverbs 21:20 In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has.
6. Help people in need (Offerings)
Proverbs 28:27 Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing. But a curse will come upon those who close their eyes to poverty.
Psalm 41:1 Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him;
1 Timothy 5:8 But those who won't care for their own relatives, especially those living in the same household, have denied what we believe. Such people are worse than unbelievers.
1 Timothy 5:16 If any believing woman has widows, she should help them, and the church should not be burdened, so that it can help those who are genuinely widows.
Application
1. Create, and begin to use, a WEALTH Map for God’sfinances under your trusteeship
2. Acknowledge God’s Ownership through the Tithing Challenge (starting in April
2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design Vision Sunday, 2024
John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
March 10, 2024
Kingdom Key Words
Generational Wealth—assets accumulated and passed down from one generation of a family to another.
Proverbs 13:22 A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.
Key Kingdom Principle (Sermon in the Sentence):
To extend God’s blessing into the future (i.e., maintain generational wealth), remember and rehearse what He did in the past.
Key Truths
Deuteronomy 4:9 NLT “But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. Do not let these memories escape from your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren.”
Deuteronomy 6:1-12 1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 3 Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
10 When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 12 be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Judges 2:6-7,10 6 After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance. 7 The people served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the LORD had done for Israel. 10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel.
Our Mission and Vision We love God.
Matthew 22:36-38 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
We love people.
Matthew 22:39-40 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
We live like Jesus.
1 John 2:3-6 3 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. 5 But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.
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We Love God
1. Stewardship—Sign the Quit Claim Deed and Give Generously
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. Luke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
2. Worship—Join the Congregational Choir—Attend Worship Service Weekly, in person, on KP (Kingdom People) Time (9:45 am)
Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord.”
We Love People
1. Fellowship—Live Acts 2:42-27
Acts 2:42-47 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
2. Ministry—Become an Unofficial Congregational Usher Greeter
1 Peter 4:10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
We Live Like Jesus
1. Evangelism—Take the B.L.E.S.S. Pledge (Begin with prayer, Listen, Eat, Serve, Share)
2. Discipleship—Live a Life Worth Following
Matthew 28:19-20 Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.
2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design
Sermon Series: How to Build Generational Wealth, Part 4
John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
March 2, 2024
Kingdom Key Words
Generational Wealth—assets accumulated and passed down from one generation of a family to another.
Laying the Foundation for Building True Generational Wealth: Insights from the Life Joseph
Genesis 39:1-6 1Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.2 The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. 3 When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, 4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. 5 From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. 6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.
Genesis 39:20-23 20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison, 21 the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. 22 So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there. 23 The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.
Key Kingdom Principle (Sermon in the Sentence):
The foundation for building true generational wealth is to relinquish my ownership mentality and to embrace my fiduciary (trustee) reality.
Key Truths
1. God owns everything (He is the grantor).
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and theearth.
Leviticus 25:23 The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants.
Deuteronomy 10:14 To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.
1 Chronicles 29:14 But who am I, and who are my people, that we could give anything to you? Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you have already given us!
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
Psalm 50:10-12 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. 12 "If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.”
Haggai 2:8 'The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the Lord Almighty.
Ezekiel 18:4a For every living soul belongs to me, the father as well as the son-both alike belong to me.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your body.
2. I own nothing (yet)
Ecclesiastes 2:18-19 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.
1 Timothy 6:7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
3. My faithfulness as a trustee, qualifies me to be a beneficiary
1 Corinthians 4:2 Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
Luke 16:9-12 NLT 9 Here’s the lesson: Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your possessions are gone, they will welcome you to an eternal home. 10 “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. 11 And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven? 12 And if you are not faithful with other people’s things, why should you be trusted with things of your own?
Mattthew 25:14-16, 19-21 14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.[e] You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design Sermon Series: How to Build Generational Wealth, Part 3 John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
February 25, 2024
Kingdom Key Words
Generational Wealth—assets accumulated and passed down from one generation of a family to another.
Bless—to place under God’s favor, care, and protection.
Laying the Foundation for Building True Generational Wealth: Insights from the Life of Abraham
Kingdom Principle (Sermon in the Sentence):
We are blessed to be the connector to the blesser!
Kingdom Truths (continued)
1. We are connected to the blesser (God) through His promise to Abraham
2. When we connect people to the blesser (God) they will want to be connected to us
3. When we connect people to the blesser, people will bless us
4. Don’t forget we are just the connector, God is the blesser
5. Our connection to the blesser can create haters
Genesis 26:12-16,26-29 12 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. 13 The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. 14 He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. 15 So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth. 16 Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”
6. Lasting generational wealth only comes from our connection to the blesser Proverbs 13:22 A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.
Psalm 39:6 “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.
Ecclesiastes 6:2 2 God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21
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For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? 23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment? 26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Genesis 24:34-35 34 So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant. 35 The Lord has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Genesis 25:5 5 Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.
Genesis 26:12-13 12 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. 13 The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.Genesis 35: 12 The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.
2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design
Sermon Series: How to Build Generational Wealth, Part 2
John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
February 18, 2024
Kingdom Key Words
Generational Wealth—assets accumulated and passed down from one generation of a family to another.
Bless—to place under God’s favor, care, and protection.
Laying the Foundation for Building True Generational Wealth: Insights from the Life of Abraham
Kingdom Principle (Sermon in the Sentence):
We are blessed to be the connector to the blesser!
Kingdom Truths
1. We are connected to the blesser (God) through His promise to Abraham
Genesis 12:1-3 1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 18:18-19 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
Galatians 3:26-29 26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
2. When we connect people to the blesser (God) they will want to be connected to us
Genesis 30:27-30 27 But Laban said to him [Jacob], “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.” 28 He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.” 29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care. 30 The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?”
Zechariah 8:20-23 23 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “In those days ten people from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, ‘Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.’”
3. When we connect people to the blesser, people will bless us
Genesis 39:1-6a 39 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. 2 The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. 3 When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, 4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. 5 From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned,the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. 6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.
Genesis 39:19-23 19 When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger. 20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.But while Joseph was there in the prison, 21 the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. 22 So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there. 23 The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.
Genesis 41:37-43 37 The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials. 38 So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God?”39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you. 40 You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.” 41 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.” 42 Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. 43 He had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command, and people shouted before him, “Make way!” Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.
4. Don’t forget we are just the connector, God is the blesser
Genesis 41:14-16 So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh. 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” 16 “I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”
2024 Theme: Living Life Aligned with the Divine Design
Sermon Series: How to Build Generational Wealth
John M. Wallace, Jr., PhD
February 11, 2024
What is Generational Wealth?
Assets accumulated and passed down from one generation of a family to another.
Sermon in a sentence:
Lasting generational wealth comes from God
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
Psalm 25:12-13 12 Who, then, are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose. 13 They will spend their days in prosperity, and their descendants will inherit the land.
Proverbs 13:22 A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.
Laying the Foundation for Building True Generational Wealth: Insights from the Life of Abraham
1. True generational wealth is intended to bless others
Genesis 12:1-3 1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 26:3-5 3 [Isaac] Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. 4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,
Genesis 28:13-14 13 There above it stood the Lord, and he said [to Jacob]: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
2. True generational wealth is built on parents’ obedience to God
Genesis 22:1-2 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”“Here I am,” he replied. 2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
Genesis 26:3-5 3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. 4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, 5 because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.”
3. True generational wealth begins by teaching our children to live life aligned with the divine design
Genesis 18:18-19 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
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