Home Improvement 4 – Inheritance

 

God wants you to build, fix, & maintain your home. God also wants us to leave behind an inheritance.

Many people are not thinking about the next generation, but God is always thinking about the next generation. We need to think more about the life we are living and will hand down as an inheritance.

Are you living a life worth inheriting?

 

Home Improvement

I’m not even sure that our video editing team really understood that this sermon series has nothing to do with Tim Allen.

Welcome to Redemption Church! My name is Chris Fluitt and I welcome everyone in the room and everyone online. We are in the final week of our sermon series Home Improvement. The bumper videos in this series have been terrible, but the truth in God’s word has been life changing.

We have talked about building, fixing, & and maintaining you your home. If you missed any of the previous weeks you should go check them out at redemption-church.com.

Today I want to talk to you about the very spiritual topic of inheritance.

Inheritance

* We have talked about building the home. Are you just building it for you?

* We have talked about fixing the home. Are you just building it for you or will others be effected?

* We have talked about maintaining the home. Are you just watching out for your investment, or perhaps are you hoping to one day pass this home on to the next generation?

What is an inheritance? Inheritance is the transmission of goods to another generation.

A lot of things can be left as an inheritance.

* Houses and land are often left.

* Many mothers hand down jewelry as inheritance.

* Money in a bank account is something that can be left behind as inheritance.

Do you have anything that has been handed down to you from previous generations? We want to hear about it. Text our anonymous line – 214 856 0550.

Anonymous Text Line

Our family has a hand held telescope from the 1800s that has been handed down from previous generations. I look forward to passing it down one day.

Sometimes the value of an inherited object is just the knowledge that someone before you held it. I don’t have much need of a handheld telescope, but I still hold this object as very valuable, because of the history behind it.

Inheritance

Inheritance is a biblical idea that we need to practice.

Inheritance is rooted in the past

We see this idea all throughout the Bible. There are multiple locations in scripture where long lists of genealogies are given. Adam begat Seth, Seth begat Enos, Enos begat Kenan… We know the lineage from Adam to Jesus. It is in Luke 3.

The past is important and needs to be remembered.

You may read through Chronicles and get bored at reading these difficult to pronounce names.

You may think, why is it important that you remember this person?… But you are missing the point.

It is not important that you remember them… what is important is that God remembers them!

Every person listed is someone God knows. God intimately knows every one of them, and loved them.

The past is important to God. Is it important to you?

Unknown Grave

I am blessed that our family has our own cemetery. There are many graves from the 1800s buried there, and many of them are unknown graves.