September 8, 2024
Legacy Lessons | House Rules Part 1
Speaker:
Toby Slough
Message Resources
Questions
Message Summary: God has a plan and destiny for you wherever you have been placed. Using the example of Joshua, don’t let the excuse of not having an example to follow keep you from being a leader. You can let your negative experiences define you or they can propel you. Jesus will make up the difference in whatever area you are lacking. The promised land is full of enemies. Our culture is not an excuse to not live out our destiny and live in all of God’s fullness. The promised land is full of giants, we will face opposition that only God can overcome. God’s word is living and active and will transform your life.
Joshua became a leader when he was fifty or older, we can start serving the Lord and become a leader at any time, it’s never too late. You have to begin with the end in mind if you want to be effective. Live with intentionality to create a legacy for you and your family. It’s not only about what you say, but it’s about what you do. How will your family be different? Create thermostats, not thermometers. If you do what everyone else does, you’ll get what everyone else gets. Just like Joshua had to step in to the river before God parted it, God is waiting for you to step in before he does the miracle. God is saying, “Step in and I’ll part the waters.”
Small things done consistently over time bring big change. The walls of Jericho didn’t fall after marching around one time, and what happened on day seven was not more important than what happened on day two. You don’t have to do everything all at once, just take one small step of obedience at a time. Start small with obedience and intentionality and you will build a legacy of serving the Lord over time. Our families need leadership, and we have everything we need because God gave it to us.
- What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus in your home? What are your values?
- What is your family learning from you about loving others? How do you love others who don’t believe the same way you do?
- What steps of intentionality are you taking to build a legacy of faith and serving the Lord in your home? What could you change?
- What are ways you can create more space to be intentional in being a house who chooses to serve the Lord?
- What legacy do you want to leave behind? How can you begin building that legacy today?
Scriptures
Colossian 1:27 – To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: [a]which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Joshua 24:14-15 –“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 3:11- 16 – See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of you. Now then, choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the Lord—the Lord of all the earth—set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap…” So the people crossed over opposite Jericho. The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.
Joshua 6:1-20 – Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites…Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men…They did this for six days. On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times…When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.
Matthew 13:31-33 – He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.” He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”
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