WHAT THIS YOUNGER GENERATION NEEDS

                                           PSALMS  78:1-8

INTRO:    HERE IN THE 78^TH  PSALM WE FIND IT A PSALM OF INSTURCTION AND ALSO A HISTORICAL PSALM.   AS WE LOOK INTO GODS WORD WE WILL SEE COMMANDS AND WHAT THIS YOUNER GENERATION STANDS IN NEED OF.

VERSE 1--    GOD IS SAYING THAT WE NEED TO GIVE EAR , LISTEN AND OBEY WHAT THUS SAITH THE WORD OF GOD.

     ---- THIS GENERATION NEEDS TO  QUIT LISTENING TO EVERY WIND AND DOCTRINE GOING AROUND AND COME OUT FROM AMONG THE WORLD AND BE A SEPARATE PEOPLE.

VERSE 2--   I BELIEVE WHAT HE WAS SAYING HERE IS THAT IM GOING TO GIVE YOU SOME SIMPLE STATEMENTS OF FACTS  THAT HAVE BEEN PASSED TO GENERATION TO GENERATION.  AND IN VERSES 3-5 THEY ARE WRITTEN FOR ALL GENERATIONS TO KNOW.

     -----SO LET ME GIVE YOU SOME THINGS THAT THIS YOUNGER GENERATION NEEDS!

1-  OLD FASHION PREACHERS                                             

    ---PREACHERS THAT WILL LIVE GODLY LIVES AND BE GODLY EXAMPLES.  WE ARE LIVING IN A MESS TODAY BECAUSE PREACHERS WANT PREACH AGAINST ANYTHING,  IF THE BIBLE IS AGAINST IT  ITS SIN.  

     ---THEY ARE LEAVING THE IMPRESSION WITH THIS GENERATION THAT YOUR SAVED, YOUR NOT PERFECT AND THEREFORE THEY FEEL ITS OKAY  IF THEY DO SIN ITS ALRIGHT.  BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH.

    ---WE HAVE PREACHERS  AND PASTORS LIVING IN ADULTERY WHEN  THIS BIBLE  SAYS “THE HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE” AND NOT ONE AT A TIME.

   ---- WE HAVE PREACHERS THAT DON’T HAVE ANY MORALS ANYMORE. THEY DON’T DRESS RIGHT, TALK RIGHT, OR LIVE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH OR THE PEOPLE.  THIS GENERATION IS GETTING TO WHERE IT DOESN’T KNOW HARDLY ANYTHING LIVING HOLY.

   ----WE NEED OLD FASHION PREACHERS  NOT THIS MODERN, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT MY CHURCH ATTITUDE.   WE NEED PREACHERS THAT ARE RIGHT WITH GOD AND THAT WILL PREACH THE WORD OF GOD WITHOUT COMPROMISE.

     ---IM AFRAID SOME PREACHERS AND CHURCHES ARE LETTING THIS YOUNGER GENERATION DOWN.  NO WONDER OUR GENERATION IS IN A MESS, WHEN THEY WILL ORDAIN HOMOSEXUALS FOR SO CALLED PREACHERS.    GOD HELP US!

2-  GODLY PARENTS

    ---VERSE 3—THIS YOUNGER GENERATION NEEDS GODLY PARENTS A MOM AND DAD THAT THEY CAN FEEL FREE TO TALK TOO AND TRUST.   PARENTS TODAY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THEIR CHILDS WELL BEING OR THEIR SPIRITUAL WELL BEING. I HEARD A SAYING SOME TIME BACK THAT SAID “WE TIE OUR DOGS UP BUT LET OUR CHILDREN RUN LOOOSE”.   DO WE KNOW WHERE OUR CHILDREN ARE OR DOES IT MATTER TO YOU.

   ---DEUTERONOMY 6:6-9---THESE VERSES TELLS US AS PARENTS TO TEACH THE COMMANDMENTS THAT GOD HAS COMMANDED US . VERSES 1-5 .   TO TEACH THEM TO OUR CHILDREN.  THAT’S WHAT WE NEED TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN THE PRECIOUS WORD OF GOD.  WE HAVE A DUTY AS PARENTS TO TEACH AND TRAIN UP OUR CHILDREN IN  THE WAY THEY SHOULD GO AND THE BIBLE SAYS AND WHEN THEY ARE OLD THEY SHALL NOT DEPART FROM THEM.

   ---IF THEY DON’T SEE MOM OR DAD GO TO  CHURCH  THEN THE CHILDREN WANT THINK ITS IMPORTANT TO GO.  WE NEED TO LIVE GODLY BEFORE OUR CHILDREN IN OUR WALK  OUR TALK THE WAY WE DRESS OUR ATTITUDE, IN EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE.

3-  THEY NEED TO SEE THE PRAISES OF THE LORD      VERSE 4

   ---DO YOUR CHILDREN SEE THE PRAISES OF THE LORD AT THE CHURCH YOU ATTEND.

   ---A LOT OF CHURCHES PUSH THEIR CHILDREN INTO ANOTHER PART OF THE CHURCH TO WATCH MOVIES, SHOOT POOL ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, EAT PIZZA AND OTHER THINGS.   I KNOW WE NEED TO BE INVOLVED WITH OUR CHILDREN, BUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR CHILDREN BEING UNDER THE PREACHED WORD OF GOD, THE BIBLE TEACHES ME THAT WE ARE BEGOT BY THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING.

   ---I HAD A DEACON OF A CHURCH TELL ME THAT A CHILD COULD NOT BE PREACH TOO THAT THEY NEEDED TO BE TAUGHT.   IF PREACHING WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME WHEN I WAS GROWING UP  ITS STILL GOOD ENOUGH TODAY.   BY THE WAY WE GET TAUGHT IN SUNDAY SCHOOL.

   ---HOW ELSE ARE THEY EVER GOING TO KNOW HOW TO WORSHIP IF THEY DON’T SEE MOM OR DAD WORSHIPPING  AND PRAISING GOD.  

   ---I WANT MY DAUGHTER TO SEE HOW THE SPIRIT OF GOD WORKS IN THE WORSHIP SERVICE OF OUR CHURCH.  I WILL NEVER FORGET THE SHOUTING TIMES AT BETHEL FWB CHURCH, THE PRAISING THE LORD, THE RUNNING THE PEWS, FOLKS PASSED OUT IN THE SPIRIT OF GOD, MY PASTOR GETTING HAPPY AND DANCING IN THE  SPIRIT OF GOD.  I WILL NEVER FORGET SEEING THE HOLY GHOST GET A HOLD OF MY MOM AND SHE WOULD SHOUT AND PRAISE GOD.

   ---WE DON’T NEED TO HIDE  THE POWER OF GOD FROM OUR CHILDREN.  LET OUR CHILDREN KNOW WHAT WORHIPPING AND PRAISING THE LORD IS ALL ABOUT.

4—THEY NEED TO SEE THE STRENGTH OF GOD     VERSE 4

   ---WE DON’T NEED TO HIDE GODS STRENGTH  AND HIS POWER FROM OUR CHILDREN. HAVE YOUR CHILDREN SEEN GOD HEAL THE SICK.  DO THEY KNOW THE POWER OF GOD.

   ---HAVE THEY SEEN THE POWER OF GOD AND HIS HEALING IN YOUR FAMILY.  THEY NEED TO SEE GODS STRONG HAND  DELIVER PEOPLE FROM THE BONDAGE OF SIN, TAKE A MARRIAGE AND PUT IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.   HAVE THEY EVER SEEN GOD TAKE A HEART THAT WAS SIN SICK AND MAKE IT OVER AGAIN.

   ---DO THEY KNOW ABOUT GODS POWER TO DELIVER THE THREE HEBREW CHILDREN OUT OF THE FIRERY FURNACE,  DO THEY KNOW HOW ELIJAH THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD  DEFEATED THE 450 PROPHETS OF BAAL.

   ---LET OUR CHILDREN SEE THE STRENGTH AND POWER OF GOD IN OUR LIVES.  DON’T HIDE IT FROM THEM.

5---THEY NEED TO SEE THE WONDERFUL WORKS THAT HE HAS DONE VERSE 4

   ---WHAT WONDERFUL WORKS HAVE YOUR CHILDREN SEE GOD DO IN YOUR LIFE.  LOOK AT VERSES 12—16  (PREACH THESE VERSES)

   ---THIS  YOUNGER GENERATION NEEDS TO HERE HOW HE RAISED THE DEAD, CAUSED THE BLIND TO SEE,  DEAF TO HEAR,  DUMB TO SPEAK.

   ---VERSES 5,6  TELLS US THAT WE ARE TO MAKE THEM KNOWN TO OUR CHILDREN AND THAT THE GENERATION TO COME MIGHT KNOW THEM.  SO WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO TEACH THESE TO OUR CHILDREN.   LETS MAKE KNOWN TO OUR CHILDREN WHAT WONDERFUL WORKS OUR GOD CAN DO.

THEIRS 3 THINGS  THIS YOUNGER GENERATION NEEDS TO DO    VERSES7,8

A-SET YOUR HOPE IN GOD

   ---PROVERBS  3: 5,6

   ---GIVE HIM YOUR HEART THROUGH REPENTANCE AND TRUST HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART IN EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE.

   ---IM GLAD HES THE ONLY HOPE WE HAVE.

B-DON’T FORGET THE WORKS OF GOD

   ---DON’T FORGET WHERE HES BROUGHT YOU FROM.  YOU COULD BE IN JAIL OR HELL TODAY IF IT HADNT BEEN FOR GODS  LOVE AND MERCY.

   ---DON’T FORGET WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT IN THE WORD OF GOD.

   ---DON’T NEVER FORGET THAT THERE IS ALWAYS ONE THAT LOVES YOU AND CARES FOR YOU AND HIS NAME IS JESUS.

C-KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS

   ---WE HAVE TO LIVE BY WHAT THUS SAYETH THE WORD OF GOD.

   ---AND IF WE WILL OBEY GOD AND HIS COMMANDMENTS WE WANT BE A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS GERNERATION THAT SET NOT OUR HEARTS ARIGHT.  BUT WE WILL BE STEDFAST WITH GOD.  VERSE 8.

CONCLUSION

   ---ALL THIS  YOUNGER GENERATION NEEDS  IS JESUS!

---LETS MAKE SURE WE GIVE THEM JESUS IN OUR DAILY WALK WITH HIM.