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This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson. I'm director of the Southside Life Station and pastor of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.

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And you're receiving this message because you opted in to be encouraged.

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Today's verse, Psalms 22, 30. It says,

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Posterity will serve him. It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.

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The truth of God must be passed from generation to generation.

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The task is overwhelming, but there is always another generation until there isn't.

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Every new generation arises and must be informed and, where possible, enlisted.

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It's hard because the next generation will question the ways of the old.

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They will see the hypocrisy of those who say they believe in God but don't really walk it out.

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And they will say, why should I have anything to do with God at all?

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Or why should I have anything to do with God the way you do?

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And in that second question, they may actually be right because the uniqueness of each person's walk with God is, well, unique.

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That's what makes us equal because we're unique and different and whole.

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God wants to ensure his message is delivered to generation after generation and he chooses to use this generation to deliver it to the next one.

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Failing that, maybe our generation will have to deliver it to the one after that.

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And with each further away generation, it becomes that much more difficult because we don't see eye to eye or think the same.

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God help us be willing servants and witnesses.

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Help us share your truth with every coming generation as is needed.

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In Jesus name, Amen.