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I want to talk to us today about holding on to the next generation.

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Researchers tell us that young people born between 1985 and the early 2000s will be the

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largest generation in American history. They are referred to as Millennials and Generation Z.

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They are different from their predecessors in the following ways. Millennials are tech-savvy, civic-oriented,

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community-conscious. They are global citizens, entrepreneurial, and very flexible. Generation

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Z are money-driven and ambitious. They love to travel. They are prone to anxiety. They are known to set

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boundaries. They are avid gamers, and they use social media in a unique way. Facebook is for old

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people. Generation Z are into TikTok, Instagram, because their attention span does not dictate

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anything long, and they don't have time for anything or anybody old. But worst of all, 61%

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of young people between their 20s and 30s are spiritually disengaged. They have no church life.

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They have no God roots. Which says to me, Lily Grove, that the harvest truly is plenteous. But

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the laborers are few. And I want to distinguish this morning between what we've been calling them

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and who they are. Young adults, young people, children, I want to distinguish between what

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we've been calling them and who they are. They are not a lost generation. They are not a lost

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generation. They are a left generation. We've left them to raise themselves. We've left them to figure

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out life on their own. We left them because we are not through being children ourselves. We have

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left them to be raised by tablets and screens because we don't want to be bothered with them

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because we are too busy finding ourselves. The time to find yourself is before you have children.

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You should be found by the time you start having babies. And if not, then you are the one who is

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lost. I wish I had a witness here. Awesome under consideration. Focuses on the transmission of

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faith from one generation to the next. Its purpose is to encourage parents along with the faith

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community to teach their children about God's wondrous works. The superscription of the Psalm

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in your Bible and mine, this Psalm is a masquile song. It's the masquile of ASAP. The word masquile

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has to do with wisdom, with insight and the success that flows from having wisdom and insight.

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You're not wise because you're old because it's a whole lot of folk who are old and they are foolish.

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Somebody ought to help me talk here. ASAP was a Levitical musician appointed by David to preside

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over the service of song in the house of Yahweh. If one generation fails to pass along their

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faith and the stories behind their faith, the chain will be broken and faith will likely be

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lost forever. Parental leadership, parental leadership was and still is crucial to faith

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development. The first purpose of teaching children about God is that they might set their

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hope in God. That's the first reason you ought to teach your children about God, that they get

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their minds off any and everything that is ungodly because these children are up against more than you

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and I have ever been up against. They don't know anything about an ice tray. Many of them have

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never seen a stereo. They laugh when you talk about an eight track player. That's how we used to

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listen to the Isley brothers and the temptation and they say who is the Isley brothers? Because

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that's not where they are. The second purpose is that they might not forget about the works of

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God. You need to get it over to your children that the way they have it now was not the way you

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had it growing up and the reason why they are able to enjoy the many blessings that they enjoy is

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because you came through the struggle and because you struggled to make it easier for them, they

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ought to struggle to make it better for their own children. The third purpose of teaching children

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about God is that they might keep God's commandments because the commandments of God are

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attached to the promises of God. I wish I had help to preach it. You can't just get what God has

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without getting God. No, no, no, no, no, have your children understand. You can't borrow my money

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unless you tell me what you want to do with it because it's not your money. You and my house,

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that's my door you just slam. Talk back to me if you can. Notwithstanding the uncertainties

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surrounding the author of this Psalm and its historical setting, the message of this Psalm is

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unmistakable. It speaks with authority and has a relevant message for the people of God even today

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because the past is the great interpreter of the present and the great safeguard for the future.

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Churches begin as a movement and then after a number of years, churches become a monument and

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if you don't pass your faith on to your children, the church will become a memory. You need to tell

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them what good things God has done for you. You need to sit them down and tell them not just

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about your faith but the stories behind how you came to your faith. You are not where you are just

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because you went to church. You have some pain in your life. You've had some setbacks in your life.

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You've had some heartbreak in your life and the reason you shout so much is because God has opened

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so many doors. Your children ought to ask you, what do these stones mean? Mama, why you got to be

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the only one hollering on the pew? That's embarrassing. I go to school. That's all my friends talk

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about. Let them talk about your mama holler. You got somewhere to stay tonight. You got food on

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your table. Them Jordans you wearing, your mama sacrificed for that. Somebody ought to help me

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preach it. That's why you ought to teach your children to say yes ma'am and no sir thank you and

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I appreciate it because you are where you are and the world will step out of your way if you've got

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manners and good sense. Teach them, sit down and tell them your story. Tell them how you overcome.

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Tell them how you're more than a conqueror. Tell them how you got stripped to make it to where

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you are right now because you made good choices and right decisions because somebody had to pray for

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you. In verses one, two and three there's an explanation. Give ear, O my people, incline your

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ear to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings

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from old things that we have heard and known that our ancestors have told us. Give ear, incline.

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Give ear, incline. Here is what it is a picture of. It's a picture of putting your hand behind your

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ear so that you can hear it better. Young adults and young children don't know anything about this

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but when you when you cross a certain threshold you don't hear as well as you once did.

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But it's not just for the elders to hear, it's for young people, young adults, young children

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to bend and strain and ask God, what did you say? Because brothers and sisters, our children sometimes

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listen to us but they rarely hear us.

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And so that's why as a parent you've got to say, did you hear what I said?

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And according to the inflection in your voice, they changed their attitude.

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I wish I had some parents here who were not scared of your children.

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And when I knew my mama wasn't playing, she'd say, I'm not going to say that again.

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So I had to strain to hear because she was not going to repeat the instruction.

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And as a child of God, there are things that God wants us to hear that we got to strain to hear

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because there's so much other noise.

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There are a cacophony of voices straining for the attention of young people.

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There are these false teachers on TikTok and Facebook and Instagram.

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Many of them with PhDs and many of them are life coaches and young people are taking their advice

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and their life cues from these people who have no hope in Christ. They don't go to church,

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they don't have any spiritual background. These people are not your heroes. These people are not

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your friends. They're making money. These people are trying to tell you how to live their lives

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after they've screwed up their own lives and then they're trying to tell you how to live your...

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Listen, children do not come with directions, but they come with instructions.

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And the instruction is, train up a child. I wish I had a Bible reader in a way that he should go

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and when he's old, he will not depart from it. The instruction is, spare the rod

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and you spoil the child. Have I got a witness here? The instruction is foolishness is bound up in him,

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but the rod of correction will drive it far from it.

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Some of you who are women now, there was a time in your life when you would roll your eyes at your

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mother because you thought she didn't know what she was talking about.

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And some of you have this testimony. When you rolled your eyes at your mother,

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you were on the other side of the room and before you could say Jackie Robinson,

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she was all over you like a bad dress with her fist barred up.

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Heffa, what did you say?

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I brought you in this world. I wish I had somebody who was raised like I was raised.

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Those of us here who are men, we came to a certain point where we thought we could take our father.

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We had already sized him up.

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Because when I was growing up as a boy, my daddy would not let us walk around in the house with

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our t-shirt on because my mama and both of my sisters were in the house and my daddy would

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have us to get up all the boys, eight boys in my family, my dad would say get up and put some clothes

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on and look like you're going somewhere. A man ought to look like he's got something to do.

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Get up and put your clothes on. Don't walk around in this house with no shirt on.

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And I sized him up.

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And I said to myself,

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when I get to be a man, I'm going to walk around naked in my house if I want.

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And one day I got my own house and my daddy came to my house

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and he said, son, put your shirt on, please.

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Now in my mind,

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I said, who you think you're talking to?

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Who you think you are? But you know what I did?

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Because our parents were not our friends. I wish I had some help to preach right here.

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They fed us, they clothed us, they provided for us, but our

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parents, that we could not cross. And parents, you need to set up some boundaries

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to let your children know I am your provider. I am your protector, but I'm not your pal.

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Give ear to my instruction.

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Inclined to the words of my mouth and I will teach you things in parables.

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My grandmother used to sit us down and tell us stories, remind us of our history,

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bring us back to the time when we were nobody.

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We couldn't dress like we dress here on Sunday morning.

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The reason why a church started at 11 o'clock was because they had to get the master ready

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to go to church early. And by the time they got all of the master out of the house,

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it was 11 o'clock and they started having church out behind the slave quarters

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in Hushabas where they could not even be heard or seen because they were nobody all the week long.

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But Sunday morning, something got a hold of them and they realized that they were not what they

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were told they were, but in their hearts and in their spirits, they were children of God.

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And although they were bathed in the slave quarters, they sang, I got shoes.

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You got shoes. All God's children got shoes. And when I get to heaven, I'm gonna put on my shoes

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and shout all over God. You got shoes this morning. Shout. You got a car this morning.

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Shout. You got a job this morning. Shout.

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Oh, he's been good. He's been good. He's been good.

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Oh, oh, peace.

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Peace and safe. That the Lord is

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is good.

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In verses four through 11, as I hurry, not only is there an explanation in the text,

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but there's an exhortation in the text. God holds parents responsible for the spiritual instruction

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of their children. The worst mistake you and I can make as a parent is to say these ignorant words.

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I'm not going to force my religion on my children. I'm going to let them make up their own minds.

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And when they're old enough, they can decide. That's crazy talk.

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Children don't have the psychological nor spiritual wherewithal to make up their minds

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about what they want to do. Listen, we didn't even make up our minds about what we were going to eat.

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Now, I know this is a different time and this is a different generation,

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but some things just don't change. No, we didn't make up our minds about what we were going to wear

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or where we're going to go. It was no question about whether we were going to church or not.

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If God got us up, we were going to church. Talk back to me if you were raised right.

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That was no question of you talking back to your mother and your father,

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because if your mama was like my mama, she could drive and whip at the same time.

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Talk back to me if you can. She would have her hand on the steering wheel

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and was hitting everything behind her and never got in a wreck. Because they were

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determined that you have some sense. They were determined that you be intelligent.

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When you leave this house, act like I raised you.

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Well, you know, Pastor, times have changed.

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Things are different now. You can't whip children no more.

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You can't raise children like that anymore. You have to put them in timeout.

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And we have to say to them, Susan,

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don't speak to mommy like that.

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That happens across town.

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But on this side of town,

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I'll bust you in your face with these people.

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Have I got a witness here?

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I don't know if I kicked them.

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They didn't always do it right. Some of that was abuse.

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My mama should have went to prison.

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But she kept me out of prison.

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Somebody ought to help me preach here.

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If you raise them right and put them in God's hands, God will make a way out of them.

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God will help you get them through college. God will help you push them through life.

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To those of us here who think times have changed,

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do you think, do you actually believe that God does not know the difference

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between the greatest generation born from 1901 to 1924?

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A God does not know the difference between the silent generation born between 1925 and 1945.

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A God does not understand the trend of the baby boomers, my generation from 1946 to 1964.

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You think God doesn't know anything about Gen Xers born between 1965 and 1980?

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You think God does not provide for millennials born between 1981 and 1996?

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A God does not understand generation Z from 1997 to 2012?

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A God does not understand the alpha generation born since 2013?

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God's been God since God's been gone.

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And from everlasting to everlasting, he's alpha and omega.

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He's the beginning and the end.

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God took care of your grandparents and the same God who took care of your grandparents

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took care of your mother and father. The same God who took care of your mother and father

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is the God who's taking care of you and the God who's taking care of you will take care of your

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children. David said I've been young. I wish I had helped to holler right here.

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But now I'm old and I've never seen the righteous forsaken. Na is see.

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Here again for Brie.

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I'm through. I've kept you too long. I've got to go do a podcast with my young friends.

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I don't have time to play with you old people anymore.

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But lastly, there's a celebration in this text.

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From verses one through verse three is explanation. From verses four through 11 is exhortation.

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But for 60 verses, the Psalmist talks about how good God is.

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He opened the red sea and they went over on dry ground. When they got hungry,

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he rained manna from heaven. When they got thirsty, they drank sweet water

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from a rock. They were walking around for 40 years and their clothes would not wear out.

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Their shoes would not wear out. When the enemy tried to route them,

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God was a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day. It was dark on one side and light

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on the other side. God provided, God took care of them and even when they disobeyed God, he made a way.

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I'm finished now, but I want you to listen to me, my young adult friends.

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Michael Masser wrote these lyrics and Whitney Houston made it into a recording

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nominated for record of the year at the Grammys. And the song goes like this.

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I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.

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Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Give them a sense of pride to make it easier.

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Let the children's laughter remind us how it used to be. Everybody searching for a hero.

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People need someone to look up to. I never found anyone who fulfills my needs.

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A lonely place to be. And so I learned to depend on me. I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's

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shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I'll live as I believe. No matter what they take from me,

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they can't take away my dignity. That's a beautiful song. I don't like to hear nobody sing that song

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but Whitney Houston. But here is where the song goes off track. Because the greatest love of all

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is happening to me. The song really goes off track with the next lyric. I found the greatest love

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of all inside of me. That's blasphemy. That's secular humanism. That's impersonal idealism.

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The greatest love of all is not inside of you. The greatest love of all was born in a stable.

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The greatest love of all was wrapped in swaddling clothes. The greatest love of all was 12 years

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old when he questioned doctors and lawyers. The greatest love of all when he got to be 30 years

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old left his father's carpentry shop and went down to the Jordan to be baptized of John the

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Baptist. The greatest love of all stood in the Jordan River and the heavens opened and a dove

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descended saying this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. The greatest love of all is

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not inside of you but the greatest love of all healed the sick. He raised the dead. The greatest

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love of all gave sight to the blind. He made the lame to walk. He made the dumb to speak. He made

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the deaf to hear. The greatest love of all was on a ship one day and a storm blew up on the

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sea of Galilee and the greatest love of all waved his hand and said peace be still. The greatest

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love of all was on his way to Jairus's house to raise Jairus's daughter from a sick bed but a woman

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had an issue of blood and she touched his clothes and when he stopped the blood stopped because

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the greatest love of all saw a woman going to bury her only son. He put his hand on the casket

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and that boy came back to life again. The greatest love of all is not inside of you. The greatest

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love of all is on a hill called Calvary. The greatest love of all died one Friday. Didn't he die?

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If you were raised right you can help me right here. Bright early Sunday morning. The greatest love

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of all got up from the grave with all power in his hand but that's not the end of the story.

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The greatest love of all is right now this morning seated on the right hand of God

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and whatever comes up in your life he's able to make a way out of no way. He's able to open doors.

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He's able to answer prayer. He's able to be your friend. He's able to dry your tears.

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He's able. He's able. He's able. He's able. I need somebody who knows he's able.

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I need a witness this morning who can help me testify. He's able to make a way out of no way.

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I want to tell you young people when life gets hard for you and you look like you can't see your way

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when mama and daddy is not around. When it looks like you're up against it by yourself.

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I want you to fall down on your knees. Lift your hands toward the heaven and repeat these words to

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yourself. Now under him. Now under him. Who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all

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you can ask or think according to the power that's working in you. Won't he do it? Won't he do it?

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And if that doesn't work get on your knees again and say now under him who is able to keep you

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from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding great joy

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to the only to the only to the only to the only wise God to the only wise God be glory and majesty

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and dominion and power now and forever. Won't he keep you? Won't he deliver you? Won't he provide

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for you? Why don't you grab somebody? Tell him he's a keeper. He's a keeper. He's a keeper. I knew he's all right.

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Oh, he's all right.

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He walks with me. He talks with me. Won't he make a way? Why don't you tell somebody

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to be not dismayed? Why the hell would be time? God will. God will take care of you. Won't he take

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care of you? I said won't he take care of you? Won't he provide? Won't he keep you in perfect peace

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if you keep your mind?

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I'm not talking to young folk now. Let me talk to some old people now. Won't he make a way?

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Won't he open doors if you're over 40 years old? I'm talking to you right now. Won't he put food on

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your teeth? Clothes on your back? Mame it in your pocket. I know he's all right.

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I know he's all right.

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I know what you're saying.

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I know what some of your young people are saying. You're saying Reverend, you're old timing.

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You're old school. You don't understand. Just keep on living.

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Just keep on saying good morning.

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And your attitude will change. Because the stuff that makes sense to you now,

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when you get up here where I am, you will have the testimony of all of the old people like me in

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here. If I had known then what I know now, I would have left that food right at his mama's house.

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If I had known then what I know now, do you know how much money I would have saved?

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If I had known I was going to live so long, I would have took better care of myself.

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But God is still keeping me. And God can keep you. He can keep you on the college campus.

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He can keep you in your dormitory. He can keep you on your new job.

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He can keep you in perfect peace. But you got to keep your mind. Stayed on there.