KS 426 - Legacy In Motion

Legacy doesn’t wait for retirement; it starts with the next choice you make today. We open up about a book that grabbed our attention—The Legacy Life by David Green and Bill High—and why it shifted how we read Scripture, build businesses, and raise families. From the marketplace to the kitchen table, we unpack why legacy is motion, why it isn’t about you, and how a spiritual foundation turns wealth and work into tools for service rather than trophies.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Walking Intro And Focus
• 2:01 Marketplace Ministry Context
• 3:22 Choosing A Book On Legacy
• 6:42 Interviews And Early Insights
• 7:18 How The Book Shifted My Thinking
• 9:05 Generations In Scripture
• 11:18 Ezra’s Line And Longevity
• 14:39 First-Generation Faith Starters
• 16:26 My Family’s Four Generations Of Faith
• 19:08 Start With Spiritual Foundations
• 20:00 Two Calls To Action
• 21:00 Upcoming Family Legacy Projects
• 21:42 Blessing And Closing

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:33

What's going on, cute successful sound car coming at you? Episode 426. Alright, alright, alright. I am out for a walk right now. So if you hear some things in the background, guys, as you've been with me anytime, you know that uh this is the way I record my podcast. So I guess before I jump into everything, um, well, let me tell you what I'm gonna talk about. We're talking about legacy. Haha. I know that it seems like I probably have been talking about these things or this topic off and on for the last several months, which um it is. And I've just got done reading a book that was one of those books that I literally read it um in about a week and a half, uh, well, yeah, week and a half. Yes, I did say that. I read that book in a week and a half. I just literally finished it about 10 minutes ago. So, but hey, let me tell you, if this is your first time actually checking out the Kingdom Success podcast, you know, we talk about marketplace ministry stuff, not what goes on in the four walls of a church. This is actually what happens when you take the Bible and you apply it in real life outside of the four walls of a church. Not take anything away from church, church is extremely important, but I don't go to church every single day. There's more time that I spend outside of church than I spend in church. So I just want to give you guys examples, thoughts from my own life that might help you out. So The Legacy Life. This book. Listen to me, unto me. I'm using the King James version. So Joshua Min, this is about a month and a half ago. Joshua Min, as you guys know, that I've been part of this uh small group, whether we meet once a month, we select a book that has already been pretty much pre-selected for us and we read it and we go through the book. Well, right around that back in August, or excuse me, September, I had already kind of had some thoughts because the month of October, we were allowed to actually choose our own book. And specifically, they wanted us to choose an autobiography or biography of some you know Christian leader and read read their story. Well, if you know Mr. McCart here, that is me. I'm all about wanting to dive into stories about godly Christian men. And pretty much over the last couple weeks I'd have been, you know, leading up to that moment, I've been like saying, ah, you know, man, I I really want to feel like this whole Legacy Stone, David Green, Hobby Lobby thing of his biography is what I want to select. Well, David Green was, you know, whenever I got down to it, I picked, I when I was sitting there at my own house where we where I was where we had our small group that last month, pulled up, said, yep, this is what I want to read. Come to find out. It's not really his um autobiography or biography. The first thing he pulls up is Legacy Life. I said, okay, no big deal. So, and the other thing was it came out on October 14th. Well, I went ahead and bought the Audible or the pre pre-sale of it, and then I bought the the actual hardcover, the actual book book. And then I went in maybe the next week, because I didn't buy buy the audible and the book at the same time. Wound up buying the actual physical book, I think, the following week. And after I bought it, I'm like, you know, I bet you anything, there's about a week or so left before they actually launch this book. Let me go out onto YouTube or somewhere and find out if they've actually done any interviews with David Green and Bill High. Well, lo and behold, the first one I pull up is about a 30-minute interview with the two of them. I don't remember who the gentleman is that actually is interviewing them, but I just remember listening to them talk, and it was just impactful. And it was just speaking the language of what I've been wrestling with, what I've been pursuing over the last really, I'd say six months. And really kind of what I feel the Holy Spirit, you know, really pressing in on my heart of this whole thing legacy. So the book arrives, and I I pretty much I can't put it down. I mean, I remember sitting there reading the first three or four chapters and going, man, this is one of these books that mark me. They really kind of change the course or change the trajectory of my thought process and how I look how I view the world. And I'm sure there's gonna be more other books similar to this that I'm gonna read. But this book totally changed a lot of that. It helped me really see that God talks about generational things probably more than what I care to really, or what I used to not care to read about. Meaning that there's a reason why God says, I'm the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. There's a reason why he talks about to Noah when he steps off of the ark and he reiterates the blessing that he talked to, that he told Adam about, which is I want you to go be fruitful and multiply. Subdue the earth, fill it up. You know, all that right there is generational stuff. We weren't called just to, I mean, and I'm not taking anything away from anybody that doesn't have kids yet, but I would seriously challenge you if you thought about not having kids just because you don't want kids. I really would challenge your thought process. That this is just my opinion, it's a very selfish way to live. It's just anyway, I'm not gonna get on that, but I would hope that either maybe you've struggled with having kids, which that's a rare, real thing, that you at least take your interest and devote to some kind of kids and help be an impact on their lives. So one of the I'm gonna give you two key takeaways from the book. Maybe one or two stories. So first takeaway Legacy is motion. Legacy is motion pure and simple. And it's not about you. Legacy is motion and it's not about you. You know, that's something that was kind of a big wake-up call to me. You know, in in God's word, God, God's word, you look at Ezra, and in Ezra, I think maybe chapter one or some spot in there, Ezra basically says, hey, I come from this line, and it's all these uh generational uh genealogical uh people that are listed off. And I'm just gonna go ahead and tell myself that, you know, as I've been reading through the Bible, morning, been reading through the Bible multiple times. Now I literally skip over all that stuff, but here I am now looking at this, and when you put down the context of a family legacy, you go all the way back to Ezra, who did these three things. He observed the law, studied the law, spoke about the law. And here he is coming back from Babylon, and in the presence of trying to reestablish his Jewish community in Jerusalem. But we typically focus in on, man, you know, I want to be like Ezra and study the law, observe the law, and then preach the law. I think I can't remember what Ezra 1.6 or something like that says. But when you actually take a generational lens and you look at this, it cites where all the way back to, I believe, in that geological exploit, it ties them all the way back to Aaron and back to Aaron, which is a line, a family line that did not get broken, of declaring the word, observing the word, studying the word. Are you ready for this, guys? Fourteen hundred generations. Excuse me, fourteen hundred years. Fourteen hundred years. Yeah. And that's that's that says something about this family. That's more of the Levitical family right there. There's multiple other that they talk about in the bot in the book. But it really impacted me because it made me sit there and reflect upon, and this is where I this is what I want my number two to be, and then I'm gonna wrap up with this, is where are you generationally as far as caring for the wisdom and the Christian faith that might have been passed down to you, if it hadn't been passed down to you. You know, I'm actually meeting with a the group of guys tonight, and all the guys that are similar to me, not the leaders, but the guys that are similar to me, pretty much all three of them, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, might be first generation Christians. How about that? Where there was a break somewhere in their family lineage that someone had to start over and did not have a Christian heritage to draw upon, a Christian example to draw upon. I mean, for me personally, it made me stop and kind of start thinking about my own generational legacy that has been passed down to me. And I started to recall. Well, good morning, guys.

unknown: 16:16

Hi.

SPEAKER_01: 16:18

Um started just to recall this. I I went to my mom and that my mom's side, I mean my mom's side of the family, where that I knew, I actually knew him, my great-great, excuse me, my great-grandfather. So I was, whenever I was alive, of course as a kid I didn't realize this, but when I was alive, when he was alive, that was four generations. My great-grandfather, my grandfather, my mom, and me. Now, on my dad's side, unfortunately, I did not know my great-grandfather. He passed away before I was born. And the sad thing about that is I heard no stories of him. I knew nothing of my great-grandfather. Now, on my mom's side, because I knew him, I knew of stories of him. I knew that he was a sharecropper. I knew that he helped or started going to Bethany Baptist Church. I knew that he was a believer. Now he and I didn't interact a whole lot because of just his age, and I think at that time he was had a little bit of dementia going on. But I would go over there quite a bit. And now here I am. Watch this now. Here I am. That's four generations now. Four generations on that side of my family that have been believers, that I've had examples where that every one of those grandparents, great-grandparents, grandparents, mom and dad, and now me and my wife, Amy, we are born-again children of the Most High God. How about that? And in my family, Tyler, Trinity, Timothy, and Taylor, all four of them are born-again Christians. And gang, I just want to challenge, I just want to let you know this stuff's real. That you can actually have this kind of stuff if you if you're first generation uh Christian. And you can start a legacy, a spiritual legacy. That's really where it all has to start. It's a spiritual legacy. It can't, that's gotta be the foundation. It's gotta be the true foundation. Then you know you can actually start looking at the financial side and the having a business because all that is important. But ultimately starting that generational spiritual legacy is the first and primost uh thing that you can do. So here's my two call to actions. One is if you resonated with this or you thought about somebody that listened to this episode, I'd ask you to share it. Just one person. Just share this episode with one person. Say I was thinking about you, about legacy. This book sounds amazing, might be something you might want to get. The legacy life. Number two, number two, I would like to challenge you to start thinking about your own life generationally. If you have kids and you're the first generation, man, I applaud you. Lean on other people, lean upon other godly men and godly women in your in your congregation, your church for help. Read books. Listen to this podcast, other podcasts. If you actually found yourself and you're actually now maybe the second, third, or fourth generation like myself, I would encourage you to continue on. Put your nose in the Bible. Don't let your head go. Don't let your head hit the pillow until you've actually read your Bible. That's that's you know, if there's anything you could do, basic bottom line, that would be it. So I probably got a new announcement coming up here in the next uh week or two of a little bit more of an enhancement to this family banking concept, but more on the family legacy and family planning side of things that I feel the Holy Spirit is leading me to. Family banking is going to be wrapped up into that, but I believe this is a bigger picture. Okay, much bigger picture. So, kingdom success. Know that you're blessed, you're highly favored, you're empowered to prosper, you walk in divine health. Spirit of breakthroughs upon you guys, and gang will catch you on the other side.