WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.319 Welcome to the Awakening Church podcast. 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:07.040 We pray this message encourages you and provides the hope and light of Jesus Christ. 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:08.640 Thanks for tuning in. 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:23.920 A few weeks ago, I had the joy of getting to be at the Coldplay concert with my family. 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:24.960 I love Coldplay. 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:26.719 I've loved them for 20 years now. 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:33.039 It's fun to have something that uh I loved in college and now that my kids they kind of love in college as well. 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:33.759 That was fun. 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:34.640 That was great. 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:36.079 Uh and so we're there. 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:38.079 It's graduation celebration time. 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:39.840 You have our whole family. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:46.240 And then as the music's getting, uh Guy and his family, he's about my age, and he's got his kids. 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:50.240 He had younger kids though, but uh the music starts. 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.119 And it's a cold play, it's great, it's amazing, right? 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:57.840 And and both he and I are in like just full dad position, right? 00:00:58.079 --> 00:00:59.679 Hands like this, the music's going. 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:01.759 I'm like, yeah, it's good. 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:03.520 Oh, this is good. 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:12.719 And then and then he got to something before I did, and I couldn't do it because I didn't want to like um somehow look like I was mocking him. 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:24.079 What I was was I was jealous of him because all of a sudden it got to a really good part, and he pressed his lips together like that, right there. 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:35.840 And then he got his hand and he just started pumping, started pumping to the music, and I looked over, and I'm still in just classic dad. 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:38.959 Yeah, this is good, but I want to pump with you. 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:40.799 It was so amazing. 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:44.319 I'm like, this is this is his dad as it gets right here. 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.560 I I actually wanted us like for me for Father's Day. 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:54.560 I'm like, I wish I could play a cold play song and get you all to pump with me just as a present to myself. 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:59.840 Um, but uh uh because of copyright rules, I can't play cold play. 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:06.959 Um, so would you would you just at some point today you hear a song, press those lips together. 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:11.680 And just would would you do it for me just at some point? 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:13.680 That would be a gift to me. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:14.319 Thank you. 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:15.840 I appreciate that. 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:20.319 You know, today we're talking about how do you leave a legacy that lasts? 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:22.639 How do you leave a legacy that lasts? 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:28.560 I actually didn't think much about leaving a legacy until I had kids. 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:36.639 Um, you know, I when we're kids were little, every once in a while we'd go to Disneyland together. 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:50.319 And as we'd go to Disneyland, uh some point one of them would get tired, and so I'd put one of them on my shoulders and carry them, or maybe there was a parade going by, and so I'd hold them up on my shoulders so that they could see. 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:56.080 And that's always struck me as a picture of what I wanted to do as a dad. 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:06.400 My prayer, my dream was I longed that my kids would sit on my shoulders so that they could see further and go farther than I ever could. 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:13.039 I I had this longing that my ceiling would actually be their floor. 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.360 You know, we don't think about legacy a lot, do we? 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:22.800 But all of us will leave a legacy, every single one of us. 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:30.080 It's funny, we focus so much on living longer, but not as much on living well or leaving a lasting legacy. 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.159 How do you leave a legacy that lasts? 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:38.159 We're in this series called uh this the maybe I could say it. 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:38.800 There we go. 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:42.240 The dysfunctional family of God. 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:44.800 And uh, if you got your notes, why don't you open them up? 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:48.159 And if you got your Bible, you could open it up to Genesis chapter six. 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:52.639 We're looking at the life of Noah and leaving a legacy. 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:56.400 Go ahead and turn to your neighbor and say, leaving a legacy. 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:04.000 Now, I want to give you the context for Noah and what we're stepping into. 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:08.319 And the context is dysfunction at every level. 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:15.360 If you go back to Genesis 1, 2, and 3, Genesis 3, you'll see uh marital dysfunction, Adam and Eve. 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:20.879 Sin fractures intimacy with each other, with God, introduces pain, disconnection, and domination. 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:23.199 Last week we looked at Cain and Abel. 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.079 You'll see not just marital, but familial dysfunction. 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:29.839 Cain and Abel, jealousy, anger turned deadly. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:36.160 We see not just the first family and the first brothers, but then sadly, tragically, the first murder. 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:37.920 Cain murders Abel. 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:44.560 And then if you read on in chapter four, you'll see it move from marital, familial, then to societal. 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:49.920 And person you probably aren't familiar with, a guy named Lamech, uh, and he's kind of lame. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.959 Uh it is how it is. 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:59.920 No, Lamech, he gets offended by somebody and he kills them. 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:16.560 Then he brags about it, and he institutionalizes this revenge killing, this policy of retaliation, and violence starts to become a virtue, and it moves from societal, these cities of violence, then to global humanity. 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:20.079 Corruption is celebrated, injustice institutionalized. 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:25.519 Wicked is no no longer the exception, it is the expectation. 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:27.680 And this brings us to Noah. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:32.079 Genesis 6, verse 5, we see this recap or overview. 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:44.000 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:53.920 Then we get this insight into God, he says, the Lord regretted that he made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.480 And then you get this glimmer of hope in the midst of such darkness. 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:04.959 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:06.399 Like how Dr. 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:12.160 Bill Arnold said it, humanity's heart is evil and Yahweh's heart is broken. 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:18.079 And this is the context, this is the backdrop for the story of Noah. 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.600 And probably many of you are familiar somewhat with the story of Noah. 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:23.600 If you're not, let me just give you a recap. 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:31.920 The story of Noah in response to the gravity of humanity's wickedness, the righteous judgment and justice of God is coming upon the earth. 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:42.240 What began in Eden as very good spiraled into violence, corruption, and chaos, and so a flood, flood to wipe out wickedness. 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:49.439 Some people believe it covered the entire world, some believe it affected just the known world at the time. 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:53.040 And honestly, the text could go either way, so it doesn't matter. 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:54.720 Don't get caught up in it. 00:06:55.120 --> 00:07:04.160 In Genesis 1, in God creating the world, you see, God divided the waters from the land, and here we see an act of uncreation. 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:07.199 The waters returned to cover the land. 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:12.160 In a world gone mad, Noah stood apart. 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:14.079 He found favor in God's eyes. 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:21.759 There was only one who didn't capitulate to corruption, who, in the midst of evil, chaos, and wickedness, lived a counter-cultural life. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.519 And God in his grace chose Noah to begin again. 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:26.560 And what did he do? 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:28.639 He called him to build an ark. 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:29.439 An ark. 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:30.240 What is an ark? 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:32.160 Well, let me tell you, I'm glad you asked. 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:52.959 An ark is a 450-foot-long boat, 70 feet wide, 45 feet high, three-story vessel that Noah was building for approximately somewhere around 50 to 75 years. 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.600 God gave people decades to turn from their wickedness, by the way. 00:07:57.839 --> 00:07:59.680 Eventually the ark was completed. 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:01.759 The animals came two by two onto it. 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:07.199 The rains came, 40 days of rain, 150 days of flooding, devastation, uncreation. 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:14.000 Noah, his sons, their families spent a little over a year on the ark as they waited for the waters to recede. 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:20.959 And when they stepped off, they stepped into a new world, a new beginning, a fresh start for humanity. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:22.399 This is the backdrop. 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:24.480 This is the story of Noah. 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:32.080 How do you experience or how do you uh have a legacy that lasts? 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:33.360 No. 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:40.799 Right at the very beginning, this is like the big idea for the entire sermon. 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:50.559 Is I want you to just see this thing, and this actually we find it uh actually before we even hear much about who Noah is. 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:57.279 Is simply this thought the legacy you've been handed doesn't have to be the legacy you leave. 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:02.399 The legacy you've been handed doesn't have to be the legacy you leave. 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:03.440 Now think about this. 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:16.320 The legacy Noah's handed, we we think about this culture of corruption, that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, that everything is going this way, and he lived a counter-cultural life. 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:22.720 He said it wasn't that he's just like, I can live differently in light of this legacy you've been handed. 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:25.519 Doesn't necessarily have to be the legacy you leave. 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:36.559 Now, in Genesis chapter 5, there's this incredible little thing about Noah that his parents said about him that we miss that is, I think, so significant in this conversation. 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:40.960 In 529, it tells us why his parents named him Noah. 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:42.799 Noah, by the way, means rest. 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:52.720 It says, he named him Noah and said, He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord had cursed. 00:09:54.000 --> 00:10:12.399 Noah's parents' vision for Noah's life wasn't that he would do something great, that he was destined to do, you know, whatever, or yeah, Noah's vision or Noah's parents' vision for his life was Noah was their retirement plan. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:13.840 That's what that's saying. 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:16.240 Yeah, it's like, you know what? 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:23.120 Life's hard, it's been long, the only way we can't work is having a kid that will start to work and take care of us. 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:30.080 So we're gonna call you rest, because you're our rest, and we're gonna just take it easy. 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:35.600 The legacy you've been handed doesn't have to be the legacy you leave. 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.519 Now it's interesting because we all carry wounds, don't we? 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:42.320 We all carry family wounds. 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:49.840 Mother, fatherhood wounds, and fatherhood wounds honestly are some of the deepest ones we carry. 00:10:53.919 --> 00:11:00.320 And there's been words that have been spoken over you, or a path that was charted for you. 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:09.919 And honestly, for some, it's been something that you've been trying to break free, but you just keep feeling yourself drawn back to. 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:28.159 You've run from it, and then you became a parent, and you start saying the same things your parents said, and you're like, wait a second, am I just becoming the legacy you've been handed doesn't have to be the legacy you leave. 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.120 So how do you have a legacy that lasts? 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:33.279 Let me just give you three thoughts here. 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:36.639 First, legacy starts with your audience. 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:38.799 Legacy starts with your audience. 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:46.720 So you notice in verse 8 it said, but that now Noah found favor with in the eyes of the Lord. 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:48.000 Noah found favor. 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:53.840 If you got if you're taking notes or you start drawing a circle in your Bible, that word favor. 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:58.720 It also in Hebrew is the word grace. 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.960 Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:04.720 Legacy starts with your audience. 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:06.080 I want you to notice this. 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:09.679 God has grace eyes for you. 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:18.559 I don't know what you think God looks like when he looks at you. 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.159 When his eyes gaze at you. 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:31.360 I don't know if you think it's angry eyes, frustration, disappointed eyes. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.279 God has grace eyes for you. 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:40.240 Grace, God's unearned, undeserved favor towards you. 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:49.200 Grace is his empowering presence to enable you to do and to be what you could not do or be on your own. 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:50.320 This is grace. 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:55.440 And he turns and he has grace eyes towards you. 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.679 Legacy for us, by the way, begins. 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:04.960 It is the starting point with who am I living for? 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:07.919 Whose approval are you living for? 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:12.559 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.799 We seek favor in everybody's eyes, don't we? 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:18.799 Who am I living for? 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:25.919 Whose word of affirmation means most to me? 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:35.519 Gosh, man, we we are trying to live for the affirmation or approval maybe of someone past in our life. 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:43.120 It could be a parent, a coach, it could be we're trying to live for the approval of other people around us, and we're running after all these things. 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:49.679 It could be we're we're just somehow trying to live for the approval of our boss or our coworkers or the people around us. 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:51.039 Whose approval? 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:51.919 I love this. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:52.559 You know what? 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:57.279 Noah spent like 50 to 75 years building this ark. 00:13:57.440 --> 00:13:59.840 Do you wonder like what people said? 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.279 There is no water in sight where he's building it either. 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.159 No, what are you doing? 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:13.200 That's weird. 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:15.919 Probably save some wood for us. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:16.399 I don't know. 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:21.519 I mean, there's all sorts of things that they could have said. 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:29.120 But here's the thing: if I have favor in the eyes of the Lord, I actually don't need your approval. 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:41.919 If I have favor in your eyes, God, if you're looking down on me with grace eyes, I can step into any situation confident because I'm not hoping you somehow you will accept me. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:44.000 I'm fully accepted, fully approved. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:48.639 And so I step into this moment, living for an audience of one. 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:55.440 Living just, you know what? 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:58.480 I God, you have it all. 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:05.120 We live in an attention economy where identity is shaped by affirmation. 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:14.000 What would change in your life if you realize you already have the favor of God? 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:20.799 He already has grace eyes towards you. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:29.120 This whole idea of leaving a legacy is pretty overwhelming to me. 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:41.840 Uh this morning um we had a sweet little time uh around the table as a family, and each of my kids wrote notes, and like they were just precious to me. 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:44.879 Like their words, like it's just precious to me. 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:52.480 Um and they said things like, Dad, you're my hero. 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.279 Or I want to be like you. 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:58.559 Which is unbelievable. 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:03.360 And then it's overwhelming because I'm broken. 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.919 I don't feel good enough to be anybody's hero. 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.799 The pressure, like I I'm not good enough. 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:20.960 My dad, he drilled this verse in. 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:26.720 It's like one of, I think one of his life verses is 2 Chronicles 16, 9. 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:38.080 It says, for the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the whole earth, searching for a heart who's completely his, that he might strongly support them. 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:52.320 Like the grace eyes of God scanning this room right now, searching not for somebody that has it all together, but just for a heart that's his. 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:57.919 You're overwhelmed, it's too big, you can't do it, that's okay. 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:08.319 Because my grace, grace, God's empowering presence to enable you to do what you cannot do and be what you cannot be on your own. 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.440 He says, My grace is pouring out towards you. 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:15.599 I want to strengthen you. 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:18.319 I want to empower you. 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:25.279 I'm looking right now, and whoever's heart is mine. 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:29.039 I'm I'm eager to strengthen you. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.480 Legacy begins with audience. 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:35.680 Who's your audience? 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:37.599 Who are you living for? 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:40.160 Uh, practically, what does this look like? 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:42.319 Um, there's a question that a mentor of mine, Dr. 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:43.519 Charlie Self, asked. 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:51.359 We were having a men's leadership thing in my backyard several years ago, and this question stuck with me because it's like kind of overwhelming. 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:53.359 Like, how do we do this? 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:56.480 And he just asked this simple question. 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.559 He said, This is the question that he asked himself every day. 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:04.640 Simply, am I doing today well? 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.279 There's nothing you can do about yesterday. 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:12.880 And tomorrow's yet to come. 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:16.640 Am I simply just doing today well? 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:20.640 Wake up today and God, do you have my heart? 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:24.079 And if not, let's do something about that. 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:28.400 And I want to live for your favor and your eyes only. 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:35.200 I will woke up today recognizing that your eyes, you are bestowing and looking upon me with grace. 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:37.440 And so I am living for you. 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:39.119 May I do today well. 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:44.640 For getting what is behind. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:47.599 Am I living today? 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:50.400 Well, legacy begins with who's your audience. 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:54.880 Then it's built in the unseen places of your life. 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:04.400 It's not built outside of us, it's not built in the spectacular, it's surely not built on TikTok. 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:06.640 Instagram. 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:12.400 Notice what's said of Noah. 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.400 Noah was a righteous man. 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:22.960 Blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.319 Righteousness means right standing with God. 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:37.279 Blameless has the idea of integrity before people, walked with God, has this life marked with the closeness and intimacy relationship with. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:47.440 Now, when we hear the word righteous, what we often think is perfect. 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:53.680 Righteousness here does not mean perfection, it does mean right standing. 00:19:53.839 --> 00:20:00.559 And if I am in Christ because of his finished work, I have right standing with God as a result. 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:03.119 When he's talking about Noah's like, he wasn't perfect. 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:07.359 In fact, we see some things that he messed up, especially near the end of his life. 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.279 It doesn't mean perfection, what it does mean is integrity. 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:14.559 It means integrity. 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:19.119 It's who you are when no one's watching. 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:24.720 Are you the same person in public as you are in private? 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:34.559 You know, uh pastors' kids get kind of a bad rap because uh they can kind of tend to go off the deep end, so I'm told. 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:37.279 I grew up, I'm a pastor's kid. 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:58.559 I would say one of the things that was incredibly foundational and formational to my faith, having a dad who spoke for a living on stage, was that he was the same man on that stage as he was at home. 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:01.519 That's integrity. 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:15.359 Parents, dads, moms, that we're the same person with their friends, we're the same person when we're in public, we're the same person that's posting online as we are in home, in our homes. 00:21:19.599 --> 00:21:21.519 I can say this about my dad. 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:25.440 He is one of the most integral people I've ever met. 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:34.480 Legacy is built in the unseen places of our lives. 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:57.119 Integrity, by the way, I think for us dads, it's getting to the point where we I think this is so important and powerful that we just with our kids go, you know what, I blew it. 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:01.680 I'm sorry. 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:05.119 Would you please forgive me? 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:08.160 That's integrity. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:17.200 Perfection pretends like nothing's wrong and you ignore it or you just mask it or you wipe it away, cover it, put it under the rug. 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:20.000 Integrity says, you know what? 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:22.079 And our kids need to hear it, our kids need to see it. 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:22.720 I blew it. 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:23.359 I'm so sorry. 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:25.839 Would you please forgive me? 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:32.960 I like how Dao's Lord says the most important thing in your life is not what you do, it's who you become. 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:38.480 That's what you'll take in eternity. 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:40.880 And we know this. 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:47.279 Why this is so important to legacy is you cannot pass on what you do not possess. 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:54.079 We cannot pass on a vibrant faith if we're not walking with God. 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:06.880 We can't pass on a life of integrity unless we're walking and experiencing and living a life of integrity. 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:10.400 Legacy. 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:12.880 It begins with who's your audience? 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:13.920 Audience of one. 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:16.720 Okay, I am living for the favor of God. 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:19.119 He's already got grace eyes for me. 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:24.880 It's built in the unseen places of my life. 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:35.039 Inviting him into those areas that who I am in public and in private, who I am when nobody's watching, that's what matters most, by the way. 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:41.519 It's the decisions you make in obscurity that will shape your destiny. 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:48.480 And we try to hide it, think it's not a big deal, and pretend to be someone else. 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:53.680 And it undermines our lives and those we pass on. 00:23:54.079 --> 00:23:55.839 And then legacy, this is so important. 00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:59.359 Legacy is a byproduct, don't miss that. 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:04.880 It's a byproduct of faithful obedience. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:12.000 It's a result of faithful obedience. 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:21.200 Eugene Peterson, who wrote uh the message paraphrase of the Bible, he wrote a book also called a long obedience in the same direction. 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:25.440 It's simply a long obedience. 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:33.440 You'll see Genesis 6, 22, Noah did everything just as the Lord commanded him. 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:35.519 Just as God commanded him. 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:37.839 And we see this repeated throughout the lifetime. 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:42.079 Now think about it, he's building an ark for 50, 75 years, getting his boys. 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:46.079 He's faithfully walking with God. 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:50.559 In my 30s, got this advice. 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:54.319 It was so like, it was life-changing. 00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:57.759 Um, my kids were going to school, and there was a dad. 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:00.000 I guess they should go to school, you would know that. 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:02.160 Uh, they're in elementary at the time. 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:06.960 And there was a dad that I started, we started, we had kids young. 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:08.160 He started late. 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:12.079 I know I don't want to guess how old he was, but he was old, older than me. 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:16.160 Uh at least 20, it seems like at least 20 years older than me. 00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:18.960 Um, but he he was wise. 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:28.240 You see, uh, I was really wrestling, especially in my 30s, 20s, like the sense of adventure, new beginnings, all these things was happening. 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:31.039 Uh 30s, like I had this ambition. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:34.960 I want to conquer the world, I want to be somebody. 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:39.200 If you wanted to ask me about legacy, it was about accomplishments. 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:44.079 It's about what I do, the name that I make. 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:57.279 And then, like, we're in this season of elementary school kids, and if I'm honest, it just felt like groundhog day. 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:02.640 Wake up, get the kids ready, it's kind of a hassle. 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:15.759 You get them off to school, you work, you come home, you get them, you know, school, homework, bed time, you wrestle with them trying to get them to bed. 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:22.799 You maybe do some more work, go to sleep, wake up, get them ready for school. 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:25.279 It's just like on repeat. 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:28.319 Like, is this life? 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:36.480 And so many of us in the middle of that have this wonder lust that can shipwreck our lives. 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:44.079 And he said this to me he said, Ryan, you have to learn to love the mundanity. 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:46.240 Like the what? 00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:48.319 The mundanity. 00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:52.640 Or another way to say it, embrace the mundane. 00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:59.039 I remember telling Jenny about this, and she did not like that at all. 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:01.039 She doesn't like anything mundane. 00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:03.039 She's a seven on the Enneagram. 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:11.519 And she's like, mundane, mundane means ordinary, routine, or lacking excitement related to everyday or common things. 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.279 Legacy is a byproduct of everydayness. 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:19.839 Where's the spice? 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:21.359 Where's the adventure? 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:28.640 You want to leave, we want to leave a legacy that lasts. 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:30.480 It is just daily showing up. 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:38.960 And sometimes it's, you know, two steps forward, one step back, and sometimes, if we're honest, it's two steps back, one step forward. 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:41.039 But it's daily showing up. 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:42.400 It's just going, you know what? 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:51.039 It's not that spectacular, it's not sexy, they're not gonna make a movie about it unless it's perhaps the notebook, then that's kind of talking about the dailiness of it. 00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:57.440 But everything else, it's not gonna show up somewhere, but it's gonna show up in your kid's life. 00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:18.880 Because now I have an almost 21-year-old, an 18-year-old, and a 15-year-old, and I'm so grateful for that embracing the mundane of just showing up in the middle of it, of not just kind of copping out or just searching for something else, but being present to what God has in this moment, in this time, and you're just gonna show up and be faithful where you're at. 00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:23.279 That is a legacy that lasts. 00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:26.000 And here's why. 00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:30.160 More's caught than taught. 00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:32.000 We know it. 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:34.000 More's caught than taught. 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:38.960 It's not that great speech. 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:48.079 It's the lives we live that our kids will take from us. 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:56.480 I watch my mom every morning. 00:28:57.680 --> 00:28:59.039 Wake up early. 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.599 Sit on the couch that none of us kids were allowed to sit on. 00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:05.119 It was in the living room. 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:11.599 And she spent time with Jesus every morning. 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:14.160 Got her cup of coffee. 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:16.640 Every morning. 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:22.240 I'd wake up early, not because I was getting up, I just had to use the bathroom, was going back, but I'd just see her every morning. 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:25.920 And I saw that everydainess of her life. 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:26.880 And guess what? 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:28.720 I do every day. 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:30.559 Because more's caught than taught. 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.279 Her dailiness bled into my life. 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:37.839 Her faithfulness poured into my faith. 00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:41.279 How do we leave a legacy that lasts? 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:43.519 It begins with who our audience is. 00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.240 It's built in the unseen places of our life. 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:56.559 It's a byproduct. 00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:01.039 It's a byproduct of just faithful obedience. 00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:02.319 Mundanity. 00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:04.640 You can use that word this week. 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:09.440 Noah closes, they get off the ark, and it closes with a covenant. 00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:11.440 God makes a covenant with Noah. 00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:15.200 He makes a covenant not just with Noah but with the earth. 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:25.440 He says, I'll set a rainbow in the clouds, and it'll be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth that never again will I bring destruction upon the earth in this way. 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:29.359 In fact, we'll see and read through Genesis that God makes covenants. 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:34.240 A covenant is a promise that he makes regardless of how we live and what we do. 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:36.240 This is what I'm gonna do. 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:45.599 We'll see him make a covenant with Abraham, and that through his family line, every nation will be blessed, and the coming Messiah will bring salvation. 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.559 The rainbow, by the way, the bow was a weapon of war. 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:51.359 God's saying, I'm setting down my weapon of war. 00:30:54.880 --> 00:31:02.720 I love, I love that we have a covenant-keeping God. 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:05.680 I've shared this with some of you before. 00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:10.640 One of my favorite attributes of God is his faithfulness. 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:14.079 I don't even know if it's legal to have a favorite attribute. 00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:14.640 I'm not sure. 00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:16.559 I'm still trying to figure that one out. 00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:18.079 But it is. 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:20.400 It is. 00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:22.000 And here's the reason why. 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:26.160 Like I wake up most mornings and I write lamentations in my journal. 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:31.599 The steadfast love of the Lord never fails never fails. 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:35.920 His mercies are new every morning. 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:37.680 Great is his faithfulness. 00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:41.680 Like I woke up today to new morning mercy. 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:46.240 His steadfast love greets me because he's faithful. 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:56.079 I gotta tell you, in my twenties, thirties, even sometimes now. 00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:00.240 Like imposter syndrome? 00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:01.599 Absolutely. 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:09.200 Like just wondering, am I gonna make it? 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:15.039 Not like be a somebody, just make it in life, period. 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:16.640 Am I just gonna make it? 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:18.960 I'm just trying to eat by, get by. 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.160 I'm not sure if I can really get through this. 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:23.920 And then I come to Colossians. 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:27.599 This is the anchor verse, especially in my 20s. 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:36.079 He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it until the day of Lord, our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:40.400 Like, I don't know if I'm gonna make it, but you're a covenant-keeping God. 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:43.359 You said you began in me, you'll finish. 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:45.599 And so I don't see how it's working out right now. 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:51.359 And I'm just trusting, I'm just clinging, I'm just hoping because I'm confident in you, not in me. 00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:53.519 And just hold on to that. 00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:55.519 You're faithful, you'll complete it. 00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:58.000 What you began, you'll finish in me. 00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:00.400 But what about when I doubt, when I struggle? 00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:02.079 2 Timothy. 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:07.519 Even when we're faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself. 00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:17.599 This is why you need to know God's word, because you need to be able to get your heart and mind anchored in the very promises of God. 00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:21.359 What about when you blow it? 00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:22.960 1 John 1 9. 00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:33.599 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and forgive us and purify us of all unrighteousness. 00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:52.640 You have a promise keeping God who is faithful, who has grace eyes for you. 00:33:57.759 --> 00:33:59.519 Legacy feels overwhelming, doesn't it? 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:00.880 It feels daunting. 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:04.720 Maybe you're a teen and you're like, I'm too young for this. 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:08.400 Maybe you're older. 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:10.400 I'm too late for this. 00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:14.239 It's never too late. 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:21.039 And you're never too young to leave a legacy that lasts. 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:23.679 We all leave a legacy. 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:25.280 The question is, what kind? 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:26.880 What will it be? 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:38.320 When I was 19, there was a man that shaped my life profoundly. 00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:39.599 His name's Will. 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:41.119 He was an old vet. 00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:47.360 Will was a prayer warrior in our church in Santa Cruz. 00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:57.519 Um older man, lived in a small uh little um what do you call those things? 00:34:57.679 --> 00:34:58.960 A mobile home. 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:04.000 His wife had passed away several years before. 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:06.079 So he just prayed. 00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:11.760 He had Parkinson's and the disease was taking over his body. 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:19.199 And he just, for whatever reason, began to pour into this little 19-year-old life. 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:26.719 Invite me over, I'd go over and spend some time at his mobile home and hear stories of his life. 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:30.159 He would email me, remember emails? 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:37.039 But he could he, you know, could only do single finger, so all his emails were all caps. 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:40.559 He just had it on all caps, he didn't have some of the great technology today. 00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:43.119 He'd send me these prayers. 00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:47.760 He'd end every single one of them. 00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:51.840 In the sounds of Calvary's love. 00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:57.519 Well, and then he passed away. 00:35:59.840 --> 00:36:02.960 It's just a couple years in my life. 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:12.559 His prayers, his presence profoundly impacted my life. 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:20.639 He may have passed away, but God is still answering his prayers to this day. 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.159 It's never too late. 00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:31.760 And by the way, you're never too young to leave the legacy. 00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:38.480 So I want to just give you a moment. 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.239 Just to be with your Heavenly Father. 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:54.639 So disapproval. 00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:56.480 Who are you living? 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:02.719 Just bring it to you. 00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:04.800 Bring it to you. 00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:06.960 Bring what's in you. 00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:09.039 Let him meet you. 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:11.119 Let him minister to you. 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:13.519 Not what ought to be in you. 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:17.360 In Jesus' name. 00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:26.639 We hope you are blessed by this message. 00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:31.280 Please subscribe to our podcast for access to every episode as they're uploaded. 00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:33.519 And hey, we'd love to connect with you. 00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:39.599 Take a next step by filling out our virtual connection card at awakeningchurch.com slash card.