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What Will be Your Legacy?
I want to ask you a question: What will be the legacy of your life? Have you ever thought about that before? What will it be that you leave behind? Now, before we get to thinking, "Oh, yeah. I'm going to leave my watch to so and so, and my sofa to such and such," – that's not what I'm trying to say. I’m talking about considering, as you look back on your life, what will be the legacy that you leave? Will you leave a statement that says, “I was here”?
The most popular form of graffiti in the United States is, "I was here." We want a statement that says, "I was here. I made a difference. There's a mark." But instead of doing it with a sharpie on the bathroom wall, let's do it with our lives saying, "God, You did something in me."
What will be the legacy that is left from your life? It is a question that's worth thinking about. Peter left a legacy. The Scripture we are reading through this plan was written close to Peter's death. He died a martyr's death, and left a legacy that people still talk about.
In the 1700’s, there was a man named Jonathan Edwards. His wife was named Sarah Edwards. He was part of the Great Awakening and an incredible preacher. You may have heard of his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." In the 1900’s, a man named A.E. Winship researched through 1,400 of Jonathan and Sarah’s descendants. They had eleven children. This is what he was to find: 100 lawyers, 80 holders of public office, 66 physicians and a dean of a medical school. 65 professors, 30 judges, 13 college presidents, 3 mayors, 3 governors, 3 United States senators, 1 controller of the United States Treasury and 1 Vice President of the United States.
It’s amazing! Even in my own personal life, my pastor through college was a descendant of Jonathan Edwards. He baptized my wife. He is an amazing man of God that declared the Word of God over our lives. What will be your legacy?
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What will be your legacy? We often think about the material things we plan to leave to our children. Or we think about raising our children to be successful in this life, but what if we begin to think deeper. Peter tells us that our life is like a tent, it pops up and down eventually, but we have the opportunity to leave a legacy for generations to come.
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