“Creating a Legacy”
Guest speaker Steve Graham
1 September 2013
Beach and City Campus
Hezekiah
Read: 2 Kings 20: 1-6, 8-11, 16-18, 19
• When Hezekiah had a word of personal disaster, he did everything he could to avert it.
• Imagine if he’d cried out for his children, city and nation?
• But he was simply content that there’d be peace and security in his lifetime.
2 Kings 20:21
• The seeds of future destruction were born in the complacency of the current generation.
Faith
• We expect young people to take steps of faith, but it is actually older people who should take
the big steps – they have proved God in the past.
• Our stories get old.
• We live with a dream and say, “God, I want to give all I am toward this dream!”
• Yet often we start out in faith but end up just managing our current reality.
David
• There is a Biblical theme that we serve God in our generation.
• Did Hezekiah think he’d done his dash and what happened in the future was the next
generation’s responsibility?
Acts 13: 36… A similar verse about King David.
• David’s reaction to a future prophecy given him was very different to that of Hezekiah.
2 Samuel 7: 12-13
• David did all he could to create a platform for the next generation to see this dream realised.
1 Chronicles 29: 2-5 … He was biggest fundraiser in history!
1 Chronicles 28: 11-19… He lived the dream!
• Contrasts:
• David wanted to create a platform for the next generation to step into the purposes of God.
• Hezekiah thought, “As long as I’m ok, what happens in the future is their call.”
Legacy
Proverbs 13: 22
• Not just a natural inheritance but also a spiritual one.
• Legacy/Inheritance:
• Money or property bequeathed to another by will
• Something handed down from an ancestor or predecessor from the past.
• This is not about creating a base to meet your needs.
• God wants us to think in terms of creating a platform, working and sacrificing for our children
and our children’s children to realise the vision He has for this church.
• The devil will dry steal this word away, by poisoning the concept of legacy.
• Remember:
• Our legacy is creating a platform for the next generation to pursue the purposes of God.
• It is being caught up in a vision of what God wants to do through this church, in our city and
nation.
• It’s the most unselfish thing we can do!
UP, IN and OUT Questions
UP — Do I relate to Hezekiah or David and why?
IN — Do we as a group have this “legacy minded” way of living?
OUT — What are ways we can practically live or prepare to leave a legacy for our future
generations?