Building A Legacy

What do I want to pass on to my family?

HSBCs Global Future of Retirement Study

Interviewed 21,000 people

aged between 40 and 79

in 21 countries and territories around the

world It is the largest ever survey of its kind. The Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University, designed the research and wrote the report.

Summary of Findings
10 per cent would like their heirs to inherit

their money 20 per cent their home and property, 60 per cent would like their heirs to inherit their perspective on life and knowledge.

Four (4) Propositions

1. Proposition 1: You will be leaving a

legacy.
2. Proposition 2: Your legacy could be

good or bad.
3. Proposition 3: Building a legacy is

intentional.

You will be leaving a legacy. (Whether you want it or not.)

How would our children complete the following sentences:

My father always....
My mother always... My father used to... My mother never...

What you

leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles (495 429 BC)

Your legacy could be good or bad.

Building a legacy is intentional.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Legacy as a good spouse. 2. Legacy as a good parent. 3. Godly legacy.

1.

Legacy as a good spouse.

Love your wife.

Husbands, go all out in your

love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church--a love marked by giving, not getting. (Ephesians 5:25 The Message)

 Your children are

watching how you treat their mother.

Your children learn what marriage is

about from you.

You are forming a blueprint of

marriage for your children.

A report by Warren Mueller revealed that where both

parents attend church regularly, 72% of their

children continue in the faith.
SOURCE: Warren Mueller in Homemade, May, 1990.

 but where only the mother

attends, just 15 percent of the children remain involved in the church.

 Where only the father attends, that

percentage is 55 percent.

The husband as a compass.

The husband as a thermometer.

Legacy as a good parent.

Fathers, do not embitter your children,

or they will become discouraged. (Colossians 3, NIV)

 "men secretly

yearn for their fathers love and approval.

Affirm your kids.

Columbia University Commissioned Research

2,000 children ages 12 to 17, 1,000 parents.

 children raised in a single

parent household headed by a mother are 30% more likely to be involved with drugs, alcohol and some kind of violence.

 in two-parent biological families

where the relationship with the father was fair to poor, 68% were found to be more likely to be involved with drugs, alcohol and violence.

 in two parent families in which the

father had a good to excellent

relationship with his children,

only 4% were found to be more likely to become involved with drugs, alcohol,
and violence.

Relationship determines influence.

Enjoy your family. Lighten up!

Love is spelled...

T-I-M-E

Maes Testimony

Four (4) Propositions

1. Proposition 1: You will be leaving a

legacy.
2. Proposition 2: Your legacy could be

good or bad.
3. Proposition 3: Building a legacy is

intentional.

Proposition 4: On our own, we could not do all the steps to leaving a good legacy as a spouse and as a parent.

Power comes from God through Christ

"I am the vine, you are the

branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)

How does God empower us to leave a good legacy?

1. God gives us His Son, Jesus.

(Gods Presence) 2. God gives us His written word. (Bible) 3. God gives us His people. (D-Group)

1. God gives us His Son, Jesus.

Romans 8:32
He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things?

2. God gives us His word, the Bible.

2 Timothy 3:16:

Every Scripture passage is inspired by God. All of them are useful for teaching, pointing out errors, correcting people, and training them for a life that has God's approval.

Gods word reveals :

His Purpose.
His Power. His Person.

His Purpose

Psalm 78:5-7
5For

He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should teach them to their children, 6that the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, that they may arise and tell them to their children, 7that they should put their confidence in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.

His Power

Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me? Jeremiah 32:26 ESV

His Person

God is Faithful (Ex.3:6)

Then He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

God is Faithful (Ex.3:6)

Then He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

God is Faithful

God is Faithful

God is Faithful

God is Faithful

God is Faithful

God Delivers and Blesses (Ex.3:8)

So

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

3. God gives us His people. (Small-Group)

Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider how we may spur one

another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another

 To help one another. To encourage one another. To listen to each other. To pray for one another. To study Gods word together. To be accountable to one another. To laugh and cry with one another. To live our Christian life together.

Sample accountability questions:

 Have you been struggling with impure

thoughts? Have you looked at questionable materials (e.g. movies, TV, books, websites, magazines) which would bring shame to the Lord?

 Are you struggling with substance

abuse (e.g. drugs, alcohol, tobacco)?

Have you been alone with a man/woman

in any kind of situation when your feelings and/or actions became inappropriate, or where others could have suspected that something inappropriate was going on?

Shared life in a Discipleship-Group

Romans 8:32
He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things?

Shared life in a Discipleship-Group

Ask your breakout leader how you can join a Discipleship Group.