One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.One generation shall laud thy works to another, And shall declare thy mighty acts.
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O magnify the Lord with me, and come, let us exalt his name together. One generation will commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. In Psalm 71, he says, I am now an older man, and I have been led by you from my youth and I still proclaim your mighty deeds. And so it is the longing of my heart, the psalmist says, that I will continue to proclaim your wondrous works until the generations that are yet to come will understand and believe these things. Now generational transitions are understandable to us. more so in the time in which we live than perhaps even in earlier centuries. It's hard for many of us to understand that the terminology, for example, of a teenager was an unknown notion until for halfway through the 20th century. And what is a generation after all? It's unlikely that there are any members here. It's not impossible, but it's unlikely that there are any members here of Generation Beta. …
… but because we know it's just a beginning. Psalm 145.4, one generation commends your works, God, to another to tell of your mighty acts. Why? Because you're going to be the one holding the sacred flame. We must give you the baton and not be selfish with it because you need to give it to the ones coming up behind you. Scripture tells us regarding youth, they're not to be overlooked. They're not to be failed to be received. We're not to stumble them. We're not to fail to seek them. We're not to despise them, exclude them, or fail to learn from them. And I speak to you in Jesus' name that we are in this moment in front of an opportunity the likes of which in my lifetime that maybe we've never seen, where the embers of revival are glowing and need to be blown on. God is doing something in the world today. We're seeing youth movements rise up around the nation and around the world. Within Gen Z and Gen Alpha, there is a spiritual hunger. …
Hallelujah. Here's Psalm 145 verse 4. Psalm 145 verse 4 says, One generation shall praise your works to another. Let me roll back and give it to you again. One generation shall shabak your works to another and shall declare your mighty acts. Y'all missed a great spot to say amen. Here's what that means. It means that one generation, one people who have experienced the mighty works of God has the responsibility to tell it to the next generation. Amen. Don't expect them to understand it. Your children are not going to understand what God has done like what you know what God has done because you saw God do it and you can shout and celebrate what you know God has done. I wish I had an amen right here for just a second. You know what God has done, and you want to give him the glory and honor. And the scripture says, shout it to the next generation. Let me find the next generation. Let me tell the next generation. …