A Great Family - [godly Heritage] Series

A heritage is passed down from each of these to their families, and to all those they reach…and just think of how many have been saved at Billy Graham’s rallies, and they are now witnessing and preaching and reaching many others.

Great names like Oliver B. Greene have followed, under which my father in law was saved, and he passed on a Godly heritage to my wife and to others who can tell others…and even “no-names” who aren’t famous, like the preacher who stopped to help the motorcyclist broken down on the highway…by the way, that biker was my dad, & I was in my mother’s womb at the time, and shortly before I was born my dad was born again, and most of my family has followed and gotten saved, and my destiny was changed, as are the destinies of all those dad has won, and I have won, and all those that they go on to win!

I’m so thankful that Aquila and Priscilla understood that tho’ they were tentmakers by trade, their main business was serving God!

A great family is a saved family...a serving family…

3. It must be a sanctified family

That means “set apart”…separated from the world.

Romans 16:5

Likewise greet the church that is in their house.

Did you know it was the 3rd C. AD before the church ever had such a thing as it’s own building? The church is a body of believers, and for more than 200 years the church met in homes of people like this couple.

This reminds me of the simplicity of what is “the church.” They didn’t have any of the things that we today think we HAVE to have in order to have church. They didn’t have a building or padded chairs, no PA system or projector and screen, no AC, no advertising, literature, website, etc. They did so much with so little…and we seem to do so little w/ so much! You can feel the spirit move if you’re knee deep in carpet or sitting in sawdust!

This couple had a great home, and it led to a great church…so how about the church that is YOUR home?! Our highest calling is our own children, our own marriage, our own home.

I hope everyone here can have a saved family, a serving family, a sanctified family…set apart for the Master’s use!

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