20 By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau. 21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
- Hebrews 11:20-21 (ESV)
1. Blessing Beyond Generations
22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
- Proverbs 13:22 (ESV)
2. Our Legacy Includes Physical and Spiritual Sons and Daughters
3. Faith That Blesses Beyond any Circumstance
31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. 32 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.
- Genesis 11:31-32 (ESV)
4. Blessing are Passed to Generations Through Obedience
20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. 21 And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb…”
- Genesis 25:20-24 (ESV)
23 I only gave them this command: ‘Obey me and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Do all that I command, and good things will happen to you.’
- Jeremiah 7:23 (ESV)