Rev. Edward Taylor Sullivan delivered a wonderful sermon at the turn of this century.  He said, "When God wants an important thing done in this world, or a wrong righted, He goes about it in a very singular way. He doesn't release His thunderbolts nor stir up His earthquakes. He simply has a tiny, helpless baby born, perhaps in a very obscure home, perhaps of a very humble mother. And He puts the idea or purpose into a mother's heart. And she puts it in the baby's mind, and then - God waits!

"The great events of this world," says some one, "are not battles and earthquakes and hurricanes. The great events of this world are babies. They are earthquakes and hurricanes." Oh, the secrets that lie all about us hidden from our eyes! We glance at a tiny child, and we do not see, we do not know, what a thunderbolt of the Almighty is wrapped up in that little child.

"I walked down the furrow in the field," said a humble mother who lived on a New Hampshire farm; "I walked down the furrow with the Governor of New Hampshire in my arms, and the Governor of Massachusetts clinging to my skirts." She said that afterwards, long afterwards, in her old age. For she knew not then, and no one knew, that her two baby boys would be governors of two New England states.

The great events are babies. The great facts of life are a mother and child. God, the Almighty Creator, lays the next generation in the laps of the mothers..."

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God does not want us to forget the past generations:

Here's a sampling of many such scriptures:

Genesis 31:5,42; 48:16; Exodus 3:6,15; 4:5; 33:1; 32:13

Deuteronomy 1:8; 4:37; 6:3; 10:15; 26: 7; 27:3; 34:4

1 Kings 3:6,14; 1 Chronicles 29:18; Isaiah 51:2

Luke 1:55,73; Acts 3:13; 13:26; Romans 4:12.
 

God is concerned about the "generations to come."

Genesis 9:9,12; 12:1-7; 13:15; 17:7,9; 26:1-5; 28:13,14

Exodus 12:17,26,27,42; 13:8,14; 27:21; 29:42; 30:8,10,21; 31:13; 32:13

Leviticus 3:17; 6:18; 7:36; 10:9; 17:7; 23:14,21,31,41; 24:3

Numbers 15:15,23; 25:11-13; 35:29

Deuteronomy 7:9; 29:22; Joshua 4:6,7; 1 Chronicles 16:15; 28:8; 2 Chronicles 20:7

Ezra 9:12b; Psalm 22:31; 71:18; 78:1-8; 100:5; 102:18; 105:8; Proverbs 13:22.

God blesses the future generations of righteous parents:

Genesis 9:9; 22:15-18; 26:1-5; 35:11,12

Exodus 20:5,6; 33:1; 34:6,7; Numbers 14:24; 25:10-13

Deuteronomy 1:8; 4:37,40; 5:10,29; 6:2,3; 7:7-10; 10:15; 11:19-21; 12:23-25,28; 28:1-14; 29:29; 30:19

2 Samuel 22:51; 1 Kings 2:33; 2 Kings 10:30; 15:12; 1 Chronicles 28:8; Ezra 9:12

Psalm 14:5; 25:12,13; 37:25,26; 102:28; 103:17,18; 106:30,31; 112:1,2; 128:1-6; 132:11,12

Proverbs 20:7; Isaiah 44:1-3; 61:9; Jeremiah 32:29; 35:18,19

Luke 1:50; Acts 2:38,39; 3:25; 2 Timothy 1:5.

The sins of the fathers are passed on to the third and fourth generation to come:

Exodus 20:4-6 (Exodus 34:6,7; Numbers 14:18; Deuteronomy 5:9; Jeremiah 32:18)

Numbers 14:33; Deuteronomy  28:15,18,41; 28:45,46; 28:58,59

1 Samuel 3:11-14; 1 Kings 2:33; 2 Kings 5:25-27; 17:41; Job 21:17-19; 27:13,14

Isaiah 14:20,21; Jeremiah 9:13016; 16:10-13; 29:31,32; 32:18; 36:29-31; 39:6-8

Lamentations 1:5; Hosea 4:6; 9:9-17; Amos 2:4; Matthew 27:25.

 

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