Everyone wants to know what their future holds.  Two people that you can be sure are in your future are you and Jesus.  Pastor Marshal wraps up the Future Family series by talking about the future version of ourselves.  What will the future you be like?  Will they be more or less like Jesus?  The seeds we sow today will bear fruit in the future.  What kind of seed are you sowing?

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Future Family 4 - Future You
Sermon Notes by Marshal Blessing
Redemption Church Plano Texas
Welcome

Over the past few weeks we’ve been talking about your Future Family.

You all have a future.  You all have a family.  You all have a future family.

So far, we have talked about your future marriage and your future children.  If you missed any of the previous sermons I encourage you to check them out; the videos are posted on our website.

Now, you may think that a message about a future marriage or future kids doesn’t really apply to you, but I challenge you to watch them anyway.  There is some good teaching there.  Pay attention and listen for what God’s Word is saying to you.

For whatever reason you may not see a marriage or children in your future, but today I want to talk to you about someone who is definitely in your future… Jesus.  He is definitely in your future… amen.
I hope He is in your present.

But I also want to talk to you about the Future You.  You are in your future.  Right?  I hope so.

You have a future. __ You have an eternal future.  Amen.  Do you realize that?

Your future isn’t just important to you.  It is important to the people around you.  You will have an impact on your future family, for better or for worse.  You have the potential to do great things in your future.
Praise God!

You may not believe that, but it is true.  You may not feel like you are a very important of influential person, but God works with the humble and the meek to accomplish great things.  The Bible is full of stories of people who should have been nobodies, but who had an incredible impact on history.

Let’s just look at one example.  Who knows the story of Rahab?
Seemed like a nobody.  Not someone you want to get in “Which Bible woman are you” quiz.
Yet she is mentioned in four books of the Bible.

Woman in the Old Testament; first mentioned in Joshua – less than nobody – she was doomed
Woman, prostitute, living in Jericho – but then met two Israelite spies

Joshua 2:8 NIV Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof

Joshua 2:9 NIV and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given this land to you and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you.

Joshua 2:11 NIV When we heard of it, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below.

Joshua 2:12 NIV Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you.  Give me a sure sign

Joshua 2:13 NIV that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will save us from death.

Rahab saved her family. There’s a whole sermon here – don’t cut ties with your family:
you might save them or they might save you.

More importantly, Rahab saved her future.  Next time Rahab mentioned is in Matthew, New Testament!

Matthew 1:5-6a NIV Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,
Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,
Obed the father of Jesse,
and Jesse the father of King David.

Rahab was King David’s Great-great Grandmother.  She was the g-g grandmother of the King of Israel.

And why is this mentioned in the book of Matthew?  It’s giving the genealogy of Jesus.
Rahab was an ancestor