A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones Proverbs 17:22 

Sunday School 9:45 Morning worship 10:45

Wednesday Night Bible Study & Prayer Meeting-7PM

1st &3rd Sunday nights- Discipleship classes-5PM

2nd  Sunday  of each month- Youth Night!- 5PM

4th Sunday of each month- Singspiration!- 5PM

5th Sundays- church wide fellowship and Business Meeting, No evening services.

Saturday  Sept. 17 2011- 10AM NEO associational meeting   @ Rose Lawn MBC in Tulsaticle

"Our fathers have sinned and are not; and we have borne their iniquities."  Lamentations 5:7
 

     I have referred to this verse of Scripture many times in both writing and preaching. I have used it as a sermon text and as a point for discussion in lessons and bulletin articles. To me, itis one of the saddest verses in the Bible!

     Can the lives of parents really have such an effect upon their children? In Exodus 20:5 God says, "For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." However, someone might protest, "But I don't hate God; I just don't serve and obey Him as I should." In First Samuel 15:23 disobedience to God (rebellion) is compared to witchcraft,

and simple stubbornness to idolatry. In James 4:4 James reminded the believers to whom he was writing that "the friendship of the world is enmity (hatred) with God," and "whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."

     Our "simple," everyday sins are serious, and they place us in a precarious position -- out of fellowship with the Father and deserving of His chastisement. We cannot take lightly our failures in dedication, discipline, and doctrine. Our children will observe our unfaithfulness, our failures to discipline ourselves individually and as a church, and will notice our lax stand in matters of doctrinal soundness and presume it to be "normal."

Then, as they grow to adulthood and become leaders in the Lord's churches, they will likely be less dedicated, less disciplined, and less concerned about the truth than we are. All of this will eventually lead to being a church that "hast a name that thou livest, and art (spiritually) dead.”

     What we do, how we live, and whether or not we stand for the truth will affect future generations. Remember, those Israelites who were first into the Promised Land eventually produced a "generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel." We could be in danger of doing the same.