What's Your Legacy?

If you want to fix a family, country, community, or nation, build better men.

1 Kings 19:19-21 NIV

19 So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. 20 Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,” he said, “and then I will come with you.”“Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?” 21 So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.

A great man is a godly man.

I. Accept God's call on your life.

Every man has a purpose:

1. Work.

2. Encourage.

3. Serve.

4. Learn.

"Lord, what are You calling me to do?"

I. Accept God's call on your life.

II. Kiss distractions goodbye.

Godly men can't do what everyone else does and what God wants.

Every sacrifice you make to obey God's call on your life ends in peace and freedom.

1 Corinthians 15:33 NIV

33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

What Kind Of Sacrifice Does God Want?

1. Guard your heart and mind from images and actions that lead to sin.

2. Take your family to church.

1 Timothy 4:8 NIV

8 For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

Mark 8:36 NIV

36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?

"Show me your friends, and I will show you your future."

I. Accept God's call on your life.

II. Kiss distractions goodbye.

III. Sign up for an adventure.

If you're not having fun following Jesus, you're doing something wrong.

Great adventure requires great sacrifice.

Romans 12:1-2 NIV

1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

I. Accept God's call on your life.

II. Kiss distractions goodbye.

III. Sign up for an adventure.

IV. Leave a godly legacy.

Inheritance is about things; legacy is about people.

"People don't remember how you came to your position, but they will remember how you leave."

2 Kings 6:1-7 NIV

1 The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. 2 Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.”And he said, “Go.” 3 Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?”“I will,” Elisha replied. 4 And he went with them.They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. 5 As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!” 6 The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. 7 “Lift it out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.

Legacy means the vision and work don't die with the leader.

You need an older leader in your life before you lose your axe.