Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

All right, so you are here today on a very, very special day because I just finished a 10 week, 10 time, 10 message series on Dream to Destiny, Joseph.

And today, I'm going to share with you about the future.

And I'm going to share with you where we're going and about the succession process.

I'm sharing with you years in advance, so I'm letting you know, but I'm going to let you know that I and the elders have gone through a process.

And I'm going to name my successor today. And so you're here on a very special service.

So the title of the message is a generational church.

Most churches that are like ours that are founded by an individual only last one generation.

Most of them don't continue. And we have gone through such warfare in the last five years because Satan knows that all he's got to do is get us to pass it to the wrong person and Gateway Church ceases to exist as it is.

He's got to do is get us to pass it to someone that doesn't have the same DNA that God put in me.

And I'm talking about spiritual DNA that God put in me that the church will carry on like it is the vision and the values and the spiritual DNA that has that has drawn you here and called you to say, yes, I can get behind this local church and be a part of it.

But let me share with you just a couple of scriptures, couple of passages. I have over a hundred.

I've been praying about this for years. And I'll share with you in a moment how many years I've been praying, it'll shock you.

But let me share this scripture with you.

Numbers 27 verse 15, then Moses spoke to the Lord saying, let the Lord.

Now this is important because the person that God sets in, it needs to be God setting the person in.

Even though I and the elders have prayed about it and going through a process, it needs to be God. It needs to be God's person.

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation who may go out before them

and go in before them. In other words, he leads by example.

Who may lead them, this is very important, who may lead them out and bring them in that the congregation of the Lord.

I just want you to notice whose church gateways is, it's not Pastor Roberts, it's the Lord's.

That the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep, which having no shepherd.

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