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Next on in touch, how to pass on our faith. People are very, very careful and oftentimes go to a great deal of expense in order to be sure that they leave their wealth or the things that they treasure and value to

those their children their family their friends great expense oftentimes and

often often often the Christian will fall into the same kind of trap.

And that is to make very sure that their wealth, their material possessions,

that they pass on to their children, their grandchildren, or their friends, all of its well taken care of no question

whatsoever. The fallacy of all of that is this, that the most valuable thing you and I own as

believers, the most valuable things we possess are not those

things that we can touch with their hands. It is not wealth and stocks and

bonds and property and all the rest. The most valuable thing we have to pass on is our faith.

Now someone says, well, but now wait a minute, you can't pass on your faith, that is a personal

relationship that you have with God and how can you pass on

your faith? Well you can pass it on and that's what I want to talk about in this

message and that is how to pass on our faith our our children, our grandchildren, or even those about us.

And so I want you to turn, if you will, to 2 Timothy, and let's begin reading in

verse 3 of 2nd Timothy chapter 1. Paul said to him, I thank God

whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day.

Don't you know that was a comforting thing for young Timothy to realize that the

Apostle Paul was praying for him night and day. He's his longing to see you even as I recall your tears, going

through a difficult time, so that I may be filled with joy. And then he says to him,

for I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother,

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