It is a fact that the vast majority of parents want to give their children what they have never had.

It is a fact. I know in my own life, I want to give my children what I haven't had.

I just read the most incredible statistics this week to confirm my suspicion about passing to our children what we never had,

which almost always focus on material things.

Listen to these statistics, the study conducted by a college in Boston,

that between the year 1998 and the year 2002,

it is estimated that 40.6 trillion, that is with the T, trillion dollars,

will get passed down from parents to children. $40.6 trillion.

And the sad thing to me is that very few parents will be as anxious to pass

onto their children a spiritual heritage as much as they pass onto the material heritage.

Now in this series of messages, so we called it Parenting 911, I'm going to show you

the importance of parenting of the inside, rather than parenting the outside.

I'm going to show you about the importance of parenting of the internal.

Because when the internal is taken care of, the external will follow.

The parenting of the spirit, the parenting of

the heart and not for performance. The parenting that is focused on the inward identity of a child

rather than the outward appearance of a child. Listen to me very carefully.

We may hand our children $40 trillion in the next 30 years,

but if we neglect handing our children that which is priceless,

we would have sin against them.

We will have a generation like that of the Book of Judges

in Chapter 2. Turn with me to the Book of Judges, Chapter 2 and look at the verses 10 to 15. Just

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