Mother’s Day – A Sincere Faith, A Lasting Legacy

The life you live will outlive you, that is called legacy.

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Legacy is not just what people about you; it is what in them because of you.

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Sincere faith:

A , with a for Christ over time.

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2 Tim 1:5

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A sincere faith is like a baton or passed down like a recipe.

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1. Sincere faith is a faith.

Rom 12:9

⁹ Love must be sincere.

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Mark 12:29-31

²⁹ “The most important one,”…Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ ³¹ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

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1 Cor 13:13

1. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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1. Sincere faith is a faith.

1 Thess 2:7-8

Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, ⁸ so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.

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1. Sincere faith is out not out.

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1 Cor 7:14

1. For the believing wife brings holiness to her marriage…

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1. Sincere Faith is rooted in scripture.

2 Tim 3:14-16

¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, ¹⁵ and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

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A faith rooted in is a faith rooted in the .

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1. Sincere faith is passed on like a baton or passed down like a recipe.

2 Tim 1:5

⁵ I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.

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Prov 22:6

⁶ Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

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The life you live will outlive you, that is called legacy.

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Applications:

1. Be that “Lois” or “Eunice” in your home and in the church.
2. Find your spiritual “Lois” or “Eunice.”
3. You can’t give away what you do not have.

Personal Notes: