If you have ever listened or watched David and Sally’s Michael’s three-part “Vision for the Next Generation” series, you know that Psalm 78 plays a prominent role in establishing a vision for faith in the next generations. Consider verses 5-7:
Pastor David Michael gives a brief summary based on this Old Testament text: …the reason we want our children to know “the testimony” in their minds is so they should set their hope in God— Or another way to say this in light of the New Testament is we want our children to know and understand the Gospel in their minds…He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God…
- so that they will put their hope in the Gospel
- so that they will embrace the Gospel with their hearts,
- and put their “trust in Jesus Christ alone for the forgiveness of their sins and the fulfillment of all His promises toward them.
