Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me, Pastor Jordan, for some Fine Points from Sunday’s service and message “Generational Righteousness”.
In the world of sports, people often debate who is or was the greatest in the game. One measure is of course championships or games won. Championships and wins alone are insufficient to answer the question. Other factors such as the rules at the time, number of teams, quality of players, equipment used, eligible players, etc. must and should be taken into account to answer such a question.
Such things as these in sports define generations. It then becomes uncertain and somewhat dubious then to compare players across generations. The playing conditions and circumstances are not the same. It could be like comparing apples and oranges. Both are fruit and have characteristics common to fruits, but there are significant differences between the two.
Likewise, righteousness is generational. While there are some things that are constant and consistent concerning righteousness in all generations, each generation of people are defined by their own unique set of circumstances and conditions that make them different from previous and future generations.
Comparing righteousness across generations is pointless, because nobody is able to live in another’s generation. We can only live in our own.
I would hear my parents, grandparents and others tell me about the conditions and circumstances they lived through. I have heard myself saying how I couldn’t do this or take that. There is something consistent within a sport that identifies it as a particular sport. Something consistent about fruit that makes apples and oranges fruit.
There is something about righteousness that is consistent and transcendent in all generations. This is what this portion of the 119th Psalm helps us to identify as generational righteousness.
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Pastor Jordan
