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0:20 So there I was in the driveway at my grandparents' house. 0:24 I couldn't have been, I don't know, more than 12 or 13 years old. 0:27 My grandpa told me to get in the driver's seat of his 1979 Ford F-100. 0:33 It was a Ford Ranger Lariat, and it was the same truck that he bought on August the 1st of 1979. 0:40 So I opened up the heavy metal door, it creaks open. 0:43 I get inside, I slam it shut. 0:45 You know, it's old school, so you got to really slam it shut. 0:48 My grandpa gets in on the passenger side, hands me the keys, and says, drive me around the neighborhood, son. 0:56 So I mean, like I'm shocked, I'm nervous, right? 0:58 I've never driven a car before, but I just did exactly what my grandpa told me to do. 1:03 So I put the key in the ignition, as I had seen him do a number of times. 1:07 I turned it on, I put it in to drive, and off we went. 1:10 So my grandpa didn't seem nervous at all, but I certainly was, right? 1:15 Never driven anything before. 1:16 I'm in his big truck. 1:18 And on some of the more open stretches of the road, my grandpa told me to punch it, punch it a little bit. 1:24 And so I did. 1:24 I hit the gas. 1:25 And I mean, that 466 super came to life, right? 1:28 I felt all the power. 1:30 And he didn't even get nervous after I blew through a stop sign on accident, right? 1:35 He was just calm the whole time. 1:37 And this is the first time I ever drove a vehicle. 1:39 It was such a cool moment. 1:40 And it was made even better because I was with my grandpa, right? 1:44 I didn't know it then, but I had established a core memory in that exact moment. 1:49 So my grandpa drove that truck right up until the moment that he died. 1:53 It's the only truck I ever saw my grandpa drive. 1:55 And as of just a couple of months ago, I am now the proud owner of my grandpa's truck. 2:01 So my grandpa could have sold that truck, but he didn't. 2:04 He passed it down to my father. 2:06 My father could have sold that truck, but he didn't. 2:08 He passed it down to me. 2:10 So my grandpa and my father kept that truck in pristine condition and kept it running all these years. 2:16 And now that responsibility is mine. 2:18 And I fully intend to keep that classic truck running so that it can be the first truck that my boys ever drive. 2:25 Because there will come a day when I look at James and when I look at Eli and I say, Drive me around the neighborhood, son. 2:32 And I mean, I just can't even begin to tell you what that will mean to me, and I can't even imagine what it will mean to them. 2:38 And that got me thinking a lot about something that's important to a lot of men, and that's legacy. 2:44 And what I've come to realize is that legacy can be a feeling, but it can also be something that you can actually put your hands on, right? 2:52 So we're going to be looking at the concept of legacy all week on the Daily Blade. 2:56 And all this got me thinking about Proverbs 13, 22, which you know doesn't leave a whole lot of room for ambiguity, says this a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but a sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous. 3:09 So I just want to read it again. 3:10 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous. 3:16 So it doesn't say that a good man leaves a feeling of being loved. 3:21 It says that he leaves an inheritance. 3:23 So it's it's an inheritance, it's something tangible, it's something that will outlast him, it's something physical, it's something that the next generation can actually touch and feel. 3:32 And look, uh at the scope, I really you need to look at the scope that's being described in that proverb. 3:38 Okay, it's not just his children, it's his children's children, right? 3:43 So this proverb is already thinking two generations past the man that is reading it. 3:47 So that is the horizon that scripture demands. 3:50 It's not, hey, my kids will be okay. 3:53 It it asks the question, will my grandkids inherit something real? 3:59 Now, if we go to 2 Kings chapter 2, we see the great Elijah is about to be taken up. 4:05 His mentee Elisha is standing there watching the mantle, which is the actual cloak off of Elijah's back, and then he sees it fall to the ground. 4:13 And then look at what is said in verse 13. 4:16 He took up the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. 4:22 So Elisha didn't just inherit core memories from Elijah, he picked up an actual object. 4:28 He put it on, and when he struck the water while wearing it, the water parted the same way it had previously done for Elijah. 4:37 You see, there was a there was a weightiness to the object. 4:41 So it was proof in Elisha's possession that Elijah's calling had officially transferred to him. 4:48 And look, that's exactly what the mantle was doing. 4:51 The cloak didn't hold any power itself, cloth doesn't part waters, but when Elisha struck the water, the water parted anyway, because the same God who worked through Elisha and worked through Elijah was now working through them both. 5:07 The man that Elisha poured into, right? 5:10 That's that's what Elijah did with all those years and all those words. 5:13 And the mantle wasn't it wasn't magic, it wasn't mystical. 5:17 The mantle was proof. 5:19 It was physical evidence that a real spiritual reality had already taken place before Elisha had ever picked it up off the ground. 5:28 And that's what I want my truck to be for my boys. 5:30 So it's not a lucky charm, it's not a relic, but it's a piece of evidence. 5:34 Proof that they can touch with their hands, proof that their father, their grandfather, and their great-grandfather were men who showed up, who stayed, and who kept their word for 60 years plus. 5:46 You know, the truck itself doesn't create legacy, but it does testify to it. 5:51 So here's a hard question for you guys What are you actually leaving that testifies? 5:56 What are the physical things that you're going to be leaving for future generations that will remind them of you and the part they play in the legacy of your last name? 6:05 So I'm gonna discuss several more of those things this week because here's the thing a truck can testify, but it simply cannot save. 6:15 The mantle could prove Elisha's calling was real, but it could never forgive even a single sin. 6:22 So if all you leave your son is, you know, steel and chrome, and a story of a man who kept his word and the engine running, you've certainly left something good, but you've left something short as well. 6:35 The only inheritance that doesn't just testify to grace but actually delivers it is the gospel of Jesus Christ. 6:42 Everything else we leave is a witness stand. 6:45 The gospel is the verdict.