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August 3, 2026 · 12 min
What will your legacy be? In this episode, Rabbi Schneider challenges believers to consider what impact they will make through their faith, relationships, generosity, and witness for Jesus.
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August 3, 2026 · 12 min · Discovering The Jewish Jesus
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In this video 0:00 Building Legacy Through Relationships1:19 Leaving a Financial Inheritance5:18 Empowering the Great Commission10:06 A Prayer for Action12:01 A Call to Legacy Stewardship
Building Legacy Through Relationships 0:07 I wanna talk to you today about something that many Christians don't think rightly about. I wanna talk to us about our passing and our0:19 legacy. 1st of all, I wanna make the point, I think that many Christians have a very wrong perception about the death of loved ones, particularly when their loved ones are believers. Many0:31 Christians look at it as such a negative thing when the Bible tells us that the Lord takes his own out of the world to save them and spare them from trouble. You know, the0:43 Apostle Paul came to the end of his life, and he said, I have fought the fight. I have run the race. And now there's laid up for me the crown of righteousness, but0:55 not only for me, but for everyone that loves us appearing. So we as Christians need to filter our perception of reality, taking into account that this world is not our home. We have lots of pain in this world,1:06 lots of struggles on this earth, but when we get to heaven, there's gonna be no more sorrow, no more suffering, and no more pain. I wanna talk to you today about what happens when we do1:18 pass, when we do leave this world, and I wanna ask ourselves the question today. All of us, myself included, when we do leave this world, beloved 1, what will weLeaving a Financial Inheritance 1:30 leave behind? What will our legacy be? A legacy is something that we leave behind in the earth after we're gone. So let's1:42 ask ourselves today, what will our legacy be, and how do we build a legacy? Well, 1st of all, legacies are built, as we all know, through relationships, through
1:54 the lives that we have sown into. And because of our investing in somebody else's life, their life is better. And so even when we're gone, you and I,
2:06 our children, grandchildren, and the loved ones that we've sown into, their lives will be better because of us. We will have left an imprint in them that remains.
2:18 That is a legacy. You never even know the littlest thing that you do sometimes when you share your love for Jesus with that person at the grocery store, with your dentist, whoever,
2:30 you say something and it creates a spark. The person takes notice, even if they never let you know it. You might be a small part of the chain that actually led them to their salvation.
2:43 That will have been a legacy for you. I remember years ago, I was working before I was in full time ministry, I was working in financial services, And I remember all the
2:54 team came together 1 day, about 10 of us. And all of a sudden I started praising Jesus, and I felt like I was totally rejected. I mean, they didn't react at all to my
3:06 praising Jesus. It was like they had deaf ears to everything I had to say. But years later, approximately 10 years later, when I was now in full time ministry, I was ministering in a small
3:18 church in a small town in rural Ohio. And I got to the service where I was gonna be preaching that Sunday, and I set up my things. You know, I had tape, cassette tapes that we made available, etcetera, of
3:30 different ones of my teaching. And the pastor, came out. He said, hey, just continue to set up your display here. And I've got somebody that called. They said they wanna be at the service today, and they don't have a
3:41 ride, so I'm gonna go pick this person up. So lo and behold, the pastor walks out the door of the church. I continue to set things up. 15, 20 minutes later, the pastor comes in the door.
3:53 Who does he come in the door with? 1 of the guys that worked in that financial service company that I work for that was together when I was praising Jesus, 1 of those 10
4:05 guys, he was there, the pastor brought him there. Why did the pastor bring him there? Because the guy ended up selling drugs, wound up in jail, no longer had a car.
4:17 But when he was in jail, he remembered that day that I was lifting up Jesus and witnessing to that group of 10 salespeople. And as a result of
4:29 my witness to him, when he was in jail, God brought it to his remembrance, he gave his life to the Lord. Now he was walking with the Lord. He had heard that I was gonna be ministering in the church that morning, and
4:41 so he called the church and got a ride to the service. When I pass on, he's gonna be part of my legacy. And so I want to encourage you beloved, you can make an impact in
4:53 the earth through your relationships. Your legacy is the individuals that you affect through your love, through your witness, through your kindness
5:05 while you're on earth that continue to live on in the world after you're gone. The 2nd way we leave a legacy in the earth, beloved ones, is through the passing down of our
5:17 finances. The Bible tells us in the book of Proverbs chapter 13 verse 22 this, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.
Empowering the Great Commission
5:29 So So we leave a legacy in the earth when we sow financially into somebody else's life, and they benefit from our financial investment in their lives even after
5:42 we are gone. But to have this concept and to have this perspective of making somebody else's life better because we've made a financial investment in their lives
5:53 and our passing, we're talking about a legacy that's created at our passing, we really have to gain a long term perspective of our finances. Because some people, they only think about everything they can
6:05 get right now, and I've even met people that have the mantra, they have the the the philosophy that they wanna spend all their money while they're in earth and not leave a
6:17 cent behind. And they that's the way they live. That's the way they think. I wanna spend it all. I don't want anything to be left over. That is a very narcissistic mindset as we all know. A narcissist is
6:29 someone who's completely self focused. We need to understand, beloved, if we're gonna have a mindset to create a legacy with our finances when we leave this world, we need to really understand that
6:41 ultimately, God really does own everything. We might say, yeah, the Lord owns the cattle on 1000 hills. Yeah, we know God owns everything.
6:53 We say that, but is our heart really surrendered to that? Because when our heart is really surrendered to the reality that ultimately God's the owner of everything, it will
7:05 change the way we plan for our future financially. It will change the way that we use our finances while we're on earth and also affect what we do with our finances when
7:17 we pass so that we can create a legacy in the earth for our lives for the kingdom of God at our passing. The scripture says, from him, to him,
7:29 and through him are all things. Ultimately, the Lord is the owner of of of everything in the earth. I love Psalm 24 verse 1. The earth is
7:41 the Lord's and all it contains. Everything ultimately belongs to the Lord. We need to really understand that everything belongs to the Lord. And when we understand God's glory in
7:53 the earth, that everything belongs to God from Him, to Him, and through Him are all things, we're gonna honor Him with our financial resources when we pass just because we wanna honor the
8:05 creator from whom are all things. I want you to consider what Yeshua said. He said, do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy
8:17 or where thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth or rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure
8:29 is, there your heart will be also. So we wanna think about how are we using our resources, and are we sowing financially into the
8:41 kingdom of heaven? Because Jesus said, what we're gonna reap, he said, what we sow. And so many of us consider that we should honor the lord with our
8:53 finances while we're living. We tithe. We give offerings. But have we thought this through to the end of our life that we wanna honor the lord with our finances and our offerings
9:05 when we pass. Jesus said this at the end of his ministry. He said, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make
9:16 disciples of all nations, teaching them to observe all that I command you, and lo, I am with you always even to the end of the age. Jesus' mandate to the church
9:28 is to go into all the world, preach the gospel, making disciples of all nations, and we wanna make sure that we're empowering ministries that are doing this to continue on
9:41 after we're gone through our legacy gifts. Do you know, beloved ones, that more than 0.5 of Americans
9:53 do not even have a will? I want to encourage you, if you've never thought this through before or if you've never taken action, I wanna
10:04 humbly ask you just to still yourself for a moment and ask yourself, have you thought through what will happen with your resources when you
A Prayer for Action
10:16 pass, when you leave this world? I know I'm talking to most of you. You wanna honor the Lord with your resources when you pass. You wanna have a will or a trust in place where you can designate
10:28 a portion of your estate, your your what you have left to your resources. You wanna designate some of that to a Christian ministry so that the great commission that Jesus spoke
10:40 of, go into all the world and preach the gospel, making disciples of all nations will be fulfilled. Many of you in your heart, you are saying yes to that. But let me ask you, do you have a
10:52 will or do you need to update your will to include a Christian ministry that is effectively going into the world and making disciples? So this is a
11:03 time for action today. This is important. We need to be good stewards of our resources. When we leave this world, we wanna go out
11:15 of this world honoring the Lord. And 1 of the practical steps we can take to ensure that we're honoring the Lord at our passing is to honor Him, beloved,
11:27 with our resources by including a Christian ministry or ministries in our will or in our trust. So I just want to pray for us today. I
11:39 just want to pray that we would truly get clarity on this, that we would take action and get prepared. Don't let just inactivity paralyze you. Don't be passive. Don't listen to the message and say, yeah,
11:51 that's good, but not do anything. Beloved, let's stand up. Let's take a step. Let's make a will or update our will and do what's necessary to be good stewards of our resources and invest in the kingdom of
A Call to Legacy Stewardship
12:02 God, so that the great commission of Jesus to go into all the world can continue on even after you're gone.
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