In order to be great God has to be the center of our Legacy, not ourselves.

Genesis 11:3-4 NIV
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 11: 5-8 NIV
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Genesis 12:1-3
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse, and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 12:2
“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great..”

We must let go of our life plans.

Genesis 12:1 NIV
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

Genesis 12:4-5NIV
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

You must glorify God daily.

Genesis 12: 6-7 NIV
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Colossians 3:17 NIV
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

You must burn the boats.

Matthew 13:44-46 NIV
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

When I first started writing this I wanted to make this sermon about how to be great. I had all these ideas on how we could become great and the Biblical Steps to achieve greatness, specifically greatness in the present. But it wasn’t until I sat down and started trying to measure how great a person could become that I learned that greatness cannot be measured in the present. Greatness is measured by our legacy, or what we leave behind when we are gone. A great way we to think of this is the dash. On every headstone, there are three things guaranteed to be engraved on there. The date you were born, the day you die, and the dash in between. How you live this dash is your legacy, more specifically what you center your dash on.

Leaving a great legacy is by leading and living by example. When we give up our plans and submit to God’s will we show others that there is no better path to walk. When we glorify God daily through remembrance and through our actions we show them that there is no greater God to serve. When we burn the boats that allow us to retreat and we fully commit to chasing after Jesus, we show them that there is no greater way to live. This is how we become great in legacy.

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