The life of Howard Hughes started with great potential, but sadly ended in a heart-breaking condition. Even though he was one of the wealthiest men in the world, he died as a spiritually bankrupt individual.<\/p>\n
Mr. Hughes was born in December of 1905 in Houston, Texas. His mother, Allene, died when he was 15 years of age. His father was a Harvard-educated attorney and a great inventor. He invented the rotary drill bit and later formed the Hughes Tool Company. Several years later, he formed the Hughes Aircraft Corporation. Howard, Jr. inherited seventy-five percent of the family business, making him an instant billionaire.<\/p>\n
In the 1960’s he sold much of the company and purchased a number of gambling casinos. History records that he engaged in almost every form of immorality. He died in 1976 from obscurity and isolation, coupled with extreme phobias and drug addiction.<\/p>\n
However, there is another part to this story. Howard Hughes came from a deeply religious family of gospel preachers<\/strong>. His great, great-grandfather was John A. Gano who was one of the restoration followers and friend of Barton Stone and Raccoon John Smith.<\/p>\n Hughes’ great-grandfather also was a gospel preacher. His son, W.B. Gano, was also a lawyer and a faithful preacher. His daughter, Allene, married Howard Hughes, Sr., the father of Howard Hughes.<\/p>\n The point of the above story is that it only took one generation<\/strong> to separate Howard Hughes from the religious identity of his family (cf. Judges 2:10; 1 Samuel 2:), being negatively influenced by the world’s allurements (cf. 2 Timothy 4:10). This separation cost him his mental, physical, and spiritual well-being.<\/p>\n Brethren and friends, we need to heed the inspired warning of the Hebrew writer, lest we fall into the same trap as Howard Hughes:<\/p>\n “Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God<\/strong>” (Hebrews 3:12).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Let’s seriously think about it!<\/strong><\/p>\n Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n The life of Howard Hughes started with great potential, but sadly ended in a heart-breaking condition. Even though he was one of the wealthiest men in the world, he died as a spiritually bankrupt individual. Mr. Hughes was born in December of 1905 in Houston, Texas. His mother, Allene, died when he was 15 years … Continue reading “It Only Takes One Generation – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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