Champions “After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel.”
-Judges 2:10 (NIV)
How can we successfully pass our faith in Christ to the next generation? BE A STRONG EXAMPLE “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” –Joshua 24:15b (NKJV) “After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel.” -Judges 2:10 (NIV) What happened to cause such a radical change between the book of Joshua and the very next book, Judges? Parents stopped teaching their children what God had done for them. (Deuteronomy 4:9, 11:19, Colossians 1:28)
People didn’t obey the repeated command
to drive out all the Canaanites from the Promised Land. (Deuteronomy 7:1-4, 2 Corinthians 6:14, 1 Corinthians 15:33)
There was no God-fearing leadership to
restrain sin. “Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals; and they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt.”-Judges 2:11-12a (NKJV) PROCLAIM THE TRUTH OF CHRIST KEEP BAD INFLUENCES