Telling the Next Generation - Love Worth Finding - July 1
July 1, 2025 – Telling the Next Generation
Judges 2:1-2
Sermon: 1800 Bring Back the Glory, Part 1
Pray Over This
“Then the Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: ‘I led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers; and I said, “I will never break My covenant with you. And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.” But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?’”
Judges 2:1-2
Ponder This
The angel said to the people, “Why have you done this?” God said, “I gave you everything. I brought you out of Egypt. I went with you to give you victory. I said not to make any league with the people who live in this land, and yet you’ve disobeyed me.”
The later verses answer this question for us. Judges 2:7 says, “So the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He had done for Israel.” If they saw God working, they served Him. Joshua, the people with Joshua, and Joshua's descendants served the Lord.
But then “another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel” (Judges 2:10). Time passed and the faith had not been shared. The generation speculated. The people had grown so distant from the memory of God’s provision that they stopped depending on Him. They took matters into their own hands. Are you depending on God’s provision just as firmly as you did from the beginning? Are you passing down your faith to the next generation, or have they missed how important this is to you?
- What makes it easy to forget the way of God?
- How are you clinging to God right now? How are you passing on your faith to the next generation?
Practice This
Write down some ways God has worked in your life and share that with someone in the next generation.
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