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Judges chapter 2, verse 10, and there arose another generation after them who did not know the

Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.

What a sad verse, and what a wake-up call to you and me today.

Judges chapter 2, verse 10, tells us, like after all that God did among his people, really all throughout the first five books of the Old Testament through Abraham, then through Moses,

and then you get to Joshua and God gives his people the promised land, the land he had promised to them centuries before.

And then Judges chapter 2, verse 10, says, there arose a generation after them,

an entire generation that did not know the Lord and didn't know about all the work he had done

for his people. How is that possible? It's only possible because the people of God

failed to pass the knowledge of the Lord and the knowledge of what he has done to the generation

that came after them. And I say this verse is a wake-up call because you look at all the trend lines today,

particularly in the church in my country in the United States.

And you see that the number of people who know the Lord and all that he has done in succeeding generations is declining

rapidly. And so Judges chapter 2, verse 10, should be a wake-up call to every single one of us

who knows the Lord and knows his grace and knows what he has done, we must be faithful

to rise up today, like right now, and pass the gospel on to the next generation, to tell the

next generation who God is, how much God loves them and what God has done in history that they might know God and might know

his work on behalf of all who trust in him. So can we just pray together for that now in and through

our lives? God, we pray that you would help us, every single one of us who's listening to this right now, to pass the

knowledge of you and the knowledge of your works, your grace and your glory on to the next

generation. God, even as I pray that, I know that there are some who are listening to this right

now, some kids who listen to this with their parents, some teenagers who are listening to this. God, I pray specifically for them that they

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