I don't get who you know, how much money you have, what influence you carry.

Dr. Tony Evans says when you push God aside, someone or something else will take his place.

So when you leave the God, you're going to wind up with some God that is dictating your worldview.

Then the culture will be in control.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings

from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans. We live in a world where truth has become whatever people

decided is. But that humanistic outlook isn't new. It's the same kind of mindset that pulled God's people off track in the book of judges.

Today, Dr. Evans explains how Israel's spiritual compromise led to cultural collapse and why

returning to God's truth is still the only way to reverse the consequences.

Let's listen.

We ended last time with verse 10. All that generation of

chapter two also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them

who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which he had done for Israel.

Parents had failed to transfer the faith to their children.

There was a generational spiritual breakdown.

And the generational spiritual breakdown that took place brought about decline in the culture.

One of the things that the end of the book of Malachi says is that when the messenger of God comes,

he will restore the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers.

Why is this restoration necessary?

This restoration was necessary because when the family breaks down, civilization breaks down with it.

Look at how many social issues we are facing today due to family breakdown.

Now, the parents had seen the work of God, book of Joshua.

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