Barberton Church of Christ
984 Robinson Avenue, Barberton, Ohio 44203
Keith Welch, Evangelist



A Generation That Knows Not The Lord
Joshua was the great leader of the Israelites during the invasion and conquest of the Promised Land.  Joshua was the successor of Moses.   A reading of Judges 2:7 reveals, “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.

Joshua, “the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died when he was one hundred and ten years old. And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Heres, in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.” (Judges 2:8-9).  Time passed following the death of Joshua and “when all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel” (Judges 2:10).

This generation who did not know the Lord “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; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.  They forsook the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtoreths” (Judges 2:11-14).

The present world in which we live has a lot in common concerning doing evil and forsaking the Lord God.  Have we too raised a generation or generations that knows not the Lord?


   


Barberton Church of Christ 984 Robinson Avenue, Barberton, Ohio 44203