Judges: A New Generation
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Judges: The Failed New Generation
Judges: The Failed New Generation
I. Introduction
In contemporary worship songs we hear a lot about the “new generation” that is rising up. It is always pointed to as a good thing.
But is it? Sometimes the arrival of a new generation is not a good thing at all. And that is exactly what we see in the book of Judges
Background: At the end of his life Joshua is warning Israel against idolatry because he is already seeing it creep in. By the time we get to the next generation after him idolatry in Israel is full blown.
II. Exposition
A. Chapter 1: Failure to take the Land
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, “Who shall be first to go up for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?”
Geographical description of increasing failure to possess the land
Two examples of compromise and one example of faithfulness
Several instances in which it is stated that Israel and fellow travelers chose to live among the Canaanites rather than destroying them.
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B. Chapter 2: Failure to Worship Yahweh
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.
Rebuke from the Angel of Lord
The death of Joshua revisited
Birth of a new generation
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.
The spiritual failure of Israel
Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals;
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; 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.
The response of God
And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for calamity, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed.
III. Application
III. Application