Our Responsibility to the Next Generation (Part 2)

Introduction:

Review of last week

I. Tell the Next Generation (Psalm 78)

A. Remember what our fathers taught us

B. Relaying what we learned to the generation to come

C. Reasons for telling the next generation

II. Training the Next Generation (Acts 15)

A. Be alert for those you can train

B. Characteristics of those to train

C. Areas of Training

D. Result of Training

This week, I want to consider a negative example from the Old Testament, from the time of the kings

The Old Testament can be a benefit to us in this area

Romans 15:4 KJV 1900

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

-George Santayana

Context:

The kingdom has just been split. 10 tribes were torn from the Davidic line of kings and new nation was established.

I. The Sin of Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:25-33)

A. Jeroboam’s Fear (v. 25-27)

B. Jeroboam’s Counsel (v. 28a)

C. Jeroboam’s Idolatry

1. Two golden calves (v. 28b-29)

2. Caused the people to sin (v. 30)

3. Priests who were not Levites (v. 31)

4. Feasts and sacrifices were made (v. 32-33)

II. The Rebuke of the Lord (1 Kings 13:1-10)

A. The Man of God (v. 1)

B. The Message of God (v. 2-3)

The fulfillment

2 Kings 23:14–17 KJV 1900

And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove. And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.

III. The Response of Jeroboam (1 Kings 13 4-10, 33-34)

A. His anger toward the man of God (v. 4-5)

B. His request to be restored (v. 6)

C. His feigned kindness (v. 7-10)

D. His lack of Repentance (v. 33-34)

IV. The Consequences of Jeroboam's Sin (1 Kings 14:1-20)

A. The death of his son (v. 1-20)

B. The loss of the kingdom (15:25-31)

Conclusion:

Application:

Your sins don’t just affect you

They affect others around you

They affect your children and possibly your children’s children

You need to teach and train the next generation in the ways of the Lord

3. You need to live a life that is pleasing to the Lord

Your children are watching.

Others are watching

Consider this example. This is what can happen when we don’t take our responsibility seriously to teach and train the next generation. Only God knows the far reaching affects.